Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2014 March 15

= March 15 =

Other "parent organizations"
My local tall club is owned by Tall Clubs International. I can join it but will not as their practices conflict with my beliefs. Are there any other tall club owners, and do they have lists of their clubs available online? Theskinnytypist (talk) 00:39, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Having done a quick google, the 'short' answer would appear to be NO. Why not start your own?--109.144.153.12 (talk) 01:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Firstly, from what I can tell, TCI is just a group of clubs, they don't 'own' any club. Instead clubs choose to join or affliate with them.
 * More significantly, while I don't know or care to know what practices or beliefs you are referring to, I can't find any evidence from the TCI website that they really have any specific practices other than involvement in charity, community activities, promoting aware and providing support for tall people and most of all being a club for tall people (with specific height requirements) to socialise in some fashion. In fact, their websites emphasises in several places that each club has there own specific rules.
 * The only universal rules are the minimum height requirement (although clubs can have higher minimum requirements) and that they appear to only accept those 21 or above (although they do provide scholarships for those below 21 and this is for general membership, I'm not sure if they generally allow a more limited form of membership for those below 21). In other words the sort of stuff you'd expect from social clubs for tall people.
 * So it's probably worth checking that these practices you refer to actually relate to TCI, and that they are not simply practices specific to your local club. If they are specific to your local club, then it's possible another slightly more distant TCI affiliated club would better fit your beliefs.
 * With only 55 clubs in the US and Canada, any other club may be fairly far. But worst case scenario you could look in to becoming a member at large. And if you do want to start a new club, it may be easier to ask them to help than to go entirely on your own, even with another local club they may be fine with a new club if you have good reasons for wanting it and are able to demonstrate that there is interest.
 * Nil Einne (talk) 14:17, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Since the OP raised the point, it would be interesting to see an example or two of "practices and beliefs" that he doesn't like, as it's hard to imagine what that might be. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:14, 15 March 2014 (UTC)