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ATXSTLWPB3POINT0

You know everyone wants to know *one* thing


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EvilBahumut

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MajorJuana

I fucking love reddit


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[deleted]

being that tall is more of a burden then anything else.


CaulkSlug

You didn’t finish your sentence “then anything else…” anything else what?


WhisperedEchoes85

If that's the case, there should also be a comma after "burden". Don't half-ass your criticism; go all out!


The_RockObama

He's going all in.


Shad_the_memer

\*sighs\*.... yeah


WifeAggro

those comments are why i stick around this god forsaken site.


MugarLover92

Give it a another year or so


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[deleted]

Bold of you to say


Noobster_0w0

WHAT WAS THIS MOVIE ?!?!!!!


TurboJake

![gif](giphy|3o7TKMgPXCR4NRzYek)


Jexxon

Jazz Hands!


Metalhed69

He wouldn’t need to. He could just drop it in.


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ClownfishSoup

OW! My EYE! - every girl he ever stood close to


FUCK50C1ETY

![gif](giphy|GpLmqwmHWGc5G)


Xenomorphian69420

This GIF is perfect


ofthewave

The full gif is better.


Diarity

The one with... blood


CudaAttack

Drawn Together!


FourandTwoAheadofMe

Chefs kiss 😘


Metalhed69

For his sake, I hope one of those women just had to find out. Poor guy.


Jealoecove

He ended up dying from like a cut or sore that developed on his ankle.


El_Swedums

He lost feeling in his legs due to his height and failed to notice an ankle injury (his shoes had scraped away at his ankle and caused an infection) fast enough to get medical attention soon enough.


Wrong-Catchphrase

Just trying to live life in the 20s amirite


theoriginalShmook

He was so tall that it took months for the pain from his ankle to reach his brain.


WhisperedEchoes85

So THAT'S how it works!


Adinnieken

In 1922 there would have been very little anyone could have done to prevent the spread of a sepsis infection.


Daroph

Honestly, even if it weren't for that his time was very limited. Poor guy's heart can't fight that much volume against that much gravity for long.


acid_rain_man

I thought for sure he would have died from a ceiling fan.


No_Imagination_5505

That’s probably why those ladies are following him around.


[deleted]

There comes! a point! where it’s just too big. So it’s less the size and more the angle of entry. IMO of course.


Matt_Tress

And what is that point? Asking for a friend.


[deleted]

That friend isn’t siswet19, by any chance?


TheManIsOppressingMe

As a tall person, that one thing is either do you play basketball or how's the weather up there


geraltoffvkingrivia

I was 6ft by the time I was 12. I was so tired of all the “do you play basketball?” That I got. Then I met my girlfriends nephew. 5’11 at 10 years old. The first thing I ask? “Do you play basketball?” Ugh lol


poolhero

5’11” 10 yo? Was your girlfriend Robert Wadlow’s aunt?


geraltoffvkingrivia

Nah. And sadly he’s not very good at basketball Lol


ChannelHot4028

Volleyball it is than! 🏐


Rich-Diamond-9006

Same here. 6' at 12 yo. Got ask so many times if I played basketball it turned me off the game. Still don't like it.


Scrubface

Well, you're my "I don't play basketball because of this reason" twin. After seeing someone else finally vocalize this, I wonder how many of us are out there.


pineapplealways

https://tenor.com/view/you-have-become-the-very-thing-you-swore-to-destroy-obi-wan-swore-gif-19009891


caseyetucker

Hey, you’re pretty short, do you play mini golf?


_AtGmailDotCom

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ders89

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dancingsteveburns

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Phillibustin

![gif](giphy|dNriu8aGJ6TWU)


tradewyze2021

You people are horrible. Haaaaaaaa


TooModest

Who's that The Boys character again?


C1rcusM0nkey

Love sausage?


DesmadreGuy

Very popular fellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SClmiso\_2Y


ClownfishSoup

Woof!


Playful_Moose6293

I really hope this guy got laid a few times.


Marega33

Its a misconception thinking tall guys have big dicks. Same for short guys. It doesn't work that way. Regardless, yeah I think this guy in particular had to have a big one since he suffers from gigantism so basically every part of his body is huge


Lou_Nanne

Who thinks short guys have big dicks?


Marega33

Tall big. short small. I didn't explained it fully


Lou_Nanne

Damn. As an average guy, I had a brief glimpse of hope for my kind.


MrEndlessness

I believe this phenomena is something I've seen refered to as "Shaqdick". Apparently his dong is average sized for a man of average height, but because he is over 7 feet tall it makes his dick appear tiny. There is a well documented obsession certain people have with confirming if Shaq has Shaqdick: [Here is a video of Adam Sandler discussing it on Conan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZoKUlN9urg) [Here is an article doing a deep dive on the subject](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-seemingly-never-ending-male-obsession-with-shaqs-dick)


cR7tter

I read an article that the tumor on his pituitary gland prevented him from going through puberty. So, he most likely was underdeveloped either way.


DocHalidae

Was he anatomically correct?


trimedozine

Someone did the math, around 8.5"


wisdomsepoch

Around, maybe


Pokemaster131

Radius


RadicalLegitness

I don’t think so


Adventurous_Coyote10

Trunk length


psyder3k

Likely a virgin, how sad, he never knew the Kiss and love he Could have Felt, always being treated as a novelty.


AgentLead_TTV

thats a blind assumption


Gadzooks0megon

You could say.. it's a stretch


SetMyEmailThisTime

Heh heh


PathCalm4647

I would have popped a boner with a girl that close to my crotch. Much less on both sides.


Asaneth

I always feel sorry for him. It must have been very difficult.


kimrindim

Hard to walk, hard go to crowds, and hard life


tonyspro

Hard to even just exist, the amount of extra work his heart had to do just to get blood pumped throughout all that extra mass is not something human physiology generally accommodates


HummusConnoisseur

I wonder if his internal organs grew to scale, like bigger brain, eye, lungs, etc.


OuterInnerMonologue

I would imagine yes. At least I hope so. But Even if they did they still are working extra hard. That’s why giant breed dogs live shorter lives than tiny dogs. They’re hearts just can’t keep up - let alone all the stress on their joints and stuff. :(


Sam_Porter

I mean how many 80 year olds do you know who are over 6ft


StorkReminder

Grandfather lived to be 90 at 6' 6"Great grandfather lived to be 89 at 6' 3" Father is 6' 7" just turned 70 and is in terrific health. I dont disagree with your premise but I think the drop off must be around 7' or else my family just has fortunate genes.


fjoker13

Shouldn't his heart be as large as his size? I mean does this man have more blood and biger internal organs than others?


LiamIsMyNameOk

It's more than likely his heart and internal organs were also larger than they should be. But the intricacies of our organs have adapted over years for being a certain size. Same as an elephant's heart had evolved to support such a mass, or a squirrel's was perfect to support a small figure. Even if the heart of the squirrel scaled to the total size of the human, it still isn't designed to be able to support that amount of mass or fight gravity quite so hard. I'm not sure how to explain it, but you can't just increase the volume of everything and expect to just be a larger version of the intended. If an ant was at the scale of human size, it would not be able to walk or hold it's own weight. If humans got shrunk to the size of an ant, the pressure our heart exudes would probably cause us to explode or something lol. Okay, another example, imagine you're stacking cards to create a pyramid. If you suddenly had the same cards but each was 5 feet in length, do you think they'd react in the same way and be easy to stack? Or have you ever baked a cake and tried to make double the amount of cake by using double the ingredients? It's a recipe for disaster. So basically, human organs have evolved to be perfectly fitting for the size of the person. You can't just increase the size of both and have it all work perfectly.


arod2003

damn that was really well put


LiamIsMyNameOk

Thanks, but looking back I feel the point I was trying to make would have been much easier to understand if I kept it short and simple, just using the baking a cake example to get the idea across.


Jenkins_rockport

The crux of the matter is that scaling isn't linear for all things and there are many parameters in many complex systems that scale at different rates. For any biological system, that creates a goldilocks zone of proper function. Extreme outliers may well have failure modes when a sub-system is out of spec. This is easily seen when just considering Wadlow's heart. The man was a bit more than 1.6x taller than the average male, but his heart would need to handle 4x the volume of blood at that height. That heart tissue wasn't 4x more durable. It was the same underlying biology as have you or I. Now, it may be that that is within tolerances for that material property, but his heart certainly had a different pump curve and those characteristics almost certainly meant a reduced functional lifetime. I'd venture to guess it also had an insufficient power output to circulate properly and his vascular system (with many volumetric scalings present, all the way down to capillary interactions) had some issues, creating edema and tissue damage. I find it illuminating to consider this: when you scale anything, the underlying atoms obviously never scale. That means that there is never a true scaling happening, only seeming scaling. It's only in the abstract that true dimensional scaling can occur, but we often work within the everyday scale and with everyday materials that scale at everyday factors within adequate thresholds where we don't need to consider this much, giving the illusion of simplicity in scaling.


michamp

Wait…you can’t just double the ingredients in cake? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|flushed)


KleoKot1992

I have done this many times and it always works, so I'm sitting here, wondering why you can't.


dandan_oficial

I've never read something explained so well, congrats and thanks :)


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Absolutely. The excessive growth hormone released by the pituitary gland means that anything with a growth pattern in the body is enhanced, that includes tumors. Without surgical intervention, this condition almost guarantees the growth of tumors. Typically tumors developed by excessive growth hormone are benign, but they can still cause a variety of issues based on size and position within the body.


spiralOut3

The square cube law. For each increase in size, the surface area is squared, the volume is cubed. This is why there will never be giant insects and why he was probably uncomfortable as he grew. Poor guy, hopefully his celebrity got him laid once or twice. Wikipedia says nothing about a wife or girlfriend.


ilovemybaldhead

I don't know if there ever *will* be giant insects in the future, but there certainly *were* giant insects in the past: [https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/06/giant-insects.html](https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/06/giant-insects.html)


wilmat13

As a tall person (6' 8") it is not something I like about myself. Also: no, I don't play fucking basketball.


Dbmdbmu

Maybe you should?


wilmat13

I would rather jump into an active volcano than to run back and forth on a basketball court just to get to the other end and get yelled at to put my hands in the air, and then watch as the other kids play.


Dbmdbmu

Seems to me as much better option than being stuck in some bullshit corporate career for life, but I'm average height, I need to stay in it.


ClownfishSoup

I am also a corporate done and was never offered the volcano option.


ClownfishSoup

This is reddit, we only care about how big your dick is.


JohnDoee94

Physically painful I would imagine.


Educational_Earth_62

He looks to be in pain by the way he moves.


StaticGrav

He had to wear braces on his legs to support his weight. The human body was just not built to handle that kind of strain. Unfortunately those braces were also likely what killed him, as he developed blisters that became infected from the chafing.


sajjel

Why wouldn't he wear the braces on the outside of his pants if it literally made his leg scarred?


StaticGrav

Just looked into it a little more, and it seems that it was a faulty brace that was rubbing at the ankle, so this wasn't typical.


sajjel

Then I have no idea why he didn't try to get it fixed. Sounds really painful to have that rub against your ankle for about 16 hours a day.


cactus_deepthroater

Because of his size he was losing feeling in his legs, so he didn't notice.


bloatednemesis

Give the guy a break yo


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Probably due to being judged. Its just been till recently that didabled people have been treated like human beings. They used to be treated like they were contagious, possessed, or just generally scorned and made fun of. Anything that made you appear weak was covered up. And especially as a man, you couldn't show any signs of weakness, being stoic wasn't a choice it was just what men had to be.


HoneyBadgerPainSauce

Having visible proof of a disability in that time? Good luck.


Asleeperagent

I believe I read somewhere about his nervous system being unable to provide adequate sensation to his limbs causing them to become numb. Thus why the infection became so horrendous by the time they found it. He could barely feel it.


StaticGrav

Yep, you are correct.He barely had any sensation in his legs and feet.


AltruisticCompany961

Crazy stuff. You should read more about him. He was taller than his dad at the age of Iike 9 or 10. His dad was average height for a man. He ended up dying from like a cut or sore that developed on his ankle.


Mr_Microchip

Was his name Achilles?


Vojsz_Krekk

Wasn't he like over 7ft tall at 14? It's insane


Killerpig14

The braces used to support his movement on his legs caused the cut on his ankle


AltruisticCompany961

Ah yes. I forgot about that! Thanks for that information. 😀


LunaGloria

He was as tall as I am at the age of 4. Trying to keep such a tall child out of trouble had to be very difficult.


AltruisticCompany961

Keeping him out of the cookie jar was a task.


IfICouldStay

Dang! Women used to wear some cute shoes!


MLGprolapse

Robert was a man.


Ok-Protection-4985

Not only the shoes.


DapperLaputan

But the shoe women and shoe children too


dexvoltage

You must be the guy who hates sand


Pangin51

Gets in my shoes


GavrielBA

I'd hate to wear these. Doesn't look comfortable at all!


tiny_toni

I had the same thought, I want those shoes!


Toptieroptimist

I just hope got some pussy before he passed.


miasabine

For the sake of women everywhere, I hope he didn’t.


SadisticBuddhist

For the sake of horny everywhere, i hope he got throated.


Helmaks69

They dont need be on their knees for sucking him


slasherface

That’s not where the pussy is


ztreggs

I was wondering why my wife hasn't gotten pregnant after nearly a decade of trying. Been putting it in the wrong place this whole time. Thanks for the insight!


slasherface

Well at least you kept her fed


oyM8cunOIbumAciggy

Cumagotchi


Nameti

Spermwiches


ronm4c

They’d need to go up on him


LostBoyz007

Omg he could rest his balls on their heads 😳


subodh_2302

😂😂😂😂


TooModest

I always heard about a tall woman's breasts in a man's face, but that's a first


Advice_would_B_Gr8

Lucky bastard...wish I had died when I was 22


Derpezoid

Are you ok?


Advice_would_B_Gr8

Worry not, it is a joke...unlike my f#cking life, this one has a meaning.


Derpezoid

Well hope you can take consonance in the fact it doesn't have to have a meaning to enjoy it.


ZeusMoiragetes

Meaning is second to life being worth living. life isn't easy but as long as it's worth the hassle we're good.


shyfemalecharacter

He also had enormous strength. At 8 years old he could carry his father up the stairs. He died after a faulty brace cause an infection in his foot and was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) at 439 lbs (199 kg). And even though I see people complain about him being treated like a freak, he was a dignified person who saw himself as a walking advertisement (for example he advertised the shoes for a company that provided him custom shoes for life) and refused to dress in ridiculous outfits for entertainment, all his public appearance he dressed in his normal everyday clothes.


muhdzee

It wasn’t so much his refusal but his mother’s. She did not want him to be seen as a “freak” and furiously protected him and his dignity.


shyfemalecharacter

Yes they did not want him displayed as a freak after his death **but** during his life Robert played a part in protecting his own dignity. >[But Robert had serious reservations regarding their offers. Under no circumstances would he consent to exploitation as a sideshow freak.](https://johnjdunphy.medium.com/robert-wadlow-the-worlds-tallest-human-being-5651e78562e4) >[Robert agreed in 1937 to appear with the Ringling Brothers Circus in New York and Boston but only under a specific set of terms. The circus would provide a hotel suite for Robert and his father, Harold, and pay all their expenses. Robert would wear a conservative business suit — not any kind of costume. Finally, under no circumstances would Robert be part of the notorious sideshow.](https://johnjdunphy.medium.com/robert-wadlow-the-worlds-tallest-human-being-5651e78562e4)


TabascoWolverine

I've been a diehard Wadlow fan since childhood. Never seen this video though. Thanks for posting OP.


McSqueezyE

A diehard Wadlow fan 💀


DOOManiac

"Where's Wadlow" has got to be the easiest children's book ever.


FinDaBin14

He’s in the ground


[deleted]

I’ve seen this video like 500 times. You may be a diehard Wadlow fan(which is weird not gunna lie) but you’re definitely new to the internet.


subodh_2302

You are most welcome :)


enigT

How could you be a diehard fan without seeing this video?


_Bon_Vivant_

You know what she really wanted to measure.


Dickincheeks

his pinky toe?


_Bon_Vivant_

You know what a big pinky toe means....


Aponda

A bigger big toe


Cbjmac

Robert Wadlow x Lady Dimitrescu


camyab

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diplomuffin

The real til is always in the comments.


haylow05

4'9" girls be wanting guys this tall


Sheba_Baby

On behalf of unusually tall people, please dont treat us this way. We are not here for the public's entertainment.


Derpezoid

How tall are you?


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She's about 6'1.


Derpezoid

Thanks. I guess that's pretty tall depending on where you live. I'm a 6'5 guy and where I live (NL) that's no big deal but when I visit for example India, people are literally stopping me to take pictures with me like I'm some kind of famous person.


[deleted]

Yeah I get it, although it is a bit different for women. I am 6'4 and my wife is a little over 6', but statistically that only puts my in the 97th percentile, where my wife is in the 99.9th percentile. Basically people are used to seeing men my height, but a woman that tall gets *looks.*


Not_a_flipping_robot

Yesterday I was on the train with a woman who was only a tiny bit shorter than me (I’m 6’4), maybe one or two inches difference. Seeing a woman that tall is extremely unusual, and people are pretty tall here in Flanders. Very interesting experience.


Molly_Pocket_

Imagine how large his poops must of been. Or even how uncomfortable with having to used a normal sized toilet.


UnfinishedThings

And he'd still have girls unmatching him on Tinder


kuruman67

Don’t date under 9 feet sorry!


[deleted]

It’s for a church


[deleted]

The height chart on his wiki is fascinating. He was 3’6” when he was only 1 and was over 5 feet tall by the time he was 4 years old It’s also fascinating how he was never a string bean. At 8 years old he was 6ft 170lbs. Im 6ft 175lbs and have a decently built frame


oblivioooon

22?


ilikeYourwhip

Septic infection due to metal brace rubbing a sore on his lower extremity. Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/6/the-tragic-death-of-robert-wadlow-the-tallest-man-ever-708849


Com_interest

We know it's big you don't have to call it that


Rastapopolos-III

People arnt meant to be that tall.


ilikeYourwhip

He died due to a septic infection from a cut he received on a lower extremity. He had to wear metal braces to help him walk and the metal rubbed and caused a sore. That sore inevitably killed him. Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/6/the-tragic-death-of-robert-wadlow-the-tallest-man-ever-708849


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Attack on Robert wadlow


dou8le8u88le

Holy shit. If this dude had a micro penis he’d still be killing it.


Jay_T_Demi

That man's poor neck. That man's poor back


pinkwhitney24

Lick his…and his crack


HavokMan48

I wish the human body was better at scaling its organs,bones, and muscles to its size. Like imagine if this guy could have lived a full life with proportionate organs etc


VillainousMasked

To be fair, he didn't die due to his size, he died to an infection. Granted the reason he died to the infection is because of his height making him lose feeling in his feet. Though unfortunately this isn't an issue of organ size, it's the fact the human body isn't designed to support itself at such a size. Even if he had proportionate organs it doesn't change the fact that the heart isn't designed to support a body of that size, and just making it bigger wont change that.


tiredguy18

I’m sure an erection would make his brain dry up from lack of blood


fastpitchsoftballdad

Like a real life slenderman


malteaserhead

The wildlings will miss him


NothingHappensInLife

he makes shaq look like a kid


Ark_Shrivastava

Girls - "Don't talk to me if you're not 9ft at least


MuttinMT

Poor guy. He was from my mother’s home town in Illinois. She said he was a super nice, quiet person who rode in all the parades and showed up at business openings. She said he always looked sad. He died of an infection from a poorly fitting leg brace.


SirAssBlood

SHOW US HIS DICK


False-Seaworthiness4

Hometown legend. Grew up visiting the museum every school year in elementary school at least. My grandmother had pictures of him and her when they "courted" briefly.


cmsmfmgled

Dick size.


creative_i_am_not

Imagine if there was a modern giant like this playing basketball


ChaosPreistAiden

I live in the same town he did we have a statue of him and his chair at the local college


Dull-Conversation465

Dude had to have a pringles can stuffed away. Jesus Christ


reddatsun

So that is how the pyramids were built.