wait, fuck, guys I'm 5'5? have spent the past dozen years or so telling people I was 5'4 because I think I just....guessed? at some point? but I've now googled it for the first time turns out when people said "wow you seem tall for 5'4" the answer wasn't "yeah I gesticulate a lot, like a peacock"
Thought I was the below average male height of 5ft7 then found out I was actually the below average height of 5ft8. My sympathy with you at this difficult time Marie 🤣
imagine, all those years you were thinking “I could never dunk a basketball” but now…
I was 5' before I had my first baby and now I'm just over 5'2. No that's not a normal thing to happen
I thought I was 5' but i guess i better get measured
The doctor said the only other cases she's ever heard of are in teenage pregnancies (the growth hormones trigger the mothers growth as well as they are still so young) but I was 27 so 🤷
That is fascinating
Perhaps you've grown?
My wife thought she was 4'10" for years, but it turned out that she was 4'8".
A mate of mine thought she was 5'4 for years, we're both the same height... 1,60m so 5'3 ha ha
You know there's a song almost exactly about this, right? youtu.be/kTzlN5I2vek?...
Oooh I don't know this, will check it out :)
It's such a funny, petty, brilliant song. Anna Erhard's whole album is great, actually.
Marie Le COLOSSUS
I was convinced I was 5'5 forever until my mid twenties when I found out I was 5'7. I had GROWN well into my twenties when we're told we stop by then.
I carried on growing until I was about 25, although at 5’2” you wouldn’t know it.
I eventually made it to the heady heights of 5’3” but well past my 21st birthday!
how tf did you google your own height?
I googled it in centimetres
Okay, so it was conversion that was the issue rather than measurement? Thanks for clarifying that, it was very puzzling for a while!
[sorry about this, I’m seeing a lot of ayatollah refs so need to get it out of my head] ayatollah than you thought??
actual lol
You've gained an inch of height? Sounds like a bit of a stretch.
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hahahahaha suck it "average woman in England", am basically Godzilla next to you
Us tiny men in the UK are justifiably in your thrall.
Jacky is 5'3". She's Scottish though & claims to be taller than average.
Average height of UK women is 5'3" or 5'4" depending on sources, but if you are shopping for clothes it's apparently 5'10". GAP trousers are particularly hilarious IIRC.
Oh, is that where I need to go for trousers?
I reckon. I usually only have to cut about 4 or 5" off the bottom of trousers, but I remember trying on trousers there and they were all about a FOOT too long.
My theory is that American companies work on the average for Europe so it all gets thrown out by Scandinavians and the Dutch. But luckily Levis now sell 'cropped' 501s, so you can buy them as normal jeans and not need to turn them up.
At 5’6” I’m taller, comparatively to other women, than my 5’11” boyfriend is to other men, which is quite odd because I don’t often feel tall and he is generally perceived as reasonably tall. I assume because a lot of women still wear heels, maybe?
yeah do you always wear flats? bc I don't even wear Heels heels but would say I spend the vast majority of my life in 1 to 2 inch heels, so obv in that context you wouldn't actually be taller than me....ever
Pretty much now! I mean some of my flats are reasonably chunky but yeah. At some point I might crack out my 2-3ish heeled ankle boots again just to assert my actually tall identity.
I used to work in an office in Heels heels and I didn’t even feel tall then because every woman working there wore Heels heels, damn it
He'll be perceived as tall by men and women, you'll only be perceived as tall by average and below women
My sister is 5'7, but I'm 6'1 so she doesn't register as tall to me, even though she statistically is I just see everyone under 5'9 as little
Im so confused by the past tense 'was' in this comment.
Marie "Gigantor" Le Conte.
"I have trouble converting from metric to imperial, like a peacock."
Chat GPT is going to blow a fuse or two when it finds out the news
There's always someone who uses ChatGPT for literally no reason
Have you at least updated her wiki now though?
Maybe to convert metric to customary.
You know what that would make a lot of sense.
I've spent my entire adult life thinking that I was 5ft 6 (can't really remember why), however, I recently needed to know my height and it turns out I'm just under 5ft 8. Blew my mind.
Hit my mid-fourties and have a horrible suspicion I’ve started the process of shrinking. And that alas the extra from my height is going into my width.
So relatable. When I moved to Germany two older ladies in a supermarket queue remarked how tall I was & asked me my height. I mumbled that I didn't know ('cause metric) but they looked at me like I was an idiot so I panic-guessed an approximate number of cms. That then became my European Height
wait are u taller than me
I don't know??? so I'm 1m64 which it turns out makes me considerably closer to 5'5 than 5'4....what are you?
I am 1.647m so I guess we’re about the same
So long as the measurement was undertaken next to a doorframe while a helper marked a straight line with a pencil on said doorframe. This is the only legitimate way to measure height!
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You may even be 5'6. Depends on what time of the day you measured yourself (due to gravity).
I had this exact same thing after being measured at GP a few years ago. Felt like it shook up everything I knew about myself!
I’m 5’4…but the nurse measured me a few yrs ago and said 5’5. Told her she was wrong. She asked if I did Pilates. I said yes. She said “it’s always Pilates…you people grow” 😊I’ll add that other than the extra inch.. practicing Pilates is one of the best decisions I’ve made in life😉
