Epic rant. I’ve been there and smelt that myself. Theres nothing quite like a multi hour flight with screaming kids or sweaty passengers. btw did you see the news last month that airlines are making the seats smaller? Oh joy. Just what we needed.
Just a small sample of this guys rant. 
What the fuck? Reading the snippet you quoted, my first reaction was to think about what a huge asshole that ranter is.
There’s a difference between ranting about the many ways airlines are fucking passengers over and making flying a miserable experience without giving a single fuck … And ranting about a passenger who is just as screwed over by the airlines as he is. Especially when a good portion of his assholishness is “applicable” (sarcasm quotes most definitely intended) to fat/obese people in general. He called the passenger “the beast” and “Jabba the Hut” and ‘mistook’ him for a hippopotamus, for fuck’s sake!
It’s quite possible the passenger should have had (and paid for) two seats. The ranter should have focused on that specifically instead of how inhuman and disgusting the passenger was. Fuck, can you imagine how that guy would feel if he read this (and since it found its way into the Daily fucking Fail, don’t pretend like that’s an absurd possibility)?
Anything else I could say, including my opinion of your post and attitude, OP, would be only Pit appropriate, so I’ll stop here.
The evil people here are the greedy airlines that keep shrinking seat sizes. Despite knowing that the average person today is heavier and bigger than they were even 25 years ago.
The blogger was just venting. No names were given or flight numbers. It’s extremely unlikely the obese passenger would ever be identified. We don’t even know if the rant was directed at a specific person. This guy seems to fly a lot. He my have created a composite character based on many uncomfortable flights.
It’s a rant. The guys pent up anger and frustration is what makes it funny. I’m laughing at the blogger.
Seems like there are two issues going on here that the ranter is conflating.
Fat guy taking up too much space. This could be the guy literally being too big, or it could be the ranter being a bit of a prissy bitch and the fat guy not fitting totally within the confines of the tight-for-1940-people seats on airliners these days.
Less than optimal hygiene on the part of the fat guy. This doesn’t usually have anything to do with being obese, unless you’re SO obese that you can’t handle washing. I’m considered obese, and it’s not difficult at all to take a shower and wash every square inch of my body with plenty of soap and water.
Being fat != bad hygiene, and bad hygiene != fat. That’s a misconception and negative stereotype that needs to go away. Sure there are people who are morbidly obese and who have bad hygiene, but they’re few and far between in my experience.
Hopefully, motivated to lose weight and take a shower.
I was going to comment on a similar experience to the ranter’s but then I watched a video on that site that said “not for the squeamish” so instead I think I will just go vomit whilst suffering from terminal heebie-jeebies.
How about this: make the dammed seat fit the average person? If they want more seats on a plane, add length or make the dammed things wider. There are few past puberty that can comfortably fit in a 17 inch wide seats. Oh, and make the FAA recert the planes with more seats–good luck extracting the extra cattle in case of evacuation. And the airlines wonder why peoples driving range now extends 1000 miles…
I always want the Hygiene Fairy to come out, all smiles and light, waving her finger under the guy’s nose and saying “Oh no no no! We can’t have you on our airplane smelling like that! There are showers and laundry facilities on the other side of the airport. Now run along you big scamp! You should be clean enough for the next flight!”
They should pull stinky people out of the security check-in line and hose them down. They have machines that can sniff out bombs. It’s shouldn’t be that much harder to make a machine that sniffs out funk.
Can we include those skinny assholes who smoke & try to cover up the stench with cheap deodorant and chewing gum?
'Cause then I’ll contribute to have said Hygiene Fairy transported to our plane of existence.
Welcome to 2014.
Same as it ever was…
In what way was the morbidly obese passenger screwed over by the airline?
And the FashionVictims who drench in an overpowering scent thinking we all like their choice of venomous brew? Migraine time.
And you wonder why people react to you the way they do.
Not enough :rolleyes:'s
Roddy
They gave him a seat next to a massive asshole?
“Eau no” HAAAA! Haha! Ok, that really killed me. I gotta go read this rant.
Average people do fit into airline seats. I’m 6’1" 205 and I’ve not come across an airline seat that I don’t fit. The gentlemen photographed in the article is well above average, and the airlines would have to take out half the seats in the plane to make seats that accommodate him.
Why exactly was this reported as news? I know it’s the Daily Mail, but still. The letter he wrote was what I’d consider a high-quality Pit rant. It wasn’t kind or accurate, but it was just his way of releasing anger.
In the US at least, persons seated in the exit row are supposed to be willing and capable of assisting in the event of an emergency. That includes opening and moving the exit door, which weighs about fifty pounds. Would the large passenger be capable of doing so? Would he be able to get out via the window exit door?
The same reason the news reads off celebrity tweets and their facebook comments. To cynically make money.
At any rate, it’s a funny and entertaining blog post, but I don’t really see the big deal.