Collateral Damage posted:

That's the second dumbest way I've ever seen of trying to start a model engine.

Moon Slayer posted:

No.

TK-42-1 posted:

you know what i’m going to ask...

Data Graham posted:

Yeah but I was talking about his age

Cocaine Bear posted:

admins and mod did some bad stuff but admins and mods are also the reason this isn't loving reddit. Land of contrasts and all that.

RandomFerret posted:

Yeah, and I have it on good authority that my racist grandpa is the reason we're not all speaking German

Cocaine Bear posted:

Meh, there's about a millions reasons to hate him but being a wee man is not one of them. There's a certain ideological irony in being in the big strong daddy protect me camp but he can't control his heights.

Finger Prince posted:

Kheldarn posted:

Hardon Crime posted:

Pulling out this classic:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” - Jean Paul Sartre

The Maestro posted:

I think I’ll be the bigger man and not dunk on him.

ultrafilter posted:

Kheldarn posted:

Kheldarn posted:

Tree Bucket posted:

The Bathroom Cabinet of Dr Caligari

The Maestro posted:

I think I’ll be the bigger man...

rodbeard posted:

He's not that short he's just very self-conscious about being slightly below average. People bring it up because it's fun to watch the guy who said "facts don't care about your feelings" lie about his height and try to pretend to not have an emotional response to being called short.

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Men being insecure about their height is something I never really got

Hihohe posted:

https://twitter.com/Coelasquid/status/1296207440866717697?s=20

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Men being insecure about their height is something I never really got

sephiRoth IRA posted:

Toxic masculinity has done a lot of dirty work on height and dick size

sephiRoth IRA posted:

Toxic masculinity has done a lot of dirty work on height and dick size

quote:

Society in medieval Iceland operated under a one-gender system in which people were categorised not as male or female but as physically adequate or inadequate, Phelpstead believes. 'The result is a distinction between men on the one hand and everyone else, including most women, children, slaves and otherwise disenfranchised men on the other,' he said.

In the ancient stories, penis size determined a man's status in a society that distinguished able-bodied, virile men from all other people. In rare cases, some women were able to gain this position of social status. Phelpstead points to repeated imagery and metaphors in the stories that referred to a penis as a 'borer' and 'drill of the hill of the leg'.

'These descriptions suggest that the penis not only marked social position but could be used to establish or reassert social standing through phallic aggression,' he said. 'A penile problem such as erectile dysfunction compromised the ability of a man to assert or maintain this dominant position.'

ultrafilter posted:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's also been happening for pretty much all of human history and was (if anything) much much worse in the past. Don't forget that the English made fun of Napoleon's alleged lack of height for centuries even though it was apparently just propaganda anyway.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's also been happening for pretty much all of human history and was (if anything) much much worse in the past. Don't forget that the English made fun of Napoleon's alleged lack of height for centuries even though it was apparently just propaganda anyway

Hyperlynx posted:

The other explanation I heard for people thinking Napoleon was short is that he was usually seen in the company of his Grenadier Guards, as bodyguards.

Grenades at the time were like those cartoon bomb bowling-ball-with-a-fuse things, and grenadiers were the biggest, tallest, beefiest dudes in the army in order to be able to throw those things far, and the Guards were the elite of those.

So, a normal sized dude in the presence of massive dudes looks like a small dude.

Hyperlynx posted:

The other explanation I heard for people thinking Napoleon was short is that he was usually seen in the company of his Grenadier Guards, as bodyguards.

Grenades at the time were like those cartoon bomb bowling-ball-with-a-fuse things, and grenadiers were the biggest, tallest, beefiest dudes in the army in order to be able to throw those things far, and the Guards were the elite of those.

So, a normal sized dude in the presence of massive dudes looks like a small dude.

anatomi posted:

In Sweden on Midsummer we dance around the maypole and we sing a song called "Små grodorna", or "The Little Frogs." This stupid, stupid song and the image of their drunk adult relatives stumbling around to it are deeply ingrained in the heart of every Swede.

Here's a translation:

"The little frogs, the little frogs are funny to behold.
The little frogs, the little frogs are funny to behold.
No ears, no ears, no tails do they have.
No ears, no ears, no tails do they have.
Kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack ack kaa.
Kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack, kou ack ack ack ack kaa."