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[–] xta@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i welcome death by snu snu

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have only wholesome thought seeing that picture.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

Me too, it's the most complicated way to scratch an itchy back but if it works for them...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

What's funny is they seem to have the same size feet.

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

He is a cutie, eh?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Legs forever mmmm-mmm

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not to promote cannibalism… uhh, but everytime I see this, I imagine a chicken thigh that thick would be amazing.

maybe extremely tough to cook though

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

Well that's where the proper marinade with bromelain and cooking it low and slow come in the picture.

[–] Doodz@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago
[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Holy cow. I thought this comment section would be filled with light hearted jokes. Some of yall need get your chronically online asses outside.

The is the most reddit esque comment section I've seen on lemmy and it's gross

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

That's a light-hearted take. Why do some people like to work themselves into a froth with their imaginary scenarios?

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

how dare people react normally!!

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There are plenty of reasonable comments. Most have more upvotes than the sexualizing ones. That said, look closely at what she is wearing in the pic. If she put shorts on, the sides of that thing would still be above the shorts. The image was designed to have sexual appeal. She is showing more skin than most people have. So of course some people are going to go in that direction. Men in general haven't evolved enough not to.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

With an image designed to have sexual appeal, is it wrong to see the sexual appeal?

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 67 points 2 days ago

GOOD thing she isn't Trans! OTHERWISE she would have an Unfair Advantage! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 236 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (32 children)

For Americans who have the height mode of their brain stuck in "Freedom Units":

Anna Smrek is roughly 6' 9"

'Short King' is roughly 5' 3"

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For data nerds:

Going by total data for the whole globe, all people:

https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php

Anna is ... off the charts, one of if not the actual tallest adult women in the world, literally breaks the calculator.

Anna would be at... the 99.9(8/9)% percentile of men by height, which means that if you use 8.2 billion as a world population, there are at most approximately 1.6 million men as tall or taller than her.

EDIT: I forgor to divide by two, women vs men, so uh, 800k.

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'Short King' is under the 1st percentile of men (0.77), he is shorter than 99.3%+ of adult men.

'Short King' would be at about the 25th percentile of women by height, which means he is actually still as tall or taller than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.

EDIT: I did the same forgor /2, so, 1 billion, thanks to FundMECFSResearch for catching my error!

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Average global male height ~= 178 cm / 5' 10"

Average global female height ~= 165 cm / 5' 5"

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Possibly also relevant:

https://www.gotquestions.org/how-tall-was-Goliath.html

If you use a more reasonable and realistic measurement of cubits and spans, and go with the Septuagint version of the Old Testament/Torah...

Goliath, the mythical warrior felled by David and his sling, whose name is now just a common euphemism for 'giant'...

Yeah he was only about 6' 6", or about 198 cm.

So...Anna could probably roughly rest her nose on the top of Goliath's head, without bending her neck (or at least not much).

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Another fun addendum, for I guess dating data nerds?:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886913000020

(If someone can find a more recent study that specifically looks into this, I'd appreciate it!)

Broadly speaking, women prefer taller men more strongly than men prefer shorter women, by a factor of roughly 2.625x.

Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21 cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8 cm taller than their partner.

In Freedom Units, thats roughly women being most satisfied with a man 8 inches taller than them, men being most satisfied with a woman about 3 inches shorter than them.

This means a 5' 10" average guy will tend to be well satisfied with a 5' 7" woman's height, but she will tend to not be well satisfied with the man's height, herself on average, ideally, looking for a 6' 3" man.

Even if it was a 5' 10" man and an [EDIT: Whoops, too many numbers, too fast, this would actually be a somewhat shorter than] average 5' 3" woman, she'd still tend to ideally prefer a 5' 11" man, on average.

So, to more accurately assess 'Short King's realistic dating pool, we actually need to find women who are 8 inches shorter than him.

And that works out to women 4' 7" or shorter.

Which is the 0.02 percentile... meaning that 'Short King's realistic dating pool is at worst, just as small as the number of men who are as tall or taller than Anna.

Or, perhaps both Anna and Short King need to find partners who simply accept them and are satisfied by them via being uncommonly partner-height indifferent.

Good luck to both of them!

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That’s cool but I feel like it would be a nightmare being that tall.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

I actually know someone who is that tall and he has a daughter who is tiny. It's really awkward talking to both of them at the same time because he stands at a normal distance which really feels far too close because of how tall he is, but if you step back you feel like you're about half a mile away from his daughter.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago (10 children)

The back problems will kick in early.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Knees go quicker, especially for athletes

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[–] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Prerty sure one of her legs weighs more than me.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 122 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 243 points 3 days ago (12 children)

After copulation, the female eats the male to gain energy for her offspring.

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