I'm 5 foot nuthin' and had a bf for years who was 6'5". People laughed. It was never really a problem, though. He used to say, 'Everything is equal when you are horizontal.'

I kind of liked it. Much more than the bf who was shorter than me. That one had a great sense of style and I enjoyed wearing his clothes, but the convenience wasn't worth it.

But everything isn't equal when you're horizontal. I never understood that.

It send weird for a study to be that conclusive about something so many people personally disagree with. It can't make spoilerphobes suddenly not exist or be okay with advanced news.

But everything isn't equal when you're horizontal.

Well, the difference in heights is more about the legs than torso, usually. Even with those two, the difference between their torso lengths is much less dramatic.

My mother was 5'2" and my dad was 6'1".

This article says:

But in all three kinds of short stories, people like the texts with the spoilers worked into the opening graphs about as much as they liked the unspoiled texts.

And I'm sorry, but that sounds like foreshadowing rather than spoiling -- if it's in the first paragraph of the story, by definition, it is not a "shocking twist" story!

It depends on the context, Jesse. If they thought the spoilers were part of the story, then you're right. That makes it a different story. If the spoilers were not integrated so that it was like, "I'm going to be a dick and tell you the end of the story. Okay, now read the story," the reactions may have been different.

The volunteers read three versions of four of those stories. One with a spoiler given in a paragraph that was independent to the story, another with the spoiler worked into the story's opening graph and a spoiler-free version of the narrative. They rated how much they enjoyed each version of the stories on a scale of 1 to 10.

OK, so I guess they liked the separate spoiler best on average, and the other two versions about the same.

But still, you know, on average.

So I did some research this morning: apparently last year President Obama passed a directive to federal agencies to change their hiring practices. And the memo basically said that if the pool of highly qualified candidates had a veteran in it, the veteran had to be hired. Period.

And now I'm getting yelled at by the contracting officer because I don't have telepathy.

Can I go back home and go back to bed?

OK, so I guess they liked the separate spoiler best on average,

That's so weird to me. I'm not spoiler-phobic the way I used to be, but still. I can't see how "here's a story where at the end they stone a lady to death, now go read" improves The Lottery. It's a different reading experience, to be sure, but the magic of not being spoiled means you get both experiences - the growing unease and shock at the end, and then the experience of reading it while knowing where it's all headed and seeing things differently. It doesn't disappear into the ether so you can't read it again.

Suela, that truly sucks.