The "My Sharona" guy died.

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The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger dies

Doug Fieger, leader of the powet pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57.

Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker.

Made all the more shocking to me because I was reading an article about Kevin Smith being too fat to fly when I found out.  "Kevin Smith's too fat.  Also, My Sharona guy's dead."  Here's a blurb about Smith:

Southwest apologized to Smith on Twitter and issued a statement on its blog, under the title, "Not So Silent Bob." The airline said Smith had purchased two tickets, as he often does, but when Smith decided to fly earlier on standby, only one seat was available, and he was told to get off the plane after he was already seated.

[Rama]

Smith really isn't that big though. Tubby yeah, but not butt is spilling over into the guy next to me seat fat.

And that is said about Fieger. That song started the 80s sound, not unlike Smells like Teen Spirit did the Grunge Era.

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Good thing he wasn't also wearing a miniskirt.

[Fiero]

I was listening to a couple of guys talk about Kevin Smith on the radio earlier, and they had some good points.

1. He was already in the seat, with the armrests down securely and a bag stowed.
2. The ruling on being too fat is subjective. There are not concise guidelines, just pilots and attendants eyeballing it.
3. There were more but I forgot.

Ah, My Sharona guy, we know you for nothing else.

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I recall his cousin saying she had a crush on him. 

And I agree with 1 and 2.  Subjective standards blow giant, hairy balls.

[Rama]

Yeah they should have scales like the flume ride at Six Flags.

[Faye Valentine]

Southwest apologized to Smith on Twitter and issued a statement on its blog, under the title, "Not So Silent Bob." The airline said Smith had purchased two tickets, as he often does, but when Smith decided to fly earlier on standby, only one seat was available, and he was told to get off the plane after he was already seated.

I was going to make a thread about this but got lazy.
I think that policy is so stupid. They are in the US, that means that what, 75% of the people that travel are going to get kicked out cause of overweight?
Although I do agree that if I got someone super fat sitting next to me , and he/she didn't let me put the arm rest down, I would be bitching. And God forbid if I was between him/her and the aisle.

Edit: Now that I'm fat I would have thought that I had more sympathy for overweight people, but its completely the opposite. Everytime I go up a set of stairs and start breathing like an elephant, when I can hardly bend down to put my shoes on, when I get tired after walking for a while or when I try to wear something that is too tight that makes me feel uncomfortable I think: "why the fuck would people do this to themselves".

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For a variety of reasons.

[The D]

When did Faye get knocked up? Did I miss the memo?

Does she know who the father is or do we have to do the whole Maury paternity test thing several times?

[Faye Valentine]

I went there last week, it was between Johnny Depp and the Absolut Hunk

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

IDE and his inebriation aura have struck again!

*dodges torrent of Peruvian tomatoes*

I was watching NightLine last night, and they were talking about the Kevin Smith thing. They interviewed the head of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, who was all "fat people have feelings and need extra care" and fat is beautiful, and then they interviewed the head of some anti-fat group whining about how fat people want special privileges and how the policy is good and that people need to be educated about healthy living.

The fat chick needed somebody to slap her ass and ride the wave to the front side so they could properly scream in her face how idiotic her position of "fat acceptance" is and that there shouldn't be a fat advocacy anything. The anti-fat chick, one of those waifish fitness freaks, needed to be told that fat people don't want special privs, just to be treated equally and not like they have the Plague. They don't need education, either...most have sense enough to know the lifestyle is unhealthy. They're just too sorry or don't have the willpower to do anything about it.

Just two ignorant and unattractive women who are too ridiculous to live. The bottom line is, if you're too fat to fly, pull a John Madden and take a bus. But if you're big but still fit, you should fly wherever you want if you paid to.

[Fiero]

This is not meant to be contradictory, but Kevin Smith has flown in a single seat plenty of times and passes whatever silly standard most pilots think there is, but usually buys two tickets anyway for his own comfort. Good on him.

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Re: Nightline

Was it this one?

LOL  Kevin Smith = Rosa Parks.
Even that chick's nose was fat.

And the skinny bitch is all "Fat people might have sunk Sully's plane, OMG".  WHAT. A. BITCH.  Are you fucking serious?  And blaming fat people for her more expensive airline tickets?  Was the economic climate of the last two years completely ignored by her as she dilligently toned her tight little ass?  And calling people "infantile" for wanting to sit on a fucking plane?  WHAT. A. BITCH.  She's fighting the wrong battle.  Let's control portions and fix ingredients in our food or add more parks for people to walk in play with.  Let's bring back PE with a vengeance, make gyms available to everybody, stop glamourizing unhealthy body images.  Anyway, I hope a bunch of fat people sit on that bitch.

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Also banning some of the bullshit chemicals and preservatives would be a huge step.

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Tru dat.

[Faye Valentine]

And the skinny bitch is all "Fat people might have sunk Sully's plane, OMG".  WHAT. A. BITCH.  Are you fucking serious? 

Lol that's not true. Pilots chell the weight of the plane every certain number of minutes, to see that it doesn't go over the limit (which most times does anyways but even if it does there's still another limit after that that they certainly won't pass).

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I paraphrased her but yeah, she was all "What if there were fat people on Sully's plane clogging the aisles?  Then the miracle would have never happened" or some crap like that.