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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2015 9:54:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 10:50:47 GMT
I didn't find it offensive but some people will be offended by just about anything. I wonder if either of the two people who complained were actually dwarfs? Or do we have to start calling them 'persons of limited growth'
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Post by chusty64 on Nov 25, 2015 13:25:35 GMT
I am very short, well under 5ft. Although not a dwarf, I do have problems taller people don't (doubtless they have some that we shorties don't) But I have never bothered what others say (sticks and stones and all that)
Getting stuck behind a taller person can be frustrating, and maybe trying to reach higher shelves in shops (I always try to find a nice young man to help me)
I do get annoyed when I hear yet another trivial complaint that should never have seen the light of day.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2015 13:34:48 GMT
I'm 6'3" Chusty . As you say we both have problems at the opposite ends of the scale.
When I was growing up,I shot up, without widening.Result an awkward beanpole. I'd like a pound for all the 'how's the weather up there' type jokes.....
BTW I find small cute!
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Post by chusty64 on Nov 25, 2015 14:05:57 GMT
That is tall, I'd be really happy to be 5'3"
I am also shrinking by the year due to osteoporosis. If I live long enough I could be one of the Borrowers.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 14:07:41 GMT
One of my dearest friends was 6'6 1/2" tall. During a business trip to New York he was with a chap of 4'9" tall and people thought they were on some trip being filmed. Quite funny. I remember us buying a 'lumberjack sandwich' in a bar and we had to walk around most of the day to get rid of the calories. From memory it was about a pound of beautiful steak in the equivalent of half a loaf.
He died a few years ago but I often think about him, and the walk to the windmill on the S Downs we had planned but never did.
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Post by chusty64 on Nov 25, 2015 17:13:14 GMT
You have a lovely memory of him even without the walk. There are always things we regret when it is too late.
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Post by scorp on Nov 26, 2015 7:40:57 GMT
It isn't a joke about dwarves, so much as a joke about words. I remember back in the days of TW3, Roy Kinnear played a sketch in which he was featured as Cuddles Kinnear, the Safe Comedian. "Poofs, eh? What about them poofs?... Nah, but they're a wonderful bunch and they're doing a great job..." Now THAT was embarrassing - to comedians, who in those days all did the limp-wrist, lavender-toned posing. I know I did...
Seriously - what is there going to be left to joke about/laugh at, at this rate? Apart from Republicans, that is...
Good taste is always inimical to comedy...
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