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Bet you dont know a male who is shorter than his natural mother?

  • 03-02-2011 5:46pm
    #1
    Bjorn Bored.
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    Apparently this is true albeit not 100% but dam close,basically it is almost genetically impossible for this to occur,and when I rack my brains to think of one single exception to the rule,I cannot find one, A son can occasionally be the same height as his natural mother,but hardly ever smaller than her. A daughter can of course be taller than her father.

    Go away and think about that now.


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  • #2
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Slow day?


  • #3
    orourkeda
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    this guy

    http://helpfulhospitality.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/dwarf.jpg


  • #4
    Storminateacup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    My neighbour is shorter than his mother.


  • #5
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Storminateacup wrote: »
    My neighbour is shorter than his mother.

    Yeah but he's only 6!


  • #6
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    Apparently this is true albeit not 100% but dam close,basically it is almost genetically impossible for this to occur,and when I rack my brains to think of one single exception to the rule,I cannot find one, A son can occasionally be the same height as his natural mother,but hardly ever smaller than her. A daughter can of course be taller than her father.

    Go away and think about that now.

    Superb paradox.

    I always thought something that wasnt 100% true was false.


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  • #7
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    orourkeda wrote: »
    this guy

    http://helpfulhospitality.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/dwarf.jpg

    ah that just an anomaly,proves why its not 100%,but seriously do you personally have any relatives who break this rule,but ya dont:pac:


  • #8
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    needless to say it applies to when the son is FULLY GROWN


  • #9
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Complete bull crap.

    Harvey is much shorter than his mam, Katie Price !(for the mean time)


  • #10
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    ah that just an anomaly,proves why its not 100%,but seriously do you personally have any relatives who break this rule,but ya dont:pac:

    No. But I'm 6' 3. How many women do you know who are 6 ft 4


  • #11
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,356 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    Apparently this is true albeit not 100% but dam close,basically it is almost genetically impossible for this to occur,and when I rack my brains to think of one single exception to the rule,I cannot find one, A son can occasionally be the same height as his natural mother,but hardly ever smaller than her. A daughter can of course be taller than her father.

    Go away and think about that now.

    I remember being told about this many years ago, and like you, I cannot think of anyone that I know that is shorter than their mother. Wanna' include dwarves?:)


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  • #12
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    needless to say it applies to when the son is FULLY GROWN

    and excluding primordial dwarfism and wee man lookalikes


  • #13
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    orourkeda wrote: »
    No. But I'm 6' 3. How many women do you know who are 6 ft 4

    Exactly! proves my point, a fully grown male will Always be taller than his natural mother! see?:)


  • #14
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    Exactly! proves my point, a fully grown male will Always be taller than his natural mother! see?:)

    Its due to the fact the majority of women are smaller than their partners.

    If a woman was 6'1 and the man was Danny De Vito, The likleyhood is that they will have children - male and female smaller than her but taller than him, with the female siblings being shorter than the male.


  • #15
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,227 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    ah that just an anomaly,proves why its not 100%,but seriously do you personally have any relatives who break this rule,but ya dont:pac:

    There's a rule?:confused:

    Another FF travesty.


  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    because i don't know or actually seen any siamese twins... all of'em on the telly aren't real?

    i know lots of farely short blokes. all of'ems mothers are shorter?

    o_O


  • #17
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I know 3.

    A family living at home had a mother who was 6'3" married to the Da who was about 5'7". 3 boys and one girl all grew up to be in the 6' to 6'2" range. The girl was the tallest. But none of the kids were taller than their mother.


  • #18
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    snyper wrote: »
    and excluding primordial dwarfism and wee man lookalikes

    Why?

    Is that because they happen to be smaller than their birth mother by any chance, therefore rendering the premise of this thread utterly incorrect.


  • #19
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    No Snyper thats simply not the case,the boys will be taller!


  • #20
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    My friend is 21 and 5'9" and his mother and sister(19) are around 6 foot.

    Very rare though I suppose.

    ****, maybe he got mixed up at the hospital?


  • #21
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    No its true I tell ya,if anyone thinks they know of one its best to see if that mother is their NATURAL mother,bet she isny,anyway gotta run!


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  • #22
    dilallio
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    You haven't seen Galway's KD


  • #23
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225197/Meet-Emma-Cahill-Britains-tallest-schoolgirl-towers-teachers-size-14-feet.html

    do you reckon this girl will be smaller than her sons if ever has any. perhaps she will but would you bet on it?


  • #24
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,969 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    dilallio wrote: »
    You haven't seen Galway's KD

    First person I thought of too!


  • #25
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    dilallio wrote: »
    You haven't seen Galway's KD

    Who?

    :confused:


  • #26
    seafood dunleavy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭seafood dunleavy


    Do midgets conceive midgets?


  • #27
    dilallio
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    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    Who?

    :confused:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054862157


  • #28
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I know a guy who is shorter than both his natural parents. His mother is no longer with us, though. Why would it be "impossible", knowing what we do about genetics e.g. recessive traits? :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #29
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    orourkeda wrote: »
    No. But I'm 6' 3. How many women do you know who are 6 ft 4


    Yore Ma for starters! :D


































    Sorry! :p


  • #30
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    Apparently this is true albeit not 100% but dam close,basically it is almost genetically impossible for this to occur,and when I rack my brains to think of one single exception to the rule,I cannot find one, A son can occasionally be the same height as his natural mother,but hardly ever smaller than her. A daughter can of course be taller than her father.

    Go away and think about that now.

    Father 174 cm
    Mother 176 cm
    Brother 175 cm
    Me 186 cm






    What height is the postman? :D


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  • #31
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    peasant wrote: »
    Father 174 cm
    Mother 176 cm
    Brother 175 cm
    Me 186 cm

    Yeah but your ma prolly had heels on! ;)


  • #32
    nibtrix
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    Complete bullsh/t! One of my brothers is about 2 inches shorter than my Mother, he's about the same height as my Father. Another brother is taller than both of them.


  • #33
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,356 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    nibtrix wrote: »
    Complete bullsh/t! One of my brothers is about 2 inches shorter than my Mother, he's about the same height as my Father. Another brother is taller than both of them.

    It is not bull****. It is very rare that a normal (as in non midget/dwarf) fully grown and mature male will be smaller in height than his natural mother. Very rare. I know of nobody.

    Of course there may be some instances, but I would say it's a very small percentage.


  • #34
    Lumen
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    Height is influenced by nutrition as well as genetics.

    This is why the Japanese are getting taller. Or so I've read.


  • #35
    prinz
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    I know one.


  • #36
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,356 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I don't think it's been mentioned, but one very obvious example is Wiliam and Harry. Diana was tall for a woman, probably 5'10" or so. Both boys are at least two to three inches taller, despite Charles only being about 5'9" or thereabouts...


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  • #37
    Hurricane-Dean
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    One of my good friends is shorter than his mother and his 4 brothers, 2 of who are younger than him :pac:


  • #38
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    Lumen wrote: »
    Height is influenced by nutrition as well as genetics.

    This is why the Japanese are getting taller. Or so I've read.

    Nah. I saw three of them yesterday. They're still very small.


  • #39
    cynder
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    MY dad 5.6 (tallest in his family)
    My mother 5.4 (smallest in her family)
    Me 5.5 (female)
    My brother 5.3 and 3/4 (age 32) he was 1 foot smaller than anyone in his class when he was at school.


  • #40
    Pace2008
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    orourkeda wrote: »
    Superb paradox.

    I always thought something that wasnt 100% true was false.
    That's an oxymoron, not a paradox.


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