[eric strt6]

My buddy just texted me about this: He has been sitting at the gate 45 minutes past departure time for a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, while the airline scrounges up 35 more seatbelt extenders to accommodate all the fat folks on the flight.

pass the fried pork rinds will ya fella.

 

[5150dhbiker]

Let me guess, out of Texas? hahahaha

 

[DirtMcGirk]

Jeebus, how fat is this country getting? I am 5'10, 245#, so I am fat by no stretch of the imagination. However, I don't even have to try to shoehorn my fat ass into a seat, I just drop right in, with 4" of seat belt hanging out of the buckle.

I consider myself to be the premier fat bastard, but jeeee-sus, America needs to go for a jog.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Jeebus, how fat is this country getting? I am 5'10, 245#, so I am fat by no stretch of the imagination. However, I don't even have to try to shoehorn my fat ass into a seat, I just drop right in, with 4" of seat belt hanging out of the buckle.

I consider myself to be the premier fat bastard, but jeeee-sus, America needs to go for a jog.

By the Southern Body Mass Index you would be considered average body type.

 

[5150dhbiker]

Ya, just about everyone is fat compared to me...I'm 6'2" and weigh 140, haha. My dad said he's seen some SUPER fat people on his flights before. One of which had to buy TWO FIRST CLASS seats!

 

[TheTruth]

This thread is making my metabolism slower.

 

[mandown]

i'd tell her to get off the plane. no way it is staying airborne.

 

[BadDNA]

By the Southern Body Mass Index you would be considered athletic body type.

Fixed

 

[DirtMcGirk]

I need to move back to New Orleans...

 

[gemini2k]

Ya, just about everyone is fat compared to me...I'm 6'2" and weigh 140, haha. My dad said he's seen some SUPER fat people on his flights before. One of which had to buy TWO FIRST CLASS seats!

I think you need to spend some more time at chipolte and cold stone. I can teach you.

 

[stevew]

flying from one sh*t hole to another.

I need to move back to New Orleans...

uh oh....back on the bottle...

 

[DirtMcGirk]

Oh I drink here. I would just like to be in the "Athletic" class in a city. Too many folk in Phoenix do sit ups.

 

[norbar]

Jeebus, how fat is this country getting? I am 5'10, 245#, so I am fat by no stretch of the imagination. However, I don't even have to try to shoehorn my fat ass into a seat, I just drop right in, with 4" of seat belt hanging out of the buckle.

I consider myself to be the premier fat bastard, but jeeee-sus, America needs to go for a jog.

In Europe this is max you can see people at and usualy they try to loose weight fast. Where is the social pressure where you need it? Seriously scar the super fat teens for the rest of their lives so they will never want to be fat again.

 

[Pesqueeb]

This is a regular occurrence where I work. We keep seat belt extensions in the line truck just for this. The Flight Attendants station on the aircraft is supposed to be stocked with at least three extra extensions, and its shocking how often we get maintenance calls because they need at least one more.

 

[jonKranked]

two words:


cargo.



hold.

 

[Pesqueeb]

two words:


cargo.



hold.

 

[TN]

i had a choice on a recent southwest flight....sit between two fatties or next to a baby. I chose the baby & it was a great flight.

 

[Straya]

I got off a flight once and there were 14 wheelchairs lined up ready to meet the plane for all the people who couldn't or wouldn't walk through the terminal.

 

[eaterofdog]

Plenty of food if you crash in the mountains.

 

[stevew]

i snore like a motherfvcker on the plane if i fall asleep.....i don't give a sh*t who sits next to me.

fvcking deal with it.

 

[jonKranked]

Plenty of food if you crash in the mountains.

donnor party for the 21st century

 

[NorseManiac]

I asked for another seat on a flight out of Miami cuz the fat f@ck next to me was overflowing the seat. I got moved to a nice comfy area of the plane with plenty of room. This country needs an effing wake up call, far too many fats.

 

[jdcamb]

They are still around? I used to love their song "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe". Now they are on planes causing delays?? Seems like a bad way to promote your band. They should fire their publicist....

 

[stoney]

I've been on flights where they had to shift people around to accomodate the balance of the plane due to large centers of weight in concentrated areas (aka too many fat people in one area). As it was an early business flight, there was a lot of sneering, laughing, and smart ass commentary. Hopefully we gave them a complex.

 

[sstalder5]

I bet the best part of being a flight attendant is telling the fattys they have to buy two seats.

 

[stoney]

There was an awesome picture posted a year or so ago with a dude in coach so fat that he took up half the aisle and the seat next to him. Apparently the flight attendants made him buy either another seat or the whole row, I can't remember which. IIRC, he tried to sue on discrimination, but it didn't make it very far.

 

[-BB-]

I got off a flight once and there were 14 wheelchairs lined up ready to meet the plane for all the people who couldn't or wouldn't walk through the terminal.

Were you flying in to Boca Raton?

 

[-BB-]

This is one thing that realyl IRKS me. I once had to sit between two VERY large people. Unfortunately I didn't have the arm-rests down when they came into the row to sit, so I didn't really claim my SPACE. Both of them had hips that went WAY over their alotted boundry and infringed upon my seat. in fact, they were SO big... How big where they? They were SO big that my elbos rested on the sides of their GUTS the whole flight. And this was a coast to coast 6hr nightmare, not a little SFO to LAX 1hr puddle jumper.

 

[binary visions]

I have a nice set of earbuds that block virtually all ambient noise.

Unfortunately, I don't have a set of noseplugs that do the same.

I wonder what they'd do if I started bringing a little hard plastic wall that I could put up inside my armrest to keep the fat from spilling over? They couldn't say much, I'd imagine - it's my seat.

 

[eric strt6]

 

[eaterofdog]

I have a nice set of earbuds that block virtually all ambient noise.

Unfortunately, I don't have a set of noseplugs that do the same.

I wonder what they'd do if I started bringing a little hard plastic wall that I could put up inside my armrest to keep the fat from spilling over? They couldn't say much, I'd imagine - it's my seat.

Or a battery powered electric knife, just chop off anything hanging over the armrest.

 

[stoney]

I have a nice set of earbuds that block virtually all ambient noise.

Unfortunately, I don't have a set of noseplugs that do the same.

I wonder what they'd do if I started bringing a little hard plastic wall that I could put up inside my armrest to keep the fat from spilling over? They couldn't say much, I'd imagine - it's my seat.

Just start making comments about how they are obese and should have bought the entire row between the two of them. Complain to the stewardess about how obese the people in your row are, preventing you from getting the full space of the seat you paid for. At a certain point, there will be anough hostility that the stewardess will need to move you. Worst case you can ask to have them mored next to each other so that you can lean into the aisle.
You just have to be willing to be a complete dick.

 

[Pesqueeb]

You just have to be willing to be a complete dick.

I have discoverd this is actually the shortcut answer to many of lifes problems.

 

[eaterofdog]

I have discoverd this is actually the shortcut answer to many of lifes problems.

Isn't it unfortunate? I really don't want to be a dick, I am forced to it.

 

[stevew]

I've been on flights where they had to shift people around to accomodate the balance of the plane due to large centers of weight in concentrated areas (aka too many fat people in one area). As it was an early business flight, there was a lot of sneering, laughing, and smart ass commentary. Hopefully we gave them a complex.

a lot of fat people in cali?

 

[stoney]

a lot of fat people in cali?

It's mostly on ex-cali flights.