My word
funfly, you are a sensitive little snowflake. you said:
If you are prepared to publicly refer to your passengers as above then this does you little credit.
Well PPRuNe is a professional pilots forum, have you any idea how professional lawyers refer to their 'punters' or Doctors their patients? - PPRuNe is public only inasmuch as you are able to gain access to it, but it is not a public forum as such, designed for the general public, nor is it compulsory.