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[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

I'm 6'4" (193 cm) and I felt totally average walking around Amsterdam. As opposed to being a mutant freak in Tokyo.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In the US, it also depends on the area. At 6'4" you might be normal in Salt Lake City but a freak in Tampa. My wife is 6'2". In most places she is by far the tallest woman (and often person) in the room.

When we lived in Park City (Utah) she didn't seem as tall and often would not be the tallest woman there. It was fun to see.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TIL that Mormons are just normal Americans that grew too tall and were driven insane by the altitude.

"So why aren't Dutch people all Mormon?", you might ask. Simple: cannabis and women with full legal control to do or not do what they want with their bodies are excellent inoculations against Mormonism.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Can I join LDS so I can also be inoculated?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm afraid you've gotten the order wrong. If you ask nicely by way of completing the necessary paperwork, you can visit the Netherlands for the inoculation, though!

[-] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

6'2" is still 9 inches taller than the average woman in Utah. Is Park City some kind of extreme international anomaly?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I didn't mean to imply that evey woman was 6'2"+ . Let me be more specific. In twenty years living in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida my wife never met a woman anywhere near her height with the exception of a set of basketball playing twins that lived in our condo building in Austin. We hit Park City and she sees women that are 6'0"+ pretty much daily. Not every woman, but also not unusual to see at least one. I do not know the reason for this.

EDIT: grammar

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

well to be fair the amount of people in Park City Utah that have Dutch ancestry is 1.219%

so on this chart its like half.

[-] Lynxtickler@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

This is already noticeable between Finland and England. According to the stats I've seen, the averages between the two are two inches apart. So, I'm average or just a tad shorter than the average man in the UK. In Finland I'm 5cm shorter than the average, and I kinda feel oddly tall every time I walk around in London because of that.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm about a centimeter above the average for an adult male in Denmark and feel like a giant every time I visit the US ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, you're a mutant freak no matter where you go, but some societies will be better at making you feel accepted.

[-] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Only time I ever felt small was when I stepped off the train in The Netherlands. (2m)

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

As opposed to being a mutant freak in Tokyo.

How I imagined the crowds around you in Tokyo:

[-] urquell@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago
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