one of my favourite things about my boyfriend is that he’s 6'4 but convinced he is a normal sized person and this does not constitute “tall”
once, if not twice, a week the card game shop he plays digimon at upload a top-4 photo best described as “gandalf and the hobbits” and every time he is genuinely baffled as to why he looks like that
told him i made this post and he’s still insistent that he isn’t tall
bf: i’m not tall! i feel like everyone i see is around the same height as me. like people in the street
me: they aren’t
bf: but i can see their faces! if i’m looking at their faces they must be the same height
me: you’re looking down slightly babe
bf: why would i do that
me: because you’re tall
incidentally the fact i am 5'5 also comes as a shock to him at least once a day and then he inevitably asks if i’m “normally that short”
if you lean in real close you can hear his singular brain cell bouncing around like a windows screensaver
Has your boyfriend got his eyesight checked? Bc when I don’t wear my glasses I’m nice and close to the ground but when I do it’s HOLY SHIT WHY AM I THIS TALL, I’M AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, HELP ME time and it’s genuinelly terrifying.
he wears glasses he’s just dumb
update to this post from yesterday:
bf: apparently only 7% of people are over 6’ tall me: yes……..? bf: that isn’t very many. am i tall? me: i cannot believe we are having this discussion again. yes. you are tall. you are still tall. you were tall yesterday. you will be tall tomorrow bf: oh my god i’m tall aren’t i me: my love the netherlands is the tallest country in the world and even there average male height is 6’ 0.5". you are tall by “kingdom of giants” standards, even. but we live on “shortarse island”, so… bf: AM i tall though me: you are 6ft 4
“maybe he’s not mansplaining maybe he’s just neurodivergent and sharing his special interest” is such a weird argument because when people call something mansplaining they don’t mean “man who explains something to you”, they mean “condescending man who assumes women know nothing in conversations”. there’s a difference between simply sharing information and talking down to someone yk
I have mentioned this before but I have been accused of mansplaining when I was sharing science fact that excited me with an entire server, nobody had been talking about it prior and I was not addressing any single person. I was just excited and wanted to share something with people. I’m also a woman, but my profile picture and name didn’t make that clear so I got dog piled for mansplaining. I also got accused of mansplaining by a customer when I was literally training a new employee (who had “trainee” on her nametag), because I had a shaved head and got misgendered frequently. This is not a hypothetical thing that people are making up to get angry at, it is something that is actually happening to neurodivergent people — not just neurodivergent men, either — and claiming that it doesn’t happen is doing nobody any favors.
I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”
