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Can You Tell How Tall Someone Is Just From Reading Their Posts?

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I'm 5ft 7ins.

Can you tell?

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-four years ago)

Pick on someone your own size, you big bully.

― Rex, Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:28 (twenty-four years ago)

*weeps*

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-four years ago)

crikey cj im only 5ft !!

― donna (donna), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:31 (twenty-four years ago)

woohoo, i'm taller than someone!

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:22 (twenty-four years ago)

whoo-hoo, I'm taller than both Maria and donna!

― liz! (liz!), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:30 (twenty-four years ago)

I always imagine jel as being relatively short (maybe 5'5")

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 October 2002 00:34 (twenty-four years ago)

has anyone seen that pbs commercial where the kid gets on the school bus and is taunted with "look everybody! it's shorty big short short!" ??

― ron (ron), Monday, 21 October 2002 01:26 (twenty-four years ago)

That's funny, because I think of jel as being rather tall. At least 5'11.

I'm quite small at only just under 5'4 (not tall enough to see the top of the fridge) but I usually wear big boots or heels that add a few inches. Being petite is fine of course, but it seems that for me, high arches and flat shoes just don't mix.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 21 October 2002 01:41 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm fucking huge.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 01:47 (twenty-four years ago)

Too tall.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-four years ago)

i have serious doubts that a woman can be "too tall" tall is good

― ron (ron), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:34 (twenty-four years ago)

what about the 50 foot woman?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:36 (twenty-four years ago)

Taller than a surprising number of the men I meet.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:36 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be surprised if she were not taller than every man you meet

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:04 (twenty-four years ago)

obviously I'm of below average height.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:05 (twenty-four years ago)

but you have a larger than average head, right?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:06 (twenty-four years ago)

sure

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:07 (twenty-four years ago)

you don't sound sure.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:09 (twenty-four years ago)

if you could see my freakish, beautiful overgrown melon-like skull, you would know that I could never be anything BUT 100% sure.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:12 (twenty-four years ago)

do you produce seeds?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:14 (twenty-four years ago)

are you interested in growing a crop of skulls?

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:15 (twenty-four years ago)

shhhhhh.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:16 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 6 foot 1!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 October 2002 07:55 (twenty-four years ago)

jel is tall and slim

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:22 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots of people I have met from the internet say they expected me to be short. I'm actually about 5'10". How come I seem short? I don't understand it.

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:38 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm taller than I read.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:38 (twenty-four years ago)

I can fit Martin Skidmore in my top pocket.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:40 (twenty-four years ago)

I believed Rebecca to be tall. She writes tall.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:42 (twenty-four years ago)

I think that's called "overcompensation". Would anyone else like to be a point on my mental one-point negative correlation (so far) scatter graph of propensity for incoherent rambling vs height?

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:13 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess is the tallest on ILE. Have we proven by science that his rambling is nothing but coherent?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:26 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 5'11. Shorter than Jel. Ever-so-slightly taller than Madeleine. I guess that makes me average height. Ha ha.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-four years ago)

One of my uncles is 6'11" - he had a house custom-built so he could fit in the doorways. It's like a giant's house - the bathrooms have a regular sink for us wee folk and a really really tall sink for him.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:14 (twenty-four years ago)

I am 6'0"

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:17 (twenty-four years ago)

sarah it's like a giant's house bcz it IS a giant's house!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:21 (twenty-four years ago)

Does it have a beanstalk outside the front door which leads down through the clouds to earth?

I think I've heard of it.

― C J (C J), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:37 (twenty-four years ago)

'Too tall' women = a pernicious myth. Tall women in general = yay.

A hair under 6' in my case. I've never minded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:42 (twenty-four years ago)

5' 7" but I was wearing heels on Saturday - could you tell?

― Lara, Monday, 21 October 2002 15:44 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently "Mandee" sounds like a short person's name, but I am 5'7" which isn't that short for a chick I guess.

― Mandee, Monday, 21 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-four years ago)

I am tiny.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:40 (twenty-four years ago)

5'10" which I understand is an average height

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:51 (twenty-four years ago)

I assume everyone i short based on the fact that they post on ILX.

― g (graysonlane), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-four years ago)


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