Fat people and airline seats

**Flatcap** · 2nd May 2007, 10:33

Go on a diet or pay for two seats, you lardarses

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/...ectid=10436593

I particularly like the idea of weighing both the luggage and the person - I could bring back bike bits for free given my wifes 50kg!

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd May 2007, 10:45

Long distance flights... you want STORIES?????

Sitting next to the little Indian lady on the way from Singapore to Auckland. Looked like Mother Theresa but my GOD did she fart! Silent, curry laden borer bombs... and every bastard looked at ME (couldn't possibly be her - she looks so innocent...)

Or coast to coast in the US with a large guy snoring (read "rattling the very rivets out of the airframe") next to mew the whole way. Meh - was only 5 FUCKING HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!

My favourites are the passengers in the US that fly from A to B, buy an economy seat but "don't fit". So they expect a free upgrade to Business (gee I wonder if that was planned ahead of time). And when they get "no" they have a stampy and point out they can't fit in the seat.

They have a minor eruption when they're told they don't get a refund either, but if they'll possibly be ok they're insured... LOL.

**Finn** · 2nd May 2007, 10:48

Originally Posted by Fairlie

Go on a diet or pay for two seats, you lardarses

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/7/...ectid=10436593

I particularly like the idea of weighing both the luggage and the person - I could bring back bike bits for free given my wifes 50kg!

I agree. That huge bitch should have been put in the cargo hold with other freight.

**Finn** · 2nd May 2007, 10:53

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Long distance flights... you want STORIES?????

Tell me about it. Once, on a flight from London to New York, they let a mother use the bathroom in First Class to change a nappy. I paid for First Class so I wouldn't have to share my flight with peasants. The stench put me off my caviar.

**Sniper** · 2nd May 2007, 11:00

Bloody South Africans causing innocent NZ'ers hassel. Sheesh

**SimJen** · 2nd May 2007, 11:17

fat bastards.
if they overflow the seat, then pay for another simple as that.
I particularly like the one comment about excess baggage.
Why should someone who weighs 75kg, have to pay excess baggage charges for over 35kg when someone who weighs 115kg sits next to him.
They organise the luggage to best suit the C of G, so why not weigh people and place accordingly too. If they were to weigh you secretly with only the computer knowing and organising accordingly then it would be helpful. All the fatties at the back, will help with getting the nose up......although will make the plane slower to respond.
Fuck sake, how do these fatties get in the plane toilets. I only weigh 80kg and am quite skinny, but I can barely turn around....let alone join the mile high club (not with a fatty though). Fatties probably can't even get in.
If I was sitting next to a fatty, I'd have a packing knife and would casually trim off any additional fat on my side.

Anyone heard of healthy eating?

**Fatjim** · 2nd May 2007, 11:28

What pisses me off is when someone who's smaller than a sparrows fart asks for the exit isle so they get more legroom. I'm 6'4" and they stick me in the smallest space available.

**mstriumph** · 2nd May 2007, 11:30

i sat one along from a guy who sniffed - big slurpy, meaty sniffs - every 20 seconds

after 15 minutes i offered him a tissue

after half an hour i threatened him [very nicely of course]

he complained to the stewardess - she moved him

problem solved

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on another flight my assigned seat was next to this VERY large spongy-looking person already overflowing across both seats

i snagged a passing stew and said, conversationally but quite loudly, "if the airline insists on my sitting next to THAT it had better
be prepared to pay compensation to my heirs after i've been smothered by it's excesses...."

they upgraded me

problem solved

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yes - i KNOW it's nasty, hurtful and unkind and yes, i KNOW i'm probably going to get turned away from the pearly gates .
............ but i'd rather risk the chance of a long time in pergetory in the afterlife if any than the CERTAINTY of a long time
in hell on a long plane trip in THIS life

vexacious people, including the obscenely ooverweight, do not have any more rights than the rest of us .......
....... and, as with anything else, their right to swing their arm ends where my nose begins.

[i should add that both these above trips were long ones - the way i see it you can put up with
almost anything if you know its only going to be for a short while ....]

**HDTboy** · 2nd May 2007, 11:30

Paul Henry had a very funny take on it on this mornings news

**Deviant Esq** · 2nd May 2007, 11:35

Originally Posted by Fatjim

What pisses me off is when someone who's smaller than a sparrows fart asks for the exit isle so they get more legroom. I'm 6'4" and they stick me in the smallest space available.

Never fly economy class with Emirates long haul, if you're 6'4". The new Airbus A340 might be the shizzle, with brand new entertainment screens on the back of each seat, and great service and food, yada yada... but holy shit they don't half cram you in there. If you're any taller than 5'4" there's no hope of any legroom at all. When the person in front of you puts their seatback down, the screen justabout hits you in the face. You can't get your food on your tray. All you can do is watch movies or play games on an 8" screen 4" from your face. You can't sleep. You can barely move. For nearly 18 hours (Christchurch - Dubai with a short stop at Sydney). It's a form of torture and should be outlawed.

**Street Gerbil** · 2nd May 2007, 11:42

Right. Let's take the bullying out of the gym locker room and make it socially acceptable. We always enjoyed the fun of picking on the obese kid, now we can do it without the associated risk of being hauled to the principal. Way to go!

**Hitcher** · 2nd May 2007, 11:46

I've been on international flights where fat arsed people on economy tickets have been "upgraded" to the bigger seats in business or first -- together with all of the other perks, such as superior food! I don't think it's right that their dimensions should be positively incentivised. Take them off and stow them in the hold!

**The Pastor** · 2nd May 2007, 11:47

yeah fat people need loving too. Don't be so mean, if you don't want to sit next to somone, buy a better ticket, if you cant afford, SHUT THE HELL UP.

**Swoop** · 2nd May 2007, 11:50

There should be a wire frame shaped like a person (similar to the ones you have to put your carry on luggage in) and a sign "Can you fit through this?.....................

**Flatcap** · 2nd May 2007, 11:51

Originally Posted by Street Gerbil

Right. Let's take the bullying out of the gym locker room and make it socially acceptable. We always enjoyed the fun of picking on the obese kid, now we can do it without the associated risk of being hauled to the principal. Way to go!

Don't forget the ugly - they're fun to pick on too...