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re: The Uneasy Truth About Traveling While Fat

Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:17 am to
Posted by Spoonbilla
Member since Aug 2022
874 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:17 am to
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You smell.


Like spoiled whole milk.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
74966 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:17 am to
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Bitch, people didn't used to be fat.
A fact lost on anyone who argues that obesity isn’t fixable.

Scruffy always gets a chuckle when he sees old ads for circus “freak shows” and people would pay to see the “world’s fattest woman”.

It was so unique back in the day that people paid hard earned money to see it.
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
32101 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:18 am to
Welcome to western society 2023.

"I'm morbidly obese. I don't actually like the way I look/feel (even though I will proclaim otherwise). But it is YOUR job as a society to accommodate ME, both physically and mentally, because I have ZERO self-accountability and desire to do anything to change my size".

Frankly, why shouldn't they feel that way when the media/corporations/social media gleefully proclaims one can be "beautiful" and "healthy" at any weight/size?

At this point the military should repurpose old C-130's and C-17's, and turn them into passenger planes for lard asses and losers who need fricking "emotional support animals" to cope with being an "adult". We can market the airline as "Noah's Ark". Giant fat people can have more room to sit as opposed to cramming the person who had the audacity to take care of themselves against the window. And people who need ducks, armadillos, weasels, etc just to ride on an airplane can find peace totting "noodles" in their lap as they fly to Denver.
Posted by Ghost of Bob Horner
Somewhere between Atlanta & Athens
Member since Jul 2023
410 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:18 am to
7,7,7,7,7,7,7
Posted by SW2SCLA
We all float down here
Member since Feb 2009
22938 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:18 am to
People willfully process inconvenience and the consequences of their choices as discrimination
This post was edited on 9/19/23 at 10:19 am
Posted by Tantal
Member since Sep 2012
17681 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:20 am to
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The airlines don’t allow this unfortunately.

Then her fat arse needs to drive to Miami and take a boat to the Bahamas.
Posted by Glorious
Mobile
Member since Aug 2014
25570 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:21 am to
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It's definitely the city's fault with its fatphobic architecture that has been there for centuries, and not your own fault. Speak your truth, goddess.


This bitch would have a whole arse city renovated before she orders a salad
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
19117 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:22 am to
Was on a SW flight a little over a week ago, and they last 4 passengers on the full flight all looked that way and were bitching about not fitting in the aisle and having to cram in middle seats.

To their credit, they were slightly self-aware, and I overheard comments like "should have squeezed my fat arse in the middle of the front seat", "guess I should have bought 2 seats, 1 for each cheek"
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
31999 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:23 am to
I need to lose about 10 pounds and it makes me uncomfortable. I just can't fathom going through life needing to lose 200+ pounds.

It's fricking crazy to even contemplate.
Posted by Glorious
Mobile
Member since Aug 2014
25570 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:28 am to
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I need to lose about 10 pounds and it makes me uncomfortable. I just can't fathom going through life needing to lose 200+ pounds.


I just think about the lifestyle I had to live to become a 40 pounds overweight college bro. Normal height people that hit the 350 pound mark must be regularly pounding McDonald’s with daily family skittles
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
21693 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:28 am to
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I went to Paris in 2014, and found the city cramped and unwelcoming. Narrow staircases, tiny chairs, and compact showers were just the beginning.

This bitch is really complaining that obese land whales weren't in the plans for a city that was founded over 2000 years ago?

frick these wannabe victims. Society shouldn't cater to those who chose to be 300 pounds or more. Lose some fricking weight.
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
23886 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:29 am to
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I went to Paris in 2014, and found the city cramped and unwelcoming. Narrow staircases, tiny chairs, and compact showers were just the beginning.
Because Europe doesn't have many morbidly obese people like the US.

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Society has an anti-fat bias, and you can encounter it anywhere.
Yep. Because fat people usually smell bad and nobody wants to have someone else's flab spilling over into their theater/stadium/arena/plane seat
Posted by SuperOcean
Member since Jun 2022
4585 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:29 am to
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fetishistic remarks about my body. 


"Mmmm I could sop u up with a biscuit ... But .. you already ate'em "
Posted by Tantal
Member since Sep 2012
17681 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:29 am to
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“world’s fattest woman”.

Would just be considered "thicc" by today's standards.
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
44125 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:32 am to
We're afraid to hurt people's feelings, these days.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
34882 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:34 am to
this is why i support the use of semiglutide. rather them be skinny with no muscle than spilling over into my seat on a flight.
Posted by jbgleason
Bailed out of BTR to God's Country
Member since Mar 2012
19523 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:37 am to
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Because Europe doesn't have many morbidly obese people like the US.


Just came from being over there three weeks and ate my arse off in Italy, France and the UK. Came home and I LOST WEIGHT. The difference in lifestyle is so crazy I am having trouble comprehending it. Food is "cleaner" in content and prep, portions are smaller and (most importantly) you walk your arse off there.

My Garmin watch was hitting my daily step and calorie counts by 10am. I loved it. Just walking to the Tube in London and then walking from the stop to my appointments was more walking than I do in a week here and that's in one day. I didn't hit the hotel gym once because I didn't feel I needed to. I am seriously reconsidering how I exercise after this. My grandma used to walk for an hour a day and she lived to 99. There is something there for sure.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
86924 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:37 am to
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And this wasn’t the first time I’ve dealt with this particular kind of travel stress. I went to Paris in 2014, and found the city cramped and unwelcoming. Narrow staircases, tiny chairs, and compact showers were just the beginning. Throughout my time there, I endured constant staring, rude comments, and fetishistic remarks about my body.


in euro sizing, an XL shirt = USA medium

form follows function and europeans are just shorter & thinner than the average american
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25950 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:39 am to
Seat belts fit me just fine and I hate airline seats when not upgraded to first class.

They know those of us over 6’ will be digging our knees into the seat pocket in front of us. We have no choice. Our knees don’t detach. The airlines can at least make sure there are no bolt or screw heads in that part of the seat so we have a chance of getting comfortable. Every one of them has a narrow bit of hanging pleather covering a very rough surface with sharp points.

And American’s 737 jets are the worst. They cram an extra row in there and cut a little space across all seats to make up for it.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
86924 posts
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:39 am to
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They know those of us over 6’ will be digging our knees into the seat pocket in front of u
this is much more of a problem!!!

i can control my weight, i can't make myself shorter.
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