5'11" or 180 cm -- still growing so a few more centimeters and I start bumping my head on the top of the entrance to the trains...
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5'11" or 180 cm -- still growing so a few more centimeters and I start bumping my head on the top of the entrance to the trains...
:( poor guyQuote:
Originally Posted by Foxtrot Uniform
but sometimes it is nice u would be very very tall :bravo:
i am very short
1m60 to 1m64 (5'3" to 5'4") :relief:
thanks
5'10 - 5'11 ... depends on how straight I stand.
*slouches back to computer*
A couple of things. While I don't doubt that the listed difference in height is accurate, the picture capitalizes on an optical illusion which makes the already significant height difference seem even more dramatic. Here, look again:
Note Ming's feet, which appear to be "lower" than Boykins's. He's clearly standing in the foreground, perhaps several meters from Boykins. To get a better idea of how they would look standing next to each other, visualize twice the vertical difference between the base of Ming's and Boykins's respective feet. Now subtract that from Ming's height.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dream Time
(Ming will still be considerably taller than Boykins, of course! But thinking about it like this might help overcome the exaggerated impression we're given from the picture.)
Also, with regards to the use of the metric system (SI) in US schools, the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) has long recommended that all state and county math curricula place an emphasis on teaching SI alongside the English Standard (ES) system in the early grades (see a very broad overview of the suggested standards here).
But, given that the US still uses ES for many business applications (e.g. liquid volume of beverages, although SI units are also listed), in much of the media and sports (e.g. "10-yard line"), and in day-to-day practice (e.g. I'm 5' 10" tall), I don't think that much more than the basic structure of IS sticks in kids' minds, at best.
However SI is used extensively in many high school and college courses (at least in the sciences and mathematics), though we often continue to use ES in those courses, as well. For example, although I mostly used SI, I once had to answer a question in Differential Equations about "mass" using ES. I didn't even know what the units were for measuring mass in ES! I had to look it up (it's "slugs," by the way).
I agree that it would be much simpler to do away with ES and exclusively use SI. But that seems to be taking us a very long time... :okashii:
Regards,
Dan
I agree completely, the metric system is much easier to use and you can use common sense to figure stuff out because its based on tens, like kilometer -- kilo=1000 so 1000 meters which is much easier than memorizing that there are 5280 feet in a mile. Its too bad the change is taking such a logn time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan B
Haha, thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by Sweet
I'm either 5'11 or 6'0 even.. I'm not sure.. but you get the idea.. lol
*tries to think if I've responded to this thread, without looking back through the pages due to extreme sloth* Hrmm....
Oh well.
I'm 5'3.
i am 5'9"...is that short? :relief:
You post like you're 7 feet tall and ready to take on all comers!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Winter
Frank
:blush:
I'm 189.5, so I can't choose one of the options.
I'd say that's about average. By the way, I'm 5'9" as well. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by MeiWAkU
i'm 4'10 :(
...i know thats short...
..i'm at boob-level with all my friends...
..it's sad..
I'm 185cm. almost all people i know are taller than me.. :bluush:
I hate being 6'6" i am always hitting my head on things!
:mad: :mad: :mad:
TimF - haha, that sucks.
I think I'm about 5'7" or maybe 5'8". All I know is I'm taller than most of the girls, and shorter than most of the guys ^^;;
Do you know that we are taller when we get up in the morning?
really? :?
is it because we lie down and distribute the weight equally all over the body, instead of down the spine and legs?
I'm short, 1,69. :( But hopefully i will grow to become 1,72-1,80
omfg!Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt. Pepper
that's not short!
u see how ******* short I AM?!
..lol..
i WISH i was 5'3 or even 5'0
..anything but this..
X)
Well, most people are taller than me so...
We are taller in the morning because the disks of our spine rest during the night. For various reasons, astronauts are taller up to 2 inches in space (search Google...).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinspawne
Earlier Frank D. White said he was getting smaller with age. He should stretch his spine. It works, and eliminates all back problems! http://www.geocities.com/ambkk/HangUps.html
...I'M GOING TO OUTER SPACE!!!
*will do anything to be taller*
X)
damn man, as usual I stand a head taller than pretty much all of you.
AAAHH, goddamn genes, if only I could cut off 6 inches off my head
(6'4 or 194 is a bit much for me).
damn, and I heard Japanese people are usually really short, and I don't want to look like an out of place Gaijin if you know what I mean. :(
wow...
*stares up @ blessed*
damn...
thats... tall...
X)
...ur a foot and a half taller than me!! :lol:
that's hysterical..
im soo *fooking* short..
well im the shortest in here im 1m 55cm well im only 14
I am petite also. I am 163 cm. Well, I am used to it!
i'm just long enough to reach the ground.. 185cm... perfect.. when god created me he said unto the world "I have made perfection heightwise. all gaze upon perfection and know that this is perfection. henceforth this height shall be known as 'just right', hear and obey!"
I love short girls though.. *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
i thought yao ming was 7'11"Quote:
Originally Posted by Dream Time
i thought thats wat i saw when i was playin' NBA streets
wat are you talking about thats not shortQuote:
Originally Posted by Buddha Smoker
well i guess to me
I'm 177cm not 185....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinspawne
I don't know exactly but I took a rough guess at 5'9'', but it might be 5'10''. It was funny at school 'cos I was the shortest for my age up until I was about 15y.o. Then I got bored of being short I guess. :D I was still called 'Little Jon' even though I was taller than a lot of 'em. :p
Lol, I'm a midget too :( 177 cm I'm the shortest of my class. Damn those Dutch!
The dutch seem to be unusually tall (compared to me of course - 180cm). I have a dutch friend and hes like 190cm something and hes the same age as I am. Very scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by 60Yen
Indeed, my cousin is the same age as me, 16, and he's allready over 194 cm.
Yes, I have also noticed that Dutch and Scandinavians are tall...
I guess I can raise the average size a little, I'm 2.03m or 6'8 and no! I don't play basketball (anymore).
I am 1m89 .Which I have always thought to be average til I looked at the results of this poll.
I'm 5'4" if that's important to anyone. :happy:
I am 5'9" (175.2 cm), which is around average for an American male. The average American male is just under 5'10", average female is 5'4". I know the European average is higher.
really? the average american female is 5'4"?
I'm a behemoth in that case...
At 5'8"
I am a short person 5'3