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What do you think about these "plus-size" travelers complaining that they can’t comfortably fit on airplanes?
Not The Bee ^ | June 03, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 06/03/2025 8:27:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

So this video has recently gone viral again so I'm just gonna leave it here and let you guys talk it over in the comments. I give you, plus-size travelers and their complaints about traveling comfortably:

We're plus-sized travelers — of course we think about if we need a second seat before we book a flight.

We're plus-sized travelers — of course we ask for the seatbelt extender as soon as we board the flight.

We're plus-sized travelers — of course we're expected to pay more, just to travel comfortably.

"Fat acceptance" has turned into its own bizarre Marxist grievance study at this point, where the hegemonic power structures of normal society (like, you know, airplanes and stuff) are actively oppressing the morbidly obese.


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To: Red Badger

Eat a salad. !!!!!!!


81 posted on 06/03/2025 9:32:56 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: dagunk
Strap yourself to a pallet so the freight guys can fork lift you into the cargo bay and tie you down.

This is the answer.

82 posted on 06/03/2025 9:32:57 AM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: srmanuel

Well said.


83 posted on 06/03/2025 9:33:26 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Kenny500c

And healthier diets and exercising more often.


84 posted on 06/03/2025 9:34:26 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger
PUSS Rodents Persons of Unusual Shape and Size.

Love, Wesley

85 posted on 06/03/2025 9:35:38 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Red Badger

it is so easy to criticize the obese amongst us but
SOMETIMES it is medical and not just gluttonry

at any event, the damned airlines have been skinnying down the seats way too much!! and cutting leg room too

https://www.popsci.com/science/why-are-airline-seats-so-small/#:~:text=Plane%20seats%2C%20they%20argue%2C%20have,more%20people%20into%20each%20flight.


86 posted on 06/03/2025 9:36:04 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Well, that’s half of the equation there. I’m not too fat, I’m too short. Another 18 inches in height and I would be considered normal. It’s not my fault I am genetically short.


87 posted on 06/03/2025 9:39:10 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I worked at the circus as The Human Cannonball, until they fired me.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Looks a lot more comfortable than the red nylon.


88 posted on 06/03/2025 9:40:45 AM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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To: Red Badger
Speaking as a physical freak myself who at my prime had a 20 inch spread difference of 56-36-with 34 in thighs, the seats on airplanes are decided by the airlines who think every body is the same size. One size does not fit all. Genetics has a lot to do with size. But, there are a lot of people that don't take care of themselves and become blimps.
89 posted on 06/03/2025 9:49:03 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Who knew that an elected official is a demi-god waiting to happen?)
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To: Red Badger

nothings worse than being trapped next to someone who spills into your seat space. you should be able to pick “no fat seatmates “ when you pick a seat


90 posted on 06/03/2025 10:00:00 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Watching a plus-size man struggle to do anything basic, inhaling extra food like a shop vac on a flight Chicago to Paris. Claustrophobic.


91 posted on 06/03/2025 10:06:38 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Zuriel

I am 62. I was 213 pounds and 5’ 9” beginning of December.
My wife and I started intermittent fasting for 36 hour periods twice a week. Nothing else.
I work in an office job. I do a lot of work around the house.
I am now 187. Down 26 pounds. The first 10-12 pounds was easy. I am slowly trying to get back to 175.

FYI, after 35 years old I went from 31” to 32” to 34” to 36” to 38” pants. I am now back in 36”. I can squeeze into 34s.


92 posted on 06/03/2025 10:11:17 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: albie
All I know is I sat next to a guy that size once and didn’t see my left arm for 4 hours

My only flight on a 747 was Lufthansa to Frankfurt, Germany from New York (transfer). I was seated between two obese German males who were charter members of the bath a year club. It was a very gross flight with my elbows tucked to my ribs for 9 hours.

93 posted on 06/03/2025 10:19:12 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Bon of Babble
My last flight was in September 2017. At 5 ft 11 in and 150 lbs, I don't take much seat space. I am beyond annoyed when a fat slob gets planted next to me and wants to ooze over the arm rest into my space. It is happened often enough that I stopped flying. I'll drive or not travel at all.
94 posted on 06/03/2025 10:22:27 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: tired&retired
Just set all the fat people next to each other. Make them sardines. 😁

The harsh reality is that weight and balance matters for aircraft flight safety. I've been on small twin turbo aircraft where a game of music chairs was played at the gate to move the fatties around after the luggage was fully loaded. Rearranging the 250 lb to 400 lb passengers is critical to safe flight. The "standard passenger" for FAA seating is based on 180 lb persons.

95 posted on 06/03/2025 10:28:14 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: ronniesgal

Obese people are also a safety hazard, in case of emergency exit in a hurry.............


96 posted on 06/03/2025 10:33:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
One of my co-workers was not permitted to fly with the project team. He was 6 ft 5 in. Not fat, but too heavy for the parachutes on the aircraft.
97 posted on 06/03/2025 10:37:04 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Red Badger

Flying has become a pain for everyone—not just fat people!


98 posted on 06/03/2025 10:37:55 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Beowulf9

It’s an addiction, like to addictive drugs, to pornography, to gambling. It’s not easy to kick any addiction.

But in this scenario, it does cause problems for fellow passengers. The seating on commercial airplanes is too narrow for almost any adult.


99 posted on 06/03/2025 10:37:57 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Red Badger

It’s absolutely obnoxious to have to sit next to these folks in a crowded plane. Sorry, I’m paying to get somewhere, not to keep your fat rolls warm.


100 posted on 06/03/2025 10:37:57 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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