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)

[Billy]

Christine made an excellent point with her slam on Aaron, and then Lang continued up with it and made another excellent point against Impala.

The thing is, Impala, I don't care what your stance on poverty is. I'm not going to argue it one way or another. But this is why I think you're stupid, literally stupid: Incredible hypocricy. I do not understand how YOU can make an excuse about one of your own short comings, yet previously slam another group of people for their shortcomings. I do not understand how YOU and accept that you have some disadvantage, but you cannot accept that others could also have a disadvantage. I do not understand, Impala, how you cannot see how wrong you are.

Aaron, Christine got you. You can post every excuse in the world why your situation is different from Impala's, who believes his situation is different from the impoverished. But the fact of the matter is, there is a lot of shit in our lives that is not within our control. And the root of the problem is the fact that we cannot change ourselves nearly as easily as everyone would like to think we can. Sure, it's easy for the professional fitness trainer to say "anyone can get in shape, I did it!". It's easy for the Engineer to say "Anyone can understand math, I did it!". It's easy for the high school cheerleader to say "Anyone can be popular, I did it!". It's easy for the billionaire to say "Anyone can be rich, I did it!". There are a million books out there that tell how just a few simple changes in your life and lead to a better one. But yet, have they ever really helped anyone? Has anyone ever really made a change in their life because they read some inspirational book or heard some inspirational encouragement from another techsans member that they couldn't have made otherwise on their own? Like all this time, all they needed in their life to lose weight was to hear from someone else that they're fat, and that it's so god damn easy to not be so fucking fat. You don't think every fucking day of their fucking life they don't wish to be someone else? Are you really so arrogant to think that just because it was easy for you, it's easy for everyone? Like you're some sort of human standard?

Yeah you are.

But what you aren't, is smart enough to realize you aren't right. And it isn't easy. It isn't easy for the poor to get out of poverty. But it's easy for someone who comes from a middle class family, raised on educated values, to look at the poor and say "I did it! Why can't you?". It isn't easy for the fat to get into shape. But it's real fucking easy for those out there raised on proper eating and good habits to look at fattie and say "wtf is wrong with you? Look at what you did to yourself!" It's not easy for someone ugly and socially inept around attractive women to suddenly get charisma and suave. But it sure as hell easy to point and laugh at those people who can't do it. Because a small easy change can fix everything... Because it's so damn easy.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

[impala454]

Christine made an excellent point with her slam on Aaron, and then Lang continued up with it and made another excellent point against Impala.

The thing is, Impala, I don't care what your stance on poverty is. I'm not going to argue it one way or another. But this is why I think you're stupid, literally stupid: Incredible hypocricy. I do not understand how YOU can make an excuse about one of your own short comings, yet previously slam another group of people for their shortcomings. I do not understand how YOU and accept that you have some disadvantage, but you cannot accept that others could also have a disadvantage. I do not understand, Impala, how you cannot see how wrong you are

maybe before you call me stupid and chastise me you should read back through my posts and show me exactly where i did this.

hell i'll even make it easy for ya and quote myself from above:

i don't blame anyone but myself for being overweight, just like poor people have no one to blame but themselves for being poor.

I agree with you on the point of it not necessarily easy to make significant lifestyle changes (maybe because I made that point two days ago? ). but the blame is solely on the shoulders of the individual. i never thought or argued otherwise, and i'm not really sure what post of mine you read that made you think what you did to fire out at me like that.