How tall are you?

[Al B. Sure!]

I think he meant the American numbers. But you of course already got that, just had to poke him a little, didn't you?

No. That can't be it, Nikolai. I made it very clear earlier...

I really question this whole average American male height is 5'9 1/2". That seems entirely too short. If that were true, I would be towering over everybody I know but honestly, I'm average compared to most guys. No one ever remarks that I'm 'tall'.

I have a feeling it's Mexicans and Asians shrinking the population I would suspect the average height of whites and Blacks is 5'11"-6'1"

Surely Ben is just silly and he thinks there were tall female legionaries. He's not illiterate.

[SlowwHand]

5'10" (177.5cm)


I'd like to extend an offer to the dwarfs that they join my Dallas Dwarf Tosser team.

[Al B. Sure!]

5'10" (177.5cm)


I'd like to extend an offer to the dwarfs that they join my Dallas Dwarf Tosser team.

you seemed taller. still on the wrong side of 6'0", shorty.

(to be honest, I might actually be 6'2". The military says 6'1" but my crutches for 73 inch people were a joke [they didn't even reach my armpits]; I had to get them switched to taller ones)

[Barnabas]

In my metric part of the world, tallness begins at 1.80 meters, that is almost an inch below 6 feet, where tallness begins in the USA

[Barnabas]

Asher, you are of the same height as british bisexuals David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and of Tennis Players, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors

Many great people are 1.77

[Al B. Sure!]

Asher, you are of the same height as british bisexuals David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and of Tennis Players, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors

Many great people are 1.77

I find it funny that you describe them as British bisexuals.

However, it's possibly not true about David Bowie:

Biographer David Buckley writes, "If Ziggy confused both his creator and his audience, a big part of that confusion centred on the topic of sexuality."[85] Bowie declared himself bisexual in an interview with Melody Maker in January 1972, a move coinciding with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.[38] In a September 1976 interview with Playboy, Bowie said: "It's true — I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."[86]

In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, Bowie said his public declaration of bisexuality was "the biggest mistake I ever made",[87] and in 1993 he said his interest in homosexual and bisexual culture was more a product of the times and situation than his own feelings: "It wasn't something I was comfortable with at all."[88]

Asked in 2002 by Blender whether he still believed his public declaration was the biggest mistake he ever made, he replied:

Interesting. [Long pause] I don’t think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that bisexuality became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.[89]

Buckley's view of the period is that Bowie, "a taboo-breaker and a dabbler ... mined sexual intrigue for its ability to shock",[90] and that "it is probably true that Bowie was never gay, nor even consistently actively bisexual ... he did, from time to time, experiment, even if only out of a sense of curiosity and a genuine allegiance with the 'transgressional'."[91] Biographer Christopher Sandford says that according to Mary Finnigan, with whom Bowie had an affair in 1969, the singer and his first wife Angie "lived in a fantasy world [...] and they created their bisexual fantasy."[92] Sandford tells how, during the marriage, Bowie "made a positive fetish of repeating the quip that he and his wife had met while '****ing the same bloke' [...] Gay sex was always an anecdotal and laughing matter. That Bowie's actual tastes swung the other way is clear from even a partial tally of his affairs with women."

And whoah 7 posters above 6'4". Guess I should've made the scale higher.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Jagger is only 5'9" in heels. His real height's about 5'7", but he's famously touchy about the subject.

[Ben Kenobi]

5'9.5" is the average male height in the US

Sorry, I only caught the post I quoted. Missed the earlier one.

[Provost Harrison]

Threads like this remind me of why I can't stand this place anymore.

[N35t0r]

You tiptoe this place instead?

[Provost Harrison]

That's very good Did it take you the whole two days to think of?

[N35t0r]

lol, no, I just got back from holidays and this thread was on the first page... I didn't even check the date.

Poly is dead

[ZEE]

actually the past 3 months Poly's traffic and site worth has been slowly increasing.

[Tiamat]

Tiamat, I actually thought about you when I made the poll because I figured it would be unfair to call a woman a dwarf if she's under 5'6" because 5'6" is average height for women.

But you surprised me by being taller than some of the men

Well then be surprised cause all of my girls are taller then me I have one that's 5"10 one that's 6 ft and one that's 5"8.

[Tiamat]

Poly's been sliding downhill for a while.