Midget was the PC thing to say after we called them dwarves but they got offended so we started calling them little people. Then Game of thrones became popular so then dwarves were cool again but GOT ended badly so now we're back to little people.
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I just watched midget wrestling a few weeks back. The league was MXW midget extreme wrestling. I think if those little dudes who could kick my ass are cool with being called midgets I'll defer to them.
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17 dramasexual 2019-11-17
watch me, midget
4 Wopitikitotengo 2019-11-17
Yeah what are they going to do lmao I could throw them I could pick them up by the scruff of their necks.
4 Infidel6 2019-11-17
We'll see who's laughing when you get your ass kicked by two midgets in an overcoat.
1 Chapose 2019-11-17
Midgets are known to bite peoples balls (literally) when in a crowd and escape unidentified because they cant be seen.
1 MG87 2019-11-17
You can't use a hard T
15 YaBoyStevieF 2019-11-17
Imagine wanting to be called a "little person"
It's funny to call manlets little people though
3 theworstever 2019-11-17
If they get mad you can simply respond "Whoa calm down, I can actually see your hairline malding from up here"
13 FearOfBees 2019-11-17
Midget was the PC thing to say after we called them dwarves but they got offended so we started calling them little people. Then Game of thrones became popular so then dwarves were cool again but GOT ended badly so now we're back to little people.
8 princess_y_fronts 2019-11-17
good story, have a little upvote.
2 VanillaReign 2019-11-17
Wait, is that how it went? I always thought dwarf was the less offensive alternative to midget, and that was back in the pre-GOT 90s.
2 gandhitheblue 2019-11-17
Difference between dwarves and midgets
1 FearOfBees 2019-11-17
It might have something to do with location, in the NE usa midget was pc and dwarf was offensive.
3 Pepe_von_Habsburg 2019-11-17
Yeah that I don’t get. Dwarves are badass.
1 szopin 2019-11-17
Dwarves don't get taken to isengard tho
1 Pepe_von_Habsburg 2019-11-17
Isengard, more like shit n fard
1 szopin 2019-11-17
That's what a dwarf would say
1 Pepe_von_Habsburg 2019-11-17
I’m not dwarf
1 szopin 2019-11-17
That's ok little hobbit
1 Pepe_von_Habsburg 2019-11-17
Hobbit houses do be ballin tbh
1 szopin 2019-11-17
That's what a dwarf would... Wait a minute I'm repeating myself
1 newsmachineplus 2019-11-17
5 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-17
This is peak Reddit holy shit lmao
5 princess_y_fronts 2019-11-17
So says the council of the dwarves
4 ItsSugar 2019-11-17
Just call them halflings.
9 Tzar-Romulus 2019-11-17
This but unironically
1 seenten 2019-11-17
High fantasy was a mistake tho
1 noobtube228 2019-11-17
Quarterlings*
4 cochnbahls 2019-11-17
I just watched midget wrestling a few weeks back. The league was MXW midget extreme wrestling. I think if those little dudes who could kick my ass are cool with being called midgets I'll defer to them.
3 smokeyphil 2019-11-17
" You're deflecting and it's not going to work. "
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I think it worked :P
3 capthazelwoodsflask 2019-11-17
You would think. Anyways, I thought the correct term was nelwyn these days.
6 Wraith_GraveSpell 2019-11-17
Since calling them mythical creatures like dwarves is considered ok for some reason ,I'm going to start calling them gelflings.
3 Al_ButteredToast 2019-11-17
Sorry Ed.😔😔😔
4 seenten 2019-11-17
I think it was Distorted_Lines that temp-banned people for calling them a manlet at 5'10" lol
1 Al_ButteredToast 2019-11-17
But my brother is a manlet.
2 -OrganisedChaos- 2019-11-17
The smallest penguin is now called the little penguin. It was, when I was kid, called the fairy penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_penguin
2 Mayos_side 2019-11-17
No, G*d did that.
1 shitpersonality 2019-11-17
Imagine belittling midgets in 2019.
1 bussylmao 2019-11-17
r/moviedetails is fucking trash