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...but I thought this was bloody hilarious.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...d=10625459

I hate to admit that I laughed at this one: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breakin...5828898390

Hahaha. This is the reason I didn't go into medicine.

apparently Kevin Smith - Director of Zac and Miri make a porno - was kicked off a Southwest airlines flight for being too fat yesterday. he had a big whinge about it and twittered apparently that they were size-ist. Apparently making people 'of size' purchase an extra seat is a travesty! If you take over half of my seat on a flight because you are too fat to fit in one seat, I'd be pissed and say you are violating my space. sometimes sizism is just the right call.

(02-15-2010 11:20 AM)Tru Wrote: [ -> ]apparently Kevin Smith - Director of Zac and Miri make a porno - was kicked off a Southwest airlines flight for being too fat yesterday. he had a big whinge about it and twittered apparently that they were size-ist. Apparently making people 'of size' purchase an extra seat is a travesty! If you take over half of my seat on a flight because you are too fat to fit in one seat, I'd be pissed and say you are violating my space. sometimes sizism is just the right call.

Good on them. It is utterly selfish of them (the fatties) IMO. I mean, come on. If you're too tall, then you have to get your clothes tailored, you don't go calling the store "size-ist"

A friend of mine was in a situation where he was sitting next to some fat fuck who was taking up half his seat. He asked the stewardess to move him, who refused and told him to deal with it. He then kicked up a stink and the captain had to come down. Apparently he took one look and moved my friend.

fair enough too, if you want to get overweight, (and thats extreme overweight not just an average fattie, you gotta be pretty lardish to not fit in a seat). then fine. but deal with the consequences and don't make other people suffer for your choices.

though he (Kevin Smith aka Silent Bob) must have got pretty fat lately as I don't recall him being massive. though apparently his gripe was that they could have told him earlier on rather than booting him off the plane after people already saw him and he was seated with the arm rests down (which is a requirement to not have to purchase an extra seat apparently). I guess thats a fair call.

Im not too big, but some seats can be fairly snug for me - strangely even the ANZ premium economy is fairly snug - but the ATRs/Dash8s that they use for local flights are not as bad. Until I had some monster of a fucking maori fella to sit beside. Glad that flight was only an hour.

Best flight I ever had was when I got put into a row with two other guys coming back from America once. All three of us were in our 30s, fit, 180 pounds o so. We looked at each other sitting down and every one of us was having the same thought: "Oh good." :lol: We got settled, nodded to each other, plugged ourselves into our headphones and were completely undisturbed for the rest of the flight. I was sitting on the aisle and never even had to get up to let the other guys out to go to the bathroom; they just hopped over me.

My best flight was on a Singapore airlines business class back from Singapore.

hot chicks helped


The flight across on Thai air was not so good, but thankfully I missed out on it by being closer to he front. Obviously one of he passengers had gas issues. At the end of the flight people told him to go to a fakin doctor!

Any flight on Singapore air is good - I can only imagine the heaven that Business Class must be.

Yet another advantage to living in Asia: not many fat people to be stuck next to on flights. I think that the Western airlines (American ones in particular) should have rows specially designated for fat people. If you overflow the seat, you get to sit next to another person who overflows the seat. Then we'll see how fast they change their tune.