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- The Guardian
Wednesday 7 August 2019
‘They rejected my lost baggage
claim as I was half an hour early’
A budget airline once lost my bags
on a fl ight to Madrid. I went to the
airline’s website and it stated that
I was entitled to £100 for each day
I was without baggage. In need of
a change of clothes and toiletries, I
went shopping, making sure to keep
receipts. The next day I went back
into the airport and was reunited
with my bag. Later, I submitted a
lost baggage claim to the airline only
to be emailed back with a message
saying my claim was rejected
because I received my bag in 23
hours and 30 minutes rather than 24.
Megan, 24, Colchester‘The desk closed with only a
third of passengers checked in’
I arrived at Stansted for a fl ight to
Frankfurt, and the parallel queue- for a fl ight to Belfast – consisted
of hundreds of passengers. Both
queues were moving slowly, but
no one was present to check in
the Belfast fl yers until an hour
before their departure time. As
I reached the front of my queue,
the check-in staff closed the
Belfast fl ight with only a third of its
passengers checked in, claiming that
the check-in desk had to be closed
40 minutes prior to departure. There
was no mention that the reason
people hadn’t been able to check
in was the lack of staff. Eventually,
I heard that people were off ered a
fl ight to Dublin the day afterwards,
but travelling onwards to Belfast
would be at their own expense.
Ric, Stevenage
Serena Bhandari
It’s still far too
hard for bi men
to come out
‘Airline staff told us we’d make
the plane too heavy’
I was trying to catch a fl ight to my
sister’s hen weekend with her three
closest friends. However, airline
staff told us we could not board
as the plane was too heavy. They
off ered us a fl ight the day after,
but my sister was already at our
destination alone. So we asked if
there was anything they could do.
W e were given the option for two
of us to fl y out, with the other two
remaining in a hotel. They weren’t
given any food and to this day
haven’t been reimbursed for the
fl ights. I would be very curious to
know how the airline decided we
were the ones pushing the plane
over its maximum weight, given
none of us weighed more than 55kg
and were all carrying hand luggage.
Charlotte, London‘We found a man asleep across
three seats’
I boarded a very early fl ight one
morning for a business trip to
Budapest, only to fi nd that a man
was lying, asleep, across the front
three seats. The cabin crew tried
to wake him and sit him up but
he kept falling over – it looked as
if he might have been under the
infl uence. They then decided to
remove him from the plane. They
shuffl ed him to the aircraft’s front
door, at which point he tripped
and fell down the steps on to the
tarmac. I and some other passengers
watched from the window as he was
escorted away. Surprisingly, we left
almost on time.
Alex, GuildfordPass notes Shortcuts
In what is still a relatively rare
occurrence, a man in the public eye
has come out this week as bisexual.
Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard, who
is dating fellow contestant, Maura
Higgins, has spoken about his
sexuality : “I can never ever say what
will happen in the future. I wouldn’t
rule anything out.”
Male bisexuality is often met with
prejudice. Sometimes it is reduced
to being a phase or is met with an
assumption that a man is, in fact, gay.
Others traduce bisexual men as
greedy or more likely to cheat.
According to a social study in the US,
only 12% of bisexual men are out.
Biphobia also exists towards
women, but progress has been
made at a quicker pace, although
common ground can be found in
how bisexuality is erased for all
genders. A bisexual woman or man
walking hand-in-hand with a same-
sex partner will often be assumed
to be gay, for example.
Then there is the issue of straight
women ruling out sex or relationships
with bisexual men. Pritchard has
said Higgins does not have a problem
with his sexuality , but that didn’t
stop news outlets publishing storiesAge: 50-plus.
Appearance: Fern Britton, smashed off her
face on plonk, yelling at the sunrise.
Pardon? I am exaggerating. But Britton
coined the phrase, so it’s only fair that I use
her as an example.
Why? Because she has repowered.
Oh God, is Britton a cyborg? Is this how it
ends? Wiped out by an army of invincible
Ready Steady Cook hosts? Calm down.
As far as anyone knows, Britton is not an
unkillable instrument of destruction. I just
meant that her kids have left home.
I don’t follow. Britton appears in Good
Housekeeping this month, declaring that she
is a new woman. “I talk to a lot of my friends
who are in their 50s and early 60s, and we’re
all feeling the same,” she said. “The children
are getting sorted and we can stop being quite
so responsible as adults. We can go back to
who we were at the beginning, before we did
all the responsible things we needed to do.
It’s repowering. We’re repowering”.
So she has been released from the drudgery
of kids. Basically, yes. The long, hard slog of
parenthood is over, and this has allowed her
to revert back to the days when she was
young and free and able to tap-dance in a
leotard and present the local news with
Fred Dinenage.
Sounds amazing. It’s nice to know that this
is coming to us all, isn’t it? Soon the anxiety
of adulthood will fade away and we will
become teenagers all over again.
Bliss. I suppose Britton isn’t becoming an
actual teenager, though. You know, an actual
2019 teenager, because then her mind would
be full of terror about the ruined planet that
she has inherited.
Right ... And she wouldn’t have any disposable
income to speak of, because she would be busy
killing herself in three zero-hour contract jobs
to cover her rent, which is so cripplingly
enormous that she will never be able to
achieve the dream of home ownership that
came so easily to her parents.
Um ... And somehow she would be blamed for
all this by the generation that actually caused it,
all because she has been on two nice holidays
ever and sometimes buys her lunch from Pret.
Christ, being a teenager sucks. I know! This is
the last thing that Britton should want! At least
when you have young kids you can shield
yourself from the state of the world with all the
constant chores. Now that’s all gone. It’s gone!
So what should Britton be excited about
instead? I don’t know. I saw some discounted
avocados in Aldi the other week. If she really
is young again, she’ ll go nuts for those.
Do say: “I’m repowering.”
Don’t say: “With fossil fuels, probably, because
I’m a selfi sh baby boomer.”No 4,028
Repowering
Booking a cheap fl ight canseem a good idea. But reality
brings surprises. Such as one
easyJet customer’s tweet
claiming to show a woman
on a fl ight from London to Geneva sitting on a row
of seats with out backs. EasyJet pointed out that no
one had actually sat in the damaged seat during the
fl ight. However, plenty of passengers have their own
nightmareish tales of low-cost fl ights ...
Travellers’
budget airline
disasters
How young is too young to start
wearing makeup? That’s the
question being asked in the beauty
world after John Lewis and M ac
cosmetics cancelled a “back-to-
school mini masterclass” on makeup
for children as young as 12, after
criticism. “I get asked this question
all the time,” says the beauty writer
Sali Hughes , who let her sons play
with makeup from 18 months. “To
me, that’s the wrong question. It’s
about how you are framing makeup.”
Lucy Rycroft-Smith, a teacher
and author of The Equal Classroom ,
has argued that secondary schools
should lift makeup bans, but would
not have taken her daughters, aged
10 and 13, to the M ac event. “One
hundred per cent not,” she says. “If
you want to get ready for school, do
some learning.”How young is
too young
for makeup?
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