Tarmor's Terribly Tantalizing Tarasque Terrrifying Random Banter #234

[Peelee]

Pssst. Peelee. You're a Silver Dragon. Your human form can be whatever height you want.

Well, yes, and I also don't actually have a fear of heights, but I think I'm funny.

[Mystic Muse]

Well, yes, and I also don't actually have a fear of heights, but I think I'm funny.

Well, if it helps at all, you are in fact quite funny. Or is it "Funniee" with two e's?

[Anonymouswizard]

So does anyone else wish they could be smaller?

I personally am tired of being the one who has to get up to get things off the high shelf.

And being too tall to lean down to pet a cat on the floor.

No, I'm already only average human height, so even though people like to treat me like I'm tall I'm happy enough.

Plus if I was any shorter I'd have trouble kissing my girlfriend (who's just over Standard Old School Government Plague Prevention Distance). Well, two of them.

[Rater202]

Sometimes being tall is inconvenient, but my city apartment is a much more vertical space than other places I've lived, so being tall comes in handy here.

It's worth noting that short people tend to have shorter arms too, so you'd probably still have to bend down just as much to reach something on the ground.

It's not a reach thing, it's a "right combination of tall and out of shape that bending over or sitting on the floor in order to pet the kitty isn't an option." I physically can, but getting back up again is a different issue.

The cats have to come to me to get pats, and they don't always like that.

Better health might fix it, but so would being a few inches shorter with a proportionate decrease in volume, which would also fix some other gripes I have.

Though, admittedly, I'd accept being able to shrink down temporarily every now and then.

[BisectedBrioche]

So does anyone else wish they could be smaller?

I personally am tired of being the one who has to get up to get things off the high shelf.

And being too tall to lean down to pet a cat on the floor.

Yes, but more for dysphoria reasons.

[Form]

So does anyone else wish they could be smaller?

I personally am tired of being the one who has to get up to get things off the high shelf.

And being too tall to lean down to pet a cat on the floor.

As a shorter than average person, not really no. Easier access to cats is a pretty big boon, though.

[Fyraltari]

So does anyone else wish they could be smaller?

Being tall keeps people from noticing the first signs of my early baldness, so no.

[Anonymouswizard]

Yes, but more for dysphoria reasons.

Ouch, yeah that can't be easy. Wishing you the best.

Although I would like to note that the most feminine woman ever, Samia Aran, is six for three.

Being tall keeps people from noticing the first signs of my early baldness, so no.

Look, we all notice the Julius Caesar haircut, we're just too polite to point it out Humour in text is hard to mark.

I live in somewhat slight terror of starting to bald, because it'll make it harder to look feminine.

[factotum]

It's not a reach thing, it's a "right combination of tall and out of shape that bending over or sitting on the floor in order to pet the kitty isn't an option." I physically can, but getting back up again is a different issue.

Doesn't matter how tall you are, once you get past a certain age that will happen anyway...so, assuming you're not yet up to that age, it's only a matter of time, I fear. So being shorter isn't necessarily the solution here!

[Fyraltari]

Look, we all notice the Julius Caesar haircut, we're just too polite to point it out Humour in text is hard to mark.

It's not that bad yet, but it is visible. I am considering just going full shave once I have an actual bald patch. With my beard I might pull it off and I'll be done with it.

[Cazero]

So being shorter isn't necessarily the solution here!

Obviously, the solution is bigger cats. Have you considered tigers?

[Anonymouswizard]

Obviously, the solution is bigger cats. Have you considered tigers?

I'd go for lions, I've had that they have similar social behaviour to the domestic kitty.

Or the domestic millilion, to give them their proper name.

[Peelee]

Obviously, the solution is bigger cats. Have you considered tigers?

I saw a documentary on that once.

...is documentary the right word? Fever dream?

[BisectedBrioche]

Ouch, yeah that can't be easy. Wishing you the best.

Although I would like to note that the most feminine woman ever, Samia Aran, is six for three.

This is true, but I fall slightly short of canonical Samus Aran height, at 5' 9". I just can't win ;)

[Peelee]

Well, if it helps at all, you are in fact quite funny.

Usually commeents like that aree meet with warnings to stop eencouraging mee.

[Form]

I'd go for lions, I've had that they have similar social behaviour to the domestic kitty.

Or the domestic millilion, to give them their proper name.

If given a large cardboard box, I think they'll do the same with it that domestic cats do. Same with tigers.

Also, tiger cubs are adorable. <3

And this weekend I'll finally be able to go the market again! Hopefully that stand selling those delicious sausages is still there. If not, I'll settle for some fried fish and/or sugary pastries. I've really missed that.

[Anonymouswizard]

This is true, but I fall slightly short of canonical Samus Aran height, at 5' 9". I just can't win ;)

True, but I think the relationship is clear: taller=more feminine

I do get that this is a very personal thing, that for some it doesn't matter and for others it's vitally important. But I look forward to the day when the world at large doesn't link height with gender

[Bartmanhomer]

So anyway I finish writing my Degrassi Fan Fiction story. I wrote 11 chapters. In case if you are curious what's about its about two schools go into war with each other.

[Anonymouswizard]

So anyway I finish writing my Degrassi Fan Fiction story. I wrote 11 chapters. In case if you are curious what's about its about two schools go into war with each other.

You lost me after the word 'my'. What's a Degrassi? Is it when somebody doesn't get to the point?

(Why yes, my glass house of relatively obscure British media is looking especially shiny today, I should probably sruff it up in front of an episode of Bagpuss.)

[Bartmanhomer]

You lost me after the word 'my'. What's a Degrassi? Is it when somebody doesn't get to the point?

(Why yes, my glass house of relatively obscure British media is looking especially shiny today, I should probably sruff it up in front of an episode of Bagpuss.)

Degrassi is a TV show from the early 2000s to the early 2010s. It's a fictional Canadian High School based on serious issues.

[Peelee]

Degrassi is a TV show from the early 2000s to the early 2010s. It's a fictional Canadian High School based on serious issues.

Ah. A series made entirely of Very Special Episodes. Like Blossom.

[Anonymouswizard]

Degrassi is a TV show from the early 2000s to the early 2010s. It's a fictional Canadian High School based on serious issues.

Can't be particularly noteworthy, we never got it over here

Like, I get that it's apparently a Big Thing elsewhere, but here in the UK it's just a meaningless word. But then again the same would likely be true if I started talking about The Crystal Maze (and I still need a fourth partner for us to form a team).

[Bartmanhomer]

Can't be particularly noteworthy, we never got it over here

Like, I get that it's apparently a Big Thing elsewhere, but here in the UK it's just a meaningless word. But then again the same would likely be true if I started talking about The Crystal Maze (and I still need a fourth partner for us to form a team).

Ok, I understand. Anyway, my older brother's birthday is tomorrow. He's going to be 49 years old. Even though he doesn't care about his birthday that much. I'm still going to give him a birthday present anyway because I'm a good brother to him. I brought him a Papyrus birthday card.

[Mystic Muse]

Degrassi is a TV show from the early 2000s to the early 2010s. It's a fictional Canadian High School based on serious issues.

Do...do schools generally go to war in Degrassi?

[Bartmanhomer]

Do...do schools generally go to war in Degrassi?

Only Lakehurst Secondary School.

[Keltest]

Do...do schools generally go to war in Degrassi?

Do yours not? Next youre going to tell me that the student council presidents cant actually dictate policy or otherwise control the day to day lives of the student body.

[Bartmanhomer]

Ah. A series made entirely of Very Special Episodes. Like Blossom.

Yes. Almost every episode is a very special episode.

[Rater202]

Do yours not? Next youre going to tell me that the student council presidents cant actually dictate policy or otherwise control the day to day lives of the student body.

Every day at school is a day where you struggle to survive with your sanity intact.

You wish it was war. In war, you're allowed to retaliate in kind against the people who are trying to kill, maim, or traumatize you.

[Bartmanhomer]

In the early season of Degrassi, Jimmy who plays by Drake was in it. I should make a separate thread on Degrassi in the Media sub-forum.

[Peelee]

Do yours not? Next youre going to tell me that the student council presidents cant actually dictate policy or otherwise control the day to day lives of the student body.

Student body presidents are pretty uncommon. Most countries have student body prime ministers.

Every day at school is a day where you struggle to survive with your sanity intact.

You wish it was war. In war, you're allowed to retaliate in kind against the people who are trying to kill, maim, or traumatize you.

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