In a heightist world, this makes me so happy

Bealman · August 14, 2020, 03:35:36 AM

They don't need height to hit you with a fine!

Chris Morris · August 14, 2020, 08:10:43 AM

A presenter at our local radio station once had the bright idea of bringing together the shortest and tallest listeners just for a laugh. I emailed him to point out this is the same as bringing together the people with the lightest and darkest skins together for a laugh. The idea was quietly dropped.

Bob G · August 14, 2020, 08:13:34 AM

Quote from: Chris Morris on August 13, 2020, 10:02:45 PM
As a bloke of 5ft 1.5in I agree that heightism does indeed exist. It's just something you have to live with and get on with things regardless. There have been so many occasions when I have stood up at an event and some smart Alec has shouted "stand up, oh you are ". That stupid comment immediately detracts from what I have to say. I usually just retort " how clever, I've never heard that before" as a slap down.

Ah that's interesting. I see you "get" what I mean. Jealous of that extra 0.5" though.

I had a manager in a professional consultancy who used to call me "BibbityBob". He said it was a term of endearment. Given the firm was so politically correct in everything else, I found it (in PC terms) "very disappointing".

I came to find the HR term "very disappointing" meant they were "rucked off" that I would not tow the party line and do what the management team wanted me to do.
So they paid for me to go on a course of "therapy" so I could learn to work with management rather than challenge them all the time.
The therapist agreed with my perspective and suggested that the firm wasn't the right place for an entrepreneur like me.
That's why I'm self-employed now, and loving it.

No drugs and alcohol policy. No anti-slavery policy. No BS.
I think you get to a certain age when you've seen it all before for what it is.

Bob

joe cassidy · August 14, 2020, 11:41:15 AM

In France some small people seem to overcompensate for heightism by been overly aggresive, e.g. N. Bonaparte, N. Sarkozy, etc.

Bob G · August 14, 2020, 11:52:22 AM

Quote from: joe cassidy on August 14, 2020, 11:41:15 AM
In France some small people seem to overcompensate for heightism by been overly aggresive, e.g. N. Bonaparte, N. Sarkozy, etc.

No need to restrict it to France. I find its usually because tall folk

us off.

I'd rather be short and feisty than tall and gormless.

Of course not all tall people are gormless but then not all short people are overly aggressive, but that's the danger of making sweeping generalisms.

joe cassidy · August 14, 2020, 11:56:39 AM

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

Bob G · August 14, 2020, 12:06:02 PM

I think they use far ruder words now

weave · August 14, 2020, 01:01:36 PM

Yes, I used a few choice words when I read the OP wishing me dead. Then I read 'it was a bit tongue in cheek' so that's OK now

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Let's hope the chips on your shoulders make you look taller in a jacket

. See what I did there, bit tongue in cheek. Ha ha.

Cheers, weave

Railwaygun · August 14, 2020, 01:06:31 PM

Quote from: tutenkhamunsleeping on August 13, 2020, 06:01:57 PM
I prefer shorter folk, they may not notice I'm bald

Unfortunately baldness may be a risk factor for catching Covid, and is also a side effect!!

Bob G · August 14, 2020, 01:14:52 PM

Quote from: weave on August 14, 2020, 01:01:36 PM
Let's hope the chips on your shoulders make you look taller in a jacket . See what I did there, bit tongue in cheek. Ha ha.

Nah but the lifts in my shoes work just fine.

Quote from: Railwaygun on August 14, 2020, 01:06:31 PM
Unfortunately baldness may be a risk factor for catching Covid, and is also a side effect!!

Unfortunately I'm short, fat and bald. No a good combo really.

Papyrus · August 14, 2020, 01:15:28 PM

We live in a world built for average sized people. At just 6ft I am a little taller than average but still have trouble sometimes with car roofs, low doors (tube trains...) and seating on buses and planes. My stepson is 6'5", needs an extra-long bed, can't buy jeans to fit and struggles to get into the back seat of any car. And he gets all the tired jokes about "is the air pressure low up there...?". Jokes about people's height, or lack of it, still seem to be acceptable, whereas those about the overweight are not. It's a funny old world.

Cheers,

Chris

Invicta Alec · August 14, 2020, 01:17:14 PM

Being short (5'5" and a half!) has never really bothered me except for one thing..........

You know how the fish and chip shop has those high counters? Well, mum had sent me to buy Friday night's family supper. I queued up and at last I was able to step forward as the next customer. "What can I get you?" said the fishmonger to the bloke behind me. To be fair he would have had to have leaned forward and peered over the edge of the counter to spot me. I think they sent a search party out for me after about three hours.

Whenever I receive the tiresome "heightist" joke from taller people I always reply (with a mock look of disgust on my face) "DO try to keep your nasal passages a little cleaner." It nearly always elicits a reaction of the tall guy grabbing the end of his nose.

Alec.

Bob G · August 14, 2020, 01:45:30 PM

One thing I really appreciate is that I can reach the "grab handles" on the Singapore tube trains, and can travel holding on to these when standing up, whereas I can't so easily do that on the London Underground.

Bob

Webbo · August 16, 2020, 09:09:40 AM

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Unfortunately I'm short, fat and bald. No a good combo really.
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Remember, the perfect shape is a sphere. I console myself with this notion.

Webbo

Bealman · August 16, 2020, 09:19:23 AM

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".

Like any kid in those days, I'd put up with it as they were older and a lot bigger.

I think it's called bullying.

I must have been resilient, because I never lost any sleep over it, though.