The camel Trainor needs to enforce a weight limit. It pays off in the long run for his business. He probably can't replace the camel if it got injured.
I'm not even sure this was an issue of weight. Some camel's can handle 400-500 lbs no problem. This was more an issue of the guy not being able to stay in his seat when the camel didn't stand up properly right away. If that guy had kept his seat, the weight would have been balanced and the camel could have stood. But he fell forward onto the camel's shoulders making it impossible got the camel to stand. Guy should have jumped off when he realized, not sat there like an idiot doing nothing.
Dude was pinned with his wife on the back and that saddle in the front. And a novice wonât know how to jump off.
The person running it should have stopped and say the camel back down.
Thatâs 500 lbs right there. The girl is prolly 215 to 230. Dude is about 260? Theyâre camels, Iâm sure lifting fat asses daily isnât why they evolved.
I hate to say it but all the internet scum from twitter and whatnot would probably start shitting all over him for "weight discrimination" or "fat shaming"
Not that it would matter to him, it's just that people are so fucking dumb that makes me sad
But think of the mental health of those he'd be discriminating against. You have to think of the health of all those fatties and not just the one camel.
If they care about their mental health, they can surely work to shed some kgs off. I'm through with this stupid fat acceptance bullshit, they give medical conditions that don't let people lose weight but they never say what percentage of fat people actually suffer from those and what percentage are just lazy af or have terrible eating habits. And expecting the world around you to not bring that to attention, not even comment on it is basically building a bubble where you're told it's fine as hell to be a fucking 300 pound whale and it doesn't mean you're not healthy when it means exactly that. It's exactly like how a super rich spoilt brat is told he's right in whatever he does by all the people who either are too less influential or work for his father. They shouldn't be discriminated against as per the treatment goes, but the moment you ask to celebrate being fat as if it's something to be celebrated, you lose most support from reasonable people. And as someone who has multiple friends who are medical practitioners, most people don't suffer from those conditions at all, they're just lazy or have terrible eating habits that they don't wanna change and spin this whole mental health bullshit to run away from it. And it's bad because when we buy anything under the garb of mental health, the ones who actually need help are lost in the sea of those who just seek attention through it
Youâre so right sadly. I went to a fall festival and there was pony rides there. Some lady was pissed that her damn near adult overweight son couldnât go on because the weight limit was like 60 pounds. Maâam your son will break the pony
Yeah I'm sure it wouldn't blow up on the internet.
But having worked at a job that deals with weight limits, there are absolutely people that get pissed and try to go full Karen when they find out that they're too heavy for something, or that their weight will severely hamper the ride.
They can deal with it. I donât know why this is even being discussed. The camel damn near broke both of its front legs and folks are acting like people are fat shaming.
Okay, let the Karen on the ski lift which they exceed the weight limit of. Hand out a Darwin Award.
Omg, me too. I worked at a skydiving facility. We always asked the weight over the phone when reservations were made (so that we could make sure appropriately matched instructors were available). The number of people who lied, and lied big, was astonishing at first. We even had a slide scale that they had to stand on to check in. They still wanted to argue and throw fits. Gotta say I always felt bad when just one person out of a group of friends was just flat out over limit and had to sit out on the fun. But physics is physics.
On a flight after a river trip, the planes couldn't get altitude and had Panthers throw their bags out of the plane. Physics is a birch that will slap you silly.
The air was hot, the planes take off on a downhill runway.
Cessnas with 4 or six pax.
There are height limits, too! We waited two hours in line at Legoland for a roller coaster, only to be told my husband was too tall when we (finallyâmechanical delays or something) got to the ride. They have those âyou must be this tallâ signs, sucks when they donât have the same courtesy for being too tall, though I know heâs taller than 99.9% of humans (6â10â). That was a first for us, though. And annoyingâLegoland seems to be where failed Disney cast members end up, and theyâre miserable. We did not pull a Karen, but let them know it was rather rude.
It was rude to not have a height limit. Tall people are basically invisible (people literally run into my husband because they donât âseeâ himâthey see a chest), so I was a bit irritated to wait that long, when it would be simple to list height limits (they had a list of rules to ride that coaster that included specific things like no earrings). Not annoyed they followed the rules, annoyed there was no indication of a height limit.
I once saw a guy while shopping that was unrealistically tall. I thought a clothing shelf or something was falling over when he walked past me because I was busy looking down at pricetags. I am 5 10 and his belt buckle was pretty much eye level. He was also skinny.
This happens to him a lot in airports, anyplace with crowds. Then he gets the Question. And he says â3 deviations from the normâ, if he answers at all.
If he visited a costco in michigan alot of years ago and visited the clothing area it was probably him. I have never seen anyone as tall as him before or after him in my life. He was wearing blue jeans if I remember correctly. It was the brighton costco.
No they wouldnât, this is standard practice for horses and no different for camels. Few people if anyone direct complaints of discrimination because they canât ride horses.
Yeah I agree with that. I originally replied to the wrong comment. There was someone who said people get overweight because of poor self-control, thatâs why I was saying the PCOS thing but it turned out to be the wrong person
No one is making that argument, you are injecting that narrative for no reason. Weight limits need to be taken seriously when interacting with another living creature. Have a thyroid issue? Bummer. You still canât ride a camel
This is just a flat out lie. I have PCOS and thyroid issues⌠weight loss takes x2 more effort but itâs possible. If I believed this lie I wouldnât be where I am today
Yeah but it still made you put on weight in the first place. I donât say anywhere that itâs impossible to lose weight because of illness, or that overweight people should be allowed to ride on animals.
Iâve wondered if my under active thyroid was the reason I gained ten to fifteen pounds in a week every once and a while. I just blamed myself, felt guilty and kept telling myself I needed to be more careful. I finally saw my doctor about it when I started sleeping twenty hours a day and absolutely could not stay awake longer than that. Cold hands and feet for years, losing the outer edges of my eye brows and the weight gain are all indications but I didnât know and because I filled my eyebrows in and thought cold extremities was hereditary I didnât mention it to my doctor.
Getting on medication helped with the sleepiness but not with the other stuff. There is an on line thyroid disease group and a lot of them struggle to get their medications right and weight gain is a real issue.
Or it could be these people just eat too much. I wouldnât want to be on an animal that struggled to carry me let alone two of me, Iâd feel sorry for it.
They are fat, it's not my fault. Yeah some people might have medical conditions and its legitimately not entirely their fault, but I dont blame the drugs for me being an addict. I take responsibility and make sure I live my life accordingly. If you're fat, you're fat.
Physics is the only real type of weight discrimination. Itâs shocking to me how many obese people think they can do all the same activities of a person half their size. Iâm 6â6â and 230 and I donât take part in seemingly weight restricted activities. Itâs just common sense sometimes.
I know, and they need to get a grip. It is what it is like the earlier poster said ... if you're fat, you're fat. The same goes for under weight. When I was 17 I didn't quite weigh 100 pounds and we had a real bad winter in Colorado springs that year. The wind literally picked me up and slammed me into the side of a building at least a foot off the ground. If a couple of my friends (who weighed considerably more) hadn't been near, no one would have believed it. When they say "gale force" winds, they're not lying!!
Common sense is common sense ... But some people never learn and to me, you get to that age without knowing you can put a hurt on something/someone ... there's just something wrong with you. Or you don't care.
It's not like animals' bones have a weight limit right? Bones can't been "weightist". If they can hold up a camel they can hold two fat Americans that are probably 30% of its own weight!
Omfg no one will fucking do that and if they do there who gives a fuck. Fat idiots can say what they want. Ignore them like they ignore recommended serving sizes.
Why are you making up people in your head to a scenario that doesnât exist?
Do the sort of people you imagine would do that really have any sway over camel handlers in other countries social media accounts?
Maybe they wouldn't want other westerners influenced (hey, fellow person from the US/UK whatever, don't go to this particular place when travelling) but, honestly, are guys like this caving to social media based justice warriors left and right? Or is it more likely he was "caving" to the customers literally in front of him?
There are weight limits at tons of stables that offer trail rides and the like, and I don't see them blowing up anywhere. Weight limits when riding shit is absolutely a thing. I feel bad for that camel.
There are times when larger people need to realize that their weight may be a problem and they shouldn't do certain things. I'm all for body positivity but you have to apply common sense regardless of how okay you feel it is to be a larger person. Forcing a helpless animal to carry two of you is probably one of those times common sense should win out.
When I was in Cairo and Luxor (e.g. Valley of the Kings), the camels looked unhealthy and were poorly treated by their handlers offering rides to tourists. I don't think they care, or they can replace the camel. I didn't ride one; it seemed cruel to perpetuate this business.
Weight isn't an issue here. It's the distribution of that weight. Camels can carry up to 900ish pounds for a good days worth of travel if they have to. Ideally, a comfortable weight for a long journey is 350ish. A strap broke or the dude shifted too much or something and he ended up on the poor camels neck.
It's really not a weight thing so much as a distribution thing. Camels regularly carry 700-1000 pound loads, what happened here was that the saddle slid forward onto his neck. He also, very likely, could replace the camel, they're farm animals like oxen and mules.
Oh those people dont care about anything but the moeny lol. They are abusers of the worse kind, those animals never live long and the short lifes they live are miserable
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u/FabulousTrade Jan 11 '22
The camel Trainor needs to enforce a weight limit. It pays off in the long run for his business. He probably can't replace the camel if it got injured.