How tall are you? Just found out that I’m on the short side.
 

I never thought of myself as short but I just looked it up and the average male height in the US is 5’9”. I’m that in shoes, otherwise I’m only 5’8”. I feel tall next to my wife as she’s 5’3”. No female in my family is taller than her. I’m of Southeast Asian descent so that’s why I always felt tall around my peeps.

How tall are you and what’s your ethnicity?

Other than that I once had blonde hair and now have white hair & blue eyes, don't know my ethnicity. I was adopted. Never did a DNA test, no interest in doing so. In my 20's, I was 6'3"...sorta tall I guess. At 79, last clinic visit, I measured 6'1"..not cold water ;), but age shrinkage I guess.

Think I read somewhere that humans are a bit like dogs when it comes to lifespan...smaller dogs live longer.

Feel better now Shorty? :D

Was 5’ 11”. Probably less now.

5'7" and South East Asian as well. I am the tallest in my family. I only feel short when around my Caucasian friends. :D

Doxing thread?

Six feet and a bit. Now that I'm in my 60's I've probably lost "that bit"". So I try to keep my posture good.

Four decades ago I was 6' 3". Definitely an inch below that now. Inseam doesn't change, so I have to tuck my shirt in farther these days. Many generations removed from the British Isles. Probably a bunch more generations removed from Scandinavia.
So far, getting older beats the heck out of the alternative. :D

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Les

5' 6" first thing in the morning...and it's all attitude. :D

I'm a manlet,...5'7"..

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6' at my max but now at 64 years old I think I lost a little, so 5'11"+. Wife is only 5'2", we are both white.

That makes me a piccolo manlet.

6’3” at my Zenith. Gravity is taking me down. Parents immigrated from Germany. Holocaust survivors.

peaked at 6'2". Now a bit less, but still over 6'1".
Dad was 6'2". Mom is 4'11".

I grew to 5' 11.5" and yea, that 1/2 inch was important to me as a teenager. Now I am just 5' 11" at my last annual.

I did my ancestry on ancestry.com. I have German blood from both my maternal and paternal lines, as well as British and Irish if I go back far enough. I figure that is why I like beer so much! ;)

I'm a bit over 6'1", mostly Norwegian with some British thrown in per 23andMe.

Was 5'-11.5. Now 5'10" at almost 68 years old, and after spinal and cervical surgeries.

Same here ... but I'm 5' 10" now ....

But on the Internet I'm 6' 8" and bigly .... very smrat and a chick magnet too :D

edited: And rich .... I forgot rich ;)!

When I had my hip replacement I put it off as long as I could stand the pain.

During the surgery they basically cut your leg off. My ball socket has zero cartilage left, and the doctor said it was just bone rubbing on bone with just blood as a lubricant. He said it had to hurt, and I knew that. Anyway with the slow wearing away of the cartilage that leg had become shorter, but I never noticed and my brain compensated as that side got slowly shorter.

After he rebuilt my joint, he made that side 1/4 inch taller than ideal, so suddenly it was taller than the other side, and my brain just knew I was suddenly taller on my former short side. It took several months to heal and several more months to learn to walk properly with new height on that side.

Overall the dumbest thing I have done in my life was put off the hip replacement. The recovery pain was minimal compared to the former pain of just walking.

In the end, I came out 1/2 inch taller than before the hip replacement, if I apply most of my weight to that side. So pretty much back to my younger height.

72.5”

What is funny? I always say “six foot.” My son also claims to be “six foot” yet he is clearly shorter than I.

I called him out on it. He confesses to 5’11.5”.

What is funny? I never considered saying I was 6’1”.

Is he inherently dishonest or am I inherently honest? Funny.

I peaked at 6'4"...after injuries, hip surgery (left done, right hip this Fall) and being 66, I'm thinking major shrinkage.

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