Current Events > Would you rather be 5'5" or 7'5"?

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Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

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.

Now try reading the other points listed and everything else I said.

Do you know what trends and tendencies are?

You mean the same trends and tendencies in the one I linked?
Both of them cited inaccuracies due to the lack of data.
It's like you're not even trying. What's your argument?
You know what mine is? "Being extremely tall is definitively affects your health and lifestyle, but not so much that I wouldn't take advantage of solid chance of being an NBA player."

Again, your argument is that extremely tall people simply drop dead in their middle ages.

Or perhaps we can break this down even further.
We can go through your "article" first and discuss every bit of research.
Then we can do the same for mine and see what happens. It seems your incapable of doing that on your own. That's no big deal. I used to read a metric fuck ton of research articles as part of my job, so interpretation is no issue for me.
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I'm over 5 feet and I loathe 7 feet tall people.

Besides that I've already known what it's like to have your legs crunched up in a car that's too small.

None more for me.
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Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

You know what mine is? "Being extremely tall is definitively affects your health and lifestyle, but not so much that I wouldn't take advantage of solid chance of being an NBA player."

That's not an argument, that's an opinion

You can read post #50 and figure it out yourself, I'm getting tired of repeating myself tbh

???

LMAO

Define argument. Please do.

Conflict posted...

However I've made it clear multiple times that the health problems are obviously going to exacerbated at an insanely uncommon height like 7'5". How many basketball players or athletes with gigantism do you know that are that tall

Citation needed.

You see what's going on here?
You keep making a claim, but you're not backing it up.

The health effects are worse, yes.
Which problems are you talking about? How many do they get? Are they treatable or non-treatable?
So what age does kill you off? 40? 50? 60?
How many years are they losing on average?
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Conflict posted...

Lmao dude you've literally posted research yourself that backed up my claim. You're agreeing with me yet choosing to continue arguing for whatever unknown reason. And "I personally would choose 7'5" because of the chance I'd become an NBA player" is an opinion... this isn't complicated.

This is insane, you gotta be trolling at this point

That's literally the reverse of what happened.

???

Re-read the entire topic.

MY FIRST POST, before you even showed up.

"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."

Then you come in with TWO instances of exaggerating.
I correct you and ask for you to cite.

You post an awful men's health articles that's less accurate than what I already provided.
I criticize you about it.

Then you backtrack to point where you say "hurr durr, you're just agreeing with me anyway".

No. You were wrong twice and I was correct before you decide to jump ship.

It's literally right there.
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You don't start an argument with TWO HYPERBOLES, and then BACKTRACK when someone calls you out on it.

You know what you should have done? Just said some casual shit like "my bad", and then there's no issue.

How hard is to admit? It's Gamefaqs? Nobody is going to care outside of this topic.
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Dude... Guys, is this really worth all the posts and excitement?
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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

Lol
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Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

You don't start an argument with TWO HYPERBOLES, and then BACKTRACK when someone calls you out on it.

You know what you should have done? Just said some casual shit like "my bad", and then there's no issue.

How hard is to admit? It's Gamefaqs? Nobody is going to care outside of this topic.

Oh god I submitted two hyperboles instead of one. Whoops

Was this really what you've been losing your damn mind over?

SpinKirby posted...

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.

LordRazziel posted...

Dude... Guys, is this really worth all the posts and excitement?

Hell to the fucking yes it was worth it. This literally used to be my fucking job.

It's not biggie after this though. I ain't gonna follow you around or some shit always bringing it up. lol
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SpinKirby posted...

Conflict posted...

SpinKirby posted...

You don't start an argument with TWO HYPERBOLES, and then BACKTRACK when someone calls you out on it.

You know what you should have done? Just said some casual shit like "my bad", and then there's no issue.

How hard is to admit? It's Gamefaqs? Nobody is going to care outside of this topic.

Oh god I submitted two hyperboles instead of one. Whoops

Was this really what you've been losing your damn mind over?

SpinKirby posted...

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.

LordRazziel posted...

Dude... Guys, is this really worth all the posts and excitement?

Hell to the fucking yes it was worth it. This literally used to be my fucking job.

It's not biggie after this though. I ain't gonna follow you around or some shit always bringing it up. lol

What was your job?

Why would you follow me around and not let me forget about it?
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LordRazziel posted...

What was your job?

Why would you follow me around and not let me forget about it?

That last part was directed at Conflict. It still consider myself new to CE, but screenshotting and following seems to be common in these parts. I'm not about that life.

I used to do plant disease research. :(
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SpinKirby posted...

LordRazziel posted...

What was your job?

Why would you follow me around and not let me forget about it?

That last part was directed at Conflict. It still consider myself new to CE, but screenshotting and following seems to be common in these parts. I'm not about that life.

I used to do plant disease research. :(

Gotcha.

That sounds petty fun.
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