Oh, I don’t know. I like looking on the bright side of things.
I’d say that the fact a guy like Trihs is allowed to spew his craziness like this without being sent to some GULAG or North Korean happy camp or having the ever living shit beaten out of him every day reinforces my faith in humanity. It’s one of the reasons I strongly oppose the flag burning amendment as well.
The society that can afford to let its Trihs’s and flag burners spout off is a society that keeps its theocrats strongly in line. It’s a strong society indeed . . .
. . . As long as we keep those tall skinny fuckers in line.
Sorry, I’m squat and fat, and I hate tall skinny people with a passion. FUCK YOU, TALL SKINNY PEOPLE, AND FUCK YOUR FUCKING HIGH METABOLISM TOO!!! I DON’T CARE IF YOU CAN EAT ALL YOU WANT AND STILL KEEP THOSE ABS WITHOUT JOGGING. OK I CARE, BUT . . . well . . . I mean . . . YOU’RE ALL STUPID!!
I don’t have a problem with AT’s rage at tall, skinny guys. It’s a feeling. If he were posting that he was going to to postal on all the tall skinny guys he met, I’d have a problem.
He needed to vent and instead of using Word and keeping it to himself, he told the world. Ooops. Oh, well.
I say leave the thread open–I’m getting to figure out how many tall, skinny guys are on the Dope. I’m keeping a record of them here at home, and late at night I read them…*
Where did I ever say I was enraged against tall skinny guys? There’s no “rage” whatsoever about them anywhere here. It was a very inarticulately-worded generalization. It certainly is not “venting” nor was it ever intended to be. Because if I wanted to do that, I would have started this thread in the pit and put it in the form of a straightforward rant and not a question/poll.
Lest this get all serious again, I just want to make that clear.
So you’re not mad at the tall, skinny guys who you think are jerks? If you’re not mad at them or about them, why post about them? Did you honestly think that personality type could be tied to physiology?
Do you study phrenology? That’d be about as accurate. In my head, I excused your outburst because I thought (assumed–my bad) that it sprang from anger or disgust due to an interaction you had had with some TSG. If not, what the hell are you on about? You were just randomly assigning behaviors to body types? What are short, stout people like? How about red heads? Left-handed Koreans with acne? :rolleyes:
No wonder this went straight to the Pit.
You didn’t understand the OP? He found a correlation between men of a certain body type and certain personality traits. He was wondering if anyone else noticed this too and was attempting to determine if his experiences can be explained by more than coincidence.
He thought it was a possibility, yes. That’s pretty evident in the OP.
His OP is excusable if he asked about tall, thin men being jerks on average more than men in the general population because one tall, thin man made him angry but it’s not if he was actually trying to get help from others to form a conclusion? I have a feeling if he asked if there’s any validity to Napoleon complex this thread would have gone much differently.
He was on about attempting to determine if there might be anything more than coincidence that can explain his experiences. WTF? He apologized for starting the thread and didn’t appreciate an honest question being moved to the Pit and not closed on request because a mod wanted to get his jollies by watching others tear him down. What are you on about?
*Could *be? Sure. What makes a person tall? Hormones - little chemical messengers. Who knows what the influence of greater amount of Human Growth Hormone than normal might yield in behavior? What makes people very skinny? Again, hormones running the metabolism at a different rate than fat or average folks. No reason that couldn’t alter behavior. Hyperthyroidism can certainly affect mood and behavior, can’t it? If thyroid hormone can alter behavior at testably high levels, perhaps it can make more subtle changes at levels within the normal range.
I don’t know of anyone who’s done this sort of research, mind you. I’m not saying it’s probable or certain. But I don’t think it’s as outlandish an idea as you’re making it seem. You and I both know that there’s a hell of a lot about the human body and development we don’t know yet, and our understanding of the mind and behavior is still a whole undiscovered country of blind guesswork and assumptions.
I’m having the bad habit of only reading the ends of long threads.
Has anyone mentioned Paul Williams(?) Short People song? I’m 5’6", so I’ve got no reason to live?
To follow up WhyNot’s idea, Your body type affects your appearance, which affects how people react to you, which affects how you react and develop. IMHO, I’m no more of a socialogist than any other Liberal Arts major.
Anyway, it’s not the tall skinny dudes I find predisposed to be jerks, It’s guys who wear a mustache with no beard. And they’re assholes, rather than jerks.
Tall people… got no reason
Tall people… got no reason
Tall people got no reason to live.
I’m not that tall (6’) but I am pretty skinny (150lbs) and I can be a huge asshole, but usually only when I feel the situation calls for it. Like the last bitch who would not shut the fuck up about how my GF should feed me. I had had all I could take and finally told her that I tried to get some bacon at the store but couldn’t find any cause her fat ass ate it all. And now I have to wait for her to die before I can have any fucking salty, fatty meat. Seriously. How come fat people think they can rag on skinny dudes and not expect comments in return?
Some ass: “You’re skinny!”
Me: “No shit. Don’t sit on me you fat fuck”
or
“It’s the tapeworms. You look like you need some. If you come over here and lick my asshole I’m sure I can sort you out…”
or
“I may be skinny, but at least I’m not ugly”
or if I’m in a hurry:
“Fuck you”
It’s sad to say I haven’t actually said all these. But I think them. I think them real loud.
But…but…but… we’re not ragging on you. We’re JEALOUS
The only good thing is, as my doctor, who could be Ichabod Crane’s twin brother, says, in a world wide famine, I’m going to live a lot longer than he. Assuming I don’t drop dead of something else, first :x
I’m really not a jerk, even though I am short, fat, moustached, and non-bearded.
You’re right. R.N. wrote the song. When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.
I guess I remembered Paul Williams singing it, because it was very ironic, him being so short. But, tell me you know for sure he’s never sung it.
shrug Not that that was the most important part of my post.
Picking nits is typical primate behaviour. I guess we are fete-ing Og gnats, here.
I have always wondered why people (I guess we’re talking mostly men here) would sport a moustche but no beard. I mean, why not go all the way? Why stop with the caterpillar?
I have to admit that there are some disadvantages to being as tall as I am over in this neck of the woods.
