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Post by moxie on Jul 10, 2012 19:41:50 GMT -5
If you stretch your arm straight out, bend your head and neck as far forward as you can, and purse your lips you can get pretty close though.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 10, 2012 19:48:58 GMT -5
Supposedly kissing your elbow is a magic formula for changing gender. So let me know what happens if any of you manage to do it
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Post by moxie on Jul 10, 2012 19:50:00 GMT -5
"Supposedly kissing your elbow is a magic formula for changing gender. So let me know what happens if any of you manage to do it" Washing my mouth with bleach!!!
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Post by midjd on Jul 10, 2012 20:53:30 GMT -5
Well that's a helluva lot cheaper than reassignment surgery and hormones, why don't people do that instead? Break your arm if you have to!
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 10, 2012 21:35:48 GMT -5
It took 26 whole pages to devolve into total silliness. You guys are slipping.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 10, 2012 21:41:59 GMT -5
Geez, I go out to dinner and look what happens!
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Post by lurkyloo on Jul 10, 2012 23:11:17 GMT -5
Really? More than half? So, in a 17.5 inch seat, your husband had less than 8 inches of space? And he was able to physically sit down? He should join a circus! I'm calling hyperbole on that one. Think as you like. Certainly it's easier to accuse me of exaggerating than to go look at my previous post in which I specified that he was not in fact able to sit and spent 5+ very uncomfortable hours trying to balance on one side of his hip. That said, I think GEL has a very valid point: it is unpleasant for many people, my DH and myself included, to insist on our rights to sit in the seat we purchased. It feels like a jackass thing to do when you know that the result you're fighting for is basically to kick someone else off the plane in order to improve your own comfort. Which is why I think that it is the airline's responsibility to proactively enforce a policy like this. Anything less than a zero-tolerance policy is going to wind up with people rolling the dice and trying to save $200-400-600 a flight. For the record: I'm a scientist. I don't lie, or embellish data, and it is actually uncomfortable for me to knowingly exaggerate. My DH is not a whiner, a complainer, or someone who exaggerates a case to get more sympathy. He did, however, pony up the $29 extra on his current business trip to get an exit row seat. ;D
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Post by lurkyloo on Jul 11, 2012 0:23:44 GMT -5
Ugh, how obnoxious! Sorry On our trip to Canada last month, DH had to book his flight through his work travel program and my flight separately so we weren't automatically seated together. On the way there we managed to pick seats together; on the way back for some reason it let us print boarding passes but not change seats and put us in window seats on opposite ends of the plane. We asked the desk agent at the airport to change us and watched her accomodate about twelve other similar requests, then tell us we should just take care of it ourselves on the plane Of course when we got on the plane we were each sitting next to married couples and it would have been obnoxious to ask them to sit apart just so we wouldn't have to. Between that and the brat of a stewardess who kept cutting between me and my suitcase at the security checkpoint, I'm not very happy with Air Canada's personnel. Their seat rows were spaced better than United's, though.
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Post by resolution on Jul 11, 2012 0:39:15 GMT -5
Somehow this guy got into a seat... kind of... and I'd bet any amount of money you want to name that he's well over 17" wide. Wow, I had figured the guy was photoshopped because he was so much taller than everyone as well as wide, but apparently it was real. The news article says he was reseated before the plane took off and was given his own row, sat in the middle seat of it with the arms up. www.nypost.com/p/news/national/should_this_man_be_able_to_fly_on_1NoQ5o620LmpkpXtA7tXSP
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Post by susanb on Jul 11, 2012 2:53:12 GMT -5
Weighing in.... pun intended! I am overweight.. I can get in the seat without an extender( barely) and I am sure the person next to me hates me. I smell good, dress nice and I am courteous and friendly. I know I'm fat. The thyroid medication reminds me of that. I would NEVER hurt someone else over my own comfort. As long as I get there in one piece I got what I paid for. There is a price to be paid for people who can't try and make someone else's load lighter. Karma is a bitch folks. Wow. I will use someone else's words to respond: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. For me, respecting other people's boundaries, especially physical boundaries, is the baseline, the very minimum requirement for making "someone else's load lighter" or at least not burdening them with my load. Or is karma just a one way street?
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 11, 2012 7:27:30 GMT -5
"Or is karma just a one way street?" Apparently....because if we wish Karma on the fattie sitting on us, we get called judgmental bitches.....meh, I at least own up to my judgmental bitchiness
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 11, 2012 7:34:34 GMT -5
To thine own self be true!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 7:38:23 GMT -5
if the person is just fat I am with Tina but if the person is female and big breasted and requires more space for her "blessing", I don't think she should be punished for that
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 7:55:43 GMT -5
Weighing in.... pun intended! I am overweight.. I can get in the seat without an extender( barely) and I am sure the person next to me hates me. I smell good, dress nice and I am courteous and friendly. I know I'm fat. The thyroid medication reminds me of that. I would NEVER hurt someone else over my own comfort. As long as I get there in one piece I got what I paid for. There is a price to be paid for people who can't try and make someone else's load lighter. Karma is a bitch folks. Wow. I will use someone else's words to respond: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. For me, respecting other people's boundaries, especially physical boundaries, is the baseline, the very minimum requirement for making "someone else's load lighter" or at least not burdening them with my load. Or is karma just a one way street? And for that you get karma.
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:02:07 GMT -5
"but if the person is female and big breasted and requires more space for her "blessing", I don't think she should be punished for that"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 8:10:50 GMT -5
Weighing in.... pun intended! I am overweight.. I can get in the seat without an extender( barely) and I am sure the person next to me hates me. I smell good, dress nice and I am courteous and friendly. I know I'm fat. The thyroid medication reminds me of that. I would NEVER hurt someone else over my own comfort. As long as I get there in one piece I got what I paid for. There is a price to be paid for people who can't try and make someone else's load lighter. Karma is a bitch folks. Wow. I will use someone else's words to respond: "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. For me, respecting other people's boundaries, especially physical boundaries, is the baseline, the very minimum requirement for making "someone else's load lighter" or at least not burdening them with my load. Or is karma just a one way street?I really REALLY hope it is!
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 11, 2012 8:11:39 GMT -5
If your boobs are into my space, I'm sleeping on them. Just saying.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jul 11, 2012 8:13:23 GMT -5
I think rob would be trying to do more than sleep on them.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 11, 2012 8:14:32 GMT -5
Pillow talk? Where's Moxie?
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:14:36 GMT -5
"If your boobs are into my space, I'm sleeping on them. Just saying."
I have a tendency to drool on my "pillow." ;D
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:15:02 GMT -5
Pillow talk? Where's Moxie?
LMAO!! JINX!! ;D
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 11, 2012 8:16:00 GMT -5
;D morning!
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:16:40 GMT -5
How are ya, Missy?
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:17:34 GMT -5
I have fallen asleep on some random guy's shoulder...he was too nice to say anything.
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:18:00 GMT -5
He should have just shoved me gently the other way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 8:27:20 GMT -5
I think rob would be trying to do more than sleep on them. I have been unusually randy lately......
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Post by moxie on Jul 11, 2012 8:30:20 GMT -5
"I think rob would be trying to do more than sleep on them."
He's a drooler too, eh?
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Post by midjd on Jul 11, 2012 8:55:41 GMT -5
But the problem is no one is willing to pay for those seats. Airlines struggle enough as it is...
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Post by Opti on Jul 11, 2012 9:03:36 GMT -5
Slightly OT, but I can't read the Kate Harding link on my computer. I finally tried the base link and was able to read a little. I discovered at least one person said I can't complain about my weight because I'm not over 200lbs. Or maybe I just can't complain to people who are over 200lbs? I suppose it makes some sense but it surprised me a little to read this in the comments. May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bomb anyone who’s ever said, “You have such a pretty face” to a larger person. May the same party visit the same payback onto anyone who’s ever said, “OMG, I weigh 1×0! I’m so fat!’ to anyone who’s lowest weight is their highest.Even though I fit chest and all in an airline seat I'm wondering if I should be worried if I ever get seated next to Rob...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2012 9:06:01 GMT -5
Slightly OT, but I can't read the Kate Harding link on my computer. I finally tried the base link and was able to read a little. I discovered at least one person said I can't complain about my weight because I'm not over 200lbs. Or maybe I just can't complain to people who are over 200lbs? I suppose it makes some sense but it surprised me a little to read this in the comments. May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bomb anyone who’s ever said, “You have such a pretty face” to a larger person. May the same party visit the same payback onto anyone who’s ever said, “OMG, I weigh 1×0! I’m so fat!’ to anyone who’s lowest weight is their highest.Even though I fit chest and all in an airline seat I'm wondering if I should be worried if I ever get seated next to Rob... you should be happy, not worried
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