i'm 5ft 10 which i guess is average but doesn't feel like it where i come from tbh
― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 June 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah if I were 5'10 I would totally move to a country filled w/ leprechauns
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― beta the drivel you know (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 June 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
would you dudes rather be stephen merchant or ricky gervais?
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 19 June 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
I like your short story, flopson.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
it seems weird to do a documentary about the hardships of being short & include someone that is 14 YEARS OLD
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
no way, I know tons of short 14 year olds
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
wait that doc came out in 2008, how old are you flop?
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
there are hordes of them, that's why it's stupid, it's like making a documentary about breakfast-eaters.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
we might have been a little older i cant remember really
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
I would possibly watch a doc about breakfast-eaters
― iatee, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
ok if the doc was out in 08 maybe we were filming in 07 & i was 16
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
the movie was about short males of all ages
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think flopson and friends' approach sounds kind and endearing, it has a freaks and geeks tone to it.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
breakfast-eaters was a poor example to use on greedy old ilx.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
well he asked for it!
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
iirc he was still p stoked
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
lmao jordan
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
lool
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
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
― am0n, Sunday, 19 June 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
is there an album cover about how short dudes are the best cause like i feel real bad for jordan s(hortie)
― jeff, Sunday, 19 June 2011 08:42 (twelve years ago) link
c(hortle)
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
jordan s is taller than me and i don't ever suffer pangs about shortness.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
i think jordan s is also taller than bob dylan.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
and also jordan s is taller than my dog who does not even reach my knee, sometimes i exclaim at him about that.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
youre still awake?! its almost 6 am!
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
i know it is in some places but for me it's 7.36 pm sunday.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
i was worried
― flopson, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm a bit disappointed you didn't express your concern by writing a rap about it.
― estela, Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
I used to be short. I'm glad I'm not anymore.
― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 June 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
I used to be too $hort then...
― british sb power (dayo), Sunday, 19 June 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
one thing that sucks about being short is finding clothes that fit you
― british sb power (dayo), Sunday, 19 June 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol amon
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 19 June 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
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?)
― heartbreak beet (La Lechera), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
this sucks for tall ppl too, ime
― blank, Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
really the one thing that sucks about being short & finding clothes is that stuff that's on sale is always L & XL
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― sambal dalek (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 19 June 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― daria-g, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
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, 19 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA
― am0n, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like prob everyone thinks their size is hard to find
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
XL t-shirts are always on sale!
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
some tiny girls shop in the kids section ive heard
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link