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Title: What is your height and weight?
Post by: bugo on December 30, 2012, 02:34:25 PM
I'm between 6'4" and 6'5" and weigh about 255 right now, although my weight fluctuates a lot.  I peaked at about 275 about a year ago.  I've been told many times that I don't look like I weigh as much as I do.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: NE2 on December 30, 2012, 04:22:51 PM
The average goat is 45 kilograms in weight and 64 centimeters tall.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: DaBigE on December 30, 2012, 07:10:59 PM
And this matters to roadgeeking how?? :confused:  Keep "stuff" like this on Facebook or MySpace.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Alps on December 30, 2012, 08:39:15 PM
Quote from: DaBigE on December 30, 2012, 07:10:59 PM
And this matters to roadgeeking how?? :confused:  Keep "stuff" like this on Facebook or MySpace.
It's off topic. If no one wants to respond, they don't have to. I don't want to.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: J N Winkler on December 30, 2012, 08:40:40 PM
A suggestion:  convert the question to one that asks for a single parameter, like body mass index, and make it a poll.  This should attract more responses since people would not have to go on the record with their name explicitly coupled to their height and weight.

BMI calculator here:

http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: InterstateNG on December 30, 2012, 10:32:18 PM
BMI is a flawed calculation.

Quote from: DaBigE on December 30, 2012, 07:10:59 PM
And this matters to roadgeeking how?? :confused:  Keep "stuff" like this on Facebook or MySpace.

I agree, weird question.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Duke87 on December 30, 2012, 10:53:05 PM
6'0" and 215 pounds.

...yes that was a random question but I don't see any shame in answering it. Would you like to know my shoe size? :P
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: J N Winkler on December 31, 2012, 12:29:48 AM
Quote from: InterstateNG on December 30, 2012, 10:32:18 PMBMI is a flawed calculation.

It has the same limitations as a simple height/weight pair, but as a compact measurement it is easier to ask for in a poll.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Scott5114 on December 31, 2012, 01:17:50 AM
12,503 Alanlandian pounds and —19 Alanlandian inches.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: pj3970 on December 31, 2012, 02:30:53 AM
73 inches and enough weight to play a lineman in football
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Molandfreak on December 31, 2012, 03:29:59 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on December 31, 2012, 01:17:50 AM
12,503 Alanlandian pounds and —19 Alanlandian inches.

Shoot, you beat me to that one :sombrero: :clap:
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on December 31, 2012, 08:10:22 AM
Numerically a lot less than yours :D.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Special K on December 31, 2012, 08:14:59 AM
I'm about yay-high and more than you'd want to throw.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: cjk374 on December 31, 2012, 06:52:07 PM
Well I'm upset now....the BMI calculator called me "obese".  :-(  I'm 6' 4", 280#s...& the calculator says I'm a fat a$$!  What a lovely way to perk up my spirits!    :-D
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: KEK Inc. on December 31, 2012, 11:53:02 PM
I'm not a big person.  5'7" & 140 lbs.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 01, 2013, 12:21:02 AM
I'm 8 ft 6 inches tall and weigh 15 lbs.  :pan:
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: KEK Inc. on January 01, 2013, 04:37:33 AM
Quote from: cjk374 on December 31, 2012, 06:52:07 PM
Well I'm upset now....the BMI calculator called me "obese".  :-(  I'm 6' 4", 280#s...& the calculator says I'm a fat a$$!  What a lovely way to perk up my spirits!    :-D

BMI is broken.  Muscle weighs more than fat, so a perfectly healthy athletic adult could be considered overweight with a mere height/weight ratio.  Also, different people have different bone structures. 

What's important for 'weight' is your body fat percentage.  Less than 14% of your body weight should be fat.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Sanctimoniously on January 01, 2013, 11:21:41 AM
I'm 18.5 hands and 13.4 stone.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Alps on January 01, 2013, 12:30:52 PM
I have -3% body fat. I have to be careful not to handle butter outside its package or it will absorb through my skin.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: english si on January 01, 2013, 04:21:30 PM
I'm 17 018 000 000 Ã... (metric) or 1.86 yards (customary) and weigh 554 N (metric), or 1.12cwts (British customary). My mass is 1.12cwts (British customary) or 3.17*10^13 YeV (metric).

Oh, OK, if you want it in something that you can understand more easily 67 inches and 8stone 13.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Alps on January 01, 2013, 05:33:53 PM
Quote from: english si on January 01, 2013, 04:21:30 PM
I'm 17 018 000 000 Ã... (metric) or 1.86 yards (customary) and weigh 554 N (metric), or 1.12cwts (British customary). My mass is 1.12cwts (British customary) or 3.17*10^13 YeV (metric).

Oh, OK, if you want it in something that you can understand more easily 67 inches and 8stone 13.
Holy shit, Google went and removed all of the fun units they used to have. Fuck Google.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Brandon on January 01, 2013, 05:42:19 PM
Quote from: Steve on January 01, 2013, 05:33:53 PM
Quote from: english si on January 01, 2013, 04:21:30 PM
I'm 17 018 000 000 Ã... (metric) or 1.86 yards (customary) and weigh 554 N (metric), or 1.12cwts (British customary). My mass is 1.12cwts (British customary) or 3.17*10^13 YeV (metric).

Oh, OK, if you want it in something that you can understand more easily 67 inches and 8stone 13.
Holy shit, Google went and removed all of the fun units they used to have. Fuck Google.

Screw Google.  I use this for converting units: http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Lots of fun units.  Also, english si is a lightweight at 125 lbs, if I'm converting properly.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
Look, I was just trying to make conversation.  I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  If you don't want to answer, don't say anything.  Mods: Might as well lock this one and delete it.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Molandfreak on January 01, 2013, 08:39:54 PM
Quote from: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
Look, I was just trying to make conversation.  I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  If you don't want to answer, don't say anything.  Mods: Might as well lock this one and delete it.

I doubt any mods are going to delete the thread at this point... A couple of them have even posted in here I believe!
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Special K on January 01, 2013, 10:49:05 PM
Quote from: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
Look, I was just trying to make conversation.  I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  If you don't want to answer, don't say anything.  Mods: Might as well lock this one and delete it.

Why would you need to do both?
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: 1995hoo on January 02, 2013, 12:43:01 PM
Quote from: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
.... I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  ....

Tit is always a good matter for discussion.  :-D
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: agentsteel53 on January 02, 2013, 12:46:30 PM
Quote from: english si on January 01, 2013, 04:21:30 PM
Oh, OK, if you want it in something that you can understand more easily 67 inches and 8stone 13.

is "8stone 13" common in British English?  here in the US, we just use pounds.

I'm 6'3, about 195 btw.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: DaBigE on January 02, 2013, 01:32:57 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 02, 2013, 12:43:01 PM
Quote from: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
.... I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  ....

Tit is always a good matter for discussion.  :-D

:nod:  :clap:

Just as long as you're referring to the female human variety.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: kphoger on January 02, 2013, 05:35:21 PM
Tall and skinny.  More than six feet, less than 125 lbs.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 02, 2013, 06:07:21 PM
Quote from: bugo on January 01, 2013, 08:05:55 PM
Look, I was just trying to make conversation.  I though tit was a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better.  If you don't want to answer, don't say anything.  Mods: Might as well lock this one and delete it.
Right you are, Messer Stalin.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: english si on January 02, 2013, 07:24:17 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 02, 2013, 12:46:30 PMis "8stone 13" common in British English?  here in the US, we just use pounds.
But you use feet and inches, rather than inches. Did you find my 67 inches a little funny to compute (though not that difficult)? That's how I feel with pounds (we use feet and inches here too).

I'm also not a fan of large numbers of feet, instead of in yards - especially silly on the roads when not part of a height or width restriction. 15 yards is easy to visualise if you know what a yard is (though 15 is at the top end of numbers you can actually visualize easily), 45 feet isn't as the number is too big to imagine that amount of something in a row easily (this is why you get lots of specific units to give the right scale for the task at hand - chains, furlongs, etc). Obviously you can get used to it, like most people in the world have got used to the deliberately-divorced-from-human-experience-other-than-how-many-digits-we-have and metric system that was designed for abstract calculations, so being able to picture 45 ft becomes not that difficult.

OK, heights are more condensed (as most adults fit in the 5'0-6'11 bracket) than weights, but the use of two numbers in heights gives some element of sorting - if the first number is 6, the person is tall. With weights the large scale-fine tuning way of doing things works out easier. When I give my weight, the 8 says I'm light and you can turn off, the 13 says I'm at the heavy end of it if you want to be precise - we often drop the latter, adding in 'and-a-half's or 'nearly's. So I would be 'nearly 9 stone', or 'not quite 9 stone'. Given that you aren't going for more than a rough visualization and a comparison with weight 99% of the time, stone works well as a unit - almost like it was designed for such a purpose!
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Road Hog on January 07, 2013, 12:46:31 PM
6-1, 210, last time that mattered was in a decade starting with an 8.
Title: Re: What is your height and weight?
Post by: Scott5114 on January 07, 2013, 02:07:37 PM
890—900 AD? That's the last decade to start with 8... :P