Obese Woman Ruins Theatre

[Zoe]

mswas, you have to admit that it takes a lot of gumption to exercise with 150-200 pound “weights” strapped to your body all of the time. Do you know what I mean? But almost everyone can do something – even if it begins with just a few steps or a few minutes a day… It helps to lift the spirits too.

bubastis"As I wrote my OP, I realised slurs and insults had no place in it- I wasnt ragging on the obese.

Oh? What a polite little boy you are:

…This woman stuffed her face with chocolate and icecream.(sic)

Remember this one? You said that it was “about the only offensive part of the OP, I think”:

Should the obese be allowed to create fire hazards in public places?

And my personal favorite:

Yes, she was that fucking fat. I’m sorry, I didnt mean that;

Wow. No “Backspace” key…

I waas(sic) simply enquiring(sic), If you were Overweight(sic), in a situation like mine, who(sic) would you inconvienience(sic): your friend, or a total stranger?

I would not want to inconvenience my friends, but I’ve already put in my time with the uneducated.

If a dog barks and keeps you awake at night, its(sic) annoying. It doesnt(sic) mean you are offended by dogs.

Right. It would mean that I would be offended by one dog – the one allowed to bark all night by my neighbor.

About your explanation:

We couldnt(sic) just get up and go elsewhere.

Why? You couldn’t sit in the aisle? Were you lazy?

She didnt(sic) leave her seat, she just didnt bother to return after going to get more snacks.

Make up your mind and try writing individual sentences. Here. Let me help you just this one time:

She left her seat during intermission. When she returned, she indicated to her friends that she would just sit in the aisle.

She knew there was a vacant seat between her and her freind, because she FUCKING BOUGHT ONE.

How do you know? You didn’t even know that they were friends until the movie started – which is a little peculiar. She didn’t talk to her friends before the movie?

You would think that someone who was cautious and thoughtful enough to go to the trouble of buying two tickets to see a movie and who is aware of her day to day struggle with the problems that obesity causes – would be very careful about getting back from intermission before the seats filled up again making it impossible for her to get to the two seats she had purchased. It’s not as if this would have been a new experience for her.

Yes, please. I would appreciate a link to the seating in the theater.

[Zeriel]

@mswas

I’ve never met a fat person who jogs regularly, not ever.

raises hand Yo. Even when I was 300ish I could still pull a 10min mile.

@mswas

I’ve never met a fat Vegan.

Clearly, you have never met my mother-in-law (although she’s lost a good deal of weight by ADDING meat to her diet and changing her protein intake around)

@mswas

People in New York City are less fat than people elsewhere in America because we walk everywhere here.

If living in New York City makes you skinny, I’d rather be fat than suffer the side effects of that particular cure. (namely, living in NYC)

[Zeriel]

@Veuve_ClicquotNJ

People who had the audacity to join a gym to make an effort & then be made fun of by gym bunnies. We’re sometimes damned if we do & damned if we don’t.

The only good thing about that is the looks the gym bunnies get when you go from 290lbs to 200lbs in a year while lifting weights. It was kinda like those old drink milk commercials where the dorky kid is shunned and then he drinks milk and works out and they do a “six months later” where he’s this huge musclebound monster and his former tormenters just stare.

@Veuve_ClicquotNJ

In my personal experience I once worked with (not directly, but in the same company), who used to literally flatten himself up against a wall when I would walk down the same hallway he was in :rolleyes: I stopped that when I asked him if he had some sort of a back problem that required him to put pressure on it against the wall

You’re better than I am–if someone did that to me I’d be hard-pressed to resist hitting them with my stomach.

[bubastis]

@Zoe

How do you know? You didn’t even know that they were friends until the movie started – which is a little peculiar. She didn’t talk to her friends before the movie?

Yes, please. I would appreciate a link to the seating in the theater.

RRRRR… My natural dislike for you is developing into a great hatred, you incessant annoyance.

Here’s your seating chart . We were in the circle, J 27 & 28, or thereabouts.

No, I don’t eaves drop on people. Like I said before, I have MANNERS.
Besides that, the woman was’nt doing any talking, she was too busy STUFFING HER FACE.

That’s my way of getting around this “maybe it’s a glandular thing” bullshit.

Now, and pay attention here; It was not a fucking movie.
Say it with me.

NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE NOT A MOVIE

The third or fourth post in this thread figured this out. Now, here we are, on post 190 or so, and you still think it’s a movie I was at.

It was the goddamn theatre. Its right there in the thread title; OBESE WOMAN RUINS THEATRE. Not OBESE WOMAN RUINS CINEMA.

Christ you’re dumb.

And no, I wasnt going to sit in the aisle. Why the fuck should I? I paid for my seat, I’m fucked if I’m gonna sit in the aisle on my own. Sit in the aisle? Sit in the fucking aisle?

Would you?

Of course you fucking would’nt. Dont be so fucking ridiculous.
You come across so high and mighty, I would love to see your face if you arrived at your seat on a night out to the theatre only to find a morbidly obese woman spilling over more than half of it.

I DO have sympathy for the overweight, but you finally got me to admit it;

I was FUCKING ECSTATIC when she didnt come back after intermission.

So fuck away off and ride yourself.

Oh, and by the way, I left a few grammatical and spelling mistakes in the above post; have fun finding them and pointing them out, you pedantic bitch.

[Syntropy]

@bubastis

It was the goddamn theatre. Its right there in the thread title; OBESE WOMAN RUINS THEATRE. Not OBESE WOMAN RUINS CINEMA.

In all fairness, we do call them “movie theaters” in the US. As your location isn’t listed, Zoe probably assumed you’re American. We don’t speak proper English. We don’t speak proper anything.

[What_Exit]

**Bubastis ** it is your thread, you had already apologized, if posters like **Zoe ** are upsetting you with lame and late postings, request the thread to be closed.

Jim

[askeptic]

@bubastis

Oh, and by the way, I left a few grammatical and spelling mistakes in the above post; have fun finding them and pointing them out, you pedantic bitch.

I don’t care about anything in this thread…but the above quote has just got to be the dumbest thing I have seen in at least a week.

[Excalibre]

@askeptic

I don’t care about anything in this thread…but the above quote has just got to be the dumbest thing I have seen in at least a week.

Not really; in Zoe’s above post where she rehashes the entire contents of the thread one more time for no conceivable reason, she “helpfully” pointed out every typo that Bubastis made.

I’m sticking to my original, cynical conclusion that Bubastis did mean to snark about fat people, but that doesn’t mean that all the "[sic]"s were somehow a necessary or interesting addition to the discussion.

[scotandrsn]

Let’s say some young person racked themselves up while skateboarding. They manage to get themselves in a cast in time to keep their theatre date. There they are sitting right next to me, with their full leg cast extending over the armrest into part of the seat I bought, because that happens to be the only way they can fit into the seat they bought. I am severely inconvenienced by their presence.

Do I have a right to be indignant, even though there is nothing they can do that instant to fix the problem with their that invades my space?

Should common courtesy have dictated that they try to make alternate seating arrangements, either with the box office before arriving, or with the house manager upon arrival?

Should your answers be any different if the offending body part is not a daredevil’s broken leg but an overeater’s spreading flank?

[Lynne_kilii]

@scotandrsn

Do I have a right to be indignant, even though there is nothing they can do that instant to fix the problem with their that invades my space?

Absolutely.

Should common courtesy have dictated that they try to make alternate seating arrangements, either with the box office before arriving, or with the house manager upon arrival?

Absolutely - I can’t imagine being that rude at a theatre. What right do I have to ruin someone elses experience?

Should your answers be any different if the offending body part is not a daredevil’s broken leg but an overeater’s spreading flank?

Absolutely not.

I am rounder than I should be, and rightfully embarrassed when I take up other people space. It’s their space, just because they’re half my size doesn’t mean I’m entitled to half their space.

[askeptic]

@Excalibre

Not really; in Zoe’s above post where she rehashes the entire contents of the thread one more time for no conceivable reason, she “helpfully” pointed out every typo that Bubastis made.

I’m sticking to my original, cynical conclusion that Bubastis did mean to snark about fat people, but that doesn’t mean that all the "[sic]"s were somehow a necessary or interesting addition to the discussion.

You know what Excy, you are absolutely right. There is pleny of stupid shit in this thread to go around…

Zoe, admit it you were tempted to quote me just to type (sic) where I left the “t” out of the word plenty. Honestly it was a typo but I cought it on preview. Sorry to spoil your fun. Man I was tempted to make this paragraph (color=white)…

[Zoe]

askeptic: Zoe, admit it you were tempted to quote me just to type (sic) where I left the “t” out of the word plenty. Honestly it was a typo but I cought it on preview. Sorry to spoil your fun. Man I was tempted to make this paragraph (color=white)…

It’s true. I’ve joined a 12 Step program for retired English teachers. This one specializes in those who never learned to spell themselves. Fully half of my own posts are basically incoherent.

bubastis, calm yourself. I can see that you are unusually sensitive.

I have a lot of sympathy for the easily offended; it must be terrible to live like that.

Thanks for the link and for reminding me what theatre really means.

I won’t upset you further.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@bubastis

So fuck away off and ride yourself.

It’ll never replace “fucko off” and “I burning your dog”, but nice effort.

[sub]All your theatre are belong to us[/sub]

[flight]

Not even close to “Gotcha ya”.

[bubastis]

@Zoe

bubastis, calm yourself. I can see that you are unusually sensitive.

I have a lot of sympathy for the easily offended; it must be terrible to live like that…

:mad: :mad: IM UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE THESE DAYS!!! :mad: :mad:

@Bryan Ekers

It’ll never replace “fucko off” and “I burning your dog”, but nice effort.

When o when will my genuine Irish vulgarisms be recognised, and not mistaken for grammatical errors!

You shower of langballs!!

[Contrapuntal]

@scotandrsn

Do I have a right to be indignant, even though there is nothing they can do that instant to fix the problem with their that invades my space?

The person purchased one seat. He is entitled to one seat. If I am sitting nest to someone else (a stranger)in a restaurant is it OK for me to poach food from their plate because I am big, and need extra calories?

I am big, by the way, and tall as well. Consequently, I have to pay more for my clothing than do regular sized folks. Why is a seat in a theater or on an airplane any different? One seat is one seat. If another person tries to take a piece of mine I will absolutely demand that the management intercede on my behalf, and in such a way that nobody will have a good time until things are sorted out.

[uglybeech]

@Contrapuntal

The person purchased one seat. He is entitled to one seat. If I am sitting nest to someone else (a stranger)in a restaurant is it OK for me to poach food from their plate because I am big, and need extra calories?

I am big, by the way, and tall as well. Consequently, I have to pay more for my clothing than do regular sized folks. Why is a seat in a theater or on an airplane any different? One seat is one seat. If another person tries to take a piece of mine I will absolutely demand that the management intercede on my behalf, and in such a way that nobody will have a good time until things are sorted out.

To an extent you’re right but theater seating, like airplane seating has shrunk in size over the past decades in order to fit more seats in. By doing this theaters make the decision to exclude a larger percentage of statistical outliers (both tall and fat) and squeeze people of even normal dimensions, so I wouldn’t blame it entirely on the outliers. The more they shrink seats in the interest of more money, the greater the percentage of hte population that’s excluded, and the more likely you’re going to be to encounter “spillover” from your neighbor. Mathematically I’d imagine you could alleviate the outlier problem at not much cost by setting aside a few “handicapped” seats which also have larger dimensions both for leg room and width. But for the most part theaters and airlines have instead decided to make even more money off the squeeze effect by stipulating that outliers pay for two seats if they don’t fit in one.

[AncientHumanoid]

Tiny House would be a cool reality show. Esp if they continued with Tiny Car, Tiny Sammiches, Tiny Theatre, etc…

[tremorviolet]

@uglybeech

To an extent you’re right but theater seating, like airplane seating has shrunk in size over the past decades in order to fit more seats in. By doing this theaters make the decision to exclude a larger percentage of statistical outliers (both tall and fat) and squeeze people of even normal dimensions, so I wouldn’t blame it entirely on the outliers. The more they shrink seats in the interest of more money, the greater the percentage of hte population that’s excluded, and the more likely you’re going to be to encounter “spillover” from your neighbor. Mathematically I’d imagine you could alleviate the outlier problem at not much cost by setting aside a few “handicapped” seats which also have larger dimensions both for leg room and width. But for the most part theaters and airlines have instead decided to make even more money off the squeeze effect by stipulating that outliers pay for two seats if they don’t fit in one.

I don’t believe that’s correct. Everything I’ve read about theatre seat size says seats in older theatres are often smaller than seats today. We’re just getting larger faster than the theatres are adapting.

[uglybeech]

@tremorviolet

I don’t believe that’s correct. Everything I’ve read about theatre seat size says seats in older theatres are often smaller than seats today. We’re just getting larger faster than the theatres are adapting.

Oh please. I will grant you I’m not going on data here - I’m going by grandma’s reports from the old days. And personal experience - forget waistlines - I’m 5’4 and my knees never used to butt up against the seats in front of me and now they do nearly half the time in theaters - now there is no way this could have been my height growing.