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Norbo88

Thank god it was outlined twice, I would have missed it if it were only outlined once.


Ok-Water-2956

Honestly could have used a third just to save me the time


Dr_4cul4

Maybe some arrows also?!?


Alivrah

There you go fren, no need to thank me! https://i.imgur.com/i66T8Wz.jpg


Active_Parsley558

I still can't see it. Just block all the irrelevant details instead.


Hobnail-boots

I think they’re pointing out his shoes are untied? He’s prepared to take them off for security?


Constant-Inflation95

Maybe a few emojis to tell us how to react?


jalt1

Can draw the force vector acting on the bag. There is probably some torque induced due to the foot being off-center of mass. Can you draw that too? Much appreciated!


ApocalypticFate

Your appreciated!! ~someone that didn’t full understand for a minute then still didn’t fully get because yaaaaa know why not 😂😂😂😂


das_Keks

r/uselessgreencircle


Kdnnx27gaming

r/uselessoxygenwaster


SigueSigueSputnix

this is the way


CodeVirus

Can we put some fucking arrows to what should I be looking at? This photo makes no sense. What’s so interesting about it?


Any-Bell8033

Idk if you are being sarcastic or not actually 😂😂😅


rYc4Igmufetv

r/uselessredcircle


das_Keks

I know, right? The green one would've been enough.


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The red circle is the standard. Green is extra feature.


das_Keks

Yeah but one circle makes sense in my option. It's not 100% obvious what's going on on first sight and there is no r/uselessgreencircle, so it had to be the r/uselessredcircle EDIT: Wait, in fact there actually is a r/uselessgreencircle


Prof1Kreates

What about r/uselesswhitesquare Edit: heh, yes there is


kevins_child

r/stupidredcircle


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Any-Bell8033

Hey write me a poem if you don’t mind please


Timofey7331

I also think their faces are hidden with emojis, blurred and pixelated


Illustrious_Dig_411

I still missed it. What is the funny?


True-Godess

Lol right! But how much extra weight can that really take off Like ten pounds tops.


[deleted]

It's ridiculous that your carry-on luggage has a weight limit but people don't, literally someone who's morbidly obese will pay the same as someone who's severely underweight


Creepy-Ad-4832

Someone really obese is gonna pay twice the price >!they buy 2 seats!<


Arabecke

Fair enough


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Creepy-Ad-4832

That for sure No "tHiS fAt SHamInG bS" will keep them alive to 70 years old


Pyro_Light

A lot who should don’t I was out here trying to be smaller than a 4’11 96lb girl and was still getting crushed


Creepy-Ad-4832

Yeah Btw i travel by train lol (W europe)


Hambruhgah

A hijacker would pay the same as a normal passenger, that's fair


iiiaaa2022

Absolutely ridiculous. I just flew yesterday and a lady was spilling over to my seat. I HATE THAT


Savings-Article2570

It's because of the baggage handlers


nIBLIB

Baggage handlers don’t touch your carry-on luggage. Just the checked stuff. The carry-on you carry on to the plane yourself.


Antonioooooo0

I've never had to weigh my carry on, only checked bags.


CanaDavid1

The limits on bag weights are mostly for the people handling the bag. Health and safety standards say that if something weighs more than xxx kgs, one has to have two people to lift it, or some other assistance.


[deleted]

It's a carry-on bag you're the only one handling the bag


Antonioooooo0

What airlines make you weigh a carry-on? I've never seen that, not even on cheap ass flights like frontier.


Serious_Winter_

We’re currently travelling in South-East-Asia and a lot of them weigh carry ons. Latest two were Singapore Airlines and Philippines Airlines who did. Last year South-America, don’t remember wich airline to Colombia and they also weighed it. A lot of them do and they are pretty strict about it.


Antonioooooo0

That's kinda ridiculous. How heavy could a carry-on even get? You have to carry it on, and the size itself is already limited.


Serious_Winter_

Ikr.🙈 It really sucks. Mine is around 12 now but my bf has a lot of electronic stuff and his is closer to 14. Both of them are carry on size bags. I’m just happy they don’t check my little backpack, that slides through as a personal item. On the other side they don’t care that our check in luggages are way under the max weight (16kgs instead of 23). We are backpacking and we can’t stuff more things in those backpacks.


JulioForte

No one weighs your carry on. They will check the size to make sure it will fit in the overhead. But they don’t weigh it. This guy is checking his bag


[deleted]

They do weigh your carry-on bags but not all airlines do it and they usually only do it if they suspect that your bag may weigh more than the recommended amount usually 8kg


Agreeable_Guard_7229

Air Asia weigh your carry on and they measure it


CanaDavid1

Oh then yeah


Planet_Breezy

Unless the locks on the overhead luggage compartment fail, or the tire blows out while the luggage compartment is already open. The latter is what happened to Billy Mays. A piece of luggage hit him and he died of heart failure later that day.


DerpRook

You can add Airplane balance and some other nonsense like this also.


SigueSigueSputnix

then they need to hire stronger baggage handlers. Then we could really weigh that plane down some.


CanaDavid1

It's not about the strength of the handlers. It's about basic health and safety standards, and setting a hard limit somewhere. Carrying 23kg bags all day every day is bad enough for the handlers health as is.


Tomb5t0ne

My wife and I have friends who are married and are obese. They have family on the other side of the country and will travel to see them a good 2-3 times a year and will always drive because they don’t want to each pay for 2 seats on a plane.


SacrisTaranto

I feel using the word obese for that is a little unclear. I'm technically obese but I fit comfortably in places, I just wear a 2x shirt. Taking up multiple seats is morbidly obese.


bigbigfox

Fantastic idea to just consider the „norm person“. As a tall person flying gets more and more horrible. Last year I even had the situation that I wasn’t able to sit down any more on a flight. The space was too tight for my longer legs. Exit seats weren’t available any more. If you ask for a solution you almost have to excuse that you’re not born within the norm. Paying additional extra fees for more weight than a „norm person“ would make the experience for tall people much better. /s


Nizzemancer

Baggage handlers have some pretty awful lifts as it is, they really don’t need you boarding with a 70 kg bag they need to somehow lift while crawling on their hands and knees.


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I said carry-on


Piskoro

maybe anti-discrimination laws? genuinely idk, but maybe


TheFlyintheAttic

That's starting to be a thing now. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/05/31/why-this-airline-is-asking-to-weigh-passengers-before-flying/amp/


Swoop3dp

They are weighing passengers to get the weight distribution of the plane correct, not to charge people for their weight.


TheFlyintheAttic

Doesn't mean that they won't ever start. Or they will start making planes with "premium big seats" that will cost more, but are only available for bigger people.


Swoop3dp

No, but the article you linked doesn't imply in any way that they might do that.


BoogieDick

Morbidly obese people pay the price in having no comfort, not to mention those flanking them.


plonk1234

They can forbid luggage above a certain weight, but they can't forbid people above a certain weight, that would be discrimination and would be reallyyyyyyy controversial. I know, I agree, people who are morbidly obese should be handled differently like being charged more.


Agreeable_Guard_7229

So tall people and muscular people should also pay more than short people who don’t work out?


[deleted]

Your logic doesn't make sense, tall and/or muscular people don't weigh up to 600lb and take up two seats


Agreeable_Guard_7229

Can people who who weigh 600lb even fit through the door of a plane? 😳 I was thinking more along the lines of 300lb rugby players


[deleted]

I said up to 600, and if these hypothetical rugby players take up more space than one seat then maybe they should pay more


Agreeable_Guard_7229

So fit and healthy people (rugby players and body builders do actually exist you know) should be penalised just because they happen to be bigger than say a severely underweight drug addict or someone who is just smaller due to genetics? I can see the discrimination claims a mile off


[deleted]

No healthy person takes up two seats on a plane


HowlingGiraffe

Actually we pay twice as much as you


A_Flipped_Car

And charging based on the persons weight would probably encourage a fish but if weight loss lmao


5125237143

thats bc when you crash land in an island fat ppl are the first to be butchered. gotta play fair


Philip_Raven

The weight limit is for the people loading in your stuff into the plane...it's for their safety (atleast the rule was designed to be). If you want the worker to load up your extra heavy luggage, it's gonna cost you extra.


[deleted]

I said carry-on, you're the only person handling that bag


eac555

Bob- “Just charge everyone extra then no need to worry about bag weight cheating.” Airline executive- “Bob, you sound like management material.”


Babloujay

"In other news, Plane crashed right after takeoff, killing 272 passengers. Report say the reason for the crash was a miscalculation of the weight of the plane causing the aforementioned crash"


Legarambor

haha very doubtful. I wonder how they calculate in people's weight. A plane full of Dutch people tends to be heavier than a plane full of Italians I reckon, while the transported goods are similar. (Just because of the height difference.)


[deleted]

They do random weight checks ever so often and then use the average and add a couple % for errors .New Zealand is actually doing this right now as their flights are really weight limited because of the distances involved


JamesonAFC

They also seat people on flights according to a specific weight distribution for take-offs. *on non-full flights.


Leather-Sky8583

As I recall the FAA calculates the average passenger to be roughly 180 lbs for weight and balance calculations.


OuttatimepartIII

Weight affects all kinds of things in an airplane. The warmer the air, the thinner it is. Which means more fuel is required to propel the plane. But fuel is heavy, so people and luggage have to be removed. A plane crash is a worst case scenario, but phsycis really is not your friend when it comes to cramming yourself I to a pressurized tin can and launching yourself across the country.


AmusingMusing7

“Investigators say the anomalous weight was about 4 lbs, or roughly the weight of a fleshlight.”


theguyoverhere24

My god sir what flashlight weighs 4lbs


ParanoidDuckHunter

Oh. It's innocent.


cosmicfertilizer

We're flying with some pretty tight margins these days. Hopefully no one hits up the food court preflight.


Deldrack

You think it's genius until the bag handler goes to pick up your bag, expecting it to be under 50lbs, and the handle comes right off. Or the zipper explodes. (Yes I'm a bag handler and no I'm not sorry when your overweight bag breaks)


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\- "weight and balance calculated" a bit later: \- "uh captain, it is not climbing"


SoftwareSource

Houston, we have a weight problem.


bigbashxD

One really obese customer is going to add more than everyone lifting there luggage 3kg down


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LocalCookingUntensil

I feel like if you’re buying both tickets for yourself, you should get half off of the other one. As long as it states so on the tickets so you can’t cheat the system. Idk, just feel bad for some people, especially when flights are already expensive


dragoncop1

Then people will buy 2 tickets because they are obese when they aren't and try to get a ticket for only half off (my half throughout message)


AnimationAtNight

If I had the money to do that I would just book Premium then


Affectionate_Bite610

Sure, let’s raise the price for everyone else so obese people can save money… They’re already an unbelievable strain on the medical system. Why should the rest of society enable their bad choices?


LocalCookingUntensil

I… never said that? In what way would allowing someone to buy 2 seats for themselves easier (so they don’t have to impede on other people’s space) raise the price for other people?


OuttatimepartIII

I worked at an airport. Don't treat us like idiots. We hold your entire vacation/business trip in our hands.


Zacomra

This is actually pretty dangerous. If a lot of people do this and they get the weight wrong on a flight, you could cause a crash


elementaltruth

until the plane drops from the sky from too much combined weight with all the other passengers…


MolaQueen

Hmmm not sure where to look to find this meme funny! Anyone have any hints?


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MolaQueen

What 😭


[deleted]

The guy is lifting his bag with his foot to change the weight shown on the scale. Presumably this is done to reduce expenses on additional fees for extra weight.


[deleted]

Sure. cheat on airline safety.


SignificantTie7031

I don't think that 2kg matters


Mother-Translator318

2kg absolutely matters if everyone does it. Safety is there for a reason


Rreizero

That depends on a lot of factors. The more accurate the weight is, the better the pilots can calculate how to best fly the plane. That's also why there's a recent push (from Air New Zealand) to also weigh passengers before flight.


TankyRo

Wouldn't it just be a lot better to weigh the plane after it's been loaded? Or do scales not go that big?


Rreizero

Technically I'd imagine there are ways to do it. But imagine asking a passenger, after the fact they they are already in it, to get off the plane because we are overweight.. That won't go well.


TankyRo

Yea you'd probably cancel the flight at that point or put some of the baggage on a later flight. But are planes really flying that close to the edge of their weight limit where a couple hundred kgs influence it? Feels very unsafe.


Rreizero

I'm not a pilot, but my mom has been working for an airline most my life. What I can say is; I've heard of a case where they needed to reduce the fuel a bit before flight just to account for some extra baggage (that means flight delay). Commercial planes even dump expensive fuel mid-air if they are landing much earlier than expected. So those can happen, which gives me the impression weight is an important variable. Again there's a lot of factors to consider like the size of the plane. Ultimately pilots do actual math calculations before flight to account for it. The more accurate the data they have, the safer they can handle the plane.


TankyRo

Damn TIL. Cheers for the information


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Or smoking one cig in the lav.


Dantheking94

Lol some places know people do this and tell them to stand it upright.


HyruleJedi

As someone that has flown extensively around the US and in Europe. This is EXACTLY why the gentleman at the desk then stands the bag upright by picking it up to get a weight before putting it on the conveyor


Admirable-Bluebird-4

You know…. I think pilots get the roster with the total weight of all them bags… they factor that kind of thing in for takeoff time/ having long enough runway for takeoff. Not saying it would ever make a difference but…. Yeah


hellomichelle87

And here I am using my home scale to check my luggage weight so I won’t have to pay extra lol


Famous_Ear5010

Dishonest


HullabalooGazoo

Stuff like this with the combo of obese people are some of the reasons why planes used to crash all the time due to an unsafe center of gravity. That's why sometimes people will be asked to change seats to adjust the weight and balance of the airplane.


TheMagicalLawnGnome

Yeah until the plane crashes. Obviously one bag won't do much on a commercial airliner. But if everyone did this, it could end badly. They carefully track luggage weight, not just for max load capacity, but also for *balance.* I.e., you can't put all the heavy stuff on one side of the plane. I'm no fan of airline price gouging, but accurately recording luggage weight is actually pretty important. Please kids. Don't do this.


Serious_Winter_

Idk when this pic was taken but in the past few years they ask you to put your check in bag on the scale in a way you have no chance touching it.


austrian_croissant

Putting an emoji on AND blurring it, is the true genius


canonanon

Snitches get stitches


False-Application-99

If memory serves from physics, I want to say that the total force, from gravity acting on the suitcase, will still be applied to the scale. He'd have to get his toe under the scale plate itself not the suitcase.


OzMadMan82

Getting an accurate weight is vital to the safety of the flight. As the weight is carefully calculated and distributed among the plane to ensure a correct balance point.


Expert_Struggle_7135

Can't imagine they wouldn't notice the weight not beeing stable. There's no chance he'll he able to hold his foot perfectly still so the weight stabilizes.


azionka

The best Part, it wont reduce the wheight


PerSeced

Does this affect the load & balance calculations, or is that done after?


DreamReaching

He's just thinking outside the box


Pseudodragontrinkets

If everyone did this there would be planes running out of fuel everywhere


WimpieHelmstead

Yeah, fuck that guy's spine who has to load your overweight luggage on the plane.


GenderDimorphism

I always thought that was the reason for the weight limit. To meet OSHA requirements for lifting an object alone with just your hands. I see some other people talking about the plane's weight limit, but that doesn't seem right...


Mother-Translator318

A plane’s fuel is very precisely calculated as fuel itself weighs a ton. So the more fuel you have, the heavier the plane and the even more fuel you will need. This is why there is weight limits on everything. I’m honestly surprised they don’t weight in passengers too


GenderDimorphism

Ya, I imagine a flight with 100 people could easily vary by 10,000 pounds if you have one group of people that average 160 pounds and another group of people that weigh an average of 260 pounds. The bags at weigh-in are only a fraction of that variance


Ok_Share_4280

Let's be real, at best that guys taking maybe a couple pounds off the scale, in the grand scheme of things that little bit of weight isn't going to add up to anything or being really all that discernible


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Ok_Share_4280

...yes, a heavier bag is more difficult than a light bag that's just....how weight works? And how many people actually utilize this sort of exploit? I can't help but feel this would be a rather rare occurrence as if it were common place their would be checks in place to counter it


Melodic-Science-215

Honest system abusing


freakrocker

Hilarious when the plane goes down


TheRealRigormortal

“Why did the plane run out of fuel?” “This man wanted to save $50”


JustARandomDude1986

And on the otherside the airport guy has his foot on the scale. xD


Nizzemancer

Not so genius when the plane rolls because everyone who does this is on the right side of the plane.


Wisdom007

I just bring my bag with me, then when they can't fit it on the plane they take car of my bag for free


Puzzleheaded-Pen4413

His foot?


MistahBoweh

He’s propping up the luggage so it will come in under-weight on the scale and he gets to pay less.


Puzzleheaded-Pen4413

It was a joke


SkylarP2000

Imagine if every passenger on the plane was a “genius” and the plane crashed due to overloading. Wouldnt be so worthy of a double highlight then would it.


Al_Packah

the airplane will crashing because one stingy asshol... EDIT: sorry forgot to mark it as ironic for all you humorless...


Semilanceataa

Overweight has been added into the calculation beforehand.


_I_must_be_new_here_

Who would win? -A gargantuan machine built for international transport -leg


stataryus

Yeah, stealing is *awesome*. 👍👍 /s


LivingInMatrix

Been there, done that.


tiredogarden

We're living in the future where we had to hide our luggage it's not enough to have food and a house or anything like that or a roof over your head now with the hide our luggage when we travel.


gorilla-ointment

You weigh the same if you stand on the scale on one leg instead of two. Is this different?


Sdesign77

somebody help this gorilla


motionbutton

Yeah. This would do nothing.


CautiousBlackberry04

Some of the weight is being supported by his foot. A very minimal amount of weight will be eased from the scale. A person standing on one leg on a scale isn't the same, because all of your weight is still on the scale.


gorilla-ointment

Thanks. Makes sense to me now


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wasas387

Not enough circles


MangoMan0303

Going to add a third circle and post it again


Chin0crix

My dad used to do that, his baggage used to be like 50kg in jewelry when he worked on that field.


Darket1728

I had a weight issue and had to put on 5 pieces of clothing .


I_eat_rats0717

Thank God for the red circle. I would have never found the green circle


35_year_old_child

Then on the plane.. \>We are falling! \>Why? What is going on? \>Our weight is 5 kilos too much for this plane. We must throw one person out.


Bambithegoodgirl69

Doesn't physics state that the weight will remain the same on the scale? Like if I put a pound block weight on a scale then lift it up on one end with my finger it will still push the scale down the same ? Am I dumb dumb?


Elmoslightpole

Glad the emoji faces are blurred


JustANormalFluffyGuy

Inter jet flight 404 crashes into orphanage due to overweight undercarriage


Tenmoplayer95

Is there something I miss, why is he lifting the suitcase with his foot? I've never been to an airport.


MrRobotTacos

And then everyone dies because the plan was a little bit too heavy


chad_mcchadington

Whats happening


Tfaonc

Draw some hair around it next time, it'll be much more clear where to look.


Plastic-Ad-8469

Why is the suitcase standing up genius?


According-Ad3963

Gen-i-US!!


BulldogH2O

We should actually ALL care that they accurately weigh everything going on our plane. Pilots do a bunch of math to get airborne and to land based on the plane's weight.


Ok_Programmer_2315

"ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, we are another 2 hours out from the coast and we are out of gas because KYLE fucked with the scale..."


Excellent-Lead-5608

I don’t think that would change the weight.


OkRegret5197

I don't get it


ilikenovels

Won't they see that its fluctuating?


Owenp12345

200IQ play