A lovely fairy tale of the tall people and the short people

Once upon a time there was a land of tall people and short people living their lives happily next to one another. And there were some tall men who were put in charge of this world of tall people and short people for a time. They were treated like kings - they could do whatever they wanted and they earned shedloads of money for doing fuck all. After a while, they started to feel like gods.

And then they started to act like gods. They got greedy and decided to make people live their lives in a way that made these men as much money as possible. The tall people and the short people liked to play games against one another, and these men were in charge of organising the games. They decided when the games would be played and if they would be tall people against tall people or tall people against short people games.

It soon became clear that the world preferred to watch the tall people play games against the tall people and would pay the men lots of money to do so. Sometimes the short people played the short people but that didn't generate a lot of interest or money. The short people - who were new to the games - really liked to play the tall people for the experience. Some of the short people dreamed of becoming tall people and felt that the more games they played against tall people, and the better they got at playing, the quicket they would grow and grow and become taller and taller.

Every few years the men would hold a massive tournament where all the people, the tall and the short, would come together in one big peaceful place and play games against each other for weeks on end until one was proclaimed the best in all the land. It was always a tall people team that was proclaimed the best in all the land, but the short people loved to play just the same. For they loved the games as much as anybody and it was their best opportunity to watch and learn from the tall people.

But the men in charge didn't care - all they wanted was power and money and the short people games didn't make them any money.So after the last massive tournament, after one of the tallest of all the teams was proclaimed the best in all the land, the men announced that the short people would no longer be allowed to play in the tournament. In future, it would be a tournament for only tall people.

This made the short teams very angry! They had worked so hard and felt they deserved the right to play. The short green team was particularly annoyed because one of the tall teams often tried to steal their players and put them on stilts so that no one would know they were really a short person. How would they convince the short green people not to leave like this when their team could never play against the tall teams? Soon the short green people would have no players left.

And so the short people got together and spoke to lawyers and wrote letters but the men pretended they didn't hear them. The people, tall and short, were outraged and made their feelings known wherever they could to the men. The men still weren't interested. Then the short people started talking to the media all the time and saying that the men were not listening because they knew they were wrong to do what they did, they could not justify their decision and the lawyers said they were right and that the men were bad.

And then the men came out of their golden palace and said that they would speak again and that they would discuss their decision and they thought this would shut the short people the hell up. But they were wrong. The short people would continue to make their feellings known until the men really did meet again and change their mind ... so don't forget the plight of short people! Green, orange, whatever colour - they will have their day!

And then (hopefully) they will live happily ever after. And the men will be replaced.