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The Average Height of BBT Users
mgz:
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--- Quote from: AceHigh on January 18, 2012, 06:31:08 AM ---Uh, yes, 2 metre high doors are pretty standard. So it's not just your house, but your area in general. I wonder what country would that be? Are you considered "tall" in comparison to the people around you?
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Lithuania. And this is mainly limited to old houses - I guess there were less standards when those houses were built so everybody built them according to their needs (as in, a smaller person will build a house with lower ceiling and a low hanging lamp fixture so he can easily change the lightbulb). Newer houses (and the apartment buildings which were all built by the state back in the day) have normal ceilings and doors. IIRC I am a bit taller than average (IIRC average male height is ~178cm).
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that and if you go back in time people 6ft tall were MUCH rarer.
Thats why in the US many houses pre WW2 era had very short basements since they didnt need to be any taller then like the 6ft they made them for it to be usable space at the time.
Even 30 years ago average height for people was at least an inch or 2 shorter
chem.x:
189cm short, fun fact when I was in the army our Company had its platoons in height order 1st the tallest and so on only time in my life I have fallen in to the average height segment.
Fun facts No2 the 4th platoon where the shortest (150cm-159cm), hence when exercising in our blue track suites they where affectionately called the Smurf Platoon, they didn't find that as amusing as we did.
rarely_upset:
I know why they didn't find that amusing.
Because the Smurfs suck.
chem.x:
Haha yeah that's true, talk about reversed harem ;)
LoLz that's even a sub genre or on equal standing (don't intend to start a war here) guess I'm not well versed in the harem stuff >_<
datora:
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For the various comments about conversion, I found 2.54 to be a number I could easily remember. But, my education was extremely science-heavy, so I had to convert between America and the rest of Reality very often ever since 3rd grade.
39.3700787402 inches = 1.000 meter (1 cm = 0.3937007874 inch)
invert by 1/x = 2.54000000 cm per 1 inch
During high school I maxed out at just over 6' 1", so call it 6' 1.25" (186 cm). Stayed at that height for most of my life. But, about 5 years ago I had a general physical that measured me for the first time in about ten years. I came in at just over 184 cm, which is pretty much 6' 0.5".
In the U.S., I've always generally been considered to be a pretty big guy, in part because my physical frame is fairly massive. In top athletic condition (swimming, wrestling, mountain climbing, scuba diving, bicycling, running, tai chi, cross country skiing for 20 years), my weight stayed around 205-208 lbs. with a ridiculously low body fat. This made me seem larger (taller) than I actually was.
Then I lived in Latvia for 7 years and felt ... normal. It's like there are two completely different races there. The Latvians (especially the Latgalians) seem to all start at 6 foot, and run up to 6'6" and 6' 8" regularly. The men are built like farm workers and look like they lift horses over fences with one hand. Even the girls were near my height, with many taller. Nearly all have brown or blonde hair and light eyes of amber, gray, blue and green. Then there are all the Russian imports, most who seem to be just about or under 6 foot and nearly as wide with black hair and dark eyes.
As you age, you get a bit shorter. For example, my father was a tall 6' 3" guy all my life (same as my younger brother). Now that he's approaching 80, it's really weird that I'm almost the identical height to him.
--- Quote from: Soryon on January 11, 2012, 04:21:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: Chiyachan on January 11, 2012, 12:43:12 AM ---I'm OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ND cm.
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were talking about height, not weight.
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It is Chiya ... I just assumed s/he was bragging about tentacle length. ::) Onest! ;D
--- Quote from: joesutton on January 11, 2012, 05:49:59 AM ---In fact I think guys prefer short girls so they can feel taller.
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Disagree. I prefer girls near my height, as far as physical attraction goes. Two of my girlfriends over the years were 5' 10" & 5' 11" and it was dramatically less awkward in many ways. Very little sucks so much as turning to talk to your 5' 5" girlfriend and clocking her in the face with your elbow. In person, people don't pay attention so much to such a height difference in context. But, all photos of you as a couple look really odd. I'll leave other examples for folks to imagine.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on January 11, 2012, 07:29:36 AM ---5' 11 3/4
So essentially 6'0
What the hell is that, 184cm? Decently tall for an Asian.
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Technically, you can't qualify to be an Asian at that height ... Didn't the International Standards Committee set the cutoff at 5' 6" ..? ;) ;D
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