Fat people on Subways (1756 hits)
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Submitted by <tempeststorm.at.geocities.com> (View user info) at 2002-10-30 10:53:09 EST
I live in Boston, and the more I live in the city, the more I focus on my one huge annoyance with cities. Fat people on subways, buses, trains, trolleys, or any other mode of public transportation. The seats on buses and subways aren't that big to begin with, and then a grossly overweight person sits down and takes up two seats.
Okay, so I'm a medium-framed female. I get on the bus, I sit down, we go about two stops and some monstrous woman hobbles onto the bus, looks around and sits next to me of course cause I'm not as big as a lot of larger framed people on the bus. No wait, she doesn't sit next to me, she sits ON me. Her sides ooze over onto me. I hate public transportation. I feel like the city should mandate that anyone living in it and using public transportation should be only moderately overweight at best, not grotesquely overweight.
So I guess this puts me on the airlines' side when they argue that fat people should be charged for two seats....HELL yeah they should be. I guess I don't play well with others, because I don't want to share my seat on an airplane, or give my seat up because the fat lady next to me ate too many donuts every day for the past 15 years.
This is my first post here. I hope you're brutal as hell, that makes it more fun :)
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Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-06-17 14:46:00 EDT (#)
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you gotta love the retro posts.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-06-17 14:43:25 EDT (#)
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I hate fat people on airplanes.
They should make them walk to their destination. Stupid fat fucks.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-06-17 14:25:34 EDT (#)
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this post hasn't been reviewed in 2.5 years
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-03-13 13:51:37 EST (#)
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Iodnem, are you saying you are 1500 lbs.?
I guess I'm lucky, I haven't had many bad experiences with fat people other than the occasional glance of hatred from a fat woman here and there.
I had a large man - around 300 lbs. sit next to me in coach on my way to Austin last week, and he didn't bother me at all, stayed squashed in his space and not in mine. He even laughed at me that I could sit Indian-style in my seat.
Loren
Submitted by Nicole3 (user info) at 2003-03-13 12:22:43 EST (#)
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This past summer some friends and I were at 6 flags and had a few minutes to burn, so we get on the Scrambler type ride - The one that usually fits 3 normal sized people per car and whirls you around, usually smashing the guts out of the person sitting towards the outside. So everyone loads up except for the 3 really fat chicks. They are trying to get into a car but have a lot of problems. They are so fat that they can't fit into the seat without at least one of them sitting in a somewhat sideways, sitting on the other girls fashion. So they waste about 5 minutes of the other riders time trying to get seated, only to find out that they have sat on the seat belt and can't get it out from under their fat asses, so they have to unload and restart the entire procedure. If I were the operator of that ride I would have told them the could wait until the next time and get in seperate cars. Piss me off.
Submitted by lodnem.at.yahoo.com at 2002-11-01 19:55:21 EST (#)
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there's no reason why someone 1500lbs shouldn't have public transportation available, but you've got to pay the price to equip the transportation to suit your size.
i pay this fee everytime i get on a plane and i sure as hell don't take up more seats than i paid for.
Submitted by sky (user info) at 2002-10-31 09:56:49 EST (#)
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So my riding on public transportation is a health risk? Lovely. Maybe I'll get a car.
"National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance" ...I wonder what the fat ratio is to join this club.
sky (tempeststorm)
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2002-10-31 00:08:00 EST (#)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2346319.stm
Submitted by SeK (user info) at 2002-10-30 20:46:54 EST (#)
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Maybe they should charge airline tickets by weight or height-weight ratio ... after all, shouldn't it cost more to transport a heavy person who uses more jet fuel?
Submitted by lodnem.at.yahoo.com at 2002-10-30 14:29:26 EST (#)
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not only should they charge a person who is the size of two for both seats on a plane, they should consider the half empty seat taken by that person as well.
some airlines charge two seats, but they still book every seat on the plane so the only thing that happens is that they make more money, but you'll still get an extra arm rest.
Submitted by ISuck (user info) at 2002-10-30 11:55:38 EST (#)
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Marge: Homer, remember you promised you'd try to limit pork to six
servings a week?
Homer: Marge, I'm only human.
Principal Charming
Wierd. Although I think Homer just likes to eat.
Submitted by SeK (user info) at 2002-10-30 11:42:26 EST (#)
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What about the Simpsons parody with X-Files? ... Homer on a treadmill in his underwear ... *shudder*
Submitted by 88888 (user info) at 2002-10-30 11:37:35 EST (#)
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Here is the "random" quote I got when viewing this post"
also appropriate.. weird.
I'm sick of eating hoagies! I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long
hero! I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live? Won't you,
please?
-- Homer Simpson
Fear of Flying
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2002-10-30 11:12:15 EST (#)
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Does anyone else find that the supposedly random Simpsons quotes seem eerily appropriate all the time?
Here was the one I saw as I browsed this post:
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? No. Lumber Lung? No. Jugglers despair?
No. Achy-Breaky Pelvis? No. Oh, I'm never going to be disabled.
I'm sick of being so healthy! Hey wait -- Hyper-Obesity. If you
weigh more than 300 pounds, you qualify as disabled.
-- Homer Simpson
King-Size Homer
I think Ubersite is trying to communicate with us itself.
Submitted by SeK (user info) at 2002-10-30 11:05:54 EST (#)
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Hey, at least you have the choice of leaving. I used to work in an amusement park as a ride operator. It's really funny when you have to deny a ride to a customer due to the fact that the lap bar can't get over their belly. I've had one person who actually reached down, lifted their beer gut, put the bar down and let their skin and fat puddle over the bar again. That was rather disturbing. Funny thing that happened: As you should be aware, roller coasters work on the basis of gravity. People say that riding at the end is more thrilling because the more weight is at the front, the faster the ride will go. Imagine a kiddy roller coaster with four guys who probably add up to over a thousand pounds sitting at the front and two four-year-olds at the back. I don't think I've ever seen the ride run so fast before. One kid complained that his neck hurt ... probably whiplash.
When I hear someone order a huge burger and super-sized fries with a *diet* coke, I wonder if they're in denial and telling themselves the diet coke actually counteracts the fat from the rest of the meal.