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Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by peyton »

brink wrote: post #4
rocket_surgeron wrote: post #3

Tall people die younger, have more joint and back pain, and have trouble finding shirts that fit. See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. I’m tall and wish I was average and I’m not even “super tall” just 76”/193cm. I straight up feel sorry for people taller than I. They end up on crutches before dying in their 60s. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/

> See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. Seriously, as another skinny-ish tall person, I wish "L-Slim" was a thing. That would be so nice. I'm tired of wearing shirts that are way too wide.

Not sure where you live, but it’s called LT in my region.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by peyton »

o_m wrote: post #6
tcfhgj wrote: post #5

> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…

Could be a good investment if you do it while you're young

rhGH seems way better honestly.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin »

tcfhgj wrote: post #5

> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…

But they have less cells that could become cancerous?

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by snake_plissken »

Straight out of GATTACA.

I cringed pretty hard when the image at the top loaded; was not expecting this kind of story, was expecting a missive on the song from the 90s.

Also, this story reminds me of a passage, among many, from the Deus Ex timeline wiki (https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline):

"Antoine Thisdale, an un-augmented oil rig worker sues for the right to have both of his fully functional natural arms amputated and replaced with cybernetic arms in an effort to compete with mechanically augmented workers in his profession. The Supreme Court rules in his favor, clearing the way for elective augmentation."

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by Arnt »

brink wrote: post #4
rocket_surgeron wrote: post #3

Tall people die younger, have more joint and back pain, and have trouble finding shirts that fit. See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. I’m tall and wish I was average and I’m not even “super tall” just 76”/193cm. I straight up feel sorry for people taller than I. They end up on crutches before dying in their 60s. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/

> See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. Seriously, as another skinny-ish tall person, I wish "L-Slim" was a thing. That would be so nice. I'm tired of wearing shirts that are way too wide.

Slim fit. Like these (a german page from the site of a global chain): https://shop.mango.com/de/herren/hemden-slim-fit_c28503139?S...

Mediumish quality.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by 83 »

peyton wrote: post #11
brink wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. Seriously, as another skinny-ish tall person, I wish "L-Slim" was a thing. That would be so nice. I'm tired of wearing shirts that are way too wide.

Not sure where you live, but it’s called LT in my region.

I'm ideally a medium tall (MT) but that size is a unicorn (doesn't exist). LT sometimes doesn't look too baggy but they're so rare I don't even bother searching for them in most clothes stores.

When a store has a big and tall section it's literally big AND tall, not normal and tall. If you are 2m (6'7") tall you better weigh 300lbs if you want a shirt that fits.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by alistairSH »

rocket_surgeron wrote: post #3

Tall people die younger, have more joint and back pain, and have trouble finding shirts that fit. See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt. I’m tall and wish I was average and I’m not even “super tall” just 76”/193cm. I straight up feel sorry for people taller than I. They end up on crutches before dying in their 60s. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/

I feel your pain. My son has had a >20" neck since he was mid-teens, on an otherwise typical big-guy build (6'3", was 240lbs in high school, now a good bit more). Custom dress shirts required, not even stuff from the B&T shops fit.

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by kmm »

tcfhgj wrote: post #5

> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than…

> a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than their male partners in just 7.5 percent of cases

Isn't that entirely to be expected just because men are on average taller than women? As a very quick 'n dirty numerical check, if you pick pairs of numbers from two normal distributions with means that are 2 standard deviations apart, only in 7.8% of the cases will the number from the distribution with the lowest mean be larger than that from the other distribution. In real life male and female heights aren't exactly normally distributed with the same standard deviation and just a differing mean, but is the true expected number of such pairs really much higher than 7.5%, that the result is significant?

Re: I wish I was a little bit taller

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Post by job_suche »

I am myself quite short (168cm). Growing up I had no insecurities about it, because I only started becoming short after puberty. Anyway, there was a period between ages 21 and 25 when I was obsessed about my height. Natural selection is pretty cruel. If you have good looks do not take them for granted. Now I care less about my height and more about my lack of hair.

It is really not healthy to obsess over this stuff. As I said, natural selection is pretty cruel in general, but it is also stochastic in nature. Being short, or bald, is not a death sentence, although it does make things harder.

There's one thing I have to say though. If you're successful and you still need to go to such lengths to attract women, you have yourself to blame and not your height.

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