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Sickened! Not as tall as thought

  • 21-05-2013 09:32PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭


    I went for a physical today and my height was measured and it turns out I am two inches shorter than I thought. I always thought I was 5' 9' but when I was properly measured it turns out I am two inches shorter. It is an absolute kick to the guts tbh!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    What's the weather like down there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Be grand sure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    How OP? Was your mammy lying to you all this time?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    and you though you were that because?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    You're taller in the morning. Just measure yourself then to feel better :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Have you noticed things are harder to reach since your physical?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I went for a physical today and my height was measured and it turns out I am two inches shorter than I thought. I always thought I was 5' 9' but when I was properly measured it turns out I am two inches shorter. It is an absolute kick to the guts tbh!

    A kick to the guts ? surely you mean a kick in the chest ... shorty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    whatever you do dont measure your dick, youll probably cry


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I measured myself using a measuring tape and another time just marked the top of my head on the wall and measured to the floor. I have lost over 2 stone in the gym over the last 5 months and it turns out my BMI is now much higher as a result of finding my true height.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    buy two inch heals. sorted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Dont worry, they say, small man big whip.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I measured myself using a measuring tape and another time just marked the top of my head on the wall and measured to the floor. I have lost over 2 stone in the gym over the last 5 months and it turns out my BMI is now much higher as a result of finding my true height.

    ah you must be cockeyed, you measured a diagonal line up the wall not a straight one

    dont worry, most people are ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I went for a physical today and my height was measured and it turns out I am two inches shorter than I thought. I always thought I was 5' 9' but when I was properly measured it turns out I am two inches shorter. It is an absolute kick to the guts tbh!

    There is a noticeable difference between two inches. I suspect part of you realised you were maybe a bit shorter but you just liked the sound of 5'9'' better. Quite a lot of people give themselves an extra inch. It's rarer to find people who underestimate their height. I knew a girl who claimed to be much smaller than she was but that was probably down to not feeling feminine because she was quite tall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭smileyj1987


    Buy some miracle grow !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,423 ✭✭✭trashcan


    5.7, you lucky lucky bastard.:( (In a Monty Python voice)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8 lomtick


    What rattled me was finding out an inch was 2.54 cm and not 2.5 cm; that discrepancy took a good inch off my height compared to what I thought it was as I had always measured in centimetres!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    6 foot 3 over here. Haw haw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Feet :confused: we are metric now. Sounds better too as you would be over 1 meter 70 down there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    big man - big boll*x, small man - all boll*x.

    Having said that, surely you knew you were a short ar*e or have you been hanging around with jockeys.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭coolbond


    6 foot 3 over here. Haw haw.
    im not too far behind ya at 6"2 ;-)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,432 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Get yourself to London OP new Star Wars movies coming soon and they need ewoks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I went for a physical today and my height was measured and it turns out I am two inches shorter than I thought. I always thought I was 5' 9' but when I was properly measured it turns out I am two inches shorter. It is an absolute kick to the guts tbh!
    Stinicker wrote: »
    I measured myself using a measuring tape and another time just marked the top of my head on the wall and measured to the floor. I have lost over 2 stone in the gym over the last 5 months and it turns out my BMI is now much higher as a result of finding my true height.

    Hope your now higher BMI didn't affect the outcome of your medical and you passed it okay :)

    That's alot of weight to have lost over the last 5months Stinicker but you must be happy with that at least?! I'm trying to picture here how you fell short by 2inches though; 1/2 ->1inches okay; but two inches seems unusually high to be out by when you got your height measured beforehand yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Were you wearing your shoes when you were measuring yourself op? Lots of people make that "mistake"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,440 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    6 foot 3 over here. Haw haw.
    6'4" here. How's the weather down there?

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Dont worry about it OP , most Irish men think they're taller than they are for some reason.

    Me on the other hand is 6ft4 :P

    So na na na na naaawww !! :pac:

    / Wins thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭theholyghost


    This isn't remotely surprsing! Most people I meet blatantly over report their height. I never trust the figure anyone gives. A friend of mine is convinced that he is 5 9, he's about 5 6 but it is like a mental block, he's not exagerating his height, he is genuinely deluded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    your head will be bigger in comparison to your body now too. may want to get a set of stabilisers for that thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,440 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    KTRIC wrote: »
    Dont worry about it OP , most Irish men think they're taller than they are for some reason.

    Me on the other hand is 6ft4 :P

    So na na na na naaawww !! :pac:

    / Wins thread.
    2nd place. Check post above.

    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    endacl wrote: »
    6'4" here. How's the weather down there?

    :D

    Lanky bastard


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,440 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Lanky bastard
    What's that?? Who said that?!?

    Oh. Sorry. Didn't mean to step on your head.


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