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man sits next to fatty; writes angry letter to airline

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TheUnk said:
I find it quite fascinating. I hate it when my pants start getting tight, a sure indicator I am not eating healthy enough or being active enough. I never go buy a bigger pair of pants to fix it..

When you get so big that one day you can't reach to wipe, how does a person not think "holy crap what the fuck, I need to fix what I've done"

Instead they think just like they did when their pants got tight. "Time to buy new pants!"... "Time to attach a sponge to a stick!"...
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I've had that exact same thought. When you have to buy a new wardrobe every year because you've outgrown the last one, that should be your clue to do something about it. Waiting until you can't fit through the door without turning sideways means you waited too long.
 
madoka said:
While this may blow your myopic mind, "great" is a subjective term.
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ROFLMAO!! Pathetic, but amusing. If you have to apply qualifiers like "great as midget basketball players go" it automatically means "not great" because greatness does not require that narrow a context. You said "a midget could be a great basketball player". While the difference between "great" and "near great" or "damn good" might in fact be subjective it does require a certain degree of skill to even get into the conversation. Joe Dimaggio was GREAT, Minnie Mendoza was not. That's not subjective.

So to make it easier on you, and to give you a chance to further embarrass yourself, go ahead and find one midget basketball player so good that it could be subjectively argued that he's great. Just close enough that you could make an intelligent argument (that itself seems impossible) that the player is subjectively "great" without any qualifiers. One and only one. Go.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
ROFLMAO!! Pathetic, but amusing. If you have to apply qualifiers like "great as midget basketball players go" it automatically means "not great" because greatness does not require that narrow a context. You said "a midget could be a great basketball player". While the difference between "great" and "near great" or "damn good" might in fact be subjective it does require a certain degree of skill to even get into the conversation. Joe Dimaggio was GREAT, Minnie Mendoza was not. That's not subjective.

So to make it easier on you, and to give you a chance to further embarrass yourself, go ahead and find one midget basketball player so good that it could be subjectively argued that he's great. Just close enough that you could make an intelligent argument (that itself seems impossible) that the player is subjectively "great" without any qualifiers. One and only one. Go.
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First, you are an idiot. Second, apparently it did blow your mind to realize that great is a subjective term and yeah, the players on the midget basketball team are "great" by definition. The dictionary defines great as:

"of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average."

Well, now you've been schooled, but you did learn something new, eh?
 
If you're fat you should not be allowed to board an airplane, bus, or other form of public transportation. If you can't drive yourself to your destination then I think it's only appropriate that you travel as cargo aboard container ships. Australia has those convoys of big rigs crossing the country and this obese man should have rented space aboard one.
 
As I got closer, I was relieved to see that it wasn't a dangerous semi-aquatic African mammal, but a morbidly obese human being.
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Gold Jerry, gold!

If the story is true, he is a moron for not simply sitting in the vacant seats, regardless of what the stewardesses said.
 
On a more serious note the ones I struggle with are giants. In Sweden there are some incredibly large Thor looking dudes. When I went and saw the Hobbit I was sitting next to one and there is always that moment of awkwardness as the poor guy has to explain that he's sorry he's so big and is making the seating a bit cramped. I can be forgiving in these cases though. It's either that or he crushes me with his hammer and sends me to Valhalla.

Obese people need to stop being catered to. It's the one thing I'm having a really hard time with when I go home to the states. It's such a shock to see so many fat people. Why in the world should an airline or walmart or any place for that mater make it easier for people weighing 400 lbs to get around? The only assistance they should be getting is a nutritionist and a gym membership.
 
Large because you're a tall, musclebound freak of nature is something else entirely. Ironically, they also tend to be some of the most careful and polite folks that you'll ever meet.
 
omg that letter is hilarious. Feel bad for the guy but he sure has a talent for writing. Too many good lines to quote but I love this one especially:

I made my way back to Jabba the Hutt and spent the remainder of the flight smothered in side-boob and cellulite, taking shallow breaths to avoid noxious gas poisoning
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halik said:
FAA should just step in and mandate that if you cannot physically fit into a single seat, you need to purchase two seats.
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Or maybe they should step in to mandate that airlines can't pack everyone into a plane like we're cattle. Seriously, both seat widths and leg room keep getting smaller and smaller. It's ridiculous.

Southwest actually has a good passenger of size policy -- buy two tickets ahead of time for planning purposes, and they refund the cost of the extra ticket after the flight. If every other airline adopted a policy like that (hint: Southwest is the only one), the number of complaints for these situations would decrease dramatically.
 
Xonim said:
Or maybe they should step in to mandate that airlines can't pack everyone into a plane like we're cattle. Seriously, both seat widths and leg room keep getting smaller and smaller. It's ridiculous.

Southwest actually has a good passenger of size policy -- buy two tickets ahead of time for planning purposes, and they refund the cost of the extra ticket after the flight. If every other airline adopted a policy like that (hint: Southwest is the only one), the number of complaints for these situations would decrease dramatically.
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Plus if you have companion pass and are fat you can use yourself as your companion.

Sadly, we normal sized individuals are not allowed to use companion pass to get two adjacent seats. This frustrated me when I found out because I'd love to be my own companion and always have an open seat beside me.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Ummm, dude, the fact that they're playing in a midget league against other midgets and not against taller people proves my point. Good try though. You said "a midget could be a great basketball player", not that one midget could be slightly better than other midgets. Show me a single great midget basketball player. Just one. Take your time.
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Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues. At 5'3" he is damn near a midget (I believe the official cut off is 4"9). So, a shorter player could be a great basketball player.
 
epic letter of epic hateness doesn't even begin to descibe it.



one day i hope to hate as much as this man does.

[dalek.gif] "exterminate!!"
 
shortylickens said:
I cant recall the last time I was on a plane with any vacant seats.
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I fly anywhere from 6-10 times a year, planes fly with vacant seats all the time. Most are full, but I'd say about 15-20% have empty seats.

I don't understand the logic of not requiring someone to buy another seat if they are that fat. Do they expect to have clothing made from the same amount of cotton/wool as medium size stuff too?

Edit - Just realized that the clothing analogy was bad, as typically S-M-L-XL are usually all the same price. I don't know if the same can be said for going past XXL however.
 
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RPD said:
I fly anywhere from 6-10 times a year, planes fly with vacant seats all the time. Most are full, but I'd say about 15-20% have empty seats.

I don't understand the logic of not requiring someone to buy another seat if they are that fat. Do they expect to have clothing made from the same amount of cotton/wool as medium size stuff too?
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On my flight from Rome to JFK in May, every person had a row to themselves. We all laid out and slept lol.
 
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