Alisoncc
You said:
and since I'm an ocean-going, fully-rigged, civil-partnered lesbian, would anyone who with hind-sight was on either of the above planes like to stick their hands up and say they would have parachuted out of them because they didn't want to be in a plane which was being saved by a
dyke please do so now?
Now, if you do go to one of these conferences, please don't use that word or you will be thrown out for using abusive language, and will be deemed to have been offensive to yourself.
You do make a good point though, which is just as funny as the died in the wool racists who seem to become 'normal humans' for the duration of any life saving medical care received from non whites