In a heightist world, this makes me so happy

[Newportnobby]

Remember, the perfect shape is a sphere. I console myself with this notion.

Webbo

Exactly. Why have a six pack when you can have a barrel?

[chrism]

Remember, the perfect shape is a sphere. I console myself with this notion.

I am in shape - round is a shape 

[Bealman]

To paraphrase Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee,

That ain't round, this is round.

(Science centre, Nagoya, Japan) 

[stevewalker]

Do small kids still get called "titch" in the UK ?

Not just small kids, I call my wife that too.

She sometimes, without saying anything, looks pleadingly up at a shelf for me to get something down and I say "You're titching again."

[NinOz]

When I bought my turbo charged MX5 my brother in law was dying to have a drive.
At 6'3" he couldn't fit in the drivers seat no matter what he tried (seat back, seat leaning, steering wheel raised, shoes off).
Had to be satisfied with being a passenger.  Myself at 5'6" had no problem but is quite snug.
Every height has pros and cons.

[stevewalker]

Indeed. I am lucky in being 5'10" that most things in everyday life are designed around someone of my sort of height, so I rarely have problems.

[Invicta Alec]

When I was a kid, my ears used to stick out. I guess at the age of 68, they still do!

I always remember when I started grammar school, the older kids used to call me "lugs".

Snap! At my grammar school (Bromley in Kent) I was also called "lugs". Nothing to do with my ears though. Surname Ludlow was initially shorten to "Luds" and morphed to "Lugs" after a while.
At 69 my ears DO seem to have got larger over the years though. 

Alec.

[Chris Morris]

Going off on a tangent into nicknames. When I was a lad we were all called by our surname at school. I had an elder brother in the same school so I was Morris Minor which soon became Moggy. So nothing to do with my height thank goodness.  I don't recall any heightist comments at school this only came later at work. I really do think that it is harder to get your ideas listened to in the workplace when you are short. Luckily for me I was good at some things and people eventually found it was worth listening to me.

[Bob G]

I was caller Pecker, after Gregory Peck, of course.
That was probably one the more polite names I had

[TrevL]

When I bought my turbo charged MX5 my brother in law was dying to have a drive.
At 6'3" he couldn't fit in the drivers seat no matter what he tried (seat back, seat leaning, steering wheel raised, shoes off).
Had to be satisfied with being a passenger.  Myself at 5'6" had no problem but is quite snug.
Every height has pros and cons.

I have recently  bought a Toyota Auris estate, and this is the very first car my wife has been able to pull the sun visor down and it actually shields her eyes, and doesn't have to look through the windscreen wipers.  She's 4' 6" and proud of it!

[chrism]

I have recently  bought a Toyota Auris estate, and this is the very first car my wife has been able to pull the sun visor down and it actually shields her eyes, and doesn't have to look through the windscreen wipers.  She's 4' 6" and proud of it!

Crikey, that reminds me of my first car, an Austin Cambridge. The previous owner was somewhat vertically challenged and he drove it by looking through between the top of the steering wheel and the top of the dashboard.

I knew someone else who was vertically challenged in the other direction - he drove a classic Mini, having taken the driver's seat out and sitting on the back seat. He could also adjust the driver's side wing mirror without getting out of the car.