LITTLE PEOPLE.
Some people consider me a mean spirited, antagonistic, disagreeable angry Old Geezer. They are lying rat, ignorant bastards! I happen to be a kind hearted, calm, gentle soul who hasn’t been angry since they canceled Punky Brewster…a day that will live in infamy.
Every once in a while somebody or some group says or does something that sets my tail on fire. It has to be something outrageous and hurtful…like canceling Punky Brewster. A female researcher from Princeton University published a paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research that makes me want to shtoop her so hard that her freckles fall off. The bottom line is her paper demeans and pokes fun at you and me. Its purpose is too try and makes us feel incompetent. This woman takes the un-American position that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequity – but, get this – tall people are just smarter than their height challenged peers. “Height challenged”!? Do you feel height challenged? Who wants to go through life having to duck as you walk through the golden arches? Look out that you don’t bang your head entering a room with 14-foot ceilings?
What about the accusation that tall people are a lot smarter than normal sized folks? Did the researchers ever hear an NBA basketball star talk? The only words they can get out of their mouths are: “you know, whasup, like, know what I’m sayin’, and mutherfucker.” This is stimulating and adroit conversation? I totally reject the idea that huge, enormous, gigantic and uncouth pituitary freaks
are superior to us munchkins.
But the eggheads that are doing this damn research claim that, “As early as age three- before schooling has had a chance to play a role – and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests.” Other studies have pointed to low self-esteem, better health that accompanies greater height and social discrimination as culprits for lower pay. What is the real purpose of this study? To make normal, average people feel totally inadequate? That’s our wives job.
It’s time you and I stand up on our little, stumpy legs and shout that we are as good as anyone…except maybe Punky Brewster. I’m glad I cleared up the canard that The Geezer gets over-excited. Wait, where are my blood pressure pills?
Every once in a while somebody or some group says or does something that sets my tail on fire. It has to be something outrageous and hurtful…like canceling Punky Brewster. A female researcher from Princeton University published a paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research that makes me want to shtoop her so hard that her freckles fall off. The bottom line is her paper demeans and pokes fun at you and me. Its purpose is too try and makes us feel incompetent. This woman takes the un-American position that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only social discrimination that accounts for this inequity – but, get this – tall people are just smarter than their height challenged peers. “Height challenged”!? Do you feel height challenged? Who wants to go through life having to duck as you walk through the golden arches? Look out that you don’t bang your head entering a room with 14-foot ceilings?
What about the accusation that tall people are a lot smarter than normal sized folks? Did the researchers ever hear an NBA basketball star talk? The only words they can get out of their mouths are: “you know, whasup, like, know what I’m sayin’, and mutherfucker.” This is stimulating and adroit conversation? I totally reject the idea that huge, enormous, gigantic and uncouth pituitary freaks
are superior to us munchkins.
But the eggheads that are doing this damn research claim that, “As early as age three- before schooling has had a chance to play a role – and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests.” Other studies have pointed to low self-esteem, better health that accompanies greater height and social discrimination as culprits for lower pay. What is the real purpose of this study? To make normal, average people feel totally inadequate? That’s our wives job.
It’s time you and I stand up on our little, stumpy legs and shout that we are as good as anyone…except maybe Punky Brewster. I’m glad I cleared up the canard that The Geezer gets over-excited. Wait, where are my blood pressure pills?
posted by THE RANTING OLD GEEZER at 7:42 PM
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