• Wild Bill@midwest.social
    404·
    15 days ago

    Day 2 of reminding the fediverse there are women who prefer shorter guys (source: am one of them). If y’all don’t want them I’ll take them. I’ll take them all.

    • PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world
      34·
      15 days ago

      I imagine there are even women out there who care more about a man’s personality than their height…

      Being short isn’t your fault, being a dull cunt is.

      • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
        4·
        14 days ago

        Having partners the same height and relative size as you is great as you get to effectively double your wardrobes.

        Granted this works best when you both have similar tastes in fashion though.

    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
      15·
      14 days ago

      I’m married to a man the same height as me. Absolutely zero regrets. He’s kind and funny, and my favorite person.

      The only thing I’m slightly jealous of is that I might not be able to wear my husband’s ribcage as armor should I outlive him the way that women with taller husband’s can. But that’s life! I love my husband more than I desire widow armor.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        7·
        14 days ago

        I have no idea where your lore is from, but I like it! As a taller and bigger guy, I see no better way to go out than protecting my love my partner from hordes of barbarians. Let my ribs be impenetrable armor and my femur be an armor splitting bludgeon for her berserker rage. Tales will be told and songs will be sung, and …… crap, she’s now my ex. Forget it, I’ll fertilize a tree when the time comes

        • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
          5·
          14 days ago

          Thanks! As far as I know I made it up, but it wouldn’t surprise if the concept has appeared elsewhere.

          The height preference thing always kinda reminded me of orcs or amazons and I figured those archetypal societies would do something like that… plus I saw an opportunity to make a joke. I’m glad you enjoyed it!

          Also I really enjoyed the picture you painted with it! That was a fun read. I hope you find that badass lady to wear your ribcage in battle one day!

        • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
          1·
          12 days ago

          How do you think they articulate skeletons in museums or medical displays? They clean them. First with bugs, then with chemicals like peroxide.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 days ago

      Height and attractiveness have nothing to do with each other for me, but I do wish someone would find a way to make my wife taller so I wouldn’t have to keep getting things off of the top shelves in the cabinets for her.

    • rekabis@programming.dev
      51·
      15 days ago

      Unless you have a passion for cramped supercars or exceed the height of most door frames… why? The ability to reach the top shelf and things placed at height is just so invaluable. And provided you take care of them, knees and hips still allow you to rummage through things on the down low.

      Now, if you’re so tall that you routinely crack your forehead on door frames… yeah. I could see why. But then the question becomes, what is affecting your coordination such that it prevents you from earning millions by throwing an orange ball through a netted hoop?

      • freeman@feddit.org
        5·
        15 days ago

        Not OP but the first three things I already experienced today were: Knee and backpain, standing out in a crowd, needing to slightly bend down vor everything in most standard kitchens.

        • rekabis@programming.dev
          22·
          15 days ago

          Knee and backpain

          Some people lose the genetic lottery in this regard, true, but unless you are elderly, most people can avoid back and leg pain by exercising, stretching, and taking care of your body.

          standing out in a crowd

          Counterpoint: finding the person you are looking for in a crowd.

          needing to slightly bend down vor everything in most standard kitchens.

          If you are under the age of 35, I fully acknowledge how the deck of house ownership is stacked against you. But once you own your own home, you can… remodel. Kitchens also come in Big & Tall designs, and not all short(er) spouses mind taller countertops. The kitchen that came with my house is sized perfectly for my wife, and yet she finds the height that woukd be ideal for my height to also be more attractive for her as well.

          • bluewing@lemm.ee
            2·
            14 days ago

            A lot of tall people have chronic leg and back pain because nothing is designed and built for them in the everyday world. Everything is just a tiny bit to short or small. From stair steps to chairs and tables to desks, to cars, to toilets. Everything is always just a bit off. It doesn’t seem like much, but the accumulative stress and strain on your joints will cause pain. You don’t really notice in your 20’s, but by the time you hit your 30’s you will start to feel it. And as you get older, it won’t get better. Exercising won’t stop the accumulated wear and tear.

            And the “Just remodel your kitchen” is a great idea! Why didn’t I think of that? Are you going to drop $50,000 on me to do that? That “Big and Tall” shit costs extra-- a LOT extra because it’s custom. And will you be explaining to my wife why SHE can’t reach anything in the kitchen anymore? And will you make up the cost difference if I sell this house? That remodeled kitchen that fits me will make selling it a lot more difficult because very, very few average sized people would find the extra 2" to 4" higher counter tops and cabinets to be at a comfortable height. Or do I need to remodel it yet again to fit the average person?

            And being in a crowd isn’t much fun. The tops of everyone else’s head look pretty much the same. Kind of hard to tell the difference of who’s who. And since few can see over my shoulders, I end up at the back of the crowd to be out of the way which often separates me from my friends. Going to movies or a theater sucks because the seats are too close together and my knees are jammed up against the seat in front of me. It’s painful for me and annoying to the person in front of me. And the person behind me can’t see through my head.

            And as far as “tossing and orange ball into a hoop to make millions of dollars.” Not everyone wants to play that game nor do we fall into the .1% of 1% of people on the planet that are actually good enough to get paid millions to play basketball.

            Oh, and before I go. Would you mind picking up that pencil off the floor for me? You’re short and much closer to the floor than I am.

            • AA5B@lemmy.world
              4·
              14 days ago

              Even to Washing hands. Sometimes when I first get up, my back protests about bending over so much to be able to wash hands in my bathroom sink.

              Building code has a small range of allowed counter and sink heights, and it’s definitely not for the benefit of taller people. A buddy of mine has vessel sinks, adding like 4” to the height and it is so much easier

              • bluewing@lemm.ee
                3·
                14 days ago

                Yeah something as simple as washing your hands can be painful at times when you are above average height. The vanities are too short and the faucets set too low. While my wife doesn’t want them in the bathroom, I did put a tall goose neck faucet on the kitchen sink. I don’t need to bend over to use it, so I tend to wash my hands in the kitchen. I would recommend installing one if you can.

            • rekabis@programming.dev
              1·
              13 days ago

              Just shy of 2m tall myself, and I don’t seem to have any of your issues, even nosing into my sixth decade on this rock.

              About the only thing I could complain about is the family orchard tractor, which is Chinese-made, and seems to have been designed by someone a full 45cm shorter than I am. But that’s about the only thing I have cause to complain about. Some appropriate warm-up exercises and my knees are fine even after a few hours of vigorous pedal-pumping at inappropriately pretzeled leg angles.

              • bluewing@lemm.ee
                1·
                12 days ago

                That’s good for you, in the best way possible. I have not been so fortunate. I do have longer than normal legs. But we all need to adapt and over come in life. Toss in the me being a lefty also and things can be a hassle in day to day living sometimes.

                Me, I’m heading out of my 6th decade. Shoveling cow shit, grain, silage, and tossing 50kg/120lbs hay bales nearly every day growing up as kid on a farm got me started on ruining my body early in life. 12 years as a toolmaker standing on concrete 10 to 12 hours a day and lifting heavy pieces of steel, Then 15 years spent dragging 115+kg/250+lbs patients up from basements and down from upstairs bedrooms as a medic has done little to nothing for my back either. A couple of knee surgeries later and now I have a hip that’s starting to act up.

                • rekabis@programming.dev
                  1·
                  9 days ago

                  Shoveling cow shit, grain, silage, and tossing 50kg/120lbs hay bales nearly every day growing up as kid on a farm got me started on ruining my body early in life. 12 years as a toolmaker standing on concrete 10 to 12 hours a day and lifting heavy pieces of steel, Then 15 years spent dragging 115+kg/250+lbs patients up from basements and down from upstairs bedrooms as a medic has done little to nothing for my back either.

                  While stretching and certain exercises could have helped greatly with that, it’s also not something that would have been available to us in our youth. It’s only been in the last two decades that kinesiology, stretching, targeted training, and other body-movement sciences have started becoming widely available. And that doesn’t help anywhere near as much after the fact.

                  My condolences on the current state of your meat vehicle.

          • freeman@feddit.org
            1·
            10 days ago

            In the country I live in, switzerland, I will rent probably my whole life and I am ol with that. And also my SO is quite a bit shorter, so we cannot just buy and install an extra tall kitchen.

            About the two other points: ???

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      How much have you got spare?

      Not for me, though, just interested. I’m 6’2" and it’s about perfect I think, probably wouldn’t swap it for any other height. I’m tall enough to reach the top shelves of pretty much everything, hit the cancel button on our smoke alarm, see over people at gigs and things, but not so tall that I have problems with fitting into things too often.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      19·
      15 days ago

      The leg lengthening we can do these days doesn’t need or cause a DNA change. Look it up. It’s simultaneously fascinating and horrifying.

      • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
        6·
        15 days ago

        I understand, why not just use stilts or shoes with large soles? You would be proportionally off, wouldn’t it be weird to be 6 foot tall and have short arms?

        What part of be taller is the goal?

        • palordrolap@fedia.io
          7·
          15 days ago

          Most often it’s done because of a developmental problem where one leg segment has come out slightly shorter than its counterpart on the other leg, affecting gait and posture. Only one or two bones need to be lengthened if the patient is lucky. Shortening the other leg is probably also an option, but I figure people would want to do something to the affected leg, rather than muck about with the “healthy” one.

          There is at least one instance that I recall where someone born with a form of dwarfism had all four limbs - all twelve bones - extended to “normal” length. As to whether it was strictly ethical to do that is an entirely different matter, considering the patient was a child.

          I mean, it’s definitely the best time of life to have the lengthening done what with bones being greener and still growing anyway, but the patient wasn’t exactly in the position to be making an informed decision about whether they wanted to go through it.

          • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Shortening the longer leg is much less invasive and probably preferred, but the discrepancy has to be caught very early. You need years of measurements to predict exactly how long each leg will be and when. If you have those, there’s a pretty small window when the long leg is exactly the right length to tell it to stop growing.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    131·
    15 days ago

    Im worse than short. Im a bit over average but have short legs and a long torso 💀

  • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
    7·
    14 days ago

    Cartoon violence inflicted on a rude person displayed in a comic strip has somehow started a war about “incels” and “toxic masculinity”; meanwhile, I’ve never watched Sesame Street and I was over here thinking Big Bird was a girl.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 days ago

    Follow That Bird is the second-best Muppet movie (after The Muppet Movie) and I will fight you if you say otherwise.

  • vordalack@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Lengthening your legs, which will screw you up in a number of ways, is the most cucked thing you can do. Imagine letting the opinions of people online guide your behavior in such a drastic way.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      193·
      14 days ago

      God damn what a dumb thing to say.

      Animals getting tragically crushed to death isn’t funny, but anvils falling on coyote heads in cartoons is.

      Not to you, though. You’d find a way to make it a problem. Fuck’s sake.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        69·
        14 days ago

        This insult now gives me the right to kick you in the face, potentially killing you, and that will be funny.

        • LaForgery@startrek.website
          71·
          14 days ago

          It gives you the right to imagine a humorous situation where you did, as an outlet for your disgust at how rude it was.

    • WereCat@lemmy.world
      612·
      13 days ago

      No, it was funny before too.

      edit: I thought the ridiculousness of my comment was quite obvious considering the ridiculousness of the comment I was replying to but oh well…