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Gusto Brunt
22-12-2023, 03:47 PM
Well not shorter, but that young people are getting taller.

I'm about 5 feet 10, and back when I was 18 that was a reasonable height for a man.

Now 23 years on, I see young girls and women taller than me in the street. Something I never experienced when I was 18.

Today I was out shopping in the high street and most of the young girls and women aged 15 to about 23 were taller than me. I did feel quite short.

But that's happened down the decades. I remember going on a school trip to an old village and the top of the doorways were only about 5 feet 6. :shocked: :joker:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ac-comp-shorter-boyfriend.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=1500&h=1000&crop=1

Zizu
22-12-2023, 04:24 PM
On a side note ..

We are all 1/2 an inch to 3/4 shorter at the end of each day as our spine gets kinda shorter / compressed as the day goes on .. you apparently wake up at your normal height of course .


Body height decreases throughout the day due to fluid loss from the intervertebral disk


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Kate!
22-12-2023, 04:47 PM
On a side note ..

We are all 1/2 an inch to 3/4 shorter at the end of each day as our spine gets kinda shorter / compressed as the day goes on .. you apparently wake up at your normal height of course .


Body height decreases throughout the day due to fluid loss from the intervertebral disk


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Thats interesting.

I was always 5ft 9 but the last couple.of years I've been 5ft 8. Ish.

bitontheslide
22-12-2023, 05:06 PM
women almost certainly get shorter as they get older but that is a medical condition

Zizu
22-12-2023, 05:37 PM
women almost certainly get shorter as they get older but that is a medical condition


I thought everybody did ..


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smudgie
22-12-2023, 06:09 PM
More like getting wider. :blush:

bitontheslide
22-12-2023, 06:59 PM
I thought everybody did ..


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it can be very bad for women

parmnion
22-12-2023, 08:05 PM
No, I still see loads of youngsters I would class as umpa Lumpa people.

Alf
22-12-2023, 08:48 PM
No. I'm still hung like a donkey.

Redway
23-12-2023, 04:56 PM
No. I’m not there yet.

ChalkOutlineMan
24-12-2023, 06:39 PM
Only my patience.

Redway
24-12-2023, 07:19 PM
Only my patience.

Ditto.

parmnion
24-12-2023, 07:43 PM
Only my patience.

Are you Sandi Toksvigs doctor?