Airline "Fat Tax"...thoughts?

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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    perhaps MCA should find a job that does not involve flying
    81 is now off the air

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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    chadwick wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    Or maybe they can rig up something in the cargo hold for them! :?

    :lol::lol:


    My biggest fn gripe when it comes to large folk is how they are often given priority. So many times I see a large guy being wheeled to the gate because he's too fat to walk, then he boards first with the actual handicapped and elderly. I call bullshit on that! :x
    the fucker might be sick or dying or something & he or she might be a fat ass.
    Sure, that can happen and they can't walk...but it seems like every flight I'm on there are at least 3-4 larger folks who take advantage of this "perk". Hell, I would if I could...just not worth getting fat over! :lol:
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    81 wrote:
    perhaps MCA should find a job that does not involve flying
    :lol:
    I'd just find something else to bitch about! :D
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    mca47 wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    The only arms that don't go up are on the aisle and first row and exit rows on some planes. I'm sure the airlines could make some sort of fat pad they could put down in the middle of those two seats to make it more comfortable.
    build a fucking plane with decent spacing & seating on the fucker so everyone can fly nicely or just keep building economy bullshit with no god damn room in the fucker so the airline can cram us in like cattle or sardines
    I get it man. That would be awesome...but most airlines can barely pull a profit as it is these days (except Southwest). It's probably only going to get worse.
    I have actually heard talk out of Asia about making planes with straddle seating. As in having long rows of benches that everyone straddles so you're back to crotch between the legs of another, like you do when you go skydiving. :? If that ever becomes a thing, I will stop flying.
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    I just can't wait for teleportation! :D
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    I have actually heard talk out of Asia about making planes with straddle seating. As in having long rows of benches that everyone straddles so you're back to crotch between the legs of another, like you do when you go skydiving. :? If that ever becomes a thing, I will stop flying.

    Fuck that :lol:

    If I wanted to fly like that, I'd join the Army Airborne :fp:
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    mca47 wrote:
    81 wrote:
    perhaps MCA should find a job that does not involve flying
    :lol:
    I'd just find something else to bitch about! :D

    Get your pilots license

    fly the plane :lol:
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    mca47 wrote:
    I just can't wait for teleportation! :D
    They are actually working on it. They managed to teleport a few single cells a couple of centimeters! It seems that it is actually a scientifically possible thing. So here's hoping for reincarnation so that I can be alive to see it someday. :P
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    81 wrote:
    perhaps MCA should find a job that does not involve flying
    :lol:
    I'd just find something else to bitch about! :D

    Get your pilots license

    fly the plane :lol:
    I'd love to learn to fly!!
    I just actually want my own damn plane so i don't have to deal with people!
    :D
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    mca47 wrote:
    Sure, that can happen and they can't walk...but it seems like every flight I'm on there are at least 3-4 larger folks who take advantage of this "perk". Hell, I would if I could...just not worth getting fat over! :lol:
    tell 'em your back is shot & you cannot walk more than 13 steps at a time nor carry more than 6 pounds.
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    no more forever."
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    just stick me in an overhead bin and I'm good.

    I'll eat muffins and drop crumbs on everybody...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    RKCNDY wrote:
    just stick me in an overhead bin and I'm good.

    I'll eat muffins and drop crumbs on everybody...
    throw your muffin paper thingy at peacefrompaul
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    chadwick wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    just stick me in an overhead bin and I'm good.

    I'll eat muffins and drop crumbs on everybody...
    throw your muffin paper thingy at peacefrompaul

    I'll have to do it when he's sleeping...I'll put some glitter in it so it explodes all over the place when it hits him. :lol:
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    RKCNDY wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    just stick me in an overhead bin and I'm good.

    I'll eat muffins and drop crumbs on everybody...
    throw your muffin paper thingy at peacefrompaul

    I'll have to do it when he's sleeping...I'll put some glitter in it so it explodes all over the place when it hits him. :lol:
    sounds just about as perfect as it could ever get.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    RKCNDY wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    just stick me in an overhead bin and I'm good.

    I'll eat muffins and drop crumbs on everybody...
    throw your muffin paper thingy at peacefrompaul

    I'll have to do it when he's sleeping...I'll put some glitter in it so it explodes all over the place when it hits him. :lol:
    Sing some Deftones song really loudly when you do it.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Sing some Deftones song really loudly when you do it.

    I'll be sure to have the airline attendant put The Breakfast Club on as the In-Flight Movie too...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    RKCNDY wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Sing some Deftones song really loudly when you do it.

    I'll be sure to have the airline attendant put The Breakfast Club on as the In-Flight Movie too...
    :lol:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Well, what the fuck?

    Lisa, the taffy arrived

    Thank you
  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    I always think about my flight to Myrtle Beach years ago.. I am 6'2 , 210 carry it well.. I picked the emergency exit wing row for the leg room.. Upon arriving to my seat, I discovered that the 6 largest people on the fucking plane would be sitting in this row.. I was in the middle of two huge dudes, bigger than me.. The attendant walked by when the 6th guy sat. "you boys need to break it up".. thank god!!!! wound up sitting next to 2 normal size people in the back and was much more comfortable
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  • pjradio
    pjradio Posts: 6,704
    if you can't put the armrests down....extra. doesn't matter if you're 6'5 300lbs & fit or 5'5 300 lbs & NOT fit....either way
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