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Guy gets kicked off plane for speaking Arabic

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  • 21-12-2016 4:41pm
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    blow69
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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/adam-saleh-delta-flight-arabic

    A YouTube star (keep this part in mind) Adam Saleh was kicked off a Delta Airlines flight sometime today when some passengers became uncomfortable by him speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother.

    He filmed him and his friends being escorted up the aisle proclaiming his outrage.

    At first, I disregarded the fact that he was filming the whole thing because that's what people seem to do nowadays, and felt a bit of shock that this was happening.

    The whole YouTube thing throws me though. Most of his YouTube channel is of pranks and "social experiments" with click-baitey titles i.e. exploiting and manipulating people for views and therefore $$$

    What do you reckon?


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    Dr Crayfish
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    YouTube star! Never mind a plane, kick him off a cliff!


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    DrumSteve
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    blow69 wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/adam-saleh-delta-flight-arabic

    A YouTube star (keep this part in mind) Adam Saleh was kicked off a Delta Airlines flight sometime today when some passengers became uncomfortable by him speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother.

    He filmed him and his friends being escorted up the aisle proclaiming his outrage.

    At first, I disregarded the fact that he was filming the whole thing because that's what people seem to do nowadays, and felt a bit of shock that this was happening.

    The whole YouTube thing throws me though. Most of his YouTube channel is of pranks and "social experiments" with click-baitey titles i.e. exploiting and manipulating people for views and $$$

    What do you reckon?

    I reckon he's full of shite


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    9or10
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    blow69 wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/adam-saleh-delta-flight-arabic

    A YouTube star (keep this part in mind) Adam Saleh was kicked off a Delta Airlines flight sometime today when some passengers became uncomfortable by him speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother.

    Was the plane on the ground?


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    me_irl
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    And look at us (and mainly the guardian) for taking this bait hook, line and sinker so another "youtube celebrity" gets their views.

    Don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe!


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    blow69
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    9or10 wrote: »
    Was the plane on the ground?

    Yes. Departing London and New York bound.


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    me_irl
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    blow69 wrote: »
    Yes. Departing London and New York bound.

    Shame.





    But I guess that was the joke.


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    DrumSteve
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    I would have preferred to see him get kicked out of Arabia for acting like a plane.


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    silverharp
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    he sounds like a complete tool, example in the link of what he gets up to. I hope the airline sue him or have him charged

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    The Backwards Man
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    Your man Richard Marx was filming himself going all Wesley Snipes on a plane there today too.

    I thought it wasn't a shameless publicity stunt at first but I should've known better.


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    osarusan
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    'Youtube personality'....jaysus.

    Publicity stunt or discrimination...he reminds me a bit of that lad that 'got arrested for speaking Irish' who turned out to be a member of Republican Sinn Fein with a habit of annoying the police. This guy conveniently started filming after it all happened too.

    That said, similar things have happened to people for whom it wasn't a convenient publicity incident.


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    seamus
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    I'm going to call bull on his story.

    Usually when someone posts a video of themselves talking to the camera about something that has happened, they're omitting all sorts of useful information.

    If you don't want to watch it, the entire thing is basically him talking to the camera and other passengers about how "white people" are kicking him off the plane for speaking a different language. And repeating that over and over. The other passengers are understandably shocked, while the crew escorting him off just look like they're sick of his nonsense.


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    Grayson
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    It's not the first time this has happened though.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/16/southwest-airlines-man-removed-flight-arabic

    And there was the economist who was kicked off a plane because he was writing maths.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/07/professor-flight-delay-terrorism-equation-american-airlines


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    Grayson
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    seamus wrote: »
    I'm going to call bull on his story.

    Usually when someone posts a video of themselves talking to the camera about something that has happened, they're omitting all sorts of useful information.

    If you don't want to watch it, the entire thing is basically him talking to the camera and other passengers about how "white people" are kicking him off the plane for speaking a different language. And repeating that over and over. The other passengers are understandably shocked, while the crew escorting him off just look like they're sick of his nonsense.

    Except he was using his phone to talk to someone so he couldn't record himself at the time.


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    Maximus Alexander
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    Arabic is not compatible with aviation. Well except the numerals, they're vital to it.


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    Knex*
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    Yeah, really don't know about this. The guy in question is known to be someone who exaggerates for the social media hits, and has history pricking about on planes before, but as someone posted above, there has been occasions whereby people have been thrown off planes for speaking Arabic.

    Would hate to think that he was innocent and wronged in all of this, but I wouldn't doubt that it could happen. Just the fact that the recorder's history would make you fairly sceptical.


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    Clarebelly
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    blow69 wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/adam-saleh-delta-flight-arabic

    Guy gets kicked off plane for speaking Arabic

    What do you reckon?

    He looks and acts like an absolute prick.
    His language is secondary.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0NUVc6XcAAoxOb.jpg


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    Jimmy Garlic
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    Great, he should have been kicked off, well done to those who kicked him off.



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    9or10
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    Nah, ain't watching it thanks. Don't want to give him another view.



    YouTube star - WTF. I suppose he'll be in Strictly come dancing next year or Celebrity Big Brother.


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    Senna
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    9or10 wrote: »
    YouTube star - WTF. I suppose he'll be in Strictly come dancing next year or Celebrity Big Brother.

    Equate "Youtube star" to "Star of St Marys Primary School Christmas Panto", it conjures the same level of ability


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    Jimmy Garlic
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    9or10 wrote: »
    Nah, ain't watching it thanks. Don't want to give him another view.

    Not one of his videos.


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    9or10
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Not one of his videos.

    OK one of his skangy mates?


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    Jimmy Garlic
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    9or10 wrote: »
    OK one of his skangy mates?

    No.. Someone that exposed what he is up to, ie how he does stuff in order to get a reaction.


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    KingBrian2
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    blow69 wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/adam-saleh-delta-flight-arabic

    A YouTube star (keep this part in mind) Adam Saleh was kicked off a Delta Airlines flight sometime today when some passengers became uncomfortable by him speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother.

    He filmed him and his friends being escorted up the aisle proclaiming his outrage.

    At first, I disregarded the fact that he was filming the whole thing because that's what people seem to do nowadays, and felt a bit of shock that this was happening.

    The whole YouTube thing throws me though. Most of his YouTube channel is of pranks and "social experiments" with click-baitey titles i.e. exploiting and manipulating people for views and therefore $$$

    What do you reckon?


    And so it begins.:(


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    Oodoov
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    I watched the video. He seems to be a bit of a penis doesnt he.


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    suicide_circus
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    DrumSteve wrote: »
    I would have preferred to see him get kicked out of Arabia for acting like a plane.
    Nyuuuuuuuuuuurrrrmmmmmm


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    BorneTobyWilde
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    He pushes it until he gets a reaction and then blames others for his actions.
    He got himself kicked off the plane, like many white men, black men and Jewish men before him. He basically a man who got kicked off a place, no more than that.


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    mikeym
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    He's a typical YouTube attention freak.

    Trying to make money from getting likes.


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    KingBrian2
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    What is happening now is that the hot heads are exposing themselves for all to see. This will only continue as the media spread falsehoods and abuse against secular Arabs. A cocktail of conspiracies has be offered to the public and we are seeing on social media sites and over airways this propaganda for a number of years now. It was kept hidden for years that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia and that the majority of these Jihadists were Muslims seeking to spread terror to Europe and America.


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    darkpagandeath
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    Co*ckbag gets kicked off for being a Co*ckbag...


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    vg88
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    As someone who works in the aviation, you get a lot of these C list celebrities getting kicked off for acting the absolute prick or thinking they own the plane.

    He was probably being a prick and they had enough with his ****e and asked him to leave, then he labels them racist because it's the first time it it hasn't gone his way. Any publicity for these C list celebrities is what they want.


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