Plus-sized traveler demands free seats

thenewoc said:
It's a choice to be that size.
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That’s a presumption tbh. Some people don’t choose it.

So much hate in this world.

As an aside, I’m in the healthy weight range but I barely fit in airline seats. It’s certainly isn’t comfortable for me or the people next to me who have my shoulders almost in their face so I can sympathise.
 
arknor said:
being tall just means one of your knees hangs out in the aisle and gets battered by the carts going up and down and any airline staff will bash it as they pass.
I've been offered a seat with extra leg room when one is free before though.
the woman in the linked article is the one who pays for 2 seats anyway, but as Ricky Gervais made a joke about... you'd only get like 11 seats on a plane if they were all for obese people.
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And god speed be with you if you're departing from a short runway airport with a mandatory steep climb to clear terrain.
 
inogen said:
She should pay for 2 seats.

However, being 100KG man of about 195cm and not overweight, I do concur that they really do need some larger seats in economy. I've been long-haul once. Never again. Drives my GF mad that I won't and basically don't like going on holiday even short-haul because of it.

Buying two seats wouldn't really help. Sometimes getting the seats with extra leg-room does, but not all of the time and sometimes they're not available. Once I paid more for extra leg-room on a 747 to be confronted by sitting in front of a baby changer which was in constant use most of the time.
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i can relate. :(
 
arctine said:
That’s a presumption tbh. Some people don’t choose it.

So much hate in this world.

As an aside, I’m in the healthy weight range but I barely fit in airline seats. It’s certainly isn’t comfortable for me or the people next to me who have my shoulders almost in their face so I can sympathise.
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There's no such thing as big boned, put less in the cake hole.
 
Can't fat shame her. Might hurt her feelings though. Let's promote an unhealthy, unfit, dangerous, resource sucking society where everyone just consumes ***** and blames everyone else for their lack of discipline and focus.
 
randomshenans said:
Can't fat shame her. Might hurt her feelings though. Let's promote an unhealthy, unfit, dangerous, resource sucking society where everyone just consumes ***** and blames everyone else for their lack of discipline and focus.
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But body positivity and affirmation are progressive?
 
thenewoc said:
There's no such thing as big boned, put less in the cake hole.
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I mean diseases exist for plenty of things why wouldn't a fundamental and complex process such as sustenance not have diseases associated with it?

This is also America where it will most probably bankrupt a genuinely unwell person to seek out treatment when it's also likely they aren't making much money in that state to begin with, so it all comes down to having the willpower to resolve what could well be far outside of the person's ability to control.
 
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Jokester said:
But body positivity and affirmation are progressive?
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haha it's funny, because my doctor in france, when I was asking what I can do to help my back (which is swollen discs at the bottom) he was like "lose weight" I was like yea, OK but what about... he was like no, just lose weight. That will help it all.

No messing about. Frank and honest. Doesn't have to be anything but. It's a fact.
 
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