NotARocketScientist: I'm Female, 5'8" and 185 lbs - ~20 lbs over weight. I wear a 14 (when I have to wear women's over priced, poorly made clothing)
18 IS a plus size.
I can understand not wanting little twiggy girls as flight attendants in case they have to lift something bigger than a cup of ice, but a size 18 id too big for reasons people already mentioned here.

I mean if they were to fall and roll to the front of the plane they may put the aircraft into a dive

You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: zero vs 18

Sorry subby. Size 18 is fatty

Size 18 is a LOT cuter and more sexy than the size zero one, that's for sure.

PatGund: Size 18 is a LOT cuter and more sexy than the size zero one, that's for sure.

You sound fat.

size 18

/suck it, biatches

I've probably flown about 400 times in my life and I have NEVER had a fat female flight attendant. Hell, i thought that airlines were the only place allowed to bar fatties from working as flight attendants... at least they should be. Would a size 28 even fit down the aisle without her arms smacking you in the face?

I work in the clothing section of a department store. Here's how our women's sizing works: S = 6-8, M = 10-12, L = 14-16, XL = 18. The plus section: 1X-3X, 18W-26W. (Not sure if 1X = 18W or 18W-20W, but whatever, close enough.) Some plus size stores start at 14 and I don't get why. That's a large. Despite being called "large," it's really not that big. And omg, I was in a store once where the plus sizes were labeled as plus small, plus medium, plus large, etc. WTF?!?! No. You don't get to restart the labels every few sizes to make people feel better. They're just lying to themselves. Ooh, I'm a small! Plus small, but still small! Ugh. And this XL/1X thing is bullshiat. They might as well just call the 1X a 2XL and the 2X a 3XL, but noooo. Well, sometimes they do, so it's totally confusing. Oh and some brands fit small and you tend to have to go up a size, while others fit larger and you have to go down a size. And there are not enough styles to complement different body types. It sucks. Yeah, the plus sizes get their own store. How about different shapes? Women aren't all proportioned the same. Most clothes I try on just don't fit. About the P/W thing, I just wish they'd make tops labeled B for busty. Some of us are curvy. Not "curvaceous" like the plus sized women like to be called. Small framed and curvy. I'm a size 10 and a 32DDD. Everything just puckers and doesn't sit right. I'd like to find a form fitting blouse that looks good for once. Pants are just as bad. They're usually too tight in the front but they gape in the back. Going up or down a size is useless.

/end rant

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches



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orat-on-a-stick: StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches



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lol

ciocia: soundguy: ciocia: stiletto_the_wise: We really need to get back to the era of hot stewardesses. Last flight I took, the air-hags on board made me want to vomit. I say fire them as soon as they get above size 4.

By golly, you are right. When I went to a store to buy stuff, the guy who waited on me had a pot belly. The nerve of that loser! I say, if you don't have washboard abs, GTFO. And the guy who checked me into a luxury hotel? He had a big nose. Damn, I was ready to call the management. What right do homely people have waiting on anybody? Can't they all be forced to work in salt mines underground? Or shot?

Stores don't have 20-inch-wide aisles, your face generally isn't at ass-level with the salesperson, and you're not paying $500 to hurl the store to another city at 30,000 feet in the air.

What does this have to do with anything? Have you been suffocated by a flight attendant's ass? Was the airplane slowed down by their weight? Inquiring minds want to know.

Commercial airline pilots are required to have 20/20 vision (either naturally or with corrective lenses) and a health certificate stating they're not likely to keel over dead any time soon before they get hired. They're probably required to speak fluent English too, since that's the accepted language of the flight control system. There are already hiring restrictions for certain members of the flight crew, so there's no excuse for not having a legal requirement that your ass has to fit ENTIRELY in the aisle before you can be hired as a flight attendant.

I'm sure that there are physical requirements for flight attendants, and I've never seen ones that were physically unable to do their job. Are some of them fat? Yes, but there are fat passengers on the plane, too, and if the airlines are willing to take their money and squeeze 'em on, and the fat FAs can do their jobs, why not have them? They take up space? On the narrow-ass airplanes that are packed tighter than sardines, EVERYBODY is a tight fit, except midgets. Sorry, people that are too fat to make you happy are still allowed to earn a living. Tough luck.



Here's the problem, they don't hire at 28, they hired when they were 10, or 14 - then once the Union Stew got the job and spent the year required for Union workers to 'have the job for life no matter what' they went back to their normal way of life and the pounds packed on and viola! size 28+ of course since they already have the job, to fire them or even *gasp* insist they lose some weight, they must follow union rules and keep them until they explode.

orat-on-a-stick: StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches



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/snerk

davynelson: OKAY so what are the sexy MALE flight attendants wearing?


/asking for Farkettes
//no personal interest in male flight attendants
///stupid sexy Flanders!!

Hmm.... how about snug-fitting (particularly in the ass region) black pants and some sort of collared, partially unbuttoned shirt? Tie optional... I don't know why, but I think that's hot as hell. Particularly if the man in question has nice f*ck me curves. (the indent of the hip bones...) Mmm... yes.

/Feels like I'm wearin' nothin' at all...!
//nothin' at all...!

Ral: ...

Men's pants have 2 numbers, waist and inseam. It means something concrete -- length in inches. Women's pants...it's totally arbitrary. The number 18 or 14 or 28 doesn't mean anything concrete. Neither does P or R or W or any of the other stupid letters they put on the tags.

End result, women have to try pants on before they know if they fit, and probably will have to try a dozen before finding something they can wear. We don't spend hours shopping because we like it, but because we have no choice.

Some guy's brands arent any better. If I want to buy Dockers khakis, I have to go up 8" in waist size compared to anywhere else. Hagar is almost as bad. I think it is because then they bump you up to fattie size and can charge more. For the record, plus size guys pants is 46"+ I know, I just moved back below the line.
/lost 45lbs since the last time I was on a plane (8 mos)
//still wont fit on the plane, because no weight loss will make me shorter

FTFA: The Northwest chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA has filed a grievance with the world's largest airline operator, asking it to offer the red dress up to size 28.

Size 28? SIZE 28?? How in the world could someone who is that morbidly obese assist passengers in an emergency?

Anyone who is that fat should be fired. They are a danger to passengers and crew and probably cost extra fuel just to carry their 300 pound asses around. Unless they are 6'-8" and built like a linebacker, no human being should weigh 330 pounds. EVER.

I think I would piss in my pants with laughter if I saw a flight attendant that fat.

If she can't fit in the economy class seats without folding up the armrest, she shouldn't be on the plane.

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches

Uh, no thanks.

orat-on-a-stick:
Here's the problem, they don't hire at 28, they hired when they were 10, or 14 - then once the Union Stew got the job and spent the year required for Union workers to 'have the job for life no matter what' they went back to their normal way of life and the pounds packed on and viola! size 28+ of course since they already have the job, to fire them or even *gasp* insist they lose some weight, they must follow union rules and keep them until they explode.

The issue is not whether or not they gained weight following hiring, it's whether or not they can do the job. As I said, I have not seen either male or female stews who literally could not do their job. If they can't, it's a legit issue. If they can, it's not.

ambercricket:
Size 28? SIZE 28?? How in the world could someone who is that morbidly obese assist passengers in an emergency?

Anyone who is that fat should be fired. They are a danger to passengers and crew and probably cost extra fuel just to carry their 300 pound asses around. Unless they are 6'-8" and built like a linebacker, no human being should weigh 330 pounds. EVER.

Judging how fat humans should ever be is not in my pay scale, since I'm not God, so I'm just going by work performance. While I have not seen a run on super-fat FA, I've seen nurses that fat, and they save lives every day. Why should anybody that fat be fired? They aren't health role models, and they are not hired to be skinny, like fashion models. If they can do it, they should be allowed to, without judgments.

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches

How you doin?!?

/since that's what you were going for.

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches

Are you taking the piss? Seriously?

ciocia: While I have not seen a run on super-fat FA, I've seen nurses that fat, and they save lives every day. Why should anybody that fat be fired? They aren't health role models, and they are not hired to be skinny, like fashion models. If they can do it, they should be allowed to, without judgments.

Actually, there IS debate about that. Something about doctors and nurses admonishing patients for not eating right when they themselves are looking like they hit Church's Chicken one too many times on the way home from an overnighter shift doesn't sit well with many folks. It's hard for the patients to take them seriously.

Fat women in revealing dresses?

No thanks.

/no you're not "big and beautiful" if you wheeze whenever you do something hard.

Stephie N.M.
size 18

/suck it, biatches

I would, but your belly sticks out to far to get at them. You seriously think those flabby, drooping things are attractive?

LavenderWolf: Fat women in revealing dresses?

No thanks.

/no you're not "big and beautiful" if you wheeze whenever you do something someone hard.

FTFY

ciocia: soundguy: ciocia: stiletto_the_wise: We really need to get back to the era of hot stewardesses. Last flight I took, the air-hags on board made me want to vomit. I say fire them as soon as they get above size 4.

By golly, you are right. When I went to a store to buy stuff, the guy who waited on me had a pot belly. The nerve of that loser! I say, if you don't have washboard abs, GTFO. And the guy who checked me into a luxury hotel? He had a big nose. Damn, I was ready to call the management. What right do homely people have waiting on anybody? Can't they all be forced to work in salt mines underground? Or shot?

Stores don't have 20-inch-wide aisles, your face generally isn't at ass-level with the salesperson, and you're not paying $500 to hurl the store to another city at 30,000 feet in the air.

What does this have to do with anything? Have you been suffocated by a flight attendant's ass? Was the airplane slowed down by their weight? Inquiring minds want to know.

Commercial airline pilots are required to have 20/20 vision (either naturally or with corrective lenses) and a health certificate stating they're not likely to keel over dead any time soon before they get hired. They're probably required to speak fluent English too, since that's the accepted language of the flight control system. There are already hiring restrictions for certain members of the flight crew, so there's no excuse for not having a legal requirement that your ass has to fit ENTIRELY in the aisle before you can be hired as a flight attendant.

I'm sure that there are physical requirements for flight attendants, and I've never seen ones that were physically unable to do their job. Are some of them fat? Yes, but there are fat passengers on the plane, too, and if the airlines are willing to take their money and squeeze 'em on, and the fat FAs can do their jobs, why not have them? They take up space? On the narrow-ass airplanes that are packed tighter than sardines, EVERYBODY is a tight fit, except midgets. Sorry, people that are too fat to make you happy are still allowed to earn a living. Tough luck.

You would think so, but they make me store my midgets in the overhead compartment. I can assure you that getting any more than one of them in there certainly IS a tight fit.

Waaaahhh...it doesn't fit me.

Well, I have a suggestion...PUT DOWN THE FORK!

I'd be bothered if the first thing I saw after stepping into a plane is the Koolaid man.

If you're fat, you're fat. You can't, and for heavens sake shouldn't, wear certain things. i.e. Spandex, bikinis, tight clothes, etc...

The amazing thing is: we weren't always this fat.

In fact, as recently as 1990, the levels of obesity in America were SUBSTANTIALLY lower.

This is an eye-opening map from the CDC:
obesity pandemic

Between the silver-tsunami and the spread of blubber, we'd be LUCKY if health care reform has a MERE $1.6 trillion price tag.

Jesus people, have a little self-respect.

has => had
pandemic => epidemic

//blah blah, too early

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches

Suck what? Those droopy flapjacks?

wonkable: Quantum Apostrophe: Tweets Pie: AeAe: My girlfriend is 5'5", 115 lbs, and is a size 0.

/ don't like fatties

Your girlfriend is a skelator.

What's a "skelator"? And how is it pronounced? skell-ay-ter? Someone who skels?
My ex: 5'8" 125. Runner. Tiny waist, wide hips. How is this not curvy? Plus I could pick her up no sweat. Very nice. Toned legs, cutest calves you ever saw. No fatties for me, ever.

You need to stop being so productive and watch more Saturday morning cartoons. Or Boomerang. I forget which but it's okay because I'm old.

Oh, Skeletor. Capital S because it's a name, and properly spelled because you're not an idiot, right?

burncheese: And this XL/1X thing is bullshiat.

Tehnically they aren't the same size. XL is a misses cut and about size 16, a 1X is a womens cut and is about an 18.

In a misses cut the hips are larger than the waist. In a women's cut the waist is equal to or larger than the hips. Hold up a pair of misses 18 trousers next to an 18W trouser. You can see what I'm talking about. IE Misses is for pear shapes, women's is for apple shapes. The W behind the size is to denote it's a women's cut garment.

/and juniors is for rectangle shapes, though I've noticed recently even juniors sizes are getting more shapely.

I wonder if they get half the pay since they utilize twice the weight designated for a stewardess on a plane.

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

/ don't like fatties

Your girlfriend is a skelator.

Skelator huh? it may be thin, but it's not a skeleton. My girlfriend was in fact down to 107 pounds and is 5'5" and I hardly saw any boniness.

Here's some eyebleach to counter StephieN.M.

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

/ don't like fatties

Your girlfriend is a skelator.

Skelator huh? it may be thin, but it's not a skeleton. My girlfriend was in fact down to 107 pounds and is 5'5" and I hardly saw any boniness.

Now that's just too bad.

Mr. Breeze: Jaakobi: Tweets Pie: AeAe: My girlfriend is 5'5", 115 lbs, and is a size 0.

/ don't like fatties

Your girlfriend is a skelator.

Skelator huh? it may be thin, but it's not a skeleton. My girlfriend was in fact down to 107 pounds and is 5'5" and I hardly saw any boniness.

Now that's just too bad.

then again she's now back to around 115 which seems pretty normal. She had a high of 121 earlier this year.

Jaakobi


then again she's now back to around 115 which seems pretty normal. She had a high of 121 earlier this year.

You keep track? Weird. I'm just content that my gf's ass is smaller than mine.

Why would a size 28 *want* to hear a dress like that? I'm a 16 and that would make me look like Clifford.

Give me a nice, sensible black or navy blue any day...

burncheese: I work in the clothing section of a department store. Here's how our women's sizing works: S = 6-8, M = 10-12, L = 14-16, XL = 18.


I have taken to doing a lot of my clothes shopping on Ebay, where people list the actual measurements of the garments. I am a strange size (modern 0P to 1P) and have a hard time finding clothing that is proportioned right but not too long. I am 4'10" tall and 93-95 lbs. Clothing short enough for me is cut for children's shapes; and clothing cut for grown-women shapes is all too long for me. Luckkily, people used to be smaller and vintage clothes are sold by measurement and not size. I have a wardrobe of dresses twice as old as me.

And shoes...Shoes are just impossible. I wear a size 5 and stores don't stock anything that small unless it's got Hannah Montana on it.

Being odd sized, whether unusually small or unusually big, sucks when you want to get stuff to wear.

This is not my troll account: And shoes...Shoes are just impossible. I wear a size 5 and stores don't stock anything that small unless it's got Hannah Montana on it.

Heh, my sister wears size 4.5 shoes. She's pretty well stuck with crocs or shiat with rhinestones and high school musical printed on it. Guess which ones she wears.

She can't even find socks that fit and look halfway grown up. She's also built like a brick shiathouse, so finding clothes that fit her and don't have to be altered is an impossible task. I just taught her how to hem pants so they don't look like they've been hemmed.

/still can't figure out how out of the same two parents they got two of us that are almost 6' tall and two that are sub 5'3".

aniyn: At the risk of my eyes....What does a size 18 look like? I'm a guy, your silly measurement system makes no sense to me. 28? (It sounds pretty freakin big)

Uh, actually, sizing for women doesn't make much sense to us women either. Why do you think women spend three times longer shopping then men? It's not because we're picky, it's that the sizing is a vague estimate. I've had a size 6 and a size 12 measure exactly the same.

willydwonka: Jaakobi


then again she's now back to around 115 which seems pretty normal. She had a high of 121 earlier this year.

You keep track? Weird. I'm just content that my gf's ass is smaller than mine.

lol. 115 is an estimate. She weighed herself once earlier in the year because of worries she's too thin. Then weighed herself again in June because of worries she's too fat. I don't really care one way or another. (Our asses are the same size, I don't know if I should be elated or not)

Also...why is it the loudest screamers of "real women have curves" can best be described as "lumpy", not "curvy"?

Curvy means you have an actual waist.

not_an_indigo: Curvy means you have an actual waist.

This little detail eludes most people. They think that "curvy" means having a curve on top (boobs) and a curve on the bottom (arse). In actuality the hourglass shape has more to do with upper body width, waist, and hip width, which is largely determined by bone structure, not fatness.

Jaakobi: willydwonka: Jaakobi


then again she's now back to around 115 which seems pretty normal. She had a high of 121 earlier this year.

You keep track? Weird. I'm just content that my gf's ass is smaller than mine.

lol. 115 is an estimate. She weighed herself once earlier in the year because of worries she's too thin. Then weighed herself again in June because of worries she's too fat. I don't really care one way or another. (Our asses are the same size, I don't know if I should be elated or not)

I keep track of my girl's weight. I told her I would break up with her if she got fat. She's on board with it. It helps that she's as concerned about her weight as I am.

AeAe: Jaakobi: willydwonka: Jaakobi


then again she's now back to around 115 which seems pretty normal. She had a high of 121 earlier this year.

You keep track? Weird. I'm just content that my gf's ass is smaller than mine.

lol. 115 is an estimate. She weighed herself once earlier in the year because of worries she's too thin. Then weighed herself again in June because of worries she's too fat. I don't really care one way or another. (Our asses are the same size, I don't know if I should be elated or not)

I keep track of my girl's weight. I told her I would break up with her if she got fat. She's on board with it. It helps that she's as concerned about her weight as I am.

EPIC DOUCHE...

A buddy and me were eating on his lunch break at the good mall food court and we heard a conversation like that behind us, so my buddy leaned back and said to the girl, "I wouldn't dump you if you were fat as a house, you're cute and I like that". The douche threw a sissy fit and got kicked out of the court while I laughed my ass off. Turned out she worked at the La Senza in the mall, also turned out to be the ultimate sex freak girlfriend not for buddy A but for buddy b who she hooked up with at a party buddy A invited her to. I also saw that guy getting bounced (BOUNCED) off the concrete by the cops about a week later, but it could've been another one of the Fred Durst lookalikes that were everywhere back then. I seriously seriously hope your girl find a real man. And you need to come to terms with the fact that guys who like super skinny girls, are really just into 11 year old boys.

StephieN.M.: size 18

/suck it, biatches

Damn, nice Boobiess Stephanie

robohobo: Um, since when is a size 18 NOT considered plus-size? Doesn't that really start at like, 14?

this.

I don't want any plus-size women hitting my elbow while they wobble down the aisle causing me to spill my drink on my keyboard. Besides, they would be slow to help me in an emergency, and their added weight uses up more jet fuel. So, in summary, when it comes to planes: no fatties!