PSA: dear america . . .

[goldninja]

lose some fucking weight you fat motherfucking morbidly-obese country.

i can accept getting bumped from a standby flight due to it being full, or there not being any extra seats for me, but i will not accept not being let on a plane with seats to spare because the plane has reached weight capacity.

let us not assume that it had anything to do

Comments

[sundancekat]

"If this country ever gets invaded there's gonna be a whole lot of dead people. They're too fat to defend themselves."

Saw this line posted by an online acquaintance a few days back. Immediately thought of you.

[bentrazor]

I agree that obesity is a problem in this country, but wouldn't taking clothes out of their luggage and wearing them / shifting between checked baggage and carry on not actually affect the net weight on the plane though?

[goldninja]

you're right, but that has never stopped people from actually trying. it's like the type of people who are stumped by the "what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead" question.

still doesn't change the fact that a plane with empty seats still reached capacity, regardless of how the girth was distributed throughout the craft, as was the case for me today.

[saber_rider]

There are now more people in this country who are morbidly obese than are at a healthy weight. I think the last time that, at any one given moment, more people were medically compromised than were healthy was in Europe when the black plague was having its fun.

[sundancekat]

All we need now is for a third of the planet's population to croak. :D I wonder if such an event would ultimately solve more problems than it creates, or vice versa.

[reifan]

See, in normal circumstances I like Stillers fans, because they are usually very well read regarding football.

However, any time they are talking about the Stillers it's drastically different. It's like watching one of the old SNL "Da Bears" skits...only they are being serious. Its really annoying when you are trying to have an actual conversation with them and they're like "oh, the Cardinals have no chance, we'll beat them 100 to nothing. They're from the AFC and the Stillers aren't from the NFC so they suck, blah blah blah, put in Charlie Batch."

[chucker_t]

Come on Danny, I've been working for the airline industry for almost 9 yrs now. Every year, more fat americans are packing their whole house whenever they fly. I can't tell you how ridiculously heavy people pack just to get on a plane and fly an hour away to stay for a whole weekend. About 5 yrs ago, the average weight of a back checked was 25 pounds. (They use to hand us weight charts for when we do our paperwork to load the bags on the plane) Today, I shit you not, the average weight of a bag that is checked is around 40 pounds. Now that most airlines charge fees for checking bags, more people are cramming more shit they don't need into one bag, rather than saving them the extra $$ to check two or three bags. Trust me on this, all airlines have upped the average weights on checked baggage.