Being tall-dominant or recessive gene?

[JustKate]

Is 6ft tall? I'm 6ft 1 and I feel I'm at a normal height. I wish I was taller.

5'10" is about average for males, I think.

Yup, it is. I've had people call me a liar, though. "No, 6'1" has gotta be average!"

I think a lot of guys just lie about how tall they are so women think 5'10" is actually 6'.

Oh, do they ever.

I'm 5'8 1/2", so in 3-inch heels, I'm just under 6 feet tall. But the number of guys who have told me, as I'm looking down on them, "Oh, I'm about 6 feet"...

...Well, OK, I have no idea how many, but the answer is, "a lot." I don't know who they're trying to kid - me or themselves - but a whooooooole bunch of guys who are 5'10" or so will routinely give me that "I'm about 6 feet" line. How accurate this is depends on your definition of "about," I guess...

 

[ITL]

My dad has five brothers - three are tall, three (including my dad) are short or average (the tallossity came from my grandad). I definitely take after my dad - I'm around 5 foot 9 or 10, a little taller than him. But the three tall uncles are 6 foot 3 or 4.

My mum is around 5 foot tall, as are most of her relatives. I have so many tiny aunties...

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, guys do seem to have some trouble with matters of scale.

Hey, I'm a guy, I'm allowed to say that!

I'm in denial about the fact that my younger brother is an inch taller than me, but otherwise I think I do all right.

 

[auntiehill]

I am 5 foot 6 inches. Very average for a woman.

My mom is about 5' 1" and my Dad is about 6' 2". All the tall, thin, athletic people on my Dad's side have heart disease, lung disease, stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, vision problems, etc. My Dad was one of nine kids, and there's only 4 of them left.

On my Mom's side, everyone was a bit on the chunky side and a bit short, as well. Only my aunt died "young" (in her late 60s), because of cancer, and my grandmother died in her 60s due to a stroke that was not properly treated. Everyone else lasted until their late 70s/early 80s. So, in my family, the short, fat people actually outlive the tall, thin people by a pretty good margin.

 

[Michael Chris]

Yeah, I don't have any experience with death of family. The only one of my grandparents died a couple years before I was born at 76 because he was a smoker and got emphysema. My other grandparents are doing pretty good (ages 94, 87, and 85). I've never known any one close to me who has died. I'm not looking forward to that day.

 

[Emher]

Is 6ft tall? I'm 6ft 1 and I feel I'm at a normal height. I wish I was taller.

Don't. I'm 6'3" and I sometimes wish I was a few inches shorter. The world's just slightly too small for me.

 

[broberfett]

Is 6ft tall? I'm 6ft 1 and I feel I'm at a normal height. I wish I was taller.

That was a woman. Six foot is just a decent height for a man. I consider it to be huge for a woman.

 

[JuanBolio]

Is 6ft tall? I'm 6ft 1 and I feel I'm at a normal height. I wish I was taller.

That was a woman. Six foot is just a decent height for a man. I consider it to be huge for a woman.

Heh - my girlfriend is 5'11''. I'm 6'3''. If we end up procreating I think we're going to have some rather tall kids.

 

[Stephen!]

For some people it seems to be a result of later growth spurts, from spending longer in the childhood growth phase.

http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/...5&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&mid=858&ItemId=925

One way of trying to identify the kids who are going to be early maturers and late maturers is just by eyeballing them. In childhood, early maturers tend to be taller, heavier, and have more muscle mass than their peers. Alternately, late maturers are generally very light (smaller) and lean in childhood (ectomorphic). However, the late maturer may end up being taller as adults because they are in the childhood growth phase longer. This eyeball took at kids will give you, as the coach, a general idea of the young athletes likely to be early maturers and those likely to be late maturers. Other maturational characteristics include: arm-pit hair, facial hair, voice change, and/or menstrual cycle.

 

[JuanBolio]

For some people it seems to be a result of later growth spurts, from spending longer in the childhood growth phase.

http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/...5&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&mid=858&ItemId=925

One way of trying to identify the kids who are going to be early maturers and late maturers is just by eyeballing them. In childhood, early maturers tend to be taller, heavier, and have more muscle mass than their peers. Alternately, late maturers are generally very light (smaller) and lean in childhood (ectomorphic). However, the late maturer may end up being taller as adults because they are in the childhood growth phase longer. This eyeball took at kids will give you, as the coach, a general idea of the young athletes likely to be early maturers and those likely to be late maturers. Other maturational characteristics include: arm-pit hair, facial hair, voice change, and/or menstrual cycle.

Yep - I remember getting my first pit, pubic, and facial hairs early on. Then my voice changed and I started bleeding from my vagina - which was odd since I was trying to tell everyone in the immediate vicinity that I was suddenly bleeding from an orifice I didn't know I had up until then with a voice that didn't sound like my own.

 

[StarMan]

Is 6ft tall? I'm 6ft 1 and I feel I'm at a normal height. I wish I was taller.

Don't. I'm 6'3" and I sometimes wish I was a few inches shorter. The world's just slightly too small for me.

Indeed. I'm just over 6'4" - don't ya love doorways?

And when you're out and about in a noisy environment - say a pub - and you're trying to keep track of conversation when everyone else is a head or two shorter than you?

I can reach for things that are high up, though.

 

[Emher]

^Doorways are okay actually. What sucks are buses, trains, subway trains, sittin anywhere except in the front of most cars (and because I'm apparantly so freakishly huge, it often affects if anyone has a chance of sitting behind me or not), way too many mvoei theaters, and regular theaters and concert halls are just a pain.

The noise bit I have toruble with from other reasons. Namely I hear EVERYTHING and have huge trouble filtering stuff out.

What kicks me though is clothes. I have to go a special store to buy mine. Same with shoes. Also since I'm so tall way to many seem to be afraid of me. Which sucks when it comes to girls.