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Why do you MANSPREAD? Woman with her tape measure confronts splay-legged men on the subway...
Daily Mail UK ^ | Dec 19, 2014 | By Mail Online Reporter

Posted on 12/20/2014 2:57:36 AM PST by Islander7

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Each man is asked if they think their own 'leg splay' is appropriate given the people around them.

Many insist this is not normal behavior.

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LOL! Some of the comments are priceless.

1 posted on 12/20/2014 2:57:37 AM PST by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Clearly, some people have way too much time on their hands.


2 posted on 12/20/2014 2:59:18 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Islander7

Men need more air down there....


3 posted on 12/20/2014 3:11:28 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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To: Islander7

You never see Obama doing the MANSPREAD. That’s because he has no balls.


4 posted on 12/20/2014 3:21:33 AM PST by ImNotLying
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To: Islander7

My johnson needs the room.


5 posted on 12/20/2014 3:23:48 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Islander7

There’s a guy at work who spraddles so far that his legs hang over the sides of his chair. That’s because his belly is so big it looks like he’s hauling triplets.

He fancies himself a fine figure of manhood. The ladies disagree.


6 posted on 12/20/2014 3:29:04 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Islander7

Lady, we have “junk” down there that is not comfortably compressed. It gets hot & sweaty down there, too. Any opportunity to relax & cool off a bit is normal.

Note that it is also the reason men don’t often cross their legs like women.

However, this is not justification to hog the limited space in crowded seating.


7 posted on 12/20/2014 3:38:39 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Islander7

I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK!


8 posted on 12/20/2014 3:48:33 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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“However, this is not justification to hog the limited space in crowded seating.”

Exactly.


9 posted on 12/20/2014 3:54:47 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Islander7

Wide stance is to what they refer?!
Always for me, it’s comfortable and more importantly provides a stable platform to support upper armament both God given and supplemental. Repel all attackers always.


10 posted on 12/20/2014 3:58:20 AM PST by Recompennation
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Most men don’t spread wider than their shoulders, so actually they’re not taking up any more room than their upper body takes.

It’s the people who can’t fully cross their legs higher up and then their leg goes beyond their shoulder space. They will usually have a foot invading your space.

Men are made different and this lady needs to shut up. She has a bold and rude personality taking up too much space. Gad! Neurotic, controlling, hall-monitor of a woman!


11 posted on 12/20/2014 3:59:27 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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If that's all she has to b*tch about, then life is pretty good... #FirstWorldProblems
12 posted on 12/20/2014 4:01:47 AM PST by bayliving (Democrat. The word ascribed to those who are intellectually dishonest with themselves.)
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Oh no, more Fem-Nazi stuff? *Whew* well at least those evil men didn’t try to rape her not that it matters because she’ll probably say they did anyway.


13 posted on 12/20/2014 4:05:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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Good grief, if you are standing, you spread your feet about the width of shoulders parallel to the train’s travel direction...for BALANCE. You fall over on the lady standing beside you when the train starts or stops, then you will really get an earful!


14 posted on 12/20/2014 4:13:40 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: Drango
<1>My johnson needs the room.

It really isn't Mr. Johnson, it's the "support team".

The older a guy gets, the larger they are. Also, as men get older -- with the growing need for "Dad Jeans" and pleated pants -- comes much greater pressure on those larger Family Jewels from increasingly greater thigh squish.
15 posted on 12/20/2014 4:37:36 AM PST by Jackson Brown
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I don’t drive, so I use public transportation regularly. I can tell you that taking up more than one seat is not just the X result of “man splay.” I’ve seen women with 20 packages all spread out over 2 or more seats, parents with a gaggle of kids and strollers the size of condominiums, people with suitcases and those shopping carts on wheels blocking seats. These are the ones who always take over the front seats even though they are supposed to be reserved for the elderly and disabled. Heaven help you if you ask to sit down. These people won’t move themselves or their belongings for anyone and they get downright belligerent if you ask. I walk with a cane and it’s a struggle to keep my balance when the bus is in motion, but people just don’t care. It’s every man/woman for him/herself.

It’s the attitude nowadays, especially among the free stuff crowd. Kindness and courtesy toward others have been replaced by selfishness and thoughtlessness. “I got mine and I don’t care about you.”


16 posted on 12/20/2014 4:44:07 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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First, as a rider of ‘public transportation’ since 1993, when I wrecked my ‘money hole car’, I believe I can make the following observations, based on riding that transit in NY, OR, and LA (y’allsville, not Los Angeles):

1. the actual size of the seat has declined with each new bus design, in the city purchaser’s eyes to get more people on each vehicle, eeither light rail or bus.
2. there has never been actual measurements for the broadening of the glutemus maximus of the women who have been riding the same bus and light rail, and who are, ahem, forced, to take public transit, because they cannot afford a vehicle, yet can afford all those bags of empty calories they drag on the bus with them after shopping at Wal-Mart and the like, and expect to place on the seat next to them, because ‘gawd forbod’ they have to bend over to pick them up.
3. In the design of those seat, and the women who flow over them, they expect EVERYBODY to sit like Forrest Gump! To the lady who decided to raise this ruckus:
I got three things that you ain’t never gonna have, nor by writing this, ever gonna git, and the shrinking size of those seats, and the broadening of those females i have watched for all those years, makes it downright difficult, cramped, and I dare say, an invasion of my ‘personal space’!


17 posted on 12/20/2014 4:52:07 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Jack Hammer

Clearly, some people have way too much time on their hands.


My thoughts exactly. Way too much.


18 posted on 12/20/2014 4:57:32 AM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: fatnotlazy
I got mine and I don't care about you.

I see it every day in New York. It's the secret Credo burned into the heart of every liberal.

19 posted on 12/20/2014 5:02:28 AM PST by Oratam
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To: mrs. a

“He fancies himself a fine figure of manhood. The ladies disagree.”

I see that a lot with obese men. Some of them swagger around like Sumo wrestlers.


20 posted on 12/20/2014 5:19:48 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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