Yeah, that guy in the khakis is feeling real silly right about now eh?
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That's why you never skip leg day - they might hand out the new pants.
Not if it were his intention to stand out!
Looks like it could be corderoy.
Imagine being him, there. Must feel so awkward
How much faith would you have in that chair?
school nickname: Tiny
Did… did he eat a bunch of the other ones to steal their power?
Only to absorb their organs. And, boy, is he healthy now!
Dragonballs, bad wish, you know how it ends.
he turned into panties?
A hat with two holes for his ears.
Kim Jong Un so fat, he outweighs the needs of the many.
Yao Ming is literally twice as big as every other human.
combined
Honestly it might be more, mass and volume wise.
Do you think Yao Ming is tired of people telling him he's tall?
Wow you're tall, do you play basketball? Lol
I have a friend who's 6'5" and I've seen his eyes go dead so many times with this exact comment
I'm 6'4" and when people ask if I play basketball I just tell them "Nah, I play video games". The people who are disgusted by this answer are people who I know to avoid.
I then also let them know that 6'4" is on the short side for a Basketball player.
i have a friend who's 7'1" and he leads with it. played in greece. he says he was terrible, just tall. but hell, if i played pro anywhere i'd lead with it too.
Yeah, this is so annoying. No, I'm so hypotonic, I can barely walk. I can't even fucking play basketball.
I imagine, I will still hear this when I'm in my deathbed. Fucking stupid.
To be fair, if you live in the US and are 7' or taller, there's a 17% chance you were employed by the NBA at some point.
If you lived anywhere in the world it only drops to 9%
So it's pretty decent odds that any random 7' or taller person has played basketball professionally.
We're all thinking the same thing.
...right?
Yeah, Yao Ming is really tall.
It feels as like a dick move by whoever assigned seats.
You have a well-known celebrity who's famously tall, and you place him so 3 or 4 people straight behind will have an obstrcted view of the event.
I guess this is the "... But at what cost" we've been asking about.
I was thinking he should be in the front row, he needs the leg room
Even worse, it kinda looks like his chair has shorter legs. Might just be weird perspective, but crazy if they did that to keep him from sticking up too much.
Didn't notice that before, looks like you're right
See how everyone is looking to the left? They already put him on the side.
He's also being considerate by standing slightly to the (exterior) side of his chair
Yeah, he should be forced to have a shittier seat because he was born tall.
He was born this tall? His poor mother.
Don't worry he came out horizontally
Wonder how long it took.
it took 9 mothers 1 month each.
Yup, yao ming is pretty tall and it really stands out when compared to older Chinese men.
(Chinese men tend to be an inch or two shorter than US average, and the older generations grew up with some degree of food scarcity and tend to be about six inches shorter. Yao ming is 7'6”, which is quite tall. )
As opposed to around younger Chinese men who, at all average of 7'3" allow him to blend right in...
Older Chinese men are like, a half foot shorter. It stands out more.
But you're right, I probably should have written that second paragraph saying that older Chinese men are on average shorter due to rampant food issues in china ~60 years ago.
Normally a photoshoot starts with a shout that big people stand at the back.
The poor lads behind him.
When you're 5'6" and shadowing your mates
Gonna guess most of the men in the image are 5'6" and the average mate would be Yao's nipple altitude.
When did China get Transformers?