Southwest Arlines: Cover your cleavage for takeoff

On June 5th, a woman was boarding a 6 AM flight from Las Vegas to New York in a comfy cotton dress, a loose open flannel shirt and a colorful scarf when she was told that her cleavage was "inappropriate." The airline dealt with the incident as it has many, many times in the past (at least when customers contact media outlets to complain): by offering the aggrieved customer an apology and a refund. Why won't Southwest stop kicking people off flights for reasons even the airline will admit are over-the-top?

Although the woman was told she wouldn't be able to fly if she didn't button up her flannel shirt, she bravely bared her breasts all the way onto the plane. "I didn't want to let the representative's Big Feelings about my breasts change the way I intended to board my flight," she explained. "And lo and behold, the plane didn't fall out of the sky...my cleavage did not interfere with the plane's ability to function properly." Imagine that!

Check out Avital's early morning flying attire; pretty casual, right? (And cute, which is impressive, given that she probably woke up before daybreak.) She wasn't exactly verging into XXX territory with her rope belt and Birkenstock-y sandals. Is it really inappropriate for a self-described large-chested woman to wear a non-constricting sundress on a 100-degree day? More to the point: is it really the airline's responsibility to dictate what is and isn't appropriate apparel?

Southwest Airlines has become synonymous with people getting kicked off flights for ridiculous reasons. Avital is not the first woman to be deemed too slutty-looking to fly; according to Southwest's history, cleavage is not "family-friendly," even though today's median bra size in the US is 36DD. There's Kyla Ebbert, who was escorted off a flight by a Southwest customer service supervisor who called her outfit "inappropriate" back in 2007, even though she looked like any SoCal resident dressed for 106-degree weather, maybe one having a particularly conservative day. A week later, Setara Qassim was forced to wear a blanket by a Southwest flight attendant who thought Setara's top was too low cut. Hey, Southwest: it's difficult — not to mention uncomfortable — to completely cover yourself up if you have larger breasts. What's family-friendly about making your customers feel both emotionally and physically shitty about themselves?

By the way it's not just cleavage that gets you kicked off of Southwest flights. A couple of years ago film director Kevin Smith tweeted that Southwest Airlines kicked him off a flight. Yes, it was purportedly because of his weight.

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Celebrating with the Stanley Cup

Each year every member of the Stanley Cup team gets to celebrate with their family, friends and community with the Cup. It leads to some unsual stories and photos. This year is no exception.

Dustin Brown's kids dressed as Spiderman blowing bubbles with chocolate milk in the Cup.


It's an LA Stanley Cup win so natually here is none other than the first daughter of the Great One and Princess of Twitter, Pauline Gretzky, with her usual slutty pose.

Flashback Friday - Bette Midler

Celebrity side boob week

Rachel MacAdams

Baby arrives to his own brit (circumcision) in a remote controlled car

This Israeli family may have broken every bad taste record out there. The macho-baby arrived to his own circumcision riding a convertible remote-control car, together with drumming and fireworks.

Whoever is controlling the car is doing pretty bad job too, which could explain where Israelis get their bad driving habits from, although he was able to avoid running the car into the fireworks so I’ll give him that.

Restaurant will deliver food and dirty dishes to people who don't cook

There are people too lazy to wash the dishes, and then there are people too lazy to even dirty them to begin with.

The latter appears to be the target demographic for the new delivery service from the UK-based restaurant Housebites.

Housebites now offers its customers the option of pretending "they have slaved away at a hot stove more convincingly by delivering dirty pans alongside the food."

"Cooked by a professional chef and delivered to your door, Housebites main courses cost on average between £10 and £12, and now for an additional £5, customers can request the pans .used to cook them for added authenticity."

Just make sure your friends don't catch you sheepishly handing the dirty dishes back to the Housebites delivery people, or your clever -- or almost criminally slothful -- plot will be foiled.

The release says Housebites got the idea for their new service from Twitter and Facebook users who begged them to deliver dirty dishes to their door.

They've even added a £2.50 refund for people who take the time to clean their faux-dishes.

Housebites CEO Simon Prockter explained why the idea is so popular in the release, saying, "As Housebites provides home cooked food, we had a number of customers contact us after ordering to say they had pretended to cook the meal themselves. When a few of them requested we deliver the dirty pans alongside the meal 'for authenticity' we thought it could be a useful service, especially for those less adept in the kitchen, looking to impress.”

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Guy is suing Apple because Siri gives bad directions

Built into the iPhone 4S, the digital assistant known as Siri has plenty of celebrity friends showing her off. But not everyone likes Siri. In fact, some have accused Siri as being “not as advertised” and filed a lawsuit against her creator, Apple.

Frank Fazio didn’t find Siri funny or helpful. He filed a federal class action lawsuit against Apple saying Siri commercials are “fundamentally and designedly false and misleading.” Apple has filed a motion to dismiss. But does the lawsuit against the voice activated software have legs?

The lawsuit claims Fazio “asked Siri for directions to a certain place, or to locate a store. Siri either did not understand what he was asking or after a very long wait time responded with the wrong answer.”

In its motion to dismiss, Apple said that its website identifies Siri as beta technology, a work in progress. The company also questioned why those who complained about Siri failed to take advantage of the company’s 30-day return policy.

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