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Is average short?

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highland145 said:
Red's beard would give him away.
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Just wear a hat and look down when entering. He can purchase children tickets online. And he can make some nice side income playing leprechaun on St. Patricks day. And wasn't there some Irish manlet dude who slept with hundreds of females pretending to be leprechaun and promising bucket of gold to gullible females? Maybe it was Onion article I read.
 
ponyo said:
Just wear a hat and look down when entering. He can purchase children tickets online. And he can make some nice side income playing leprechaun on St. Patricks day. And wasn't there some Irish manlet dude who slept with hundreds of females pretending to be leprechaun and promising bucket of gold to gullible females? Maybe it was Onion article I read.
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Yeah, somewhere in the back of my brain.
 
ponyo said:
There are some advantages of being a manlet. When you fly transatlantic, economy seats will be comfortable and feel large as business class seats. You can laugh at all the tall people who have to contort their bodies to fit into the tiny economy seats with no leg room. Children clothes are cheaper than adult size so you'll save money when clothes shopping. And depending on how short and how young you look, you could possibly score children admission tickets to parks, movie theater, and other places.
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I've only been on a plane a few times but this is definitely true. Especially a dash 8. For a 6'+ guy I can see it being pretty tight being stuck in there. I did bang my head on the overhead compartment though, so guess I'm not short enough to just stand up either.

I could easily get the children's discount if I shaved my beard... but there's also a risk they call children's aid if I'm alone.
 
Short hops on turboprops are pretty cramped. OTHO, the lower altitude can really show off the terrain - Iowa was just corn field after corn field after corn field!
 
ponyo said:
At 6, I'm borderline and at risk when compared to other Westerners. But judged on asian bell curve, I'm comfortably above the manlet danger zone.
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That's tall as shit for a Korean, isn't it? Like a basketball player to the rest of us Anglos.
 
lxskllr said:
That's tall as shit for a Korean, isn't it? Like a basketball player to the rest of us Anglos.
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It's above average but not extreme. Koreans are pretty tall race for asians. I think I read the average Korean male height is like 5' 7. That's average male. Younger males are taller because of better nutrition. I think I read the average young male like 5 ft 9 inches. I don't know how true that is. Older generation lacked food and nutrients to grow tall due to the Korean War. Kids now eat really well so they grow tall.
 
IronWing said:
I would think that over time, sexual selection would remove shortness from the gene pool but it hasn't happened yet.
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I think Asians are a fair amount shorter than whites or Africans, however there are extremely tall Asians, of course, for instance Yao Ming, who played in the NBA at 7' 6":

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I am 5'10" now. I was thinking about this today. I was waiting for some people standing next to an outdoor basketball court observing a pickup game. I was thinking that all the guys were shorter than me, well, almost all, there may have been one guy taller. At one point in my life I was 6 feet... first thing in the morning. In the evening I was 5' 11 3/4". Blows my mind that the average American man is 5'10". I think it used to be less, a lot less. My dad was 5'7", my brother 5'8". My memory is that I was the tallest person in my extended family! Now I'm just average height? 🙄
 
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ponyo said:
There are some advantages of being a manlet. When you fly transatlantic, economy seats will be comfortable and feel large as business class seats. You can laugh at all the tall people who have to contort their bodies to fit into the tiny economy seats with no leg room. Children clothes are cheaper than adult size so you'll save money when clothes shopping. And depending on how short and how young you look, you could possibly score children admission tickets to parks, movie theater, and other places.
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I watched a video tonight the race last night of the US Olympics Trials 100m final. Winner was S. Richardson, African American with very long orange dyed hair. She's 5 foot 1 inch! Got a slow start but ran everybody down, by the end they were eating her dust. If she can improve the first part of her race she'll win gold in Tokyo.
 
Muse said:
I watched a video tonight the race last night of the US Olympics Trials 100m final. Winner was S. Richardson, African American with very long orange dyed hair. She's 5 foot 1 inch! Got a slow start but ran everybody down, by the end they were eating her dust. If she can improve the first part of her race she'll win gold in Tokyo.
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She is damn fast, and a firecracker too boot!
 
Is 5'10 manlet territory. 😕

I was standing in line at a converience store to get a drink and this guy was standing in front of me. He had to be 6,4. He was huge. It seems like many young people (under 30) are big. Even the young women. Many have wide shoulders (like a football player), and are 5"9 minimum. This is what I've seen in south Jersey.
 
5'9", my stature is not measured by gravity's effect on my skin suit, but on my effect on the world around me.

Woe to those who only find value in comparison to perceived competition.
 
ponyo said:
Something manlet would say.
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Eh. 5'10 is totally fine with some looks, better than 6' and below average looks. I mean you gotta start being rich then, or very well built. However being 5'6 or less no matter what you look like starts to get harder unless you are really fit and good looking or rich. But there are plenty of petite women too.

I've dated women just about my height. I've also been filtered by women just about my height - I see them on the apps being honest about it. Be tall. I just swipe left. But women tend to be shorter so it works out well.

Both new first dates I have lined up next week are with 5'8" women and my height is always on my profile. So they know where I stand. Literally.
 
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