Turfahurf posted:

I'm a 5'5.5" 140lb dude and I get laid so I dunno what other short dudes' problem is.

Plastics. posted:

I'm 5'2 and acutely aware that every mundane thing was made with bigger people in mind, which is completely fair but still annoying. Cars are the worst

SammyWhereAreYou posted:

I'm 5'2" and a woman and the only thing I don't like about being short is that my feet don't fully touch the floor when I'm on the toilet so I have to keep a big book on the floor in there to rest them on because it's uncomfortable otherwise.

Vashro posted:

why does this jesus guy talk with such a font?

a starwar betamax posted:

we have already determined (in anotrher thread) that 6'1" is the perfect height for an adult man

Benedick Cuckold posted:

it's actually 6'2''. sorry

Umiapik posted:

I'm 5"7 and never previously realised this was an issue. I promise to feel suitably inferior in future, guys

Companion Cube posted:

Every short guy I have known has been really self-conscious and most of them were mean as hell too. Short girls seem to be okay though, maybe this is because they are adorable. My personal theory is that when short girls are in good shape their curves seem kind of exaggerated because everything is compressed. More extreme waist:hip ratio than if they were all stretched out. I'm guessing having people react to them like "you're cute and harmless and I wanna squeeze you" is just more psychologically troubling for men than women since men aren't used to being objectified.

I am 5'9" and my wife is exactly the same size as I am so I don't feel short around most people, except when she is with me and wearing tall shoes. For me to think you are short you need to be less than five and a half feet tall though. Like the "short girls" I have dated were all about five feet tall or less. My height relative to my wife does not cause us any trouble other than that I have to tip my head back (and kick up one of my heels) when she kisses me and I don't think I have any particular distress over it. Really tall people seem more whimsical and fascinating than intimidating to me. Like ents or something.

psyopmonkey posted:

Sexgun Rasputin posted:

6'2" or 6'3" are both acceptable, anything less is pathetic and unmanly and anything more is freakish and difficult to wear well.

Dr. Carwash posted:

this

anything taller and you're weird, lanky awkward gently caress (unless you're a professional athlete)

im 6'2 and this really awkward 6'5 guy in my class came up to me and told me he wished he was my height (totally unprompted wtf)

THS posted:

im 5'11" which is the perfect height and everything on the planet is designed for me. i am also white and male

psyopmonkey posted:

Hah, whats it like playing on easy mode?

a hole-y ghost posted:

haha im just imagining you sitting down for dinner and your feet are dangling up off the ground like a 5 year old

SammyWhereAreYou posted:

I'm 5'2" and a woman and the only thing I don't like about being short is that my feet don't fully touch the floor when I'm on the toilet so I have to keep a big book on the floor in there to rest them on because it's uncomfortable otherwise.

SammyWhereAreYou posted:

I'm 5'2" and a woman and the only thing I don't like about being short is that my feet don't fully touch the floor when I'm on the toilet so I have to keep a big book on the floor in there to rest them on because it's uncomfortable otherwise.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Are there any sort of trends/studies on male height? I'm 6'3", and virtually every guy I went to school with was at least six feet. Same with guys slightly older and slightly younger than me. Recently though it seems like I much more rarely see young guys breaking six feet. Did male height peak in the 80's/90's, and has been trending downward ever since?

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Are there any sort of trends/studies on male height? I'm 6'3", and virtually every guy I went to school with was at least six feet. Same with guys slightly older and slightly younger than me. Recently though it seems like I much more rarely see young guys breaking six feet. Did male height peak in the 80's/90's, and has been trending downward ever since?

JebanyPedal posted:

5'7" and I was a gymnast for eight years and did spectacularly, although I also have long giant gorilla arms, I get laid nonstop, but that also has something to do with bipolar so I'm just kinda loving anything I see, I've slept with some terrible looking women and with some gorgeous ones. I also wrestled for a few years and would crush people taller than me without fail (although obviously they'd be a lot skinnier than me but I looked like some feral rear end monkey who was eating left over roids behind the Democractic Republic of the Congo gym) but didn't even think about it much because people that were my height or shorter were way more difficult to compete against (in both sports).
Also generally all the strongest people I've met in my athletic career never really went higher than 5'9" the biomechanics of non-roided, non-fat tall people kinda loving sucks balls, but this is generally from more immediate impact sports (wrestling, boxing, which the shorties excelled in) than stuff like football.
Also, I doubt this is related to my height, but I get away with practically everything, I don't know if I'm charismatic or something (I doubt it because I say really retarded poo poo out loud), but I haven't gotten a speeding ticket ever (only warnings) despite getting pulled over constantly. Whenever poo poo goes down at work I'm never ever blamed despite oftentimes doing the same stupid poo poo that other people get bitched at for, and generally I almost never hear anything negative about me. People are always really nice to me and show me a lot of respect even if I act like a dumbass.
This probably also has a lot to do with the fact that I am handsome and have a hot body and wear jeans that show off my buns.

Also, I think my height is kind of negated by my voice, it's hard for someone taller to intimidate me when they sound like Mickey Mouse compared to my booming bass. Brian Blessed is only 5'9" but that voice is like a shrink ray that makes everyone else around him shrivel. There's also a lot of other things, being smaller and more compact tends to mean that your musculature is more pronounced, so your body language tends to be less timid or hosed up than a taller person, I never had that stupid sloped forward anterior overdevelopment poo poo or terrible hunched over posture I always see taller people have, so I always see people of variable heights looking like loving tards because they've got the worst posture or the most terrible balance in their physique, but I'm also harshly and unreasonable judgmental of average people have not spent years upon years in doing stuff that makes you jarked like me.

Basically, what it comes down to, is that height isn't really down to purely height. If you're my height and you're super skinny, you're going to looker shorter than you are and like a bitch, doubly so if you're chubbers.
Also, I blatantly say things that are completely wrong a lot of the time, and then realize like, five seconds later, "Oh poo poo that was wrong." but people always seem to take what I say as the word of law, so I tend to gently caress up people mentally and ruin them intellectually because everyone thinks the wrong things I say are right, and typically the things I say are more wrong than right because I don't think before I say anything which makes it even worse that I get away with everything and people never question me because I have no filter.
Also I'm pretty monotone (the price you pay for a deep voice) so people can't tell when I'm being sarcastic, I'll say completely retarded things like "Did you know David Lynch wanted to direct a gay porn movie with Martin Scorcesse?" and my friend will look at my dumbfounded and say "Whoa, I didn't know that." and I then have the difficult choice of either saying "Yeah man." or "I wasn't being serious."

When I was thirteen, and like, significantly shorter, I lost my virginity to a girl who was like, four inches taller than me. My girlfriends have tended to be either my height, or taller. It makes me feel like David Bowie and it's kinda hot. They always think it's super hot that I'm shorter than them but can lift them up and throw them around like they weigh nothing.
One of my favorite things to do is to pick girls up and then tell them to get ready because it's lifting time and then do some squat variations with them on my back.

Also, my dick looks a lot bigger because I'm shorter and more compact so girls have regularly rated me larger than I actually am. Having a large penis on a smaller body makes you look like you got horse dick, which is pretty wild and a good way to live.

Another thing I've noticed is that, and maybe this is just an American thing, but people hate making extended eye contact. I once had an English professor who would NEVER make eye contact, like his eyes would go all over the room but never actually look at you. I always meet people who will never look you in the eyes, and this also makes height kind of pointless because tall people are just as insanely pussy when it comes to making proper eye contact, which just generally shows that human beings are probably gay? I test this hypothesis by putting my dick inside things and seeing if they enjoy it.

Anyway, I'm posting this all from the tub as I am ridiculously drunk on wine and my girlfriend stabbed me in the hand with a corkscrew by mistake so I am washing that out ATM, it kinda went deep enough to like, keep a consistent flow of blood which is freaking wild. I think I might actually try this pumpkin beer I bought before I go to bed. It's like Imperial Smashed Pumpkin or something and it's a stout.
Speaking of Pumpkin stout -

WARNING DELICIOUS MUST TRY IDEA - Take Southern Tier Pumking, and Southern Tier Warlock (the stout equivalent of Pumking) and mix them together as a black and tan. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS.

The wine we got is actually super cheap, it's called 19 Crimes and it was about ten bucks, it's nice and sweet but not offensively so.
One of the things I enjoy most in life is finding a delicious cheap wine.
There's one by Geyser Peaks, their Pinot Noir that has the most delicious vanilla taste to it. It's incredible.

We went to a Steak House yesterday and I had these awesome short ribs with a ginger-soy glaze on them. The waiter was slow though but I still tipped him well because it was busy.

Anyway guys, I had a good weekend, later.

Carol Pizzamom posted:

Nice.

JebanyPedal posted:

5'7" and I was a gymnast for eight years and did spectacularly, although I also have long giant gorilla arms, I get laid nonstop, but that also has something to do with bipolar so I'm just kinda loving anything I see, I've slept with some terrible looking women and with some gorgeous ones. I also wrestled for a few years and would crush people taller than me without fail (although obviously they'd be a lot skinnier than me but I looked like some feral rear end monkey who was eating left over roids behind the Democractic Republic of the Congo gym) but didn't even think about it much because people that were my height or shorter were way more difficult to compete against (in both sports).
Also generally all the strongest people I've met in my athletic career never really went higher than 5'9" the biomechanics of non-roided, non-fat tall people kinda loving sucks balls, but this is generally from more immediate impact sports (wrestling, boxing, which the shorties excelled in) than stuff like football.
Also, I doubt this is related to my height, but I get away with practically everything, I don't know if I'm charismatic or something (I doubt it because I say really retarded poo poo out loud), but I haven't gotten a speeding ticket ever (only warnings) despite getting pulled over constantly. Whenever poo poo goes down at work I'm never ever blamed despite oftentimes doing the same stupid poo poo that other people get bitched at for, and generally I almost never hear anything negative about me. People are always really nice to me and show me a lot of respect even if I act like a dumbass.
This probably also has a lot to do with the fact that I am handsome and have a hot body and wear jeans that show off my buns.

Also, I think my height is kind of negated by my voice, it's hard for someone taller to intimidate me when they sound like Mickey Mouse compared to my booming bass. Brian Blessed is only 5'9" but that voice is like a shrink ray that makes everyone else around him shrivel. There's also a lot of other things, being smaller and more compact tends to mean that your musculature is more pronounced, so your body language tends to be less timid or hosed up than a taller person, I never had that stupid sloped forward anterior overdevelopment poo poo or terrible hunched over posture I always see taller people have, so I always see people of variable heights looking like loving tards because they've got the worst posture or the most terrible balance in their physique, but I'm also harshly and unreasonable judgmental of average people have not spent years upon years in doing stuff that makes you jarked like me.

Basically, what it comes down to, is that height isn't really down to purely height. If you're my height and you're super skinny, you're going to looker shorter than you are and like a bitch, doubly so if you're chubbers.
Also, I blatantly say things that are completely wrong a lot of the time, and then realize like, five seconds later, "Oh poo poo that was wrong." but people always seem to take what I say as the word of law, so I tend to gently caress up people mentally and ruin them intellectually because everyone thinks the wrong things I say are right, and typically the things I say are more wrong than right because I don't think before I say anything which makes it even worse that I get away with everything and people never question me because I have no filter.
Also I'm pretty monotone (the price you pay for a deep voice) so people can't tell when I'm being sarcastic, I'll say completely retarded things like "Did you know David Lynch wanted to direct a gay porn movie with Martin Scorcesse?" and my friend will look at my dumbfounded and say "Whoa, I didn't know that." and I then have the difficult choice of either saying "Yeah man." or "I wasn't being serious."

When I was thirteen, and like, significantly shorter, I lost my virginity to a girl who was like, four inches taller than me. My girlfriends have tended to be either my height, or taller. It makes me feel like David Bowie and it's kinda hot. They always think it's super hot that I'm shorter than them but can lift them up and throw them around like they weigh nothing.
One of my favorite things to do is to pick girls up and then tell them to get ready because it's lifting time and then do some squat variations with them on my back.

Also, my dick looks a lot bigger because I'm shorter and more compact so girls have regularly rated me larger than I actually am. Having a large penis on a smaller body makes you look like you got horse dick, which is pretty wild and a good way to live.

Another thing I've noticed is that, and maybe this is just an American thing, but people hate making extended eye contact. I once had an English professor who would NEVER make eye contact, like his eyes would go all over the room but never actually look at you. I always meet people who will never look you in the eyes, and this also makes height kind of pointless because tall people are just as insanely pussy when it comes to making proper eye contact, which just generally shows that human beings are probably gay? I test this hypothesis by putting my dick inside things and seeing if they enjoy it.

Anyway, I'm posting this all from the tub as I am ridiculously drunk on wine and my girlfriend stabbed me in the hand with a corkscrew by mistake so I am washing that out ATM, it kinda went deep enough to like, keep a consistent flow of blood which is freaking wild. I think I might actually try this pumpkin beer I bought before I go to bed. It's like Imperial Smashed Pumpkin or something and it's a stout.
Speaking of Pumpkin stout -

WARNING DELICIOUS MUST TRY IDEA - Take Southern Tier Pumking, and Southern Tier Warlock (the stout equivalent of Pumking) and mix them together as a black and tan. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS.

The wine we got is actually super cheap, it's called 19 Crimes and it was about ten bucks, it's nice and sweet but not offensively so.
One of the things I enjoy most in life is finding a delicious cheap wine.
There's one by Geyser Peaks, their Pinot Noir that has the most delicious vanilla taste to it. It's incredible.

We went to a Steak House yesterday and I had these awesome short ribs with a ginger-soy glaze on them. The waiter was slow though but I still tipped him well because it was busy.

Anyway guys, I had a good weekend, later.