Are You as Tall as Cosmina, the First Female Gnome?

[En_lizard]

how tall are you?

 

[dicerandom]

I bet $5 you get (roughly) a Gaussian around the 5'7"-5'11" marker.

 

[Curious3141]

6'2"

One word : METRICATION

 

[rachmaninoff]

One word : METRICATION

See the other poll.

 

[ek]

6'4

I'm tall. Go me.

 

[BobG]

All doorways should be 6 feet tall. You should have to dribble through 6 foot doorways to get to the basket on a basketball court.

If I have seen less than others, it's because some 6-foot-plus guy was standing in front of me.

 

[fargoth]

uhm, is 5'7" close to 167.5cm? (if so I am taller )
whats wrong with metric? i don't know all these weird sizes...

 

[rachmaninoff]

There's another poll that's metricized.

 

[Emieno]

around 130cm

 

[Moonbear]

All doorways should be 6 feet tall. You should have to dribble through 6 foot doorways to get to the basket on a basketball court.
If I have seen less than others, it's because some 6-foot-plus guy was standing in front of me.

Why does the 6-ft, broad-shouldered guy always feel the need to stand up in front of everyone? (At Disney, it was worse...they'd stand in front of you, then toss a kid up on their shoulders...if they just stood in the back and let the kids stand up front, everyone would be able to see.)

 

[JamesU]

Evo you're short!

 

[mattmns]

yomamma you are 13 yrs old and 6' tall (or taller)

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

All doorways should be 6 feet tall. You should have to dribble through 6 foot doorways to get to the basket on a basketball court.
If I have seen less than others, it's because some 6-foot-plus guy was standing in front of me.

But then you'd have a lot of big guys walking around grumpy because they keep hitting their heads on door frames. And I'd Be One Of Them!

 

[Lisa!]

yomamma, are you sure you're 13?

 

[quantumdude]

To an inertial observer traveling from my feet to my head with a speed of 0.9c in flat spacetime, I am about 2'9".


That means I'm 6'3" in my rest frame. :D
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[Moonbear]

How come so many of the guys here are so tall! I'm forever doomed to the front row of all group photos. :shy: At Disney, they have interesting ways of giving safety instructions, like, "The smallest person should sit on the inside of this ride." That's meant to keep the children sitting away from the doors, but I was the smallest person in our group, so had to keep sitting on the inside. (Okay, I volunteered since I thought the instructions were so funny.) I'm only 5' 2" (and a quarter )

 

[Pengwuino]

3'2"

Im a penguin, what do you expect?

 

[dduardo]

What happened to the values between 5'11 and 6'? That's where I am.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

How come so many of the guys here are so tall! I'm forever doomed to the front row of all group photos. :shy: At Disney, they have interesting ways of giving safety instructions, like, "The smallest person should sit on the inside of this ride." That's meant to keep the children sitting away from the doors, but I was the smallest person in our group, so had to keep sitting on the inside. (Okay, I volunteered since I thought the instructions were so funny.) I'm only 5' 2" (and a quarter )

Nothing wrong with short ladies. So much the easier to sweep you off of your feet. Really(when they don't freak out from being selfconscious) the reaction of a woman to being picked up and carried is priceless.

 

[Moonbear]

Nothing wrong with short ladies. So much the easier to sweep you off of your feet. Really(when they don't freak out from being selfconscious) the reaction of a woman to being picked up and carried is priceless.

Aww...there's nothing more fun than being swept off one's feet by a handsome man. :!) I'm not self-conscious about my height at all...I get a good laugh when the taller folks bump their heads on stuff I don't even notice when I walk under it.

 

[Cyrus]

Being tall is great. Everyone looks up to you. ;-)

 

[Gale]

i feel short now... but i guess I'm in good company

 

[franznietzsche]

To an inertial observer traveling from my feet to my head with a speed of 0.9c in flat spacetime, I am about 2'9".

That means I'm 6'3" in my rest frame. :D
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I need a worship smiley right about now.

 

[franznietzsche]

I'm only 5' 2" (and a quarter )

Oh that's tall enough for me to call you tall just to irritate even tinier people when i call them tiny.

 

[Integral]

Tom... 6'3" ! Some how I have always envisioned you as a little guy.. Sorry...

Oh yeah, I am 6'3" also!

Polls such as this are not a random sample, you can expect to get a higher then average mean. Taller guys are more likely to respond then the shorter ones.

 

[JamesU]

yomamma, are you sure you're 13?

Yes () and I'm 6' tall.

There are much taller kids the same age who go to my school

 

[Norman]

It is odd that there are so many tall guys here on PF. I am 6'3" and always try to stand in the back of a crowd. I will not go to the movies unless there is stadium seating because my wife and I always get there late and I end up sitting in front of some poor person who is short and cannot see around me. I feel bad then and don't enjoy the movie.

And a good point made by Integral, for some reason shortness in men is not as socially acceptable, while petite women get there own adjective...

 

[Lisa!]

Yes () and I'm 6' tall.
There are much taller kids the same age who go to my school

Are you sure they're kids? Perhaps they've strated school later than others!

You know I guess my cousin who's 14 year old is as tall as you are, but I don't know why your height was quite starnge to me! Perhaps that's because most of time cute people are short!

 

[Moonbear]

And a good point made by Integral, for some reason shortness in men is not as socially acceptable, while petite women get there own adjective...

Though I have my doubts about the usage of the term "petite" to refer to a woman who is 5' tall and wears size 18 clothing. I think the better term is "denial."

Though, as a "petite" woman, I rather prefer the shorter guys. My neck gets stiff trying to talk to someone over 6' tall!

 

[Moonbear]

Polls such as this are not a random sample, you can expect to get a higher then average mean. Taller guys are more likely to respond then the shorter ones.

Well, that and we already have evidence that some people outright lie on PF polls. What did we get, about 30% of respondents saying they NEVER reply to polls?

 

[Andy]

5'10-11 ish, just above the average for UK males at 5'9.

 

[BobG]

Well, that and we already have evidence that some people outright lie on PF polls. What did we get, about 30% of respondents saying they NEVER reply to polls?

I agree completely. The site lists 4,621 active members, but it's extremely rare to get even 46 responses to polls. Even allowing for the fact that there may be some members who have responded to only one poll, clearly the majority of PF members refused to admit that they never reply to polls.

 

[Gale]

tall smart guys = mmmmmmm

 

[Blahness]

So I'm the only 6'6" here?

 

[Cosmo16]

How come so many of the guys here are so tall! I'm forever doomed to the front row of all group photos. :shy: At Disney, they have interesting ways of giving safety instructions, like, "The smallest person should sit on the inside of this ride." That's meant to keep the children sitting away from the doors, but I was the smallest person in our group, so had to keep sitting on the inside. (Okay, I volunteered since I thought the instructions were so funny.) I'm only 5' 2" (and a quarter )

Ya it doesn't matter if women are short because all womencan be a s tall as their shoes.

 

[Artman]

But then you'd have a lot of big guys walking around grumpy because they keep hitting their heads on door frames. And I'd Be One Of Them!

My parents had a house with 6' 4" door frames. Me and my two brothers are each over 6' tall. I'm 6'-2". One day I was walking with a slight "lilt" in my step in their house and came up right under the center of the door frame. Almost knocked myself out. That will teach me to prance in the land of the Lilliputians. ... I probably shouldn't have used the word pranced, right?

 

[Gale]

My parents had a house with 6' 4" door frames. Me and my two brothers are each over 6' tall. I'm 6'-2". One day I was walking with a slight "lilt" in my step in their house and came up right under the center of the door frame. Almost knocked myself out. That will teach me to prance in the land of the Lilliputians. ... I probably shouldn't have used the word pranced, right?

tall guys who prance= MMMMMMM

 

[Artman]

tall guys who prance= MMMMMMM

So prance was okay I see.

 

[Cosmo16]

My parents had a house with 6' 4" door frames. Me and my two brothers are each over 6' tall. I'm 6'-2". One day I was walking with a slight "lilt" in my step in their house and came up right under the center of the door frame. Almost knocked myself out. That will teach me to prance in the land of the Lilliputians. ... I probably shouldn't have used the word pranced, right?

Ya I am 6 3 and done somthing like that twice. (BOth involved stairs) The first time I was running down the stairs and you know that part of the ceiling that juts down? Well, It closelined me. And I went flying down the stairs.

The other time I was on the basement stairs and was carrying an air conditioner. So I am standing straight up kinda leaning back and I ran my haed up into the part of the ceiling that juts down. So ya, I am starting to loose my balance so I scream to my brother to come here NOW! Hes playing a video game and goes "One more second" I m like "NOW!" "One more second" (All this time I'm stuggling to stay upright) "I"m going to fall down the stairs co me here now" MY dad who is on the other side of the house goes" "GO to him NOw" SO finally he co mes and saves me. I wa ready to kill the kid.

 

[algebra_chem]

oh my god! you guys are so tall!

i'm only 5'4"!

 

[Artman]

Ya I am 6 3 and done somthing like that twice. (BOth involved stairs) The first time I was running down the stairs and you know that part of the ceiling that juts down? Well, It closelined me. And I went flying down the stairs...

Oh my gosh I just had a flashback to my parents house staircase (My mom and dad weren't short, but the house was built 150 years ago and the builder was a relative of mine who was short.)
There was a door at the bottom of the stairs and this door was like all the others about 6'-4" and the last step was right next to this door. Many was the time I'd come bounding up or down the stairs, miss calculate my duck and smack my head on that thing... Okay, I admit I "bound," and "prance," and "walk with a lilt." Gale thinks prancing = MMMMMM so it's okay.

 

[Moonbear]

Oh my gosh I just had a flashback to my parents house staircase (My mom and dad weren't short, but the house was built 150 years ago and the builder was a relative of mine who was short.)
There was a door at the bottom of the stairs and this door was like all the others about 6'-4" and the last step was right next to this door. Many was the time I'd come bounding up or down the stairs, miss calculate my duck and smack my head on that thing... Okay, I admit I "bound," and "prance," and "walk with a lilt." Gale thinks prancing = MMMMMM so it's okay.

That's the nice thing about being short. I'd have never noticed anything special about the doorway at all. I also don't walk into the hanging light fixtures in empty houses either. Then again, those top shelves in the kitchen cabinets are entirely useless to me.

 

[BobG]

That's the nice thing about being short. I'd have never noticed anything special about the doorway at all. I also don't walk into the hanging light fixtures in empty houses either. Then again, those top shelves in the kitchen cabinets are entirely useless to me.

A girl I knew in high school had a short family. The tallest was the dad at 5'2". Their entire house was built to scale, even the kitchen cabinets. The doors and ceilings weren't so low as to be a problem, at least to people of average height, but the house didn't feel quite "right". Having everything built just slightly to a smaller scale just made it worse because it was harder to pinpoint exactly what the problem was. The first few times I was inside, I just felt this strange sense things weren't quite real, as if I were dreaming or something.

 

[En_lizard]

normally lizards are only afew inches !

 

[CosminaPrisma]

I'm only 3 feet 1 in tall? How come you guys get the good genes?

*****Note: Cosmina is really 5 ft 7 in. but she likes to fool people into believing that she's the first female gnome*****