Posted on 02/23/2010 7:41:06 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
As Americans get larger and airplane space comes at a greater premium, it's not difficult to see where friction ensues. The issue was brought to light again Feb. 13, when movie director Kevin Smith was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank, Calif., for failing to fit comfortably into a seat. According to Southwest, Smith originally bought two tickets — "as he's been known to do when traveling on Southwest" (Smith disputed this on his Twitter account) — but decided to fly standby on an earlier flight. After the director received a seat, it was determined that "Mr. Smith needed more than one seat to complete his flight," and he was asked to leave the plane, the airline said. It offered him a $100 voucher for a future flight.
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Are you also fat?
Okay. Next time you fly, volunteer to sit next to a fat person and give the passenger about to be squished a chance to sit elsewhere.
We need more loving folks like you.
The gods bless you.
Are you also ugly?
I see plenty of obese people in historical photographs. People are not getting bigger so much as the seats have been shrinking to cram in more bodies. I will not fly any more, it is a horrible experience.
Hey bendover10, I was going to welcome you to FR, but it looks like you had to bend over and are already ZOTTED.
The most important factor on a plane, as far as fuel is concerned, is weight. The fact that airlines don’t already charge by the pound is insane. However, I know why they don’t. Women. The are so over-sensitive about their weight they wouldn’t stand for it. In a society that is built around catering to women, airlines could never do that.
Thanks for the personal attack. You prove my point, unfortunately.
“Obese passengers and airlines are on collision course”
If you are a fat ass (and I am) and you are so fat that the airline has to make special allowances for your fatness, that alone SHOULD BE humiliating, lose some weight, fat ass.
Reminds me of the fat lady that sued a movie theatre some years ago because they didn’t have special seats to fit her 400 + pound fat ass into.
It is not anyones’ fault but my own that I am fat.
“that’s nothing, wait until the first one won’t fit into a TSA body scanner...”
First you strip ‘em nekkid, then butter up the hips, then throw a chocolate bar into the scanner....
These people need to realize that it’s not about THEM. It’s about the guy who has to sit next to them - for four hours.
I love perfect people. They always know what is right because they is what they are.
Once you solve the "fat" problem what is your next project to use "social discipline on"?
Genetics plays a role in body type and the way human bodies develop as we get older. But enjoy your self righteous views, sooner or later those that wish to use "social discipline" to make our world perfect will find something you do they don't like.
One of the effects of a long life is your body has many aches and pains. Bless you if you are free from the pains of growing older but some do find it hard to walk, let alone run marathons. Lack of excercise is not always do to being lazy, but your heart is to sour and black to consider anything other than because you are perfect everyone else should be as well.
Excellent point!....If you can’t loose weight for yourself, loose it for the person sitting next to you for three hours.....you can do it!
Look, everyone is different, yes genetics play a part and blah, blah blah. However, when you make the FIRST excuse for being fat or a drunk or whatever, you only make the second and third excuse easier.
People are slightly overweight because of those factors, people are obese because they eat too much and don’t exercise on top of those factors. I know. My maternal grandfather was short, very fat and bald. I’m an inch or two taller, about 10-15 lbs over my optimum weight (185-190) and bald. If I didn’t exercise or watch what I ate, I would weigh the 260 he did when he died of a heart attack. I am built just like him. I do not allow that to be an excuse. THAT is a slippery slope I on which dare not tread. I am not perfect, but I don’t use that as an excuse either. Criticize people who have figured out how not to be fat if you want, enable yourself and others if you want, but it’s not a secret. It’s not always easy, but any idiot can figure it out. Burn more calories than you take in. End of story.
You never answered my question:
Are you also fat?
You asked: “Are you also ugly?”
This has nothing to do with my looks (5’3” 105 lb.). It does have something to do with your looks. What is your height and weight?
Excuses, excuses. None of us can be perfect, but none of us has to be obese. Resorting to strawman arguments just shows you love your fork more than your health. But, to be clear, I don’t particularly care if someone chooses to be obese. The objection is to the rancid excuses and attempts to socialize the cost of overeating/underexercise. Reread the last two sentences, because they are the point. I wouldn’t bother with a thread like this but for the increasing tendency of the obese to pretend they are victims of evil discrimination and entitled to special benefits - like half of the airline seat I am paying for .
Let’s not confuse middle-aged spread with morbidly obese. Or do you routinely request seat changes so you can save someone else from having to scrunch against the bulkhead or the aisle armrest?
If the person in question routinely buys two tickets, he should have anticipated this problem and discussed it with the gate agent when requesting standby status. Yeah, perhaps SWA could have been more tactful but we weren’t there to judge.
the BOTTOM line is just too big.
Oh yes,....P.S.
That is before I gained a little weight when I weighed in at 97 lbs.
If their hips are wider than an airline seat charge them double!
Lock all armrests down so they can’t slop over!
“There is no need to make people embarrassed about it”
Why not!!
They had a choice not to become an eyesore!
“Hey I got news for you, as you get older you are going to gain weight.”
You’re full of crap!
I weigh 180 and my wife 110 and we are the same weight that we graduated from high school 55 years ago.
I went to my 50th high school reunion a few years ago and of the over 250 poeople there there wasn’t one that was obese and only a few that were 200#.
You’r being fat is your choice!
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