Post a Random Fact About Yourself

[freethinker]

There are many advantages to being short. First when you fall you're much less likely to get hurt than if you're a tall person.

1) The falling height is smaller.
2) You're (normally) much lighter than a tall person
3) All things being otherwise equal (as if it were possible) your reflexes are faster than those of a tall person. So you have time to adopt a position that will reduce your chances of being harmed.
4) Plus in my case, I am a practiced gymnast. My friends used to joke about me saying that I was like a male Nadia Comaneci.

I have a friend who's rather tall (6-4 I think) but somehow unlike me he always ends up with short women. To him, that is because they are often taller than little me.

Anyway, with my propensity of dating tall women, we were often in a situation where my date was taller than his!

The four of us would go to a fair with mechanical rides ( you know the kind) and people would often look at us because of the strange foursome we made. Good times.

 

[oberth]

There are many advantages to being short. First when you fall you're much less likely to get hurt than if you're a tall person.

1) The falling height is smaller.
2) You're (normally) much lighter than a tall person
3) All things being otherwise equal (as if it were possible) your reflexes are faster than those of a tall person. So you have time to adopt a position that will reduce your chances of being harmed.
4) Plus in my case, I am a practiced gymnast. My friends used to joke about me saying that I was like a male Nadia Comaneci.

I have a friend who's rather tall (6-4 I think) but somehow unlike me he always ends up with short women. To him, that is because they are often taller than little me.

Anyway, with my propensity of dating tall women, we were often in a situation where my date was taller than his!

The four of us would go to a fair with mechanical rides ( you know the kind) and people would often look at us because of the strange foursome we made. Good times.

all true, but guess how long my arms are at 6'2" - you need a pole to hit me

... i met exactly one woman taller than me i was interested in (mother of my second daughter)

 

[Non Sync]

There are many advantages to being short. First when you fall you're much less likely to get hurt than if you're a tall person.

1) The falling height is smaller.
2) You're (normally) much lighter than a tall person
3) All things being otherwise equal (as if it were possible) your reflexes are faster than those of a tall person. So you have time to adopt a position that will reduce your chances of being harmed.
4) Plus in my case, I am a practiced gymnast. My friends used to joke about me saying that I was like a male Nadia Comaneci.

I have a friend who's rather tall (6-4 I think) but somehow unlike me he always ends up with short women. To him, that is because they are often taller than little me.

Anyway, with my propensity of dating tall women, we were often in a situation where my date was taller than his!

The four of us would go to a fair with mechanical rides ( you know the kind) and people would often look at us because of the strange foursome we made. Good times.

Short people don't have to worry as much about ceiling fans and helicopter main rotors. Tail rotors are a concern.
We can also get things out of bottom drawers and under cabinets much easier.

 

[freethinker]

Short people don't have to worry as much about ceiling fans and helicopter main rotors. Tail rotors are a concern.
We can also get things out of bottom drawers and under cabinets much easier.

When someone says "Long story short" my recurring joke is to ask: "Why are you calling me "short" ?"...

It's stupid... I know.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I have a drawer I've been dumping all my change into for over a decade and now it's 2 inches deep.

 

[cooleddie74]

Actor David Huddleston from Blazing Saddles and The Big Lebowski was one of my cousins but to my memory I never got to meet him in person. He left my area long ago to pursue his acting career and returned home to this part of Virginia only occasionally once he settled in Hollywood.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I hope he made it to New Vertiform City.

 

[cooleddie74]

I'm more proud of that role than I am most of his others.

 

[1001001]

I'm more proud of that role than I am most of his others.

He was good in Capricorn One.

 

[cooleddie74]

"And give my best to your good lady! Yes. Goodbye."

[*Hangs up phone*]

"Asshole."

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I heard Baby Shark for the first time today and the first place my brain went was “Injured surfer do do do do do”.

I’m a bad person.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Given how short a typical shark's life cycle probably is, I find it rather ironic that there are grandparents involved in the Baby Shark dance.

 

[Rhodo]

I am always tempted to tell all truths during the icebreaker two truths and a lie.

 

[think]

I just walked. Fact with the evidence.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Harlem Globetrotters once waved Goodbye to me from their tour bus when I was a toddler. I and my parents were guests on a telethon and the Globetrotters were also in attendance.

 

[SJGardner]

A national news site ran an article with the title "Studies Prove No One Is 100% Straight" in 2015, with a picture of me waving a rainbow flag in full make-up, wig and a feminine outfit on the Budapest pride march as its thumbnail/cover image and it still took me six years after that to realize I was trans.

 

[Velocity]

I have 2 places on my face that have turned out to be basal cell carcinomas. Later this month I have to visit a surgeon and a plastic surgeon. This has really been the year of hell.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I have 2 places on my face that have turned out to be basal cell carcinomas. Later this month I have to visit a surgeon and a plastic surgeon. This has really been the year of hell.

Sorry to hear that. I hope the treatment goes well.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I have 2 places on my face that have turned out to be basal cell carcinomas. Later this month I have to visit a surgeon and a plastic surgeon. This has really been the year of hell.

I hope they'll do such a good job that you'll not notice it was ever there. Sorry you have to go through that.

 

[tesral]

I have 2 places on my face that have turned out to be basal cell carcinomas. Later this month I have to visit a surgeon and a plastic surgeon. This has really been the year of hell.

Cancer sucks. That on top of pandemic. You need a hug.