Airlines already make you put your bag in a sizer. Do the same thing at the gate for the person. If you cannot sit with both armrests down and stay inside the seat you paid for, you are in someone else’s seat. That person bought the same ticket. Buy a second seat or get rebooked. You do not get to annex the seat next to you because you ate your way out of the first one.
Other passengers should not have to spend a flight squeezed against the window or the aisle because someone else cannot control their eating. They paid for a seat. They should get the seat.
“The seats got smaller” is the excuse. It is mostly wrong. The 737 first flew in 1967. The fuselage is still 148 inches wide. Economy seats in that tube are still about 17 inches. What shrank is pitch, the legroom, not the width of the cabin. What actually changed is the passenger. CDC data: adult obesity was 13.4% in 1960–62 and about 14.5% in the early 1970s, right after the 737 entered service. It is about 40% now. Roughly triple. Severe obesity went from under 1% to nearly 10%. Same airplane. Much larger people.
The airline did not shrink the tube. You got wider than the product. Size the passenger the way you size the carry-on.
@AmericanAir @united @Delta @SouthwestAir
Other passengers should not have to spend a flight squeezed against the window or the aisle because someone else cannot control their eating. They paid for a seat. They should get the seat.
“The seats got smaller” is the excuse. It is mostly wrong. The 737 first flew in 1967. The fuselage is still 148 inches wide. Economy seats in that tube are still about 17 inches. What shrank is pitch, the legroom, not the width of the cabin. What actually changed is the passenger. CDC data: adult obesity was 13.4% in 1960–62 and about 14.5% in the early 1970s, right after the 737 entered service. It is about 40% now. Roughly triple. Severe obesity went from under 1% to nearly 10%. Same airplane. Much larger people.
The airline did not shrink the tube. You got wider than the product. Size the passenger the way you size the carry-on.
@AmericanAir @united @Delta @SouthwestAir
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How many returns today have the @Commanders committed a penalty?
They are behaving themselves this game.
@john_keim
They are behaving themselves this game.
@john_keim
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
Iran has shifted its position from “Death to America” to “Vote Democrat”. 🤦🏻♀️
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
You punish bad Republicans in the primaries.
You vote to save the country from leftists in the general.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
You vote to save the country from leftists in the general.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
“What would you do if you got elected to Congress, Lauren?”
Lauren Boebert:
Lauren Boebert:
🚨#BREAKING: Rep. Lauren Boebert is accused in a sworn House ethics complaint of having lesbian affairs with 2 female staffers under her supervision.
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
if a homeless schizo man with way less mental health support than lindsey clancy broke into your home and killed your three children, you wouldn’t be debating if he actually meant to do it. you’d just want him put down like a dog.
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It really annoys me when the hoi polloi comes up and uses the first class bathroom on flights. You have multiple options in the back, don’t come up and piss all over the floor like we’re in New Delhi.
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
Just remember, everyone - White Western countries are being forced to take in an absurd number of migrants from global majorities.
They are not minorities. We are the minorities. And cleansing us from our homelands is the definition of racism. 🙂
They are not minorities. We are the minorities. And cleansing us from our homelands is the definition of racism. 🙂
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
The flyovers will continue until morale improves.
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Christianity will always prevail over Islam.
Great job Argentina sending conquered England back to their Muslim overlords.
Great job Argentina sending conquered England back to their Muslim overlords.
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Here’s part of the reason kids are growing up so messed up these days.
This guy is watching Family Guy on full volume while being glued to his phone, while his daughter tries to get his attention.
It’s ok though, according to his shirt, he’s a “man of God”
Awful parenting.
This guy is watching Family Guy on full volume while being glued to his phone, while his daughter tries to get his attention.
It’s ok though, according to his shirt, he’s a “man of God”
Awful parenting.
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
What an amazing and breathtaking photo…
Photo by Elle Lookbook…
Photo by Elle Lookbook…
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Professor Stonewall🇺🇸 retweeted
Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
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Hippie boomer ran to the front of the airplane today only to have to wait 15 minutes in the jetway for his gate checked bag on the RJ.
They are really the worst generation.
They are really the worst generation.
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