Posted on 02/13/2011 4:29:15 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
"Clerks" director Kevin Smith has lost 65 pounds after an embarrassing incident where he was deemed too heavy to fly last year.Why, if I may be so bold as to ask, would anyone ever have “mixed feelings” about healthy weight loss? What is an “advocate for overweight people?” What is this disenfranchised constituency which needs Kevin Smith to speak on its behalf?In an interview with Joy Behar on her "HLN" show last Tuesday, Smith shared that the moment made him angry and spurred him to lose weight. He said: "I felt at that moment, I was like, 'You know what? I'll lose the weight, but I'm not putting on thinner clothes.' Because why? I'm still the same person I was when I was 65 lbs. heavier.”
He added that the incident made him a more forceful advocate for overweight people, noting: "I feel mixed feelings about losing the weight. I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin."
Smith, whose latest film is “about vicious [Christian] extremists running amok in America,” seems here to have further demonstrated his leftist worldview. The idea that overweight people need an advocate implies they are being somehow cheated without one. We are left to wonder what an advocate for overweight people would argue for.
Presumably, as Smith did after being kicked off that plane last year, an advocate of overweight people would argue that they are somehow entitled to fly and should not be discriminated against for being overweight.
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They do the same with me. I’m a tiny guy.
I'd like to go to Hawaii sometime, or to Europe. When that happens, I'll either use miles and upgrade or just buy outright. 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hours is one thing, 8 hours NO THANKS!!!!!!
“I also had a buddy, in college, who was a pretty heavy smoker. One of the most considerate people I have ever met. If he got in your car for the first time, he’d ask if he could smoke. If you said no, or preferred he didn’t, HE NEVER asked again. At a restaurant he was ALWAYS amiable in taking the non smoking section. If he was smoking by you, he always made a conscious effort to blow his smoke away from others. And if he saw his cigarette smoke rising by somebody and (even maybe) irritating them, he’d move his cigarette, or stand or sit at a different position”
My best friend is the same. I let her smoke in my car as my way of saying, “I don’t smoke, but since you care about my comfort, I want you to be comfortable here!”
It comes down to this. Airlines sell a product. Don't like the product, don't buy it. Its a simple as that.
I used to manage a meat packing plant and I made it very clear to everyone what the break schedule was. Smokers always wanted to sneak out for additional breaks. Usually a word to the wise set them straight but a few guys liked to smoke more then they liked their job.
I’m 6’5” and 200 lbs, so weight isn’t an issue but space certainly is. If I had to fly for any extended length of time, I’d pay for the better seats.
I hope somebody advocates for bigger plane seats.
I fit in the seats fine as is, but I like my room.
My tolerance for cigarette smoke goes way up when a smoker is considerate of others. Then it becomes a two way street of a little give and take, of mutual respect.
What I never understood, was why restaurants never designed their air system to suck return air from the back section of the restaurant. If you have the entrance section, followed by the non smoking section, followed by the smoking section, with return air in the smoking section, it would draw all air towards the smoking section, pulling smoke away from the non smoking section.
Sounds like an interesting man. My friend is soo nice. I miss her! She would send me gifts and when I’d get em they would smell like her with the smoke! I didn’t want to wear them just smell her, and them!
>With your line of thinking, Americans consume too much, so the rest of the world should have no respect for them and should punish them for their over-indulgence.
And that is what we are talking about here....punishment, not respect. <
Why is it “respectful” to force a thinner person to give up a significant part (in some cases, parts of either side) of his or her seat because a huge person is too cheap to purchase either 2 seats in coach or a seat in first class? Isn’t that thinner or normal-sized individual then punished with that loss of space and the resulting discomfort he or she paid for?
One of my best friends is maybe 1" taller than me. At his wedding reception there was a picture taken of the two of us, with our arms around each others shoulders. In that picture my buddy makes me look small. Of course he is just over 400# (widest shoulders I've ever seen on someone his height). As I said, I'm the guy most people get for extra brawn. Nate can just flat out manhandle me.
I had a S-10 Blazer, that when we'd ride together our shoulders almost touched. His F-350 is very comfortable for the 2 of us.
Nate drips sweat at the least amount of physical activity. Seriously, he could wear shorts and a t-shirt at 40°, do just a little work, and start sweating. And not just glistening skin, but dripping.
We've worked on projects at his house where he's dripped/poured sweat on me. YUUUUUKKK!!!!!
The worst is when it lands on your face.
In the heat of summer I can't stand my own sweat, ESPECIALLY when its 85° plus AND having to wear Fire Retardant Clothing (FRCs) on top of regular clothes. I go through a lot of Gold Bond and baby powder just to keep things tolerable...for me.
One of truely the nicest people I have ever met. An absolute gentleman.
Or you can lobby competing businesses for your business, which is what he may be about. Airlines have long been wanting niche travel components, but it has always been tricky to pull off. But overweight people are so common these days that they are a substantial niche.
Bringing "Super Size" back to McDonald's?
In a sane world, this would be the case. But this is Obamizzaro World, where rationale has been given way to feelings and victimization, and ALL business criminalized.
ALL profit is evil. Profit from a select group is especially evil.
Equality for all! No matter how unequal someone is or does.
I have managed to sit through all of Kevin Smith's movies. The original Clerks was one of my favorite movies. He has gone steadily down hill from there.
It is pretty sad when the pinnacle of a director's career is his first movie that he made when he was in his early 20s and financed by selling his comic book collection.
Wow, how edgy and original. A definite miss.
He sounds like a twit.
Not much talent, a filthy sweaty degenerate com symp sloth.
What makes him think he is superior to christian god fearing decent folk is beyond me, his prejudice is just as vile and wrong as anything the moral majority types might be accused of, its just slanted towards glorifying evil.
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