all the colors have names & all those colors split up into a lot of named shades too, but does every individual hex code have a different name?? if not i want to find an unclaimed code somewhere between blue & green & make it mine. MINE!! it will be named JOAN. a color that says βvomit after consuming cement mix & washing it down with baja blastβ
what about this one?? can i have this??? who do i call
Just curious: What do you call it when there is no central meal cooked in your household, and individual members are expected to find leftovers/cook for themselves?
CORRECT. So it definitely still operates today but my impression is that it was more popular further back. It’s really just like, a community where you hang out with other tall people to “celebrate the woes and joys of being tall,” as the Tall Club International website puts it. I did a quick google search and it started in 1938 when a tall woman in California wrote a playful article in the paper about being 6'3" and inviting other tall people to reach out to meet up. You can actually still read that article here! I just read it through and it gave me a laugh.
It’s definitely worth keeping in mind that back then, it was much more of a hassle to be particularly tall, ESPECIALLY if you were a woman.
Even today it’s pretty annoying: my mom wears a size 13 shoe and can only buy women’s shoes at very select shoe stores. For my grandmother, who was born in the 1920s, a formative memory for her as a child was when the local Nordstroms made her a custom-sized set of little girl’s shoes that actually looked like the shoes other little girls got to wear. From what my parents have told me, a lot of people dated within the tall club, because a lot of men have a weird hangup about dating taller women. My sister is 6’ and one of her criteria for a husband was someone who wouldn’t be insecure about her wearing heels sometimes. I just realized all of these stories relate to shoes in some way which, lol, I guess we’re big shoe people here.
They have meetups and activities and annual conventions and such, and I believe there’s a scholarship? Tall Club International also fundraises for research on Marfan’s syndrome, which I didn’t know but is neat! I never really looked into it because again, I’m too short, lmfao. But my parents met at the international tall club convention in Oregon sometime in the 80s and they’re still good friends with a lot of people they met back then! I believe they just went on a Tall Club cruise earlier this year.
Anyway the requirement is that you be 5'10" if you’re a woman and 6'2" if you’re a man and it is CRUEL that i am only 5’ 9.5"!! it’s CRIMINAL I SAY.
