sechumlib wrote:
> On 2008-05-20 12:18:41 -0400, "John" said:
>
>> No, the OP is insulting in the extreme to overweight people and
>> asking why he should have to sit next to a fat slob on a plane and
>> that they should be made to pay for an extra seat.
>
> That's my question too, and you haven't answered it except to say we
> should suffer in silence.
Exactly! I might not want to sit next to the
race/colour/creed/religion/gender/.uality of your choice here> but I
wouldn't say anything or kick up a fuss about it, I'd just get on with it.
In civilised society, picking on the easy targets is called bullying. If you
want to have a go at somebody, have a go at the airlines. They used to have
less seats and so more room, but then in the name of profit and greed,
decided that they could squeeze more seats in and get more money from it.
>> My point (although I've obviously made a very bad job of putting it
>> - don't know what I was thinking of at the time :o)) is basically
>> just to shut up and leave them alone. We all have to do things we
>> don't like or don't agree with (I don't particularly want my taxes
>> spent in providing child benefit to some council-estate baby-making
>> machine but I have to put up with it). First it was smokers, then
>> drinkers, now fatties - all easy targets.
>> And just maybe the so-called "fat slob" may have already paid for a
>> second seat.
>
> If so, then the complainer wouldn't have been in it. Duhhh!
Not necessarily. I've been in aircraft with more than three seats together,
so if the larger person isn't either at the window or the isle it means that
they could have an empty space next to them (the extra one that they've paid
for) and still have someone at the other side of them.
>> I know I used to when I needed to.
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