Being short
15 Apr 2009, 8:36 pm
Do you have the same problem I have? For the most part, I'm too tall for the regular size clothes stores and too short for the big and tall size clothes stores. I have to search the margins of both to find stuff to wear. bleh.
Constantly. Very disproportionate shoulder to waist, so what fits the shoulders hangs on the rest of me and the arms are never long enough. If I were to get a tailored shirt, I think the measurements were 18, 38/39 - kind of a pain.
LPP - I can only speak for myself, but I don't believe at -any- time in this conversation (or another, that matter), have I generalized and said that this was indicative of all short people, or referred to "you short people" - I've been careful to mention that these are people I've met, who have created confrontation, without other apparent cause - and at times, later explanation from them or others. So we're both talking about experience - it's ok that they aren't the same, or have I missed a memo somewhere? And no - one of the worst bullies I faced in my life was bigger than I was then, or even now. It does not correlate that all short people are bullies - false syllogism on your part, methinks.
M.
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15 Apr 2009, 9:29 pm
^ Umm.... I made the "you short people" comment when I was ranting about the difficulties that come with being tall... I just wanted to enfasize that it ain't all great being tall, but there are benefits too... like that being able to look out over a crowd thing...
I'm sorry if this was inapropriate or offensive. I was ranting a bit and I hope that you will indulge me a bit of "poetic" license.
Many of my best friends were short. Some had short man issues, some did not. The ones that didn't have short man issues never seemed short to me though (even though they were) - to the point that in my mind they were as tall or taller than men actually taller than them.
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15 Apr 2009, 10:25 pm
Appreciate the clarification... and I'm not saying that there aren't advantages - to either extreme, really - but also a lot of things that are taken for granted for most people.
LPP - again, you're assuming that your experience is the only one here... you seek to invalidate the experience of two people simply because you cannot envision the situations? I've stated before - it is insecurity that tends to drive violence, and that these are situations where there was no other explanation other than proving oneself by taking on a larger man. Bigger guys can be incredibly insecure as well; there's no monopoly there for those under a certain threshold.
M.
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16 Apr 2009, 6:03 am
[quote="LePetitPrince"]^^ night clubs are full of bullies and jerks of all sizes, they aren't a good representative sample of population...
Even I got picked on several times by guys of different sizes in night clubs , should I say that the taller picked me on because I am shorter than him?
That doesn't make sense.
Besides, a short guy usually would avoid to mess up with a taller guy because he would most probably got beaten up. Why putting himself in such risk?[/quote]
hate to break it to you but the nightclub crowd isnt exactly a fringe community(quite the opposite actually), but rather an eclectic mix of folks. most the people there are people who get tired going to house parties that constantly get busted, or are lookin to socialise with a new group of people. most people my age go out to the clubs, so i guess the people that dont go out to the clubs(the vast majority of WP) would be a bad representation of the general population?
as for some of your other post in this thread, i think you know your spewing utter nonsense, no one could possibly be that dillusional. why would a short guy mess with a tall guy? it simple really, hes insecure and he feels threatened. just because something is counter logic does not make it false, your approach is over simplistic.
i cant relate to those with freak height, but im a well muscled 5'9-5'10 230lbs male and the way other guys can act around me is weird. its not unusual for me to walk into a gas station and notice guys puffing there chest out and flaring there lats as if there carrying an imaginary brief case. i thought i was crazy at first until my buddies confirmed it. i know of alot of bodybuilders with similar stories to.
IMO, humans are just competive and insecure(not just guys either). thats the take home.
