Short Man Syndrome.

Karl Stein

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

I'm a very, very laid back kind of guy and have a couple of friends who are around the same height as me and they are all very relaxed people (some excessively so). The same goes for smaller people that I've worked with in the past. Any of the very tall guys that I hang around with tend to be the ones who would get in fights or be aggressive after a couple of pints.

Dude, there is not one scintilla of evidence that there is a correlation between height and being an asshole.

WilyCoyote

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I'd consider under 5'7 to be short, because I'd be taller in heels.

Hey shopaholic! I'm 6'3" when I wear 5" heels. Any chance?

shopaholic01

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Hey shopaholic! I'm 6'3" when I wear 5" heels. Any chance?

Sorry Wily, you're too tall. I'd get vertigo looking up at you.

ryan101

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I'm just back from a meeting that was chaired by a little, fat arsehole of a man. The type that is nearly taller sitting down than he is standing up. It got me thinking that over the years I've encountered plenty of short men who were complete arseholes. Much more so than tall men (which I'd count myself as being).

This has become known as Napoleon Complex over the years. Does being closer to the ground do something to the personality of small men? Is it over-compensation? Is it jealousy because tall people tend to get paid more?

I used to think it was a fallacy, but I've seen it so many times over the years, I think there is a lot to it. The taller you are the more they'll go after you as well. Some of them seem to have a real complex, it's very noticeable, thing is if they weren;t being such asshles no one would notice or give a shyte what height they were.

FlusterCluck

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I'm just back from a meeting that was chaired by a little, fat arsehole of a man. The type that is nearly taller sitting down than he is standing up. It got me thinking that over the years I've encountered plenty of short men who were complete arseholes. Much more so than tall men (which I'd count myself as being).

This has become known as Napoleon Complex over the years. Does being closer to the ground do something to the personality of small men? Is it over-compensation? Is it jealousy because tall people tend to get paid more?

Dunno....I'm guilty of pointing out that an arsehole can be an arsehole and it must be small man syndrome.....but really it's just focussing on a physical feature and attributing the arseholeness to it. There's an old couple that go to my local pub and they are tiny.....but sound as a bell. The old fella is so small but he's a legend. He's a cranky git but in a hysterical way. Love listening to his incessant bitching.

Galwayguy35

I always thought SMS was about wanting to fight bigger lads to prove they could, but sure that just means they are a tosser and not really anythng to do with someones height.

Lots of tall fellas are quick with the fists as well.

OneEightSeven

Daveysil15 wrote: »

I'd have thought under 5'8.

Nah, it's under 5' 10" because 5' 10" is the average, though, younger generations might be a bit taller because human keep growing after the Agricultural Revolution ended. Leo Messi is almost 5' 7" and he look tiny, but he's only 4cm shorter than 5' 8".

I once found an Irish height survey that showed men from Tyrone to be the tallest at 5' 11".

This link shows the average height of the teams at the Euro 2012: http://pieathalftime.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/euro-2012-tallest-and-smallest/

Manach

To me, just everyone else is overly tall - sure must be terrible with all that O2 deprivation up there.

RayM

I think I'm around 5'7". I could be slightly shorter or taller than that, but I care so little about my height (or lack thereof) that I've never been arsed to check it. The 'short man syndrome' stuff is a load of nonsense. If you lack imagination, and associate height with superiority, a person's shortness is an easy thing to slag them about. I mean, calling someone a "cranky little bollix" always sounds a bit more offensive than just calling them a "cranky bollix".

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I don't fall into the 'short man syndrome'/'Napoleon Complex' category. And I'll kick the fucking shit out of anyone who says otherwise. :mad:

Daveysil15

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Nah, it's under 5' 10" because 5' 10" is the average, though, younger generations might be a bit taller because human keep growing after the Agricultural Revolution ended. Leo Messi is almost 5' 7" and he look tiny, but he's only 4cm shorter than 5' 8".

I once found an Irish height survey that showed men from Tyrone to be the tallest at 5' 11".

This link shows the average height of the teams at the Euro 2012: http://pieathalftime.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/euro-2012-tallest-and-smallest/

Yeah but I wouldn't consider anyone slightly under average height to be a short arse. That's like saying someone who is a few pounds over weight is obese.

Soft Falling Rain

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

This thread makes for depressing reading (especially if you're shorter than average, like myself - although some responses would suggest I'm just about average). What's really strange is that I don't get it. I'm a very, very laid back kind of guy and have a couple of friends who are around the same height as me and they are all very relaxed people (some excessively so). The same goes for smaller people that I've worked with in the past. Any of the very tall guys that I hang around with tend to be the ones who would get in fights or be aggressive after a couple of pints. But I wouldn't think that this applies to all tall guys. You meet one small guy at a meeting in work, maybe you have an inferiority complex, and suddenly all small guys are dicks. I'm not even sure the OP sees the irony.

And that's forgetting the fact that Napoleon - apparently the genesis of the short-man-syndrome - was actually average height. It was just the soldiers in that painting (who were probably pretty aggressive) were so tall.

If we took everything to heart on the web it would drive us mad. Seriously, don't worry.

OneOfThem Stumbled

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

This thread makes for depressing reading (especially if you're shorter than average, like myself - although some responses would suggest I'm just about average). What's really strange is that I don't get it. I'm a very, very laid back kind of guy and have a couple of friends who are around the same height as me and they are all very relaxed people (some excessively so). The same goes for smaller people that I've worked with in the past. Any of the very tall guys that I hang around with tend to be the ones who would get in fights or be aggressive after a couple of pints. But I wouldn't think that this applies to all tall guys. You meet one small guy at a meeting in work, maybe you have an inferiority complex, and suddenly all small guys are dicks. I'm not even sure the OP sees the irony.

And that's forgetting the fact that Napoleon - apparently the genesis of the short-man-syndrome - was actually average height. It was just the soldiers in that painting (who were probably pretty aggressive) were so tall.

Don't worry, the thread was just started by someone with a bin-laden complex who read somewhere that taller people should be paid more by virtue of their being taller, and was butthurt to be subject to a counter-example.

Although I must say I lol'd when I saw Robert De Niro being described as a "short-arse".

Pumpkinseeds

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Forgot to unfollow this thread. Just about to solve that one and leave all the small dicked people and the bitter women who married a small dicked man, behind:D

Venomous spite aside, this post is a masterclass in the nescient use of passive-aggressive smilies.

Daveysil15

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

If we took everything to heart on the web it would drive us mad. Seriously, don't worry.

There must be a lot of mad people on boards then.

Toby Take a Bow

Karl Stein wrote: »

Dude, there is not one scintilla of evidence that there is a correlation between height and being an asshole.

I know. That was the point of my post.

Soft Falling Rain wrote: »

If we took everything to heart on the web it would drive us mad. Seriously, don't worry.

Yeah, I agree. I don't really 'take it to heart' as in it doesn't make me angry or whatever. It's just a little bit depressing that people can reach their 20s and still think along these lines.

Shakespeare's Sister

Oh, people reach their 40s and still think in a stupid way - pay no heed!

It's certainly not the people of smaller stature who are coming across the worst in this thread.

(I'm just under 5ft 5" btw and I can't understand people going on about 5ft 7/8 as being tiny for a man - seems average height to me). I think "Small man syndrome" is one of those buzz phrases that people are at pains to believe, due to knowing one or two men who are small in stature and are arses (as if the same people don't know one or two tall men who are arses). I had a boss once all right who was small and a dick. People would go on about it being because of his small stature, which I found kinda strange. To me, he was just an asshole; height irrelevant. I have a manager now who is a very short man and a lovely person, as well as knowing numerous other small guys who are top notch.

Muise...

Magaggie wrote: »

Oh, people reach their 40s and still think in a stupid way - pay no heed!

It's certainly not the people of smaller stature who are coming across the worst in this thread.

(I'm just under 5ft 5" btw and I can't understand people going on about 5ft 7/8 as being tiny for a man - seems average height to me). I think "Small man syndrome" is one of those buzz phrases that people are at pains to believe, due to knowing one or two men who are small in stature and are arses (as if the same people don't know one or two tall men who are arses). I had a boss once all right who was small and a dick. People would go on about it being because of his small stature, which I found kinda strange. To me, he was just an asshole; height irrelevant. I have a manager now who is a very short man and a lovely person, as well as knowing numerous other small guys who are top notch.

People are weird, aren't they? It's not enough that someone is an asshole, they have to throw an appearance-based description at them too - short, fat, bald etc. When, as we all know, the only adjective that can hit any insult home is "thunderin'".

Karl Stein

Average height Irish male 5 ft 10 in

Average height Irish female 5 ft 4½ in

I'm very surprised by that. I would have guessed 5ft 8 in for women.

I come from a tallish family though, 2 x 6ft 1in (incl me), 1 x 6ft 4in, 1 x 5ft 11 and 1 x 5ft 09 (female).

shopaholic01

Karl Stein wrote: »

Average height Irish male 5 ft 10 in

Avergae height Irish female 5 ft 4½ in

I'm very surprised by that. I would have guessed 5ft 8 in for women.

I come from a tallish family though, 2 x 6ft 1in (incl me), 1 x 6ft 4in, 1 x 5ft 11 and 1 x 5ft 10 (female).

I'm shorter than the average, I wonder do I have short woman syndrome? :eek:

WilyCoyote

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I'm shorter than the average, I wonder do I have short woman syndrome? :eek:

I've put you on a pedestal. A 6" one. So how do you feel now?
And remember ........ men who put women on pedestals rarely knock them off!

Soft Falling Rain

Magaggie wrote: »

Oh, people reach their 40s and still think in a stupid way - pay no heed!

It's certainly not the people of smaller stature who are coming across the worst in this thread.

(I'm just under 5ft 5" btw and I can't understand people going on about 5ft 7/8 as being tiny for a man - seems average height to me). I think "Small man syndrome" is one of those buzz phrases that people are at pains to believe, due to knowing one or two men who are small in stature and are arses (as if the same people don't know one or two tall men who are arses). I had a boss once all right who was small and a dick. People would go on about it being because of his small stature, which I found kinda strange. To me, he was just an asshole; height irrelevant. I have a manager now who is a very short man and a lovely person, as well as knowing numerous other small guys who are top notch.

It's ironic as the people who bang on about short man syndrome are the ones who tend to have chips on their shoulders. They're the ones who believe they are better than others.

professore

Sciprio wrote: »

I'm 5'7 or 5'8. Does that make me a lost cause?

I bet you're 5'6. A mate of mine always says he's 5'4" or 5'5". You don't vary an inch from day to day. So yes you're a lost cause. We all have our problems, I'm 60% - 70% bald for example - BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE ME AN ASSHOLE, RIGHT????? ASSHOLES

professore

Definitely is true that that guy attacking the bouncers at a nightclub or trying to start a fight with random strangers is nearly always a short arse. Goes for dogs too - small dogs especially Jack Russells are mostly real asshole dogs. Sweeping generalisation over.

Wabbit Ears

Everybody knows short guys with short man syndrome, mad that theres 15 pages of discussion on this topic.

Ann Landers

Fudge You wrote: »

Whats wrong with being taller than a man?

I wouldn't be keen on being taller than a fella I was seeing, personally. Don't know why, but there you go. Call it preference. I'm only 5' 4" so it's never been an issue though.

On the other end of the scale, ~6' 3" would be my upper limit. I have no problem with shorter than average men, and being tall doesn't automatically mean a guy will have a bigger dick.

Ann Landers

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Hey, I'm just being honest.

The defence of mouth-breathers everywhere.

[Insert hateful comment here] swiftly followed by squawking "I'm just being honest". Hello, Jeremy Kyle Show.

Ann Landers

Candie wrote: »

Obviously the post lacked the requisite number of smilies for you to realise it was tongue in cheek, so here's some to make up. :);)

I usually pick up on tongue-in-cheek, but yours didn't read that way. Sorry. *shrugs*

Brussels Sprout

I'm just back from a meeting that was chaired by a fat, black arsehole of a man. The type that is nearly invisible if he was standing in front of a pile of coal. It got me thinking that over the years I've encountered plenty of black men who were complete arseholes. Much more so than white men (which I'd count myself as being).

This has become known as Malcom X Complex over the years. Does being darker than the ace of spades do something to the personality of black men? Is it over-compensation? Is it jealousy because white people tend to get paid more?

Shocking No? If someone wrote the above OP they'd, at a minimum get a tirade of abuse, and most likely the thread would be locked and they'd be perma-banned.

However this is the OP of this thread with the words transposed so that it's discussing a difference of skin colour rather than height. Why is the above so socially unacceptable whereas discussing a persons height in such disparaging terms is seen as fair game and a bit of a laugh? After all the short boss has no more chance of becoming tall then a black man has of becoming white?

OP you're just using lazy generalisations to slur somebody who you have an issue with. I've no doubt that he isn't a pleasant character but for you to immediately jump to the conclusion that this is due to his height says more about your own state of mind and prejustices than it does for his.

Shakespeare's Sister

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Everybody knows short guys with short man syndrome, mad that theres 15 pages of discussion on this topic.

People are discussing whether it exists prevalently though. Is a short guy who's an ass... an ass because he's short, or would he be an ass no matter what height? I'm inclined to believe that's usually the case. Like I said, I had a boss who was short and was a complete ass. He didn't seem insecure or defensive though; very confident actually. No hassle getting women etc. I'm very confident he'd be the same if taller.
Maybe there are short guys who have a chip on their shoulder and are extra defensive due to their diminutive stature, but it's pretty unfair and unpleasant for people like on this thread to say it's widespread.

ikarie

They maybe shorter than us but they'll definitely have the last laugh!

Shorter men live longer, scientists find

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/shorter-men-live-longer-scientists-find-30265640.html

http://cdn3.independent.ie/entertainment/music/article29116495.ece/d58bc/ALTERNATES/h342/PANews_N0221441362672869078A_I1

ikarie

ikarie wrote: »

They maybe shorter than us but they'll definitely have the last laugh!

Maybe they do, but no one can hear them because sound doesn't travel that far vertically.:)






I'm 4ft. 11.

D1stant

McDermotX wrote: »

Similarly to the reason small dogs are the narky ones -

'it's because they have to drag their balls along the wet grass'

That sounds like a plus to me

Caliden

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Shocking No? If someone wrote the above OP they'd, at a minimum get a tirade of abuse, and most likely the thread would be locked and they'd be perma-banned.

However this is the OP of this thread with the words transposed so that it's discussing a difference of skin colour rather than height. Why is the above so socially unacceptable whereas discussing a persons height in such disparaging terms is seen as fair game and a bit of a laugh? After all the short boss has no more chance of becoming tall then a black man has of becoming white?

OP you're just using lazy generalisations to slur somebody who you have an issue with. I've no doubt that he isn't a pleasant character but for you to immediately jump to the conclusion that this is due to his height says more about your own state of mind and prejustices than it does for his.

Chill out little fella

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

There is no such think as short man syndrome. It is a myth. Why is this thread allowed to remain open?

37 posts I have reported from it and yet nothing. I am fcuking furious.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

There is no such think as short man syndrome. It is a myth. Why is this thread allowed to remain open?

37 posts I have reported from it and yet nothing. I am fcuking furious.

You're short, aren't you?

bootybouncer

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

There is no such think as short man syndrome. It is a myth. Why is this thread allowed to remain open?

37 posts I have reported from it and yet nothing. I am fcuking furious.

Back off Shorty !!!!!!!!!!!!

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Candie wrote: »

You're short, aren't you?

bootybouncer wrote: »

Back off Shorty !!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

happyoutscan

I'm tall (6'4") and fairly easy going, never looking for trouble. The only hassle I've ever gotten has always been from short little wee men.

Soft Falling Rain

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

37 posts I have reported from it and yet nothing. I am fcuking furious.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Brilliant!

Galwayguy35

As long as the middle leg is normal size I wouldn't worry too much about the length of the 2 either side of it.

guitarzero

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

In my experience short men are generally angry little parasites. I briefly dated a short guy when I was about 18, he had such a small penis that I actually thought he was deformed. Dumped him shortly after that, yes I am that shallow, but he was a complete twat. Genuinely pitied the guy, just not enough to shag him.

He has a couple of kids now, I'm surprised he managed it tbh.

I dont know who comes of worse in this little post, you or the ex.

SharpshooterTom

I'm 5'7.5-5'8.

I've never had a girlfriend or even kissed a girl at nearly 28. I don't think its anything to do with my height, probably just more of being a bit a loser, but I don't think my height is obviously going to help me overcome it any time shortly either.

WilyCoyote

Muise... wrote: »

My opinion is that the some of the sexiest sexy sex I had was with a man shorter than me (I'm 5'3" ). Sometimes if a taller man is walking me home I'll hop up a few doorsteps just to get that lovely feeling of leaning down for a kiss.

You auld romantic, Muise!

Galwayguy35

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm 5'7.5-5'8.

I've never had a girlfriend or even kissed a girl at nearly 28. I don't think its anything to do with my height, probably just more of being a bit a loser, but I don't think my height is obviously going to help me overcome it any time shortly either.

I'm somewhere between 5'.6 and 5'.7

Can't say my height was ever an issue with any women I've been with.

Sounds like you are lacking in confidence.
Do you ask women out?

ratmouse

Gambas wrote: »

And Jesus. He was another short-arse.

Was he??

Galwayguy35

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I'm somewhere between 5'.6 and 5'.7

Can't say my height was ever an issue with any women I've been with.

Neither of them?

guitarzero

Candie wrote: »

Venomous spite aside, this post is a masterclass in the nescient use of passive-aggressive smilies.

I would have said "Even though your being a sap, this is a great post on how to be good at being a sap but hide it very well." *pompousface*

Galwayguy35

Candie wrote: »

Neither of them?

Huh?

Galwayguy35

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Huh?

GG35:
"Can't say my height was ever an issue with any women I've been with."

Candie:
"What, neither of them?"



Ba Dum Tish!

Galwayguy35

Candie wrote: »

GG35:
"Can't say my height was ever an issue with any women I've been with."

Candie:
"What, neither of them?"



Ba Dum Tish!

I'm a bit slow this evening