How tall are you?

[BurnItDwn]

5'5" and laughing at the talls wedging themselves into the basic economy airline seats behind me.

Sounds like you don't know the misery of hitting your head on the hatch cover of every single suv and hatchback ever made or crashing the top of the head to the cieling on the stairs to the basement.

 

[K1052]

Sounds like you don't know the misery of hitting your head on the hatch cover of every single suv and hatchback ever made or crashing the top of the head to the cieling on the stairs to the basement.

Life has been blissfully free of accidental head trauma.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Life has been blissfully free of accidental head trauma.

Nice,
You can probably fit comfortably in a kei car too!

Do you have an AZ-1?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autozam_AZ-1

EDIT:
Picture for sense of scale on this page: http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/video-what-its-like-to-drive-an-autozam-az-1/

 

[K1052]

Nice,
You can probably fit comfortably in a kei car too!

Do you have an AZ-1?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autozam_AZ-1

EDIT:
Picture for sense of scale on this page: http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/video-what-its-like-to-drive-an-autozam-az-1/

Finally a vehicle crafted for my stature.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Finally a vehicle crafted for my stature.

Honestly, I think you would feel "like a giant" if you got into one of those. They don't look much bigger than "power wheels."

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah I want that car, it even has the doors of a billionaire!

 

[Bubbleawsome]

One day I’ll have an Autozam.

 

[Muse]

On earth, 5'10" these days. At one time I was a 6 footer first thing in the morning. Earth gravitation would reduce me to 5' 11 3/4" in short order. On the moon I'd probably be 5' 11".

 

[Muse]

Life has been blissfully free of accidental head trauma.

There is little advantage in being tall these days. You need ladders and stools more than other people if you are short, is the main disadvantage (I say this as a guy who was barely a 6 footer at one time, so I'm just surmising here), but those adaptations are minor. Many short people have mega energy and after all, that's what counts. 5' 5" makes you a bit of a shorty, but nothing serious.

 

[William Gaatjes]

On earth, 5'10" these days. At one time I was a 6 footer first thing in the morning. Earth gravitation would reduce me to 5' 11 3/4" in short order. On the moon I'd probably be 5' 11".

Go lie down.
An average human laying down is about an inch longer in comparison to standing.

 

[highland145]

5' 5" makes you a bit of a shorty, but nothing serious.

What does the poon say? That's what counts.

 

[alcoholbob]

Better yet, we should have a wingspan thread. I'm interesting in seeing how many nerds are T-rexes

 

[lxskllr]

Better yet, we should have a wingspan thread. I'm interesting in seeing how many nerds are T-rexes

Looks like 6'3"-4". Best I can do by myself with a power tape. Isn't the wingspan usually about the same as height?

 

[alcoholbob]

Looks like 6'3"-4". Best I can do by myself with a power tape. Isn't the wingspan usually about the same as height?

On average yeah, although men have slightly more wingspan to height ratio than women, and having a longer wingspan relative to your height is generally positively correlated to success in athletics.

 

[brianmanahan]

6 feet and 2 inches.

those are separate measurements.

 

[Mai72]

I'm 5'10.

Pretty tall, eh?

 

[Muse]

Go lie down.
An average human laying down is about an inch longer in comparison to standing.

Or swimming, you're way taller in the pool/ocean.

 

[Muse]

Better yet, we should have a wingspan thread. I'm interesting in seeing how many nerds are T-rexes

Interesting also is the hand-spread = the maximum distance between tips of pinky and thumb. For my right hand it's 9.5". For left hand it's 9.75" (this even though I'm right handed). Comes in handy knowing these things!

I just measured mine. Both used to be 1/2" more, so I've shrunk.

I think my hands are larger than most people's my height (5' 10"). Extra large gloves are usually not big enough for me. I sometimes wonder where really big people get their gloves!

 

[madoka]

Manlets are doomed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall/393518/

Tall people make more money.

In Western countries, a jump from the 25th percentile of height to the 75th—about four or five inches—is associated with an increase in salary between 9 and 15 percent. Another analysis suggests that an extra inch is worth almost $800 a year in elevated earnings. “If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it,” one researcher told Malcolm Gladwell for his book Blink, “we’re talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.”

Tall people are smarter.

Meanwhile, other studies have found that taller people are inherently smarter: As early as age three, they do better on aptitude tests.

Tall people are more emotionally stable and have better social skills.

Some studies suggested that taller people have better social skills and more self-confidence (“noncognitive” skills, as academics would say). People who were taller as children, the thinking goes, were treated better, so they developed more emotional stability, which has been shown to help on the job.

Tall people are happier (probably because they're tall).

employed people who were tall said they were more pleased with their professional lives than did shorter employees. If those cursed with below-average height have made it this far in the article, they might want to finally jump ship and ignore this final line: Those taller employees also reported being happier with life in general.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think a lot of it has to do with attitude too. Some people who are shorter really feel that because they're shorter they are inferior and beat themselves up over it. Heightism is a thing though especially in the states but north america in general, so that does not help. I've never really been a victim of it myself though. In fact most people kinda look up to me especially when it comes to technical stuff.

There's also tons of medical advantages to being short, such as less chance of getting caner.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/act...urprising-health-benefits-of-being-short.html

I'll take it!

 

[MtnMan]

My feet still reach the floor, so it's good.

Reality, I was 6'1", but at my age I'm now 5'11". I blame gravity.

 

[alcoholbob]

Manlets are doomed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall/393518/

Tall people make more money.



Tall people are smarter.



Tall people are more emotionally stable and have better social skills.



Tall people are happier (probably because they're tall).

I work in a company where all the top executives are short. They make it up by being uber aggresive (always escalating, chest puffing, strutting like jocks, and being super rude) so small man syndrome can be a counter balancing force here to make up for the deficiency in attention you get for being short.

 

[ringtail]

I am 6 ft 4in tall and I weigh 177 pounds.

 

[Muse]

I think the best attitude is it doesn't matter if you're tall or short, black or white, male or female, young or old, rich or poor, you can be just fine anyway.

 

[gorcorps]

Taller than Mai72, shorter than brianmanahan