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Obese people on planes
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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?
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Tend to agree.

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

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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.
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Source is the Daily Fail....not even going to click the link snob
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Originally Posted by RUDEBOX
Source is the Daily Fail....not even going to click the link snob




Happily sell a story to them though...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-63026/I-caught-heart-attack-26.html
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Originally Posted by MarkJarvis
Originally Posted by RUDEBOX
Source is the Daily Fail....not even going to click the link snob




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?
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Hypocrisy at its best actually.

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Originally Posted by j_demo
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.


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 laugh

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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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Originally Posted by MarkJarvis
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?

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

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