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Actually, Bambi, I made almost the same error you did, initially. The president you left out was Lincoln, probably due to a copy/paste quirk from the web page. What I did differently was divide by 42 rather than 43, so my calculation came out to a fraction of an inch lower than the true value. Having corrected my mistake, I came up with the same result that you did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
The difference in the average height of men 20+ vs 20-39 is telling for a couple reasons. The more interesting is that we begin to shrink sometime in our 30s. All the presidents have been old enough to have seen some shrinkage. I wonder whether the reported heights were their maximum, the height when elected, or something else?
Whatever it is, Taft wasn't it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
I was in the pool!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Not at all. You're engaging in a debate on an interesting topic and are putting forward your arguments pretty well. My prior post was really just calling you out on the feigned wide eyed innocence of comments like 'the "objectification of women" whatever that means'. I don't think there can be much debate that the sort of comic book art you were posting objectifies women, it clearly does. The interesting question is whether that's acceptable and where the lines get drawn (no pun intended).Quote:
You guys may think I'm joking or trolling here
Objectification of both men and women has gone on throughout history. You've only got to look some of the carvings archaeologists have dug up to see that. It's hard to argue that Michael Angelo's David isn't an objectification of the male form. We've been doing it since we first painted on cave walls. Sometimes we call it art, sometimes we call it pornography and deciding which is which can be pretty damn difficult at times.
Personally I didn't find the pictures offensive (although I'm rather disappointed I didn't see the one with the visible nipple - I missed out there) but I'm also aware that whenever I opened post race at work I'd scroll through them pretty quick because I didn't want anyone looking over my shoulder to get the wrong idea. That's probably a pretty good indication that they didn't really belong on a professional forum. In a comic book forum or an art forum, on the other hand, they'd be right at home. So my take would be, cool art, wrong venue.
Of course, this is chit chat and the rules here are a bit looser than the rest of the forum so it's much more of a grey area than if you'd posted them in, say, the database development section. Grey enough, in fact, that myself and other moderators have been in the thread and hadn't felt the need to police it - even if I, at least, was aware that they were "on the line". Fortunately we're blessed with a final arbiter for grey areas... and his name is Brad.;)
Hell yes!Quote:
by that definition the entire movie industry is based on objectification
BTW, where are you from? I'd always assumed you were American but only because I tend to assume that of forum members by default (there's just so damn many Americans on the internet)
When it comes to lines, Niya grades on the curve.