HEAVY PEOPLE TO PAY EXTRA TO GET ON AIRPLANES!
IMAGINE THIS CONVERSATION:
Airline employee: Hi. Our KX17-4 SCANNER shows that you are 17.2 LBS over the ideal weight we require of our passengers. We need to collect $168.63 from you before you can board this flight to Akron, Ohio.
Funny? Far fetched?
NO! The airline industry is looking into precisely such a plan.
They already compel obese people to buy two seats if they want to get on their planes.
Can you imagine what would happen if some misguided airline would weigh Barns without HIS EXPRESSED CONSENT?
Likely somebody would end up in INTENSIVE CARE and somebody WOULD GET ARRESTED. And a rousing chorus of satisfaction from personal injury and constitutional lawyers would be heard worldwide.
Of course, this being the ever-inventive U.S.A., Barns is already working on THE AIRLINE DIET.
Wonder: does that mean that anorexic would-be entertainment personalities might be able to FLY FREE?
What Say You?
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Lostrage ( 61 posts / 5 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 06/16 at 11:13AM PT
If i remember correctly the airlines have dropped the buy 2 seats for the obese out of political correctness. Last time I was on a plane i got stuck between two fatties and I swear to you i had less than 1/2 a seat to sit in on a packed flight. The two fatties refused to relenquish their seats. So I was forced to sit in a jump seat. Let them pay.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 06/16 at 11:35AM PT
You poor fellow. My heart is bleeding for your troubles. The 2 "fatties", I gather, could not relinquish their seats for lack of anywhere else to sit. You poor dear had to seat on a jump seat to make way for two less fortunate people. Might be that you should have charged them for the help you gave them. I bet you asked for a free ticket from the airline.
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Spinner ( 160 posts / 3 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 06/16 at 11:01AM PT
I did post on this topic when it first appeared,but I felt compelled to post again. This is not only outrageous, but it is degrading, humiliating,and inhuman. Need I go on! I love my country and I'm thankful for all the wonderful conveniences we have here,but come on now! The airline industry can find a better way to deal with the ever increasing price of gasoline!
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CToads 46 ( 72 posts / 2 fights ) from Beverly Hills, California (United States) on 06/16 at 10:45AM PT
TOTALY STUPID. If i am a pound over can i say i'm bloated and will be thinner by end of trip since i won't BUY the glass of water $5 water you want to sell me. I can't put liquids in my carry so i MUST pay to check the bag. I would feel violated if my weight was broadcast to all who can hear. obes. BIG BROTHER HERE AN NOW
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 02:33PM PT
Listen up, fatties, I'm glad the airlines are taking a stand. If you can't say no to those high-flying calories coming your way, then why should the airlines have to fly high with you? Hell, why should I? I certainly don’t want to pay extra in my ticket to cart your ass around the polluted skies. Stop complaining and buy Barnes’s airline diet. Dispensation: medical conditions with a doctor’s note.
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GMc ( 44 posts / 0 fights ) from Helena, Montana (United States) on 06/09 at 03:35PM PT
I got a bit excited about your post and go myself banned for my language. Barns unbanned me a few minutes ago. I am annoyed by your comment. If you were trying to be funny, you are not. Not everybody has your good luck to be thin and glib at the same time. As a big man, I hate sitting next to people my size because of comfort not because I discriminate.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 03:45PM PT
I wasn't being glib. I was sick of the wining going on. You act like you aren't responsible for your weight. Get over it, you are! My "thinness" is not luck, my friend, it's studied and it's damn hard to do. Most people are overweight b/c they eat too damn much and can't control themselves, emblematic of our overindulgent society. If you and your doctor can't get you stop eating, maybe the airlines can.
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on 06/09 at 03:52PM PTOuch, Pilgrim.
Let me lay this on you. Barns knows lots of "BIG BOYS" who do not need a doctor's note, neither help from an airline to lose weight. In any event, his "boys'" shoulders are bigger than 98% of the population, their height is greater than 98% of the population and their weight, although a tad challenged, is not much out of "norm." And some of the boys are in perfect proportion and just weight a bunch.
If they cannot afford first class, they should get hosed with ticket prices?
If so, how about YOU tell them about the overweight penalty!
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 03:56PM PT
I never said the specifics of the airline idea were right, but the broader concept is. If you guys or gals are height/weight proportionate, to be determined by a normalized scale not accounting for our tendency towards obesity, then you can fight legally to stake your claim as within limits. That's how I answer you, Barnes.
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on 06/09 at 04:29PM PT
Now.
If you had to SQUEEZE into an airline seat next to THIS LINEBACKER, YOU might want to pay a surcharge to the airline for the privilege.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:11PM PT
Barns, I relish the opportunity to sit next to you on a flight. Where are we going and when?
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 06/09 at 06:22PM PT
All right. Lets do the math .... If you KNOW Barns, you know that sooner than later, everything becomes a math problem. Things just have to balance and cross-foot.
There are issues with such travel....
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:34PM PT
Try me. I got a decent head for figures. No puns here on the weight argument, please.
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PompAdore ( 42 posts / 3 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 04:48PM PT
Surely you’re joking. Sensitivity is in order for those spending hours figuring ways to lose weight. For some it is GENETICALLY not as easy. Understandable that you don’t want to pay extra for a ticket, but using such insensitive language like: “cart your ass around.” May consider choosing language a little more wisely? As it is people like you who spark a little phenomenon known as ‘eating disorders’ – google it.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 05:54PM PT
So now I'm responsible for your eating disorder? If the ass fits, wear it. I fight the bulge as much as you do and my genetics aren't favorable. I just deal with it w/out screaming insensitivity like a big baby. You're an adult; if you can be that influenced by the media, perhaps you need some additional help in other areas. Thanks for highlighting the underlying problem: blame. I’ll pass on accepting it.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 06/09 at 05:54PM PT
I fancy what PompAdore wrote. Maybe we can have some of your critics post pictures of yourselves on the internet. Sounds like you like yourselves and not anybody who cannot fit into your clothing.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:09PM PT
If I could understand what you wrote, I might respond. Re-read what you wrote. I can't make heads or tails of it.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 06/09 at 06:13PM PT
How mighty you are about yourself. Are you that well proportioned and so darned perfect, all because of your superior effort and self-control? I would like to meet such person.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 06/09 at 06:18PM PT
Most of us have to do with what we have. We can work a lifetime and still be made uncomfortable in a narrow seat on an airplane. My weight is just fine. You don't have to be concerned about me. I reckon you are not concerned by any feelings you hurt with your lecture.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:33PM PT
The reason the Western world is falling so far behind is b/c we're so damn politically correct. If you're fat, you're fat and you know it no matter how it's said. "It's too hard!" "We're hurting Suzie's self-esteem." Boo-hoo! Life is hard and a challenge. So is staying within bodily proportions. Suck it up.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:37PM PT
It's not about being uncomfortable in the seat. Jeez, everybody so frickin' sensitive. If you want to bring up how the airlines suck and don't give enough room for anyone, then bring up a new topic and don't couch it in this one. I'll happily sound off on that one. I'm just calling it like I see it. Isnn't that the point of this board? If I want polite company, I wouldn't stop here.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:43PM PT
Presumably it's not a lecture; it's a discussion. I just wish I could get some logical ideas in here. Instead of complaining about me, why don't you go about changing my mind. I'm open to it.
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Narratives ( 28 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/09 at 06:31PM PT
No, my dear, and that's the point, if you had been reading my posts carefully. I bet everyone who is pissy might be cutting it too close in their own conscience about their weight. Frankly, I don't give a crap what you weigh or how your clothes fit. The point is if the airlines have to ask after eyeballing you, then you're too huge.
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Harm ( 171 posts / 0 fights ) from Alexandria, Virginia (United States) on 06/09 at 06:43PM PT
Funny thing about airlines eyeballing you. I just went thru security at 2 big airports. I dare say most of the TSA inspectors were too large to fly on just one ticket. The Feds cannot discriminate based on physical attributes. There is something very crass about eyeballing somebody for size and then charging them for being heavy. Like cattle going to slaughter.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 06/09 at 06:47PM PT
I can't bring myself to think of as your dear. Kiss off, more likely. I have no problem with you calling it as you see it. I find it refreshing. I don't care too much about your references to "my ass." I am fond of no matter how ample it might seem to a watchful airline employee. I can also see the major tantrums by people when eyed by critical airline clerks.
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PompAdore ( 42 posts / 3 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/10 at 09:31AM PT
I know people like you. Shooting off at the mouth. Not to say that what your point is wrong, largely it may not be. But jesus, relax. You are foul, and thoughtless. You prove nothing of yourself, or your argumentative skills. I'd like to see you face to face with one of these "fatties" you speak of. Instead of in a "safe" forum for you to beat them down with your weak words.
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cac ( 40 posts / 0 fights ) from LA, California (United States) on 06/09 at 11:17AM PT
This is nothing compared to the next wave of security scanners currently being put in place around the country that gives the lucky screener a XXX scan. Can't wait to see that backlash!
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smidgen ( 71 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/16 at 04:01PM PT
yeah, soon we'll probably get charged for optional pubic area pixelation if we wish to further protect our privacy from those screeners or anyone waiting to post images on some new airport scanner fetish site.
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uncut0072002 ( 62 posts / 1 fights ) from Chicago, Illinois (United States) on 06/05 at 05:37PM PT
Worked for an airline years ago and knew dergulation wouldn't work with the airlines. There is not a single industry that has been left to their own in a deregulated atmosphere that has survived. Initally perhaps the profit margins will rise but in the end they fail. Some regulation is need to ensure greedy people like carl Icahn doesn't rape another company and leave it a burned out hulk like TWA was.
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Backbiter ( 214 posts / 1 fights ) from West Hollywood, California (United States) on 06/06 at 11:49AM PT
Long Distance Carriers have done pretty well for themselves. Not to mention that Long Distance Service is a fraction of what it was prior to deregulation. MCI didn't die because of deregulation. They imploded because of fraud and bad management. Oil Companies haven't been doing too bad after deregulation (I'm being sarcastic - I need to explain because it seems get missed here quite a bit).
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harvard ( 40 posts / 0 fights ) from Boston, Massachusetts (United States) on 06/06 at 11:54AM PT
To my new "friend." I don't misunderstand you. I enjoy your posts and occasionally agree with them. MCI and their brothers as well as some oil company execs need to go to prison.
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Spinner ( 160 posts / 3 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 06/05 at 05:12PM PT
This is so outrageous. Does this mean that the "lightweights" will get a discount!! I can't even begin to express how incredibly ridiculous this is!
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smidgen ( 71 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/06 at 10:34AM PT
I think that if lightweights are encouraged, favored, and eventually the norm (after Barns publishes the Airline Diet of course), then I shouldn't have to pay an additional $50 for the additional 3lbs of my over-the-per-passenger-limit, "heavy" suitcase....
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Sage ( 19 posts / 0 fights ) from New York, New York (United States) on 06/05 at 01:11PM PT
Doesn't bode well for my 200++ pound self. I'll bet the class action attorneys are lining up as we speak. Do I get a credit when one of the passengers is my 45 lb kid???
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on 06/05 at 05:05PM PT
Funny. Funny. Funny. Funny.
Not going to happen.
I wonder, however, if hey are going to offer a PITTY fair for anorexics.
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smidgen ( 71 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/06 at 10:36AM PT
They'll just start charging the heavyweights for peanuts and give the freebie bags to the anorexics.
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Backbiter ( 214 posts / 1 fights ) from West Hollywood, California (United States) on 06/06 at 11:51AM PT
The anorexics get the barf bag.
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