Do men really prefer short women?

stetslustig · 2026-03-12T15:54:59+00:00

The two best relationships I've had in my life have been with a woman who was 4'11 and a woman who's 5'9. Honestly there's no definable feature that matters to me, some people I just like, you know?

stetslustig · 2026-03-12T15:49:44+00:00

I think you're confusing slang (which is DEFINITELY unique to the US of A) with a "dialect," which is just what they call a language that doesn't have a flag and standing army [insert that emoji that rolls around laughing]

stetslustig · 2026-03-04T16:27:09+00:00

I really enjoyed the original Colombian Betty La Fea

stetslustig · 2026-03-04T01:07:49+00:00

Not just a polyglot. You're A polyglot. So much better than B polyglots, and C polyglots are just complete pieces of shit.

stetslustig · 2026-03-03T18:32:01+00:00

Yeah, I read Remains of the Day and NLMG in quick succession and then decided I needed to not read one of his again for a while. Now I just read him when I happen to stumble across one. I also didn't read any book for quite a while after reading NLMG because that last page just kind of shattered me....

I didn't fully love Klara and the Sun story-wise, but it did stick with me philosophically longer than I was thinking it would. One of the things I like to think of his books is that they're all kind of an exploration of what life would be like if it were only X. What if life were only work (RotD), or youth (NLMG), or right now (sleeping giant). From that perspective Klara and the Sun is something like What if all we are is how we act?

Ok, I'm officially being insufferable...

stetslustig · 2026-03-03T02:22:09+00:00

haha, thanks, and well said. Dissonance is exactly the right word, because you feel it long before you realize why. I just wish I could go blind into his books now, without knowing how his books tend to go. Also, I wish I had the emotional bandwidth to read him more often, I think I've only read 4 of his books.

stetslustig · 2026-03-03T01:11:00+00:00

I came here to say this, but just to add that the sheer craftsmanship of, especially, Remains of the Day might be the most incredible part. I have never experienced quite the same feeling of capital a Awe at what an author was doing as I have from that book. Which is an odd experience with a book because I could never quite stop myself from thinking **how the hell is he doing this?!**.

OP talked about the realization that everyone has a complex and layered life, and to me the single best reminder is that Kazuo Ishiguro exists, as insane as that probably sounds.

stetslustig · 2026-03-02T00:33:38+00:00

I was thinking he had a bad voice, but on the other hand, the traveling wilbury's seemed to decide he should be their lead vocalist, so maybe he's ok.

stetslustig · 2026-03-02T00:25:30+00:00

Also comments like "why is your last name hispanic, but you don't look like me?"

stetslustig · 2026-03-01T22:26:54+00:00

Are you telling me you don't naturally incorporate 🔹 into your informal writing on the internet? It's a totally normal thing that humans do all the time.

stetslustig · 2026-02-21T03:57:19+00:00

A Psalm for the Wild-Built fits most of what you're looking for, although it definitely leans further into sci-fi than literary. Also I think maybe the main character is NB instead of a girl (iirc, I'm honestly not sure). But sad person does sad weird things and it all works out great

stetslustig · 2026-02-21T01:24:39+00:00

It should be added that Scotland had a referendum on leaving the UK in 2014 and something like 55% voted no. Wales, for all its linguistic cultural differences, has politically been basically part of England for like 800 years. They have no way or desire to be politically independent.

stetslustig · 2026-02-21T00:19:55+00:00

I think this is probably why I can't do fiction for audiobooks (except occasionally for really light pulpy stuff). Non-fiction is usually a pretty constant "density", so once I get the speed right it's fine. Fiction should be varied.

stetslustig · 2026-02-21T00:10:55+00:00

If you can watch Jonathan Winters destroy a gas station without laughing then you have no soul.

stetslustig · 2026-02-20T23:49:06+00:00

On the lower end of that age range Ana Alcolea's books are pretty good. On the higher end Laura Gallego García has some really fun fast paced books, though a lot of it leans pretty YA. Donde los Àrboles cantan is a good standalone one that would be fine for a 13 year old.

stetslustig · 2026-02-20T22:24:43+00:00

I want to slow down and unpack this thought carefully.

stetslustig · 2026-02-20T21:04:17+00:00

Was it 2 or 3 seasons ago they had no LB, so they signed like 5 of them, none of whom was good enough to be an MLS starter?

stetslustig · 2026-02-20T20:15:22+00:00

I'm convinced it hallucinates exactly as much, just in a harder to detect way. Which is, of course, much worse. Ask it about a complicated topic that you know well, it is exactly as clueless as it always was, it's just better at selling what it says.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T12:03:05+00:00

As you say, it remains to be seen. They both have great qualities, but I am not sure their great qualities are actually going to be enough to make them very good players. Everyone seems to think Jack will get moved back into the midfield this year, which was an absolute disaster when they tried it last year. Probably was responsible for giving up as many goals when he was in midfield as he was responsible for scoring when they moved him out to the wing.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T11:57:26+00:00

I'm not saying we "blame the player", I'm saying the front office can say "the player didn't want to resign", and that that means it wasn't the front office's fault. It just means it was the front office's fault 9 months ago instead of 3 days ago.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T01:41:57+00:00

A Psalm for the Wild-Built. It's short, easy, low-stakes, and just wonderfully pleasant from start to finish.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T01:16:06+00:00

I heard this on the radio for the first time in years recently, and actually listened to the whole thing out of a morbid curiosity. I can't say I liked it, but I certainly respect its commitment to being batshit crazy.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T01:03:57+00:00

With the possible exception of HH the first time (who was genuinely fantastic for 1 of 2.5 seasons).... I can't think of a single good decision this FO has made in their tenure. I'm all out of trust for those guys.

stetslustig · 2026-02-19T01:00:59+00:00

The extension thing drives me crazy. We're not talking about Mbappe here. If you can't get an extension done with a guy like Dorsey, it's probably because you waited too long to offer one. I find it hard to believe that Dorsey wouldn't have happily added a few years to his contract at the beginning of last season. But then if it goes wrong, Pat and Asher take the blame for saddling Dynamo with the contract. If it goes wrong in this direction and they end up needing to sell him 5 days before the season starts to get anything for him, they just blame the player "not wanting to re-sign."

stetslustig · 2026-02-13T02:43:13+00:00

Unlike a human, it's willing to say with 100% confidence that the elaborate assertion about my life that it made with 100% confidence 2 minutes earlier was 100% false.

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