New this season, shoes designed to make everyone two meters tall.
As you may know, following the passage of the Health Care Reform bill these shoes are now mandatory for all Americans.
by Kieran Healy on March 29, 2010
New this season, shoes designed to make everyone two meters tall.
As you may know, following the passage of the Health Care Reform bill these shoes are now mandatory for all Americans.
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kid bitzer 03.29.10 at 6:07 pm
and for the nba: circular saws.
Bill Benzon 03.29.10 at 6:37 pm
A photo out of a Vonnegut short story.
kid bitzer 03.29.10 at 6:37 pm
‘course, this does seem to disprove what dr. johnson said:
“Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves. But they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.”
Colin Danby 03.29.10 at 6:39 pm
What happens when you introduce the metric system.
Tom Hurka 03.29.10 at 7:54 pm
Still unfair. The taller people get the more comfortable shoes. (Lucky sod on the left.)
Substance McGravitas 03.29.10 at 7:56 pm
There could be a formula controlling the number of times in a given period someone attempts to push those folks over.
roac 03.29.10 at 7:57 pm
I would pay to see these people dancing!
tgirsch 03.29.10 at 8:01 pm
There is unrest in the forest….
Henri Vieuxtemps 03.29.10 at 8:04 pm
The unjust will steal the just’s shoes anyway.
Def Att 03.29.10 at 8:29 pm
If my political development was arrested in the sixth grade, this would be an all caps post about Harrison Bergeron.
Keith 03.29.10 at 8:52 pm
…shoes designed to make everyone two meters tall.
I suppose they’ll go into effect after our forced conversion to the metric system?
Scott of the Antartic 03.29.10 at 9:00 pm
For those who like to read their lines while standing in a trench.
Max 03.29.10 at 9:28 pm
Re two meter+ folks and the circular saw it seems appropriate to fill in the rest of the slogan: …from each according to their achilles heel
tomslee 03.29.10 at 10:40 pm
I hope the death panels are watching the woman on the right, who is not wearing what she should.
Andrew 03.29.10 at 11:30 pm
Wow shoes that would make me shorter, how do they work?
Glen Tomkins 03.30.10 at 3:09 am
Next up
Padding and weights to make us all weigh the same.
vince 03.30.10 at 9:18 am
I would be more impressed if they invent shoes that make everybody one meter small.
alwsdad 03.30.10 at 2:12 pm
The comments about this are WAY funner here than they were at Marginal Revolution.
Greg 03.30.10 at 3:33 pm
I earned my height thanks to hard work, personal responsibility, and self-sacrifice. Shorter people can stop being so lazy and pull themselves up by their boot straps.
x. trapnel 03.30.10 at 4:10 pm
I know it looks pretty ridiculous, but I actually think this has some merit in the context of music concerts. It sucks to be short and have your view blocked by taller folks. And it wouldn’t be all that much of a bother–people are willing to change into bowling shoes, after all.
Ex-PD 03.30.10 at 4:21 pm
#19
Bah, assign tickets by hight gradient.
Salient 03.30.10 at 4:41 pm
I hope the death panels are watching the woman on the right, who is not wearing what she should.
They’re not allowed to assess her because height is a pre-existing condition.
Anyhow, I think she’s supposed to be standing on that coffee table.^1^ But Substance McG pushed her off a couple minutes ago, so she’s contemplating how much time she’s allowed by law before she has to hop back up.
^1^I can’t be the only one to have been completely unfazed by the shoes and almost not notice them but to have immediately thought: wow, that table is a ridiculous height.
rea 03.30.10 at 4:41 pm
I actually think this has some merit in the context of music concerts. It sucks to be short and have your view blocked by taller folks.
Unless it’s the kind of concert where everyone stands around in the mosh pit, they won’t help–they ahve to be on a different part of the body to make you taller sitting down.
ajay 03.30.10 at 4:55 pm
They’re not allowed to assess her because height is a pre-existing condition.
Height is manifestly not a pre-existing condition. Look at babies. They’re short. Then they develop symptoms of tallness.
kid bitzer 03.30.10 at 7:53 pm
table? there’s no table in that picture.
the really short one-legged elephant just left, is all.
Salient 03.30.10 at 8:28 pm
Shucks, here I thought it was proof dinosaurs walked the Earth alongside humans.
Really, really short and squat dinosaurs, as dinosaurs go. I guess they didn’t manifest symptoms of tallness. :)
TheSophist 03.30.10 at 9:28 pm
To x-trapnel at #19: Even if you’re not short, bad things can happen. I once had the (mis)fortune to have the seat immediately behind Bill Wlton (for non-Americans – a 6’11” former NBA All-star, and now sportscaster) at a Grateful Dead show.
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