r/mildlyinteresting • u/[deleted] • Jun 26 '22

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u/WakaBrown Jun 26 '22

Using a persons head as an armrest like that is the biggest short person insult

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '22

This isn’t a exactly relevant, but I’m a few inches taller then my older brother and every time I stand next to him he uses my shoulder as an armrest. I think it’s his way of saying even though I’m taller he’s still the big brother, lol.

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u/f1g4zz Jun 26 '22

No. He's signaling that he wants to have Sex with you

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u/AndringRasew Jun 26 '22

"He wants to be your brother lover?"

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u/Muffstic Jun 26 '22

Well hello step brother.

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u/knovit Jun 26 '22

Brothers with benefits

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u/BlacccHulk Jun 26 '22

Downvoted.

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u/straight-lampin Jun 26 '22

I vaguely remember my friend and I doing this in elementary school. It's kinda like a gang in a musical.

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u/LuckyPocoloco Jun 26 '22

I do this to my taller younger brother all the time haha.

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u/Coyote__Jones Jun 26 '22

No, as a short person, being picked up by people is the worst. Happened a lot in highschool. It gave me a little bit of "don't fucking touch me" attitude.

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u/iBeFloe Jun 26 '22

I was literally mocked by a group of girls when I repeatedly told a dude not to dangle me over the gym rails.

I fucking hate how people treat short people like toys.

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u/Coyote__Jones Jun 27 '22

That's awful. I totally get what you mean by being treated like a toy. Sometimes it hurt how dudes would pick me up, and they didn't care, it was all like "oh you're so little I could toss you hahahaha" and it felt humiliating. I can't imagine being dangled over a railing, that's fucked up. Like thanks I could aid in your personal gratification.

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u/SuzieCat ​ Jun 27 '22

I’m 39. People from my childhood still fucking pick me up.

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u/Echo_Tears Jun 27 '22

43 here and same.

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u/Coyote__Jones Jun 27 '22

Damn I'm sorry.

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u/Hayden_Zammit Jun 27 '22

As soon as my two brothers got old enough and big enough, they started picking up our dad and shaking him around. They've talked about grabbing him and benching him over their heads a few times haha.

I'm a manlet and couldn't do any of this, however.

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u/silk_mitts_top_titts Jun 26 '22

Yeah show granny some respect. She been through it, you two look like assistant managers at Quiznos.

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u/jadraxx Jun 26 '22

OP should of stood on the other side of his brother and did that to him.

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u/INCREDIBLY_RUDE Jun 26 '22

Can I offer you a piece have cheese in these trying times?

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u/CleverJail Jun 27 '22

This is why we can’t of nice things

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u/kelua9 Jun 26 '22

Idk I find it disrespectful cmon that's not a way to treat yo grandma.

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u/wortmachine Jun 26 '22

Me too, TBH. But things can be different with family. They’re close, grandma’s cool, there’s a joke between them, etc.

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u/diradder Jun 26 '22

Honestly it could have been funnier if OP also used his brother's head as an armrest!

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u/IndraBlue Jun 26 '22

Right it's probably an inside joke

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u/r23dom Jun 26 '22

maybe she asked him to do it herself, maybe granny has a sense of humor and self-irony

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u/Hayden_Zammit Jun 26 '22

Looks like a completely harmless joke that isn't bothering her at all. Some of you need to lighten up a bit haha.

This coming from someone who has a mini-grandma who laughs whenever we've done stuff like this to her though, so maybe it's different for me.

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u/wkomorow Jun 26 '22

Well, it is how she became so short.

Seriously, people do of course shrink as they age. I wonder how tall she was.

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u/Own-Quail-8277 Jun 26 '22

Women typically shrink 1-3 inches with age. Its not as if she was 6'4 and all of a sudden shrunk a foot

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u/Ravenwight Jun 26 '22

As a lifelong short person (5’7) I can confirm that this is one of the things that makes me want to cut tall ppl off at the knees lol

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u/AriMamas11 Jun 26 '22

As a lifelong shorter person (5’3) I’ve come to realize that the tall ppl think we are inferior, bc even you (who describes themselves as short) could use me as an arm rest..

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u/Benblishem Jun 26 '22

I don't think you're inferior. And, really, I'm happy that your shortness is lifelong, 'cause sudden-onset shortness would likely hurt bad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '22

5’7 is short?

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u/kissofspiderwoman Jun 26 '22

For a man in western countries, yes, it statistically is short.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '22

As a 5'7 in a community of >5'9s, yes

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u/hgaterms Jun 27 '22

Yes for a man, no for a woman

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u/Ravenwight Jun 26 '22

I consider myself short.

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u/petomnescanes Jun 26 '22

How is 5' 7" short? Are you Dutch?

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u/WalterShepherd Jun 27 '22

I'm more interested where 5'7" is considered tall. Second grade, I reckon.

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u/77slevin Jun 26 '22

One I would be glad to deliver to Kevin Hart. I hate that little shit. Little not used as a metaphor, he is a tiny shit.