How tall are you?

The Morrigan · Post by **The Morrigan** » 2005-07-10 02:41am

Did I already reply in this thread? Oh well, I'll reply again. My height is a source of ongoing contention between my doctor and myself. She says I am 5'4". I say I am 5'7". At 26, I'm pretty sure I'm done growing.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-07-10 02:43am

How can you get confused between 5'4 and 5'7?

The Morrigan · Post by **The Morrigan** » 2005-07-10 02:54am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:How can you get confused between 5'4 and 5'7?

She says her wall-chart thingy is right and everyone else's is wrong, with special reference to the department of transport. I say that if I'm taller than my mum, who is 5'5" but shorter than my uncle, who is 5'8" and a lot taller than my friend who is 5'3" and we have all been measured on numerous occasions in different places by different people and the doctor is the only one who is getting a different result, then it's her measurements that are fucked.

Also, one of these days, I am going to figure out why, despite having lived all my life in a country which uses the metric system, I insist on expressing human height in feet and inches. A lot of my friends do the same thing. Go figure.

President Sharky · Post by **President Sharky** » 2005-07-10 03:18am

6'5" or 192 cm. I only weight 166 lbs, so I'm tall and quite lanky. Luckily though, I can glare quite well, so I can still intimidate people. :p

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-07-10 03:28am

The Morrigan wrote:Also, one of these days, I am going to figure out why, despite having lived all my life in a country which uses the metric system, I insist on expressing human height in feet and inches. A lot of my friends do the same thing. Go figure.

Mmmm... is her chart thing in metric? Because maybe she's converting it wrong.

And yeah, I too like using feet and inches. They're more intuitive (sp?) and "ergonomic", while metric is more scientific and precise and stuff.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2005-07-10 03:28am

6'3" at 16, I have some way to go yet according to my Doctor.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-07-10 03:47am

Oh, and as for me - 5'10 at 16.

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-07-10 04:00am

6' or as they say in the Star Wars universe, 182 cm. 32 years old. Still growing... in the wrong axis, of course.

A Big Flying Fish · Post by **A Big Flying Fish** » 2005-07-10 06:38am

5'8" (1.75m), at 18. Stopped growing on that axis at 14. The other took a few more years.

Kane Starkiller · Post by **Kane Starkiller** » 2005-07-10 06:58am

199 cm at 22 years. Damn so close yet so far.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2005-07-10 07:19am

5'10''? Yeah, that's about right. What's weird is a bunch of my friends break the 6' mark. It makes me feel tiny.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-07-10 07:37am

6', more or less.

Predator · Post by **Predator** » 2005-07-10 08:10am

185 cm, at 24.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 2005-07-10 08:37am

6' 3"

I don't know what that adds up to in new money

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2005-07-10 01:40pm

6'3" at age 30.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2005-07-10 01:58pm

Shroom Man 777 wrote:And yeah, I too like using feet and inches. They're more intuitive (sp?) and "ergonomic", while metric is more scientific and precise and stuff.

I really hate that notion.
The only reason you do this it is because you either live in Canada next to the US where they still use it and have been in regular contact with it, or some similar place where imperial is still not extinct. Not to mention the media.
UK folks have only recently converted as well.

Now for me who have never been influenced by the US system and it's horrible love for fractions I can say I think it's utterly counter-intuitive while the metric system is totally intuitive.

It's just how you where raised, there is no intristic intuitivity to the imperial system.
The only people who really use this argument are people who for some reason feel they have to defend it, this "it's more intuitive" stuff is like the first thing they respond with.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » 2005-07-10 02:23pm

SDN has a considerable amount of people above the 1.8 metre mark, I notice.

I'm 168 cm (5'6"), weighing 56 kg, and am 15. My adult height should be between 175 and 178 cm.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2005-07-10 02:38pm

Come on! There has to be someone on this board taller than me.

Admiral Bravo · Post by **Admiral Bravo** » 2005-07-10 06:55pm

5'9 and at 15 I still have a few years left to grow.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2005-07-10 07:34pm

I have obtained 6'2" and that's as tall as I'm getting.

applejack · Post by **applejack** » 2005-07-10 10:41pm

5'10" (or about 178 cm) at 25.

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2005-07-10 11:11pm

6'3" or about 1.9m. Though I've been told I seem to have grown.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2005-07-10 11:18pm

6'3" (191cm), and since I've been that tall since I was 18 (I'm now 21) I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get any taller than that.

The Silence and I · Post by **The Silence and I** » 2005-07-10 11:55pm

Eh, either 6' 0.5'' or 6' 1'' depending on who's measuring and with what yard stick. I'm 18 but in my family I should still have a few years of growth left, I might hit 6' 2'' eventually.

Oh and I weigh 155 lbs, so I'm rather thin

The odd thing is that at university I feel short. Very short. I am not at all used to this feeling

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-07-11 03:15am

Kane Starkiller wrote:199 cm at 22 years. Damn so close yet so far.

Damnit - I have to turn over my title...

I'm still at ~6'6"/196cm.

Behold, Kane Starkiller - the new tallest SDnet Member