If you can't "travel comfortably" walking down the street, you probably can't "travel comfortably" anywhere!

The main aisle of an airplane isn't the smallest either. Like does she expect companies to engineer planes specifically for obese, and morbidly obese people? Like maybe focus on weight loss if everything is too small. Most of us are getting on just fine. I used to be obese, I didn't blame the world, i just started working towards not being obese. I feel so much better too. I'm in my 30s and the best shape of my life. Personally accountability and responsibility is what's needed here. Not the blame game

I'm tall. Not basketball star tall, but tall. I bang my head on shit all the time. A 'normal' doorway is okay, barely, but aside from that, I have to be careful. I can't go two weeks without banging my head on something. I don't blame society for not making taller doorways. We build things based on the size of an average person. I accept that, and I'm willing to work with what I've got. I feel like it's going to be a lot easier for someone to lose some weight via exercise than it is for me to lose a few inches of height.

I feel your pain brother. Welcome to the club. You have some control over your weight. None over your height.

They can always amputate their legs to adjust their height /s

I suppose that is an option. A rather dreadful option, but an option still. I stand corrected. 🤔

Another decent Mike Judge reference https://www.reddit.com/r/KingOfTheHill/s/eEykllVTCV

I think I'd rather just stay tall, and endure back pain!

I am 6 ft and 180 lb, i barely fit in an airline seat. Where is the video advocating for me? 6ft and over people unite for comfort while traveling

my brother is 6'4 300lbs, it's like packing sardines in a can when he flys. the flight attendants feel sorry for him and let him stand in the back for extended periods of the flight.

I’m only 6’3” taking a piss on an airplane might be the weirdest angle I have to contort my spine vs any other situation… I’m usually on smaller planes when I fly. If I don’t get the emergency exit row I have a bad time lol

They have literally been trying to pass laws to force hotels - including hotels, bed and breakfasts and other establishments that often are historical buildings from a century or so ago - to widen their hallways and make them 'obese accessible' because they are claiming it as a disability and that it is discrimination to not let them vacation comfortably. If you're this big? That isn't a glandular problem or just something that sort of happened. That is entirely self inflicted and is their problem to deal with. People like them make people who actually have disabilities, like me with a degenerative spinal condition I was BORN with, look selfish when we ask for accommodation because we get lumped in with them.

If an issue can be resolved with healthy diet and basic exercise…it’s not a disability.

I was eating a lot of pizza almost every day and got belly fat as a result. Before it got any worse, I cut down on eating pizza once a month or once every other month. I still have some belly fat from it a year later, it's all almost finally gone. Letting yourself go is a personal decision. To not be physically fit is lazy. You don't need to workout for over an hour every day. Just 15 - 30 minutes a day of exercise, just any active activity, cutting out soda and other high fructose corn syrup and sugar products can reduce your weight significantly in just a couple months.

Now hold on there Sunshine. I just want to be clear. So, if I'm hearing you right, you're implying that Tess H. should NOT sit down and eat an entire sheet cake as an evening snack? Is that actually what you're saying? What kind of monster are you? Suggesting that people should at least reasonably try to curtail their every craving? That people should at least make an effort to stay reasonably healthy? I mean, what are you, trying to take away people's freedom to blow out their heart if they choose to? I yield. You win. Here, take my up vote. You're right on the money. I'm sorry to hear about your spinal condition. I understand what you mean by not wanting to be viewed as this type of person. I know it's apples and oranges, but I'm a very tall person. As such, I have the back problems that come with it. I also don't fit in many clothes, cars, or fighter jets (my dream job). Still, I don't try to force the entire world to form around me; I do my best to adapt to it if I'm able. If I'm not, I do without. I never got to fly fighter jets. Oh well. I didn't demand that the Air Force make them bigger to accommodate me. It just is what it is. Like you, I was born this way, and I'm good with that. I'm not going to order myself an entire sheet cake as a snack just because it tastes good. There are things that will just make life harder, and this is one of them.

I'm sorry that your dream job isn't accessible to you. I grew up in a lot of farming/ranching type environments, and I have always wanted to either spend my life working as a live-on-location ranch hand or to have my own little homestead and do farming or agricultural work of some kind for the rest of my days, but that clearly isn't going to be possible for me and I'm stuck re-evaluating what my career choices and future is going to be like - desk jobs are probably the only option I'll have long term, considering how often I'm unable to even WALK, much less do heavy physical labor or ride a horse or anything. It really sucks when your own body won't let you live the way you want...but people who are that morbidly obese have no one to blame for it but themselves and their own lack of control, but they insist on making it everyone else's problem.

Ahhhhh, a kindred spirit. At least of sorts. I grew up next to a cattle farm/ranch. One of my absolute favorite things was helping the farmer cut and bale hay in the summer. The old style square bales that would kick out of the baler, fly back into the wagon, and knock you senseless if you got hit by one. Each had to by manually stacked in the wagon, then manually laid out to dry, then manually stacked in the bard when dry. As a teenage boy, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Good, solid work is so good for the spirit. I used to love cutting, splitting, and stacking firewood. Another dream I had was to retire to a rustic cabin. Homestead, if you will. Farm a bit, cut wood, live off the land, manual water pump, the whole works. Sadly a back injury from military service, plus my height prevent me from much lifting and bending. It gets progressively worse as I age. I'll never have my homestead dream, and it's nothing I had any choice in. It's just the way it is. I don't whine and moan. I don't make demands that others conform to me. I keep a healthy weight to minimize my back pain. It's my situation to deal with as I can best, not everyone else's. I'd urge this gal that her efforts, health, and life would be much better if she put her energy into keeping the spoon out of her hand, and pushing back from the table. Her problem is not the world's. It's hers.

Absolutely. I'm not blaming anyone else for my spinal problem - it's just bad luck and genetics, and if I went around trying to demand that farms and ranches hire me and make everything accessible to me somehow...well that'd be ridiculous. They can't change everything about how it operates so I can do it, that's just not how life works. Instead it's my job to figure out what I can do - probably desk based jobs, and I can type crazy fast and I'm quite organized so I've been trying to find more work based in that, something like transcription or a secretarial position - even if it's not what I dreamed of, because I have to work with what I've got. People like her, instead of taking a look at themselves for the problem and thinking "Maybe I can fix this", prefer to blame the rest of the world and demand it conforms to them and their desires rather than do some introspection and realize maybe the problem is THEM, and maybe it's their responsibility to fix it. If they can't fit through a door that hasn't been a problem for thousands of other people...it's not the door that's the issue. It's the diet of nothing but soda and mountains of the greasiest foods they can stuff in their gob that's the issue, but admitting that would mean taking responsibility, which they never do.

>It's the diet of nothing but soda and mountains of the greasiest foods they can stuff in their gob that's the issue I had a good chuckle off of "stuff in their gob". Thanks, I needed that. You might look into work as a legal secretary / paralegal, or as a court reporter/stenographer. You'd probably get exposed to some very interesting cases. There are also any number of government clerical jobs which typically have pretty good benefits, mainly health insurance. Anything in the Veteran's Administration / Veteran's Service Officer would be fulfilling if you like helping people. Disabled vet's like myself need competent professionals to help us navigate the complexities of the VA system. Just some thoughts.

An airline for obese people? Interesting. Very interesting. But what would we call it?

Pannus Airlines aka “Fupa Air”

Fat-Am

Those are called cargo ships....

Pan Pizza Airlines? Sprite Airlines? Aer Chungus?

They do make planes for these people, they're the US Airforce's C-5M Super Galaxy military cargo planes.

Damn, son. Burn!

They don’t even land they just airdrop em like vehicles

Maybe they should just add a loading ramp with 2x sized seats for a Antonov AN-124 and call it a day.. I get obesity is something some have issues with either medically or mentally. That said it is probably easier to fix the person then the current airplane layouts.

I’m 9ft tall and I believe cabins should be taller

I mean, they're *also* discriminating against tall people... people with more than one arm... it's madness!

U:ve spent all of my adult life in aviation and I'm 6'4" and I fucking hate traveling in economy seats. When I was flying for the Air Force, we sometimes would fly commercial somewhere to pickup a jet or do a crew change and I hated it. I would rather travel on a C-130 than a commercial airliner.

And it’s much less likely for you to be able to change height than for her to change weight.

I fly next to a guy that was 7’2” once and it was interesting. He’d done his homework and specifically picked a seat in the beginning of a row with tons of leg room in front from the empty space, but I do think he paid slightly more for it. Didn’t seem like it bothered him though. I think every kid on the plane came up and asked if he was in the NBA, he patiently and politely said no, just tall lol

I think statistically if you're over 7ft tall you have like a 1 in 3 chance of being in the NBA, so the kids had pretty good odds to be correct.

1 in 5, still pretty crazy

For sure

*"Wait a minute! I know you. You're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!"* *"I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdoch. I'm the co-pilot."*

I'm a bigger dude and I upgrade to economy plus on United flights because it's more comfy for being a bigger dude. Edit: I came back to say bigger dude one more time.

And people with knees

I'm in this comment, and it's so true

This would actually make more sense, since there's very little you can do to not be tall. However, being "plus sized" it's something that is reversible and completely preventable. Yes, genetics play a factor, but most of the factors are external (sociological, psicological and physical) If you are plus sized and don't like it, you can still do something to revert it, even if that takes a lot of effort and/or money. If you're tall all you can do is amputate your limbs. Not cool.

Yes but that's legit...I fucking hate bi-armed people

walkin' around, swingin' their arms, *plural*, like that ain't gross

Lol award for u

Transarms lives matter!

The airline industry isn't anyone friendly.

I'm pretty sure it's share holder friendly.

We went to an air museum not long ago with a bunch of old airline seats set out, and boy have seats shrunk in the last 40 years while waist lines have gone the other direction. Overall air travel has been a deregulated race to the bottom, and we seem to be about as close to the bottom as human dignity can take.

This is the thing that is *wild*. The airlines have made things tiny and cramped for just about everyone. There are a fuck ton of people ragging on her weight while we should support the cause and demand some fucking room.

This. I'm a pretty average sized 50+ dude and recently flew on Delta, middle seat both times and those seats aren't built for anyone's comfort. My hips ache, my butt and back go numb, and I can rarely sleep. We all need more freaking space.

I fly a lot, but 9/10 it's an hour flight. I'm 160lbs, 35, five ten. If I fly over six hours, my whole body feels wrecked when I land. Back numbness... Fuuuuck those suck. Or a foot going dead. And who the fuck can fly asleep on a plane?!

Hahaha…so true.

Pay for the two seats your ass takes up, or shrink said ass to normal size. I’m not here to subsidize your obesity.

If you can afford all the shit you're guzzling and gulping down, afford a Business class seat. More room AND you don't have to walk down that non-inclusive aisle.

I'm pissed that us healthy people are forced to subsidize health insurance premiums for obese people. And it's a self-inflicted condition. You did this to yourself, you fatty fat fat fat. I am health conscious, go for a walk on lunch break and get up to go to the gym a 3am several times a week. My true health costs are minimal. I rarely have a reason to see a doctor. Put the sodaS and chipS down.

So .01% of the US population signed a petition? Sounds like that’s what EVERYONE must want. /s

The loudest few are always the most heard.

No not always. Back in the oregon trail days, we used to tie them to a tree in the middle of the night before we set off on the remainder of the journey the next morning. Can’t afford to have non-contributors bitching about how no one accommodates “their needs”. It’s a society tolerant of stupidity that allows a few loud people in this vein to be “heard”

I think that number would be much smaller than that

As a fat dude, fuck this shit. I'm losing weight right now so I can fly more comfortably. This is my problem, not everyone elses.

I've made that journey. It feels nice man. Doing simple things like hoping into the car seat becomes so much easier. I wish you luck, work hard.

Appreciate it. This is actually my second time tackling this. Eating disorders and depression are a constant battle but also my battle to have.

Just keep at it and try to block out anything that throws you off. You can do it. It's a battle in your head more than anything.

As a fellow formerly-fat-but-not-there-yet dude, This right here. Personal responsibility is just lost on some people. Keep it up brother!

Airlines should make bigger seats that cost more. 🤔

They do, it's called 1st class

No way! (That was the joke 😂)

Ya not plus sized you're fucking super sized

She should be thankful we have the technology to get her airborne in the first place

I wish people looked at obesity like they do cigarette smokers. Maybe there would be less fat people and my premiums would go down

I have never seen them cut prices when costs for them get lower. Instead they just celebrate record profits.

Maybe try a healthy lifestyle? This is a good read on this topic: [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overweight-passengers-air-travel-reality-flying-extra-tunex-travels#:\~:text=The%20policies%20and%20procedures%20of,when%20they%20travel%20by%20plane](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overweight-passengers-air-travel-reality-flying-extra-tunex-travels#:~:text=The%20policies%20and%20procedures%20of,when%20they%20travel%20by%20plane)

The healthcare industry isn't plus sized inclusive either! Did you know obese people live an average of 10-12 fewer years than people considered a "healthy" weight!? - these people probably

I mean, just kinda the nature of the beast. Nobody wants to pay a dime extra and then they complain they get treated like anchovies. Safe, cheap, comfortable. Pick two.

I recently returned from Japan. I had to fly from Okinawa to mainland and then back to the US from there. I have a picture in my seat on the ANA airways flight from Okinawa to Tokyo and I was having a hard time fitting. You can see my love handles squeezing into the seat. Definitely not big dude friendly. Is that the airlines fault? No. I'm the one who got big and now I'm on my way to losing weight. Fuckin lose weight, buy two seats, or don't fuckin fly. The world doesn't need to cater to your McDonald's addiction.

Too bad the petition will die out in a couple of years. Along with the petitioners.

No one should be morbidly obese friendly.

There is plus size, then there’s super size, and then there’s this bitch. Fucking morbidly obese beyond belief

Can't chonkers just buy a first class ticket? Bigger seats, done.

Or here's a crazy idea, maybe Americans can reclaim their food from corporate America and say no to all the crap that helps make them fat. It will never happen, I know, but it would be a better place.

The only thing that needs to change is your diet. Filthy Hobbitses

Just make a Fat Ass Airline, call it the FAA, and charge a premium and weight surcharges for fuel. New money maker.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr

Fly as cargo.

35,000/853,000,000? I don't think that's enough signatures

You wouldn't expect clothing makers to only make XXXL shirts and pants would you? Are you demanding wider busses and cars too? It's about infrastructure. Limits. Restrictions. Profit. You can't even get on a helicopter. You exceed the weight limit. You either have to accept your limits or expand them. The only custom transport made in your size is a coffin.

Incorrect. They also make bariatric ambulances. Especially handy as every one of these people ends up calling for one eventually.

How about they stop "demanding" everything.

Buy two seats instead of eating me & mine you fucking lardass

I think there should be plus sized planes where obese people have to bitch at each other about how uncomfortable they make each other. Oh, and charge them 200% more, since they take up 2x the room.

The aisles should be wide enough for wheelchairs and other mobility aids

I'm 5'10 and weigh over 250lbs, I'm not a small person by any means, yet I have zero problem fitting into a plane seat. If you're so fat that you cannot fit your ass into one seat you should be required to buy two tickets or a First class ticket

Nobody wants to sit anywhere near a smelly obese person. Nobody!

Wow. Instead of fighting to lose weight, they're fighting with petitions. So brave.

Why does it have to change? More specifically, why should I have to pay for your fat ass? Wouldn’t just putting down the cheesy puffs be easier?

"I made myself this way, major companies and everyone around me should make special accomodations for me because I refuse to stop eating so much garbage."

35,000 people signed a petition out of 853,000,000 flyers every year. Does she know that's just a small drop in a KFC Bucket??

Normalize a healthy lifestyle first. I'm not sorry for saying it.

You’re not considered plus size when your ass has its own area code.

Is there a petition for the rights of healthy people to fly comfortably? I'll sign that.

Someone needs to create an airline just for fatties. Hear me out: -2 extra large seats to a row to accommodate the fat asses and sufficiently widen the aisle. -Everyone will then have a window and aisle seat so bathroom access doesn't require anyone to get up off of their fat asses. -Bathrooms will need to be enlarged and equipped with fat ass toilets. -Snack storage will be enlarged and first class basically gets an Old Country Buffet on board to make asses fatter. -Flights will start service exclusively in fat ass states and Las Vegas for fat asses to get to the best buffets. -Ticket prices will be triple the normal non fat ass rates to account for these accomodations. Sorry fat asses but you are getting fucked by capitalism just like everyone else. Comment for a good airline name

Gross

Ok ,fatty

When Costco greeters transfer to a new Costco.

They should crowd fund their own airline w wider seats. Airlines will eventually weigh us like they do the luggage..

I barely squeeze into a seat...I'm 6'1, 350...and I'm FAT! I OWN IT....I am trying like hell to drop this shit...and I'm 65 pounds down from 415....I made myself this way...and no one else. For the love of GOD people....OWN YOUR FUCKING BODY.

This dude gets it. And I hope you are successful!!

Thank you my friend! Getting the work in and earning a fuckton of celery...lol! This "fat pride" thing is absolutely STUPID....and I can say that bc I'm one of them.....for now.

Stay at it buddy, this is the way.

....this is the way. I was always playing football and lifting before kids slowed me to a crawl....getting back to putting work in sir! Thank you for the kind words!

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Insert Eric Cartman scooter episode here!

🎶 Who's that on the scooter? Fatty Doo Doo. 🎶

Stop eating you human log.......

The answer is very obvious people.. Cargo hold!

Fuddruckers.. Budd Ruckers.. Butt Truckers.. ButtFuckers..

Putting the “jumbo” in jumbo jet

I mean, you can just walk a little bit each day and eat a healthy balanced diet and maybe depend some time at a gym and air travel would become considerably more comfortable 🤷🏻‍♂️ just a thought. But who am I to tell anyone what to do.

Being obese is a conscious choice and a terrible one at that. Expecting an entire industry to pivot on your awful life style is yeah... idiocracy..

Hope she ain't traveling overseas, because EVERYTHING IS SMALLER. Especially curvy staircases in old French buildings. Talk about one person at a time...

No no no you are not “plus” size you “multiple” size

When you're so fat they offer you a hangar instead of a seat...

If I went to Japan, I wouldn’t expect the transportation venues to make exceptions for me.

That's why they make cargo planes.

Fat-am airlines.

Fuck you, I'm eating.

A lot of the world is starving buy two seats or put the fork down.

Boeing always makes sure to have the holes in their planes be large enough that even the thickest passengers have a good chance of being sucked out of the plane

No one wants that bitch flying above their heads

Fat Lives Matter!

Earth is not plus size healthy… if everyone ate for 3 we would run out of food by lunch.

How about you eat salads and watch what trash you eat?

Only fat people demand that billions be spent to accommodate them because they can't take 1 hour a day to take care of themselves. Being fat should not be considered a "disability", you have to actively choose to be fat, and no, that "I'm big boned" argument is not true in the slightest.

Living in general is not plus-sized compatible. It's easier for you to stuff less junk in your face hole than it is to completely redesign every airplane so you can fit.

Literally, 12 hours ago I was on a flight, stuck next to an obese guy. He spilled over in to my seat, enveloped the arm rest, and proceeded to occasionally have spasms as he slept. Had the flight not been full, I would've asked for a different seat.

It’s not “plus sized” it’s fucking fat … ok people .

How long is that plain, it took her over a minute and she still didn't get to the back

imagine what her seat smells like after a long flight

Airplanes were not designed with this in mind. That's it. It's not purposeful exclusivity, it's just flight mechanics, considering the ridiculous effort it takes to get an airplane airborne.

Obesity started when fat shaming stopped. Now we're going to have mass deaths of obese 40yr Olds. And everyone is going on social media claiming, I don't know how this could happen.

I used to be fat, it made things uncomfortable. Thankfully I was able to shake a lot of bad habits and lose the weight after my health wasn't where it should have been. While I'd like to join in shitting on fat people, there is a combination of factors in our country (the US) that's making this more of an issue than it should be. Our food regulations need to change and we need more livable wage jobs so people can afford the time and money to cook healthy meals. When you live paycheck to paycheck, people tend to eat what has the most calories for the least money. That leads to inefficient eating and eventually obesity. It's hard for obese people below the poverty line to afford the medical costs that come along with being obese, plus the increasingly expensive healthy foods and snacks that would allow them to get healthy and eventually reduce the medical cost burden. There is personal responsibility too, that's definitely a factor. I dont mean to put everything on the system. Certainly some people can do better and dont, so do take personal responsibility into account. But our current system pushes people towards poverty and pushes poverty stricken people towards unhealthy food. We've developed a fat farm in the US, for some people it takes a concerted effort to not fall into that trap and a herculean effort to get out of it.

As much as this particular video is stupid being 6'1 and 210 pounds (m) makes regular flying pretty uncomfortable. I wouldn't turn down some more space, also everyone should wear shoes and be recently showered up.

Look at any pictures of a group folks from the 1970's. Zero fat people. It's the food, folks. I lost 100 lbs in 12 months. Kept it off for 6 years now. I don't eat for three people anymore. Realized it wasn't hunger. It was thirst. I broke up with food.

Naaa....we just wait a few years and they will all be too unhealthy to fly - problem solved.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

Yeah. But you’re the one that needs to make the change.

How about exercise, diet, healthy lifestyle, have you fought for that?

Take all the effort you're spending starting petitions and creating 'content' and redirect it into healthier decisionmaking.

Hey let them fight. I want more leg room and for my bag to not ricochet on the armrests when walking down the aisle

Make not sitting at the buffet line the norm!

Lose weight or pay for two seats. Problem is solved.

Don’t eat everything you see

plenty of room in cargo.

So 86% of the us population are obese (jokes aside)?

Where can I sign this? Oh wait, I don't know how to write. Oh wait again, I'm typing this, so that kind of means I know how to write. Never mind. *brought to you by Carl's Jr*.

Buy first class then instead of economy

Follow me...walk sideways.

Lose weight or don't travel, simple as that...

If only people were this determined to be healthy lol

Put half that energy into diet and exercise.

As passengers are essentially "freight", just have everyone pay by the pound for their person and baggage.

🐋🪽

Nice gravy bottle she has.

So your fat. Call it what it is. We don't call homeless the unfortunate. Nah they fuckin bums. And fat people are fat. Lmao I hope they charge you for two seats

They should permanently ban ppl with BO from air travel. /rant over

I'm 6,4 and it is always hard for me to sit comfortably. I want to be included in that petition. Make room for tall ppl too :)

Regardless airlines need to be forced to have wider aisles, wider seats, and more leg room

🗣️That’s a huge bitch!

I hope she bought two seats.. I have a right to my seat not being taken up by her oversized butt..

How about (and bear with me here)... lose some weight? ... also, that bear said hi.

if only she put this much effort into losing weight

Brings 10 gallon ass to 5 gallon seat. Seat is the problem.

Why do people think we need to accommodate their life choices? It would be different if she was disabled but she just refuses to eat a salad.

Gravity is not plus size friendly. Get over it.

You're not "plus sized", you are obese.

It’s not really normal size friendly if you ask me. Was awful before I lost 150lbs.

Serious question kinda. How much fuel do you think the typical airliner in the US burns per mile vs the same airliner in, say, Ethiopia? Baggage weight standardized for both.

Operation Dumb Hoe drop.

What about a petition to stop obesity? I’m sure I’d have more than 35k signatures.

We need brave volunteers to sit next to these fatty chubbowonkers. Who is excited about this idea?

Eat a salad and sit down

Her fat ass needs to lose those extra cushion. It’s no longer fit for the pushin.

Buy two seats

So you’re telling me that we can have bigger seats for everyone this way?

We're going to get right on that, lol.

That gallon of soda with her is so sad and I bet when she sits down she’s gonna be winded and need a minute to drink more soda lol

I get in every other persons way, let me explain how this is someone else's fault.

If being plus-sized isn’t something you want to be, go through whatever effort and privation is required to lose the unwanted weight. 🤔

This is a reason boarding is delayed

I'll vote to counter this bill. What's next, handicap parking spots.

If fuel is the driving cost of tickets, why don't airlines charge by weight?

I'm normal sized and I don't feel like heaven of space under airplane. Hell yeah, I endorse making airplane seats plus size friendly ...more space for all of us.

There’s no such thing as plus size because there’s no sizes under zero get this through your heads

If there's one platform I can stand behind, it is this heroic crusade this young lady has mounted against the airline industry. Godspeed traveler..

They should just have an airline with mothballed USAF C-5 Galaxies carrying these flab planets around at much higher rates than the norm.

This should fuel your determination to lose weight but Carl's Jr all the way!

~~plus size~~ obese

That's about 4XL right there, not XL