Woman squashed by plane passenger (new window)

She won $20,000 from the airline too (probably just to cover her medical bills from the squashing)

Pope George Ringo: She won $20,000 from the airline too (probably just to cover her medical bills from the squashing)

Good for her. The airline should have made that woman pay for two seats.

I read somewhere that fat can be used as a fuel. Free liposuction for all fatties for free fuel.

The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

c'mon, badwritermitter... the word "fat" twice in a sentence? how about, "...but secondhand fat only a problem when stuck next to johnny blimpo on a plane?"

secondhand fat

Ew. Just...ew.

You see very few first-handed fat people.

Cue anti-smoking nazis in 3... 2...

I hate going to a bar and being exposed to all of the secondhand fat, then I end up going home smelling like these obese women, it's a terrible experience.

LordRosco: Born2late


I read somewhere that fat can be used as a fuel. Free liposuction for all fatties for free fuel.


It makes great soap too.

And apparently you can do fun stuff with the byproducts of soap production...at least you can in Hollywood. =P

You're Fat And It's Your Fault! (new window)

Oh cool ... soon this will be another thread where we say awful things about overweight people!

I recently started smoking again, and I'm just under the healthy weight level, so I'm getting a kick *cough cough* out of these replies.

LordRosco: It makes great soap too.



Can attest to that claim's validity.

ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

Pope George Ringo: Woman squashed by plane passenger (new window)

She won $20,000 from the airline too (probably just to cover her medical bills from the squashing)

Speaking as an obese person, I have to say that the way the airline SHOULD have fixed this is to squeeze two fat people right next to each other.

This way, there's no telling who's damaging whom, because they're both going to be spilling over onto each other. It is inexcuseable that the flight attendants wouldn't help that woman.

meh, I just use the spill over into my seat as a pillow/blanket. Usually makes them tuck it back in.

Isotope LordRosco

I was going for A Modest Proposal, but I'll admit the Fight Club reference is more contemporary.

Lampmonster: Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

Congrats. I am finally seriously tracking my food intake and energy output and my pants are already less snug after one week, so I'm pretty psyched.

If my alcohol tolerance gets any lower I'll get loopy just kissing someone who's had a drink, so I'll have that going for me too.

OK, I call at least partial bullshiat. How the hell do you get a blood clot, torn leg muscles and sciatica from a fat woman spilling over into your seat?

st.theresa: Lampmonster: Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

Congrats. I am finally seriously tracking my food intake and energy output and my pants are already less snug after one week, so I'm pretty psyched.

If my alcohol tolerance gets any lower I'll get loopy just kissing someone who's had a drink, so I'll have that going for me too.

It's a cliche, but...

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Benevolent Misanthrope: OK, I call at least partial bullshiat. How the hell do you get a blood clot, torn leg muscles and sciatica from a fat woman spilling over into your seat?

It's not so much from the fat woman, it's from trying to fight for room to breathe.

Lampmonster: ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

HERE HERE
victim of childhood obesity
lost 60 pounds
now have normal BMI
girls like you when you dont have rolls of fat everywhere
and girls liking you=awesome

No shiat subby. I seem to attract them on the plane.

/Fatty bashing thread!

But does being fat weaken all of the following?
* Lungs,
* Eyes,
* Throat,
* Urinary tract,
* Sex organs,
* Women's fertility zone,
* Men's sperm production,
* Digestive organs,
* Bones and joints,
* Skin

I haven't noticed people being fat having charred lungs, a dozen kinds of cancer, and dead immune systems. Nor have I noticed them affecting those around them.

I wonder which one is harder to quit...

ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

That's awesome, man.

I'm a big fat guy who's recently decided to do something about my weight too. I keep putting off going to the gym (I'll start next week, I promise!) but I've been eating healthier for the last two months and have lost 7 lbs already. Once I start excercising (seriously, I'll start tomorrow), I think it should just really start to come off.

I started at about 308, down to 301 now. I hope to be around 240 by next May when I go on a trip to Europe. Do you think that's pretty reasonable? End goal is probably 170ish, but that's likely a ways off.

Cliche_Guevara: I'm a big fat guy who's recently decided to do something about my weight too. I keep putting off going to the gym (I'll start next week, I promise!) but I've been eating healthier for the last two months and have lost 7 lbs already. Once I start excercising (seriously, I'll start tomorrow), I think it should just really start to come off.

I started at about 308, down to 301 now. I hope to be around 240 by next May when I go on a trip to Europe. Do you think that's pretty reasonable? End goal is probably 170ish, but that's likely a ways off.


As a guy, you've got a head start: Because men have higher muscle mass on average than chicks, you WILL lose weight easier. Plus most guys don't have as much of a weakness for chocolate, so that's gotta help.

My husband cut out non-diet soda, occasional trips to mcdonalds and he started taking a half-hour walk about five times per week, and he dropped 30 lbs. If he could do it, anyone can.

GO MAN, GO. GET OUT THERE AND WALK. You don't need a fancy gym. GO!

Quantumbunny:

But does being fat weaken all of the following?
* Lungs,
* Eyes,
* Throat,
* Urinary tract,
* Sex organs,
* Women's fertility zone,
* Men's sperm production,
* Digestive organs,
* Bones and joints,
* Skin

I haven't noticed people being fat having charred lungs, a dozen kinds of cancer, and dead immune systems. Nor have I noticed them affecting those around them.

http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/984434798.html

Lungs-check, Eyes-check (diabetic retinopathy...linked to DM2, linked to being a fat ass), Throat-check (obstructive sleep apnea...look it up), urinary tract-check, GI-check, bones/joints-check, endocrine-check....and this is just the tip of the iceberg...

Fat, my friend, does it all...

FlashHarry: c'mon, badwritermitter... the word "fat" twice in a sentence? how about, "...but secondhand fat only a problem when stuck next to johnny blimpo on a plane?"

I agree though I don't think a blimp would be on a plane. I would have gone with "Bertha the pie destroyer"

Quantumbunny: But does being fat weaken all of the following?
* Lungs,
* Eyes,
* Throat,
* Urinary tract,
* Sex organs,
* Women's fertility zone,
* Men's sperm production,
* Digestive organs,
* Bones and joints,
* Skin

I haven't noticed people being fat having charred lungs, a dozen kinds of cancer, and dead immune systems. Nor have I noticed them affecting those around them.

I've long felt that obesity was a more serious health risk than smoking, and one that's far harder for someone to kick.

How many 80-year-old smokers have you ever seen?

How many 80-year-old 300-pounders have you ever seen?

I rest my case.

Lampmonster: ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

getting drunk easier is not a downside chum.

I had a heart attack two years ago due primarily to a high fat, low exercise lifestyle...so I am getting a kick out of this.

/ Changed my ways, I did
// I'm feeling much better

OBVIOUS

/smoke em if you got em

Okay, worked health care 30 years. Last 10 in a CCU. Obesity is a problem, no doubt, but in my experience the people I've seen with MI's are usually smokers with a family history of coronary artery disease.
Also according to the BMI most people are at least "overweight" and many "obese" or "morbidly obese".

As a few above have said, I too have lost 80 lbs this year. I am 5'7.5" and now 182 lbs. According to the BMI I should be 160. My wife (and others, including family Dr.) are saying I shouldn't lose anymore. I have a goal of 175.

Have to say I feel much better, and, it was getting a little embarrassing talking to my MI patients about lifestyle changes when I was 265 lbs.
Yo yo dieting over my entire life. Never again.

/Interestingly my johnson seems to be much bigger now too!

charlesmartel11235: Lampmonster: ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

HERE HERE
victim of childhood obesity
lost 60 pounds
now have normal BMI
girls like you when you dont have rolls of fat everywhere
and girls liking you=awesome

girls that aren't shallow like you if you are fat too. just not as many of them ;_;

charlesmartel11235: Lampmonster: ecmoRandomNumbers: The last plane I was on was to Salt Lake City. I was about 80 pounds overweight. I felt like a total douchebag for overflowing into the next seat.

That was part of my motivation for getting my fat ass to the gym and losing weight.

I've lost 60 pounds (just have 20 more to go) and feel much better. If you're obese, you need to do yourself and society a favor by getting off your ass!

/end rant.

Here here! I lost 70 lbs this spring. I feel so much better all the time. Only downside is I've lost my tolerance to alcohol.

HERE HERE
victim of childhood obesity
lost 60 pounds
now have normal BMI
girls like you when you dont have rolls of fat everywhere
and girls liking you=awesome

Hey most girls do like some guys with a little pudge. I know my girlfriend does since I am not way too skinny to the point where she can easily break me lol.

Hell the past month or so, I've cut back on my eating habits, cut out the fast food joints and so far have lost about 5 to 6 lbs. Hopefully, one day soon I can hit 200 (I'm 235 right now).

Quantumbunny: But does being fat weaken all of the following?

Actually, obesity affects, or compounds diseases that affect, a lot of the things on your list.

* Lungs: pickwickian syndrome

* Eyes: cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration

* Throat: esophageal cancer

* Urinary tract: urinary tract infections, incontinence

* Sex organs: (not going there, ewww)

* Women's fertility zone: amenorrhea, gestational diabetes, birth defects

* Men's sperm production:

* Digestive organs: Gallbladder disease

* Bones and joints: Osteoarthritis.

* Skin: Striae (although it's not exactly life threatning ;)

* Cancer : Colon cancer, rectal cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer. Yep, we've got cancer covered.

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/A family member (younger than I am) passed away recently due to deep vein thrombosis causing a pulmonary embolism.

/My boss died a few years ago due to lung cancer (he smoked a lot when he was in the navy, he had quit, but it caught up to him in his later years).

Brb, gotta go lose weight.

lordargent: Quantumbunny: But does being fat weaken all of the following?

Actually, obesity affects, or compounds diseases that affect, a lot of the things on your list.

* Lungs: pickwickian syndrome

* Eyes: cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration

* Throat: esophageal cancer

* Urinary tract: urinary tract infections, incontinence

* Sex organs: (not going there, ewww)

* Women's fertility zone: amenorrhea, gestational diabetes, birth defects

* Men's sperm production:

* Digestive organs: Gallbladder disease

* Bones and joints: Osteoarthritis.

* Skin: Striae (although it's not exactly life threatning ;)

* Cancer : Colon cancer, rectal cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer. Yep, we've got cancer covered.

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/A family member (younger than I am) passed away recently due to deep vein thrombosis causing a pulmonary embolism.

/My boss died a few years ago due to lung cancer (he smoked a lot when he was in the navy, he had quit, but it caught up to him in his later years).

Good thing you qualified your statements with the first statement lord.
With the exception of pickwickian (love that name) everything else just about anyone can get, obese or not.

Also, sorry to hear about the family member with DVT and PE. Seen that a few times over my career. I am assuming you said that because he/she was obese. Interestingly, most of the DVT/PE patients (serious ones) were not obese, and distinctly young and female.
Just my experience anyway.

Dumski: Good thing you qualified your statements with the first statement lord.
With the exception of pickwickian (love that name) everything else just about anyone can get, obese or not.

Yeah, but what you'll generally see is statements like "obesity doubles the risk of $x" or "obesity increases the severity of $y".

most of the DVT/PE patients (serious ones) were not obese, and distinctly young and female.

Young, female, and overweight (the rest of the family is fairly skinny).

Dumski:
/Interestingly my johnson seems to be much bigger now too!

Actually, there is a fat pad on the front of a guy's pelvic bone that does affect perceived -- or, um, functional -- length. From the longitudinal sample I've studied of one, I'd say the gain/loss is most noticeable when BMI is around 33ish.

/off podium.
//and congrats on your loss.
/// and congrats on your gain.

In a scrap between a gang of heavy smokers of normal weight and non-smoking fatties, which side would get winded first?

this has nothing to do with anything, but I'm a 115 pound girl and I was recently seated between two guys who had to be over 300 pounds each. on a plane, I mean. tiny-seated little five aisle wide number. it was a hellish ordeal. their bodies were pressing on me from either side for the entire flight.

subby brought it all back.

jelerter: this has nothing to do with anything, but I'm a 115 pound girl and I was recently seated between two guys who had to be over 300 pounds each. on a plane, I mean. tiny-seated little five aisle wide number. it was a hellish ordeal. their bodies were pressing on me from either side for the entire flight.

Ah-hem.

st.theresa: Dumski:
/Interestingly my johnson seems to be much bigger now too!

Actually, there is a fat pad on the front of a guy's pelvic bone that does affect perceived -- or, um, functional -- length. From the longitudinal sample I've studied of one, I'd say the gain/loss is most noticeable when BMI is around 33ish.

/off podium.
//and congrats on your loss.
/// and congrats on your gain.

I heard the formula is 1" of penor length for every 10 pounds lost. dunno how true it is.

Viva El Gordo!

/nothing obscure on fark, right?

Pocket Ninja: The airline should have made that woman pay for two seats.

They used to, I'm fairly sure they made that illegal last year.