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Gravdigr

11-29-2010 01:43 AM

I'm 5' 8". Almost all my friends are six feet or so. The guys anyway. So I would say I'm below average.

I'm my ideal weight, if I was eleven feet tall.

Gravdigr

11-29-2010 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 696656)

...I wonder if that is how most people who are shorter than me feel.

Yes. Yes it is.

Spexxvet

11-29-2010 08:05 AM

Never quite reached 5'10". My brothers and most of my close friends are taller, so I want to be taller when I grow up.

TheMercenary

11-29-2010 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 696903)

yup, that's what I meant, Glatt, and in fact what I wrote.....

I would hate to suggest that Merc has an overly-competitive need to be above average, though, so i'll go with "misread"

I thought the average for guys was 5'10"ish, but I could be wrong/British.

Which is why I asked, not wanting to appear "overly-competitive" and seeing myself more of just "tall". I think of super-tall as being 6'4" and above. :)

TheMercenary

11-29-2010 08:29 AM

Well there you have it.

http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/growt...vg_ht_male.htm

TheMercenary

11-29-2010 08:35 AM

I guess I am just so competitive.... I have come up with a new plan on how to deal with it and all this sin in my life.

Sundae

11-29-2010 08:55 AM

I don't think he has absolved himself of the sin of vanity - he thinks too much about his appearance.

I did LOL though.

GunMaster357

11-29-2010 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 696706)

When we first bought our house, there were about half a dozen locations where I would hit my head. I learned where they are and am careful now. Average sized people think flying in coach sucks. They have no idea. Riding the metro, I have to duck under the hand hold bars so I don't bonk my head. Cars are smaller for me. I need to push my driver's seat all the way back, and it makes it hard for the kid sitting behind me. Any kind of amusement park ride that has the bar that comes down over your shoulders and holds you in will press against my shoulders and make by spine bend a little. Then doing the ride all bent over sideways puts painful forces on my spine. So I won't do those rides.

Same size for me and same problems. I'll let you imagine the trip I had once in a friend's car : over 250 miles. The "big" surprise, car was an Austin Mini.

In France, as of 2009, average size is a bit under 5'9". I remember that when I was 20 it was a bit over 5'7". Among my family, with the exception of my brother (6'1"), no one tops 5'7".

TheMercenary

11-29-2010 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 696978)

I did LOL though.

I did too. I thought it was pretty funny. :)

monster

11-29-2010 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 696978)

I did LOL though.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 696982)

I did too. I thought it was pretty funny. :)

me too :D

monster

11-29-2010 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 696973)

Well there you have it.

http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/growt...vg_ht_male.htm

I remember the growth charts in the UK being based on the predominant ethnicity of the child. Now, I knw no-one likes classifying race, but seriously, it's not a one-size fits all thing, is it? Is it? Am I racist?

Stormieweather

11-29-2010 01:18 PM

I am 5'5", pretty much average, and love it.

My son (22) is 6'5" (size 14 shoes). My daughter (15), on the other hand, is in the 1% growth percentile and will be lucky to hit 5'. My partner is teddy bear rotund, and 6'2". We are the quite the "odd" family, lol.

Spexxvet

11-29-2010 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 697033)

Just because someone is a pigmy or watusi doesn't necessarily mean... ;)

Clodfobble

11-29-2010 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

It's my understanding that the consumption of large amounts of dairy in youth is a major contributor to one's eventual height. Each generation of immigrant kids (tends to) get taller as they adopt the cultural diet of their new home. Asian-Americans as a whole are taller than their homeland counterparts, even when they've continued to marry within their own race.

Pico and ME

11-29-2010 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Tulip (Post 696924)

Ugh, who's super short and loves it?!? Can't reach a damn thing. I should go shopping with Sundae so she can get things off the top shelf for me. :p: I used to get embarrassed but now, I would just grab someone and ask them to get something on the top shelf for me. The last woman who helped me remarked, "It sucks for you short people, huh" :lol:

That was me..:blush:.

I have really liked being short, it always got me attention, which I played up to the hilt. Also, I have always maintained my weight, so I have never been heavier than 115, therefore even though I'm not pretty or beautiful, I have always been cute. Which has been good enough for me. And I have never considered being height-challenged as a handicap. I can always manage to reach something somehow...even if I have to climb for it.

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