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Why is it so bloody difficult to get regular fit jeans these days!

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  • #32
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Blaas4life wrote: »
    What should be a healthy waist/weight for someone just shy of 6ft tall

    Weight wise anything from 71 to 80 kg.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    Blaas4life wrote: »
    What should be a healthy waist/weight for someone just shy of 6ft tall

    What's your deadlift?


  • #34
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    Blaas4life wrote: »
    What should be a healthy waist/weight for someone just shy of 6ft tall

    Somewhere between 61 and 83kg (BMI of between 18.5 and 25, assuming you're 1.82)

    It's not a measure of should though, it's a measure of probably.

    What it's says is that a person of your height and in that weight range has a very high probability of having a health body composition.

    It doesn't account for outliers, so an athlete your height could easily weigh 100kg and undoubtedly be healthy, but if you take a random 1.82m, 100kg person it's highly probable that person has an unhealthy body composition.

    I think this is why BMI gets criticised so much; people think of it as black and white when it isn't. Though it very probably applies to any individual.


  • #35
    yesto24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭yesto24


    Conservatory wrote: »
    Still people haven’t been educated it’s frightening. It’s a measure of your body mass index. It is the be all and end all of health.
    You divide your weight in kg by your height in metres. Then divide your answer by your height in metres.
    This will give you a BMI score.
    You need to get between 18.5 and 25 if you don’t you will miss a lot of days of work due to your immune system not being robust enough.
    It really is a very complicated scale but I think it should be a leaving cert subject.
    I think a nation with a perfect BMI would miss very few days of work due to illness.

    Oh I know what the BMI is.
    It's just that you called it complicated.
    It is really very simple, your weight divided by your height squared.
    I was taking the piss out of you, but it went over your head.
    If you think that is complicated I don't see much of a future for your career prospects regardless of how many days you are in.


  • #36
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    riffmongous wrote: »
    What's your deadlift?

    I haven’t tested it in a while but using my BMI as a marker probably 500kg on account of my perfect health.
    My BMI score was a little in the overweight rang when I pulled 180kg so it’d have to be a lot better now.


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  • #37
    Conservatory
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    yesto24 wrote: »
    Oh I know what the BMI is.
    It's just that you called it complicated.
    It is really very simple, your weight divided by your height squared.
    I was taking the piss out of you, but it went over your head.
    If you think that is complicated I don't see much of a future for your career prospects regardless of how many days you are in.

    Sure you knew what it was all the time it was just a joke.


  • #38
    Blaas4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭Blaas4life


    Royalty Greasy Packer wrote: »
    Weight wise anything from 71 to 80 kg.

    Im Slightly underweight then at 69kg

    But still I wouldn't be happy with my Shape.... though I'd love to learn some proper info as any websites I look up give massively varing info


  • #39
    Conservatory
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    Blaas4life wrote: »
    Im Slightly underweight then at 69kg

    But still I wouldn't be happy with my shape

    Try having a croissant each day as an extra treat.


  • #40
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    That’s what the protein shake industry wants us to believe. Carrying too much muscle makes your heart have to work harder. I have bigger arms and legs than most at my weight class but I’m not ridiculously oversized.

    #crossfitter

    Of course you want your heart to work harder, that's how you get it swole.


  • #41
    Blaas4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭Blaas4life


    Conservatory wrote: »
    Try having a croissant each day as an extra treat.

    Haha...I only shop once a week


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  • #42
    yesto24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭yesto24


    Conservatory wrote: »
    Sure you knew what it was all the time it was just a joke.

    A bit far calling it a joke .
    It was more a comment on you calling it complicated.
    But if I have to explain it twice it mustn't have been very good or clear.
    Oh well.
    Must work on my communication skills.
    Thanks for bringing this to my attention.


  • #43
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Blaas4life wrote: »
    Haha...I only shop once a week

    There’s no haha about it bucko. Your life is at risk.

    There’s no joking when it comes to BMI.


  • #44
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    The human body isn't meant to carry too much muscle so imo it's bollox that 6 foot guy some guy could be 100kg and be healthy. the problem is we equate health with looks in our society which isn't necessarily the case at all.

    Anyway, jeans are getting looser again anyway, or at least that was the projected trend in 2018 but I think some things might just stick and the skinny jeans in Ireland at least will probably stay around for a while.

    Anyway, there's loads of decent options out there. Most 'skinny' jeans aren't even that skinny.


  • #45
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Conservatory is a funny poster. For a lad that works on a site all day he manages to post here a fair bit during those hours.


  • #46
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Fekin soyboys, wha?


  • #47
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    Blaas4life wrote: »
    Im Slightly underweight then at 69kg

    But still I wouldn't be happy with my shape
    You're not underweight. You have a BMI of 20.8 which is pretty close to middle of the healthy range.

    Happy with your body is an entirely different question! But if you're there then it's not such a bad place start, much closer to where you (I'm guessing) want to be than way off the scales.


  • #48
    Conservatory
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    yesto24 wrote: »
    A bit far calling it a joke .
    It was more a comment on you calling it complicated.
    But if I have to explain it twice it mustn't have been very good or clear.
    Oh well.
    Must work on my communication skills.
    Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

    No problem. If you have anymore questions I’ll try my best to help you.


  • #49
    Blaas4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭Blaas4life


    Conservatory wrote: »
    There’s no haha about it bucko. Your life is at risk.

    There’s no joking when it comes to BMI.

    I'm ok....this time last October I was sick amd couldnt eat and dipped down to 64...so prob why I feel shiite with so much extra weight


  • #50
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    NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »
    this has to be the 49th time this thread has been done.

    there is a shop in my town that has nothing but regular fit jeans, wrangler's etc. all the culchie dad's love it.
    I started shopping in my local one.
    I am happier since I accepted my fate.


  • #51
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Conservatory is a funny poster. For a lad that works on a site all day he manages to post here a fair bit during those hours.

    You could go through all my posts. Very few happen during business hours apart from the odd lunch break.


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  • #52
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,445 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Conservatory wrote: »
    You could go through all my posts. Very few happen during business hours apart from the odd lunch break.

    That would take a lot of effort. I do enjoy your posts tho. You know what buttons to push.


  • #53
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    HappyAsLarE wrote: »
    Men’s clothing is becoming more feminine. Equality innit.

    Clearly there was great equality in the 1500's:

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  • #54
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    68 kg in new money, 29 inch waist, 34/5 leg, 5'10" Same weight/size now at 50 as I was at 20. Slim fit Levi's 501/511's fit me grand. No work on my part mind you, the men in my family on both sides stay pretty much the same weight throughout life. Genes and such. Not "metabolism" though, more that we just eat feck all.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #55
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    They're not even skinny?


  • #56
    Wibbs
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    Creative83 wrote: »
    Do these people have no balls or something... must be the most uncomfortable thing in the world! Also hideous :eek:
    this bit I could never understand. I mean my meat and two veg are amply enough sized and jeans like that never troubled me. I can and do even cross my legs when sitting down in them. :eek: Though apparently that's "gay" these days.

    An apparently Gay lad earlier. With crushed nuts....

    7f2c3adadcae22d65b71faa1a19eaf76--cigars-and-women-bond-issue.jpg

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #57
    Wibbs
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    shakeitoff wrote: »
    They're not even skinny?
    Yeah, they look like slim fit to me too.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #58
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    You could even argue they are a regular fit.

    Also, unless you are walking around as hard as a rock all day, those jeans pictured would be grand. These feckin notions of Permanent Python Penises (PPP™).

    If someone gave you a million quid to stuff the lot into a Yop bottle on a cold day, you could probably do it.


  • #59
    squawker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    internet shop

    don't bother going into high street shops all they cater for is teens whose balls haven't dropped yet


  • #60
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Conservatory is a funny poster. For a lad that works on a site all day he manages to post here a fair bit during those hours.

    He's the one resting against the shovel.


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