Woman claims Southwest Airlines worker discriminated against her (another Fattie)

nwa757 said:
one question... what do you mean by that?
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One of the old Disney cartoon versions of "Sleepy Hollow" has a character named Ichabod Crane who is very tall and very thin (6'1"/130??)
 
Doug Taylor said:
I like how everyone in this thread that uses words like 'fattie' and phrases like 'just work out' are all probably under 30.

Just wait, guys! ;)
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"But..but it's,it's a medium shirt man...a medium shirt and it was too big. A medium shirt man..I'm sick..sick about it."
 
Mr_Creepy said:
Lloyd where in this thread is there any proof of racial discrimination?

If there is a 300+ lb person next to me in a plane I don't care about skin color.

Black, white, brown, red, blue or whatever, just get yer damn skin off of me!
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If this has already been linked I apologize, but I think the perspective of a huge lesbian (I don't mean she really is a big fan of being a lesbian, I mean she is huge) who is fighting injustice at SWA and wherever she finds it can really help here: Screwed by Southwest http://feminist-reprise.blogspot.com/2006/02/screwed-by-southwest.html
 
Doug Taylor said:
One of the old Disney cartoon versions of "Sleepy Hollow" has a character named Ichabod Crane who is very tall and very thin (6'1"/130??)
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Oh man....."Disney cartoon version"?

:banghead:

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a Washington Irving literary gem. Too bad the closest that most people will get to reading it is a "Disney cartoon version".

:)

" In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
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He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." - Washington Irving
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Good stuff. Can't you just see him in your mind's eye?
 
Doug Taylor said:
I like how everyone in this thread that uses words like 'fattie' and phrases like 'just work out' are all probably under 30.

Just wait, guys! ;)
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I used it, and I am 33 1/2 and, quite frankly, a fattie. I have, however, lost 20 pounds since Thanksgiving. What miracle diet did I use, you ask? I started counting/controlling calories and going to the gym. It's all about calories out and calories in. Anyone who says different is a whiny fattie. :)
 
Minnesota_Flyer said:
I used it, and I am 33 1/2 and, quite frankly, a fattie. I have, however, lost 20 pounds since Thanksgiving. What miracle diet did I use, you ask? I started counting/controlling calories and going to the gym. It's all about calories out and calories in. Anyone who says different is a whiny fattie. :)
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:yeahthat:

Lots of respect for those who figure out that simple equation and try to better themselves.

Except Jerome Bettis, he's still big and he exercises a lot. He must eat a whole cow for dinner or something, he's a scientific mystery.
 
Chris_Ford said:
:yeahthat:

Lots of respect for those who figure out that simple equation and try to better themselves.

Except Jerome Bettis, he's still big and he exercises a lot. He must eat a whole cow for dinner or something, he's a scientific mystery.
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It's amazing that you can still type with your whole foot in your mouth.

:confused:
 
Minnesota_Flyer said:
It's all about calories out and calories in. Anyone who says different is a whiny fattie. :)
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It's really pretty simple, isn't it? Take in less calories than what you burn, lose weight. Take in more calories than what you burn, gain weight.

Why people don't get this, I'll never understand.
 
tonyw said:
It's really pretty simple, isn't it? Take in less calories than what you burn, lose weight. Take in more calories than what you burn, gain weight.

Why people don't get this, I'll never understand.
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Because everything that taste good has high calories and everything that is healthy for you taste nasty...prolly something like that!
 
This website is full of SWA fanboys. :P I love the different knee-jerk reactions on here just based on what airline is in the news.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Because everything that taste good has high calories and everything that is healthy for you taste nasty...prolly something like that!
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Well, if you ask me, it's because too many Americans think quantity equals quality. We'll chow down on huge plates of mediocre food from some mediocre chain restaurant and then get a big mediocre desert. And we'll shove it all down our throats as quickly as possible, which means our stomach doesn't have enough time to say, dude, I'm full.

I've found that the key to controlling the amount of food I eat is to SLOW DOWN and eat slowly. Not only do I enjoy the food more, but I eat less!

We've got chain restaurants that want servers to turn their tables in 45 minutes and they want their servers to get appetizers and dessets sold in addition to the main course. That's 45 minutes for three dishes.

Europeans don't have the obesity problem we do, and 45 minutes isn't enough time for just the appetizer and a glass of wine there!

Right, Doug?

And I disagree with the "stuff that tastes good is high in calories" thesis. There's plenty of stuff that tastes really good that doesn't have a lot of calories. Last night, I picked up some lemon sorbets that are in lemon peels from Trader Joe's. Know how many calories those have? About 100! And I LOVE sushi. That definitely isn't high in calories and it tastes very, very good.
 
tonyw said:
Europeans don't have the obesity problem we do, and 45 minutes isn't enough time for just the appetizer and a glass of wine there!

Right, Doug?

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Big misconception, there is an overweight problem & it is an international problem. When I was in London, for "3" months & the BBC covered this on numerour occassions.

The pilots that we used to train from Australia (Quantas/Jet Star) used to bring the local paper & the pilots would talk about the over weight problem down under.

Japan, I watch the Japan news (wife is Japanese) & they talk about the problem in Japan as well.

As we are beginning to move more & more to a technological based society, this problem will show its ugly head more & more.

I know our news here says that it is a problem only in America, which, it is not....
 
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