First, he actually mentioned the Haiti thing in the first video (mentioning how when asked about the Conan/Leno thing, he said the Haiti was more important, and so is this). As for the free money … he had already used 3 tickets on an earlier flight (for himself, his wife and her taint, but only he ended up going). He only wanted to use two, but the person he was dealing with printed out all three, and rushed him onto the plane so that if he wanted to get a refund for the ticket he didn’t need to use he’d have to go through a process after getting home. Later, he tried to get home early, and was on a packed flight. He still had two tickets (at premium prices that allow first choice of seats, etc). Because of that he had first dibs on standby, so he got the standby seat, but the plane would be packed, so he would only get one. They still took both his tickets, again rushing him onto the plane and telling him that he’d be able to deal wth it later. Then they took him off the plane almost as soon as he got in. So, after going through all of that, they offer him a 100 dollar gift voucher (which means … you can only spend it at this airline that has been repeatedly rude to you) and let him use the plan tickets he had already purchased to take a later flight.

The woman on that flght was treated with similar rudeness is also someone that spent the extra money to get “better treatment” like being first on the plane and having their choice of seat (in part as a courtesy to not be the “slow fat person” in front of other people. Both of the fatties had spent extra money to be courteous as well as to avoid embarassment. The extra cash spent would normally allow them to get in the plane, grab a window seat and if someone ended up sitting next to them, that would be their choice. In Smith’s case, he’d even buy an extra seat because HE didn’t want people sitting next to HIM, not because he was spilling onto them. And if that is how the company treats people who pay the premium for special treatment … how rude are they to the people paying just the normal fare?

One other thing people may not know, is that Southwest doesn’t assign seating like a normal airline does, so it’s like a greyhound bus basically, you sit where there is an available seat. So you only get stuck next to a fat person on a particularly full flight AND you are one of the last people on the plane.

But hey, he has money and people don’t like his movies, so he should just go on a diet. Because fat.

Why won’t this person that we can easily ignore and yet we keep dedicating posts to shut up?!?!?! I bet by talking about it more it will convince other people to stop talking about it and then he’ll stop talking about it. Because logic.

Wheeling in mirrors is the ultimate in lo fi.

It’s one of those nice “the day is done” post, like the Monster’s Ball on Friday, or Hunt, or You Can Make It Up. Even if any of those regular features aren’t someone’s cup of tea, it’s a nice way of knowing “Ok, that’s the last post until tommorow”.

Running this thing is a great idea. Either you get 5 dollars a month for life for “expenses” while you have a ton of money you can use at some point when people stop paying you. And if the Rapture does happen, you have addresses of everyone that’s gone. Crime spree here I come. Of course it wold be awkward for both parites if you go to pick up a pet to find out that while the person was right about the Rapture, they were wrong about being one of the people that would get picked.

He’s asking for all people who are borderline cases to be treated with a bit more dignity. If they think you might be a little big, they might say something when you are buying your ticket, or checking in, or about to get on the plane. Instead they wait until you are already on the plane in your seat, and so you can’t really freak out about being told to leave. And the whole “our specific rule we tell you is about not being able to put down the arm rests but if you can put down the arm rests that isn’t good enough.”

While he may be being obnoxious about it, it seems like the people at that airport were being rude. Heck, not to be all seriousgum, but it’s nice to see the reset button hasn’t stopped us from hating on fatties.

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