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With an extra 3/4 inch he'd probably be only DMO per the BMI. You ought to grow a little, max.

phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link

i hope you're all not having a go at our max because no one does.

estela, Monday, 20 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link

just to be clear, i weigh 1m pounds

☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

1 mile pounds

2012 gtfolympics (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

no, million

☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link

So who wants to trade pants via the mail? I've got a pair of 501s circa 1990, buttonfly, acid wash. - looking for unreleased plaid nylon Kauffmans, 79-82.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 20 June 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link

Surmounted I personally found the fact that you're 5'11" quite interesting. Not that I'd ever thought about it but I think I assumed you were short!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, June 20, 2011 6:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha this, but I also thought gbx was like 6 feet! take it as a compliment...I guess?

british sb power (dayo), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link

I always thought guys who were 5'11 would just always round up to 6'. thanks for keeping the rest of us honest!!

british sb power (dayo), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link

I round up in other places.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link

ha!

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link

i round up to the nearest meter

mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link

I was very shocked and surprised when I met gbx and we were the same height as I'd basically started to assume that everyone on the internet was like 6'14"

chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link

haha yeah i thought you were gonna be a lot taller, too, probably cuz i figured you'd be jjj sized

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

I think I did all of my ILX-based height complaining pre-2004

holy fuck I've been here for a while

chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

I suspect you're like Ripley in Alien 4 where your body is 50% integrated with ILX

aguirre, the wrath of frogbs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link

what country does DJP live in where a feet contains more than 12"!!

dayo, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link

America, motherfucker

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

My driver's license says 5'6, but i think i'm actually closer to 5'5.

I feel like I get called "buddy" more than your average guy because of my size. It strikes me as vaguely condescending.

The dad guitar, or "bass" in muso terms (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link

thanking u, dayo + gbx, for my Tuesday lol

chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link

I once did a cool stupid human trick and my friend just blurted "little man!!!!" like it was the most natural thing in the world. so w/e!

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link

scenes from a delivery room

"what a great post" - some (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link

~kudos~

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

I have to sit on a textbook in order to sit at this desk and use the computer comfortably. Wish I had another one tbh.

passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

lol at plains and max agonizing about being 5'11 & 3/4

feel that this is a shibboleth and that there are no 5'11 & 3/4 republicans

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link

so either assume george w bush was not a true republican or that in anticipation that his presidential medical would falsify any exageration, elected for honesty

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link

5'9" and have definitely thought many times that my life would be objectively better if a few inches taller. But you have to shoot the bullets you have in life. Waste of time to obsess on things you can't change.

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

When all else fails, make a booster chair out of books or pillows.

passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

At an open mic the other night, I had to pull my barstool out to practically the middle of the floor to see past the heads of all the tall people at the bar. Oh, did I say tall people? I meant to say tall ladies. I was told 5'7" was average dude height but I'm not sure I buy it.

Disturbance At The Hard-on House (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link

ya maybe in the middle ages

iatee, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

*towers over thread and scoffs*

am0n, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link

a giant am0n men

buzza, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

5'9 and i don't mind. underdog mentality.

have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

Swagger comes in all sizes.

passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link

lol @ all you short people

my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link

Careful, that means the shiv is closer to your entrails.

grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link

damn this thread got heated, short people going at each others necks, we need to stick together

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link

i don't feel this insecurity anymore btw... all my friends in chicago are my height for w/e reason

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link

I'm 5'7 but don't mind I just buy boots with thick soles

乒乓, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link

i actually have no memory of what the source of this was last summer

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link

Jord I'm not your friend but I'm considerably shorter than you are AND I'm in Chicago. Even your extended posse is short.

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link

I'm taller. We can never meet.

Jeff, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link

damn this thread got heated, short people going at each others necks, we need to stick together

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course, the neck is the most logical place to go at, if you're a head shorter than the other guy

drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link

I think I was about 5'5" until my junior/senior year of high school, and some part of my brain still expects me to be shorter than most people. So, I feel you, people who are shorter.

mh, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.nextmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/HHC-Hi-res.jpg

mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link

human garbage

buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link

I think gr80 was like 5'9" 1/2

buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link

javier bardem has the head of a 6'4" man tho

mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link

Jergins was a little taller

buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link

the female ilxors I have met were shorter but not unusually so

buzza, Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link

how tall is a buzza

mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link


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