Should fatties pay more to fly?

lostinrates

paul1964 wrote: »

Should skinny people pay more for hotel rooms?

We all know how expensive energy bills have become and one of the major expenses for a hotel is space heating.

Fat people have their own built in layer of insulation and generate more body heat, so require less room heating to feel comfortable. They are also more body-conscious, so tend to wear more clothes, whereas thin people like to show off their trim figure by wearing skimpy clothes.

Imagine being a fat person staying in a hotel knowing that your bill is unnecessarily high because the hotel has to heat the rooms to an excessive level due to the needs of some scrawny streak of p!!! swanning around in a skimpy top.

Obviously, thin people should pay a hotel surcharge due to their excessive heating needs. Maybe hotels should have coin-operated heaters is the bedrooms so that stick insects pay their fair share.

Perhaps hotel receptions should have thermometers to test the skin temperature of guests before they check in and surcharge any bag of bones that doesn't meet the desired level.

Thin people really get my goat. Grrrrrr.

:rotfl:

Sadly the medical excuses of weight often fail this one, we tend to be colder.:o

Percy1983

paul1964 wrote: »

Should skinny people pay more for hotel rooms?

We all know how expensive energy bills have become and one of the major expenses for a hotel is space heating.

Fat people have their own built in layer of insulation and generate more body heat, so require less room heating to feel comfortable. They are also more body-conscious, so tend to wear more clothes, whereas thin people like to show off their trim figure by wearing skimpy clothes.

Imagine being a fat person staying in a hotel knowing that your bill is unnecessarily high because the hotel has to heat the rooms to an excessive level due to the needs of some scrawny streak of p!!! swanning around in a skimpy top.

Obviously, thin people should pay a hotel surcharge due to their excessive heating needs. Maybe hotels should have coin-operated heaters is the bedrooms so that stick insects pay their fair share.

Perhaps hotel receptions should have thermometers to test the skin temperature of guests before they check in and surcharge any bag of bones that doesn't meet the desired level.

Thin people really get my goat. Grrrrrr.

Surely they save on water if having baths, less bath to fill with water.

chucknorris

paul1964 wrote: »

Should skinny people pay more for hotel rooms?

We all know how expensive energy bills have become and one of the major expenses for a hotel is space heating.

Don't most people tend to holiday in warm places (I reckon sunny getways outnumber skiing holidays) which would probably mean that fat sweaty people require more air conditioning!

paul1964_2

Percy1983 wrote: »

Surely they save on water if having baths, less bath to fill with water.

An excellent point! When a fat person gets into the bath, there is not much room for water. When a thin person gets in there will be room for gallons of extra water. Also, this water has to be heated, so they cost more in water and in heating. And this is before you take into account the extra bubble bath required.

Perhaps hotels should have a bath installed at reception and as part of the check-in procedure, each guest gets in to determine how much water is required to fill the bath and so calculate the surcharge to be applied.

These thin people really should sort themselves out and stop being a burden on the rest of the population.

Harumph!

paul1964_2

chucknorris wrote: »

Don't most people tend to holiday in warm places (I reckon sunny getways outnumber skiing holidays) which would probably mean that fat sweaty people require more air conditioning!

I was thinking more of UK holidays - after reading this thread, I believe fat people are about to be banned from flights anyway.

Air conditioning?????? Have you been outside recently - it is !!!!!!! freezing. These bony folk must be costing UK hotels a fortune at the minute.

Heating is just one example of the added costs associated with skinny !!!!s. Fat people tend to eat all their breakfast, whereas beanpoles leave plenty on the plate. Have you any idea how much Biffa charge to get rid of all this extra waste. The government has even had to introduce a landfill tax due to these wasteful people.

All they have to do is eat a bit more - it's not much to ask. Have they no self control?

Makes my blood boil!!

misskool

yes, it's the daily fail but it's happening...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302883/Airline-fat-fliers-pay-Passengers-pay-fixed-price-kilogram.html

chucknorris

misskool wrote: »

yes, it's the daily fail but it's happening...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302883/Airline-fat-fliers-pay-Passengers-pay-fixed-price-kilogram.html

Hard to argue against the logic IMO, it might even enourage some people to lose a bit of excess weight.

StevieJ

misskool wrote: »

yes, it's the daily fail but it's happening...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302883/Airline-fat-fliers-pay-Passengers-pay-fixed-price-kilogram.html

And there are some big guys in Samoa.

Jennifer_Jane

I've been weighed on a flight. It was a US military/diplomatic flight from Frankfurt to New York. I was flying with my boyfriend of the time who was Air Attache in the country I was living in then. I was quite young and slim enough, certainly not "plump" in any way.

I was not only weighed, I was asked to move to a different seat to balance the plane!

When you think that it was a military aircraft and most of the others were travelling from Frankfurt-am-Main Air force base (which I'd visited with my Air Attache boyfriend) and were therefore mostly young hefty soldiers with a penchant for milk shakes, or diplomats and their families.

I wasn't weighed on the return flight.

Perhaps it was because I am British?

grizzly1911

We were weighed with luggage on a flight out of Alderney CI back to Southampton.

The island had been fog bound for a couple of days so hadn't had it's usual number of lights. Everybody was stockpiled waiting to leave ASAP.

Plane only had 16 seats, luggage in a net at the back or under the "bonnet" at the front. Although life jackets were available there was no instruction on the basis the plane would ditch faster than you could ready it (well that's what the "septuagenarian" pilot told us, pipe lodged in his shirt breast pocket).