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May 30, 2012 | 8:33 am

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Originally Posted by rwoman

CNN - Airline squeeze: It's not you, 'it's the seat'

Somehow, I doubt the fact that people tend to be larger than they used to be does not affect the airline seat squeeze...

I am with you. Even Robinette was joking when she blamed the seats.

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Americans are getting bigger, says Kathleen Robinette, who's studied human body measurements for the U.S. Air Force for three decades.

But in general, the problem's "not you -- it's the seat," she says with a chuckle.

City buses, rapid trains, ambulances, wheel chairs, shopping carts/scooters, gurneys, hospital beds.... all are weighed down in the face of bigger American butt.

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