Fat people and airline seats

[sunhuntin]

Some overweight people...more than you realise, have a eating disorder...not just restricted to anerexia.........so cannot help their weight.....genitics also plays a part....so not always a lifestyle choice.

I mean what about underweight people getting a seat which has space for another person......

Sorry guys but not a nice atitude to overweight people.

I am ashamed of you all...except Renegade....

thanks, graeme... reading this is, and the link, is almost enough to make me go back to my old habits, just to piss you all off some more!
i have flown, and was overweight at the time. i took my seat, and more than my share of aisle [for my legs] i think airplane seats are horrid and cramped no matter how big you may be.
the whole flight to canada, i could put my seat back cos the old bitch behind me would start shaking or hitting it.

ive seen enough horrid behaviour coming out of school kids... and i figured most people here were adults.

disco... im suprised by you.

[MWVT]

On the upside you're unlikely to have to sit beside a fat OLD person. When was the last time you saw a fat 80 year old......

[Grahameeboy]

Oi, watch it you lot, or us fatties will come and sit on you .

And in my experience it's not fat that's the problem it's wide or tall.

I can't sit in an economy seat next to another male of normal build without us clashing shoulders. Which to me says the seats are too narrow.

And tall people can't fit their legs and feet into the space available, so they have to splay their legs out , and then they clash knees with the dude next door.

Two large guys can only fit if they both sit at an angle

And the perjorative "fat people should pay more" arguments ignore the fact that a lot of heavy people may be heavy because they're big, not because they're obese. Want to tell Jonah Lomu he has to pay extra cos he's fat ?

Moreover, I think weak puny people should pay more, cos in the event of a crash they're not going to be much use at getting out, and will get in my way .

Well said Ixion................

[Grahameeboy]

thanks, graeme... reading this is, and the link, is almost enough to make me go back to my old habits, just to piss you all off some more!
i have flown, and was overweight at the time. i took my seat, and more than my share of aisle [for my legs] i think airplane seats are horrid and cramped no matter how big you may be.
the whole flight to canada, i could put my seat back cos the old bitch behind me would start shaking or hitting it.

ive seen enough horrid behaviour coming out of school kids... and i figured most people here were adults.

disco... im suprised by you.

Yeah, I mean I am thinking that I should not go on a ride with DD because he doesn't have a flash bike like mine.............he may cramp my style...........if you get my drift...

[Biff]

Here's a good reference site if you're gonna be travelling on a hairyplane and would like to choose the best seat for your $$:

http://www.seatguru.com/

And I vote for a tax based on the dimesnions of the traveller.
L2/H = $
Where L (Lardyness) to the power of 2 divided by your height determines how much you pay.

[James Deuce]

It's a myth that genetics set your weight in any way.

There are a number of chromosomal disorders that can cause you to become very large, but they typically have other disadvantages tied to them which make it obvious that the fat person is suffering from a syndrome rather than just being fat.

The amount of brown fat cells you have is set by the food choices made for you by your Mother. Your eating habits and preferences are largely set by age 3. People who give their kids trans fats, processed sugar, and a carb biased diet under 3 are setting their kids up to lose a minimum of 10 years off their maximum potential life span. Far worse than that poor dietary habits cause problems for people long before they die, limiting their enjoyment of life.

There is only one way to get fat. More calories in than out. Genetics has very little to do with obesity. Diet is everything.

[Fatjim]

What about gays. I remember sitting in the Auckland domestic terminal waiting for a flight back to Welly when these 2 raving poofters walked in. Eeeeeuuuuuwww!!!

I said to my mate sitting next to me "I wonder who the poor bastard is who gets to sit next to them". It was me.

There was no business class to upgrade them to either.

[Grahameeboy]

It's a myth that genetics set your weight in any way.

There are a number of chromosomal disorders that can cause you to become very large, but they typically have other disadvantages tied to them which make it obvious that the fat person is suffering from a syndrome rather than just being fat.

The amount of brown fat cells you have is set by the food choices made for you by your Mother. Your eating habits and preferences are largely set by age 3. People who give their kids trans fats, processed sugar, and a carb biased diet under 3 are setting their kids up to lose a minimum of 10 years off their maximum potential life span. Far worse than that poor dietary habits cause problems for people long before they die, limiting their enjoyment of life.

There is only one way to get fat. More calories in than out. Genetics has very little to do with obesity. Diet is everything.

Well I do not entirely agree, however, you are right about habits set by parents so therefore you cannot necessarily blame the person who is overweight/obese.

[Hitcher]

Life is not that simple...

Yes it is. Your bodyweight is directly proportional to your dietary intake. It can be mitigated by diet, exercise, liposuction or amputation.

Some people's metabolism is more efficient than others, but not to a statistically significant level.

There are no such thing as "big bones" in the sense that well-meaning aunts and other apologists use this term.

Me? I like my food and don't exercise enough.

[Disco Dan]

ive seen enough horrid behaviour coming out of school kids... and i figured most people here were adults.

disco... im suprised by you.

I have only been on a plane twice, but that was enough for me to know the size of the seats etc. Im sorry, but it is (largely) a lifestyle choice. I have a few friends that are overweight and one friend who is obese (like stupidly large). They are working on their weight problems and told me themselves that they are too blame for their size.

When i quit smoking my weight begain to increase... I looked at my diet and it had increased. go figure eh? I cut down, ate healthy and I stayed at my same orignal weight. Not hard really. (I have since started smoking again but meh..)

Yeah, I mean I am thinking that I should not go on a ride with DD because he doesn't have a flash bike like mine.............he may cramp my style...........if you get my drift...

your a worry! You have prob been on many rides with me... I dont normally see many people in front thought... always 2-3 corners in front of me!!! hehe

[Grahameeboy]

What about gays. I remember sitting in the Auckland domestic terminal waiting for a flight back to Welly when these 2 raving poofters walked in. Eeeeeuuuuuwww!!!

I said to my mate sitting next to me "I wonder who the poor bastard is who gets to sit next to them". It was me.

There was no business class to upgrade them to either.

Geeze what is wrong with having a gay person sitting next to you...........what do you think is going to happen?

[Grahameeboy]

I have only been on a plane twice, but that was enough for me to know the size of the seats etc. Im sorry, but it is (largely) a lifestyle choice. I have a few friends that are overweight and one friend who is obese (like stupidly large). They are working on their weight problems and told me themselves that they are too blame for their size.

When i quit smoking my weight begain to increase... I looked at my diet and it had increased. go figure eh? I cut down, ate healthy and I stayed at my same orignal weight. Not hard really. (I have since started smoking again but meh..)



your a worry! You have prob been on many rides with me... I dont normally see many people in front thought... always 2-3 corners in front of me!!! hehe

And you smoke......yuck.....keep away from me

[Fatjim]

There is only one way to get fat. More calories in than out. Genetics has very little to do with obesity. Diet is everything.

Basic physics that, and I mean "conservation of Energy" basic. You cannot create energy (Fat) out of thin air, you have to eat it!

[Grahameeboy]

Yes it is. Your bodyweight is directly proportional to your dietary intake. It can be mitigated by diet, exercise, liposuction or amputation.

Some people's metabolism is more efficient than others, but not to a statistically significant level.

There are no such thing as "big bones" in the sense that well-meaning aunts and other apologists use this term.

Me? I like my food and don't exercise enough.

Some bone structures are more dense so heavier........black people generally have denser bones cause they naturally have a greater muscle mass than white folk............so this affects the density of the bone.

Funnily enough overweight people have less risk of arthritus than a thin person because bone densiy depends on weight bearing......my Daughter's x'rays show that her hip and leg bones have just a thin density because she is not weight bearing.

[Grahameeboy]

Basic physics that, and I mean "conservation of Energy" basic. You cannot create energy (Fat) out of thin air, you have to eat it!

Well the body turns unused carbs to fat so you could eat no fat at all..say eat venison but if you do not burn off the calories from that food it will turn to fat calories which are double that of carbs.