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Old 26th June 2009 | 11:18
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chuks
 
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Don't make silly jokes!

Used to be, to be a Flight Attendant you had to be a Registered Nurse. Then well into the Fifties I think it was so that you had be young, attractive and single. Oh, and "White," same as the guys in the cockpit. My, my... how times have changed!

Nowadays we have all sorts of legislation meant to ensure fairness so that you might get your coffee spilt upon you by some screaming queen, a person of colour, a woman you find sexually unattractive due to her geriatricity (what we used to call "a wrinkled old hag")... the possibilities are practically endless where once it was just variations on a theme of "Barbie."

Said beverage spillage might now be down to ham-fisted efforts on the part of just about anyone, even someone over 60, up there in the cockpit or as we now call it, the flight deck where that, too, was once the domain of just guys with "the right stuff."
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