being short

being short kinda sucks

fitting in places is cool tho

i'm not super short or anything but i'm still short idk, recently i've started to find myself feeling inadequate for having to look up to ppl sometimes to talk

i wish i was like 2-3 inches taller but i can live with being 5-10

i wish i was 2-3 inches taller so i was 5-10

5'8 isn't that bad

There is a lady at my work who is probably not even 5 feet. She wears big shoes and is still so little. I feel weird whenever we talk standing up. It's awkward. 90% of the time I am happy not to be short but sometimes, esp after hanging with little ladies, I feel gigantic and wish I were small. Only sometimes tho.

Yeah Jordan that's not that short!

I could do with being 3 inches shorter or taller

i know i said i wasn't that short!!1 i'm just saying

that 1 was unintentional

sorry i'm going thru my first bout of body insecurity, it's a weird time for me!! i've come to 1p3

also would rather be a short gay guy than a short straight guy cause at least you can be someone's 'type'

5'4 straight guys have it pretty bad

yeah that's how i excuse myself from doing zero minutes of exercise a week xp

they have to be really charming!

<3 short guys so qed I guess

Aw J it's ok man, we're here for u.

And yeah I was thinking that being a short gay dude is prob easier than being a short straight one.

being short & super skinny was cool when i was younger but now i feel weird about it -- not in a huge way but it nags at me a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STG2AEaSVcU

at what height difference do you all feel shortness

I used to have a friend who happened to look a lot like me but was about half a foot taller, it was very unnerving, I mean not at the time, but now that I think about it, it must have been

i didn't know you were short, j0rdan, but i feel v close to you rn. i hate it tbh.

i guess i'm a girl so it's not as fraught but it still sucks

Short people -- do you sometimes have trouble hearing tall people when they speak????

I would like to be 3 to 6 inches taller.

as a tall person, i sometimes have trouble hearing short people when they speak. but WHO CARES, THEY'RE JUST SHORT PPL AHAHA i think my hearing increasingly sux

how tall r u

he is giant iirc

6'4" and shrinking fast alas

Feelin u / can't hear no shorties.

betwixt 6' & 6'2" is the best for a dude

Dawg how dare you talk this shit when jj barea is wearing a championship ring

for gals i would say 5'5" - 5'7"

I'm 5'9 which is supposed to be average but all of my friends are taller than me :O

short ppl -- every time you see a taller person, are you consciously thinking about how they are taller than you?

I don't. But I'm 5' 7" and don't think I could ever date a girl taller than 5' 4" or so.

I'm 5'6", and I have the legs of someone a foot shorter. (There's bigger problems there than just aesthetic--I have to crawl down a number of things that I should be able to step down from.)

i'm 5'8" but my posture is such crap people take me for like 5'4" which it's kinda shitty for a short person to be thought of as much shorter than they are! like c'mon guys, i made it all the way to 5'8", give me the credit jeez.

I'm 5'4 and I love it, I a happy being a shorty. Have 6'6 flatmate so he can fix all the lights and whatnot. Last bf was about 5'5 so it was adorbs being face to face standing up for kissin.

5'4 is average height for a woman fyi

i researched and deej is actually correct on this one for many countries!

hey jordan fucking get over it

:o

4real

http://www.healthtechmall.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/doctor-shrug.jpg

5'4 straight guys have it pretty bad

― iatee, Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:49 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

hoos is 5'3

i'm over it, but i used to only want to date girls that were 5'0-5'4

v narrow pool

lol

good post by gbx

jj barea that shit

damn, there's like 50,000k posts a month of ppl being insufferable saddos & i catch shit for whining about being short! what a world

thats because a lot of the time ppl are being sad about stuff that is actually important

well i guess that's debatable

oh i thought gbx was jk - stop being mean!

j0rdan i think the idea is more, gbx's is the right attitude to have abt that sort of thing that is out of your control anyway

dude i'm 5'7" i will talk shit to this whiny short man all day long

just ask your taller friends to set hella screens

damn y'all, i'm not like cowering in my bedroom afraid to leave the house cuz i'm kinda short -- just saying... wish i was a lil bit taller etc

being a baller is >>> anyway

at least u ain't balding

and even that is like, who cares

gbx are you sure you're even 5'7" because I am pretty sure I'm taller than you and I'm 5'6".

jordan its okay, leave the house, no one will judge you

i will

i mean, i am, right now

5'4 straight guys have it pretty bad

― iatee, Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:49 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

hoos is 5'3

i'm over it, but i used to only want to date girls that were 5'0-5'4

v narrow pool

lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:44 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im 5'4, it kind of sux, but honestly my life is p good so it seems kind of knit picky to complain

<3 that's the ticket

http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1237589306/me_deal_twitter.png

haha

ok lol if theres one place being taller would really come in handy

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But you can be real fast and sneaky!

y'all's swag is much taller, all of u

yeah i am fast and sneaky, or i used to be fast and now i am 35

im still growing tho

can't believe how short jordan is tho

I'm going to concentrate really hard so I can have a early 30s growth spurt.

im not short or tall, im basically average, just so you guys know

my uncles are 6'8" and 6'10" and my grandmother was 6'1"

let me know if you want to know more about my family and its heights

6'10 is really tall

like im not sure ive met someone that tall

6'8 ive met for sure

u live in new york iirc!

yeah the one who is 6'10" has to basically sleep sitting up. he played basketball w/ bill bradley at princeton

niiice, to the bradley part not sleeping sitting up

Relieved max isn't a freak

My father is 5'3". I'm 6'. Dodged a bullet there. Thanks genetics.

*bullet*

Itt everyone disses hoos

I'm 6'2 but I make up for it by having no other alpha characteristics of note / sucking at basketball + having to justify my sucking

rly good at fouling people on accident tho

also I will own you at soccer (unless you are a foreigner)

i are a foreigner, you will probably own me at football anyway.

being tallish doesn't help me there. plus i slouch so no-one actually thinks i am as tall as i am.

i'm 5'5". hoos and ice cr?m = keeping pretty great company imo.

I am the tallest person in my family

i rarely notice how tall people are unless they are ridiculously tall or a guy my height or less. my last bf was 6'3" and i only ever noticed the height diff when i looked at a photo of us side by side and though omg we look ridiculous together. or adorable, of course. sometimes i thought that.

i'm 5'2" and it rules except when my neck hurts from craning it to talk to giants or i can't communicate with ppl because i can't hear them from way down here

i feel like being tall is a bigger body issue for the ladies

yeah it doesn't bother me at all except sometimes i feel like ppl don't take me seriously. that's probably my fault on a number of levels though.

maybe it would help if i didn't wear a clown suit all the time

i feel like being tall is a bigger body issue for the ladies

i have dated tall ladies and very small ladies and yes :(

xp Or if you stopped communicating your important ideas by honking a bicycle horn.

I figured that would be standard procedure when u work at the circus?

well sure it's just that honk blurp AOOOOGA AOOOOOOOOOGA people have a hard time taking me seriously
i dunno

J0rdan I have met you before iirc, and the thought that you were short never even crossed my mind. i don't think you've got anything to worry about.

and for people that really are noticeably short, it's nothing to feel bad about anyway. People that let someone else's height affect the way they treat them are irredeemable assholes. (i guess i'm pretty bullish on this point because i was the shortest kid in school until 10th grade and had to come to terms with it)

I love short people even though I sometimes feel like a clumsy Godzilla around them.

oh i always imagined you wee, abbbottt.

90% of the time I am happy not to be short but sometimes, esp after hanging with little ladies, I feel gigantic and wish I were small

yeah me too. i had some roommates in college who were v petite and tiny and could be really girly at times, and i felt so awkward by comparison. took me many years to be able to get dressed up on occasion/wear heels/makeup without feeling like a ridiculous fool

I thought I was 5'9" for years but I recently learned that a more accurate measurement of my height is 5'7". It kind of fucked with me!

My best guy friend in high school was 5'3" (or maybe shorter?) and I was always doing things like
- throw a ball and it bounces the wrong way and hits his portable CD player and breaks it
- go rollerskating together and fall on top of him, knocking over him
- trip on some stairs at his house and knock over his even smaller mom
- other clumsy Godzilla things

I am really short and often find it hard to follow conversations and thought I was just developing hearing problems, thank u thread

though, my hearing is deteriorating too (if I switch ears when I'm on the phone the difference in sound timbre is jarring), and I've always found it difficult to follow people over background noise or other people talking, so shortness may not be much of an excuse in my case

in the michael lewis book the big short theres a guy who thinks all his social problems stem from the fact that he has a glass eye, until he realizes that hes autistic

One of many clumsy (6') Godzilla stories:
I was walking down the street with a friend. We were talking and I was so engrossed in the conversation that I wasn't looking where I was going. Two other guys doing exactly the same thing (talking/not looking where they were going) were coming straight towards us. Without realising what had happened, I collided with one of the other guys and sent him flying back onto the pavement. I looked around at him, I'm confused all "what happen?!", and he's "whoa dude! nooooo! don't hit me!" like he thought I was going to beat him up, but I'm "er, sorry man, apologies and all that, I wasn't looking where I was going".

I thought I was 5'9" for years but I recently learned that a more accurate measurement of my height is 5'7". It kind of fucked with me!

height is fluid, you probably were 5'9 at some point and could be again ლ(ಠ益ಠლ

:O

I'm 6'0 and used to weigh like 140 pounds so I got mocked for years growing up.

I weigh about 180 now and still get called 'skinny' even tho my stomach is anything but

i feel like being tall is a bigger body issue for the ladies

― ice cr?m, Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah it doesn't bother me at all except sometimes i feel like ppl don't take me seriously. that's probably my fault on a number of levels though.

― heartbreak beet (La Lechera), Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is actually pretty interesting to me. As I said earlier I like being tall - a lot. I'm either 5'9" or 5'10" depending on who by and when I'm measured and I think that's sort of the perfect tall height for a woman. It's not so tall that it seems freakish but it's tall enough that I reap the benefits. I think that being a tall woman can be a huge benefit in terms of commanding respect and being taken seriously by men. That might sound strange but I think it's a lot easier for people to dismiss small women than it is for them to dismiss taller women and I feel like in certain situations (work, school) smaller female friends have had to work work harder at being heard and taken seriously than I have. In some ways height and physical presense = power and I think definitely benefited from being tall.

presence, rather

Sometimes I wish I were a little shorter because then I could wear cuter shoes and and stuff but then I realize snap out of that and realize that it's awesome. I feel like I had a bigger problem with it when I was younger. I realized this when looking through pictures and noticing that I was slouching in nearly all the ones where I was with friends. Most of my friends were between 5'0" and 5'5" so when I was a teenager I think I was really self-conscious of being the "big girl" but fuck that imo. If I find myself slouching now I make a point of straightening up.

i def give tall girls more respect, because you know im afraid theyll crush me beneath their mighty feet *links to fetish website*

LOL

I'm 5'7", but I think living in the Midwest (where all of these cornfed kids seem to shoot up like weeds) makes me feel shorter than I might elsewhere. I'm often the smallest guy in a room, and occasionally enough one of the shortest people, period. It really doesn't bother me much, though, except for the thing where I've heard a ton of girls express shortness as a dealbreaker. Which always seemed weird to me, as I've dated ladies of many different heights and had no issue. Not with height discrepancies, anyway.

dealbreakers are rarely actually dealbreakers, theyre just another aspect of a mysterious equation, and such is lyfe

This is not uncommon:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/5846148891_4ecdb820c7.jpg

wut up chicago

xxpost

Yeah, maybe most expressions of height as a dealbreaker I've heard were just ways of circumventing the fact that they just didn't want to date me.

Woah. That dude must be seven feet tall tho. Damn.

ha that seems like a pretty shitty way to let someone down easy!

xp

uh oh he'll realize i just dont think we're compatible -- i guess ill blame it on his height

yeah at least if they say "really it's just your personality I dislike" you got some hope

generally when someone calls you a hateful putrid sociopath its just their commitment issues talking

Being a short girl sux when tall girls don't see you and step all over you when you are trying to feel pretty.

i am 5'10". i used to feel pretty tall until i moved to ~europe~, where it feels like even old ladies are taller than me.

max you are not average height.

I think Max is tall. I picture him tall anyway.

max is like 10 feet tall and triple morbidly obese iirc

this issue was addressed on one of the max threads http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=2496345&boardid=77&threadid=67478

max avoids low bridges

GIANT

Woah. That dude must be seven feet tall tho. Damn.

Ha. Missed this. Yeah, it exaggerates the effect somewhat when I'm standing next to the person who is, by far, my tallest friend, if not the tallest person I know.

if not the tallest person in the world

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_34NUPK9ciPg/SKl2SJc9BoI/AAAAAAAAAFE/wWpXGM0Ih3I/s320/Muresan-Gheorghe.jpg

hoos, when I was younger I dreamed of being a short, curly-haired hispanic adult (not my most realistic dream). I just thought it would be baller & I would charm girls all day or something. I was a short kid but idk where that one came from really, but I still think there is a distinct kind of short-swag some guys have, which I appreciate, even tho I am no longer short.

what happend?

lol waht, kids are so weird

I'm trying to think if I'd been impressed by a particular short spanish guy w/ a fine head of curls at any point but I can't think of anyone

http://grab.by/cBIZ

his is hysterical

THIS

being tall messed my posture up. slouching to hear/talk to people, desks and chairs are too short, etc. fair trade off, though, imo.

on an airplane is the best place to be short

was not familiar w/ mr pajo in my childhood but he totally has short swag

http://lyricsfever.net/images/d/david-pajo--img-m7eab74b888c187e858b1cec4df08bd7f.jpg

it would be a disaster if he was tall.

on an airplane is the best place to be short

― ice cr?m, Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or maybe if theres like some saw blade thats cutting everything over 6ft and you cant duck for whatever reason, maybe because youre strapped in or unconscious idk

*links to fetish website*

one time i was on the same plane as the umass basketball team and their center literally could not fully sit down in his seat, they ended up moving him to 1st class but they couldnt do it for some reason until after takeoff so he was kind of half crouched all squeezed into this lil seat, it was kind of lol but mostly sad

yeah but then he got to fly first class just cause he was tall

and he can totally DUNK

a fun game to play is how many years of yr life would you be willing to give to dunk on the reg

at least a year

how many years of yr life would you be willing to give to dunk on the reg

I can't afford first class, but I always get United's Economy Plus. That extra 5" makes a huge difference.

exit row, n00bs

I can never get those. Never avail on united with my status level.

ugh, the Economy Plus -- I wound up ponying up the extra cash for that for the same reason.

like seriously I sometimes pick movie theatres to see movies at based on my knowledge of the layout and the legroom :/

x-post oh those are the best!

i'm 5ft 10 which i guess is average but doesn't feel like it where i come from tbh

yeah if I were 5'10 I would totally move to a country filled w/ leprechauns

haha

lol

would you dudes rather be stephen merchant or ricky gervais?

when i was like 14~15 my best friend who was v short was a subject of this documentary abt being a short male http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26M_Short_and_Male & one of the shoots was me & some other friends hanging out with him goofin around teasing him abt being short, we also beatboxed & wrote a rap about how its cool to be short & that they filmed. at some pt after that while he was doing talking head shots/interviews he got really embarassed bc it was going to be on national tv and told them he thought the whole thing was lame & wished he had never gotten involved, i think in the end they left him out entirely

I like your short story, flopson.

it seems weird to do a documentary about the hardships of being short & include someone that is 14 YEARS OLD

no way, I know tons of short 14 year olds

I was cast as Tiny Tim in our 5th grade production of A Christmas Carol. Entirely because I was the shortest boy in my grade.

wait that doc came out in 2008, how old are you flop?

there are hordes of them, that's why it's stupid, it's like making a documentary about breakfast-eaters.

we might have been a little older i cant remember really

I would possibly watch a doc about breakfast-eaters

ok if the doc was out in 08 maybe we were filming in 07 & i was 16

the movie was about short males of all ages

I think flopson and friends' approach sounds kind and endearing, it has a freaks and geeks tone to it.

breakfast-eaters was a poor example to use on greedy old ilx.

the same friend also once met the creator or director or something of law & order: svu at a dinner party thru his tangentially high-society jewish family and asked him if he would name a character after him, & he did and the character was a rapist!

well he asked for it!

iirc he was still p stoked

lmao jordan

lool

betwixt 6' & 6'2" is the best for a dude

― buzza, Saturday, June 18, 2011 12:25 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tTTAWhhwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

is there an album cover about how short dudes are the best cause like i feel real bad for jordan s(hortie)

c(hortle)

jordan s is taller than me and i don't ever suffer pangs about shortness.

i think jordan s is also taller than bob dylan.

and also jordan s is taller than my dog who does not even reach my knee, sometimes i exclaim at him about that.

youre still awake?! its almost 6 am!

i know it is in some places but for me it's 7.36 pm sunday.

i was worried

i'm a bit disappointed you didn't express your concern by writing a rap about it.

I used to be short. I'm glad I'm not anymore.

I used to be too $hort then...

one thing that sucks about being short is finding clothes that fit you

lol amon

This is actually pretty interesting to me. As I said earlier I like being tall - a lot. I'm either 5'9" or 5'10" depending on who by and when I'm measured and I think that's sort of the perfect tall height for a woman. It's not so tall that it seems freakish but it's tall enough that I reap the benefits. I think that being a tall woman can be a huge benefit in terms of commanding respect and being taken seriously by men. That might sound strange but I think it's a lot easier for people to dismiss small women than it is for them to dismiss taller women and I feel like in certain situations (work, school) smaller female friends have had to work work harder at being heard and taken seriously than I have. In some ways height and physical presense = power and I think definitely benefited from being tall.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a thing i have a complex about in terms of being short but tbf maybe people dismiss me because i'm crazy and it has nothing to do with my height.

That's basically what I meant -- always reminds me of that little bit before Daydream Believer where Davy Jones asks "is it because I'm short?" (or us it just ME?)

one thing that sucks about being short is finding clothes that fit you

this sucks for tall ppl too, ime

really the one thing that sucks about being short & finding clothes is that stuff that's on sale is always L & XL

I'm a short woman and also have a complex abt not being taken seriously. I've always put it down to other looks-related issues rather than height specifically but actually shortness may play into it more than I've realised.

(this is really winding me up at work lately, hence the thread I attempted to revive y/day about bitterness, cz the things which set it off are not going to go away but I was hoping maybe my reaction to them could be tamed. oh well)

i'm the same height as ENBB and it does help as far as being taken seriously. i didn't think about it so much because wherever i've worked, i've been used to generally being about the same height as most of the men. but the guy who's currently the head of my department is kind of soft spoken and probably 6'3 - and i found him pretty intimidating for a while, just because of that. not used to talking to people who are that much taller.

jordan you gotta be kidding, 90% of sales items are for dudes with 30 inch waists ime, gimme the names of these xxxl bargain stores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA

jordan you gotta be kidding, 90% of sales items are for dudes with 30 inch waists ime, gimme the names of these xxxl bargain stores

― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ime its 9-10-11 size shoes, 30-34 inch waists, medium t-shirts that are hardest to find

^^^

i feel like prob everyone thinks their size is hard to find

XL t-shirts are always on sale!

some tiny girls shop in the kids section ive heard

wait i'm talking european sizes

jordan you gotta be kidding, 90% of sales items are for dudes with 30 inch waists ime, gimme the names of these xxxl bargain stores

― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ime its 9-10-11 size shoes, 30-34 inch waists, medium t-shirts that are hardest to find

Yup.

medium size t-shirts, so hard to find.

i found him pretty intimidating for a while, just because of that. not used to talking to people who are that much taller

It's so weird when this happens because sometimes I don't even realize that's what it is at first.

idk height is weird

And that is my profound conclusion to this discussion.

;p

having a long torso means there are basically no t-shirts for me that don't cause Bill S Preston Esq bare midriff awfulness.

I think my posture is messed up from crouching. I hate looking down on people (literally) during convos.

jordan you gotta be kidding, 90% of sales items are for dudes with 30 inch waists ime, gimme the names of these xxxl bargain stores

If you go to outlet stores for fancy menswear brands basically everything on their shelves is 44/46/48 inch chest and 38+ waist - I once asked if they ever had anything smaller and the guy said "oh no, those sell out instantly".

oh outlet stores, right.

I may be fat but i wear from this season, tyvm

lol

I thought most clothes sold in outlet stores nowadays were either seconds or made especially to be sold there.

It depends on the store.

As for height, I am 5'6". I like short, average, and tall men.

so what's the dividing line between 'short' and 'average' - like I think of the 5'7-5'10 range as some kind of DMZ between the two but would be curious what your ranges would be

As for height, I am 5'6". I like short, average, and tall men.

Haha, so discriminating!

Dayo that range is average

Like, average in the states is 5'10, worldwide is 5'9

I guess 5'7 would be " short side of average"

i think the spread is 5'9"-5'10" in uk, maybe an inch taller in europe. any shorter/taller than that and you are a freak imo.

the peoples of the former yugoslavia are the tallest in the world iirc

no it is the peoples of wales

whales are not people man, wouldve thought youd know that being a a scientist and all

the peoples of the former yugoslavia are the tallest in the world iirc

― ice cr?m, Monday, June 20, 2011 1:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

It's interesting that you say that!

My maternal grandparents were from Yugoslavia and my mom is also 5'10". She said she felt like a complete freak growing up because I think overall ladies were even smaller then. She and my dad went to Yugoslavia as part of there honeymoon and she said that she noticed how tall everyone was and was like, "Yes, my people!".

"their" not "there" honeymoon

i am sure i have linked to this on ilx before, but this is full of fun facts http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/04/05/040405fa_fact

goes a long way towards explaining why theyve produced so many good basketball players too xp

whales cant play basketball

I'm the worst height - 5' 11 3/4". How stupid is that.

The only other person I know of at that height is GEORGE WALKER BUSH. We could share the same train car at the county fair.

But I feel for you short dudes. If it makes any difference, I have a hairless chest and no Indian blood to give me an excuse.

I was in the Yucatan for a month, full of those descended from the Mayans, and they're all pretty short. I'm 6' 2" and I didn't see a single person taller than me. I was at a few parties for my GF's family and they pretty much stared at me nonstop. Kids were constantly bugging me. I've never felt like a giant before but it was pretty cool!!

a friend of mine is a 6' redhead who visited ass-nowhere rural china in the late 90s and people treated her like an actual freak. she said it took ages to get down the street because ppl would stop to have their picture taken with her, and she was constantly being asked to come in for food or tea or w/e so ppl could have a braggable experience with the giant ginger weirdo

whales cant play basketball

― ☂ (max), Monday, June 20, 2011 6:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^ underrated post

I'm the worst height - 5' 11 3/4". How stupid is that.

The only other person I know of at that height is GEORGE WALKER BUSH. We could share the same train car at the county fair.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, June 20, 2011 3:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DUDE

i am that height too!

at the DMV when they asked for my height i put down 6' and then i felt ashamed so i switched to 5'11" and 3/4

ha i mean i switched to 5'11", stupid DMV wont let me put in quarter-inches

I told my wife I was six-feet tall when we were getting to know each other.

Then one day she comes to the doctor's office with me and I GOT BUSTED.

i am 5 11

sorry i just realized probably nobody cares about that

I told my wife I was six-feet tall when we were getting to know each other.

Then one day she comes to the doctor's office with me and I GOT BUSTED.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, June 20, 2011 5:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha, i feel too weird lying about it so i go into tortured explanations about how im five eleven and three quarters

Also kinda hard finding pants with a 33" inseam.

i go with 32"

in high school i auditioned for our production of "the miracle worker," and the director said "okay everybody pair off, in this scene one of you will be helen keller and the other will be annie sullivan." i am 5'9" and i got paired with a teeny 5'2" girl, but for some reason we decided SHE should be annie and i would be helen keller. we got maybe ten seconds into the scene before the director laughed at us outright and made us sit down. i ended up being prop mistress.

I finally figured out that old guys wear their pants up too high because they shrink and refuse to buy shorter inseams.

Maybe I'll go with 32 next time.

Surmounted I personally found the fact that you're 5'11" quite interesting. Not that I'd ever thought about it but I think I assumed you were short!

PP i am 33 inseam and 5'11" and change are we THE SAME

what am i chopped liver

oh yeah u

i already know we r not the same, u r a famous writer

yeah but he's only famous for being triple morbidly obese so

Oh man he's TMO now? Damn, son.

it's sad he wasn't even six feet

he must have incredibly narrow proportions to be so obese ad fit in a 32 inseam and be 5 11 and three quarters, like does he have bones or is he just fat upon fat upon fat creating a pseudo skeletal structure

sry max, talkin bout u like u r not here again, didnt notice u there without any bones to support ur body

With an extra 3/4 inch he'd probably be only DMO per the BMI. You ought to grow a little, max.

i hope you're all not having a go at our max because no one does.

just to be clear, i weigh 1m pounds

1 mile pounds

no, million

So who wants to trade pants via the mail? I've got a pair of 501s circa 1990, buttonfly, acid wash. - looking for unreleased plaid nylon Kauffmans, 79-82.

Surmounted I personally found the fact that you're 5'11" quite interesting. Not that I'd ever thought about it but I think I assumed you were short!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, June 20, 2011 6:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha this, but I also thought gbx was like 6 feet! take it as a compliment...I guess?

I always thought guys who were 5'11 would just always round up to 6'. thanks for keeping the rest of us honest!!

I round up in other places.

ha!

i round up to the nearest meter

I was very shocked and surprised when I met gbx and we were the same height as I'd basically started to assume that everyone on the internet was like 6'14"

haha yeah i thought you were gonna be a lot taller, too, probably cuz i figured you'd be jjj sized

I think I did all of my ILX-based height complaining pre-2004

holy fuck I've been here for a while

I suspect you're like Ripley in Alien 4 where your body is 50% integrated with ILX

what country does DJP live in where a feet contains more than 12"!!

America, motherfucker

My driver's license says 5'6, but i think i'm actually closer to 5'5.

I feel like I get called "buddy" more than your average guy because of my size. It strikes me as vaguely condescending.

thanking u, dayo + gbx, for my Tuesday lol

I once did a cool stupid human trick and my friend just blurted "little man!!!!" like it was the most natural thing in the world. so w/e!

scenes from a delivery room

~kudos~

I have to sit on a textbook in order to sit at this desk and use the computer comfortably. Wish I had another one tbh.

lol at plains and max agonizing about being 5'11 & 3/4

feel that this is a shibboleth and that there are no 5'11 & 3/4 republicans

so either assume george w bush was not a true republican or that in anticipation that his presidential medical would falsify any exageration, elected for honesty

5'9" and have definitely thought many times that my life would be objectively better if a few inches taller. But you have to shoot the bullets you have in life. Waste of time to obsess on things you can't change.

When all else fails, make a booster chair out of books or pillows.

At an open mic the other night, I had to pull my barstool out to practically the middle of the floor to see past the heads of all the tall people at the bar. Oh, did I say tall people? I meant to say tall ladies. I was told 5'7" was average dude height but I'm not sure I buy it.

ya maybe in the middle ages

*towers over thread and scoffs*

a giant am0n men

5'9 and i don't mind. underdog mentality.

Swagger comes in all sizes.

lol @ all you short people

Careful, that means the shiv is closer to your entrails.

damn this thread got heated, short people going at each others necks, we need to stick together

i don't feel this insecurity anymore btw... all my friends in chicago are my height for w/e reason

I'm 5'7 but don't mind I just buy boots with thick soles

i actually have no memory of what the source of this was last summer

Jord I'm not your friend but I'm considerably shorter than you are AND I'm in Chicago. Even your extended posse is short.

I'm taller. We can never meet.

damn this thread got heated, short people going at each others necks, we need to stick together

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course, the neck is the most logical place to go at, if you're a head shorter than the other guy

I think I was about 5'5" until my junior/senior year of high school, and some part of my brain still expects me to be shorter than most people. So, I feel you, people who are shorter.

http://www.nextmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/HHC-Hi-res.jpg

human garbage

I think gr80 was like 5'9" 1/2

javier bardem has the head of a 6'4" man tho

Jergins was a little taller

the female ilxors I have met were shorter but not unusually so

how tall is a buzza

harbl and roxy thought I was short
They were wrong
I am tall

i trust harbl and roxy

ask the sandbox crew ; )

What, isn't tom cruise supposed to be like 5"3?

people who play in sandboxes tend to be very short, not sure their perspective is best

5"5 My rump:

http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tom-cruise-short-Tom-Cruise-is-a-midget.jpeg

I think I was about 5'5" until my junior/senior year of high school, and some part of my brain still expects me to be shorter than most people. So, I feel you, people who are shorter.

― mh, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:13 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah same here, i was 5'3" at the end of my sophomore year and came back junior year like 5'7". i'm 6'-6'1" now and still think everyone is taller than me even though in reality i'm at least a few inches over most of them.

I would have guessed Bardem near 6 even!

Bards is reported at 5'11" or 6 ft lots of places online. Not gonna lie tbh, being 6ft tall is pretty f'in cool.

eh, I could lie up to 5'11" if I was standing up real straight

I'm 5'11". It's a pretty sweet height tbh

6' to 6'2" seems fairly ideal to me. trust me, anything above that and life becomes needlessly complicated.

Hey, poor people, in case you were wondering, having a million dollars is pretty sweet. You're welcome.

I'm 5'11" but by brother is 6'4"-6'5" so everyone thinks I'm quite short. Everyone I've met from the Netherlands is at least 7 feet tall.

I'm comfortable enough being able to hide stuff in the top cabinet while also being able to go up in the McDonalds Playland with my kid when no one else is around.

Dad's 5'7". Mom's barely 5'0". I can't complain about being 182.245 cm tall.

(Even in metric, my height is stupid.)

i don't mind being short tbh

I'm 6'4 and don't really feel I can pull off being this tall, I think I'd like to look more inconspicuous. I tend to stoop and hunch, but I think that maybe just makes being tall more noticeable?

today I was dismissed in my cricket match by a dude who was possibly 3'0". He got 4 wickets and his team won

that said, once you're a dwarf there's a different sort of stigma, which it might be easier to own (idk, risky ground here)

I'd like to be about 4" taller.

after I was done growing I spent three years dating a woman easily two inches taller than me who insisted she was at most six foot two so I was like hm guess i never did make six foot

like a month after we broke up i had to have a checkup and the nurse was like dude you're six foot one why did you write five eleven on the form

/:

that story offers further proof that every person in this world, including me, is a nuisance.

<3 short ones

I am beginning to suspect, due to my recent few years' worth of crushes, that I might actually have a preference for short dudes.

you've crushed on Peter Dinklage?

who hasnt

From my observations during my time as a corporate whore, I have concluded that women in senior corporate management are disproportionately:

--super tall
--super smart
--super mean

or some combination thereof. I must have gotten by on just the first. Getting shorter, though--last measurement clocked in at 5'10'', so I don't think I can get away with saying I am "just under 6 feet" anymore.

I'm 5'6 like Cindy Crawford I think that's sexy

― deeja entendu (wins), Monday, December 16, 2013 6:07 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/short-men-make-better-partners

sounds legit

A couple of months ago, I was at a party with the current Object Of My Obsessions, and although I studiously avoided him all evening, I found I had to walk past him to leave. So of course, as I did, I kinda checked him out a bit. And as I was creepily studying him, I was thinking to myself "y'know, he's not as short as I was lead to believe; his head is nearly level with mine." Then I almost tripped over something, looked down and realised he was standing on a step above me.

Still almost unspeakably hott, though.

(I guess, as if being short isn't bad enough, you have to be subject to Branwell's unspeakable lusts. I am so, so sorry to make this worse for you, attractive short dudes of the Earth.)

i am huge

me too

I'm 5'10 1/2" and feel "tall" usually, even though I know this is average.

Damn, all the guys itt bemoaning their shortness who are like 5'7" and up!

I'm 5'5" motherfuckers, behold.

i have a thing for short squat dudes, v tall people kinda freak me out

I'm 5'10 1/2" and feel "tall" usually, even though I know this is average.

― the fucking hellraiser (Treeship), Sunday, 7 September 2014 15:13 (Yesterday)

maybe this should be in the ask treesh thread but why do u think u 'feel' tall if u 'know' you are of average height? is there ideology involved?

white

i'm the same height and feel v. average. walking to the subway there was this group of cologned football coach looking dudes who were all really tall; made me feel short and also wonder if they choose their friends according to height. all of them must've been around 6'2"

that's around my height. that or an inch taller

I'm avg but stand hunched cos of having an enormous head I reckon

Nakh, it has to do with the fact that if you take women into account, 5'10" is taller than like 70% of people. If you take children and the elderly, the number jumps even higher. Also I'm the tallest person in my immediate family by a significant margin

alright. that makes sense. introducing children into the equation really shifts the whole conceptual paradigm in a way i didn't anticipate. still think there might be ideology involved somewhere though.

^Impressive syntax mimic

keep reading the read title like wire's "being sucked in again"

thread* title

^Impressive syntax mimic

✓

conceptual paradigmquake

Damn, all the guys itt bemoaning their shortness who are like 5'7" and up!

I'm 5'5" motherfuckers, behold.

But you're an adorable 5'5"! we were a modern day Mutt & Jeff as we walked around NYC.

I had forks to keep me company in the lower strata.

And I'm just a big dude, no matter how you define it.

Markers is tall and I always forget that. I think every time we've met I've been surprised and asked how tall he is again.

I'm 5'10 1/2" and feel "tall" usually, even though I know this is average.

― the fucking hellraiser (Treeship), Sunday, September 7, 2014 3:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same height, but I rarely feel like a particularly tall person. This is probably half down to proportions and half down to terrible posture.

i went to the store today and the fancy soda i wanted and went specifically to this store to get was on the top shelf so far up that i couldn't have reached it even if i jumped. and jumping/grabbing the soda was not an option. there was nowhere to climb either. i was standing there staring at it wondering what to do when a tall person walked around the corner into the aisle and i asked for help.

this is what being a short person is like
it wasn't a big deal, but i did need to go out of my way to ask for help

Otm. On the other hand, our shoes are not feats of engineering the size of boats, and that's nice.

Haha, aaawww, LL. I am the kind of person that people always ask for help reaching stuff in the supermarket. (And, OK, yes, I usually volunteer if I see little old ladies staring in a pining manner at tins on the top shelf.)

I occasionally hang out with these two Scottish girls who are both about 6'. It makes me feel short, which is kind of funny.

I love it when people ask for my help reaching stuff! It is nice for one's height to be useful rather than just a pain of the ass when shopping for pants.

i love it too. i was in the law library the other day and the librarian was helping me with a question and she was like "but i need you to get that for me" and i felt so heroic.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C52KFDAXEAAxUzg.jpg

'height supremacist'

like you ain't

Yes, due strictly to his height, that's the reason...

(with a full beard that distinguishes his adulthood)

im 5'7", pretty skinny, i used to not like being short and i wouldn't mind being a little taller but overall im pretty happy w/ my size

it is hard finding shirts though, the sleeves are almost always too long

Is that a MAGA cap he's wearing? Asking for a friend.

And I'm 5ft 9, does that qualify me as a perfidious female height supremacist?

looks like it. the waistcoat is the real problem imo

https://i.reddituploads.com/f74a1507b4014cd8ad936e44f6e677ba?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=c353cbb931d23995585ee44071231100

the problem with this man is that garishly wide tie with the full windsor knot

big tie knots are indicative of barbaric temperament, it's true. top button undone... it's rich in abominable details

the enormous dress shirt bunching underneath the tiny waistcoat armholes

I was going to make a joke about how nobody used to do their tie up properly in school, but then I decided to be the bigger person O WAIT I ALREADY WAS LOL