Emily Lucinda Cole finds time for a coffee between her whines:
Our thanks to James for this. When will commercial organizations stop apologizing to whiny grievance collectors who have nothing better to do with their time than be offended by nothing? The first rule for dealing with difficult people is, “Never give in to them, you’ll only encourage them”. The start of the piece:
Virgin Trains has “apologised unreservedly” for a tweet which some social media users [J4MB: whiny women] described as “sexist”.
In response to a passenger complaint about being referred to as “honey”, the official Virgin Trains East Coast Twitter account asked if she would “prefer ‘pet’ or ‘love’ next time”. [J4MB: Give that person, hopefully a man, a medal.]
The passenger, Emily Lucinda Cole, 27, said she was “stunned” by the response.
Special Snowflakes are perpetually “stunned” by things that never trouble normal people. It’s probably down to having IQs comparable with a Scotch egg.
Justice for Men & Boys 
One wonders how these pitifully spoiled children would cope with a put-down from an older woman. In some parts of the country “pet” and “duck” are dialect.
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Yes I was “stunned” when I worked in the Midlands and kept being called “duck”. In Lancs. both sexes tend to “Love” and young men “Son” and some other variations. When I was young I’d be irked by “son” but now I’d be grateful.
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I was ‘stunned’, on moving to Sheffield in the early nineties, to be called ‘love’ by a bus driver. My landlady assured me that it was quite normal there and not intended to provoke. I’ve lived in Northumberland and found no offence in being called ‘pet’ by just about every woman clerk, assistant, guide or any other official. However, at almost 62 I strongly object to being called ‘mate’, ‘buddy’, ‘pal’ or ‘chum’ by male shop assistants little more than a quarter of my age.
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Indeed, and as someone from those parts, this sort of complaint drives me wild. Nothing worse than being patronised by a young middle class white girl from the home counties, whose toughest job in life has been to pick up her pen to write with. Personally I’ve been called pet, luv, duck, dearie and darlin’ by tonnes of women up north, simply as a routine piece of daily life. There’s nothing sexist about it (I mean, both genders do it…). I don’t what annoys me more, their subconscious idea that the only correct way to speak English is RP, or that they seem ignorant of the fact that its gender neutral. Either way, the sanctimoniousness gets up my nose.
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Quote:-
“….It’s probably down to having IQs comparable with a pork pie that does it….”
On behalf of pork pies everywhere I am
“stunned” and offended at this odeous comparison to that completely…. (cont. on page 136…)
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Thank you! This wasn’t a newsworthy story. And no, Virgin Trains ain’t sorry, it was funny, and this girl’s an idiot.
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The publicly moaning wimmin may be getting themselves a lot of publicity, but it may be the wrong kind. If I was an employer, I’d make a note of their names and make certain I never hired them
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Justified complaints are to be taken seriously. Feminist whinges are to be fought and stamped on.This young woman’s brain is indeed comparable with a Scotch egg.
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I read into the story
the phrase wasn’t “honey”, it was “you go ahead honey” and she is keen to point out the gender of the staff being male( even though a woman would have said the same thing to her)
BBC quote
“The first person to check my ticket was very abrasive. His response to
my explaining the situation, politely and honestly, and that I wanted to
complain, was ‘you go ahead honey’.
most of us are smart enough to know that “you go ahead honey” is usually a response to some kind of verbal threat( implied or otherwise) and I very much doubt she was polite as she claims. Staff are usually trained to “signpost” complaints to the relevant office to address their issues. So I suspect she was upset because she couldn’t have the first class seats she and others (who I can’t find complaining about this) were offered for cheap and she decided to blame the staff rather than make a formal complaint to whatever complaint department virgin trains has, instead choosing to whine on twitter thinking it was some kind of judge judy court.
Emily Lucinda Cole , a little piece of advice..
when you behave like a child, you will be treated like a child.
.. and also most if not all service organisation staff working in the public space have polices about abuse towards their staff, so you will be looking at legal action against you( and usually a travel ban on their trains) should wish to push your luck with staff( male or female) and this tweet of yours will be used against you.
I pray you do this again only this time to a staff member who is a bit of snowflake like yourself and they make a formal complaint to their employers about your abusive behavior.
… and happy new year to everyone( I’ve only just got back home), hope your start to the new year wasn’t as crap as mine 🙂
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