being short

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