http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ick-Obese-people-SHOULD-pay-flights.html

With space & weight both critical to cost, should everyone be weighed with their baggage at check in?

Never thought I'd agree with Samantha Brick on anything, but in this case I think she's right.

Tend to agree.

When you send a parcel by post, you pay according to the weight: sounds reasonable to me.

it could be worse!

in theory it makes sense

but delve deeper and (SOME) people will be going on extreme diets on the verge of eating disorders & physical illness to save a couple of quid on air fares.

i agree in principle, but delve a little deeper and it's a bad thing in my opinion.

Source is the Daily Fail....not even going to click the link

Happily sell a story to them though...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-63026/I-caught-heart-attack-26.html

bit of a personal dig that isn't it?

was it warrented?

Hypocrisy at its best actually.

yeah, like some 25 stone pie eater is going to make themselves puke and puke to save money on the cost of a plane ticket

Should someone who is 5'-2" pay the same as someone who is 6'-4" as with less leg room the airlines could fit in more seats.

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Duh.lol

I think all fat people should pay for two seats, who would want to sit on a plane next to a fat person.

It's an interesting concept, but completely unworkable.

Ok, I have a medical condition (layzeebarstewarditis) and because of that I have to take medication which affects my metabolism and causes a slow, but steady and ever increasing, weight gain.
Should I be charged more for my illness ?

TeamUK are off to the next major sporting event, should the weight lifters pay more than the gymnasts ? (Their build and weight being a prerequisite of their job).

Holidays are booked and cheaper tickets are available, months in advance, do you pay based on your weight then or on arrival ?

Will there be an "average" weight and you pay more if you're above this, and get a discount if you're less ?

Will there be a positive discrimination policy towards persons of restricted growth ?

Some people are tall, some are short, we have scrawny and we have heavyweight. In every other walk of life the environment is adapted to suit the person.

Basically we've outlawed discrimination. Everybody is the same no matter what gender, age, colour, race, religion, sexuality, none of it matters, so we're trying to invent a new group to pick on.

Anyone appearing to be 'smug' should pay double.

British English: smug If you say that someone is smug, you are criticizing the fact they seem very pleased with how good, clever, or fortunate they are.They looked at each other in smug satisfaction.smʌɡ ADJECTIVE


So if TeamUK win any medals at the sporting event they should pay more on the way back

I tend to agree with this.

You won't get me looking at the Daily beast, but interest where would thickie as a brickie (no offence to bricklayers - just wanted it to rhyme !!) draw the line, i.e. can you be pregnant ? - but not with twins ?, over 6"4 with a 54" Chest but not 'fat' (but consequently pretty heavy and wide (like me))..?, would she make kids sit 2 to a seat ?

She is a prize twit without the brainpower to have a considered thought.....

amen

Instead of say "Your fat pay more" maybe a fairer way is that their is a standard price + weight. Weight includes luggage + size all as one and is done privately.

Personally I say it's fine as it is, ok I have never flown but surely the average is the same as society and I know someone 6'4" and probs about 18 stone, I also know someone about 5'2" and probs about 8 stone so if they flew together they would be average?

Really Doc! Surely you know that I meant that sort of sneery smugness that some 'holier than thou' folks display from time to time. Live and let live.

I'd realised that, and hoped that my cheery little gif at the end would show how tongue in cheek my reply was

You little devil you.

My take on this. Six years ago flying with my barely 2 year old who was 3 months prem so even at 2 was tiny. We had to pay full fare. She was too old to sit on our knee according to rules so had to have a seat allocated even though it wasnt used. Seen some kids under 2 that are massive but due to some arbitrary thing like d.o.b.it must be followed.
Thems is the rules.

I'm yet to meet a fat person who doesn't stuff there face with junk food.

I am overweight and don't eat junk food All I can eat is steamed fish, steamed chicken, rice, steamed veg and some salad items. I can no longer tolerate milk or yoghurt so have to have soya milk. Can't eat anything with spices in, anything cooked in/with oil, any citrus fruit, onions, eggs, tomatoes, radish, the list goes on.

Kind of shoots your theory about junk food out of the window. Sorry*.

*not really.

Sorry** if giving myself as an example pisses some off.

**not really.

Rock on Wench - you're a wonder.

Not really Moonstar - just unlucky to have a disease that restricts what I eat & at some point in the future, could become malignant. I'd rather be able to stuff my face to be honest

Of course you would - but you do so well Wench on such a restricted diet. I am full of admiration of anyone with a difficult row to hoe.

No, not really Wench, I've never met you.

A couple of years ago I was on an eight hour flight home and was seated next to an obese woman. It meant I was squashed right up against the window and was very uncomfortable. Not wanting to humiliate the woman but aggrieved that I had paid for a full seat but not allowed to make use of it all, I approached the stewardess and discreetly asked if there was another seat available. Luckily there was and I could move but if the flight had been full I would have only had half a seat.
Yes, larger people have rights and should not be weighed in with the luggage but it's not fair to take one and a half seats, causing someone next to you to have paid the same amount but to be squashed into the window.

Billy FYI 'steamed fish, steamed chicken, rice, steamed veg and some salad items' are not classically junk food items. ;-)

I hope you are on a strict diet - not one of those holier than thou types - who are naturally skinny and can eat shedloads of c*ap without putting on weight.

On the matter of diet I have yet to meet a skinny person (without a medical condition) who is not faddy about food - my skinny brother-in-law eats no vegetable or fruit for instance.

I thought the same when I ready Billy's comments and was trying to work out why he was being so insulting. Then realised he was extremely tongue in cheek and taking his own comment literally, and to the letter.

"He has never MET a fat person who didn't stuff themselves with junk food...."

and he hasn't MET Wench, so technically his comment could be correct.


As an aside, I HAVE met Wench, and I would consider her to be of normal size, not skinny, not a heffalump....picky eater thou

Just like americans were all getting fatter because inherently people are lazy and want food quick/don't want to cook, cheap right here and now.
If you look at how things have changed, peoples heads down in the phone, or stuffing junk or pasties in their fat feeding mouths with the brain switched off....the dumb look on their faces as they eat.
Weve turned into a selfish insular consuming at all cost mass, people would never eat in the street years ago. cheap food is usually junk fat sugar processed etc
Its a funny irony that we love tv chefs and buy their books/watch their tv progs but in reality we actually eat complete crap.
If you go into a generic shopping centre all you see in the uk is people who look like the missing link wandering like bored skittles farting round shops with prams ,a sausage roll, traky, shouting on their phone, stereo typical tattoos and stupid red hair, rolls of fat etc etc.
Humans never take responsibility for their own body....if youre fat or smoking like a chimney or on drink/drugs....ITS YOUR CHOICE AND FAULT.....im amazed how peoples bodies put up with the abuse, its amazing the human body.
If you get ill or die from them, guess whos fault it is then too !?........its not "an addiction" as so many moan ......ITS YOUR CHOICE.....accept the consequences!!

2st 2lb lighter than when I last saw you Not a picky eater, picky about where I sleep. If I stray from the boring stuff I have to eat, I end up in APH. I don't like sharing my bed/bedroom

So, just to recap:

You don't like sharing YOUR bedroom
You like control over your sleeping arrangements.
You've never slept whenever we've met
Something you're now doing is burning up stored energy (losing weight).

Have I covered everything there ?