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Was 6'1 3/4". Now 5" 11". Pro tip. Don't crush T10 to 1/2 of it's height. It's painful and makes you shorter. English Isle mutt

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Old 05-14-2023, 11:32 PM
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When I see a nice butt and big jigglers... I start to feel the beginnings of a rise, but alas at my age it remains a small shriveled up thing.

5' 2" here...
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5'9 to start. Probably 5'8" now. Height about the same.

Funny when we were younger how many guys rounded it up to 6'.
I also found many tall people go out of there way to tell you how tall they are. Making up for something I guess.
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5'-7" and I'm Swedish/German! I'm a midget compared to other Swedes.

One of my daughter's girlfriends is 6 feet tall and her father is 6'-7", while her mom is about 5'-4". The girl said I was freakishly short. I though that was kind of funny, so I mentioned it to her mother. She just nodded in quiet agreement, so apparently she agreed. Wow, I never thought of myself as freakishly short, even while walking the streets of Stockholm. Maybe I can get a gig at the circus.
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5'9 to start. Probably 5'8" now. Height about the same.

Funny when we were younger how many guys rounded it up to 6'.
I also found many tall people go out of there way to tell you how tall they are. Making up for something I guess.
Well, for me I wear 10EEE shoes but really prefer 10 EEEE shoes but those are real hard to find. I wear XXXL gloves, and yea I have a big nose as well....
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6'6" when people ask if I play basketball I ask them if their dad was a jockey or do they play miniature golf?
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5'11" and about 10lbs heavier than high school, though at one point I was 60lbs heavier. I feel short though since my 13 year old is just shy of 6' and 185 lbs.
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I'm 5'9", but sorry for my weight
Were you at the Galleria on Friday? I walked by a guy and thought it was you but I wasn't sure enough to say, "Hey James!"
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Me, 6'3.5".........my son just went in for his physical today. He measured in at 6'3.8". He's 14-years and 2-months. He's taller than me before he got to H.S. than I was exiting it.
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I also found many tall people go out of there way to tell you how tall they are. Making up for something I guess.
That's a tangent I didn't expect on this thread, because I've never heard it before and I've been tall for a long, long, time.

It reminds me of a Mae West movie line:

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I was 5'9" before a bike/car accident compressed fractured two vertebrae.
After a titanium rod for my femur and cement in my back for the verts....I am now 5'8"
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5' 2" here...
Yer shadow is much taller than that Tabby
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I don't exactly know why (perception?) but I thought Tabs would've been taller.
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I don't exactly know why (perception?) but I thought Tabs would've been taller.
I'm quite sure he is ... mebbe his ego was "in the pool"
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I mentioned earlier my dad was 6'-4". When people asked how tall he was, he would say 5'-16". :/

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HA! My sister says the same. She's 5'13"

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I mentioned earlier my dad was 6'-4". When people asked how tall he was, he would say 5'-16". :/
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lost some weight before my hip deal and got reacquainted with what my crank looked like. not how I remembered it, but I was OK with it being 56 years old and all.

its hidden again now that I've gotten back to being obese, but i will always remember that day...

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