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Posted: 10/27/2006 8:07:49 AM | OP.....
I'm thinking of getting my arms lengthened .....do women like men with really long arms??? ........."honey, can you reach this jar of pickles on the very top shelf ?" ...."ahhh yeah dear ....you know I can !! " | |
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Posted: 10/27/2006 11:00:20 AM | | Cedar, if your arms are long enough, I'll let you live under my bed in return for being my personal top shelf reacher shopper person. | |
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Posted: 10/27/2006 11:04:34 AM | ^^^^^^
ummmmmmm..........does under your bed have cable???? (-:
let me get back to you ....i'm kind of sick of mortgage payments | |
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Posted: 10/27/2006 11:07:19 AM | Well, let's see... I've never lived under my bed, but I've heard the stories... You can have cable installed, so long as you don't keep me awake at night.
However, I feel it necessary to warn you that I may not love you if you tell me that your arms aren't naturally nine feet long. | |
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Posted: 11/1/2006 12:50:29 PM | Yes i would feel the same altho i would feel like he should have been honest with me from the start there is so much plastic surgery going on now there are a lot of woman and men that have had things fixed that they did not like about themselves,like the boob jobs a lot of woman are having the same question could be asked there also would you feel the same about them if they confessed to you that they had had a boob job,or face life or thier nose fixed? i do think they should be honest from the start but if you care for some honestly care for someone it wont make any difference in how you feel about them,,unless they have had a sex change now i would draw the line there | |
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Posted: 11/2/2006 11:08:35 AM | I don't think he'd have to confess ... it would be very physically obvious with a body size of a 5' tall person with 40" long legs 
But seriously, there are people out there that get surgically enhanced for many things ... to each there own ... I would wonder more about his self esteem issues than anything else
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Posted: 11/2/2006 9:46:35 PM | I'm not entirely 5'6" tall (there's an 1/8 of an inch missing). I've read some great articles about the surgery to lengthen one's legs, but there are some issues with this hypothetical situation. First, a guy has to be really short for this to be an option, like 5' 2" or under. Second, the guy's got to be rich, because normal insurance won't pay for this. (Sure, there are actual correlational studies that show taller men make more money, and when they rate personal happiness, taller men think they're more happy than shorter guys.) Finally, they can only add about 5" through this surgery. The drawbacks are ridiculous, and the physical therapy sounds like something you'd only see in a movie along the lines of "Saw" or "Hostel." Despite my disappointment with my natural lack of height, even if money were no object, I'd still reject that surgery.
A few things to reflect upon:
The money factor. Someone who can afford this procedure would be able to just get the model loaded at the bar, and talk her into coming home with him. Just that he'd be able to ooze wealth should be enough to get him a girl, at least in the shorter term kind of relationship.
Second, who cares?! If I found someone who seemed wonderful, but she rejected me due to being short, well, it's obvious that she's not worth my time anyway!
As for other's implications about how it would affect children, what about breast implants, nose jobs, liposuction, and all these other "minor procedures" that people go through? I mean, I've got a genetic condition that causes the growth of benign tumors beneath the skin on one's arms & legs, but had the bigger ones removed... I know that the wife I marry and have a family with won't be worried about how our kids will look, so long as they're healthy.
Yes, looks matter in the instance of initial attraction. But when the hot blond burps in your ear, and coughs up chewing tobacco on your new shirt before she asks you to pull over so she can shoot up some heroin... well, looks aren't the whole story. Personality means everything once you get past that initial attraction, and it's what causes people to stay together. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 8:12:20 AM | I don't think it would matter to me if he had a procedure to be taller! Women get thier bodies altered in a million ways, they nip, tuck, staple and vacuum out everything they can!Not I of couse, I have watched to many horror stories on TV. I would just be happy he was taller than me! | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 8:16:34 AM | | Where do you get this s*it from? I wondered as to why you kept on mentioning height.....man, thanks for robbing me 35 seconds of my life in reading a post that is so stupid....and an extra 15 seconds for typing out this response. | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 8:34:24 AM | Ok, I just read this & my first reaction was "What the ****?!?"
You had your legs surgically lengthened because.....? Was there some sort of genetic malfunction that was repaired with this "stretch the legs" thing or something?
There's something called proportions. Go to your favorite search engine and look up an image of Vitruvian Man. You'll notice the arm-span is equal to the height. Try it. Measure yourself with arms outstretched finger-tip to finger-tip. Is it close to your height?
So if you "stretch" your legs all the sudden your arms get too short. So does your torso. Gonna lengthen those too?
'Course now-a-days people have "plastic" surgery all the time (or take pills...) to alter the size & shape of body parts.. But this goes SO beyond the pale...
The only thing that will happen after this procedure will be everyone will look at you & say "his legs are too long."
Trust me, being tall isn't as much fun as it looks. You hit your head on damn near everything. Celing fans. Going down stairs where the wall becomes the celing? There's a metal strip there at that corner. Cars with hatch-backs have *really* sharp corners on that hatch. Door frames. Hanging lamps. Cubbard doors. Shower heads are too low.
You pay so much attention to what you might hit your head on that you start tripping over stuff.
But don't take my word for it. Go get a pair of 10" stilts & try walking around in them for a couple days. You'll see.
Sure you can reach alot of stuff & see everyone's bald spot.. And it *is* kind of cool to be able to see over the crowd- But not worth the price & pain of "stretching" the legs.
Plus what are you gonna do when you get tall & it's not all you thought? Go back to the Doc & ask him to un-do it?
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Posted: 11/3/2006 11:00:35 AM | The love of my life is considered very small. He's about 5'2. Even if he started out tall and ended up small, I'd still love him. Every time I see him, I just want to pick him up and squeeze him!  | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 11:01:37 AM | | I would think he was crazy to go thru that much pain to be tall... Give me a man I can look in the eyes.. If he just happens to be taller than I... he must promise not to laugh if I bring a step stool | |
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Posted: 11/3/2006 4:25:57 PM | | Well if it is something that you think might bother your partner than you should get it out in the open when the relationship becomes serious. Then it gives then time to decide how they feel about it. I myself have never dated the really tall guys ..most have been close to my height and i am only 5'5. Everyone is attracted to a certain type and that person should be in love with who you are now and not worry about your past. If you really love them then you should get it out in the open ... and if she really loves you ... she won't care. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 1:51:22 PM | Here are some fun facts. This table is from a paper on online dating. It describes preferences of men and women. One of the variables was height (I hope the table will come out right on here. For a link to the full paper you can email me):
Height Additional Income Needed by Men
(× $1,000)
5’ 0’’ 317
5’ 2’’ 269
5’ 4’’ 221
5’ 6’’ 175
5’ 8’’ 138
5’ 10’’ 24
6’ 0’’ -8
6’ 2’’ -30
6’ 4’’ -51
6’ 6’’ -63
6’ 10’’ -63
"Note: The table shows the additional annual income that a man or woman needs to be as successful as a 5’ 11.5’’ tall man or a 5’ 5.5’’ tall woman (the median heights in our online dating population). The baseline incomes are $62,500 for men and $42,500 for women. For example, consider a man who is 5’ 2’’ tall. In order to be as desirable to a woman as a man who is 5’ 11.5’’ tall and who earns $62,500 per year, he needs to have an additional income of $269,000 (i.e., he needs to make $331,500 per year)."
I thought I did alright. Little did I know I need to make $325,000 more than a 6'0 guy to be dating competetive..lol. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 1:55:37 PM | Money is secondary to personality - actually it is third...as I am also visual to a certain degree.
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Posted: 11/25/2006 2:06:35 PM |
Well, its not so crazy when you see like 90% of the personal ads made by women on plentyoffish.com and other sites, like lavalife where a girl writes on her ad. I'm looking for a guy that is TALL, DARK and HANDSOME.
At 5' even, anyone over 5'1" is tall enough for me. 6' is actually the max I could see me with...and even that is kinda too tall unless we really click.
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Posted: 11/25/2006 2:07:43 PM | Jesus Christ. If this hypothetical person is you, good God man. How can someone essentially mutilate themselves for the sake of being taller?
And if the legs are 10 inches longer than they originally were, wouldn't they look f*ckin freaky? | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 2:25:40 PM | Really, you need to understand, women are not superficial. I have never MET a woman that would date a man for his money, his package, how tall he is.
Now I will speak for myself. Personality, looks, sense of humor, intelligence, charm are all perks. If one of these is missing, tough shit.
When you grow old with someone these perks somehow become like retirement savings. Wouldn't you rather grow old with someone who has as many wrinkles and laugh lines as you do?
So, as a matter of this question you have posed. How old are you? And, is this post intended to get you P***y? | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 4:40:34 PM | Surgically lengthen legs to get taller? Put yourself in the shoe of a woman and see if you'd like that.
Blunt answer is: She will feel sorry for you. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 5:13:05 PM | Personally I'd feel sorry for anyone with a "nice physique, abs, amazing personality, makes her laugh" who's self-image is so low that they felt they needed to surgically make themselves taller to be attractive. Besides that adding 10" to your legs would make you so horribly ill-proportioned (as others mentioned) that you'd probably look like a freak show afterwards, and get nicknamed "stits" and get ribbed about it all the time, which would shatter your already low self-esteem...
Who the heck would actually consider this?? | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 5:18:19 PM | You mean....in reality he's genetically a dwarf? Like, your child will become one?
I would want to know any profound genetic maladies of my wife if it meant
that my future child would suffer physical deformities. I
don't think I have the maturity to handle a mentally challenged child or
severely deformed child....the desire to have healthy children is every
parents dream. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2006 5:59:29 PM | | I think the original question was more intended to figure out "why" women are attracted to taller guys. Which is probably an exercise of futility. The story was maybe a bit too far out there and distracted from the real issue. I believe the majory of women prefers taller men, no doubt about it. At the same time, I noticed a lot of responses that essentially said "if I'm in love, height wouldn't really matter." I'm sure those were sincere posts. However, it's a long way from meeting someone to falling in love. Most women get probably several date offers every month, week, maybe even every day (depending on how she looks). At least some of these offers will come from men of at least average height or taller. So it's easy to be selective that way. Odds for shorter guys may be even worse on dating sites. There are thousands of guys. They have to be filtered and whatever is left gets a closer look. That's an easy task with all the search features available. I bet height is one of the first variables women use to narrow down the crop. I'm not saying that's wrong. Just stating the fact. I have personal preferences as well. What I am saying is, as analogy, it doesn't matter if she doesn't care that you can't swim, if you have to cross the deep end of the pool first to meet her ;p | |
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