Fat man shamed to tears by Southwest Airlines Options

[Hartmann]

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5627

Good God. They have a well known policy that if you are overweight and potentially take up more than one seat you must buy a second seat. 490 pounds.

If I was stuck next to this guy for longer than, oh, 5 minutes, I'd be irate. I paid for my seat, you paid for yours but you're taking up two of them. Doesn't seem very fair.

Also, this has to do with weight issues on planes. Every customer is assumed to be 190 lbs while pilots are doing their weight and balanced check. So without two tickets this guy is getting counted for less than half of what he weighs. They'll end up throwing on a couple of palettes of mail or cargo and the plane will end up crashing because of this fatty. (far fetched example)

[impala454]

i couldn't give a crap about your pity dogmeat. it sounds like it was really easy to make the changes in your life to lose weight. the physical aspect of losing weight and how to do it is obvious. exercise and change your diet, DUH. but any type of lifestyle change (especially a bad habit) is typically hard for people to get going. i'm sorry if you think otherwise but you're wrong. if it was so easy for people to make lifestyle changes, you wouldn't see any fat people. everyone would get eight hours of sleep a night. nobody would smoke. everyone would bathe and brush their teeth the appropriate amount. everyone would make good grades. etc etc. these are not excuses, just proof that major changes in your life are not always as easy as you're trying to make it out to be.

[Inferia]

i couldn't give a crap about your pity dogmeat. it sounds like it was really easy to make the changes in your life to lose weight. the physical aspect of losing weight and how to do it is obvious. exercise and change your diet, DUH. but any type of lifestyle change (especially a bad habit) is typically hard for people to get going. i'm sorry if you think otherwise but you're wrong. if it was so easy for people to make lifestyle changes, you wouldn't see any fat people. everyone would get eight hours of sleep a night. nobody would smoke. everyone would bathe and brush their teeth the appropriate amount. everyone would make good grades. etc etc. these are not excuses, just proof that major changes in your life are not always as easy as you're trying to make it out to be.

really? hehe I thought you'd be all about making changes in your life you mean it/if it's good for you. Isn't that why black folks should be able to get out of poverty? Just get up and move, right?

[FORSAKENR320]

really? hehe I thought you'd be all about making changes in your life you mean it/if it's good for you. Isn't that why black folks should be able to get out of poverty? Just get up and move, right?

black people can get out of poverty by getting off their asses and save money, staying in school without dropping out, avoid knocking up bitches, and stop spending all there damn money to put rims on a beat up ass tempo

[Inferia]

black people can get out of poverty by getting off their asses and save money, staying in school without dropping out, avoid knocking up bitches, and stop spending all there damn money to put rims on a beat up ass tempo

only if life was like that... but it ain't

[FORSAKENR320]

only if life was like that... but it ain't

so you're saying that after all the extra help that black people get. all the extra scholarships, NAFTA, and other benifits, all the equal opportunity they get in life, welfare and WIC benifits.....they STILL can't make it? are you calling black people inferior? because thats what it sounds like. seems like with all the advantages, INCLUDING the protection of reverse rascism.... you blaming their poverty on their skin color makes you a racist.


look here yellow-tits, my father struggled out of the ghetto of amarillo, 20 years old, raising a newborn son, an unemployeed wife, working minimum wage at a meat packing plant WITHOUT ANY government assistance. if my father can do it on his own, then so can those fuckers. they just have to WANT to. and stop being flat-handing "gimmie mo' massa!" sons of fucking bitches

[Inferia]

so you're saying that after all the extra help that black people get. all the extra scholarships, NAFTA, and other benifits, all the equal opportunity they get in life, welfare and WIC benifits.....they STILL can't make it? are you calling black people inferior? because thats what it sounds like. seems like with all the advantages, INCLUDING the protection of reverse rascism.... you blaming their poverty on their skin color makes you a racist.
look here yellow-tits, my father struggled out of the ghetto of amarillo, 20 years old, raising a newborn son, an unemployeed wife, working minimum wage at a meat packing plant WITHOUT ANY government assistance. if my father can do it on his own, then so can those fuckers. they just have to WANT to. and stop being flat-handing "gimmie mo' massa!" sons of fucking bitches

alright there white flappy skin, I'm saying it takes time. Your dad is an individual case, vast majority of people can't/won't do that, we can't hold up society to most individual cases. If by that standard, then we'd all be millionaires. And no it's not because of the color of their skin, it's because of the way they think. Every situation is different.

All I'm saying when I first brought it up that is, it takes time. Things are not easy as one two three. It may appear easy to you or whoever to lift one self out of poverty, but it takes an incredible amount of determination to do so, and a lot of time as well. Things are not so simple that people are fat because of them selves, and people are poor because they don't want more.

There are social trends, trend shows that the poorer people are more likely to be overweight, though there are many factors involved here. The number of jobs they need to hold in order to make ends meet, this cut down on their cooking time, fast food and ready made foods are just easier and also more affordable. Another factor could be that poorer people are less informed than the wealthier people about nutrition and dietary habits. The reason why they are less informed could be because they don't have the time that figure this out, they don't have the resources to learn about this, or the education level to understand this. I don't know if it's safe to assume that everyone would like to eat healthier or would like to loose weight, but even if there were the case, you can't hold all things equal for wealthier people and poorer people. Because after all wealthier people have more resources at their expenditure, such as more information, more money, many times more time where they can take the time to think about the food they're putting into their bodies. I'm not saying that every rich person is skinny, or every poor person is fat, there will always be outliers and people who don't fit in, but usually that's more rare than not. And I'm not talking about a particular race here. I'm just talking about poor people here. I bring up this example because it is not so racially fueled, and people think better when they're not pissed off.

So coming back to the point of race here, I am not saying it's right to blame other people when you don't even try. But generally things are not that simple. There are many factors that could influence one's decisions and actions, and frankly I don't know what these factors are. Also it's not just black people who blame the "system", plenty of well educated white people blame the "system" for this problem as well.

[jonathan83]

vast majority of people can't/won't do that

exactly
it's because of laziness/not having will power.