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...to ask how you decide if someone is 'fat' ?

253 replies

MaisyMooCow · 08/02/2012 14:27

Here

So the 'fat' passenger paying more argument continues.

My question is, how do you decide when someone qualifies for the 'fat seats'. What happens if you book a normal seat, get to check-in and they say 'Sorry madam but you're fat' . Are you expected to get on their scales for a weigh in?!!

OP posts:
maddening · 08/02/2012 22:37

the average size was 16 last time I heard topknob

topknob · 08/02/2012 22:39

In my opinion I said but a 16 is rather large :o

topknob · 08/02/2012 22:40

or actually My POV ! x

coraltoes · 08/02/2012 22:41

So the average size is overweight? Really?

IUseTooMuchKitchenRoll · 08/02/2012 22:41

People who are overweight have a lot more control over their size than people who are tall, and tall people have had to pay for extra legroom for years on many airlines. It's not cheap either. Last year someone I travelled with had to pay £60 each way on a Thompson flight to get extra legroom.

Why should overweight people be given sympathy when tall people are given charges? Tall people don't even bother other passengers, fat people do!

coraltoes · 08/02/2012 22:42

I mean that surprise honestly. I guess I hadn't given it much thought before.

topknob · 08/02/2012 22:43

I am not tall 5ft 6 so about average....Yes the AVERAGE size is overweight imo !

maddening · 08/02/2012 22:46

but also wouldn't you think that airlines should cater for at least the average which might not be short small folk

tethersend · 08/02/2012 22:46

I think pregnant women should have to pay twice, the cheating bastards.

maddening · 08/02/2012 22:48

it's not a question of whether it's healthy - it is what is normal which can be seen as the average size which rightly or wrongly is bigger than a size 12

IUseTooMuchKitchenRoll · 08/02/2012 22:51

Average size 16 people don't tend to spill onto other peoples seats.

I can sit comfortably on a plane next to my friend who is a size 20, but then I'm a 10 and don't mind sharing space with someone I know and love. If both of us were a size 20, I can't see how we would physically fit.

Aribura · 09/02/2012 01:16

I don't give a rat's if it's "fattist", if you're so fat that you're on my seat and blocking the emergency exit routes then you shouldn't be allowed to sit there. As for making all the planes fat-friendly, I don't see why the healthy should have to pay more so some 20st heffer can fit into the seats. I'm sorry, I'm not prejudiced against the chubby but the morbid obesity-enabling needs to stop. Although I'm sure it's because of "medication" as usual... Hmm

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 01:28

Oh I think you are prejudiced against them. Or are you a nasty cow about everyone equally?

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 01:32

Such nastiness about an imaginary overweight person smacks of having ishoos to me

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 01:44

And no I'm not morbidly obese.

Just makes me sick to read such nastiness aimed at a group of people like theyre subhuman cos they ate too much food.

People can flame away, some of the attitudes on MN are shocking and more people need to object to them.

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/02/2012 05:30

I'm with you Fanjo. I hope none of the hateful people who are so unsympathetic to people unlike themselves ever need help and understanding from anyone else. I've had overweight nurses, housing workers, friends, family etc etc who have done nothing but been helpful and kind to others. Fine, charge them 60 quid for extra arse room but stop being so judgmental and nasty.

tethersend · 09/02/2012 08:11

Can we introduce a TwatTax?

I think it would be far more lucrative.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 08:18

good plan! Grin

TheParanoidAndroid · 09/02/2012 08:45

the reaction to percieved abuse was there long before there was anything to react to. There is nothing fattist about saying that you don't want to share your paid for seat with someone else for whatever reason at all, but in usual MN fashion this was "vile" and some kind of -ist immediately.

I don't get it. I've been v large, I've been pretty thin. I'm still me, I don't need "help and understanding" when I have more padding. How odd to suggest such a thing. Equality means fairness to all, and if I need more than one seat for my broken leg, or my violin, or the part of me that for one reason or another doesn't sit in the seat that I have paid for, I need to buy the one next to me too. Nothing remotely nasty or abusive about that.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 09:05

so you think its fine to call people "heffers" then?

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 09:10

and tell people to "lose weight and just stop being greedy"?!

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 09:12

your post was reasonable, others, and many on other threads, are not, and are vile.

Whatmeworry · 09/02/2012 09:13

Oh FFS stop trying to turn this into a We Are Offended By Some "ism" thread.

It's about the human right of people on aeroplanes not to be squashed in their own seats.

It's not vile to want that,

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2012 09:16

Thats right, its just because its about some ism, not because some nasty bitch posted calling larger people "heffers"..anything to shout "It's PC gorn mad" Whatmeworry Wink

Go back to your Daily Mail Wink

MurmuringClothDoll · 09/02/2012 09:21

Like Fanjo says, really well built men sometimes take up too much....my landlord is built like a fridge...he's not at all fat...just well over 6 feet and very wide....I wouldn't like to sit next to him but it's not his fault....

We can't only pick on the fat people....because "It's their fault" we have to consider those who are large through genes.