You're so skinny!

[Bardmaiden]

I like when a tall guy leans way down to kiss me or just picks me up and does it!

My coworker Mo was rolling her eyes when I told her I only like tall guys, and she said "Blas, it doesn't matter how tall they are when you're lying down!"

Actually with the high difference between me and the b/f it can make some differences

[blas]

I like to pick up my boyfriend....he's the thinnest guy I've dated in a while. My last two boyfriends were only slightly taller than him, but both of them were at a more healthy weight (both of them were like 6'3-6'4 and were around 210-220 lbs). My current bf is only 170 lbs. I can lift and hold him up for about 30 seconds. It makes me feel powerful.

But then again, he can pick me up and whirl me around and get me all motion sick and I'll yell "No No No No No No!"

[Bike_Wrench]

I'm 6'-4" and have heard the ,"Isn't it nice to be tall?" line more than my share of times. I'd usually respond with something along the line of, "Being tall isn't all it's cracked up to be...ever seen a short person asked to get something off the bottom shelf?"

The best response I've heard to, "Do you play basketball?" is "No...do you play miniature golf?".

[GingerBiscuit]

"Awww, are you just out of school, little girl? Is this your first job?"

I'm 22 and have been working since I was seventeen.

"How do you stay so slim?"

I eat sensibly and exercise.

[crazylegs]

The best response I've heard to, "Do you play basketball?" is "No...do you play miniature golf?".

Permanantly Borrowed!

Slightly OT but what the crap is with that? Where's the love for the 6'2, curvy women--because I'm certainly not feeling it from the guys taller than I am

(As said before, 6'8 )

[Tigress]

I had a boss and a co-worker that were both obsessed with picking over my eating habits in their quest to find my "secret". Every time I ate lunch, one or both of them would grill me about what I was eating, thinking that I had some magic formula to being half their size.

My "secret" was: I wasn't in my 40s, hadn't spawned 3 kids, didn't fill my body up with fast food or garbage, and threw 200-pound men across the room twice a week.

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More recently, I had someone at a temp agency comment on my size. She looked at me and her first words were, "Oh, you're so short!" Very professional, lady.

Then, after I had finished my paperwork and turned to leave, she saw my ponytail, which reaches my waist. "Oh, your hair is so LONG!" Yeah, that tends to happen when you haven't cut it in 15 years (aside from the occasional trim to prevent split ends).

Needless to say, I didn't make a very active effort to call in for assignments.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I'm 5'6" and 220 pounds, but I look more like about 150-160. So many people are like "God, you're so big!" what with the muscle things and all. "Where do you buy clothes, how do you find a bra, are those real??" Because muscular girls can't have real 40D's, don'tcha know.

I find most comments on body type are answered by holding up the middle three fingers and asking people to read between the lines.

[Chazzie]

Ugh, I can't stand it when people get on my case about my eating habits. I'm a whopping 5'3-5'4 and 120-125 lbs. I will admit that I eat less than other people (One or two meals a day is fine and dandy with me), but really, whining at me isn't going to motivate me any.

My boyfriend actually irritated me about this- which surprised me since I'm rather easy-going, especially with him. But he always asks if I'm going to eat dinner, or if I've eaten breakfast, and if I say no, he whines.

No, hon. I don't have a vendetta against my own body. I have what I call a "gamer's stomach"- Where I'll go ages without eating because I'm playing games and have forgotten to eat, and my stomach will just get used to eating less.

"But you need energyyy!"

I'm still alive, right? I feel fine. Energetic even.

Although it's true I'd like to be a little skinnier (scratch that, I'd like to be more toned), I'm not stupid enough to just skip on a meal for the sake of getting skinnier. I know how my metabolism works. My stomach will growl if it wants food. If I'm not hungry, I feel physically sick trying to eat. I'm not going to suddenly have the body of a Holocaust victim.

[SnarkyPie]

I feel like such a minority here. I am very tall and skinny for a girl - 5'11" and about 120 pounds. On that note, I eat a -lot- and nobody ever seems to believe that I don't have an eating disorder.

One particular gem from my horror days at Friendly's involved me recommending an ice cream flavor to a table of women. My words were something like, "Oh, that one's my favorite! I eat it all the time when I'm here!"

As I walked away, I heard one of them mutter, "Probably throws it right back up afterward." Being young and still easily hurt, I had to fight to keep from crying.

Also, my boyfriend is a good 5 inches shorter than me. I've got no problem with it, and he seems to like it well enough =D

[bigpedaler]

I once had a friend of mine who thought I was 18 when I was 25. I figure that being 5 foot nothing had something to do with it.

I guess I'll enjoy this more when I'm 40.

You WILL, you WILL! I'm pushing 50 and get mistaken for 38 way too often. May not sound like much to some o' you thar 'yungies', but wait 'til you get up here where I am.

It helps that I ride a bike everywhere, too...faster than 75% of the people around me COULD ride....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm 6'1" and down to a svelte 205 pounds (I think I was at 225 or 230 at my heaviest).

So I guess I'm...average. Although if I run into people I haven't seen since high school, they tell me I've gained weight. Which is true; after all my drivers license still says I'm 155.

[Lingering Grin]

I'm guy, however, I'm 5'11" - 6' (depending on who measures ), and 135lbs - 140lbs

For a guy... that makes me one skinny mother******!!

Yeah, it bothers me a little, just because I would like to have more muscle tone, however, people are always surprised at what I eat, and how strong I actually am.
(75% of what I eat is basically bar-food, and the rest is healthy sandwiches and salads, and I can lift nearly 60lbs over my head, and over 100lbs off the ground... briefly... which is great for a guy my size).

Even my sister was surprised when I picked her up and carried her clear across her apartment, and she's 5'5"-5'6" and about 140lbs (believe it or not, people tell HER she's overweight... when she's not at ALL. Sure she definitely has curves (with Double D's you don't have much of a choice... [thank you, grandma] lol), but come on... people think that if you aren't super-model thin, you're too big...

What's funny (and a little weird...), her fiance is as big as I am. He's only got about 10lbs on me, but he's also two inches taller [and has more muscle tone... the bastard...], but his body type isn't really that different from mine.
However, that's not the weird part... He's also a year younger than me... and my sister is 5 years older than I am...

It might sound cliche' but really, fuck people who say stuff about you. They're pricks...

Besides, if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend/fiance/etc, they think you're hot... and they're the only one who counts... so fuck the rest


I guess it makes since that I like smaller girls, since I'm a smaller guy, but I've also been involved with curvy girls that love the scrawny guys... so I don't tend to complain

[Gravekeeper]

I'm 6 foot something ( seems to range from 6 to 6'2 depending on who or what is measuring ) and in the 155-160 range last I checked...

Smaller women have the cute factor working for them. That whole pick up and spin around impulse. Like kittens. You just want to pet them on the head. ;p

That being said I find tall women very striking. <cough>

Especially if they have glasses + either short hair or that bookwormish ponytail look. <3

Though glasses work on me universally. Hey! You're as blind as I am! Let's have mole children!

[rerant]

I had some kid (about 8-10, old enough to know better) in M&S the other day
"Mum!, Look at this man, he's really Tall!
Mum! Look, he's really tall!
MUM, LOOK AT THIS REALLY TALL MAN!!"
Rinse, lather repeat.

This reminds me of something that happened last week. A friend of mine was wearing a red and white striped shirt and also wears glasses.
He was walking down the street and some kid walked right up to him and yelled, "I FOUND WALDO!"

[Arm]

You WILL, you WILL! I'm pushing 50 and get mistaken for 38 way too often. May not sound like much to some o' you thar 'yungies', but wait 'til you get up here where I am.

It helps that I ride a bike everywhere, too...faster than 75% of the people around me COULD ride....

I had one of those wonderful-yet-disturbing revelations when I was still in training, in the Army.

I had a female first sergeant, and let's just say I did not mind at ALL following her around the track in the mornings. I figured she was incredibly young for the rank, and had probably simply been made first sergeant because the unit needed one, not because of time in grade or anything. As units go, it was sort of like warhousing for human inventory- soldiers who had finished training but been injured in some fashion or were otherwise waiting for assignment out into the 'real' Army. So it didn't seem like someplace where a soldier with 15-20 years in would be found.

I was hanging around the barracks one day, when one of my buddies came in, and he said, "Man, did you see first sergeant's daughter out in the parking lot?"
I said, "Oh, she has a kid? I didn't know that- how old?"
"19. Maaan, she is hot!"

Yeah. That was an entertaining revelation. Always fun to realize you've been lusting after someone probably significantly more than twice your age, rather than merely half again older

She wore it *well*. Exercise does wonders. And good genes.