How tall are you and how much do you weigh?

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The discussion centers around participants sharing their heights and weights, often with humorous commentary about their body types and experiences related to their sizes. Many users express feelings of being either too short or too tall, with some discussing societal perceptions of height in America. There are anecdotes about being mistaken for younger ages and the reactions of others to unusual heights. The conversation also touches on the challenges of weight management, particularly in relation to seasonal changes and lifestyle factors. Participants make light of their measurements using various units, including metric and imperial, and engage in playful banter about their physical attributes. Overall, the thread highlights a mix of self-deprecating humor and camaraderie among users discussing body image and societal norms regarding height and weight.
  • #51
Like I'd tell you how big I am! You'd come over to my house and beat me up!

Okay, I'm 1.8794 x 10^-16 light years .075 tons. At least the units are daunting.
 
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  • #52
Evo said:
4'2" 475 lbs
Consider remeasuring after getting off the motorcycle.
 
  • #53
Ive gain a lot of weight this winter, so after I loose it, I'll be 5'6" and 135lbs:approve:
 
  • #54
5'8, 153 lbs, medium-frame
 
  • #55
Kurdt, wow your 173 cm? My kayak is a 185 (Pyranha s6x) but then again, that is taller than me. Nevermind (ha, yeah I like spelling it that way, a tribute...)
 
  • #56
binzing said:
Kurdt, wow your 173 cm? My kayak is a 185 (Pyranha s6x) but then again, that is taller than me. Nevermind (ha, yeah I like spelling it that way, a tribute...)

Yes, that's 5'8'' for those working in old money. Why does that surprise you? :confused:
 
  • #57
6' 190 lbs
 
  • #58
5'4" and 110 lbs. Yes I am horribly short and skinny. And I'm almost positive my Linear Algebra and Diff Eqn. Professor thinks I am 16 =/ (i'm actually 21).
 
  • #59
BobG said:
Like I'd tell you how big I am! You'd come over to my house and beat me up!

Okay, I'm 1.8794 x 10^-16 light years .075 tons. At least the units are daunting.
Since others were getting chastised for non-SI units, make that metric tons and you're all set! :biggrin:

DaveC426913 said:
Consider remeasuring after getting off the motorcycle.

:smile:

Eek! Yipes! I just hopped on the scale and am 10 lbs heavier than I thought I was! I've been cooking too much and spending too much time sitting on my duff apparently. :cry: Thank goodness I'm planning a week of intensive workouts with the sheep next week! (Though, I'm suspicious of where the extra weight is...my clothes still fit all the same...I think the scale is lying. :rolleyes:)
 
  • #60
opt!kal said:
5'4" and 110 lbs. Yes I am horribly short and skinny. And I'm almost positive my Linear Algebra and Diff Eqn. Professor thinks I am 16 =/ (i'm actually 21).

At least your not almost 30 with people thinking you're 19 lol.
 
  • #61
Never mind Kurdt.
 
  • #62
tribdog said:
Okay I have a question. I'm a surveyor and in every state other than Arizona, surveyors use "US Survey Feet" here in Arizona they use "International Feet"
Except the ones that use metric:
"the U.S. Survey Foot was specified in 11 states and the International Foot was specified in 6 states. In all other states the meter is the only referenced unit of measure in the SPCS 83 legislation. The remaining 19 states do not yet have any legislation concerning SPCS 83"


Why would we come up with something called International Feet? Is there any other nation that uses feet? How International can it be?
When they had the little tea+boston harbour tantrum the USA was no longer allowed to walk into the British parliament to check the standard yard and so it based it's standard on a borrowed french Metre (Ironicallly the USA has officially always been metric!)

Because of the technology of the day the US inch wasn't quite the same as a British inch and so in 1959 the USA/UK decided to split the difference and agree on an international standard inch ( 25.4mm exactly)

Only USA + Burma officially use feet but most commonwealth countries use them unofficially in day-day speech. Although penises (penii?) and TV screens seem to be measured in inches everywhere.
 
  • #63
Man, a lot of you guys are skinny minnies
 
  • #64
6'3" 225 lbs
 
  • #65
And what's wrong with being skinny? Ha, I like it. I actually was told (well my dad was told by the dad of the second best XC runner in the county, to get into running) that I should run XC, so I'm going to try it. The first day has a 9 mile run though...
 
  • #66
gravenewworld said:
Man, a lot of you guys are skinny minnies

Actually, in most of the world they are normal. Americans are huge.
 
  • #67
Ha, I'm breaking the American fatass curve. Yeah!
 
  • #68
binzing said:
Ha, I'm breaking the American fatass curve. Yeah!
:smile:
 
  • #69
Please pass the high fructose corn sweetener,,,,,,,,,not
 
  • #70
I'm 5'9 and 155 pounds.

Seems pretty normal to me.
 
  • #71
edward said:
Please pass the high fructose corn sweetener,,,,,,,,,not

I'm with you on this. That stuff's pure poison.
 
  • #72
5'5", 125
 
  • #73
frogman said:
6'3" 225 lbs

Hey! you must be the same build as me: 6'3" 230 lbs.

Yea! I'm a big SOB!
 
  • #74
5'8, 145 lbs, maybe a bit more. Yikes.
 
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  • #75
opt!kal said:
5'4" and 110 lbs. Yes I am horribly short and skinny. And I'm almost positive my Linear Algebra and Diff Eqn. Professor thinks I am 16 =/ (i'm actually 21).

B. Elliott said:
At least your not almost 30 with people thinking you're 19 lol.

Don't you guys have it backwards? At least you're not 40 with people thinking you're 60. Looking younger than your age does have a benefit on the opposite end of the age scale.

Unless you're one of those really unlucky folks who somehow both looked 19 when they were 30 and subsequently looked 60 when they were 40.
 
  • #76
BobG said:
Unless you're one of those really unlucky folks who somehow both looked 19 when they were 30 and subsequently looked 60 when they were 40.

That's me. I was ID'd everytime I bought alcohol (or lottery tickets) until I was 30, that's when my hair turned grey. I like to call it silver.
 
  • #77
Ben Niehoff said:
I'm 5'11'' and 124-130 lbs. I really should work out and try to build some muscle mass.

Are you a bamboo stick? :|
 
  • #78
wildman said:
Hey! you must be the same build as me: 6'3" 230 lbs.

Yea! I'm a big SOB!

We seem to be of abnormal size in here.
 
  • #79
frogman said:
We seem to be of abnormal size in here.

Too much time doing math and physics and not enough exercise...
 
  • #80
I'm a 27 year old man, and I'm 5'1" and weigh 165 lbs.
 
  • #81
fileen said:
I have a friend who is over 7' tall... He has long unruly hair and something of a beard. One day on a bus, some kid with his mom pointed at him and said, "mommy is that Jesus" People do things like that to him all the time. We can never go anywhere without being stared at. Great guy though, very good friend.

Groups of little kids will sometimes start following me if they see me walking down the street. About once every month or two, some woman will give me a goofy grin because I'm only 5'1". I'll be standing in line behind a woman at McDonalds, and she will turn around 180 degrees and give me a goofy grin, and then she'll turn around back to the front again.

Once I went to a crowded restaurant with my 5'0" sister. The restaurant was noisy while I was opening the door, but when we walked in and people saw us, the whole restaurant because completely silent, and everyone was staring at us because we are so short.
 
  • #82
432 ems
16800 carats
 
  • #83
5'11, 215 lbs.
 
  • #84
5'11'' and 150
 
  • #85
stickythighs said:
Once I went to a crowded restaurant with my 5'0" sister. The restaurant was noisy while I was opening the door, but when we walked in and people saw us, the whole restaurant because completely silent, and everyone was staring at us because we are so short.
I knew a very short woman. She told a story of how she went shopping to buy Hannukah gifts for her nieces and nephews. When she got to the counter with a cart full of toys, the clerk asked her "Do you have any money to pay for this?"
 
  • #86
stickythighs said:
Groups of little kids will sometimes start following me if they see me walking down the street. About once every month or two, some woman will give me a goofy grin because I'm only 5'1". I'll be standing in line behind a woman at McDonalds, and she will turn around 180 degrees and give me a goofy grin, and then she'll turn around back to the front again.

Once I went to a crowded restaurant with my 5'0" sister. The restaurant was noisy while I was opening the door, but when we walked in and people saw us, the whole restaurant because completely silent, and everyone was staring at us because we are so short.

I dated a girl in high school that was about 4'9" or something like that. Her whole family was short. When they built their house, they made all the ceilings and doors just a little bit lower. Not low enough that a person would hit their head walking through the door; just low enough that I suddenly felt tall when I walked into their house. It was a little disorienting the first few times I went over to her house until I finally stopped noticing it (which is what I mean about everything being just a little bit shorter).
 
  • #87
6'2" 170 lbs

(188 cm, 77 kg (mass))
 
  • #88
6'2'' 12.5 st

I'm curious as to whether this will end up on some database somewhere along with other facts about me, like my fav youtube videos and my opinion on Adam Rickett
 
  • #89
BobG said:
I dated a girl in high school that was about 4'9" or something like that. Her whole family was short. When they built their house, they made all the ceilings and doors just a little bit lower. Not low enough that a person would hit their head walking through the door; just low enough that I suddenly felt tall when I walked into their house. It was a little disorienting the first few times I went over to her house until I finally stopped noticing it (which is what I mean about everything being just a little bit shorter).

That's very weird. If I was having a house built for me, I would still specify that the ceilings and the doorways be of standard height.
 
  • #90
5'10", 180 lbs, and less than 3 mm of fat in front of my rib cage. My chest cannot shrink much further than that, and my stomach is not much wider than my chest.
 
  • #91
B. Elliott said:
At least your not almost 30 with people thinking you're 19 lol.

Many people think I look 16. Two years ago, most people thought I looked 17. One year ago, some 12 year olds thought I was 12.

Only one person, a woman from a Target Store over estimated - she thought I was 22, when I was 21.

I am 21 right now.
 
  • #92
is 5'11'' considered short? by "american" standards
 
  • #93
Oerg said:
is 5'11'' considered short? by "american" standards
No. For a male, you are considered "short" if you are below 5'7". "Normal" would probably be 5'8"-5'11". "Tall" would be above 6'0".

For women, being above 5'7" is tall, and below 5'3" is short.
 
  • #94
Oerg said:
is 5'11'' considered short? by "american" standards

No.

I must have four characters in order to post a message.
 
  • #95
scarecrow said:
For a male, you are considered "short" if you are below 5'7".
Actually, 5'6" is considered the perfect height. Not only in America, but in the wider universe.
 
  • #96
jimmysnyder said:
Actually, 5'6" is considered the perfect height. Not only in America, but in the wider universe.

6'2" is considered the ideal height for men in America.
 
  • #97
jimmysnyder said:
Actually, 5'6" is considered the perfect height. Not only in America, but in the wider universe.
Except in the Netherlands where an average male is 6'1" and average female is 5'6" :-p
 
  • #98
Monique said:
Except in the Netherlands where an average male is 6'1" and average female is 5'6" :-p

I'd be about the shortest guy in the Netherlands.
 
  • #99
Monique said:
Except in the Netherlands where an average male is 6'1" and average female is 5'6" :-p
Ah, the Netherlands, land of perfect women. And yet the men look down on them.
 
  • #100
jimmysnyder said:
Ah, the Netherlands, land of perfect women. And yet the men look down on them.

Why are Dutch women perfect?
 

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