So, who read about Joel's incident with British Airways and is totally pissed that he felt embarrassed.

For those of you who don't follow Twitter, Joel was told he would have to put on a long sleeved shirt before he boarded their plane because of his tattoos. When I heard about it I was so ticked off. How dare they discriminate about something like that. I don't get it. What's next??? What year are we in anyway people??

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Permalink Reply by Beverly on April 27, 2009 at 11:50am

I just might. I don't and probably won't ever use that airline. But its disgusting to hear about this kind of crap in this day and age.

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Permalink Reply by Becky on April 27, 2009 at 12:02pm

We should do a joint petition/letter thing, get people to put names to it and just say how disgusting we find it that they stopped someone boarding a plane based on their tattoo's... Being british, I'm kinda ashamed of them... I think they should know how against it people are... Maybe won't make much difference, but hey... As I said before, my best mate had a similar issue when he flew with them... certainly make me feel better...

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Permalink Reply by Tanya on April 27, 2009 at 3:54pm

After reading Joel's blog on here, I'm so impressed at how laid back he is. I wonder if he saw this thread?? Anyway, I'm still mad but if he is willing to let it go....Still, the news spread fast and I hope BA feels like total idiots right now.

So, Becky, they made your friend cover up as well??

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Permalink Reply by katielocks on April 27, 2009 at 4:50pm

i'm glad joel is who he is so that it got all over the place in the media sense he's decided not to do much about it. discrimination of any sort should never go unnoticed and i get really upset when people just shrug their shoulders off when it comes to it. if you let it happen to yourself or others, it'll never stop. the guy needs to get in trouble for it and the airline is doing the right thing by reprimanding him.

i kinda wish people took this stuff more seriously.

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Permalink Reply by Skittles on April 27, 2009 at 6:57pm

well actually, I have had these kind of things happen to me and I still laugh at them myself...it's only a big deal if you make it so

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Permalink Reply by Xgc*spX on April 28, 2009 at 1:52am

The airline employee who made Joel Madden cover his tats before boarding a British Airways flight on Sunday in London is in deep trouble -- because B.A. is calling BS on him.

A rep for British Airways just straight up told us the employee is being reprimanded -- adding "we don't understand why the employee took it upon himself to enforce regulations that don't exist."

From GCSTATE

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Permalink Reply by Becky on April 28, 2009 at 6:21am

Yeh, he was flying out with his band, France I think it was, so not exactly a massive trip, his tattoo's are more like Benji's, full sleeves and coloured, but they kept him waiting for a couple of hours and the guy told him he wasn't allowed on the plane until he covered up the tattoo's because it was 'unsightly'. He did eventually, they weren't going to budge on it, so he had to put a jumper on.
Hate that kind of discrimination though. But as ya say, big respect to Joel for being so cool about it... I wouldn't have been.

I think at some point everyone thats got tattoo's, piercings wild hair colour etc falls victim to discrimination, I know I have and I'm not exactly the most extreme looking person ever, just got a few tattoo's and piercings etc... Hate it when people judge purely on appearance.

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Permalink Reply by gloria8887 on April 29, 2009 at 12:48am

seriously. dat incident, for me, it is an insult. they should apologize to Joel and should be thankful Joel didnt brought up any action against them.. huh~ enough talking

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Permalink Reply by Xgc*spX on April 29, 2009 at 2:23am

stupid brit's.......oh wait i'm a brit :|

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Permalink Reply by justwanna-live on April 29, 2009 at 5:06am

agreed. I think it became way too big. whiever said joel to cover tattoos is dumb but then it really got too big. I was laughing so badly when I saw it on perez. things like this happend but sometimes it's just better to ignore it.

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Permalink Reply by justwanna-live on April 29, 2009 at 5:09am

but still everyone from Arabic countries are treated like s***. not everyone's a terrorist. but there still has to be some kind of control on airports.

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Permalink Reply by justwanna-live on April 29, 2009 at 5:23am

I think it was only that's person's problem and judgement, brits have unique style and I think different style wasn't really the problem. It4 be still interesting to know why were tatoos offensive.