High School me would have made them regret this system. I was skinny as hell but could consume VAST QUANTITIES

11 year old me, too. I grew 6" in about 4 months but I only weighed about 60lbs when I was done because I was super tiny to start. My mom said our food bill roughly doubled that summer because I was eating about 4 servings at every meal. Could’ve fit my scrawny ass in that 100% off section probably and then gone ham on a buffet.

When I was 14, I grew 10" that year. At the end of the year I was 6’0 tall and weighed 145lbs.

We did a Calorie counting unit in PE that year in school. I was eating on average 6,000 calories per day across 8 meals.

Puberty is fuckin wild. I wish I could still eat like that.

Ham on a buffet, you say?

Me in college. About 5’11", 135lbs, all tone all the time from climbing and biking several hours every day. I spent a lot of time just trying to eat enough food to keep up

7 plates in I would have made a masscre of the general Tso’s chicken. It doesn’t matter where anyone comes from… They all serve it at the buffet

General Tso was truly the wisest of generals.

Exactly this. My ex-wife was 5’2”, 94 pounds with clothes on. She got us banned from our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. Her diet was “anything not nailed down.” Lots of good reasons why she’s an ex, but I do miss how she could pack away food.

This is my brother now, in his mid 20s. His metabolism is out of control. I’m pretty jealous.

Like me all my life until my 30s, I can still easily eat a LOT but I gain weight, not a ton but not super skinny no matter what anymore.

Yup, I was 6’3 145lb and I ate 2x 1lb burgers once.

Then I got to 23yo and my metabolism came to a shrieking halt.

Don’t qualify, too tall, can’t fit under sign.

I can lean far enough to the side to wiggle under.

Yeah, fat almost 40 year old me can never do ann all you can eat. If I did one it would be a full plate one or two plates. Teens/20’s me would marauder the all you can eat I was also doing 2-3 sports at a time but still. Thin young people are gonna eat more than us old fat fucks. I remember doing it at Golden Coral and Ponderosaas a kid

I said this above, but there’s a reason for that. Thin people can eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach can expand more due to having less fat to push against.

This was me also, though my eating was highly irregular. I’d eat basically nothing all day, then a baby size kebab in the afternoon.

I was like 175cm/60kg until late 20s

I wasn’t but similar thing: while I’ve put in a lot of pounds as I get older, I eat much less than younger me. I don’t think this gate would have the desired effect

Although I’m more annoyed at the height discrimination.

Too tall. NO DISCOUNT FOR YOU!

Wheelchair? No discount for You.

I like how this kind of implies that they want you at the 20-30% discount mark. Too fat? Stop eating. Too skinny? Please, gorge yourself on the house!

At 20-30% off you are paying only 70-80% markup. The 10% off guy is getting 90% markup. No restaurant would create something like this if they weren’t marking up the menu to start with.

You don’t think about how much extra you are paying because you are too busy thinking about the discount you got squeezing yourself through a sign.

This was my first thought after seeing this.

Thank god.

I almost had the urge to write down for our fellow americans: It is not always about the money.

Almost. Aaand I think i couls have used hussle here.

so kids eat 50% off and babies are free?

Sounds like a good deal for kids but I could never eat a baby even it was free.

haha, I see what you did there mate.

You know “the old reddit switcheroo” was one of my first times spending hours on that site. It’s the little things like this that entertain me.

“Babies taste best.”

It’s always free to eat the babies.

I don’t know where you are from It costs money to get good baby where I am.

Yeah, it’s like with pigeons.

I feel like growing teenagers are a massive exploit here.

As sad as it is to say, I’ve seen lots of kids who would only be able to go through the 20, maybe 30 :(

Not the pugsly ones.

I’ve always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.

imagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms

I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket

I can see a class action lawsuit if they ever switch to that. And I imagine there wouldn’t be that risk if airlines had priced their tickets based on weight from the very start back in the Roaring Twenties.

Said by someone who hasn’t thought this through at all.

People would intentionally dehydrate themselves to save money, it’s dangerous.

If you’re so poor you have to dehydrate yourself pre flight to save 2kgs of weight you shouldn’t be spending your money on plane tickets.

that’s amazing! I wonder why children got a further discount. I wonder if it’s a coincidence they are no longer flying.

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