Posted: 3/14/2005 5:53:22 AM EDT
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RANT ON------OK IM six foot four inches tall and I weigh 260. I don’t look 260 but I weigh it. I ride a bicycle 20-30 miles 5days a week and hit the gym twice a week I have a gut im built that way. I don’t eat a lot I watch my carb intake and I don’t drink soda or alcohol. I can do 60 sit-ups in two minutes. So all of you people that think I want to weigh 260 ( and there are so many things in life with a 250lbs limit) and not 200. people that think im not physicaly fit or that im just a fat pig...PISS OFF---RANT OFF this is my response to some of the answers on the two seat buying on a plane thread. |
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The Airline Industries, like every other penny stealing Co. out there - is just trying to find a way to cover the additional costs they have incurred because of all the new systems for security crap. Don't sweat it, there are plenty of Airline Co's out there that will accomadate your "big Boned body." Even if you weighed 800 lbs, and your happy, then the hell with em - this is still the USA so just tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine IMHO G'luck |
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Its funny to see the fat asses (or big boned, or well in shape, whatever you wanna call yoruself) bitch "But they charge more!". Well, its take more gas, more space, more wear and tear on equipment. ITS THAT SIMPLE. What, dont wanna pay your way in life? Why should I have to pay as much as you, when it takes more to haul your ass around?? Dont like it? Greyhound.com |
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6'2" 245.. typical scandinavian build. (big boned, braud shoulders) first time flying was a couple weeks ago when the wife and i went to los vegas, the seats are deffinitely not made for guys our size. My wife let me have the window seat so i could have a little more room and wouldn't have to deal with the cursed arm wrest that would jab my leg. i flew American West, the first plane was a pop can with wings. On the way back we actually got a decent one that my ass didn't go numb by the time we landed. |
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Here's a question for ya. If the airline makes a fat guy buy two seats, and then overbooks the flight will they give his second seat to one of the standby passeners, or can he tell the airline to go fuck themselves? If they do bump his fat ass out of one of the seats he paid for, will they give him a refund? The airline industry is the only industry that I know of that can sell more of something than it is able to deliver without being prosecuted for fraud. Since OUR tax dollars are constantly going to bail these fuckers out, they should have to adhere to the same fairness standards as any other government agency. If it were up to me, I'd schedule the airline execs for the firing squad right behind the credit card executives. And no, I don't say this because I'm fat. I fly dozens of times every year and no one has ever told me that I have to pay for 2 seats. |
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Not sure what the solution is, but I can say THIS for sure. When I pay for an airline seat, there is NO WAY IN HELL I would put up with some fat person ooozing in to my seat. Big boned? Fat? Hefty? Whatever you call yourself, that's fine. What isn't fine is the idea that I should have to share my already small seat with the "over flow" from someone elses body. I paid for it, all of it, and I plan on using all of it. Not interested in sharing any portion of it with some random, "large" stranger. |
Agreed. I'm only 5'11 and 190lbs., but my shoulders are wide enough and my legs long enough to make flying coach extremely uncomfortable. |
Yep. Just make airline seats 3" wider and give us another 4" in leg room and things would be dandy. (Actually, I'd be happy if I could just sit in the seat without my knees crammed up against the seat in front of me) |
I am 6' 4" and weigh 275 .... but I do not look it either .... this "body fat index", "Ideal weight" thing dont work for me. They say my ideal weight should be around 200, if I weighed 200, Id look like a toothpick! Everybody guesses my weight to be around 225 |
FATSO! |
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There there. It'll be OK. I remember in the Army a large number of the SF guys were pretty big. One of my buddies was 6'6" and weighed 270. He couldn't run for shit, (that doesn't mean he would ever stop, just slow) but he would road march your ass into the ground. Even with 150 lbs. of lightweight gear on the guy he'd just start striding out. I think he benched about 350. That's comes in handy. My old platoon leader went from 10th group to PA school and into my platoon. He had a gut. He looked like a typical middle aged guy with a gut and balding. You could tell there was a lot of muscle down there. That guy could run your ass off. A lot of those gut having guys can run. It's amazing. They go out and smoke your ass for 6 or 7 miles and then come in and eat about three cheeseburgers. Blows me away. Moral of the story: Who gives a fuck what someone else thinks? |
I hate it for you, but you still need to buy two seats 'cause I don't want to have to sit under your arm pit. Edited to add: I'm 6', 200 lbs (not really small and in great shape.) I don't care if we're talking about Arnold F-ing Schwarzenegger when he weighed 240 with single digit body fat.....if you can't keep your person within the confines of your seat get another seat before you encroach on my space. While I'm ranting I think I'll add that the next time my space gets encroached on an airplane, I'm going to sue the oversized bastard for trespassing. It's my space for the duration of the flight, I paid for it so stay off!!! 
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I did ! and you are right !  "reservation" ??? what the hell is that ??? |
I dont have a huge belly i have a roll....... show me any large male animal that eats meat that doesnt. |