You can call them differently weighted, gravitationally challenged, horizontally challenged, horizontally gifted, people of mass or people of substance but whichever way you slice the lard I call them obese.
United Airlines was a voice of reason in the wilderness when they said that obese people should have to pay for a second seat on their airline or be bumped off the aircraft
United says that it decided to adopt the tougher policy after receiving more than 700 complaints last year from passengers "who did not have a comfortable flight because the person next to them infringed on their seat," said United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski.
United's flight attendants, who will have the delicate task of enforcing the new policy, have traditionally sought to find two adjacent seats, free of charge, for passengers who spill over their seats.
That hasn't changed.
"We'll first try to re-accomodate you on another seat on the flight," Urbanski said. "If the flight is full, and that's not often the case these days, you'll be bumped from the flight."
If this occurs, passengers will be forced to either find a flight with open seating or required to buy two seats or an upgrade to a class of service with wide seats.
The wierdest thing they said was:
United said that most major airlines have similar rules in place.
Which must be a blatant lie because there are many many obese people flying in single seats when I have been flying.
A lot of people have left outraged comments such as politically correct monkies like this:
OMG - that is absolutely horrible - talk about profiling! I can't wait for the lawsuits against United - what is wrong with that company? what happened to the "friendly" skies? They should be ashamed!
People always cry oh the prejudice, oh we are being picked on, but the fact is you cannot stuff a cup cake into a keyhole same as those people who try and cram giant overstuffed suitcases into the overhead compartments - something's got to give. Since these obese people do not fit into the seats they shouldn't be in them.
Like Ricky Gervais who is also on my wavelenght on this issue I'm no skinny minny. In fact it's always been something of a miracle THANK YOU GOD that I eat about 4000 calories daily and remain only borderline overweight. The question I am asking is why is bumping fat people off planes discrimination? BEING FAT IS NOT AN ILLNESS. As the politicaly incorrect line we always said at school goes: How many fat Ethiopians have you ever seen? I rest my case.
Ricky Gervais is the hero who said:
"people who have liposuction and gastric band operations are lazy fucking fat pigs".
He also laughs at himself (well you have to don't you?) when he says, "I get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say to myself, 'Oh, you fucking fat bastard."
He added: "In supermarkets, the really fattening stuff should be behind a really thin door. Shops should be full of salads, but if you want to get to the pies and cakes, you've got to crawl through a little tube."
Bloody good idea!
And please remember, to avoid jumping onto any policitally correct minefields these are the latest PC terms. Watch and learn lads:
My breasts will never sag, they will lose their vertical hold.
I do not get drunk, when I am accidentally over served I become verbally dyslexic.
When I get PMS I become hormonally homicidal.
I don't have great cleavage or a great rack, my breasts are centrally located.
Because I do not work out too much, I am an abdominal underachiever.
I am not a bad cook, I am microwave compatible.
I am not a bad driver, I am automotively challenged.
And please don't ask me to dance, please request a precoital rhythmic experience.
Do you ever find yourself suffering from politically incorrect nostalgia?...I know I do. This is at least three kinds of wrong...yet so right:
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I'm with you. Equal rights and all that but on a plane space is at a premium. And I don't want my personal space or the personal space of my wife and kids infringed upon by someone else's excess gut spillage. Bingo wings in the face is never nice when you're trying to eat.
P.S. When your breasts lose their vertical hold I will still love you. Just be kind to my erectile-challenged negatively inflated appendage.
My personal favorite form of flying discrimination, by far, is the smoking ban!
It's quite simple; after the baggage weigh-in, you get the passenger to hop on the scales too...anyone over 100kgs gets charged an overweight fee...$5 a kilo...which is then refunded to the poor bastard sitting in the next seat to the fat slob...
I think all the fat ppl should have to sit together.
That would sort that shit out real fast.
@XL > they not allowing smoking hot women on flights these days? Bugger, that means none of our blog friend chicks could ever fly.
As a small person I should have a discount! I can't count the amount of times I was squished between two overweight men on the train. Why should I pay as much as them? This is an issue close to my heart - plus I could never reach the luggage racks. Even in heels.
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Your right to be fat ends at my armchair.
My best flight was sat next to an ancient chain smoking (when you still could, Gawd help us) Liverpudlian on a flight to Canada.
He had several bottles concealed about his person, which along with the ciggies, and the seizure,
compelled the cabin staff to drag him to the back of the cabin and give him oxygen.
They returned him to his seat and he continued as before.
There's a lot to be said for pockets.
Why not put them in the cargo hold?
Being obese IS anti-social.
Fat is one thing - but obese ???
Our society has gone wrong if the support system favours fat - which it most certainly seems to nowadays.
I'm not at the size where I'll over flow into someone else's seat, I'd rather chew the warts off a nobbly cock than let that happen.
Having said that, some obese people see themselves as being disabled, so it'll scare a lot of airlines into giving in in the face of lawsuits of discrimination.
maxi cane....it is ridiculous that the obese should sue though isn't it? the argument is always that it is a 'disease' and that they are 'poorly educated' about food which is bullcrap. I'm sure they know that eating McDonalds all day is probably not a good idea but can't be arsed to steam a vegetable.
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