>> ^TheFreak:
I don't get the resentment here towards overweight people. The airlines, all airlines, have been squeezing us tighter and tighter into those cabins for years. On some flights you can't even extend the food tray anymore. Add to this all the restrictions on luggage and the "dog and pony show" security measures we deal with and flying has become an absolute insult.
And now...in light of what the airlines have done to pack us in like cattle, you're going to blame the overweight guy next to you? That's absolutely absurd. Did the overweight guy shrink the seats when you weren't looking?
Southwest airlines is now selling a service that no longer 'serves' a significant portion of the population. How is that reasonable? Cost saving measures are understandable in this economic environment but if you redesign your product to the point that it no longer works, you've lost sight of the big picture.


Amid skyrocketing fuel prices and planes becoming more expensive to fly because the population is increasingly overweight (studies have calculated the numbers), the airline industry constantly has companies going bankrupt.

If consumers want more space, they're free to fly on more expensive airlines or fly first class.

The basic rule of economics is that nothing's free.

Yep, now he's 3 years fatter....

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
pic is from 2007, welcome to 2010
>> ^bmacs27:
http://www.outofsightmedia.com/IMAGES/Caught-Today/0705
-May-2007/070522_Kevin_Smith.jpg
Doesn't look that fat here. He likes to wear baggy clothes. Further, the picture you showed was the first hit not for "Kevin Smith", but for "Kevin Smith fat." Honestly, when I look at all the pictures, the one you presented is the outlier.

pic is from 2007, welcome to 2010

>> ^bmacs27:
http://www.outofsightmedia.com/IMAGES/Caught-Today/0705
-May-2007/070522_Kevin_Smith.jpg
Doesn't look that fat here. He likes to wear baggy clothes. Further, the picture you showed was the first hit not for "Kevin Smith", but for "Kevin Smith fat." Honestly, when I look at all the pictures, the one you presented is the outlier.

There's no way in hell Kevin Smith is remotely close to being so big he'd bulge out of his seat. That's just ridiculous. Even if you do sit by someone morbidly obese I bet you're going to be more uncomfortable because Southwest gives you no space in front of you.

I don't get the resentment here towards overweight people. The airlines, all airlines, have been squeezing us tighter and tighter into those cabins for years. On some flights you can't even extend the food tray anymore. Add to this all the restrictions on luggage and the "dog and pony show" security measures we deal with and flying has become an absolute insult.

And now...in light of what the airlines have done to pack us in like cattle, you're going to blame the overweight guy next to you? That's absolutely absurd. Did the overweight guy shrink the seats when you weren't looking?

Southwest airlines is now selling a service that no longer 'serves' a significant portion of the population. How is that reasonable? Cost saving measures are understandable in this economic environment but if you redesign your product to the point that it no longer works, you've lost sight of the big picture.

Your video, Kevin Smith at his sarcastic best: Southwest Airlines Thin, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

They have a fat policy. Sure fat people may be able to get their behind in a seat, but then their other parts droop over into the neighboring seat. That is simply not fair to the other person. Many airlines make people who cannot fit between the armrest to purchase another seat. SouthWest goes a little further in that if they find out that the adjacent seat would have been empty anyways they refund the extra seat. That is totally a fair policy.

Airlines sell seats, that is their unit of measurement. They cannot sell less than a seat for very skinny people. Therefore they have to choose something that is fair to all passengers. I think the standard of "your whole body fitting between the two armrests" is a fair standard.

Debating on the size of the seats is another issue. Airlines are constanlty trying to cram us in smaller spaces. That is a different argument though.

Boo hoo, cry me a river.

Kevin Smith is too fat to fly unless he buys two seats, which he normally does. In this case he wanted to get an earlier flight, was put on standby and the airport staff neglected to check if the flight had two neighbouring free seats. It did not, and he boarded the plane. When the crew realised this was going to be a problem, he was asked to leave.

Southwest admitted this was a mistake, and apologized for it. But Kevin Smith conveniently omits the real problem in this video, and goes on for 3 minutes about how he's now too fat to fly with Southwest.

And yes, he's too fat. I for one am glad that some airlines won't let someone that big fly using only one seat.

Southwest continues to rock. Best airline out there.

Actually, it looks like it may be Mauritius.
officially the Republic of Mauritius, French: République de Maurice is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres (560 mi) east of Madagascar.

I'm going by the flag that is flying on the dock at around 0:48
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius

Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mauritius&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

>> ^therealblankman:
That is a Ship-breaking operation on the coast of either Pakistan or India or Bangladesh.

This happens in the southwest US fairly often as well. It's pretty trippy to be driving through a town you can only see a chaotic 10 foot radius of. The Mojave is a very dynamic and weird place, especially when 80+ mph sustained winds are involved.

fuck working out. im just gonna shit my brains out.
i have awesome sifts right now. more to come.
vote vote slut.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i love you too bea. dont be afraid. We are on a diet together right? youre working out and im not eating.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
fuck you. grow a dick.
and i dont fuck fat chicks.

wait, unless its tuesday.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i want you inside of me bea. All 830 pounds of you. Our enormous bodies will sweat together and make a delicious fat girl soup... ahhhh.. yeah


In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
andrew from six flags and some dude christy tried picking up in a bar during the transient period. fucking hebaphiles.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
wow... i swear ive met this man twice. once at a theme park when i was 16 and once at a random bar somewhere in the american southwest when i was 18. he tried to pee on me both times.



andrew from Six Flags?????

fuck you. grow a dick.
and i dont fuck fat chicks.

wait, unless its tuesday.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i want you inside of me bea. All 830 pounds of you. Our enormous bodies will sweat together and make a delicious fat girl soup... ahhhh.. yeah


In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
andrew from six flags and some dude christy tried picking up in a bar during the transient period. fucking hebaphiles.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
wow... i swear ive met this man twice. once at a theme park when i was 16 and once at a random bar somewhere in the american southwest when i was 18. he tried to pee on me both times.



andrew from Six Flags?????

andrew from six flags and some dude christy tried picking up in a bar during the transient period. fucking hebaphiles.

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
wow... i swear ive met this man twice. once at a theme park when i was 16 and once at a random bar somewhere in the american southwest when i was 18. he tried to pee on me both times.



andrew from Six Flags?????

>> ^antimatter:
"illegal alien invaders" who were here before you came over and invaded their land. In a sense they are more american then you are. (oooooh questioning you patriotism!)
"but he's kenyan!" Nice try. No one fucking cares, McCain lost. Time to move on.


It's true, most of the southwest US was stolen from Mexico in Mark Twain's lifetime, after Texas was taken over by "illegal alien invaders" from the USA.