Ryanair; if I was a cynical cunt i would say that taking the cunt off the plane would have resulted in a lost takeoff slot, long delay and passenger compensation having to be paid out. Only if I was a cynical cunt of course.
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True though
Ryanair donāt think itās their responsibility to do anything at all for you other than fly you from A to B. This was the outfit that was not prepared to pay for wheelchair assistance at Stansted, after all. If youāre a wheelchair user then they recognise that you do have particular needs. But they argue that meeting them is your problem, not theirs. Likewise, I suppose, they would recognise that if you were being racially abused in a way that might even be illegal then you also have needs - perhaps a need to be protected in the short term and a need to see the perpetrator brought to justice in the longer term. But again they donāt see why they should lift a finger to help you with any of this. They are problems. But they are your problems. Ryanair donāt care. Tossers.
VB
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CP to man flu that has left me languishing on the sofa instead of being at work.
Time of year for aches and pains and headaches and snotty noses and most importantly, never succumb to trusting a fart.
This vacuous cunt
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Itās always occurred to me that if you want to kill any animal you should use your bare hands.
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Good luck with wasps (saying that, I have a mate who can swat them reliably in the face with his hand).
VB
Whoās face though?
I use pliers or magazines.
Pliers, eh ? Now that, Iād like to see.
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Wasps are a vital part of the ecosystem. They are valuable pollinators and also reduce greenfly and other pests that would otherwise destroy our agriculture.
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Not sure if this should be a cockpunch really. We all make mistakes. But for a howler this big to get all the way through whatever editorial checking process is supposed to be applied to BBC radio programmes, someone needs taking to task ā¦
David Baddiel tried to understand WiFi here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000sxr. He floundered. But he did at least manage to ask the right questions once in a while. From about 07:00 onwards he tried to find out what electromagnetic waves were and, in particular, what they were āwaving inā. Unfortunately he asked this lady https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/people/atoz/mahmoodit.aspx and it turns out she doesnāt know. She said āthe airā and agreed with him when he said āair moleculesā. Later on she agreed that you need the air, so wifi wouldnāt travel through vacuum.
Oh dear. Dear, oh dear, oh dear. I predict sheās in for a hard time when she gets into work tomorrow.
VB
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And a senior member of the IEEE, so her page claims!
True. Iām not sure we should set about killing every single one. But sometimes they get trapped in small spaces with us. Being trapped angers them. Their idea of an acceptable response is sometimes to sting other organisms in the vicinity. Which is to say me. If I canāt set them free then Iāll kill them. Thereās no shortage.
VB
They are destined to take over from bees. Sans honey 
I donāt know about the IEEE but you can get chucked out of the IOP for bringing the organisation into disrepute - one reason why I tend to keep my mouth shut in cable threads (Iād either have to upset people or commit professional malpractice).
VB
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And your response is to kill them
They said that about the Passenger Pigeonā¦
I understand peopleās reaction to a wasp. It lands on your neck and you swat it. Fine, but we eradicate any species at our peril.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
While Iām confessing my crimes I should own up to laying waste to the bacterial plaque on my teeth simply to avoid the grief of tooth decay, and digging out the dandelions in my grass just because I donāt like the way they look, and as for the ants that occasionally think they can help themselves to stuff in our kitchen ā¦
As Vishnu said āNow I am become death, the destroyer of worldsā.
VB
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Yes, I understand what you (and Vishnu 
) are saying. Iām just saying that āpestsā are sometimes (pretty much always) useful in the natural world.
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