Posted on 04/04/2018 9:33:12 AM PDT by simpson96
When you go to Disneyland and Ride It’s a Small World, many of the Boats have empty seat rows because large Groups of People want to be seated together.
They don’t stop the boarding process to try and find smaller Groups of People to fill the Bench Seats. They just go to the next Boat.
I’m shocked this Thread is getting so much attention and I seldom have to respond to so many who disagree with my take.
Sounds to me like the school you attended, particularly the physics teachers screwed up.
The physics here are simple. The safety restraints cannot reliably hold her in the rides because she generates too much inertia.
This whole Thread is suffering from too much overthinking. :)
Nope.
The ride designers rightfully decided that it would be way cheaper (and not compromise the experience) to give the obese who failed to fit the design specifications that $100 gift card than spend millions more engineering the ride for 400lb people.
Obesity is a choice. Plain and simple.
And I’m currently obese.
This lady wants obesity to be a ‘protected’ class like handicapped or blind or other non choice physical imperfections.
And the boat rides aren’t subject to the same sort of physics as the coaster rides. Worst thing happens on a boat ride is it fails to clear some underwater obstacle or people fall in the water. Coasters coming off the tracks are WAY more dramatic and hurtful. Ask the lawyers which cost the entertainment companies more in the long run, wet people or dead people...
I repeat what I Posted earlier.
This whole Thread is suffering from too much overthinking. :)
Nope.
This sort of stuff needs to be nipped in the bud.
And the obese who think physics doesn’t apply to them need a remedial course in that.
Course, I think we’ve established that physics is a hurtful mean racist discriminatory thing. /s
Al Bundy’s best insults. Lots of big gals in the shoe store.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbBLcZo894
Sounds like the ride manufacturers screwed up in physics too - as there are no weight restrictions. In the article it said she wanted more space - but they didn’t want to spare the seat. I have no idea what the ride is like, but lots of them with a bench seat just have a bar in front of all the people. One 400 pound woman would be the same as me and my brother sitting next to each other.
Now I think its stupid to have fat people get there own set of rights - but I also think its stupid for a business to piss off their customers. But - it’s their business, so they can if they want. Well - they SHOULD be able to turn away who they want.
But physics and reality are racist. Or something.
I just clicked on the ride. Folks are seated in a school-bus type thing and drive through the scene on a track - looks like they have special glasses on for some of the effects. Looks more like riding through a scary jungle thing than any type of action/thrill ride.
She should have bought two tickets.
I’m actually sickened by freepers mocking this woman (and obese people in general) because of her size. Mock her because she’s being a snowflake or because she wants to sue or seeks publicity, but have a little empathy for people with weight problems. Many people can’t just bang out some situps or walk for miles and lose weight, no matter how easy you think that might be.
And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.
That said, it would also have cost her nothing to just get on the stupid bench with her kids and let the last person in the row choose if they want to squeeze in or take another seat. According to the article one man voluntarily gave up his seat so they wouldn’t be squished. On another visit the woman asked the attendant if she could get on with one fewer person in the row and she was refused. She was absolutely able to safely ride the ride if she chose to do so.
In my view this isn’t about this ride but the Harry Potter ones she can’t board. This ride is used as her example because it was a case where the park actively refused her when they could have accepted her request. The other rides were probably such that she couldn’t even fit, so she had no case there, unless they built new rides with larger cars or whatever.
I feel fat shamed and intimidated every time I see a commercials for a Sandals resort. And I’m not fat. Those ads actually drive away “real” people.
“And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.”
How long would the line have been if everyone got their own seat? Why should I have to share if she doesn’t? Did she buy tickets for that whole bench to herself?
She’s not asking for ‘equal treatment’, she wants obesity to be a special class like handicapped or blind or otherwise physically disabled. She wants the airline first class seat for the same price as cattle car. Just because she can’t control her eating.
Eat a salad and give up soda.
I am 6'3” and weight 245. Comfort is a rare commodity when it comes to dealing with “average” size accommodations.
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Depending on where she lives, it may be impossible for her to lose weight.
The likely cause: eating food grown in soils depleted in chromium and vanadium.
These two minerals control our cells’ absorbtion of insulin, which is necessary to metabolize glucose.
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I’m at the other end of the spectrum. Short and obese.
I don’t expect to be catered to because of my weight.
I can’t help the height. But then neither can anyone else. I didn’t choose to be short.
Obesity is a choice.
It really is.
I was too short for amusement park rides until I was in my late teens. I didn’t whine and complain. It was what it was.
I also had and passed physics. So I understood WHY it was a bad idea for someone of my height to insist on being seated on those rides.
There is a huge (pun intended) movement afoot to make obesity a protected class. Heck no. The end.
This lady wants a seat all to herself (don’t we all!) and wants to insist she’s more special than anyone else just because she’s fat. Nope. Not falling for that one.
>>>How long would the line have been if everyone got their own seat?<<
She didn’t ask for her “own” seat. Quit repeating Facts not in Evidence.
This Thread makes me feel like Pacino in the Godfather.
“Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in”.
LOL
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