If the airline thinks you're overweight then can either refuse to take you or make you pay for 2 seats (does that mean you can take 60kgs of luggage then?)
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Ahh ... but will not wimmin pack more of the items "just in case"...?Originally posted by VectraMan View PostHowever women's pants and socks are generally smaller and so lighter.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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How would they define what is acceptable.
I'm 6'3" so am going to weight more than someone that is 5'0". What if the 5'0" person was 14st and I was 15st. Should they pay more or should I?
Nice idea one I would support (even though I would have to pay more) but the queues at check in would be stupidly long. They are a pita now. Think of what this would add to it.Comment
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Not significantly light enough to account for the huge cargo of "Moisturisers" and Creams that they seem to need though. And as for the perfumes that they must buy at Duty Free!Originally posted by VectraMan View PostHowever women's pants and socks are generally smaller and so lighter.
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That's something I'd love to see on the next series of EasyJet's "Airport".Originally posted by darmstadt View PostIf the airline thinks you're overweight then can either refuse to take you or make you pay for 2 seats (does that mean you can take 60kgs of luggage then?)
"Sorry madam, you're too fat ..."Comment
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If you can't fit in the seat width wise you are too fat
Re Sockpuppet, I'd have a neutral limit set at average weight. So a man who was 13 stone would get 30 kilo, a 10 stone woman 30 kilo. Above you lose 10 kilo per 10 kilo, and gain 10 kilo per 10 kilo below. If you were 30 kilo over average weight you pay a surcharge. Double average weight= 2 tickets.
Allowances made for exceptionally tall, unless they are also exceptionally fat.
Weighing people with luggage, would take no longer than weighing the luggage alone.Last edited by Bagpuss; 15 November 2007, 12:49.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
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yeh. They should trim bits off fat people until they are below a stated weight. Alternatively inject them with a fat liquidiser before flight and tap it off to fuel the plane.bloggoth
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and wimmin also insist on packing:
- Winter clothes in case it gets chilly
- Formal wear i.e. ball gown / co.cktail dresses in case the Ambassador invites us to a do
- All the matching shoes/handbags trinkets to accessorise
- A year’s supply of make up, moisturiser/conditioner
- every conceivable electrical beauty gadget
...all for only two weeks in the Med
...or is that just my wife?How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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You lot have some serious issues with women dont you? What's up - didn't your mams love you enough or something?The pope is a tard.Comment
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They could put a chair frame by the check-in like they do for hand luggage.Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostIf you can't fit in the seat width wise you are too fat
If you don't fit you have to go in the hold.Comment
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