museisluse: It isn't just women fatties as flight attendants. I was on A NW flight, and the male flight attendant has a huge, wide rear end, with a belly almost as big. He had to sidle up and down the aisle, as he couldn't walk facing straight forward or back without being wedged tightly between the seats. A lot of good he would have been in an emergency. Plus he was a crabby biatch.

Thanks to union negotiations, no airlines no longer can have weight restrictions or weigh-ins. What happens when one of the male attendants wants to wear a dress? Will it be discrimination if the airline says, uh, no?

I think I dealt with that same fat guy. He was friggen awful. When I was a little kid, late 80's early 90's, I remember the stewardesses being like models.

Then in high school I flew to Europe and they were all fat redneck types. Since then I haven't seen a good one. Except for this one British Airways stewardess....

robohobo: Not that I'd smoke on a commercial flight now, were it allowed, cause that's just rude,

I have, and would again.

/smoke

I wish I had the chance to fly first class back in the 60s.

/Got cut off from drink service in first class back in '04.

Hey, Fat Asses! Sometimes things designed for a normal body type don't on fat asses bodies. On top of that, the fabric looks expensive, so it would cost too much to get one that covers your fat ass. STFU.

/fatass
//I'm one

Dang, as much fun as this thread promises to be, I'm headed off for a motorcycle rodeo. Low brow entertainment FTW!

AeAe: My girlfriend is 5'5", 115 lbs, and is a size 0.

/ don't like fatties
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Size 0? I dated a size 0 for a while. As the cliche goes, it really was like making love to a bag of antlers. Painful sometimes.

What I look for in a flight attendant is a woman who is a cross between a karate black belt and a rodeo calf roper, who can subdue a drunken, manic, paranoid schizophrenic in under three blows and duct tape him up like a mummy. She can use a Taser if she likes.

If she can handle that part, I will enjoy my flight.

landsnark1: They offer this in a 28 it would look like a matador's cape.

Ok I lol'd pretty hard at that. Bravo.

AtlanticCoast63: /like the fist of an angry, flight-suited God...

Holy hell is she smoking hot. Like the power of a thousand suns.......

Here is a comparison of sizes in England. You have to click since you can see a bare tush.

NSFW Link (new window)

Greek: it really was like making love to a bag of antlers. Painful sometimes.

**checks username**

You should have rolled her over every once in a while.

whammer: What I look for in a flight attendant is a woman who is a cross between a karate black belt and a rodeo calf roper, who can subdue a drunken, manic, paranoid schizophrenic in under three blows and duct tape him up like a mummy. She can use a Taser if she likes.

If she can handle that part, I will enjoy my flight.


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unheatedgarage: robohobo: Not that I'd smoke on a commercial flight now, were it allowed, cause that's just rude,

I have, and would again.

/smoke


Told to me by a Boeing engineer:

When smoking was allowed on commercial flights, it was easier to find air leaks because there would be a tar build-up around the tiny hole.

FTA: [Reller said,] It's a very small size 18, so that makes the numbers a lot larger.

Oh for fark's sake... While there is indeed such thing as "small" size X, the reality is quite opposite. The designer labels keep sliding sizes up, so that today size 4 is yesterday's 6 or 8, so that the increasingly fat population feels better. She claims it's the other way around.

the words "plus size" don't even occur in the article, subby.. you're the one interpreting what plus-sized means

FTA: "If the dress wasn't a tiny size 18, there would be less," Reller said. "It's a very small size 18, so that makes the numbers a lot larger."

What the hell are you trying to say there, Reller?

I'm a UK size 14 (on a good day) and I wouldn't wear that dress as it would look horrible on me.

I don't want to know what a size 18 US would look like in that dress. Thats worse than a gorgor image.

zephyy: LesserEvil: zephyy: fat people are the scum of the earth

unless they're funny male comedians, then they get a pass, but only them.

You sound like a bag of antlers

i had to urbandictionary that, i'm 5'10 and about 110-115 pounds

not holocaust victim looking but all my ribs and my sternum is visible

also male

That's sick man. Eat some steak tonight and go lift something. You're grossly underweight for a male.

/Agree with you about the fat people part though.

Someone was telling me that Singapore Airlines issues their stewardesses ONE set of uniforms when they hire on. When they wear out they have to get the same size as previously issued.

I was also told that JAL (Japan Airlines) stewardesses have to move somewhere else at age 30, usually behind a ticket counter.

God, I love civilized countries.

Grouchyoldman: The point we are missing is who wants a size 28 flight attendant anyway.

Hey, if my plane goes down in the middle of the Atlantic I want to be surrounded by as many flotation devices as possible.

Give them all Muumuus....

I'd much rather have female flight attendants wearing the uniforms featured in this flight safety video

Link (new window)

The wife didn't realize they were nude until I told her and she watched again...

The_Philosopher_King: Here is a comparison of sizes in England. You have to click since you can see a bare tush.

NSFW Link (new window)

I wasn't aware that the male ideal was a size 12...

A random and probably unintended consequence of union rules: I've found that the crappier the aircraft and the destination, the more attractive the flight attendants. I assume this is because the younger ones have less seniority on average, and thus get stuck with less desirable routes.

That anorexic woman in the shot above might wear a size 0, but it would be baggy on her. That is unless she's 5'9 or above. I'm 5'5, wear a size 2 and I'm nowhere near that skinny. I have DD boobs! And no, my clothes are not too tight.

zephyr_words: zephyy: LesserEvil: zephyy: fat people are the scum of the earth

unless they're funny male comedians, then they get a pass, but only them.

You sound like a bag of antlers

i had to urbandictionary that, i'm 5'10 and about 110-115 pounds

not holocaust victim looking but all my ribs and my sternum is visible

also male

That's sick man. Eat some steak tonight and go lift something. You're grossly underweight for a male.

/Agree with you about the fat people part though.

just ate an entire pizza

i was in the hospital weeks ago for something unrelated and the doctor commented on it, but he didn't say "eat a lot more or you'll die" so, i think my metabolism is just really fast.

The "sexy and great" red dress in question and the designer. About as unsexy and ungreat as you could imagine.

lstywnch: You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: zero vs 18

Sorry subby. Size 18 is fatty

And 0 needs a sammich, ICK.

Agreed. 0 looks disgusting

Shrinkwrap: The_Philosopher_King: Here is a comparison of sizes in England. You have to click since you can see a bare tush.

NSFW Link (new window)

I wasn't aware that the male ideal was a size 12...

Remember, it's from England.

Also, from TFA, orthopedic shoes with a skirt?!?

JacFlash: "Are you about a size 14 18?"

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!

So remind me again why airlines are doing things like removing silverware and bottles of water when they employ size 28 women to act as sky-waitresses?

I can think of a way to save a whole lot more weight on the plane than cutting 3/4" off the end of your forks.

/oh, right... union.

Fifi Le Pew: The "sexy and great" red dress in question and the designer. About as unsexy and ungreat as you could imagine.

That is ugly rubbish. Welp, I am changing my original position. Fark it, wrap all the fatties up in this hideousness, who cares. At this point all taste is apparently out the window.

Shrinkwrap: I wasn't aware that the male ideal was a size 12...

I know, me either. I like the size 8 much better.

chocolatepuke: That anorexic woman in the shot above might wear a size 0, but it would be baggy on her. That is unless she's 5'9 or above. I'm 5'5, wear a size 2 and I'm nowhere near that skinny. I have DD boobs! And no, my clothes are not too tight.

yer profile and comments are useless without pics

bullwinkl: I'd much rather have female flight attendants wearing the uniforms featured in this flight safety video

Link (new window)

The wife didn't realize they were nude until I told her and she watched again...




/Giggity.

zephyy: zephyr_words: zephyy: LesserEvil: zephyy: fat people are the scum of the earth

unless they're funny male comedians, then they get a pass, but only them.

You sound like a bag of antlers

i had to urbandictionary that, i'm 5'10 and about 110-115 pounds

not holocaust victim looking but all my ribs and my sternum is visible

also male

That's sick man. Eat some steak tonight and go lift something. You're grossly underweight for a male.

/Agree with you about the fat people part though.

just ate an entire pizza

i was in the hospital weeks ago for something unrelated and the doctor commented on it, but he didn't say "eat a lot more or you'll die" so, i think my metabolism is just really fast.

Michael Jackson was 5'10" and weighed 110 pounds.

I hear he died and is now haunting ocotomom.

I get all my not news from fark.com.

"Those are some sexy stews!"

/link is hotter than a stew in a miniskirt

vertiaset: Hey young people. There was a time when air travel was glamorous and exclusive. You ate from china, the Stewardesses were all pretty young women. Service was how the airlines competed with one another. Even in coach you had room to stretch out and relax. People dressed up to travel. Men wore suits, women nice dresses. You rarely saw children on flights and when you did they were well behaved and quiet. Poor people didn't fly, they road the bus.

/it was a golden age.

I supposed you'd like to send that letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. But you're too late for the 4:30 autogyro.

I am not going to read the whole thread, but how long before someone flamed subby for calling a Flight Attendant a "Stewardess?"

Or doesn't your sense of moral outrage extend farther than the minority du jour?

\\\ freaking double standard.

chocolatepuke: That anorexic woman in the shot above might wear a size 0, but it would be baggy on her. That is unless she's 5'9 or above. I'm 5'5, wear a size 2 and I'm nowhere near that skinny. I have DD boobs! And no, my clothes are not too tight.

How you doin?

Earl of Chives: not to mention the enormous drag upon our economy they cause

How? They buy more food, more expensive clothes (manufacuters mark them up because, they can; seriously, what else are we gonna wear?) and more DVDs, video games and other sedentary entertainment products than thin people. Bigger cars, often. More over-the-counter drugs and specialized equipment for their obesity-related discomforts. Etc., etc., and etc. And if they're like me, they're paying for a gym membership so as to reach a level of fitness not to have to shell out all that cash. (I have a normal car and a normal appetite, actually, but must cop to the large-size clothes and sedentary entertainment, and being too lazy to cook healthy food more often. Sloth is my favorite deadly sin, not gluttony).

and just the visual pollution of them being in public

Oh come on...chances are you're butt-ugly too, just in different ways. For instance, ugly normal-sized men (and even ugly fat ones) are the ones who complain the most about how fat women shouldn't show themselves. Listen to one at the beach sometime, but don't look; you'll vomit.

and never taking responsibility for the problems they cause.

Irresponsible people with senses of entitlement make up a larger percentage of any given statistical group than those who are not that way. Or so I have observed.

I'm not saying they are bad people, but Jesus we as a nation need to wake up and do something more than just blaming HFCS and wiping our hands of it.

With you there. If you don't want HFCS, avoid it. I do. Why'm I still fat? It's complicated, and yes, American food quality, medical problems and my shiatty genetics are part of it, but I did a lot of this myself. Could have worked a bit harder around the obstacles. Didn't.

/but i'm losing weight
//suck it, biatches

Heresay evidence, but:

I overheard a NWA worker who basically said there was almost no chance the Northwest flight attendants would vote for unionization in the new company, partially because the former Northwest employees fear unofficial reprisals, and partially because they found out that Delta employees had a much better deal than they did, "despite" not being in a union. Apart from the pilots union (which is more of a guild than a union anyway) we should expect the future Delta to be mostly ununionized. Again, only what I overheard, can't personally vouch for it.

This is only speculation, but I suspect the union official was picking on some silly issue to show the workforce what a union can "do" for them. I also suspect that the new Delta has a unwritten policy to mix former Northwest and former Delta employees together as much as possible, so that Delta employees can tell Northwest's how much better their own jobs are.

the pressurization alone would cause an explosion. of fatness.

Fifi Le Pew: The "sexy and great" red dress in question and the designer. About as unsexy and ungreat as you could imagine.

And he sure looks like a douchebag with his pointy shoes.

olddinosaur: how long before someone flamed subby for calling a Flight Attendant a "Stewardess?"

When they went from being stewards and stewardess to 'flight attendant' is precisely when commercial air travel began its downward slide to the cattle transport it is today.

Outlaw2097: the pressurization alone would cause an explosion. of fatness.


Cue mental visual of "The Meaning of Life" that I did not want. You owe me brain bleach.

GT_bike: chocolatepuke: That anorexic woman in the shot above might wear a size 0, but it would be baggy on her. That is unless she's 5'9 or above. I'm 5'5, wear a size 2 and I'm nowhere near that skinny. I have DD boobs! And no, my clothes are not too tight.

yer profile and comments are useless without pics


How come I have to show a picture and no one else does?