Is being tall a good thing?

[Levo-Lon]

What must it be like to be told your enormous..

Ahh well mr average it is then...


I dated a 6 foot tall lady..it was odd looking up in many ways

 

[vickster]

Ahh well mr average it is then...

Which I think is now 5’10 for British men so...

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 5105846, member: 259"]Go and live in the Netherlands for a bit. You'll be a dwarf.[/QUOTE]
I read somewhere that part of the data about the height of Dutch men came from a self-reporting survey. If that's the case, I imagine that they have a reputation for large penises too. Anyway, if you are a woman, you have to go to Latvia if you want to feel like a pigmy.

BTW, there's supposed to be a link between tallness and prostate cancer.

 

[vickster]

BTW, there's supposed to be a link between tallness and prostate cancer.

I’ll be ok

 

[slowmotion]

I’ll be ok

Splendid!

 

[PK99]

you don't see many tall old people...

I'm 6'2" and 62! in old gits pubs I'm often one of the tallest and when younger could always look over a crowd in a bar, now in a bar populated by a young crowd i'm often looking at backs of heads or shoulder blades. My kids generation are significantly taller than mine as I was significantly taller than my dad and his contemporaries.

 

[Drago]

I intend to live long and behave very disgracefully, and I'll be all the more awesome for being tall.

 

[postman]

you don't see many tall old people...

Postman is 6' 4" and is 68 in Feb.

When i wer a lad in't 60's getting trousers long enough was a nightmare.


A little extra,funnily enough.i never had trouble finding a frame 25" were always available.Now you can get 63cm ,64cm and sometimes 66cm frames.These are more important than trousers.

 

[Dirk]

I intend to live long and behave very disgracefully, and I'll be all the more awesome for being tall.

You'll shrink........

 

[Drago]

Not while they're still selling Viagra I won't.

 

[Slick]

Your first to know it's raining but last to know there's a flood.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've always been glad to be tall, but I wouldn't want to be very tall. And nowadays, as others have said, I'm really not that tall any more. The young folk just keep getting bigger and bigger...

 

[jefmcg]

My Grandad was 6’2” and got a job, in 1926, as a policeman. By all accounts, the Chief Constable wanted 3 new constables and went along the line of applicants and picked the 3 biggest blokes!

There you are. Let your cousin's daughter know she'll be a shoo-in to join the police in 1926.

Oh, except until she got married, when she'd have to resign (thank you google)

 

[classic33]

In t'old days you had to be 5'10 to join the dibble, or 6'0" for the City of London. They did way with that requirement in the early eighties, on the basis that there were no small criminals left.

An Garda Shiochana kept the height restriction until fairly recently.
Cousin at 6'8" had no problem meeting it.

 

[hopless500]

I've always found it a burden