Orwell wrote 'Animal Farm'
Just fyi 
Posted on 07/13/2017 6:36:48 AM PDT by Ennis85
The "ladies and gentlemen" greeting on Tube announcements is to be scrapped, Transport for London (TfL) has announced. London Underground staff have been told to say "hello everyone" in an effort to become more gender-neutral. TfL said the move was to ensure all passengers felt "welcome". LGBT campaign group Stonewall welcomed the decision, which was supported by London mayor Sadiq Khan at a session of Mayor's Question Time last month. The revised phrasing will be applied to all new pre-recorded announcements made across the capital's transport network. Mark Evers, director of customer strategy at TfL, said: "We want everyone to feel welcome on our transport network. "We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London."
Mr Khan said he was "keen" TfL speak in a "more neutral way". He said: "TfL serves a vibrant, diverse and multicultural city, and provision of an inclusive transport service is at the heart of TfL's purpose. "I am aware however, that some customers may not relate to or feel comfortable with the way that certain station announcements are made." TfL said it had briefed staff on use of the new language "though from time-to-time, well-meaning staff may still use the term 'ladies and gentlemen"." "If this happens frequently, we will issue reminders to staff," it added. Stonewall said: "Language is extremely important to the lesbian, gay, bi and trans community, and the way we use it can help ensure all people feel included. "We welcome gender neutral announcements to be rolled out across TfL as it will ensure that everyone - no matter who they identify as - feels accounted for."
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As long as they still say ‘mind the gap.’ Don’t suppose they’ll EVER stop saying THAT.
Now that I think about it, though, the country that doesn’t trust its own LEOs with weapons and/or live ammo has bigger problems than which bloody announcement to use.
Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me
Hey you ! Standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me
Hey you ! don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.
Hey you ! out there on your own
sitting naked by the phone would you touch me
Hey you ! with your ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me
Hey you ! would you help me to carry the stone
Open your heart, I'm coming home
But it was only a fantasy
The wall was too high as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you ! out there on the road
Always doing what you're told, can you help me
Hey you ! out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me
Hey you ! don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
True enough, except for the Huxley attribution.
The Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s automated announcements on the metro (subway) uses “customers” in the announcements to have people move away from the doors.
How soon before the announcements are made in Arabic?
And train cars are separated, men and women - with each woman needing a male escort before she goes out in public - in a full burka.
Women will have to give up their driver’s licenses too and accept that they cannot own property, attend school, listen to music, dance or question anything a man says.
It’s coming...
No that discriminates against the Horta!
Point.
NEW LINGO
Hey y’all...now y’all listen up.. y’hear
Every "One" is offensive to the multiple personalitied.
Orwell wrote 'Animal Farm'
Just fyi
Attention ugly giant bags of mostly water the 15:42 train to Slough is 10 minutes behind schedule.
“Ladies, Gentlemen, and assorted freaks”
works for me!
You are right. Mea Culpa.
That wasn’t the first time my “fingers-doing-the-typing worked faster than my memory and lumped Orwell and Huxley into the same thought stream. The neurons from which their memory is brought out must me closely connected. LOL
Walmart is sooooo discriminatory, how dare they assume that everyone entering their stores is there to shop!!
Cucks.
Discriminatory against bums, buskers and bombers who want to blow up people waiting for the train without actually riding it.
I sympathize with the people who are there for the air conditioning. Sometimes you just want someone else to pay for a half hour of freeze-your-knees temps.
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