BS: tall people

Subject: BS: tall people
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:20 PM

heloo, why dont tall people get out of bloody way then?
i just been to Emma Rugg gig, and couldnt see nothing becase of all tall people in the way.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:20 PM

they think they bloody great.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:22 PM

Yeah but they take longer to sit down.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:24 PM

heloo, = least they could do is stand at the back.

they not bothered, they dont care about people.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:27 PM

I'm sorry JoHn ... I do always try standing at the back.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: bobad
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:28 PM

The solution to your problem here

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: number 6
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:31 PM

nice styles ... I suggest the X8826 ones joHn.

thanks for posting that bobad!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Kaleea
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:37 PM

When a gal is 4 feet 11 3/4 inches--that's only 59 3/4 inches in all--at times it is a bit difficult to be sitting behind a tall person &/or people wearing hats. In my mucho younger days, some fellers thought it would be funny to put my chair up on a table so I could see better. I sat in it, & yes, I could see the stage better!

But elevator shoes? They'd have to take me up at least one flight.

I recall being told once that if I were 1/2 an inch shorter I could be a member of dwarfs international. I don't even know what the organization is about. I'm not green, but I have been told that I'm one of the "wee folk."

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:40 PM

Charles Bronson [mad bloke] is the world champion at midget throwing, he once threw a midget 30 feet, he would have gone further, but he hit a tree.!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:41 PM

Like my father before me, I'm 6'2". In Frank Lloyd Wright's words, "a weed" -- and expresses an attitude of inexcusable altitudism.

Ask the tall folks to boost you up.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: khandu
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:42 PM

HERE is what you really need.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: khandu
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:43 PM

Haw! Rap...I got you beat 3 & 1/2 inches!

k

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:36 AM

My children are all taller than me. For each one, as they grew and grew, there came a day when they all grew taller than me. Lucky I have a granddaughter now - I will be able to look down at her for maqny years yet!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:18 AM

I do note that guy on the left in khandu's pic is not attempting to be taller..*grin*

but perhaps people are suggesting the wrong solution....I wonder if Sir j0hn might rather try this

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:21 AM

Start a petition against them, jOhn.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:43 AM

weLCome back, JOhN!!

Koko

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:45 AM

It'S t9ime we got things9 back o n TRack, isn't it9?

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 03:58 PM

For the concert situation cited by Rt Hon Sir jOhn from Hull it would seem that the problem is with those who stick up too far when seated. Unless one is comfortable sitting on one's feet, the shoes and stilts will have no amelioratory effect when one is in a seated audience.

What the Hon SirjOhn needs is a Booster.

John

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:02 PM

And an adaptation of the "SHort People Got No Reason to Live" song customized to his unique perspective.

A

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:06 PM

Can't help you there, I very rarely see tall people ;-)

Little MudGuard, 194cm = 6'4" ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:07 PM

"We don't want no talllll people...."

Bob Dylan is short. Buffy Sainte-Marie is short. Joan Baez is short.

John Kerry is tall.

Note the difference.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:12 PM

We don't want no talllll people.

I am not sure about the English language, but in German, a double negation is no negation ... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:03 PM

I have to secretly agree..... I always get the tall person in front of me.... I've ended up tapping them on the shoulder (if I can reach that far) and asking them to swap places.... at 5'2", I'm more than a foot shorter than Mudguard.. my head is level with his elbow.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: GUEST,Blind Boy Grunt
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:08 PM

You're right, Mudguard, as regards proper written English, but not in English folk music. In English folk music a double negation IS a negation, same as in Spanish.

"We don't need no tallll people" in a song means "We don't need any tallll people". That's folk music.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:36 PM

Liz, I didn't know I was supposed to ram my elbow into your head - next time I'll be with you I will try to ;-)

Blind boy, did you see the three characters at the end of my sentence?

Little MudGuard ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:38 PM

HAHA!! I shall have my stool with me and you'll have to reach up to me!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 05:42 PM

Don't worry me none. Bite the buggers on the back of the knee. They're all the same size flat on their backs...

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: open mike
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 06:06 AM

i know a guy who hit his head on the door jam
in Thailand...he is over 6 feet tall and the
doors there are quite a bit shorter than that.

he got a concussion or aneurismn or some such
emergency-like situation. not to mention a
headache. he should have ducked!!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 09:24 AM

There was this stable, in Bethlehem, and three wise men came with gifts. The babe was in the manger, Joe and Mary was kneeling by each side. The first wise man walked in and said, "I bring a gift of gold."

The second walked in and said, "I bring a gift of frankincense."

The third, the tallest, walked in and slammed his head against the top of the door frame. He was dropped to his knees by the impact and exclaimed, "JEEESUS CHRIST!!!"

Mary jumped to her feet and yelled at Joseph, "Write that down! It's a better name than Iriving!"

So you see, we tall folks have had an impact upon history and religion far greater than might be expected.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 09:36 AM

I get accused of being "tall" - though I think people are fooled by my girth. I'm under six foot; and have 5 siblings as tall or taller then I - including two sisters.

So I've always felt "short"

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 10:29 AM

An acquaintance from a few years back (who married a schoolmate of mine) was tall, and played basketball in college. When he finished college he enlisted in the US Marine Corps. They gave him an "early discharge" when they found that they couldn't keep him in uniforms. He experienced a "growth spurt" after he enlisted, and when I ran into him at a class reunion a few years later he was describing his height as "only 6'17"."

He didn't sit down. He folded up.

Fortunately he was fairly slim, so you could lean and look around him in most cases.

John

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 10:51 AM

I knew a lady once who was 5'11"...she had a daughter who got to 6'1"....as high school graduation approached, the girl was dating a basketball player who was 6'7" or so.......so for the prom, she wore high heels, had her hair done up in a tall bouffant, and they made quite an entrance at the prom!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 10:54 AM

as they ducked through the door?

One of my sisters is 6' 1.5" - she grew 2 inches during her college years.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: GUEST,daylia
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:33 PM

My brother, one year younger than me, was nearly 6 feet tall by the time he was 10 years old. He weighed only about 90 lbs soaking wet. That made him the preferred target of all the shorter, heavier, dumber teenage bullies in the schoolyard. "Manly" as boys that age are just dying to appear, they "swarmed" and beat him up on a regular basis. We'd be walking home from school together, and there they'd be - 6 of them against one of him, and me standing there so angry and frustrated and helpless ...

...till one day, I could take it no more. As the ringleader pummelled my brother to the ground once again, something must have possessed me. I jumped up onto his back and clung on like a cat, pulling out mittfuls of hair, pounding on his face, trying to rip off his ears - man, that's the only time in my life I think I finally got my pound of flesh!!

Well ... his little gang of accomplices were so shocked at the sight they all took off like bats out of hell. And when I let him up, so did he. I was pretty shocked ... and impressed!

But my brother wasn't, unfortunately. :-( Who wants to be saved by a girl, your sister no less, who's at least a foot shorter than you?

But I did get mine a few weeks later. Walking home alone from a piano lesson a few weeks later, that same gang of boys jumped me in the park. Beat me up, tore my clothes, shoved snow down my throat till I passed out. I remember coming to when it was nearly dark, walking home with a splitting headache, nauseous ... and vowing I'd leave the manly hero stuff to the manly heroic men from now on.

So there you go, SIr jOhn. Tall people DO get theirs too! So have some sympathy ...

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:37 PM

Daylia, your youthful adventures never cease to amaze me!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 01:01 PM

Being a bit vertically challenged I have a tough time calling for ceilidhs if we don't get a stage (a frequent occurance at weddings) and all I get to see is loads of peoples backs and they all wonder where the noise is coming from. SO to solve this little dilemma I invested a fiver in one of those step up stools this raises me to a height of 6ft 2in and I can now see over most people's heads!!!!! It also raises a few laughs!...and a few rood jokes about stools

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: *daylia*
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 01:17 PM

Well what really amazed me at the time, Little Hawk, was that no matter how many times my parents contacted the school to report those bullies, "boys will be boys" seemed to be the attitude. And no-one ever did anything about it - except me, finally. And as I recall, they never bothered my little bro again.

ANd hey, come to think of it, I got mine back again about 7 years later, when I was 18. I ran into the ringleader and a couple of his cronies playing pool in the local sports bar. They didn't recognize me, but believe me I recognized them! (Maybe I'd filled out rather nicely but they hadn't hee hee??)

So I stayed and played and stayed and played and stayed and played .... till I'd whipped ALL their hymie little butts and taken ALLLLL their $$$$$, fair and square, right behind the eight-ball!

oooooo vengeance can be so sweet, even when it's a long time comin.....

(Sorry bout the drift folks. Nostalgia always makes me drifty)

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 01:57 PM

Am I allowed on this thread? (5'4")

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 01:59 PM

ONly if you sit down so those of us in the back can see!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:33 PM

I have to agree it can be annoying if really tall people are in front of you. I'm 5ft 0.5in and I get really edgy.

If you are tall, please let the petite people to the front!

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 11:56 AM

My boyfriend is 6'6", and the only time it annoys me is when he feels the need to sleep diagonally across the bed because otherwise his shins, ankles and feet would be hanging off the bottom (of the bed, rather than off his bottom - his legs already hang off his bottom). I'm a mere 5'9". I used to feel tall.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 03:23 PM

I have been 5'2" since I was 11... I once went out with a bloke who was 6'7". Instead of gazing adoringly into his eyes, I would stare disgustedly into his beergut...

And actually.... we're not all the same height lying down. Some of us still have bits that stick up....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: jpk
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 05:07 PM

yeah,you shorty people just need to grow up,and find out what it is like to never find a motel/hotel bed thats long enough.
or try and buy one.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 05:21 PM

JPK, I'd rather have a short bed than a tall chair any day... It's really uncomfortable sitting on a seat with your feet dangling off the floor.... not to mention the swollen ankles you get!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Mudlark
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 08:45 PM

5'2" myself and married for 40 years to 6'5-1/2" guy. Over such a long period I sort of lost track of the diff. in our heights, but every once in a while I'd catch sight of this really weird looking couple in a mirror or window reflection...always a shock to find it was us.

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Gray D
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 09:31 PM

Oi! Surgeon Offal. . . speaking as someone who has been swatted, fairly firmly, by some daft old dipstick behind me in an audience who enquired, "WHY ARE YOU SO BIG?" I can only paraphrase the same answer that I gave him . . . "There's not a lot that we can do about it".

If it's a sit down do take a cushion; if you are stood standing, take a small ladder or step stool like they use in shoe shops.

If you adopt the ladder approach then, for health amd safety reasons, you should wear a protective helmet and a harness linked to an overhead pulley with a gravity brake. If the gig is outdoors you should also wear a high visibility reflective jacket ( ironic how many eyes there are in "visibility").

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: GUEST,Tom Cruise
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 12:05 AM

I completely agree. At five feet even, I hate tall people as much as I hate psychiatrists and post partem broads!

Tom

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 12:07 AM

Awwwwwww LTS.....I LOVE to sit with my feet dangling...LOVE IT!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 02:24 AM

Well so do I if it's over a pond or on a really high wall and for less than an hour... but if it's your office desk, you sit there for 8 hours a day and someone has stolen your footrest, it's not good!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: tall people
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 05:51 AM

Im 5'11" and 3 quarters! and my husband (Micca) is 5'4" ...we look a strange pair but we don't care!!

Short people complain that your feet dangle when sat in a chair, us tall people sometimes find it difficult to get our legs under the table.

I do move out of the way if a shorter person cannot see so please do not tar us all with the same brush.