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Would you rather be 5'5" or 7'5"?
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Aren't there more health difficulties with exaggerated heights?
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Unless you're terribly unlucky, 7'5 has far form life opportunities and career options.

I think you die sooner-ish due to complications, but you should technically live a better quality life before that kicks in.
And if you do really well, the medical stuff should be easily payed for, giving you an edge anyway.
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Hate to say it but 5'5". If I were 7'5", I would never be able to live a normal life. I'd have bad knee and back problems, literally wouldn't fit anywhere and die of a heart attack at 55.
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I'm already 5'5, and I'd rather be that than 7'5. If you offered me a deal to be shorter, I would have taken it.
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Verdekal posted...

Hate to say it but 5'5". If I were 7'5", I would never be able to live a normal life. I'd have bad knee and back problems, literally wouldn't fit anywhere and die of a heart attack at 55.

This, pretty much. There isn't enough of an upside to being that tall to offset the fact that you'll statistically die a lot younger and will live the back half of your live in some serious pain. Maybe if you were good at basketball, but you can make more money in your lifetime. You can't earn more years in your life.
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omega cookie posted...

Verdekal posted...

Hate to say it but 5'5". If I were 7'5", I would never be able to live a normal life. I'd have bad knee and back problems, literally wouldn't fit anywhere and die of a heart attack at 55.

This, pretty much. There isn't enough of an upside to being that tall to offset the fact that you'll statistically die a lot younger and will live the back half of your live in some serious pain. Maybe if you were good at basketball, but you can make more money in your lifetime. You can't earn more years in your life.

Yeah. While 55 is quite small for a man, its not freakishly short by any means, so Id have to go with that. If the shorter option had been more like 5 even, it would have been much harder to choose that.
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5'5", I get to grow 2 inches
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I'm 5'7. Give me 5'5 over 7'5.
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Bump
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5'5" since that's my height now and I'm perfectly fine with it.
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I'm 5'8-5'9. I wouldn't mind being 6'2 or so, but 7'5... I don't know. I guess I would try to be a basket ball player.
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Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?
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Im 5'11, so i rather take 6 inch downgrade than upgrade to something that will be health damaging and inconvenient

5'5" is short, but you could at least still live a normal life.
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Hicks233 posted...

Aren't there more health difficulties with exaggerated heights?

Yes, and the fact that you don't fit anywhere. Have fun finding a car with enough leg room, a seat on the train/plane.
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smh manlets picking the shorter option
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Conflict posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

Citation needed
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Definitely 5'5.
I'm 5'10, and wouldn't be a foot and a half taller than I already am. 5 inches shorter.. heh I could deal with it. At least I could find clothes that fit me easily without having to go to specialized stores or to special order it online and pay twice as much. (and I could fit into my car and bus/airplane seats)

But the important question. Would my dick remain the same size, or would it be proportionally shorter/longer depending on the choice?
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Yao Ming just graduated college. :^)
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Conflict posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

Pretty much. 5'5 is p short, but it's only like 3-6 inches shorter than most avgs across the world. Whereas 7'5 is pretty much a foot and a half taller than any nations avg height.

A better question would be 5'5 v 6'3 or 4'3 vs 7'5.
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I'm already 5'5" and perfectly fine with my height
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Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

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LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

Citation needed

You need me to provide evidence that 7'5" leads to health complications?

Come on dog

Health issues =/= death sentence

Again. If you become a rich bb player, you'll easily get the care you need.

You should 100% take advantage of your height.
NBA the fuck outta yourself and retire ez pz.
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SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

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LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

Citation needed

You need me to provide evidence that 7'5" leads to health complications?

Come on dog

Health issues =/= death sentence

Again. If you become a rich bb player, you'll easily get the care you need.

Just because you're tall doesn't mean you'd be good at basketball.
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stone posted...

SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

Citation needed

You need me to provide evidence that 7'5" leads to health complications?

Come on dog

Health issues =/= death sentence

Again. If you become a rich bb player, you'll easily get the care you need.

Just because you're tall doesn't mean you'd be good at basketball.

Obviously. But any serious of effort will get you way ahead of everyone, unless you're injured super early or just mentally bad.
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Conflict posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Conflict posted...

This topic is insulting to short people tbh

How?

Would you rather be short albeit a rather common height or a height that's basically a death sentence

I think you're reading into this a bit too much.
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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185617

???

What is this? You lose maybe 5 years on average? Apparently, the leading cause of NBA death is still car accidents lmao.

Yeah. I'll easily give up +/-5 years to live at multi-millionaire for the rest of my life.
Let's say I made it into the NBA at 21. That's like 10 years of playing on average. Retire at 30-40.

+/-45 years of a fantastic easy life versus whatever foggy mess is my future right now.

Things that will forever be annoying. Dancing and driving.
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Funny how some people think "being comically tall" automatically equals "being good at basketball and becoming rich from it" .
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stone posted...

Funny how some people think "being comically tall" automatically equals "being good at basketball and becoming rich from it" .

WE get it.
You're a manlet and you're jealous. (joke)

Not everyone has what it takes. =(
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should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that
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I'm 5'9"-ish and while I oftentimes feel very short, I'd still rather lose a few inches than jump almost two feet... Just imagine how annoying literally everything would be since nothing in the world is designed for people that tall.

Also taller people have shorter lifespans.
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that

I thought a manlet was more about compensating behavior, and less about actual hight? Like, if a guy was 5'5, but worked out 24/7, had tribal tats, drove a massive truck with truck nuts, and owned a Harley that he could barely fit on, he'd be considered a manlet. Where as just a dude being 5'5, but otherwise normal, would not be.

Bah, the usage of words these days is so difficulty to keep up with.
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5'5, easily. A small part is because of my fetish, I'll admit, but the real reason is because I have a normal life. At 7'5, I'd never have a normal life.
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that

I'm 5'11" and most people here are around that height or up

Maybe people would choose 5'5" because they don't want to die at the age of 46

citation needed
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SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that

I'm 5'11" and most people here are around that height or up

Maybe people would choose 5'5" because they don't want to die at the age of 46

citation needed

Why do you deny reality?
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dave_is_slick posted...

SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that

I'm 5'11" and most people here are around that height or up

Maybe people would choose 5'5" because they don't want to die at the age of 46

citation needed

Why do you deny reality?

I literally posted the study above. llol
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stone posted...

Funny how some people think "being comically tall" automatically equals "being good at basketball and becoming rich from it" .

http://www.truthaboutit.net/2012/05/true-or-false-half-of-all-7-footers-are-in-the-nba.html

Later in that SI piece, an NBA scout says that hell check up on anyone over 7 feet thats breathing. So while theres no guarantee of stardom, its a pretty sure thing that any 7-footer will at least get a shot at the NBA.

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Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

should have made the choice 4'5" vs 7'5"

CE is filled with manlets who are basically 5'5" already so ofc they'd choose that

I'm 5'11" and most people here are around that height or up

Maybe people would choose 5'5" because they don't want to die at the age of 46

citation needed

That there was hyperbole

But it's common knowledge that taller heights tend to have lower life expectancies

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19547705/do-tall-guys-die-younger/

Yes, let's cite menshealth over literal research I presented.

What are you doing?
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Conflict posted...

You could also try reading the link which addresses several citations and studies instead of looking at the url and spazzing out

Not to mention the research you posted outright supports my argument, so what are you doing?

Ah yes, the lovely accuracy of studies from 1992 vs 2017.

I love where this is going.
What's your argument again?

Conflict posted...

or a height that's basically a death sentence

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Maybe people would choose 5'5" because they don't want to die at the age of 46

From your article.

1. Keep perspective. Height studies tend to be small. Its difficult to get a large group of people who are 610 together to study these things, says Michael A. Rosenberg, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School. For every Dawkins and Malone and Wilt, theres a 6-foot-9 Bill Russell, whos 81 now.

2. Be skeptical. For every study that connects height and early death, you can find one that concludes the opposite. A 2014 study, for example, found that taller people have a 20 to 25 percent lower risk of sudden cardiac death, the disorder that too often takes youth athletes out.
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We wouldn't even be having this extended conversation if you had just stuck with taller people = more health problems on average. I didn't even disagree with that point.

But you ended up exaggerating multiples times, and then backtracked to defend yourself.
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