# British Airways thinks all men are pedophiles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382 "2010-01-18T02:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/21 "2010-01-18T05:19:23Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > Remember, this is the same country where vigilantes burned down a doctor’s office because they thought “paediatrician” meant “paedophile.” :rolleyes: Urban myth, or at least distorted. It was the acxt of one unknown person, who just wrote a little graffiti. No angry mob, no arson, no attack. And the confusion over the words is unproven speculation, the motive is not known for certain. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/22 "2010-01-18T05:21:24Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’m all for this policy, as long as it means I never have to sit near a baby again. NAMBLA could make a killing selling branded shirts for just this reason. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/23 "2010-01-18T05:34:21Z")
This is a Daily Mail story. Don’t take it seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/24 "2010-01-18T08:23:50Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > This is a Daily Mail story. Don’t take it seriously. Yes, this is the “newspaper” that recently claimed that the recent earthquake in Haiti was caused by the movement of two “Teutonic plates” :- [Mail Article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242885/Haiti-earthquake-Victims-forced-dig-rubble-bare-hands-free-surivors.html) (in the box headed “DEVASTATING BUT PREDICTED”) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/25 "2010-01-18T08:28:34Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > Remember, this is the same country where vigilantes burned down a doctor’s office because they thought “paediatrician” meant “paedophile.” :rolleyes: > I agree, except they should force the loud, smelly children to sit elsewhere. Like the cargo hold. Or simply have planes that carry no one but children. I’d like that. A screaming tot 20 rows away is still annoying. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/26 "2010-01-18T09:07:55Z")
Actually, I remember [reading](http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-07-15/news/predators-are-free-to-move-about-the-cabin/1)not that long ago about children who had been molested on airplanes by pedophiles. Apparently it happens, though not that often. In general, the man will switch seats in order to be next to the kid. It isn’t just some accident of random seat assignment. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/27 "2010-01-18T09:10:21Z")
> [@Rayne\_Man](#): > > Yes, this is the “newspaper” that recently claimed that the recent earthquake in Haiti was caused by the movement of two “Teutonic plates” :- > > [Mail Article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242885/Haiti-earthquake-Victims-forced-dig-rubble-bare-hands-free-surivors.html) (in the box headed “DEVASTATING BUT PREDICTED”) The Germans are at it again?!! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/28 "2010-01-18T09:24:26Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Actually, I remember [reading](http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-07-15/news/predators-are-free-to-move-about-the-cabin/1)not that long ago about children who had been molested on airplanes by pedophiles. Apparently it happens, though not that often. In general, the man will switch seats in order to be next to the kid. It isn’t just some accident of random seat assignment. There was a Qantas Flight Attendant who had sex with Ralph Fiennes (sp?) in the toilet of an airliner, so it is possible to get up to mischief. Moving every man away from every child is not the answer though. Edit: Sorry but I’ve just looked up Ralph Fiennes to make sure I got the spelling right, his full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes! How very English. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/29 "2010-01-18T10:33:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It’s pretty sad we’ve reached a point where every adult male is viewed with suspicion and distrust. Not just on airplanes. The days of innocently offering aid to a child that wants to cross the street, find a bathroom or whatever are long gone. And the occasional female; there’s starting to be cases where a woman helps a lost kid (just take him to the lifeguard station on the beach, or to customer support in a supermarket) and the mother goes ballistic and pretty much accuses the helper of trying to kidnap her baby. Yeah, that makes sense: any kidnapper will, as the first step in her heinous plan, take your kid to the place where someone can use the sound system to call for you :smack: Oooof course. I don’t know about whomever caused BA to come up with the now-being-challenged stupid policy, but these other cases sound to me like the mothers involved are feeling guilty they lost their kid from sight (something that’s happened to pretty much every mother of a toddler, kids are slippery!) and trying to hide/transfer that guilt. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/30 "2010-01-18T10:38:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > ‘If the airline is that concerned they should sit unaccompanied children with cabin crew who have no doubt been thoroughly vetted’. “Tell me Billy . . . you ever like to watch old gladiator movies?” ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/31 "2010-01-18T11:50:15Z")
I don’t fly that often but I have noticed on the two flights I made last year I was not able to select my own seat. And on every flight connection there and back I was seated next to a woman. And I noticed that the flight was pretty much segregated that way. Not entirely, but damn close. This was on Delta. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/32 "2010-01-18T12:05:54Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:28, topic:525382”] Edit: Sorry but I’ve just looked up Ralph Fiennes to make sure I got the spelling right, his full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes! How very English. [/QUOTE] Wrong again: it’s Ranulph. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/33 "2010-01-18T12:29:46Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Or simply have planes that carry no one but children. I’d like that. A screaming tot 20 rows away is still annoying. Yeah- brat free flights! I’m for that. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/34 "2010-01-18T12:35:36Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Wrong again: it’s Ranulph. No, Ralph Fiennes the actor. Ranulph the explorer is his cousin. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/35 "2010-01-18T12:38:08Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > They fear molestation _on the plane_? I mean, it’s a pretty public space… I heard there was a movie about that – _Snakes on a plane_. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/36 "2010-01-18T16:03:42Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Wrong again: it’s Ranulph. Yeah, that’s Ran Fiennes, different guy, same family. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/37 "2010-01-18T16:30:53Z")
> [@Rayne\_Man](#): > > Yes, this is the “newspaper” that recently claimed that the recent earthquake in Haiti was caused by the movement of two “Teutonic plates” :- > > [Mail Article](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242885/Haiti-earthquake-Victims-forced-dig-rubble-bare-hands-free-surivors.html) (in the box headed “DEVASTATING BUT PREDICTED”) But it has some great pictures. Like this one of [Gordon Brown](http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/05/daily-mail-scraperboard-of-truth.html) (second picture) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/38 "2010-01-18T17:02:36Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:28, topic:525382”] There was a Qantas Flight Attendant who had sex with Ralph Fiennes (sp?) in the toilet of an airliner [/QUOTE] I’ll… be… in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/39 "2010-01-18T17:04:16Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’ll… be… in my bunk. Do the extra names help or hinder the fantasy? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382/40 "2010-01-18T17:05:39Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Wrong again: it’s Ranulph. …and come on man, do you not think I’d get it right after Googling it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-airways-thinks-all-men-are-pedophiles/525382.md?page=3)