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On top of that, if he did so for the whole flight - unless they flew the whole time under 10,000 feet - then we wouldn't be having this AMA - those oxygen generators only last about 20-25 minutes, as best I remember, and frankly I don't want to pull out my old manuals.

Still, glad OP is alright. For varied values of alright I suppose, but still, physically undamaged.

Sorry, it's habit. Ex-flight attendant here, and 10 grand is considered the "Safe limit" for flying unpressurized amongst commercial operators - because obviously, we don't want the unfit or infirm, or otherwise not a fit adult person to start dropping off, just because the fit ones only drop off around 16-17 grand.

The issue there was primarily labeling. It doesn't matter if Horse is fine to eat or not, if it says "100% beef", then by UK regulation, it has to be just that, beef. If it's adulterated with horse meat, that's a breach of regulation - despite that people are focusing on "ooh errr you're eating pharlap", that's what the initial issue was about.

Some concerns have now arisen about it being unregulated horse meat, which could contain dangerous levels of drugs which are not approved for use in slaughter animals, because they can be dangerous for human consumption, apparently.

This AMA is a disaster.

I wouldn't go that far. I mean, it's a bit of a shitshow, but I wouldn't say it's harmed her chances of winning the presidential race.

I feel that the Boy Scouts allowing females into the program was a very strange move for them to boost membership. I know they'll have to change a lot of rules about camps and other things here and there to accommodate female Boy Scouts. My big question to them would be if they're changing the name to be inclusive.

I doubt it's to boost membership, I think it's more just dragging the BSA kicking and screaming into the modern age. (Bloody finally, says the rest of the world.) They're one of only seventeen(out of 160-odd) national scouting movements that are still gender-exclusive, one of only two(the other being Pakistan) that has a membership of over 10k. They're also the only Western nation on the list, with the rest primarily being in the middle east, and south east Asia.

Luckily, that just means that if they do join the rest of us in the modern age, they'll have a wealth of experience and guidance from other national movements to draw on. It's all there, from how to handle camps, what rules to change, how to run joint camps and activities with guides, so on. We've got it figured out already, no fuss.

No need to worry about girl scout numbers dropping though, funnily enough - Obviously not the case in the US yet, but it's not uncommon in other nations for someone to be a part of both a WAGGS group and a scout group. Some groups even share the same leaders, in fact, many of the more involved Guide leaders I've known over the years have also been Scout Leaders simultaneously, including at least one who was in a leadership role in both the Scouting and Guiding movement state management. There's even specific uniform rules that are for allowing the use of uniform elements(primarily trefoil/flur-de-lis pins, service bars, and other awards) on both uniforms for members who are in both movements(and some others, but it's a rare exception).

EDIT- I can't help but notice elsewhere in the thread that you disagree with the decision to allow girls into the scouts. Considering the extremely widespread success that co-ed scouts have had almost everywhere else in the world, why don't you agree? Is it some sort of thing unique to the American movements? Not to push or anything, just curious - it seems an odd position to take, to someone who went from cubs to rovers in a non-gender exclusive movement.