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This Bomber Could Be The Ultimate Casual Jacket For Men

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Don’t Dismiss Her

taller woman — Jason Statham & Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky said it best: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Don’t take it for granted that tall women are only interested in men who are taller than they are. Not only is it a tired stereotype, it’s an excuse for your own cowardice and insecurities. Your height difference is irrelevant if you have chemistry in other ways. She might even get off on being taller than you.In the event a woman does reject you on the basis of your stature, consider yourself lucky. You filtered out a shallow person who wouldn’t be a compatible partner anyway. Tall bullet dodged.

Own It

Mental game is everything. Confidence is hot no matter how you stack up against a measuring tape, but it’s especially important for shorter men. How you see yourself is how others see you. If you act like your height is a hindrance, she’ll pick up on your insecurity and see you as less attractive as a result. If you own every inch like you’re Yao Ming, you ooze the kind of cool self-assurance no one can resist.Your poise in the face of a taller date also sends important signals about your character. From a woman’s point of view, a guy who isn’t hung up on looking “manly” or feeling “emasculated” doesn’t give a s—t about arbitrary rules. He’s more likely to be comfortable with any other ways she bucks gender stereotypes – like earning more money – and with her ambition, intellect, talent, and confidence. He will never make her feel small in order to make himself feel bigger.

Don’t Bring It Up

For the love of Danny DeVito, don’t open with a comment, question, or joke about her height. Every guy has tried it, and to say she’s over it would be an understatement. That gorgeous Amazonian goddess wants nothing more than to be approached like she’s normal (because, spoiler alert, she is). No intro is less impressive than talking about the most obvious attribute about her. Instead, catch her off-guard by not bringing it up at all. Your refreshing take signals confidence and will make you stand out for the right reasons.

Don’t Pull A Cruise

Rumour has it Tom Cruise uses an arsenal of Hollywood tricks to appear taller, including standing on boxes, wearing lifts in his shoes, and cleverly framing shots to change the perspective. While it may work for a larger-than-life movie star, relying on height-enhancing gimmicks reeks of desperation in real life. Equally unattractive is overcompensation, so cool it with the humblebrags about your high-powered career and your monster member. A tall woman will notice your discomfort with the height difference and start to feel uncomfortable in return. If there’s one thing that’s unattractive in everyone, it’s bitterness.

Do Pull A Hart… Without The Cheating Bit

Take a cue from one of Hollywood’s most successful pocket-sized celebrities. Kevin Hart has the presence of a guy twice his size (and the multi-million dollar net worth to prove it). It’s all in his attitude. “Anything that a person thinks they can say, I disarm them by saying it myself,” he says. “Self deprecation. I do it before they do.” Hart owns his stature with just the right amount of fearlessness, self-awareness, and humour – a combo magnetic enough to hold his own opposite David Beckham and woo his beautiful wife Eniko Parrish.

Highlight Your Other Qualities

Height is hardly the only thing you have going for you – and if it is, you have way bigger things to worry about than whether you’ll have a date for Saturday night. Put the spotlight on other things that make you awesome and let your A+ personality shine through. Talk about your travels, your hobbies, and your interesting career. Show off your sense of humour. Be attentive and chivalrous. Be the guy any man or woman would look up to, regardless of the length of his inseam.

Enhance What You Have

Unless you’re David Bowie, we don’t suggest trying to pull off platforms, but there are subtle ways to make the most of what you’ve got. Stand up straight with your shoulders back and your head held high (good posture is important anyway). Style your hair with extra volume on top and wear shoes with a slightly thicker sole. Avoid baggy clothes, cuffed hems, and horizontal stripes that will make you look stumpy. Instead choose more tailored items, perhaps with vertical stripes, and wear a solid colour from head to toe. A streamlined look can help elongate your body, while anything that creates a visual break truncates your frame.

Treat Her Like A Lady

She may be able to take you in a wrestling match, but she’s still a lady and wants to be treated as such. Tall women regularly complain that their dates don’t make them feel feminine, and while there’s an argument to be made that the idea that “taller = mannish” is societal nonsense, we’d never fault a woman for wanting to experience some fairytale Prince Charming shit. Make the first move. Be the big spoon. Don’t discourage her from wearing heels. Put your arm around her waist. Offer a hand as she steps out of a car. Sweep her off her feet in whatever way you can, since you might slip a disc if you tried to do it literally.

Don’t Just Tolerate, Appreciate

A tall woman has internalised all the same stereotypes you have. She’s been told that women are supposed to be smaller than men, that it’s a turn off if they’re not, that guys are intimidated by her size, that a genetic quirk she has absolutely no control over is emasculating and embarrassing. After years of hearing this baloney, her confidence may need a boost just as much as yours does. Do more than accept your height difference. Tell her it’s sexy – that it’s not just something you’re ok with, it’s something you love about her, just like you love her wicked sense of humour and her ability to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

Think Of The Perks

She’s easy to spot in crowds, you can share t-shirts, she can reach stuff on the high shelves, and she makes you look like a badass. Everybody wins.

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Online Dating Has Its Downsides

Val tells us that “dating issues in Scotland and Edinburgh are pretty much the same as everywhere else in the western world.”With a generation heavily engaged in app-based and online dating, its the most common route for people to find dates. But Val goes on to explain, “most daters meet online, and there are the usual hopes and fears about how authentic a potential partner’s online persona may be.”

“And when you do finally meet in real life, will they turn out to match your expectations or be a massive disappointment. Or look like their photos. Or be 20 years older than their profile alleges.”

Or, they could be like Edinburgh-based musician Ross Arthur, who used Tinder to plug his own single, only to be banned by the dating site for violating terms of service.

Prepare To Travel

If you want to date a Scottish lass, prepare yourself for some hefty train or plane bills, as Val explains: “Edinburgh is a very cosmopolitan city and there are a lot of people who split their time working between here and in London, so you can’t guarantee that you’ll always be in the same place when you are arranging further dates.”

Train Your Ears

“And don’t assume that people are English just because they don’t have a Scottish accent. The posher a Scottish person is, the more English they sound. But they’ll be very offended if you query their Scottish heritage, so tread carefully on that one.”

Succumb To The Arts

So you’ve secured yourself a date. Where do you take them? Val says: “Edinburgh is a fantastic place for the arts – after all, it’s home to the biggest arts festival in the world for the whole of August (the Fringe Festival) – and you can scarcely turn a corner in the city centre without bumping into an art gallery, a theatre of a funky cinema.”

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Enjoy A Drink Or Several

Prefer to drink than stare at a canvas? No problem. “There are some excellent cocktail bars in and around George St. in the centre of town. Panda and Sons is a fun place for a first encounter; it’s a Prohibition-style speakeasy with a nod to vintage barbershops. And Bramble, one of the most highly recommended, is tucked away in a basement beneath a dry cleaner. It’s well hidden but well worth seeking out.”

Be Open To Family Life

Not every first date is going to result in finding the love of your life, the world doesn’t work so easy. But in Scotland, there’s more chance of you being on the receiving end of the ‘family’ chat, although casual encounters definitely exist.

“While there’s usually a hook up culture among university students (and Edinburgh has three unis, so it’s definitely a youthful vice), Scots are family minded, often marrying in their mid to late twenties, unlike their London counterparts where marriage is often delayed until 30 plus.”

“It might be due to cultural differences – enjoying time with your family is a cool thing to do here [in Edinburgh] – or down to the very practical reason of it being much easier to buy your own place together, as prices are significantly cheaper than London.”

Embrace Scottish Culture

While some places are best to visit when the mercury begins to rise (Sydney, for example, is best enjoyed in glorious sunshine), Scotland has plenty to offer come rain or shine.

“There are major summer and winter attractions which bring in visitors from all over the world. Quite a few like it so much they end up falling in love with the place and moving here.”

“The aforementioned Fringe Festival means the city hosts around 3,000 events from magic to stand up comedy every day in August.”

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“Not only does that mean there is something catering for every taste date-wise, but it’s also a great opportunity to meet new people. Talking to your neighbours in the queue for a show is a well-trodden path for making friends or lovers.”

“Suggest a drink in one of the many late night bars after the show and it’s unlikely you’ll be turned down.”

End The Year With A Bang

“Equally, Christmas and Hogmanay mean that the city is lit up like the backdrop to a rom-com movie”, Val explains

“And if you tire of drinking mulled wine in the Christmas market that runs in Princes St Gardens in the middle of town, you can walk for an hour or so up Arthur’s Seat, the ancient volcano on the southern edge of the city which offers a great view summer and winter alike.”

“If all that feels a bit conventional, and you’d prefer a wild night with a group of pagans, look no further than the winter and summer solstice celebrations organised by the Beltane Fire Society. There’s painted faces, naked bodies and a whole lot of drumming. It definitely makes for a date with a difference.”

You’re only as successful as you are rested

Your aspiring unicorn startup may be a thirsty beast, but so is your cerebral cortex. And deprive it of sleep and that million-dollar pitch may come out of your mouth as loose change. So – even if you’re not travelling on corporate dime – it may well be worth flying business-class with your own money should you be on the hustle.

You can work while you fly

Likewise, and at the risk of repeating the LinkedIn mantra “time is money”… well… time is money. And if you can’t afford to waste tiempo watching re-runs of The Fast & The Furious and contesting your neighbour’s claim to your armrest then you might be better off tippety-tapping your laptop in business.

You can make priceless connections

Though this point is overstated by LinkedIn bloggers and their nouveau genre of say-nothing literature (6 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Stay Productive On A Plane! Vital Tips For Packing Your Entrepreneur Suitcase!), Neil Patel makes a good point in his Entrepreneur article ‘Is It Worth It Flying Business Class‘ explaining how one conversation turned into an important connection.“Once, I introduced myself to a guy while flying from San Francisco to Las Vegas. He asked me the typical question, ‘What do you do?’ I wanted to take a nap, so I tried to end the conversation quickly by saying, ‘Oh, I work at Microsoft. What about you?'”

“‘I work in the construction industry,’ he said. ‘I have a handful of kids, so I stay pretty busy.'”

“The conversation could have ended there,” Neil writes… “but I tried to be polite by saying something nice: ‘Wow, that must be pretty intense – working construction while providing for a big family.'”

“‘Well, yeah,’ he said. ‘So, what do you do at Microsoft?'”, to which Neil replies… “You know – some stuff around analytics and data.'”

“‘Have you heard of KISSmetrics?” he quickly responded. “It was co-founded by a guy named Hiten Shah.”“I was the other ‘co-founder’ with Shah,” Neil reveals, “but my seatmate probably didn’t recognize me. (I look a bit different now.)”

“Yeah. I’ve heard of it, I replied. I’m the co-founder. Hiten Shah is my brother-in-law. And, I don’t really work at Microsoft. I just say that, as it’s easier than explaining what I really do.”

“He stared at me for a solid five seconds. Then he laughed and said: ‘Well, I’m not really in the construction industry. I mean, I do work around it, but I’m actually a tech entrepreneur. I buy and sell web businesses.'”

“We went on to talk the entire flight.”

“His name was Jonathan,” Neil continues. “And Jonathan turned out to be an amazing business connection. He introduced me to his friends at The Carlyle Group and gave me shares in one of his companies that was later sold. We ended up working together on several deals.

“He even sent me a $3,000 bottle of Louis XIII Cognac.”

Layovers are a breeze

From purgatory to palace: it’s hard to overstate the difference taking a bath in a fancy lounge vs. sitting slumped at Maccas makes to your cortisol levels. Priceless.

You learn things

People watching is great in every class of the airline. But while cattle-class is “gallows humour” business class is “Ted Talk.”

Hedonism has tangible benefits

While this excuse has been used by everyone from Charlie Sheen to Christopher Hitchens to justify their self-destructive habits, science has shown hedonism can be good for your health. And when you weigh up the psychologist bills you may incur after experiencing the Chinese water torture of having the person in front of you (in Economy) reclining their seat (and then putting it back up) at unceasing half-hour intervals throughout an entire 15 hour red-eye, that $5,000 business class ticket starts looking cheap.

Nutrition

They don’t pay those celebrity chefs for nothing. And if time is money, macro-nutrients are (brain) power.Not to mention, as Monique Tran, Menu Analyst at United Airlines recently told D’Marge, “There is a great production of chefs, caterers, menu developers and specialists that are responsible for producing an exquisite dining menu for United Airlines… [with] a particular focus on curating a menu that doesn’t compromise on flavour and texture when our sense of smell and taste alter when flying.”While this is consistent across all classes, particularly when it comes to their business-class offering [Polaris], “meals include a wider variety of selections, with a focus on ensuring we deliver restaurant-quality meals.”“The development behind a United Polaris menu starts with a menu workshop with numerous stakeholders – from growers and farmers through to airline caterers and manufacturers,” Monique continued.

“Starting with over 100 creations in the initial menu workshop, United then conduct an intimate tasting panel consisting of experts across specific cuisines to taste and rate every dish… a very thorough process in order to provide the very best in gourmet fine dining in the skies.”

And that’s just one airline: others, like Qantas, Emirates, Qatar, Cathay Pacific and Etihad (to name a few) all engage in similar processes to distinguish their pointy-end offering from economy (and the respective business-classes of their competitors).

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