People over 5 9"

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Quote from: DREAM on May 25, 2014, 05:35:03 AMWhy the hell would you want to do this surgery?? you are at the average height of majority of western population. I don't understand, if i was 5 9' i would never considered this surgery the cost outweigh the benefits look at Sweden and Poly, the s**t that happen to them can happen to you. I am only doing it cause my life sucks now as the fact if you're 5 5' you experience real disadvantages in life,

it isn't that simple...you see in the US the average height for all men is 5'9'' but for white or black guys around 20 years old it's 5'11''...
the average is brought down by mexicans, asians, and old people.

I live in Brazil, the average here is 5'8'' but that's because in the past many people were poor and didn't eat very well, if you check middle class and up white or black guys here they're also around 5'11''...I work at a office with around 20 men and there 3 guys around 6'4''...the rest is around 5'10'' to 6'1''...only 1 guy is 5'6'' and he looks very short in comparison. A 5'9'' guy would be ok but below average.
God, there are at least a couple of women here above 6'

I'm not trying to be rude, of course someone at 5'5'' may find weird a 5'9'' guy going for it, and yeah at that height you likely won't face discrimination but you will still be in a disadvantage with women for example, especially if you're surrounded by guys over 6'.

Now imagine if you live in some place like the Netherlands, sweden...some guys from sweden came here to train BJJ and the shortest was a strong 5'10'', the average was like 6'1'' or 6'2''.

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6'0 to 6'3 is the best, nothing wrong with 5'11 or 6'4 though

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6'0 to 6'3 is the best, nothing wrong with 5'11 or 6'4 though

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Getting real sick of the 5'10 and up guys coming on this forum whining about how they need leg lengthening to be happy in life, then go on to say they know people taller so they need to do it. Especially love the guys who use the tall people in Scandinavia as an example of why they need to be as tall as them, despite them being like less than one percent of world population.

These taller guys always say they aren't crazy and don't need therapy, but therapy and maybe some medication is exactly what they need. They are so mentally weak that it just kills them they're not over 6 feet tall despite them being higher than or exactly at many countries average height, and yet they think they can handle the months of hell and years of recovery time for leg lengthening? Give me a break.

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Getting real sick of the 5'10 and up guys coming on this forum whining about how they need leg lengthening to be happy in life, then go on to say they know people taller so they need to do it. Especially love the guys who use the tall people in Scandinavia as an example of why they need to be as tall as them, despite them being like less than one percent of world population.

These taller guys always say they aren't crazy and don't need therapy, but therapy and maybe some medication is exactly what they need. They are so mentally weak that it just kills them they're not over 6 feet tall despite them being higher than or exactly at many countries average height, and yet they think they can handle the months of hell and years of recovery time for leg lengthening? Give me a break.

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I have to agree. There's a thing called objectivity, I was objectively short at 167 cm or 5'6. That is 5 percentile, so I was shorter than 95% of the male population of my country. At 5'10 you're at 50 percentile, so you're taller than 50% of the male. 5 isn't 50. There's a difference between a woman 200 lbs that wants to lose weight and a woman 100 lbs that wants to lose even more weight. The second case is obviously a psychiatric disorder.

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Quote from: Gichelu on August 24, 2014, 06:35:35 PMGetting real sick of the 5'10 and up guys coming on this forum whining about how they need leg lengthening to be happy in life, then go on to say they know people taller so they need to do it. Especially love the guys who use the tall people in Scandinavia as an example of why they need to be as tall as them, despite them being like less than one percent of world population.

These taller guys always say they aren't crazy and don't need therapy, but therapy and maybe some medication is exactly what they need. They are so mentally weak that it just kills them they're not over 6 feet tall despite them being higher than or exactly at many countries average height, and yet they think they can handle the months of hell and years of recovery time for leg lengthening? Give me a break.

But it depends on where you live, if you live in Scandinavia what do u propose? Move to india? I'm 5'10'' I wanted to be 6' among other things because I'm the shortest at my family male side. I do not want to go crazy like Apotheosis(from old forum ) who did 10/10 cms on each limb, just 5cms I would be satisfied.

Edit: Just as a note, my dad is 6'1'' and my mother is 5'9'', so yeah...she is like my height. I don't know what went wrong haha, maybe my father had secret LL? maybe she betrayed him with a short guy? Or maybe staying home all day playing on the PC caused some lack of vitamin D hahaha

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Quote from: Temoc on August 24, 2014, 07:32:48 PMmaybe my father had secret LL? maybe she betrayed him with a short guy? Or maybe staying home all day playing on the PC caused some lack of vitamin D

And what if it's everything at the same time? 

Seriously though scandinavians are like an inch over average of US and EU. Not a huge difference.

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Quote from: Temoc on August 24, 2014, 07:32:48 PMBut it depends on where you live, if you live in Scandinavia what do u propose? Move to india? I'm 5'10'' I wanted to be 6' among other things because I'm the shortest at my family male side. I do not want to go crazy like Apotheosis(from old forum ) who did 10/10 cms on each limb, just 5cms I would be satisfied.

Edit: Just as a note, my dad is 6'1'' and my mother is 5'9'', so yeah...she is like my height. I don't know what went wrong haha, maybe my father had secret LL? maybe she betrayed him with a short guy? Or maybe staying home all day playing on the PC caused some lack of vitamin D hahaha

Most likely nothing went wrong. Your height is perfectly normal considering your parents heights, a bit on the shorter side but still perfectly healthy and normal.

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It's their money and life. If 5'9+ individuals know the risks of CLL and are still bothered enough by their height to go through with the surgery and risk all the possible complications, then they have  true height neurosis just like anyone shorter who is willing to endure the same thing, and have as much of a right to LL as any old forum members, regardless of starting height.


Heightism even exists on this forum, but here it discriminates against the taller members just because some shorter members are so bitter about never getting to be 5'9+ naturally.