Next time someone comes up to me and says “Wow! You’re tall! How tall are you?” Imma say I’m 5’9’’ instead of the actual 6’6’’ I am.
Anon plants a seed of doubt
Submitted 6 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
saroh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And if they ask you if you play basketball, ask them if they play minifgolf.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 months ago
or horse racing
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Ya I’m only four feet tall and shrinking fast
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Chaotic evil
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This should have been the Joker sequel.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 months ago
I can tell if somebody is 2 meter tall or not, and if they are 170 or 180.
Where are all these people that roamed the earth a bunch and still can’t tell heights?
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 6 months ago
Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 6 months ago
I don’t mean remebering, I mean estimating, in person.
Is a person tell me they are 190 and they are actually 185 I can tell. Can’t you?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Me too, if they are the same height as me or a bit taller then they are 2m if they are normal height then they are 170-180 and other than that they are sub 160
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 months ago
the imperial system and its consequences
Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Right? I’ve built enough walls and pitched enough tarps to know how tall six feet is.
I do admittedly do both more often than most people, but still
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Always fun to say I’m my legal height and have guys get defensive about their height because it would mean they’re shorter than they say they are. Maybe I round down a bit?
davidgro@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What is a legal height?
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 6 months ago
The listed height on my driver’s license (and probably passport?).
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I’m 5’3 and I’ve had other dudes that are around the same height as me get pissed off and argumentative when I say that because they’re trying to pass themselves off as taller than they are (or maybe they’ve convinced themselves of that). It’s always funny to me because I’d have to be like 8" taller for it to improve anything with the people that give a shit about height. There’s no amount of lying that will cover that.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have the opposite problem. People always insist that I’m taller than I really am because I have a long torso. I guess it lends to a better outcome in some social interactions? Maybe?
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
You would look higher when sitting, I guess. Not sure if it counts as a social interaction
IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I really don’t get the internet fixation on height. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it come up other than “wow you’re tall” or “wow you’re short” and “haha yup I am but at least I can reach the top shelf / don’t hit my head on things” like no one really cares?
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 months ago
A lot of women care
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And women are a wide spectrum of people with different tastes. The most common thing I’ve heard is that they don’t care as long as they’re shorter than their partner. But then of course some are into tall guys, others actually don’t care at all, and some prefer the reverse.
I would go as far as saying that women care more about shorter men not having a toxic height complex than they care about actual height.
IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 6 months ago
never heard of it. all the short guys I know are swimming in it
match@pawb.social 6 months ago
trans girls be like
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That weird American obsession over men’s height.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Exists in Australia too lol
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
In Europe too. Pretty sure it exists everywhere, just like other beauty standards.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
And you know, the rest of the western world.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Thanks to America
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We only use metric to seem taller. 186cm (and counting)
orangeboats@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unfortunately not just America. Heightism is also prevalent in a big part of Asia.
This is most likely one of the quirks brought to you by Survival of the Fittest rule. Thanks, evolution.
Kalladblog@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t blame evolution for some peoples’ short sightedness
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 months ago
What?