If gay people come out of the closet… where do midgets come out of??? The cupboard.
Coincidentally, I was talking evolution at a drinks party this past weekend with a woman who suggested short women look to mate with unusally tall men in order to “even it out”, as she put it. Not usually consciously, but if consciously then they rationalise it in other terms; “my father was tall”, etc. And to be fair to the woman, you do see some of that about (short birds, tall geezers - but not 'tother way around).
Anyway, I responded with my usual line in these circumstances about ovulating women, and tried to put my hand up her skirt.
To be honest, I have no idea, but then no one does, I suppose. It’s all conjecture and theory save for the single certainty that we are – when all the modern malarkey is stripped away - beasts of the field.
Excuse me, I need a long lie . . . .
Isabelle - don’t post the lyrics to entire songs.
“Short People” isn’t politcally incorrect, either. (IMHO)
Don’t post full lyrics to songs, as this is a breach of our (and no doubt, mr Newman’s) copyright rules. Thank you.
balooga writes:
> If gay people come out of the closet… where do midgets come
> out of??? The cupboard.
My guess was that they come out of the footlocker. That was a pretty weak joke when I made it 32 years ago when I started the Short Rights movement. Now it’s both weak and really old.
There’s a joke here about k.d. lang and head, but I can’t find it…
I watch a lot of B movies. Phil turns up often. I’ve realised for a while that he’s quite a good actor.
But when I saw him in The Creeps , it was one best Dracula performances I had ever seen (The best will always be Bela.). Phil was noble, frightening, primal, and erotic. Watching him in this film, I realized that he’d be an A list star with Oscars if he wasn’t a dwarf.
Instead, his latest role is another turn as one of Santa’s elves.
:eek:
Chris Farley did that TOO?
Now, de mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that as a rule, but, “Way to rip off Belushi, Chris.”
You evil piece of shit that should never have been extruded out of an armadillo’s leprous asshole Eve.
Do you also feel sorry for niggers because of their skin colour? The term midget is as offensive to most little people as the n-word to people of African decent. Especially one who makes judgement without even knowing any “dwarves or midgets”.
To alll you average sized people out there who are making cheap jokes based on someone’s height, would you all please fuck off and die. My stepson has achondroplasia, he’s only 3’10" at the age of 17. He’s not funny, he’s a great kid who kust happens to be short.
If anyone is interested, please follow Francesca’s link to the Little people of America. Yu might learn not to be so fucking prejudiced in future.
Yes, it does.
Leprechauns?
Though last time I saw it, the TV guide listed the famous members of cast above the dwarves :rolleyes:
If you find that making jokes about people who are physically different to you is amusing, might I sugggest you post those thoughts in a more appropriate forum. I believe you will find a kind welcome at several white supremacist groups. :mad:
Jesus! Froth at the mouth much?
Um,Tapioca, did you even read my OP? Or, rather, were you able to string the words together into some kind of logical idea? Obviously not. If you had the intelligence of a groundhog, you would understand what I was saying . . . Oh, why bother, you’re too damned stupid to even correct.
Yes, Eve, I did read your OP. Read your own words. Unless I’m missing a big slice of irony, then you think it’s OK to laugh at people just because they are different to you.
If you were being ironic, then I most certainly apologise, but if you’re the sort of person who would laugh at my stepson in the street, rather than speaking to him, then I stand by everthing I said.
“Ironic?” I said flat-out in short, easy-to-understand words that I thought it was wrong to make fun of Gary Coleman for being short. How goddam difficult was that to understand? Everyone else seemed to have gotten it. If I’d known I had to do it in words of one syllable, with pictures, I’d have provided them.
I don’t feel sorry for your stepson because he’s short—I feel sorry for him because he’s going to have to spend his life explaining simple concepts to you.
Whoa, Tapioca, calm down. You’re not going to help anybody by jumping people like that. A) Eve was not trying to be offensive. B) A lot of people don’t know that midget is considered rude.
“Look, a midget! Hey, everybody!” is deliberately rude. “I knew a midget in high school,” is not.
I’m 4’2", though I have a different condition than your son. And sometimes it’s pretty funny.
P.S. I find the term “little people” to be incredibly offensive and condescending. I don’t care if there is an association with that name, how could anyone not be insulted by it?
I don’t like it myself, Eve. It especially grates when you hear people refer to small children as “little people.” It’s a term that was coined to try to group “dwarfs” and “midgets” together, since “midget” mean that you were proportional while “dwarf” meant you weren’t. It’s a compromise, and rapidly becoming dated as well.
I think the reason midget bugs people so much is because it came out of the human oddity/freak show tradition in the late 19th century.
What about “short-statured?” That’s another term I’ve heard.