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Title: Kill all the Short People
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Published: Jul 28, 2010
Author: Bob Wallace
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:52:38 by Turtle
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When Randy Newman came out with his song “Short People” and sang they should be killed, he got a lot of criticism. Many people didn’t understand he was being ironic and mocking the attitudes of many people toward short men. I have no idea how tall Newman is, but he looks short. So he knows what it’s like. I am not short, by the way. I’m six-feet-tall, but I do have short friends, and they have told me stories. I get the impression there are women out there who want short men to, basically, die. “How dare you not be six feet tall? Why don’t you just die?!?” I had one friend tell me he asked a woman to dance at a nightclub and she told him, “You’re about a foot too short.” I wonder how she would feel if some guy told her, “I’m dumping you for a better-looking woman. Younger, too, and has bigger tits”? Another told me that in college he put a sign in the student building saying he was driving home over the weekend and looking for riders to share gas. He got a call from a girl, a student there, and got along very well with her on the phone. Instant chemistry. However, when he met her, he told me, “I could see the disappointment in her eyes,” because he was 5’7”. And on the drive she told him, “On the phone you sounded like you were six-feet-tall.” I occasionally how tall I sound on the phone. Another guy told me he went over to a girl’s house to pick her up and she had left. You might claim that wasn’t because he was short, but would she have done this to a good-looking six-foot-tall guy? I seriously doubt it. Probably the best story I heard from a short friend is when he was going to take a girl bowling while they were in college. She wanted to stop at a bar first. It turned out some of her friends were there. She told my friend, “I don’t want to go bowling.” “Do you want to do something else?” “No,” she said, and turned and walked away. “I was sitting there in a bar with my bowling ball,” he told me. One of my short friends became a dentist and oral surgeon. He is quite wealthy, has a one-hundred-year-old three-story house with one of those huge attics people used to put the crazy aunt in, and a big back yard with a privacy fence. He was his office in the backyard, so he’s basically home all the time. If I was a envious person, I would envy him. When he’s not working on patients, he works on his garden and plays with his dogs. He married an Asian woman a bit shorter than him. I’ve spent a lot of time at his house and have seen the looks of many of his female patients when they saw his wife. “How dare you be rich and marry an Asian woman! You’re supposed to marry a white woman! And how dare you be 5’6” instead of 6’. I hate you! Why don’t you just die?!?!” It is bizarre. There have been times I’ve stood in stores with a short friend and the woman behind the counter flirted with me, but didn’t even look at him. I wondered if it ever occurred to them he was a friend of mine and they should at least say hi to him? Hmmm…perhaps all short people should just die. Now that I think about it, they’ve caused me a lot of trouble.
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#17. To: abraxas (#15)
LOL! I doubt it. I freely took advantage of my popularity with women when I was single.
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You don't wanna know.
Name calling is juvenile.
It's not just women who are height biased. I'm 5'8" and even though I'm not overly tall, put me in heals and I'm taller than a lot of guys. Most guys don't like it. There are a few who love walking in with a tall woman because they like the attention it brings but most are self conscious.
Name calling is juvenile.
This is the bell curve for height. I am 72 inches tall. Six feet and over appears to be ten percent of the population.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
For me it is seeing a woman horizontal that does it, forget about the vertical stuff, frankly my dear I don't give a damn how tall you are.
LOL
Name calling is juvenile.
Yeah, but if she swam in that pool of 10%, dropping her bait for the lot of them and NEVER getting one hooked, then either she has more issues than you are willing to share or the 10% she was dating has issues. You dated her and threw her back, right? Perhaps, nobody wanted Turtles sloppy seconds. : ) I don't begrudge her for knowing what she likes. It would be worse has she settled for shorty and then treated him like crap because he wasn't really what she liked, IMHO.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
lol.....I'll trust you on that one FF.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
I would also like to point out that the title of this article is misleading. It should read: Kill All the Short MEN. There is no mention of killing short women in this article......which is a very good thing as short women can be really scary when they are angry.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Short people can overcome their height challenge by having a really, really fat wallet to stand on.
Try tall AND slender, the way I was in college -- six feet, 160. That reduces the pool even farther. Then try blond hair. How many guys out there are six feet tall, 160, blond hair, and of all things, look like her father? Try about .00001% of the population. As to why it didn't work out with her...sometimes it just doesn't.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
Here we find the deeper issue that I had suspected. Nuff said.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Indeed, correct, afirm. With women, money stands tall and comes first, every time.
I met a Chinese executive visiting from the Mainland. He was short. At least two-thirds of the young people are male do to their one child policy so the women can get what they want. The man who was about 5'4" said he had never gotten a date in years and this despite the fact that he made several times the annual salary of other Chinese men. I read on a forum a post from someone who had just returned from China and was amazed at how much taller the women were. That is because the short men are dying without reproducing.
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look like her father Here we find the deeper issue that I had suspected. Nuff said. You'd be amazed at the number of women who are attracted to men who look like their father -- if they got along with him. "Women tend to choose husbands who look like their fathers - even if they are adopted, reveals a new study. The research shows that women use their dads as a template for picking a mate by a process called "sexual imprinting", says Tamas Bereczkei at the University of Pécs in Hungary and colleagues. Husbands and wives have long been suggested to look alike and this is known to occur in many animal species. Couples that look like each other are also more likely to share common genes, and having a degree of similarity is believed to beneficial. This might explain the study's findings, suggests Glenn Weisfeld, one of the research team and a human ethologist at Wayne State University, Detroit, US "There seems to be an advantage for animals to select a mate somewhat similar to themselves genetically," he told New Scientist. "One good possibility is that there are some fortuitous genetic combinations which are retained in the offspring if both parents are similar," he says. "In humans there is evidence to show a lower rate of miscarriage." However, he points out that there is a balance between the benefits of marrying someone genetically close and the harmful effects of inbreeding. "There seems to be an ideal balance, maybe around the first or second cousin point." Newborn ducklings Imprinting is a fast, instinctive form of learning, perhaps best known from the phenomenon in which newborn ducklings bond with the first object they see. To test whether women use imprinting to base their marital choices on the appearance of their fathers, the researchers took 26 adoptive families and examined how alike various family members looked. Using adoptive families meant inherited preferences could be ruled out. Nearly 250 students were asked to rate similarities within three sets of photos. The first showed photos of the wife and four possible husbands, one of whom was the real spouse. The second showed a photo of the adoptive father as he would have looked when his daughter was between two and eight years of age, and the possible husbands. The third set showed the adoptive mother and the four possible husbands. The students correctly matched husbands and wives significantly more than they would have by chance alone. But the similarity between husbands and adoptive fathers was most striking. Where the judges might have matched a quarter of the husbands with the fathers by chance, they actually matched 38 per cent correctly. There was no significant resemblance between the husband and the adoptive mother. Emotional warmth An "unexpected" finding, says Weisfeld, was that fathers who were judged by their daughters to have showed the most emotional warmth were much more likely to have son-in-laws who looked like them. "Our results support the notion of a long-lasting effect of attachment during childhood on later mating preferences," the team concludes. They suggest that people form a "mental model" of their opposite-sex parent's appearance, which they then seek out in later life. But Weisfeld points out that mating decisions are complex in humans and many other biological and social factors will play a part. For example, studies have shown that a person's smell can also help someone judge how related they are to a potential partner."
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
:)
Yeah that works.
Name calling is juvenile.
Wow, what a shallow comment. ;-D
Wow, what a shallow comment. ;-D I let that one slide by, bring a moral coward and all.
Getting picked last or near the last in basketball is such a bummer.
Heh, it is a double entendre anyway. Men get mocked for being thumb dicks, but women with a tight vagina makes men's egos feel better about their size. It can be an interesting dynamic. ;-D
I've been tapping a 50 y/o. She has many talents and the ass of an 18 year old. I'll do em any age if they are well kept. :)
So, you have missed all of those opportunities to help short women reach tall objects? : )
#18. To: abraxas, Turtle (#11)
How does one "still" another's ass?
#19. To: Turtle, abraxas (#16)
No, maybe she should not have reduced the pool of available guys to about 10% of the population.
#20. To: All (#0)
#21. To: farmfriend (#19)
#22. To: Lysander_Spooner (#21)
For me it is seeing a woman horizontal that does it, forget about the vertical stuff, frankly my dear I don't give a damn how tall you are.
#23. To: Turtle (#16)
No, maybe she should not have reduced the pool of available guys to about 10% of the population.
#24. To: farmfriend (#18)
#25. To: ALL (#0)
#26. To: farmfriend, short people, 4 (#22)
#27. To: abraxas (#23)
Yeah, but if she swam in that pool of 10%, dropping her bait for the lot of them and NEVER getting one hooked
#28. To: Turtle (#27)
look like her father
#29. To: Lod (#26)
Short people can overcome their height challenge by having a really, really fat wallet to stand on.
#30. To: Turtle (#20)
And how dare you be 5’6” instead of 6’. I hate you! Why don’t you just die?!?!”
#31. To: abraxas (#28)
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#32. To: farmfriend (#22)
#33. To: Lod (#26)
Short people can overcome their height challenge by having a really, really fat wallet to stand on.
#34. To: farmfriend (#1)
"right or wrong height is often substituted for length."
#35. To: Ferret (#34)
"right or wrong height is often substituted for length."
#36. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#8)
I've told him more than once that I cannot remember where being tall has ever helped me in any way, especially with women
#37. To: Cynicom (#35)
#38. To: Turtle (#7)
Waiting too late to oppose tyranny has always led to bloodshed.
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#39. To: Ferret (#37)
Mike, I refuse to become involved any further, coward you kniow.
#40. To: Cynicom (#39)
Heh, actually you sound like a man who knows the nuances of women as prey well. As in how they can wind up being the predator, and do revenge with deeper cruelty and more planning. I'd say you know all to well you are talking tongue in cheek about your wisdom about women.
#41. To: farmfriend (#33)
Does it really?
Yeah that work
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#42. To: Turtle (#0)
Six feet tall? That is short actually. :) I like looking down on the heads of 6' tall guys and saying "how's the weather down there". 6'3" here.
I am not short, by the way. I’m six-feet-tall, but I do have short friends, and they have told me stories
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#43. To: SonOfLiberty (#41)
lol.....just let me stand on your wallet and I'll tell you if it works or not. : )
Does it really?
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
#44. To: SonOfLiberty (#41)
LOL yeah the older I get the more it works. Actually I have come to believe that the better looking the woman, the more likely she is to go after money.
Does it really?
Name calling is juvenile.
#45. To: Horse (#30)
A study recently attributed men's shorter legs to leverage. A stocky, short legged guy can often out grapple a tall guy to the ground when competing for a woman. I'm 5' 6" and allot more formidable in a bar fight then a tall boy. For one thing, when the bottles start flying, I don't even have to duck to avoid most of this sort of situational hazard. I have rarely lost a fight against a tall opponent. In fact, a guy my height or shorter as muscular as me scares me far more then a tall dumb shit.
"That is because the short men are dying without reproducing."
#46. To: abraxas (#43)
Meh. I'm tall already, no need to stand on the wallet. Can't imagine being in the dating game, being tall and having money both. Wait...wtf?.....why am I married again? lol (j/k, any woman that can put up with me like my wife does, is a saint) :)
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#47. To: Ferret (#45)
You've yet to meet a tall, muscular guy trained in martial arts. Being Welsh only helps a bit, until you meet one of your cousins who is a warrior type Scot or a son of Erin who is keen for a fight. Short frames have denser muscle mass, so the agility fades if you have strength and are short. Short and wiry works for a bit, until the hand lands on you, meanwhile, you can do little damage to the much larger opponent due to aforementioned wiry (and hence, less strength endowed) frame. The only time I've seen agility work is when the guy is huge, muscular (or fat) and doesn't know how to fight and can't scrap worth a damn. Most short guys I've fought are surprised at being grabbed so quickly, and by the time that happens, they're in the air held by the throat. Bar fight or two myself. My 20's were rather...rough edged. :) Cheers.
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#48. To: SonOfLiberty (#46)
I always looked young for my age and was a very baby faced 16 year old. I once had a girl like say to me upon a dance request; "I don't dance with children." I responded, "Well, had I know you were preggers love, I'd of left you alone." My talents as a smart ass developed well and at quite a young age. This actually caused a chain of events that saw her and I date several times. She eventually went steady with a guy who could just about lick his eyebrows, something a glib tongue ultimately has no defense against in the age old competition for the fairer gender.
#49. To: SonOfLiberty (#46)
No, I'm short and I'm willing to test the theory. We can test this out, but I need a wallet with some money in it for the test. Oh, wait a minute I don't want to stand on your wife's wallet. I need a wallet without a wife for this experiment. : )
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
#50. To: SonOfLiberty (#47)
I was walking in Portland Oregon one weekend. I had been studying at the McDonalds and was heading back to my car when a tall guy with a cocaine cowboy haircut waved, smiled saying, "hi." He immediately went into a roundhouse kick which surprised me enough all I could do is go into a karate anchor stance, take the kick before I could start kata practice on him. He had been going down the street assaulting several people with three other goon-bahs with him who started punching me as I worked on the appropriate parts of his throat, ears, nose and eyes. (A short person should always think about working inside the arm reach of a tall dude, which I was doing.) I was grabbed by two huge bouncers who were steps away at a club who liked my audacity but recognized the demographics were against me. Had I not been rusty, I would of taken advantage of the huge opening he left me by doing such a goofy, time extravagant kick. Sensei taught us that if we were rusty, focus on a good anchor stance if you have time for nothing else. This little bit of wisdom spared be from being knocked to the ground and being booted real badly. Months later I saw him alone at the Skidmore Fountain on SW 1st and planted my mountain bike front wheel into his groin at a nice velocity. I stayed long enough for his eyes to uncross and have enough focus to tell him where we first met and why I played demolition derby with him. ;-)
#51. To: Lysander_Spooner (#21)
Funny you should say that, a friend of mine once said to me; "they're all the same height on their backs." lol
For me it is seeing a woman horizontal that does it, forget about the vertical stuff, frankly my dear I don't give a damn how tall you are.
Now we have a REAL environmental catastrophe involving oil, so presumably the Mainstream Media are going hysterical right now.... no, on second thought, they're keeping quiet about this. Interesting.
#52. To: Ferret (#45)
My cousin was 6'5". He was drunk and didn't want to do the time so when he was stopped by a deputy sheriff. He hit the cop, stole his car and left the scene. The only problem was that he left his car at the scene so they know who did it. The point is that he was big enough to floor a cop with one punch.
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#53. To: Ferret (#50)
Yeah, if you call filling out a job application studying. Did you get the job or did you fail the drug test again?
I had been studying at the McDonalds
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#54. To: SonOfLiberty (#42)
I like looking down on the heads of 6' tall guys and saying "how's the weather down there". 6'3" here. If I was to even look at you, you would collapse into a quivering mass of Jello!
Six feet tall? That is short actually. :)
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
#55. To: Turtle (#54)
Cherry? Or raspberry?
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
#56. To: Bill Crowe (#36)
As someone with a case of white man's disease when it comes to basketball, I can attest to the fact that you don't have to be short to be picked last or near last. That's why I stuck with wrestling and football.
Getting picked last or near the last in basketball is such a bummer.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976
Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
#57. To: Flintlock (#53)
I had to go to Portland Community College (PCC) to take the courses to get my paralegal certification. I have worked and lived in Little Beirut (Portland), but I prefer Eugene.
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