Fattism

[EternalOptimist]

The problem with planes, is that they have to distribute the weight, so a norm will always be next to a fatty.
Any left-over problem is adjusted by pumping fuel from one tank to another.

That was the explanation I was given when they strapped a big ESSO tanker under the opposite wing to me last year.

[shaunbhoy]

That was the explanation I was given when they strapped a big ESSO tanker under the opposite wing to me last year.

EO,
is there any credence to the rumours that when you go clothes shopping, the items in your size are.......errm...........shall we say.......towards the rear (XXL) portion of the rail?
I also heard that when threaded buys new gear he is almost in Narnia before he finds shirts, and has the garments passed to him by a bint with frosty breath and a sledge!!

[EternalOptimist]

EO,
is there any credence to the rumours that when you go clothes shopping, the items in your size are.......errm...........shall we say.......towards the rear (XXL) portion of the rail?
I also heard that when threaded buys new gear he is almost in Narnia before he finds shirts, and has the garments passed to him by a bint with frosty breath and a sledge!!

<cough>
for years I boasted about being a size ten, till the missus pointed out that the XXXXL wasnt in Roman