being short

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.

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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