Fat Americans cause plane crash

[jigsaw]

Originally posted by beet1e
oooh jigsaw - testy, testy! PMS?

I was quoting a newspaper article. Why don't you forward your comments to the paper, not to me.

Nope. I'll PMS next week if I have time.

Wasn't ment as a flame. Was an attempt at enlightenment..

But, yes, yellow journalism in regards to general aviation is a pet peeve of mine.

btw, any guess as to who was in the plane in the second link? It's one of four NTSB reports that I use for examples with students quite often.

[Gunslinger]

Yup we Americans love to be fat.  No pork chops for us bring on the whole hog!

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Blue2


Though its happening here too!:rolleyes:

Have the brits changed over to Iodized salt yet, or are you all "Goiter-Prone"?

Don't throw stones in glass houses.

Karaya

[myelo]

It's good to have fat guys on planes. If you crash in water, they make good personal flotation devices.

And if you crash in the middle of nowhere and are stranded for weeks and weeks with no food ...

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Have the brits changed over to Iodized salt yet, or are you all "Goiter-Prone"?

Iodised salt? I've got a 750g container of "sea salt", produced by evaporating Mediterranean Sea water, according to the label. One of those will last me about three years.

MiniD - I think I would have been way past my days of being amazed. Besides, CA isn't really a "fat" state. The midwest was pretty bad though.

[mora]

Beetle?

[Dago]

Originally posted by jigsaw
Get your facts straight.

That has never been a priority for our friend beetle, especially when it relates to casting negatives towards Americans.

Yes, the tail was misrigged.  No, as everyone except beetle seems to realize is you cannot take anything as fact that you hear from the press relating to aviation.

dago

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Dago
   Originally posted by jigsaw
    Get your facts straight.  That has never been a priority for our friend beetle, especially when it relates to casting negatives towards Americans.  

That's a bit rich, coming from  the master country basher of Britain, France, and other countries.

As previously explained, and now repeat for the benefit of those who need comprehension assistance, they weren't *MY* facts. I quoted a newspaper article - is all. The thread title paraphrases the emboldened passage in the article.

[lazs2]

I don't know curval... does one know someone better if they sit for a few hours in a bar together sucking down booze in the dark or if they spend the day together sober shooting a variety of firearms and having sober conversations?

seems that blue was the most upset guy in the thread.

I do know some fat Americans... My son goes about 280.   He also bench presses 350 lbs.   don't think too many pasty drunken pub crwalers want to get in his face about being fat tho.   Funked is a big guy too both him and my son are total *****cats tho.   Great guys.

lazs

[J_A_B]

It's simple fact that a majority of adult Americans are overweight nowdays and the problem is gradually getting worse.   If Beet1e was amazed by how many fat Americans he saw, that wouldn't surprise me at all....I'm usually amazed by how many fat people there are out there too when I think about it (I usually try not to).

That said, Beet1e's article seems a bit...strange.  Airlines reduce sevices and install flimsier seats mainly because it saves money; it has little or nothing to do with the size of their passengers.  What company is going to admit "yeah, we're greedy"?  Of couse they're going to think of some silly excuse.  Likewise, they're going to think of any excuse for a plane crash they can to get attention off a worker who may not have done his job.


J_A_B

[Curval]

Originally posted by lazs2
I don't know curval... does one know someone better if they sit for a few hours in a bar together sucking down booze in the dark or if they spend the day together sober shooting a variety of firearms and having sober conversations?

seems that blue was the most upset guy in the thread.

I do know some fat Americans... My son goes about 280.   He also bench presses 350 lbs.   don't think too many pasty drunken pub crwalers want to get in his face about being fat tho.   Funked is a big guy too both him and my son are total *****cats tho.   Great guys.

lazs

So your point is what?  That you know Beet1e better than me?  Fine.  Then what is your opinion of why he posted that article?  Was it to back up his solid belief that Americans are fat, or was it to make a little jab at Americans using a Britsh newspaper article?

Why are you telling us how much your son bench presses?  Is that some veiled threat that pasty Brits shouldn't accuse him of being fat?  I don't get it.  Maybe that was for Beet1e's benefit?

[lazs2]

well.. not all big guys are out of shape fatsos is all.   And... not all pot bellied and otherwise skinny pasty faced bar stool sitters and "studmuffin" smokers are healthy and admirable is all.  I have to say also that if I had to eat only British food that I would be cadaverous.

I don't know if I know bettle better than you are not.  you started it with... "I've met him and downed a few pints with him. I think I know him pretty well."   That just didn't seem like it made much sense.  

lazs

[Curval]

Originally posted by Mini D
Excellent troll?

I don't think you know beetle very well.

Actually THIS started the whole "How well do you know Beet1e" thing.

Fact is you read the article Beet1e posted and your first response was this:

"It's not so much that brits are fat as that they are out of shape and flabby. Must be that pub thing.. "

The two of you are continuing your "tit for tat" Americans vs Brit posts.  This is why I see this as a mere troll thread...something that MiniD is trying to say is not the case.

But, his post prompted Creamo and Jigsaw to research the issue and revealed that what was obviously a crazy story about fat Americans causing a plane crash was EXACTLY that...a crazy story.

He hooked you...which wasn't too hard as you guys always are at "war" on this BBS over these isues, which is why I likened you to the tuna.

He hooked Creamo and others who actually took the time to prove the story was stupid, which is something I am sure Beet1e already knew.  This is why I referred to him (Creamo) as a marlin or wahoo.  Creamo doesn't post much, so to get a reaction out of him on such a troll is a good catch.

[lazs2]

and it would seem that you were the easiest of all to hook... by your logic..

lazs

[Curval]

Originally posted by lazs2
and it would seem that you were the easiest of all to hook... by your logic..

lazs

You are right, to a point, but re-read the whole thread again.  I was simply pointing out that it was a good troll when I responded initially as the big fish were already on the line.

The rest of my posts were responding to Stringer's point and MiniD's assertion that this was not a troll and that Beet1e really believes what was written in that article.

Think of me as the Captain's mate...ready with the gaff to actually bring that bad-boy onto the boat.