Pete O'Tube and Captain Ed
Don't even think about travelling on my aeroplane - you're both dead meat! My sense of humour was surgically removed on my command course many years ago.

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May the noise be with you!

Luddite - Can I assume the procedure was part of a frontal lobotomy?
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Guess you must be one of us then, two errors in one line! Three in the sentence!!

Nott long agoo, i kudernt even spill pilut, now I are one. http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/redface.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/redface.gif :)

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Come on everybody, of course there's a place for women in aviation..............is it not called the galley???

Wuzat - it's a fair cop. It must be my age (or more likely the typeface that I am using). I'll obviously have to increase the font size and then I can correct my own work much more effectively.

However, you know exactly the point that I am trying to make. As I sed eerlier, itys a fare copp guvv.

Thank you for for the corrections.

Captain Ed, from other threads where we had some good discussions, I got the impression that you were a little smarter. ooops http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif disappointed, must be your age http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif . Same goes for Pete O Pube, and ,although I didn´t expect the same maturity from you !!

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We've sort of strayed from the centreline somewhat, and gone off on the tangent of women pilots, in general, as opposed to none in SIA.

Perhaps there are none in SQ, because of the Airlines ancestry [not incestry], ie. initially MSA [Malaysia Singapore Airlines].

Malaysia, being a Muslim country, for some reason common to the other Middle Eastern Airlines, also does not employ Females on the flight deck.

Personally, I'd have thought that with Singapore trying to promote its image as one of the most advanced of the Asian countries, SIA would have leapt at the opportunity.

I Have Contol, why is it okay for YOU to be able to make a few errors, and blame it on your age/font size etc., but to give a lambasting to others, for their [same] mistakes.

Nice_beaver

I hope they spill the coffee over you next time :)

Oh sorry for being so naive but I don't really get Peter O'Tubes comment & I only take a size 3 so can someone please explain it to me. My imagination is running wild.
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I found out the answer from a friend

'Because they can get closer to the kitchen sink'.

Oh well I expected worse. Us women do have a sense of humour; but there is a limit!

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Captain Ed,
Your comments are so sickening...if it were my decision you would be barred from pprune for life.What on earth have you got against the fairer sex?Get a life dude

Its True, Singaporeans are SMALL!! (Thats small minded of course!)

This thread reminds me of the quotation I saw once upon a time, which went....
The average Pilot is quite capable of such feelings as admiration, love, affection, and caring ...... It's just that these feelings usually don't involve anybody else.

Seriously though, I would rate the chances of SIA emplying a female in the next century, as akin to seeing Lord Lucan ride by on Shergar.

malaysia, contrary to what kaptin m says, has female pilots in the flight deck, albeit in the air force.

Females in the Malaysian Air Force....in what position, Occidental??

BTW, MAS [the nation's carrier]has NO female pilots...which was never brought into discussion, anyway. However, as the subject has been now raised, why?

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With ref to SQ's lack of female pilots.... a mate of mine said that Mo wouldn't have female pilots until he had sorted out all the problems that he had with male ones :)

Captain Ed, Get a life and lose the attitude.

The world of aviation does not need "weasles" like yourself sneering down from your self glorified perch.

Why should we continue to feel that we should prove ourselves worthier than our male counterparts?

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Poor old Captain Ed the dinosaur - you've gotta feel sorry for him: retired, too much time and money on his hands and nothing to do but shop for plastic raincoats and search for free web sleeze so he can oggle women young enough to be his grand-daughter.

Oh yeah Captain Ed, I'm sure those sort of women are much less likely to suffer from the ailments you described previously. What's really sad is to get to your age and yet have less wisdom than many teenagers.

Yes Captain Ed

I am really disappointed in you. I was even prepared to respect your position as a captain or ex-captain but it takes more than a persons position to earn someones respect. My father died about a year & a half ago at the age of 93. You would never hear a dirty comment out of him. I don't think I realised how lucky I was.

On the other hand I used to swim everyday and an old man who also swam daily whom I was very friendly with used to come out with naughty comments albeit often amusing. His grownup son happened to be in my life-saving class & when once I mentioned that his father was talking filthy to me you could see the look of horror & embarassment on his face. I wonder do you ever think how your four grown up sons feel about your behaviour if they are aware about it. Please give them a father that they can be proud of. I don't know what has happened to upset you & embitter you so much because I know you are capable of being a very different & nice man who over on another thread I had a very interesting & intelligent conversation with.

SIERRA

Hahahaha..read Capt Ed's post again....
Blokes can get genital warts too, yuck gross.
I suppose Prostrate trouble is acceptable?
What about hernias? Piles? Heart trouble? Liver damage? Hairy noses? Flatulence? Yeah, I guess they are much more flight deck acceptable ailments.... :)

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All gender stabbing aside, I find it surprising that Asian airlines continue to get away with discriminatory policies towards women these days. SQ don't allow their female FA's to work more than 2 contract periods..I think 6 years, while the men can go on to a full career. Then we have the pilot situation as well.
Is this situation too hard for the power feminists to correct?

When you look at Asian society it isn't surprising at all that women are not "allowed" to fly (or have never even considered it). But then it's not just Asian culture: Cathay, a Swire Company (British) quite happily avoided employing women as pilots until very recently. I know they have non-discrimination legislation in the UK... its a shame they didn't see fit to observe it off their home turf, whether they had to or not.

Argus, why is the onus on women to open up the opportunities? That means we have to make a lot of noise and jump up and down, and then you get to call us something like "power feminists". I really think its just a matter of human rights. Could the black Africans in South Africa have stopped apartheid by themselves (without violence)? how about African Americans abolishing slavery? How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?...only one...but the light bulb has to really want to change (!) Just open the doors and make it a non hostile place for women to work.

On a related topic, why don't we open a thread in jet blast to see who can come up with the most egotistical PPRune UserName: I think mine will be: "my balls are so big I have to carry them in a wheelbarrow" ...or should that be "ovaries"... http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif




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