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talk about sour grapes 

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Quote from: ouroboros on February 29, 2016, 04:24:25 AMtalk about sour grapes 

I know right? I really can't understand it lol.

Anyways, considering that I've seen that exact same graph here in the U.S used by both my dad and other medical doctors I doubt that's accurate for world usage. Just consider the height of China for instances. It's below U.S height average, and considering they are 20% of the world population, then factor in other less developed nations (like India who also has a monstrous population numbers) and I highly doubt that the entire human population males average around 177 cms. For western/developed countries sure, not disputing that.

But again, that's perspective, I'm fine only ending up shorter then U.S average, if you can't though, then that's fine, that's you lol. Good luck

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Quote from: Alu on February 29, 2016, 04:33:50 AMI know right? I really can't understand it lol.

Anyways, considering that I've seen that exact same graph here in the U.S used by both my dad and other medical doctors I doubt that's accurate for world usage. Just consider the height of China for instances. It's below U.S height average, and considering they are 20% of the world population, then factor in other less developed nations (like India who also has a monstrous population numbers) and I highly doubt that the entire human population males average around 177 cms. For western/developed countries sure, not disputing that.

But again, that's perspective, I'm fine only ending up shorter then U.S average, if you can't though, then that's fine, that's you lol. Good luck

You are talking to me as if I am planning to do an operation to lengthen 10cm on on each of my segments... I am planning to do 5-6cm (and not a mm more). I will end up at a max of 177 (or at "the worst case" 176) and I will feel alright. I dont want to be tall... Just dont want to be short.

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And why the hostility? Well because you think that the discontent of one's personal height is a mental disorder.
  No it's not (unless it's part of body dysmophism disorder).
  Does a fat man being sad for being fat is suffering from a mental disorder?
 Does a skinny man being sad for not being muscular is suffering from a mental disorder?
 Does a blad man being sad for losing his hair is suffering from a mental disorder?

 I think not.

I was fat until the age of 15. I wasnt happy about it and one day I decided to change it and I lost 20 kgs though diet and exercize (I am still thin)
 I was skinny till the age of 22. I wasnt happy about it and one day I started to hit the gym and today I still go regularly and I am happy.
 I dont lose hair
 I always wanted to study medicine so to do it I left my country at the age of 19 to study abroad in a different language living by myself (Am I a nutcase for doing so?)
 If there was any other way to change my height I would have done it. Unfortunatly LL is the only way which I know of today.
  Tons of fat people are doing bariatric surguries.. I dont see anyone calling them crazy by deciding to cut out two third of their stomach (gastroctomy) or taking out all of their stomach and Duodenum (Sleeve gastronomy "en route en Y").
  The only reason you see this procedure as "Mental" is because that is what you were meant to believe by society who keeps pumping you bull  about accepting yourself no matter what. So no my forum comrade... If society truly believed a tenth of the bull  it pumps into you, everyone would have been happy... And I have no will to fight society with it's superficiality (which derives from basic evolutionary instincts) in order to proove to myself that I am right...
 
  There is a saying in Jeudaism: It's better to be smart than to be right.

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Quote from: hyong on February 29, 2016, 04:02:09 AMyou dun need to reply to a mad man then

I missed this for some reason so sorry. To some degree you're right. I don't have to, and to some aspect I don't want to since it's a reflection of my self that is still somewhat within me... But considering I was in your exact position months back, I know the massive despair that can cause. The pain and torment it can leave you. Which is why I'm saying what I'm saying. My purpose isn't to convince you or anyone to do anything: to do LL or not. I'm simply trying to help out in any shape I can. So cheers.

Also this is my 420 Blaze it, BITCH POST BABY

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Quote from: Alu on February 29, 2016, 04:33:50 AMI know right? I really can't understand it lol.

@ Alu,  sorry for not being more specific, but my previous comment was towards what you said earlier.

"sour grapes" =  In an old fable by Aesop, a hungry fox noticed a bunch of juicy grapes hanging from a vine. After several failed attempts to reach the grapes, the fox gave up and insisted that he didn't want them anyway because they were probably sour.
 
Nowadays when somebody expresses sour grapes, it means that they put down something simply because they can't have it.

We all do this in one way or another..... I'm envious of not being able to mentally deal with my height neurosis the same way you seem to be dealing with yours, but it's not right to put down each others views because they don't apply to our specific situation

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Your entire reason for doing this surgery was misguided from the beginning. There's no way the average world height is 177cm.

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Quote from: Thatdude950 on February 29, 2016, 08:09:18 PMYour entire reason for doing this surgery was misguided from the beginning. There's no way the average world height is 177cm.

 Tell that to W.H.O... And you know what? let's say that all those people in those poor countries/areas take the world average to 170 or maybe even less... So what? I will never be there nor will I ever meet my soulmate among a lost tribe in central china or amongst the pigmies of africa.. I live in the developped world and so do you... I dont try to find comfort by saying "Hey, atleast I am tall in the Sahara! "

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The world average is not 177, I don't know where you read that but it's just wrong. No country in asia, south america and perhaps africa has an average of 177 or higher, so how can the world average be so high?
Most western countries have an average of around 178~ so it's impossiblt that the world average is only 1cm below that.

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to be honest, u shouldnt focus on the average because it includes older people who bring the average down alot.. from my experience, being 185 now i only feel just above average... i honestly think the average is 183 for young males..