Smelly German loses case against British Airways

well that is the kind of absurdity I have come to expect of you. Of course, you probably thought he should have been chucked off the flight anyway by dint of being German.

You are juat being silly now.

What the crap has "uneducated" got to do with the price of fish? How could we "educate" people on this?

"Right class, lessons in tolerance chapter 3 - people that cannot be arsed to wash."

Surely not taking care of your personal hygiene is the only thing here where education can apply.

should have had quote on that sorry, it was brokenm who used the term 'uneducated intolerance', I was merely repeating it back

You have a dirty smelly person that you do not want to sit next to.

Thats all, tell him to bu**er off and get a wash.

The objection wasn't to someone being sweaty - fresh sweat does not in fact smell, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
Not knowing that would be "uneducated" or indeed ignorant of the fact, wouldn't it?
By using the airline ticket, one enters into a contract based on terms and conditions of carriage.
The contract may be terminated by a breach of contract.
Causing a nuisance to other passengers invalidated the contract, therefore the courts supported the refusal of passage.
Which supports the belief that the law does use quite a lot of basic truths, one of which would be that if you act like an ass, don't be surprised if you are treated like one.

It's not just B.O. that can get you chucked off a flight: BBC article - Flatulence leads US jet to divert

Ah, but in that case it wasn't the flatulence, but the sulfur smell from the matches the passenger lit to try to mask the stink that caused the kerfuffle!

Vocabulary word of the day award

Aren't matches on the banned substances list ??? You know, shoe bombers and all that.

Thanks, gemini. I did have to deliberate awhile to choose between "kerfuffle" and "hullabaloo"!

According to Katrina's BBC article, safety matches are allowed on board, but you're not allowed to light them!

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,ra2m2/reise/artikel/168/100068/

He has now been awarded €260 by the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf but had 88% of the legal costs dumped on him. Sounds like a pyrrhic victory to me.

God speaking of smelly people- try shopping the land mine of horrible non-deo human smell that is the Tesco Extra in Slough...

I know someone who went on a pub crawl and then to a club, puked on himself and went straight to the airport to catch the first flight home.
He didn't get kicked off the flight which leads me to think that this german guy's smell must have been pretty offensive!

Was on the bus yesterday and some guy proceeds to take off his jacket- Phewwwwwwwww! WOW! He was quite rancid and since I was standing near him of course people started to think it was me so I had to move away from him so that I wouldn't have his B.O. stick to my sweater!

OHHHH god! do i ever wish the Deutsche Bahn or Berlin's BVG would do the same, but since they are all smelly, dont think it would happen.

picture this: a well dressed gentleman wearing hugo boss sitting on a train awaiting his destination associated with his work address. however, a strong body odor and arm pit rancor is filling the air. ??? do people really think no one notices? is germany a third world?

reason: germans are cheap people. as you have witnessed, everything from a bag of ketchup to frequenting a bathroom of a restaurant that you are already patronizing COST YOU!!! everywhere you turn, there is an attached cost to everything. water, heat, gas, energy are all way above the european average in monthly cost. for whatever reason. now, since the german life and culture cost at every turn, it has instilled a sense of "frugalness" among its natives. hence, why buying a 90cents bottle of deodarant or a 50cents bar of soap seems so stretched. now add the cost of actually using water. dry cleaning and clothes washing? only after a few months wearing them first.

Reminds me of a time in London in my early twenties and I asked a girl out one Tuesday and she replied no Tuesday is her weekly bath night could we make it Friday – then in my mind I counted the days - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and thought yuck no thanks and quickly made some excuse. This guy learnt one common hygiene lesson the hard way, I am sure his wife is so much happier.

Maybe she was just trying to light her farts!

Just what are the alternative to "safety matches"- spontaneously igniting ones?

Anyhoo- I wish someone could've been around to make my former German boss have a wash now and again. For a bit in Munich I worked at a small (like 5 people) consulting business, and the boss (also the owner) smelled SO BAD that the only possible explanation would be that he hadn't showered or put on deo- I swear, just to survive meetings in his office I had to dab a couple of drops of peppermint oil below my nose...

Swan Vestas are non-safety matches!



Swan Vestas advert.

Safety matches are the ones with the brown heads, that will only light when struck against the side of the matchbox. Non-safety matches are the ones with the pink heads that will strike against any rough surface.

Tada.

Aha- the "strike anywhere" matches- gotcha. Thanks

That sound is so evocative. Almost made me pat my pocket to find my fags - and I gave up smoking 8 years ago.

Or will strike against other safety matchheads. Always wondered why they were called safety as they seemed always to let a little bit of flaming matchhead fly of in a random direction whenever you struck one. Runined many a polyester (school) tie the little feckers.