Not a good plan. I'm actually less limber than the average person, I think. I found it terribly annoying as a child that my brother could do splits, and I couldn't. Since I also couldn't do cartwheels or stand on my head, I don't think gymnastics would be a successful field for me.

I can't stand on my head either. Besides, what's the point?



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Sarah

Pure oneupmanship. Or onedownmanship (given gravity?)



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

In my case, it would be onefallovermanship.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

I'm decidedly inflexible. I can touch my toes quite easily, but only because I have ridiculously short legs.



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I now have a vision of you with really short legs and really long arms, kinda like a gorilla. Please tell me it's not so.

oooh Melanie Bradshaw's not gonna like that.... gorillas good. I could get into such trouble here! Muuuuum...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Well, the really short legs bit is true. Well, not *really* short. Just, you know, shorter than other people's. (Sometimes, I can wear 3/4 length trousers as normal trousers. This worries me.)

My arms are a sort of normal length, I think. They go down to my hands, and up to my shoulders.



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But where do the shoulders start and the hands end? That's what I want to know.

Hey, join the legions of the short-arsed (B Tymens, founder-member...)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Pure curiousity. What's the average height of men and women in Britain. I understand that it's actually a little bit shorter than Aussies.

No idea, but it's probably taller than me.

Dammit.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

There are some advantages to being small. I got a lovely pair of velvet trousers from C&A's childrens dept when they were closing down. The label said for Age 13. They fitted fine around the waist and hips, but I had to take 4" off the leg length.

I'm 163cm (or 5ft 5", if you prefer). That puts me slightly on the shorter side of average in aus. I believe the average height for women is something like166cm (5ft 6), but I'm not sure of the average for men.

Can't help you on averages Kaz, but here's an interesting article along similar lines that I happened to be reading recently.

Apparently, "British scientists have come up with an explanation for why most men are taller than women. They say taller men are more sexually attractive and are more likely to father children. Men, though, prefer shorter women, so the two sexes are unlikely ever to end up the same height over the course of evolution...."

[news.bbc.co.uk]

"A man of 1.83m (6'0") was more likely to have children than an average man of 1.77m (5'10"). Women, though, were most likely to be married and have children if they were below the average height of 1.62 m (5'3"). "


(spoken as a five-foot-eleven British male born in 1958 - the same year as the survey mentioned above - who, true to type, happens to adore petite women)

(how tall did you say you were, Skiffle? LOL)



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Kaz: I think you're right. I think average heights are 5' 4" for women and 5' 9" for blokes (although both are increasing and could easily be an inch higher by now).

FWIW, I'm 6'0" and spent 7 years with a girl who was 5'0" (she tried to claim 5'1/2" but I was never convinced !) No kids though whatever that implies for your survey...

My husband and I are both 5' 7''. My dad is 6' 2" and my brother is 6' 6". I think I was just fed up of feeling short.


BTW Harry Secombe always called the "short legs" syndrome "duck's disease" - that's what he looked like from behind.

The Little Grebe has extremely short legs and used to be called "Arsefoot"

There you go, two themes for the price of one.



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My shoulders start at the bottom of my neck, and my hands end at my fingertips. Er. Don't most people's? ;o)



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I'm short. 5ft 3".

And it's good for some things... Like fluttering eyelashes and getting cute shop assistants to get products from tall supermarket shelves for you...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I have the Curse of the Brierleys. And round shoulders and short legs, too. At the Brother's wedding we wore morning suits ..... people kept throwing us fish.



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