Magus is employed again
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I would hate for a Scientologist dwarf to overcome all of your safety measures.
Is he really a dwarf? I thought he qualified more for a midget[1]. Since dwarfs are supposed to have abnormal proportions and midgets are supposed to have normal proportions, it does seem that midget is the more fitting term.
[1] Yes, I know it isn't considered PC anymore. Belgium off.
<INB4 he's too tall
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I thought he qualified more for a midget
As a person who drunkenly asked a dwarf several questions one night about "What it is like to be a midget", and nearly had his ass kicked by that dwarf...I don't call them midgets anymore.
Funniest part of that night: "I am not a midget! I am a dwarf! There's a big fucking difference!" And yes, everyone in earshot busted up laughing at that.
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As a person who drunkenly asked a dwarf several questions one night about "What it is like to be a midget", and nearly had his ass kicked by that dwarf...I don't call them midgets anymore.
Obviously, your drunken self didn't know the difference. I described the primary difference for you above, in case you missed it. ;)
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your drunken self didn't know the difference
You are a master of understatement.
Also, if I am nearly beaten up by a dwarf in front of a large group of people, I will refer to them by whatever name they wish. ;)
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"Sir?"
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Also, yes.
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> I am a dwarf
The players...
- Cameron - UK Prime minister
- Bercow - Speaker (chair-thing) of the House of Commons (the wholly elected part of government.) He's 1.68m/5'7'' tall and is perceived to have quite a complex about it.
- Burns - some junior nonentity of a minister
In a dig at Mr Bercow - believed to be 5ft 6in tall - Mr Cameron said that health minister Simon Burns's driver had accidentally hit the Speaker's car while reversing.
When Mr Bercow said he was ''not happy'' about the incident, Mr Cameron quipped to journalists at a Westminster lunch yesterday, Mr Burns retorted: ''So which one are you?''.
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He's like 5'7".
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Which makes him about 8 cm (3.1") shorter than average for a white American male between the ages of 40 and 59, inclusive. This puts him around the 12.5th percentile (interpolating linearly between the 10th and 15th percentiles), according to National Health Statistics Reports, Number 10, 22 Oct 2008, Table 11, p. 15, or about 1.2σ below average. While that might be enough to make him the target of jokes, it's certainly not enough to be "abnormal." Dwarfism1 is often defined as adult height less than 147 cm (4' 10")2. Cruise is far too tall to be categorized as such.
1 "Midget" was used to describe "proportional dwarfism," but is now widely considered pejorative. 2 There are problems with this definition, as some ethnic groups have average heights near or below this threshold.
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He's like 5'7".
Called it.
<INB4 he's too tall
INB4 hidden comments rant. INB4 small text rant.
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Which makes him... blah blah blah
That's the joke...you need another whoosh badge.
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There are problems with this definition, as some ethnic groups have average heights near or below this threshold.
Pygmies? ;-)
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Kobolds?
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Ewoks
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INB4 hidden comments rant. INB4 small text rant.
sorry. it was either that or chef gordon ramsey
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Now you've probably diffused the rant :'(
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that was the intention. :-P
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8159102/David-Cameron-criticised-over-John-Bercow-dwarf-joke.html
I've read the beginning of that article several times. It makes no sense to me. Then I noticed the subheading. It should be part of the story. Fuck you, editors who don't know how to edit.
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I read that yesterday, and I didn't even get the joke.
Is Snow White such a huge cultural landmark in the UK that just by saying, "so which one are you?" you can guarantee the listener will assume you're talking about one of the 7 dwarfs???
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Pretty much, yeah. At least, that's how it seems.
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The tragedy is he was talking about the Seven Samurai. Or one of the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Or the Magnificent Seven.
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I think that there must be a fair amount of background of making fun of the guy for being short. With that context, the joke makes sense. I'm guessing it's rare for someone to be caught doing so on the record, though.
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Is Snow White such a huge cultural landmark in the UK that just by saying, "so which one are you?" you can guarantee the listener will assume you're talking about one of the 7 dwarfs???
When prefixed with "I'm not happy" (when spoken by a 5'6'' Bercow), yes, but not in isolation.
At least not until that incident....
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Pygmies? ;-)
As a matter of fact, yes. The term is commonly associated with ethnic groups in Africa; however, it actually refers to any ethnic group with an average adult male height below some arbitrary threshold. The commonly-used threshold of 150 cm (4' 11") does restrict the term to those African ethnic groups. A threshold of 155 cm (5' 1") is also sometimes used, which expands the set to include ethnic groups in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, PNG, Brazil and elsewhere. Other anthropologists reject the term entirely because grouping unrelated and completely dissimilar ethnic groups together just because they happen to be short is an idea that belongs in that thread over there (bad and/or evil).
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The seven deadly sins?
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sesevenen?
Sounds stuttery to me.
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His wife looks like she could be a character from Wallace and Gromit.
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Is he really a dwarf? I thought he qualified more for a midget[1]. Since dwarfs are supposed to have abnormal proportions and midgets are supposed to have normal proportions, it does seem that midget is the more fitting term.
Are you sure you aren't talking to a halfling?
(Also -- I wonder who the record holder is for shortest adult midget IRL...)
As a person who drunkenly asked a dwarf several questions one night about "What it is like to be a midget", and nearly had his ass kicked by that dwarf...I don't call them midgets anymore.
Oh, gosh, that scene almost sounds like something out of a D&D game! (Complete with the dwarf beating up the tall folk, too...)
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Complete with the dwarf beating up the tall folk, too
I, for one, would not care to find myself up against a Tolkien dwarf. Small, but tough and equipped with well-made pointy things.
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Oh, gosh, that scene almost sounds like something out of a D&D game! (Complete with the dwarf beating up the tall folk, too...)
The best part of the story: A few years ago a new bar opened here in our city. I stop in for lunch one day and there is a dwarf working the bar. He looked strangely familiar... I never like to refer to people as "waiter" or "bartender", so I usually get to know people's names...as soon as he said it I remembered him like a flashback.
"Hey, do you remember getting in to an argument with an obnoxious asshole, about 10 years ago, at a bachelor party?"
"Hmmmm, vaguely, why?"
"I was that obnoxious asshole."
"Holy crap man! Sorry about that. I had a real chip on my shoulder back in the day. Can I get you a beer on the house?"
"Yes. Yes you can."
He still remembers me every time I come in there, and I usually get free beer out of it.
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I wonder who the record holder is for shortest adult midget IRL
That would be Chandra Bahadur Dangi at a mere 1'9.5". OK, maybe not technically 'midget', but he is the world's shortest man as defined by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The tallest is Sultan Kosen, who's 8'3".
And here is a photo of when they met:
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My friend had a movie that he was not proud that he really enjoyed, and I grabbed it off his hard drive and watched part of it once. It involved a guy being beaten up by a dwarf in a wheel chair, and, at one point, Gandhi boxing. I remember what it was called just fine. Anyone else?
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I remember what it was called just fine. Anyone else?
No, but it sounds rather like some of Fellini's weirder moments.
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It was called Fat Pizza.
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Now you've probably diffused the rant
Don't you think it's more likely to have been defused than diffused?
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I don't think the rage left the host with that, though. Probably distributed through subsequent posts. Requires more research.
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I don't think the rage left the host with that, though. Probably distributed through subsequent posts. Requires more research.
It was probably sopped up by our local little ball of rage, @blakeyrat. That's the opposite of diffusion. It wouldn't defuse anything either.
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Don't you think it's more likely to have been defused than diffused?
With the subject in question[1], you never know. As @boomzilla said:
I don't think the rage left the host with that, though. Probably distributed through subsequent posts. Requires more research.
[1] If you backtrack the reply chain, you'll see I was baiting blakey. He's the subject in question. Thus your comment in the post immediately preceding this one doesn't really make much sense.
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If you backtrack the reply chain, you'll see I was baiting blakey. He's the subject in question. Thus your comment in the post immediately preceding this one doesn't really make much sense.
Reading back for context is a barrier to getting out of the 25% poster ghetto.
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Reading back for context is a barrier to getting out of the 25% poster ghetto.
Not pointing out that your post was stupid would be a barrier to staying in the 5% club.
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Reading back for context is a barrier to getting out of the 25% poster ghetto.
Reading back for context is not SOP around these parts either. We tend to just fire off replies without context. This is not a place of civilized discourse.
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Reading back for context is a barrier to getting out of the 25% poster ghetto.
@abarker said:Not pointing out that your post was stupid would be a barrier to staying in the 5% club.
Not pointing out this is a pointless debate would be a barrier to me holding onto the Spoon™
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Not pointing out this is a pointless debate would be a barrier to me holding onto the Spoon™
The more I hear about "The Spoon", the more I want to put the spoon someplace you will always have it...
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I'm never angry.
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I'm never angry.
As everything @blakeyrat says is always true, and @blakeyrat is never not angry, I think we can conclude that @blakeyrat does not exist due to the paradoxical nature of those comments.
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