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Offline GRUNHERZ

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State ordered to buy car for short man....
« on: November 17, 2003, 06:25:43 AM »
What do you guys think of this story? Kinda wierd I'd say..

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=667158

Offline davidpt40

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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2003, 07:09:25 AM »
He probably has a horrible life.  Give him a car I say.

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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2003, 07:24:02 AM »
Insanity.

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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2003, 08:30:22 AM »
You see midgets once a month or more in NYC, and I've never once seen anyone ridicule them.  I'm sorry if this guy is genuinely disturbed that he's short, but thousands of others are in the same condition and are not entitled to a free car.

If the people of Norway are making his life so horrendous, he should move to NYC or something.

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Re: State ordered to buy car for short man....
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2003, 08:42:56 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
What do you guys think of this story? Kinda wierd I'd say..

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=667158


Why can't he just take the short bus with the other special kids? :D

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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2003, 08:47:03 AM »
How will he see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals at the same time?

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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2003, 09:08:46 AM »
Gotta give a big "who cares?" to this one.  Some runt in Norway got a car in exchange for being 4'2".

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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2003, 09:53:05 AM »
for **** sake...he's not a midget. There are women shorter than him. what a whinner. if he can drive he can use public transit as well.
maybe as a condition for getting the car, they should send him toa circus and call him the gigantic midget or something :lol

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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2003, 09:55:33 AM »
I say give him some stilts and a long pair of pants.

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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2003, 10:12:41 AM »
Well at least it's not my tax dollars at play.

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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2003, 10:13:33 AM »
In the olden days this would not have been a problem. I am of course talking of those days years and years ago in the 1970s. Historians have reported it was common for women and men to wear raised footware known colloquially as platform shoes. Fancy that.

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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2003, 10:50:24 AM »
I think he has a Napoleon complex.

Nothing that a little bullying won't cure.

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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2003, 12:05:30 PM »
I get so tierd of listening to short people whine.  I worked with a guy (off and on) for almost 10 years who was about 4'9".  every thing that went wrong in his life was blamed on people treating him badly due to his size.

it got so bad that you'd have to give him a hard time just to maintain your sanity.

everyone has plusses and minusus due to whatever size they are dealt.  get over it.

when I was a kid (4-6 yrs) I wanted to be a jockey.  I was great with horses, even at that age and by the time I was in my early teens I would break horses for spare cash.  but  when I started closing in on 6' tall and my weight went over 200 it became fairly obviuse that I wouldn't be competeing as a jockey.  I got over it.

every time I stay in a hotel I find the shower nossle comes out somewhere between shoulder and mid-chest, making it a real pain to wash my hair.  I didn't form a coalition or a suport group, I got over it.

if someone wrongs you you have a right to some sort of compensation.  but when life just doesn't work out how you wanted, through no malice from another then get over it and move on.

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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2003, 12:24:05 PM »
Bull****.

Life's not fair, get used to it.  Mental anguish is not the state's responsibility.

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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2003, 01:41:37 PM »
What about TALL people?