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When they tell you to try to keep your seatbelts on at all times they are not kidding. I am sure some of the injuries were people like the quoted woman, people that had to take off their seatbelts to move around the cabin, but probably some of them were people that just unbuckled their seatbelts to feel more comfortable.

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I have never understood the claim that seatbelts are uncomfortable. Are y’all cinching them down so hard it cuts off blood flow? At any reasonable tension, it exerts no more pressure than one’s underpants.

I am unconfortable without my seatbelt in the car. The same goes on an airplane. It's only a matter of getting used to it.

It's was quite amusing for me to understand what I'm trying to find a seatbelt in the cinema.

There’s this 4DX theater nearby, that has moving seats. The experience is quite fun, but let me tell you, I wish those seats had seatbelts. Not because I’m going flying, but it vibrates enough to keep me slipping out of my seat.

Depends on your underpants. I've never used a seatbelt that exerted as little pressure as Uniqlo Airism underpants.

(I'm neither large not squirmy, so seatbelts don't bother me in the slightest.)

Yes, they are uncomfortable, if your butt tries to invade the next seat. If you sit properly, with a straight back and your bum at the end (or the start?) of your seat then you can sit like this for hours. Or until you start to lose your legs crammed in the back of next seat, but that is unavoidable for tall people.

People just don't know how to sit (properly), because nobody ever explained them nor they listened.

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