Ladies and Gentlemen.......

Snickers Man

This is the accepted form of addressing a crowd of people in English. It's counterparts in German, French and Spanish are respectively "Meine Damen und Herren", Mesdames et Messieurs" and "Senoras y Senores" all pretty direct translations.

In Irish, fair enough, the equivalent is "A dhaoine uaisle" (not a direct translation and no reference to different sexes.)

So....

Please somebody tell me that this announcement is a joke!

antodeco

Maybe they should ban the tube. A big long object going in and out of tunnels. Sounds very falic to me

Barry Badrinath

Fcuk sake.

They will be renaming Manchester to Nonspecificchester next.

Gobshytery at its finest.

biko

Maybe "tube peasants" is better..

jamesbere

We should just ban talking altogether, just communicate in the form of interpretive dance

The_Valeyard

I thought it was something from Waterford Whispers News at first.

Winterlong

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Fcuk sake.

They will be renaming Manchester to Nonspecificchester next.

Gobshytery at its finest.

Nonspecific United!

Permabear

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The_Valeyard

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Fcuk sake.

They will be renaming Manchester to Nonspecificchester next.

Gobshytery at its finest.

Cant use the word 'City' anymore as Manchester now identifies as a Town.

Bit like the reverse of Kilkenny.

bear1

This equality **** is going completely over the top.
We've got groups of letters to denote certain types of people which incorporates everyone on the planet and now you can't say ladies and gentlemen as it needs to reflect everyone?
My biology classes might be failing me but regardless of what you are, you are still either a man or a woman...
Idiotic.

Atoms for Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7E1D_3Na4

The_Valeyard

bear1 wrote: »

This equality **** is going completely over the top.
We've got groups of letters to denote certain types of people which incorporates everyone on the planet and now you can't say ladies and gentlemen as it needs to reflect everyone?
My biology classes might be failing me but regardless of what you are, you are still either a man or a woman...
Idiotic.

Or a dolphin. How dare you take away my Dolphinhood from me!!!

Dont assume my species.

Pac1Man

Permabear wrote: »

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Wouldn't be a bad thing to be fair.

Some psycho posts get thrown around those two areas.

Syphonax

So long as this leads to Unisex toilets I have no problem with it all.

circadian

I don't see the problem. Could be due to the fact that I don't really care enough to get outraged about it one way it another.

Outlaw Pete

Sweet baby Jesus, when will it end.

KungPao

Maybe the announcement could be "Ladies, Gentlemen, dudes in dresses, women dressed like men, and others".

I am a gentleman, and I demand to be referred to!

optogirl

Does it really matter? If there had been no news article about it would anyone have noticed?

Snickers Man

circadian wrote: »

I don't see the problem. Could be due to the fact that I don't really care enough to get outraged about it one way it another.

I'm not outraged; more like exasperated.

The only thing I fear is that initiatives such as this will cause certain people, with incredibly thin skins, indeed to become outraged if somebody uses the traditional form of address and will therefore accuse them of all sorts of heinous crimes such as being "gender normative" or "non inclusive" or "anti-equality".

It's priggishness like this that caused monstrosities such as the Shrieking Yale Girl.

SEPT 23 1989

"good morning everyone" is like a teacher addressing children in a classroom

The_Valeyard

circadian wrote: »

I don't see the problem. Could be due to the fact that I don't really care enough to get outraged about it one way it another.

deadybai

I don't.get it .

Aren't transgender people still a lady or a gent regardless of their birth sex?

Who are they trying not to offend , the rats and mice?

conorhal

optogirl wrote: »

Does it really matter? If there had been no news article about it would anyone have noticed?

Well, if it doesn't really matter, why do it in the first place?

JupiterKid

I saw a thread about this on the Digitalspy forums. It's political correctness gone mad. Pandering to uber-left types who are offended on behalf of the minuscule number of people who want to be referred to as "non-binary."

Pathetic.

silverharp

deadybai wrote: »

I don't.get it .

Aren't transgender people still a lady or a gent regardless of their birth sex?

Who are they trying not to offend , the rats and mice?

what if you are Wolfkin?

Summer wind

Can you imagine attending the meeting this was decided at? It's absolutely ridiculous.

kunst nugget

The weird thing is soon Britain won't be able to blame this type of thing on the EU anymore and they'll have to realise that it was all their own doing all along…

Harry Palmr

Dear Earthlings, now hear this!

Pac1Man

I think what annoys people the most with all of the PCness is the act of being told what they can no longer say or do.

Who are these other people who make these decisions and why do they hold power over the rest?

What happens if you do not follow the PC way? Not a lot I imagine.

Why is it such an attrocity that people become offended?

WoollyRedHat

Good morning everyone? Ridicolous, what happens if you hate the bloody morning ey? Don't remind me of it.

Things that tannoy you incoming...

Annasopra

bear1 wrote: »

This equality **** is going completely over the top.
We've got groups of letters to denote certain types of people which incorporates everyone on the planet and now you can't say ladies and gentlemen as it needs to reflect everyone?
My biology classes might be failing me but regardless of what you are, you are still either a man or a woman...
Idiotic.

Oh my god. Letters....... the horror of it...... it's a disgrace Joe letters Joe. Its outrageous they want letters. How dare they have letters Joe.

Annasopra

Pac1Man wrote: »

I think what annoys people the most with all of the PCness is the act of being told what they can no longer say or do.

Who are these other people who make these decisions and why do they hold power over the rest?

What happens if you do not follow the PC way? Not a lot I imagine.

Why is it such an attrocity that people become offended?

Do you realise the absurdity of you expressing offence about people expressing offence?

RayM

I am delighted that this is happening. I love it when people lose their shit over trivial stuff.

silverharp

RayM wrote: »

I am delighted that this is happening. I love it when people lose their shit over trivial stuff.

its great alright and when it happens enough people do things like elect Trump to make it stop

Hector Savage

Peoplechester
Theirstory

RayM

Hector Savage wrote: »

Peoplechester
Theirstory

Scockhorpe.

Noveight

We want everyone to feel welcome on our transport network.

Talk about pandering to a minority of gob****es.

Charmeleon

Summer wind wrote: »

Can you imagine attending the meeting this was decided at? It's absolutely ridiculous.

So, Chairm... person, eh, latest figures aren't good.
Hum. Marketing, what have you got?
Well, within the budget we have 'One free child with every six adults!'
Gah, anything else?
Yes, we were also thinking 'Gender Bull****'.
Gender Bull****?
Oh yes, it's the latest thing, pick something traditional no one has even thought about before and gender it up: unisex bathrooms, women only carriages and the like. The kids love that stuff. Viral feeds, morose twenty somethings making reaction videos, we could even get our own hashtag trending!
I like it, lets go with Gender Bull****. Great work people.

Sonics2k

jamesbere wrote: »

We should just ban talking altogether, just communicate in the form of interpretive dance

That's incredibly Ableist of you.

jamesbere

Sonics2k wrote: »

That's incredibly Ableist of you.

There are many forms of dance that everyone can perform

suicide_circus

Stupid is the new normal

ablelocks

Sonics2k wrote: »

That's incredibly Ableist of you.

how dare you bring my name into it...I'm offended

I used to roll my eyes when anyone uttered "it's PC gone mad, innit?". But in the last year or two, it seems PC really has gone mad

Ipso

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Oh my god. Letters....... the horror of it...... it's a disgrace Joe letters Joe. Its outrageous they want letters. How dare they have letters Joe.

Wait until they use all 26, what will happen then? And the worse thing is that at that point they won't have reached peak stupid.

Infini

Yeah this kind of pandering is getting out of hand now. There's a difference between genuine equality and just going off the deep end and this is the kind of stupid carryon that pisses NORMAL people off.

Ninthlife

Infini wrote: »

Yeah this kind of pandering is getting out of hand now. There's a difference between genuine equality and just going off the deep end and this is the kind of stupid carryon that pisses NORMAL people off.

Are you allowed call people, people anymore. It might offend them as they associate themselves as beings or some other crazy term

Tom Mann Centuria

I like Ladles and Jellyspoons myself.

Sonics2k

I'm genuinely baffled that people are so pissed off, they're simply going to start saying 'Hello everyone' from now on.

It's not as if they've gone full Tumblr and have started saying Xe/Xer and that stuff to people getting on.

Why do you all care?

Annasopra

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm genuinely baffled that people are so pissed off, they're simply going to start saying 'Hello everyone' from now on.

It's not as if they've gone full Tumblr and have started saying Xe/Xer and that stuff to people getting on.

Why do you all care?

As I said the absurdity of people being outraged about people being outraged.

Canis Lupus

Snickers Man

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm genuinely baffled that people are so pissed off, they're simply going to start saying 'Hello everyone' from now on.

It's not as if they've gone full Tumblr and have started saying Xe/Xer and that stuff to people getting on.

Why do you all care?

I don't care, really, about how London Underground wants to address its passengers. It could start announcements with "Yo Dudes!" for all it matters. What exasperates me is the statement it put out saying "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."

The implication being that the time honoured "Ladies and Gentlemen" is not "fully inclusive" and therefore possibly discriminatory at worst and ill mannered at best.

Here's the thing: if anybody ever seriously objects (and it may never happen) to me addressing a mixed crowd of whatever size as "Ladies and Gentlemen" on the grounds that I am not being inclusive enough, I'm going to give her a good kick in the bollix.

Fair enough?