Southwest Bumps Skinny to Accommodate Fatty

[biggie]

Just sitting hear deciding who I'm going to sit on when I meet them (cause its what us fat people do).

[ADDirishboy]

Just sitting hear deciding who I'm going to sit on when I meet them (cause its what us fat people do).

I would imagine it's gonna be me and Ryan first.

[AZhitman]

...and I'll totally point them both out to you, Chad.

[ADDirishboy]

Thanks, Greg.

[RobPaulson]

[breadbox]

this thread reminded me to check out people of walmart.

[Mr1der]

Just sitting hear deciding who I'm going to sit on when I meet them (cause its what us fat people do).

I would imagine it's gonna be me and Ryan first.

this isn't a movie I'll be watching at 2 in the morning.

[cellardoorv]

I work in a pharmacy.

Today, I rang up a disgustingly obese woman for a prescription of Phentermine, which is a controlled-substance weight loss drug. Cool. What else did I ring up along with that prescription? Three, 2-liter bottles of Coke, an already opened bottle of Coke 20oz, an empty wrapper of a King-Sized Reese's Cups, and four packages of various assortments of TastyKake.

[Dittoz7]

Looks like a suicide attempt to me...

[ADDirishboy]

I work in a pharmacy.

Today, I rang up a disgustingly obese woman for a prescription of Phentermine, which is a controlled-substance weight loss drug. Cool. What else did I ring up along with that prescription? Three, 2-liter bottles of Coke, an already opened bottle of Coke 20oz, an empty wrapper of a King-Sized Reese's Cups, and four packages of various assortments of TastyKake.

Did she look like either of these ladies?

[Dittoz7]

Shade for sale.

[MinisterofDOOM]

When you actually get your boarding pass there is a row and a seat on it.

No. There is not. I've flown southwest several times. Every time has been the same. They group you into boarding groups and you pick whatever seat you want from what's available as you board.
http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/checkin.html

Because Southwest Airlines maintains an open-seating policy, general-boarding Customers may sit in any open or unclaimed seat.

[ADDirishboy]

No. There is not. I've flown southwest several times. Every time has been the same. They group you into boarding groups and you pick whatever seat you want from what's available as you board.
http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/checkin.html

Yea, I've flown Southwest many times and it's always choose your own seat. Handy when there's a hot chick you wanna creep on.

[Otto.]

Handy when there's a hot dude you wanna creep on.

FTFY

[big_rig]

i am extra tall, do i have to buy two tickets? i cant help being tall, but fat people can take measures to become skinny. Fat people ruin the big and tall name, not all tall people are big.

[93coupe]

Greg, you can hide the deep fryer. I will sniff it out. I couldn't care less about wheel locks. I'm taking the whole car but only after I load it up with all your white women and tvs.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Ryan, how are you gonna get there? The bus doesn't run through Surprise.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[AZhitman]

Dude. He's got this:

[krimsonviper]

Just got the gist that you guy just absolutely hate fat people, which kinda disgusts me a little bit. Prejudice is prejudice and I don't see how this falls into any other category.

Yes, I'm way overweight, 5'7 210lbs. I was pretty much the same weight I am since freshman high school, the difference is I have less muscle mass now then back then. I want to work on getting muscle back and be able to run a mile, but I have too much going on and I will admit I'm a tad depressed and just angry because of my problems, that I haven't done anything about it. I don't over eat, I just don't do anything. I'm probably a target for one of your hate acts. I don't particularly care. I'm posting because you guys group all fatties as POSs. My mom is very much overweight.

She's a target that I don't appreciate you guys attacking her, whether it was direct or not. My mom is NOT A POS. She has 2 bad knees and they've been deteriorating since 1994. She doesn't do anything about it because she's afraid of surgery and that she may die in its process. Scared to the point that she will endure her overweight problem, mostly likely, until she dies. I've talked to her about it, but she's old school and from a country where they don't like talking about death, or any of the sort.

She tried doing something about it; She used to walk everyday for about a mile +, but stopped because her knees cause her too much pain. Then she tried swimming, which she stopped because of a**holes, much like yourselves, made fun of her for being in the pool. How embarrassing is it for someone who isn't a socialite to be rediculed for trying? Pretty much since then, she's declining. And it hurts to see pictures of my beautiful mom in her prime(my bookFace default) and see what she's turned into.

What I'm getting at is why do you have to be so cold hearted towards a set of people simply because they aren't what you subject as normal? Yeah, a lot of people do things to get to the point they are in. Some tried, some didn't, but you sure as HELL don't need to be so cruel about it. If you don't like "bigguns" then don't be one. Teach your kids not to be one. Have their kids not be one. Try and get a community to exercise. Make fun of a set of people, or being outraged by it, really isn't going to change anything, in fact with overweight people, it can very much have an opposite effect. And do the good with a good heart.

And then a lot of you guys look at the world going to hell in a handbasket and complain about it, when you're very much attributing to it, unknowingly(in your defense).

As for the O.P., that kid didn't deserve that spot, if his parents didn't buy him that second ticket.

[infinitgkid]

TL;DR

Just got the gist that you guy just absolutely hate fat people, which kinda disgusts me a little bit. Prejudice is prejudice and I don't see how this falls into any other category.

Yes, I'm way overweight, 5'7 210lbs. I was pretty much the same weight I am since freshman high school, the difference is I have less muscle mass now then back then. I want to work on getting muscle back and be able to run a mile, but I have too much going on and I will admit I'm a tad depressed and just angry because of my problems, that I haven't done anything about it. I don't over eat, I just don't do anything. I'm probably a target for one of your hate acts. I don't particularly care. I'm posting because you guys group all fatties as POSs. My mom is very much overweight.

She's a target that I don't appreciate you guys attacking her, whether it was direct or not. My mom is NOT A POS. She has 2 bad knees and they've been deteriorating since 1994. She doesn't do anything about it because she's afraid of surgery and that she may die in its process. Scared to the point that she will endure her overweight problem, mostly likely, until she dies. I've talked to her about it, but she's old school and from a country where they don't like talking about death, or any of the sort.

She tried doing something about it; She used to walk everyday for about a mile +, but stopped because her knees cause her too much pain. Then she tried swimming, which she stopped because of a**holes, much like yourselves, made fun of her for being in the pool. How embarrassing is it for someone who isn't a socialite to be rediculed for trying? Pretty much since then, she's declining. And it hurts to see pictures of my beautiful mom in her prime(my bookFace default) and see what she's turned into.

What I'm getting at is why do you have to be so cold hearted towards a set of people simply because they aren't what you subject as normal? Yeah, a lot of people do things to get to the point they are in. Some tried, some didn't, but you sure as HELL don't need to be so cruel about it. If you don't like "bigguns" then don't be one. Teach your kids not to be one. Have their kids not be one. Try and get a community to exercise. Make fun of a set of people, or being outraged by it, really isn't going to change anything, in fact with overweight people, it can very much have an opposite effect. And do the good with a good heart.

And then a lot of you guys look at the world going to hell in a handbasket and complain about it, when you're very much attributing to it, unknowingly(in your defense).

As for the O.P., that kid didn't deserve that spot, if his parents didn't buy him that second ticket. Again, TL;DR

Well said.

[AZhitman]

Love ya KV, but I think the TL;DR negates much of the impact.

[krimsonviper]

Love ya KV, but I think the TL;DR negates much of the impact.

I thought about that as I was typing it up. In my defense, I read the first 1 and a half pages.

[AZhitman]

Lazy.

I KID, I KID.

[krimsonviper]

Lazy.

I KID, I KID.

[nissangirl74]

For the first 34 years of my life, my metabolism was sky-high. I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and none of it stuck. Two years later, my jeans are two sizes bigger and I gain every ounce of what I eat. The reason: my thyroid decided to go on hiatus. So, I dug in and started exercising and watching what I eat. I take my meds and my vitamins everyday like a good girl. Are they doing me any good? Who knows? Sometimes it takes many months to get the dosage right. The weight is still there (weight from thyroid issues is somehow harder to lose) but I know I am healthier so I continue on the road I'm on. I never was bad to make fun of anyone for their weight, but I was always kind of proud of the fact that I was so thin. Maybe someone on a higher authority thought my ego needed to be taken down a notch.

I have a friend who is going to have the gastric by-pass surgery in January. She is +/- 6' tall and is easily over 300 lbs. Unfortunately, most of her problem is the fact that she eats a lot, she eats unhealthy foods, and she gets ZERO exercise. She thinks this surgery is her magic wand. What scares me the most is that if she continues to eat like this after the surgery, she could die. She doesn't want to put forth the effort, she just wants someone to "fix her".

To the OP. I know why SW gave the fat kid the seat. He is a minor and they are responsible for making sure he gets to his destination. The adult woman gets the boot. If the boy had been eighteen, I wonder if the airline would have made him buy another seat? I wonder if the parents of the boy had to pay for that other seat since they lost revenue because of him? The parents are completely responsible for this child's eating habits. What goes into his mouth is their choice. He's fourteen. He ain't the one buying the groceries.

Just as an after thought - there is one place where that child is being fed that the parents do NOT have control over the menu and that is in the schools. Many many days Priss would come home from school and tell me about all the high calorie, high fat, high sugar foods being served in the cafeteria. She can have all the pizza, tacos, nachos, Burgers, chicken nuggets, fries, cookies she can stand. She considers herself lucky on the days they offer ham sandwiches. If she wants to have salad for lunch, she has to take her own because the schools took the salad bar out, they claimed it was too expensive. So the schools are a big culprit as well.

[AZhitman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPciRmLSlU[/youtube]

Fast-forward to 3:11, crank it up.

[Dittoz7]

Damn our Admin POWERS!

[Dattebayo]

Damn our Admin POWERS!

The ones in your head?

[krimsonviper]

Finally went through the whole thread because NICO got slow.

I can choose to start doing meth today. It's my body, what do you care? But that does not make it right and we try and divert people from meth with scary billboards and commercials. I think it's necessary to do the same for fat people, and everyone else too. Scare them away from it. When that doesn't work, make it known that the path they have chosen is bad, instead of pampering them.

And I totally agree with this.

You're correct.

But I think you are missing my point. Obesity, Cancer, AIDS, Down Syndrome, etc. are all conditions and they are all different with different effects. But the point I'm trying to make here is that they ARE conditions that anyone can have, and that makes these people no way, in any shape or form, inferior to the point where they are labeled with names such as "Fatty".

If you or anyone else doesn't mind getting called such derogatory names, then that's your perogative.

And don't think for a minute that I'm defending overweight people because I'm not. I just don't think that we should resort to name calling, ya know?

I don't think it's name calling

Yes, it is, calling them fat is not. Fatty is used in a playful manner to describe someone, fat is simply describing them.

Looks like a suicide attempt to me...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPciRmLSlU[/youtube]

Fast-forward to 3:11, crank it up.

Also, to clear it up, I do believe it's a problem a LOT of people are overweight and accepted by the community. With my mom, I do my best to get her to do the surgery. I don't mind my weight and that's because if you look at me and you wouldn't guess that I'm my weight, More like 170 people tell me. I do mind being lazy. I do have a problem with people being both, which is why I will eventually make it back to the gym and have a little athlete in me( and no h0m0 ).

I'm in no way defending all fat people. I'm defending them against your prejudice, regardless whether or not you were once fat and now you're not.

[AppleBonker]

Just got the gist that you guy just absolutely hate fat people, which kinda disgusts me a little bit.

For me, this isn't an entirely accurate statement. Yes, I generally hate fat people. But, that is redundant. It would be no less accurate for me to say I generally hate people. If I don't already know you, I'd say that 10 times out of 10 I'm going to hate you when we first meet. That extends to everyone, independent of color/race/age/size/sex/etc. Probably why I make fun of everyone too. If I get labeled as being hateful to fatties by making fun of them and I gel labeled as a sexist for making fun of women and I get labeled as racist for making fun of anyone who isn't white, I'm confused as to what that makes me. I'm an equal opportunity offender.