Jenna, Ted and now LARD ASS Chad Will Now Be Charged More Per Flight

$corp · Apr 9, 2013

Volpone said: ↑

You think there might be any chance at all that the first refrigerators weren't available for another decade or two?

Might that have been a big factor in people dying of food poisoning in 1900?
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I'll take garamet's word for it over yours.

Mostly because she was around back then and you weren't.

garamet · Apr 9, 2013

Starchaser said: ↑

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oldfella1962 said: ↑

Amazing - people don't want the government in their lives, but expect the government to deliver healthy food to them I suppose. Should we cut the food up into little chunks for you too? Give me a break!
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Here's a trick question for you: Can you guess what was the third greatest cause of premature death in 1900?
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Wolf attacks?
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Gastroenteritis. And what causes gastroenteritis? you ask: Bad drinking water and tainted food.

And how did the quality of drinking water and food improve? you ask.

Certainly not based on the beneficence of libertarian suppliers...
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Oh noes!!!! EVUL, EVUL, LIBERTARIANS!!!!! THEY'RE RUINING AMERICA!!!!

YUP! Ever since gubmint got in on it, we've never ever had one single case of salmonella.
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Because human error is never a factor in anything, is it?

Starchaser said: ↑

Nor have we ever been involved in war with other countries or stuck our noses in their business or interfered with there democratically elected leaders! Nor have we thrown millions and billions of our tax money at other countries or gave them weapons while people here starve. Yep. Our big bloated corrupt two party (Yeah right) government would never do that, unlike evul, evul, Libertarians.
Just as the American injun how good the gubmint treats them.
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Not sure what any of that has to do with the meat-packing industry, but it's cute how you're suddenly taking a liberal stance when it suits your agenda. I suppose it's a step up from your usual "say it with smilies," but still.

Trick question: What do all human institutions - including government, unless you live in a Borg cube (and, given your propensity for thinking in clichés, one might wonder) - have in common?

No, don't answer that. Just post some more cute smilies and another cliché or two.

garamet · Apr 9, 2013

Something yummy just for Starguard:

It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta. Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference. There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together. This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shovelled into carts, and the man who did the shovelling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste-barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water—and cart load after cart load of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast. Some of it they would make into "smoked" sausage—but as the smoking took time, and was therefore expensive, they would call upon their chemistry department, and preserve it with borax and color it with gelatine to make it brown. All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
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[action=garamet]waits for Starguard to hyperfocus on "Two cents a pound?1!? That's cheap!"[/action]

Dr. Krieg · Apr 9, 2013

If you have ever had to share your seat with up to 40 lbs of someone else's love handles on a long ass flight, you wouldn't have a problem with it. Do I get a discount for having my space invaded by a sweaty fat guy?

Fisherman's Worf · Apr 9, 2013

I'm still of the opinion that if someone is taking up a second seat, they should have to buy a second seat. How is charging them extra for their weight going to prevent their fat from rolling over onto you?

garamet · Apr 9, 2013

Article from two years ago:

Size – the Big Problem

The crux of the problem is easy to state: People are getting bigger, while airline economy seats are getting smaller. The only really comprehensive anthropometric study of airline seats and passengers I've seen, published in 2001 and no longer available online, showed that, even then, regular economy seats were already at least two inches too narrow at shoulder level to accommodate American men comfortably in a full plane. Since then, the men have grown larger while the seats have stayed the same or gotten narrower. Similarly, seats were already too narrow at seat cushion level to accommodate American women.

Americans, as measured, were at least an inch wider than any other national or ethnic group studied. Certainly, some of that above-average girth is due to true obesity and caused by some combination of bad diet and inadequate exercise. But some of the size is based on genetics and nutrition, and medical problems cause others to gain weight regardless of dietary discipline.
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