"Marmalade dropper" is new to me too. (I have no memory of the purported American equivalents "muffin-choker" or "cornflake-choker" either.)
My mom told me about this story. Apparently they are making a big deal out of it in Israel.
I think this is why you need soap when you shower.
There's their story, the airline's story, a purported passenger on Twitter backing up the airline... pretty murky at the moment. I could imagine there being a smell that groupthink assigned unjustly to the couple?
"Marmalade dropper" comes from Bill Deedes, once editor of the Daily Telegraph. I thought the American equivalent was "Hey Martha". In any case, it's a story that disrupts the peace of the breakfast table.
I thought it was some kind of fetish.
I thought the American equivalent was "Hey Martha".
I get the concept; I don't recognize this term either. Maybe all these terms' usage is sharply limited to media.
I once interviewed Ric\hard Stall\man at a table in the open air, conscious throughout of a vague discomfort and a vile taste in my orange juice which increased whenever the breeze dropped. When we rose at the end, I realised that his feet had been free as in sockless and shoeless too, deployed very close to me underneath the table, and of a pungency which could have emptied an airliner in minutes.
It's odd how you just don't register the possibility of someone smelling that bad in a normal social environment.
The problem with this story is that there's nothing to talk about. Either the guy smelled bad enough for some reason that the airline employees were being reasonable, or he smelled fine and they were just being randomly anti-Semitic (or out to get him for some other undisclosed reason). And there's no way to figure it out from the story.
The problem with this story is that there's nothing to talk about
We can't let that stop us!
10: You've neglected the possibility that he and his family are crisis actors.
10: it's almost like it's terrible journalism that doesn't actually cover the story properly.
9: [insert famous rms video here, which I will not do so that nobody horks up their marmalade]
I don't want to blame the victim, but I can't imagine a journalist refraining from attacking a domestic airline for treating a passenger unfairly if the were any evidence.
5: "'Ere, Doris!" is supposedly the NOTW/Sun version of this and the official explanation why they historically like features writers as editors. Basically, a crude, pre-analytics form of the optimisation-for-engagement strategy.
The smelliest group of people I have encountered have been the Amish, but thankfully they don't fly. Have never noticed stinky Mennonites.
Honestly, I didn't check to see if they identified as Amish. I just assumed because of the clothing they wore.
That's why you always lock your dog to a lamp post when you're in Lancaster, PA.
They definitely take Greyhounds, but if you've seen them in the airport chances are good that they were Mennonites.
It probably won't happen again. It was just the one time. I've probably taken half of the flights I'll take in my life.
25:
"Are you guys Amish?"
"Yes."
"Strange. You don't smell like it."
Amish fly
It has buttons rather than a zip.
Rather than Moby's 23, I immediately flashed on Dumbo.
27: Right back at you. Great to see you.
I really love Wikipedia's table of "Use of technology by different Amish affiliations"
22 was meant to be a setup. Glad Moby followed through.
It was a good set up. Lots of ways to go from there.