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Posted: 4/15/2006 2:38:48 PM EDT

[#1]

I'm 5'6" and I'm short. So, I'd say 5'9" is the borderline.

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:39:19 PM EDT

[#2]

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I'm 6'4, I don't notice short since most people are shorter than me....I only notice when someone is as tall or taller than me. You just get used to looking down.

I am 6' 2 and notice the same thing. I never notice short people, but someone taller than me make me feel weird/short.

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:42:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Guys.....you have to take age into account on this here "I'm bigger than you" poll. The older you are the less your fixed averages are. I'm 5'10 and being over 50 Im fine w/it. The young guys down the gym are a diffrent story. I'd estimate 6ft is average these days.One kid is 6'9"...325.Must be a beeotch 2feed!

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:44:23 PM EDT

[#4]

5'9" here and I loved it when I was stationed in Japan. I felt like a giant. When I get big boys in my flight I make'em bend down when I smoke them, they don't like it, but it puts them in their place.

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:51:46 PM EDT

[#5]

Based on this chart (using data collected in 1988-94), median height for 30-year-old white males in the US is 69.7". Bottom 25% is <68.5".

Some more interesting charts here:

www.halls.md/chart/men-height-w.htm

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:52:41 PM EDT

[#6]

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<6'0

Because 6'0 is the start of tall.

+1 anything shorter than I am is short.

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:57:34 PM EDT

[#7]

In my old regiment (back in Denmark), the height requirement was 5'9" (175cm).

When new infantry companies were formed (we had a draft then), recruits would be placed in units according to height. Usually two companies were created at a time - so there was a "tall" company and a "short" company. Since I'm 6'3", I was in the tall company, and we picked mercilessly on the "shorties" - who were people from about 6' down to 5'9" - so, to me, anything under 6" is kind of short. Anything under 5'9" is really short.

Posted: 4/15/2006 2:59:44 PM EDT

[#8]

im 6'2" and sometimes I feel short....

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:01:20 PM EDT

[#9]

my dad was 6'5" ,one of the few accomplishments in his life, being an over bearing asshole was his greatest one.

I spent my youth listening to him brag about his hieght. I was constantly told during my teen years how much taller,bigger,stronger he was than me at the same age. I constantly felt inadequate growing up.

I ended up at 6'2" in my stocking feet. I may as well be 5' nothing becuase to me, I'm short.

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:01:23 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm 5'11, 165 lbs, and people tell me I'm small all the time. I thought I was about average, but I sometimes overhear people describing me as small.

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:05:54 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
In my old regiment (back in Denmark), the height requirement was 5'9" (175cm).

When new infantry companies were formed (we had a draft then), recruits would be placed in units according to height. Usually two companies were created at a time - so there was a "tall" company and a "short" company. Since I'm 6'3", I was in the tall company, and we picked mercilessly on the "shorties" - who were people from about 6' down to 5'9" - so, to me, anything under 6" is kind of short. Anything under 5'9" is really short.

Oh for christ sakes. I've seen you and we threw a green leafy toga on you you could be on a green beans can and look right at home.

Judgin by that standard is unfair.

At 5'9" I'll admit it. I've got too much Irish in me. I just tell people I'm one of the 'wee people' laugh, and get on with it.

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:09:04 PM EDT

[#12]

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Im about 7 inches, and curve slightly to the left.

Right handed huh.

yup

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:10:57 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Quoted:
In my old regiment (back in Denmark), the height requirement was 5'9" (175cm).

When new infantry companies were formed (we had a draft then), recruits would be placed in units according to height. Usually two companies were created at a time - so there was a "tall" company and a "short" company. Since I'm 6'3", I was in the tall company, and we picked mercilessly on the "shorties" - who were people from about 6' down to 5'9" - so, to me, anything under 6" is kind of short. Anything under 5'9" is really short.

Oh for christ sakes. I've seen you and we threw a green leafy toga on you you could be on a green beans can and look right at home. Judgin by that standard is unfair.

That picture taken of me at MODCC (out at CMMG) is very misleading

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:20:16 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
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In my old regiment (back in Denmark), the height requirement was 5'9" (175cm).

When new infantry companies were formed (we had a draft then), recruits would be placed in units according to height. Usually two companies were created at a time - so there was a "tall" company and a "short" company. Since I'm 6'3", I was in the tall company, and we picked mercilessly on the "shorties" - who were people from about 6' down to 5'9" - so, to me, anything under 6" is kind of short. Anything under 5'9" is really short.

Oh for christ sakes. I've seen you and we threw a green leafy toga on you you could be on a green beans can and look right at home. Judgin by that standard is unfair.

That picture taken of me at MODCC (out at CMMG) is very misleading

I left out an "if" there didn't I?

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:21:43 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

I left out an "if" there didn't I?

I almost added it to the quote

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:23:06 PM EDT

[#16]

Being 6'5"...

Anything under 6' is short... considering that under 6' I generally have to look really far down.

Damn kinks.

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:24:40 PM EDT

[#17]

6'3" or less is short..............I'm 6'5"

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:28:11 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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In my old regiment (back in Denmark), the height requirement was 5'9" (175cm).

When new infantry companies were formed (we had a draft then), recruits would be placed in units according to height. Usually two companies were created at a time - so there was a "tall" company and a "short" company. Since I'm 6'3", I was in the tall company, and we picked mercilessly on the "shorties" - who were people from about 6' down to 5'9" - so, to me, anything under 6" is kind of short. Anything under 5'9" is really short.

Oh for christ sakes. I've seen you and we threw a green leafy toga on you you could be on a green beans can and look right at home. Judgin by that standard is unfair.

That picture taken of me at MODCC (out at CMMG) is very misleading

Your wife must be tall. Remembering back from your wedding pictures, IIRC she hits you about the nose?

Patty

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:39:17 PM EDT

[#19]

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I am 5'10". I usually don't really notice unless someone is less than 5'4".

I am one of the tallest people at work though. I work with a lot of Indians.

I get called short by my >6' tall friends. I tell them to kiss my ass, and life goes on.

Whatever happened to 'medium'?

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:39:26 PM EDT

[#20]

My wife thinks Im really short, Im 5 ' 11 , problem is, shes 6"1

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:39:28 PM EDT

[#21]

I'm 5'5" or so, so anything me and below.

It's kinda nice being my hieght. I get to use all the East-Bloc stuff easier than tall/lengthy people, I (along with my shorter comrades) can out dirnk the tall people, I can donate a shit load of blood and never be effected, having a lower center of gravity is great in fights, aerospce techonology and equipment is fun to mess with then you're the only one among a group of friends. I can crawl around in my dorms ductwork and scare the shit out of people at 3:30 in the morning through the vents...

Posted: 4/15/2006 3:53:32 PM EDT

[#22]

I'm 5'7"

It sucks being so short, but I do get the occasional laugh when someone hits their head on something I can easily walk under. Thats all I have to look forward to day to day.

Posted: 4/15/2006 4:07:06 PM EDT

[#23]

6' 185lb
same ht & wt for the last 30 years

Posted: 4/15/2006 4:41:02 PM EDT

[#24]

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Your wife must be tall. Remembering back from your wedding pictures, IIRC she hits you about the nose?

Patty

I can never remember how tall she is

- but I'm always surprised at how "short" she is when she reminds me, because she seems pretty tall to me. I think she might actually be 5'10" or something like that.

Posted: 4/15/2006 4:53:42 PM EDT

[#25]

I’m 5’ 4.5” and I put up with shit my whole life, still do, but I don’t let it get to me. Does it really matter how tall a person is? Height to me is not measured physically but fortitudinally.

I wanted to be an MP, but was laughed at by the recruiters because of my height. I choose aviation, but ended up going to basic training anyways with MP’s at Fort McClellan, and will never forget the talking I had with my DS one night while on CQ.

He noticed the shit I received every where we went because I stood out like a sore thumb in a company full of guys upwards of 6’. He told me a story of one of his first Plt. Sgt’s who was about my height. He said that guy was one of the toughest meanest little son-of-a -bitches he ever knew, and that I should never let my size compromise my leadership abilities. And I never did.

My father-in-law saw these same qualities in me as well. He was a former member of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, so you know the height profile he fit. He told my wife once, “That little American might be might be 5’ 4” but what he lacks in height he gained in knowledge.”

Height does not make a man “grown-up.”

Posted: 4/15/2006 4:55:34 PM EDT

[#26]

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I'm 5'5" or so, so anything me and below.

It's kinda nice being my hieght. I get to use all the East-Bloc stuff easier than tall/lengthy people, I (along with my shorter comrades) can out dirnk the tall people, I can donate a shit load of blood and never be effected, having a lower center of gravity is great in fights, aerospce techonology and equipment is fun to mess with then you're the only one among a group of friends. I can crawl around in my dorms ductwork and scare the shit out of people at 3:30 in the morning through the vents...

I've never noticed any effects from donating blood...but I thought that was because I'm a stocky mofo

Posted: 4/15/2006 4:59:52 PM EDT

[#27]

There was a Randy Neman song about 'Short People' I remember.

Posted: 4/15/2006 5:08:29 PM EDT

[#28]

Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

Posted: 4/15/2006 5:13:09 PM EDT

[#29]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

I got 6' 4" of muscle packed into a 5' 4" frame! That's why the wimmenz luv us!

Posted: 4/15/2006 5:27:37 PM EDT

[#30]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

I got 6' 4" of ~~muscle~~ flab packed into a 5' 4" frame! That's why the wimmenz luv us!

Posted: 4/15/2006 8:17:04 PM EDT

[#31]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

I got 6' 4" of ~~muscle~~ flab packed into a 5' 4" frame! That's why the wimmenz luv us!

Your speaking for your self right.

Posted: 4/15/2006 8:28:02 PM EDT

[#32]

The Dutch are the World's Tallest People
By our Science editor Anne Blair Gould / Updated 7 September 1999

07-09-1999

It's official - the people of The Netherlands are the tallest in the world. The average Dutch man measures 184 cms - or just over 6 feet, and the average Dutch woman measures 170.8 cms or just over 5 foot 7 inches.

The next tallest are the Scandinavians - the men in Sweden, Norway

and Denmark for example average 179 - 180 cms or about 5 foot 11 inches. But - unlike the Dutch - the Scandinavians seem to have stopped growing, having averaged the same height for the last 40 years or so. Some way behind in the league of heights come North American and British men who average around 176 cms - or about 5 foot 9 -10 inches.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:04:15 PM EDT

[#33]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

Its alot easier for a shorter guy to get "built". Im not sure why though, and its one pro to being short.

And yeah, I sorta been trying to get a bit more buff to compensate for the height

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:08:18 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
The Dutch are the World's Tallest People
By our Science editor Anne Blair Gould / Updated 7 September 1999

07-09-1999

It's official - the people of The Netherlands are the tallest in the world. The average Dutch man measures 184 cms - or just over 6 feet, and the average Dutch woman measures 170.8 cms or just over 5 foot 7 inches.

The next tallest are the Scandinavians - the men in Sweden, Norway and Denmark for example average 179 - 180 cms or about 5 foot 11 inches. But - unlike the Dutch - the Scandinavians seem to have stopped growing, having averaged the same height for the last 40 years or so. Some way behind in the league of heights come North American and British men who average around 176 cms - or about 5 foot 9 -10 inches.

I've met some freakishly tall Dutch dudes.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:14:00 PM EDT

[#35]

Under 5'10"

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:21:09 PM EDT

[#36]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

5'4" here, bench 225 eight times

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:23:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/15/2006 9:24:02 PM EDT

[#38]

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Have you ever notice short guys are usually built. I guess making up for the lack of height.

5'4" here, bench 225 eight times

Well they say you should be able to at least bench your own weight for one rep.
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Hey, that’s fair, mjohn3006 called me fat!

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:28:33 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
The Dutch are the World's Tallest People
By our Science editor Anne Blair Gould / Updated 7 September 1999

07-09-1999

It's official - the people of The Netherlands are the tallest in the world. The average Dutch man measures 184 cms - or just over 6 feet, and the average Dutch woman measures 170.8 cms or just over 5 foot 7 inches.

The next tallest are the Scandinavians - the men in Sweden, Norway and Denmark for example average 179 - 180 cms or about 5 foot 11 inches. But - unlike the Dutch - the Scandinavians seem to have stopped growing, having averaged the same height for the last 40 years or so. Some way behind in the league of heights come North American and British men who average around 176 cms - or about 5 foot 9 -10 inches.

Yeah, they're tall, but they don't have human souls.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:32:29 PM EDT

[#40]

This guy was definitely "short"

Poor guy - he was literally a midget by Danish standards.

But he made up for it with agression and attitude.

I'm one of the guys standing next to him.

(This was in sergeant's school, btw, where regiments were mixed. He would obviously never have been allowed in my home regiment).

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:34:55 PM EDT

[#41]

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Poor guy - he was literally a midget by Danish standards. But he made up for it with agression and attitude.

Did you guys have him pack march to circus music?

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:35:48 PM EDT

[#42]

i'm 5'7"

i had severe insomnia during most of my adolescent years. parents: please make sure your kids are getting enough sleep! i'm pretty sure that this is what's to blame for me being shorter than the rest of the men in my family.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:36:14 PM EDT

[#43]

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Poor guy - he was literally a midget by Danish standards. But he made up for it with agression and attitude.

Did you guys have him pack march to circus music?

He almost got more shit than the one black guy in the entire sergeant's school.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:37:42 PM EDT

[#44]

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He almost got more shit than the one black guy in the entire sergeant's school.

There are no blacks in Demnark.

Posted: 4/15/2006 9:41:36 PM EDT

[#45]

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He almost got more shit than the one black guy in the entire sergeant's school.

There are no blacks in Demnark.

That was why he got so much shit.

He may have been the first black sergeant in the Danish military.

Actually, when I was back in the regiment in 1989, we got the first black person EVER in the regiment. I still remember him. His name was Michael, and he later became a sergeant and was a relaly good guy. Since my regiment drew heavily from rural Jutland, he would literally have been the first black man that many of the soldier would ever have seen in their lives.