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NFT: New York flight. Many religious men won't sit next to women

Marty in Albany : 9/27/2014 4:23 pm
on the plane and stand up in the aisles praying. Do current standards require the flight to turn around and put them off? It's the NY Post, so who knows how accurate the story is.


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It's an old Jewish pick up trick  
Headhunter : 9/27/2014 4:35 pm : link
playing hard to get, women can't resist it
What a nightmare being on that flight  
steve in ky : 9/27/2014 4:38 pm : link
They should have been given about two minuets to choice between sitting in the seat they purchased or leave the plane.
Using religion as a mask for sexism  
Mike in Long Beach : 9/27/2014 4:38 pm : link
While inconveniencing others and causing a scene. Scumbags.
they should've bought tickets together  
spike : 9/27/2014 4:40 pm : link
and sit together in the same rows
spike  
steve in ky : 9/27/2014 4:42 pm : link
Yeah the logical thing would have been to plan ahead early enough to buy entire rows. I am assuming these were purchased too late to do that, or they would have.
Gender separation?  
That Said : 9/27/2014 4:44 pm : link
How do they um; never mind.
Which religion prohibits you from sitting near infant/toddler  
jcn56 : 9/27/2014 4:57 pm : link
children or in the middle seat between two obese people? Because whichever it is, I'll convert pronto.
jcn  
steve in ky : 9/27/2014 4:59 pm : link
LOL- "Excuse me steward but my religion prohibits me from sitting next to this fat smelly person, what can be done about it?"
Or, the ancillary  
jcn56 : 9/27/2014 5:03 pm : link
'My religion requires that I'm put next to a woman with large breasts and of questionable virtue'.

Usually takes $100 to the guy at the desk to get that one taken care of, would be nice to get a religious exemption.
My religion requires me to be in First Class  
Anakim : 9/27/2014 5:48 pm : link
So yeah, gonna need you to move me there....
Religion is tearing the world apart  
Jints in Carolina : 9/27/2014 6:11 pm : link
.
Plenty of room in the wheel wells  
JohnF : 9/27/2014 6:29 pm : link
No women, and a unique view for landings and takeoffs!
Religious men?  
Rocky Thompson : 9/27/2014 6:38 pm : link

Have you notice the majority of the male workforce since 2010?

Most men won't sit next to women!

Hair Pie?
They perpetrated a scam and got away with it.  
manh george : 9/27/2014 6:40 pm : link
They bought their tickets knowing full well what the rules were, and then bullied the airline into changing the rules to the inconvenience of everyone else.

The airline staff is equally complicit for not taking a firm stand.

As a Jew, I really despise this subset for so many reasons.
That seems like something El Al would have encountered before,  
Mad Mike : 9/27/2014 6:41 pm : link
and should have had procedures in place for. The behavior by the men is terrible, but it's completely unacceptable, and potentially quite dangerous, that the airline allowed them to behave like that, and I'd think they'd be prepared for that situation.
What's next?  
trueblueinpw : 9/27/2014 6:46 pm : link
I had a guy sit next to me last Wednesday and he had a cat with him. He was good enough to ask if I am allergic, which I am, and moved to another seat.

I'm still waiting for the day someone boards a plane I'm on with a chicken. People seriously don't give a shit about anything these days.
These guys are known for awful hygiene  
B in ALB : 9/27/2014 7:13 pm : link
so I'm sure that 11 hour plane ride was just wonderful.
Boarding a plane with a chicken?  
Rocky Thompson : 9/27/2014 7:25 pm : link

Hey, I'm always looking for new experiences but I draw the line at beheading the chicken inflight. Unless of course it was Alice Cooper or Ozzie...
I dont think  
spike : 9/27/2014 7:49 pm : link
cats are allowed on board... how did that happeN?
You can bring pets on board  
buford : 9/27/2014 8:17 pm : link
but they have to fit in a carrier that fits under the seat.
this  
Berrylish : 9/27/2014 8:25 pm : link
is dumb
Barry  
Rocky Thompson : 9/27/2014 8:27 pm : link

I'd sit next to you anytime, no matter how smelly I am...
i might have  
Berrylish : 9/27/2014 8:28 pm : link
to have a scotch!
Strangely enough bar  
Rocky Thompson : 9/27/2014 8:39 pm : link

Even though I am large and hairy and sweat profusely when eating or nervous, one of the reasons Cyn loves me ( and she's sitting right next to me agreeing with this post) I do not smell. One of my few hidden attributes, I am without body odor. Never put on bug spray to this day and night baseball games in the South, people suffer, they'll trade water for their children for bug spray.

Although I can't promises roses and ocean breeze if I were drinking scotch, don't bring any of your cats and we're cool...
haha  
Berrylish : 9/27/2014 8:42 pm : link
my zero cats are good. HI CYN! xoxooxox
All in good jest bar  
Rocky Thompson : 9/27/2014 9:26 pm : link


If you want me to stop selling the old maid, cat woman persona, I will but I will remind you, remember Barrilko in the parking lot, lol...

Religion is not tearing the world apart.  
GiantJohn : 9/27/2014 10:09 pm : link
But assholes are.
B in Alb got that right.  
BlueLou : 9/27/2014 10:43 pm : link
A LOT of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stink of BO. Frankly the women they won't sit next to are the winners.

I've had the misfortune to have one of these guys parked next to me via seat adjustment more than once and I end up praying the guys will stand and pray in the aisles the whole fookin flight.
You wish people would at least have reached last century  
UberAlias : 9/28/2014 9:42 am : link
Half the world is living in the dark ages. The most basic virtues like kindness and respect to other people is lost on stone aged religeous thinking.
RE: Gender separation?  
Hammer : 9/28/2014 6:26 pm : link
In comment 11887176 That Said said:
Quote:
How do they um; never mind.


With a sheet between them containing nothing more than a hole.

To each his/her own.
You mean the women dress up  
Headhunter : 9/28/2014 6:43 pm : link
like a ghost?
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