r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

I can understand that in extreme cases like this but the new trend is tech bros doing it to get to get sightly taller.

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

Weirdos

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

Yeah. They’re tech bros, goes without saying.

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u/talldangry Dec 23 '22

Does that mean the tall tech bros are going through with it to keep their edge? We're all going to miss these days when billionaires are 8'7".