two seats = two tickets

[underworld]

link

 

there's just too much to comment on this one.

 

..and of course, the race card because other blacks have been told they need 2 seats... right?

[Alpinfox]

What do you think of the airline's policy requiring large passengers to buy two seats?

Choice Votes Percentage of 18279 Votes

I think it's a great policy. 12053 66%

I disapprove. I think it's a form of discrimination. 4543 25%

I'm not sure. 1683 9%

Thanks for taking part in our survey!

[foraker]

25%, isn't that about the current obesity rate in America?

The 9% must be the part that's on it's way there.

[Dechristo]

There's always a limit on baggage - in the hand or on the hip.

[chucK]

Foraker, you beat me to it.

 

Related statistic:

Currently, 64.5 percent of U.S. adults, age 20 years and older, are overweight and 30.5 percent are obese.

[underworld]

They charge for alcohol too… that's discrimination against the alcoholics, no?

 

She eats too much doesn't want to be charged for it. I drink too much… I'm suing

[Cobra_Commander]

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY WE'LL SELL YOU THE WHOLE SEAT BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDDDGGGGE

[olyclimber]

or two edges, depending

[Gary_Yngve]

If a fatass is seated next to me, can I demand half my fare be refunded?

[chucK]

Related note:

 

I recently got the pleasure of sitting next to an overweight guy on a cross-country flight. He was spilling onto my seat. The armrest was definitely bending and seemed ready to snap.

 

I just sat there feeling sorry for myself, and mad that that guy was making an already uncomfortable flight more uncomfortable for me. I just sat there the whole time, surly and not talking to this guy, and he didn't talk to me.

 

Then after the flight, or maybe after I first actually looked at his face. I realized he was just another person who also was not enjoying the situation. I felt really bad.

 

We all have the right, I guess, to protect ourselves from having to experience fat people. But when it comes right down to it, in situations like this, it's really the fat person who's suffering the most, plus all the other problems they've probably got related to it. Even if you're the most cold-hearted dickhead, even if you posit that "it's his own fault he's fat", it seems pretty self-absorbed to get bent out of shape about it.

 

"There but for the grace of God go I" and all that good stuff.

 

[Dechristo]

If a fatass is seated next to me, can I demand half my fare be refunded?

yes, but you've got to beat the refund out of fat-ass.

[underworld]

sounds like the armrest was the one getting bent out of shape

[Dru]

Related note:

 

I recently got the pleasure of sitting next to an overweight guy on a cross-country flight. He was spilling onto my seat. The armrest was definitely bending and seemed ready to snap.

 

I just sat there feeling sorry for myself, and mad that that guy was making an already uncomfortable flight more uncomfortable for me. I just sat there the whole time, surly and not talking to this guy, and he didn't talk to me.

 

Then after the flight, or maybe after I first actually looked at his face. I realized he was just another person who also was not enjoying the situation. I felt really bad.

 

We all have the right, I guess, to protect ourselves from having to experience fat people. But when it comes right down to it, in situations like this, it's really the fat person who's suffering the most, plus all the other problems they've probably got related to it. Even if you're the most cold-hearted dickhead, even if you posit that "it's his own fault he's fat", it seems pretty selfish to get bent out of shape about it. "There but for the grace of God go I" and all that good stuff.

 

 

You should have poked his flab (ewwwwww) like the pillsbury doughboy goin "Hey fatty, it shakes like Jello but can you back that thing up outa my space?"

[Ireneo_Funes]

It's kinda interesting how folks who'd never tell a racist joke or call someone a faggot have no problem discriminating against the overweight. As if their condition is evidence of some kind of moral failure on their part.

 

And thumbs up on what chucK said.

[Dru]

What if chucK had caught the fat virus from him? Could he sue?

[Dechristo]

I usually use the Jello for a pillow, cough and drool all over 'im in feigned sleep, and progress to leg-humping like I'm having an amorous dream.

[EWolfe]

Typical Saturday night for me.

[Dechristo]

and you pay the fat guy instead of the airline.

Edited February 8, 2006 by Dechristo

[Dru]

If they had someone at the airplane on-ramp to determine if you needed to pay for one or two seats they could call that employee the "Chubby checker"

[Dechristo]

you're twist-ed

[underworld]

and if this causes many more similar law suits...it would have a 'fats domino' effect.

[chucK]

If they had someone at the airplane on-ramp to determine if you needed to pay for one or two seats they could call that employee the "Chubby checker"

[Dechristo]

and if this causes many more similar law suits...it would have a 'fats domino' effect.

 

then, they'll all be walkin' to New Orleans.

[Gary_Yngve]

So Chuck, if Alcoholic Bob showed up on a flight hungover and ready to puke, and you're seated next to him, would you be mad at him for causing you to suffer, or would you feel that it's ok, because he's suffering more?

[chucK]

That's an easy one. I can not only empathize there, I can sympathize with that guy!

 

It is messy having to coexist with inferior beings, isn't it?

 

I'm sure we could keep playing this game of inching up the indignities we are being forced to undergo as well as the culpability of the perpetrators. For example, I think my compassion would stop well before the point of someone who ran a redlight and killed my daughter because he needed to get to the liquor store before it closed.

 

But getting mad at a fat guy because he's fat and needs to take an airplane somewhere just doesn't seem to be very productive.