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If you’re tall you do this without jumping to assert dominance
I just hit my head into street signs.
I hit my head on basement staircase ceilings to asset dominance.
Tell me about it. I have developed an instinctive reaction to lower my head a bit when going through doorways because you never know when a building is a bit older and the doors are just not 2m tall.
Combine the two for ultimate dominance. I’m not just tall enough, but I can and have to hold my hand up so I don’t hit this ceiling going down the stairs
I recently bought a new house and holy crap, what a difference. Even shorter people had to duck going up & down the stairs in my old basement. There is not a single place in my new house that I need to duck my head, and it’s glorious.
“teenage”
How do you do, fellow kids?
Now that I’m in my thirties I no longer have to (can) jump
I’d still do it if I wasn’t afraid of my knees exploding on impact, plus the only run up I’m getting is the pain running up my back when I move.
Start working out. My knees in back were in a ton of pain before I got back into shape.
I think i see your problem: knees aren’t supposed to be in back
My right knee is still killing me from it raining last week.
Not just teenagers.
And not just boys.
Boys grow about a foot taller between 10 and 16, and most people’s arm span is about the same as their height, so the overall increased reach is significant. I was taller than average after a huge growth spurt, and I remember realizing how many things I could jump up to touch that weren’t in the realm of possibility before that. You better believe I was jumping up and touching stuff.
According to my big brother, peeing over walls and off high places is another, if they can get away with it. (Like castle ruins etc.) Could it be similar in that you’re now tall enough you don’t just end up peeing on the floor at your feet?
Peeing other than in a toilet was only ever a matter of necessity for me, so I can’t give credence to that.
Dude what? Peeing outside is the best. It’s my sole motivation for moving out of the city and into the country.
If we’re talking about peeing in the woods on a tree in the middle of nowhere with no one around, I guess I’m indifferent towards it. If we’re talking about peeing off a bridge or the side of a building, there’s no attraction and it seems like like a jerk thing to do.
Boomer humor:
Two guys are peeing off a bridge. The first says “Man, that water sure is cold!”.
The other says, “Yeah! Deep too!”
It’s power and control, linked with seeing how far you can pee, target shooting, writing your name
It’s not just teenagers who like it.
It’s just that adults tend to refrain from actually doing it.
Came to say this. The urge doesn’t go away. We just are more selective about picking the best time and place.
getting laughed at for jumping 2 inches off the ground does that to a man
As an adult you did it often enough to know:"yeah, i could reach that.’
also, knees hurt from the thought of it.
Really? Don’t know how old you are but I’m in my 40s and I wouldn’t call that normal.
/hj
My back hurts from reading about it
I have several friends who are trans men who have reported to me that the urge started after they started testosterone. It always makes me smile :)
This is actually very interesting to me. Is it literally in the hormones, or is it more an unconscious choice of this is what I see men do? I never considered afab/etc. did not do this
Having also worked in a middle school, I’m pretty sure it’s the hormones
the only thing stopping grown men from doing it is our knees not handling jumps the way they used to :(
I’ve been skateboarding since '85, and my landing gear is fucked.
So many childish things I would 100% still be doing if I had an MCL.
tony hawk…
Tony Hawk started skating in the 70’s.
There was a metal street sign by my high school that was bent from so many people doing this.
im a fan of the head bump, where you jerk your head back at the same time you slap it and people think you hit your head. so funny
The behavior doesn’t stop but it does start with the crazy growth spurt in height that is pretty unique to teenage boys (AMAB). Suddenly things that were way out of reach become reachable, like in the course of 6 months.
I got stretch marks on my flank during those growth spurt years.
As a short guy, this was not something I got to take part in a lot of the time and now that my ankle is fucked I’m not even going to chance jumping or running anymore.
As a tall guy, I rarely had to jump which isn’t any fun.
Wana trade? I’m 5’6 and I would do dam near anything to be 5’10. Outside of a halfbrother who is 6’3, I’m the tallest one in my family.
I feel a bit sorry for my son who’s down on how short he is. It looks like he’s plateauing at 5’8” or 5’9”. Trying to tell him he’s at least average height doesn’t work when im 6’3” and the guys in my family are pretty much all 6+.
…. My ex makes jokes about poisoning my gene pool but never within hearing of the kid. He can’t help but see she is only 5’2” though
Ya, he needs to come hang out with me for a bit, lol. He can reach the top shelf for me and get stuff down off the top of my closet for me when my wife(she’s like 5’10ish) isn’t around.
You just have to aim higher. When your friend jumps to tap the exit sign, you jump to tap the ceiling.
I still giggle every time someone struggles to change a lightbulb, when I can just reach up and do it
Yeah, but you look down on a lot of people.
The pull cord to the attic hatch in the hallway ceiling. Who else is with me? When I could reach that without jumping, I knew that day that I was a man (I was twelve).
I took so much of the popcorn off the ceiling my mom got upset.
Why was there popcorn on the ceiling?
Upset? She should have paid you! :)
Just checking what’s in reach now.
there’s a tree near where I used to live with a horizontal trunk segment worn smooth from college kids (effectively adults) doing this
Teenage? Still doing it at 30!
