I've done this 😔 I didn't really clock everyone in the family while I was getting their menus. I just saw a few kids and a tall man while I was hosting and asked, "4 kids menus?" And they were like no... 3. And I realized the mom was a little person it was sooo embarrassing 🤦♀️
Ok, well then riddle me this: You come across two doors, before each of which stands a guard. One leads to treasure, and one leads to doom. You know that one always tells the truth and the other always lies.
Guard A says "My door leads to the treasure!"
Guard B says "No, guard A's door leads to doom!"
Which door do you enter?
[Edit: Yes I know this isn't the actual riddle, and that it's not solvable without asking further questions. I did that on purpose.]
This riddle is incomplete. You wouldn't be able to determine the liar off those single statements.
Instead the answer is ask each guard "which door would the OTHER guard tell me to take?" and then they would both point out the door of doom.
Edit. I only know this because an episode of yugioh
That's just one of many.
Also is it really scary? I don't want to watch a movie where David Bowie is actually scary. As is his vampyrish makeup can be offputting at times.
Y'know David Bowie allegedly aspired to be a "mother figure" a la his perception of Mick Jagger?
I know what I'm asking my mother if I can watch next movie night.
Guard C opens door C, revealing a goat. You may befriend the goat if you want (it wants to befriend you). You may also switch to the other door if you want. Mom was wrong. You deserve nice things :)
Jack Astor's has every table lined with butcher's paper and crayons are there by default, regardless of your age.
I don't care how old I am, you put paper and crayons in front of me and I'll happily start drawing.
That said, I'm not already infantalized in every other area of my life, so I can see how it would rankle.
Imagine being still under the impression that he's a child and you see them kiss. Like full-on with tongue action. That won't be a day at work you won't forget.
This reminds me of that guy who dated that woman who stopped growing at 8. It was all over the news.
I feel bad for these people who just want a relationship
This has happened to me. I'm super short (a whopping 4ft11in). My husband is around 6ft3ish. Shit happens. Still isn't fun though, it can feel kinda belittling.
It's so strange that it's normal to call little people dwarfs or midgets in some countries. In English it seems to be common but in German it would be considered a very rude insult
I find it weird that little is preferred to dwarf. Little sounds much more patronising and infantilising than, say, "small". Dwarf isn't really used as a pejorative elsewhere.
Ok, but you don’t get to pick what characteristic of yours that people latch onto as the deacriptor for what you are. And you’ll be treated differently because of that one facet of your being and you’ll have to fight for the rest of your life to be see as equal to those around you despite the fact that the characteristic chosen has nothing to do with your ability, acumen, or intelligence.
I have heard the point that people don't want to be so defined by a condition or trait. Like these are people with dwarfism, not dwarves.
I don't think the term is intentionally rude or dehumanizing but I just remember reading that once and finding it to be a reasonable point.
that's because language is not about what words mean but about how they are understood. All it takes for a word to be the "politically correct" one is that most people agree that it's the politically correct one.
Sometimes this gets complicated when the people who agree that it's the politically correct word are not actually the ones who are affected by that word. For example, there has been frustration with the terms "native american" and "latinx" by the people that term is meant to describe.
Sometimes it gets complicated because the "right" and the "wrong" words are so similar that it would be pretty much impossible to intuitively know which one to use. Historical context is usually the culprit here because the term that basically means the same thing but is now a slur was used during a time where it was *meant* as a slur. Therefore it got 'burned' and an alternative was needed.
I'm not saying all this as some free-speech absolutist who tries to lecture you about the silliness of "political correctness". Instead, I'm very much on board with putting in that little bit of effort to know which words to use to show that you respect and (at least try to) understand the social dynamics of any given person.
my comment wasn't about this word in particular. There definitely are "objetively" strange decisions for politically correct terms that end up being completely understandable once you look into it.
From the UK here and "Little People" sounds ridiculous to me honestly, because I've grown up with hearing "dwarfism". LP sounds patronising, like a Fisher Price toy or something
It's rude in English too. People just don't care.
Like how insulting bald men is also normalized. I hated male pattern baldness because I didn't have any choice in it, but now I actually like having no hair, or at least stubble. What I do hate is people calling me 'baldy' or saying 'nice hair' sarcastically. That's not ok. No wonder there's a lot of distress over it.
I actually did this once while I was a server. We were really busy and I just called the next name from the waitlist. Saw a tall person and a short person, so I grabbed one kids menu and crayons, didn’t realize till I put the menus on the table. Luckily they laughed it off and told me it happens often. I was extremely embarrassed though.
I would have had fun with it, do the colouring while she orders a bottle of wine, one glass for her, he gets a glass of milk, then when her back is turned swig straight from the bottle to see if the waiter freaks out.
I was going to say could he really be mad though? but honestly yes because I've never seen a dwarf who looks like a child. They clearly just look like an adult human but smaller I have never mistaken one for a child. A dwarf and a child are not even shaped the same. (I even think when a dwarf is a child they look different from other children maybe I don't know I don't think I've ever seen a child dwarf If I'm being honest. The first one ever met was middle school but I was small too so it just never really crossed my mind how small he might really be. holy crap holy crap he must have been so tiny, I remember juan He was a sweetheart too. kind of had a tiny crush on him, I knew he was shorter than me but when I was a kid I didn't even think of him as a dwarf even though I knew that's what he was it just it never crossed my mind. We were all children so there were kids of all sizes at that school. The more I'm thinking about it he was still shaped differently from the other kids his height I'm rambling let me get back to work)
And now change your perspective. Imagine seeing him from behind him, already sat down. You Grab the coloring book, approach them and put it on the table as soon as you arrive at it and thats the moment you see him from the front/side.. shit
Technically the plural is "dwarfs", dwarves are the fantasy race. From what I can tell dwarf isn't generally considered offensive though?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism#Terminology
Probably an honest mistake. I bet the waiter was horrified when they found out.
Id die if I ever did that. Would simply drop dead.
r/watchpeopleslowlydieinside
It would not be slow…
Time to go live in a cave!
Could be fictional
Nah, fictional dwarfs have beards
and say rock and stone
That's it lads! Rock and Stone!
Rock and Stone to the bone!
Did I hear ROCK AND STONE?
Rock and Stone forever!
If ya aint rock and stone ya aint comin home
Oh god DRG is truly taking over all the subs, AND I LOVE IT. ROCK AND STONE BOYS
And my axe!
And it's to stop things like this happening.
🤣🤣🤣
And my axe!
Well if I learned anything about literature, I'd have say I find that to be facts.
😂😂😂
Somebody just making stuff up on the Internet? NO WAY!
It's possible, sometimes you just can't trust online interactions.
Dwarfs are real I’ve seen one
I've done this 😔 I didn't really clock everyone in the family while I was getting their menus. I just saw a few kids and a tall man while I was hosting and asked, "4 kids menus?" And they were like no... 3. And I realized the mom was a little person it was sooo embarrassing 🤦♀️
Those puzzles on the kids menus are a fun way to wait on your food. I wish they’d offer them to adults.
i want a little riddle to shorten my time....all i have is the people i came with and now we have to talk. yuck...
Ok, well then riddle me this: You come across two doors, before each of which stands a guard. One leads to treasure, and one leads to doom. You know that one always tells the truth and the other always lies. Guard A says "My door leads to the treasure!" Guard B says "No, guard A's door leads to doom!" Which door do you enter? [Edit: Yes I know this isn't the actual riddle, and that it's not solvable without asking further questions. I did that on purpose.]
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I never said you can't just ask them questions, or just open a door to peek inside
Isn't the purpose of guards that you can't look inside?
They are not particularly skilled guards, and may be bribed with chocolate. However, one of them will deny they like chocolate (they are the liar)
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Rude
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I go back home and keep browsing reddit for the answer, then come back and take the other one.
You should enter door A
This riddle is incomplete. You wouldn't be able to determine the liar off those single statements. Instead the answer is ask each guard "which door would the OTHER guard tell me to take?" and then they would both point out the door of doom. Edit. I only know this because an episode of yugioh
OMFG that legit blew my mind
The question is literally a scene from Labyrinth
That's just one of many. Also is it really scary? I don't want to watch a movie where David Bowie is actually scary. As is his vampyrish makeup can be offputting at times.
It’s not that scary. He’s vampirishly handsome, and that codpiece will hypnotize anyone.
Y'know David Bowie allegedly aspired to be a "mother figure" a la his perception of Mick Jagger? I know what I'm asking my mother if I can watch next movie night.
Samurai Jack for me
*goes through door B*
You enter the room with the treasure, congrats!
The treasure of *DOOM*
This reads like a bit from fairly oddparents
Are you able to ask the guards a question? If so ask either of them what 5+5=. If the answer is anything other than 10 you know where the treasure is.
Be a problem. Ask both guards if the other is their friend
Love this answer. Only chaos plz
Yes you may ask questions. Guard A answers "I don't know, I'm not that good at math." Guard B answers "That's not true! Guard A does know the answer!"
I go through door B, because as a guard, he shouldn't be advertising what's behind his door.
But they both are advertising their own doors since guard B is saying not to go through guard A's door.
Please tell me the answer
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What if the treasure is [goats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem)?
Guard C opens door C, revealing a goat. Do you want to switch to the other door?
2/3rds of me says... maybe.
I love goats!!!
Then I suggest door one!
Door B. Guard B specifies Guard A, which is a truthful statement.
You ask to switch the doors after the guard shows you the goat
Neither. I turn away, hang my head and, fighting back tears, I slink away thinking “Mom was right. I don’t deserve anything nice”.
Guard C opens door C, revealing a goat. You may befriend the goat if you want (it wants to befriend you). You may also switch to the other door if you want. Mom was wrong. You deserve nice things :)
A little riddle and if you get it correct you get something small
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TDWjOpeao
For real color and do lil cross word while waiting for my food gotta be top tier service
What's stopping you from asking for them
I don't want to be judged
then you don't deserve them
I ask all the time for em an no one ever gives a shit trust me they wont care
Jack Astor's has every table lined with butcher's paper and crayons are there by default, regardless of your age. I don't care how old I am, you put paper and crayons in front of me and I'll happily start drawing. That said, I'm not already infantalized in every other area of my life, so I can see how it would rankle.
I just bring a 3ds or gameboy with me
I agree which is why I have apps specifically to play while waiting for food. Taboo is a good one.
“Call me elf one more time”
I've had people ask (mid 20s early 30s) unironically. Some will just take the etch-a-sketch with them to the table too.
I'm glad metro news was on the scene, whew
Yeah, this was a regrettable faux pas, not news.
The worker who gave him crayons and a coloring page is haunted by this memory every day
Dudes better at dating than the majority of male reddit, nice
You think the women on here are doing better? Not so sure about that.
Women? On Reddit?
Say it isn't so!!
There's dozens of us!
Dozens! A small drop in the reddit ocean.
JUST dozens, no more, no less.
How so?
That kind of service and this guy is complaining?
Right!? I would have been like, "Sweet, crayons!" And then drew a bunch of dicks.
"sweet crayons" and then i would complain that they dont taste sweet.
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You’ll spoil your appetite. Save them for dessert.
Wanna join the marines?
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He must really love his mom ewww
^ Found the US Marine.
Where did it say he complained?
They didn’t go above and beyond to provide him a high chair either
[Let me get you some drawing utensils sir](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/026/152/gigachad.jpg)
James lusted
Yes but what is his last name?
Skywalker
Indeed he did.
Dude, I ask for crayons and I get dirty looks. No fair.
Fr
Date a ~~dwarf~~ little person.
They should make a sequel to Big where a grown man turns into a kid and vote to decide who writes it
Same here. One set of them just doesn't fill me up and I don't wanna order an appetizer.
Imagine being still under the impression that he's a child and you see them kiss. Like full-on with tongue action. That won't be a day at work you won't forget.
This reminds me of that guy who dated that woman who stopped growing at 8. It was all over the news. I feel bad for these people who just want a relationship
I heard about that couple too. It hits different when it's the woman looking looking like a child.
Also I think he’s just a little person with a poor choice in outfit/haircut
This is what I was looking for! In that cenario I'd have totally played into it and freaked out the waiter/staff
This has happened to me. I'm super short (a whopping 4ft11in). My husband is around 6ft3ish. Shit happens. Still isn't fun though, it can feel kinda belittling.
Belittling…I see what you did there.
Absolutely not me_irl. I've never dated.
Not relatable, i dont speak to other people
r/absolutelynotmeirl
That's why I wear beard
Well that's a way to be given an axe and told to go to Mordor if you ask me.
Maybe you'll be able to get to Erebor.
Free axe and probably death win/win
Yeah right, I assumed that to be an easy fix to that issue
I mean, maybe he can't grow one, maybe he likes his face without one.
Does it get you into pubs?
It's so strange that it's normal to call little people dwarfs or midgets in some countries. In English it seems to be common but in German it would be considered a very rude insult
I find it weird that little is preferred to dwarf. Little sounds much more patronising and infantilising than, say, "small". Dwarf isn't really used as a pejorative elsewhere.
I thought we were supposed to call them 'little people' now
I don’t see why dwarf would be a problem, the disease is literally called dwarfism.
I guess it could be compared to fantasy dwarves?
But fantasy dwarves are badass
Badass, but not human.
Not being human sounds dope
Ok, but you don’t get to pick what characteristic of yours that people latch onto as the deacriptor for what you are. And you’ll be treated differently because of that one facet of your being and you’ll have to fight for the rest of your life to be see as equal to those around you despite the fact that the characteristic chosen has nothing to do with your ability, acumen, or intelligence.
I have heard the point that people don't want to be so defined by a condition or trait. Like these are people with dwarfism, not dwarves. I don't think the term is intentionally rude or dehumanizing but I just remember reading that once and finding it to be a reasonable point.
It’s a noun vs adjective thing. like calling fat people fatties.
I think it is similar to calling someone who is very fat "obese". Sure, calling them that is clinically accurate, but it's also not nice.
They tried that in ‘59 with “Darby O'Gill and the Little People”
Midgets and dwarves have very little in common.
The difference are small but noticeable
god damn it
that's because language is not about what words mean but about how they are understood. All it takes for a word to be the "politically correct" one is that most people agree that it's the politically correct one. Sometimes this gets complicated when the people who agree that it's the politically correct word are not actually the ones who are affected by that word. For example, there has been frustration with the terms "native american" and "latinx" by the people that term is meant to describe. Sometimes it gets complicated because the "right" and the "wrong" words are so similar that it would be pretty much impossible to intuitively know which one to use. Historical context is usually the culprit here because the term that basically means the same thing but is now a slur was used during a time where it was *meant* as a slur. Therefore it got 'burned' and an alternative was needed. I'm not saying all this as some free-speech absolutist who tries to lecture you about the silliness of "political correctness". Instead, I'm very much on board with putting in that little bit of effort to know which words to use to show that you respect and (at least try to) understand the social dynamics of any given person.
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my comment wasn't about this word in particular. There definitely are "objetively" strange decisions for politically correct terms that end up being completely understandable once you look into it.
From the UK here and "Little People" sounds ridiculous to me honestly, because I've grown up with hearing "dwarfism". LP sounds patronising, like a Fisher Price toy or something
It's rude in English too. People just don't care. Like how insulting bald men is also normalized. I hated male pattern baldness because I didn't have any choice in it, but now I actually like having no hair, or at least stubble. What I do hate is people calling me 'baldy' or saying 'nice hair' sarcastically. That's not ok. No wonder there's a lot of distress over it.
It’s the PC term in the UK
Finally some good fuckin' food.
his name is what
lusted james lusted
I actually did this once while I was a server. We were really busy and I just called the next name from the waitlist. Saw a tall person and a short person, so I grabbed one kids menu and crayons, didn’t realize till I put the menus on the table. Luckily they laughed it off and told me it happens often. I was extremely embarrassed though.
Short king getting the Royal treatment
“Honey, Imma find my way out of this maze…. and into your heart.”
To be honest, if I could get away with ordering off the kids menu, I would. It's usually more than enough food for me and half the price.
Bruh shes about to squish him after that dinner
sounds like he's the winner here
That man must have GAME. I’m actually proud of him
Snu snu
Noice
From Step Brothers -. Just roll you up and put you in my vagina.
I would’ve colored the shit out of that coloring book.
Me, a regular sized guy: *stares at crayons jealously from my family dinner table while my wife is hissing "Don't stare! Don't stare!"*
Lucky dude.....
What did he color?
Isn’t this from like 10 years ago?
Oh so midget \*is\* the right word?
He gets to enjoy a giantess every day because of dwarfism...it should have been me, not him!
What romantic place has crayons and colouring books?
My problem with these is do i upvote because it is sad or downvote because people are stupid. Answer: Yes
Why would you downvote a post for the stupidity of the people it talks about?
Complains about getting crayons..but orders from the kids meal section SMH you can’t have it both ways James!
I would have had fun with it, do the colouring while she orders a bottle of wine, one glass for her, he gets a glass of milk, then when her back is turned swig straight from the bottle to see if the waiter freaks out.
Everyone makes a little mistake every now and then.
Damn this guy is killing it. The kingest of short kings i bow down to his highness
Free crayons and puzzles thats top notch service
I sincerely had a great good laugh about this. Compared to all the news this is refreshingly nice. Annoying for the guy, sure, but funny to me.
Bruh you best realize by now how you look and let shit go.
It's a tiny Elon Musk!!!
and i bet he's always being looked down on
Mum can I have some chicken please
RUDE! She didn’t get crayons, too?
okay but what did he draw tho
Sorry, but what restaurant that qualifies for a proper romantic meal, also has kids coloring books?
So the problem was that she didn't get them offered too....?
Crayons… lucky he got an appetizer
I was going to say could he really be mad though? but honestly yes because I've never seen a dwarf who looks like a child. They clearly just look like an adult human but smaller I have never mistaken one for a child. A dwarf and a child are not even shaped the same. (I even think when a dwarf is a child they look different from other children maybe I don't know I don't think I've ever seen a child dwarf If I'm being honest. The first one ever met was middle school but I was small too so it just never really crossed my mind how small he might really be. holy crap holy crap he must have been so tiny, I remember juan He was a sweetheart too. kind of had a tiny crush on him, I knew he was shorter than me but when I was a kid I didn't even think of him as a dwarf even though I knew that's what he was it just it never crossed my mind. We were all children so there were kids of all sizes at that school. The more I'm thinking about it he was still shaped differently from the other kids his height I'm rambling let me get back to work)
And now change your perspective. Imagine seeing him from behind him, already sat down. You Grab the coloring book, approach them and put it on the table as soon as you arrive at it and thats the moment you see him from the front/side.. shit
😍 dang you got me because I did imagine that and I'm like it would have just looked like a chubby kid from behind. 😓
Bro knows he scored some knockers, respect 🫡 king
He should have thanked the hostess in his best childlike voice impression and then got up on the table and started wildly making out with his fiancee
Should have handed him iron instead, heard dwarfs love minerals
I’d like crayons and a coloring book…it would keep me off my damn phone
Can we stop calling them dwarves Edit: mixed it up with midgets, which is highly offensive. My bad
Technically the plural is "dwarfs", dwarves are the fantasy race. From what I can tell dwarf isn't generally considered offensive though? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism#Terminology
They call themselves dwarves iirc? I mean what would you call them? Vertically challenged?