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Everyone commenting on how they don't need this is already 6' or taller.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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My Dad was 6ft 9in.
I'm 5ft 8in.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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Phug no! I’ve done spent a fortune on hunting clothes and boots. Don’t want to go through that schit again!! lol
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I think the best height is 5'10". At least from a convenience standpoint. Guns, clothes, cars, etc. are all designed around that number. The only exception is women, which apparently is a big enough deal to want to screw with your body structure for 80 large.
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Taller? No, I'm over 6 ft. 3 inches longer? I could live with that.
They will vote our way into socialism, We will have to shoot our way out.
Every major horror in the world was perpetrated in the name of altruism.
Just how big is Aroostook County you ask?
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I think the best height is 5'10". At least from a convenience standpoint. Guns, clothes, cars, etc. are all designed around that number. The only exception is women, which apparently is a big enough deal to want to screw with your body structure for 80 large. Yes, women prefer men 6' to 6'3"
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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No, but 3 inches longer would be nice. Thats what my wife has been telling me! 😂 So she'd like a full five inches then? Touch’e!!! Actually, double that figure of yours.
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I think the best height is 5'10". At least from a convenience standpoint. Guns, clothes, cars, etc. are all designed around that number. The only exception is women, which apparently is a big enough deal to want to screw with your body structure for 80 large. Height is pretty highly correlated to income. Employees rate taller managers higher. In other words, there’s clear economic disadvantages to being short as a male.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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simonkenton7; Top of the morning from the still dark south Okanagan, I hope your part of the eastern section of the US is treating you well. As I've mentioned in a couple previous posts over the years, when I was 15 I was involved in an accident which fused a couple vertebrae, so while I might have been 5'7" before that, I was 5'6" on a tall day thereafter. Honestly I've always been okay with that. Started losing my hair in my early '20's as well and that was just the way it was as well as far as I was concerned. Besides, as I've told a lot of my friends, who are of course all taller than me, it's people my height who enable you all to be tall.... If there was no one my height, you folks would be "average"... You get the rain and sun first and on a skinny day I can fit into a Honda S2000 so it's all a tradeoff. All the best to you all, regardless of how tall the Good Lord and genetics made you. Dwayne
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No, but 3 inches longer would be nice. No kidding Don't you guys check your spam folders? There are all kinds of offers to help with that! Jerry
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Everyone commenting on how they don't need this is already 6' or taller. Why would anyone need it. I'm not nearly 6 feet and happy as can be. Extra height, length or girth wouldn't make my life a bit different.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I'm 6' 1" so paying $80k to hit my head on even more cabinets corners? Ducking down even further to hunt the manzanita thickets the bears hide in? Bending over another three inches to tie my shoes? Hell no my back already hurts. NO THANKS!
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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simonkenton7; Top of the morning from the still dark south Okanagan, I hope your part of the eastern section of the US is treating you well. As I've mentioned in a couple previous posts over the years, when I was 15 I was involved in an accident which fused a couple vertebrae, so while I might have been 5'7" before that, I was 5'6" on a tall day thereafter. Honestly I've always been okay with that. Started losing my hair in my early '20's as well and that was just the way it was as well as far as I was concerned. Besides, as I've told a lot of my friends, who are of course all taller than me, it's people my height who enable you all to be tall.... If there was no one my height, you folks would be "average"... You get the rain and sun first and on a skinny day I can fit into a Honda S2000 so it's all a tradeoff. All the best to you all, regardless of how tall the Good Lord and genetics made you. Dwayne You're right about the tradeoff part. I can't fit in any damn sports car to save my life, probably why I prefer a pickup and big comfortable cars! Maybe it really is the grass is greener thing for everybody, i.e., I admire a good beard cuz I can't grow anything but an apatchy beard.
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Being tall and longevity are not linked.
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Sounds like the height of vanity.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Just shy of 6'4" To quote Wilt Chamberlain, "Chicks dig tall guys."
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My pants would be to short.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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That is hilarious.
Which 'Firegay will be the first one to feel the need to have the surgery to get to 6'4"? Im 6'4. Can we go shorter? I like being a midget, I get midget sex all the time.....
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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I'm at about 5.8 1/2 - 5.9 now, and I was about 5.10 when I was young, but 46 years of picking up and carrying boxes of tile, rolls of carpet, and moving furniture has had its effect.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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4winds; Top of the morning to you sir, I hope your section of the great state of Georgia is getting seasonally appropriate and tolerable weather and that you're well. Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it and the chuckle. A long time hunting partner who is tall enough that on occasion when we're glassing has stood behind me and rested his binos on my cowboy hat also has a patchy beard and mustache. On the Honda S2000 subject, I thought I wanted one when I was hunting for a midlife crisis red ragtop, but settled on a 40th Anniversary Mustang because while I could get into an S2000, getting out was a 5 minute task!! Frankly I'm not sure who those things are designed for other than small jockey's perhaps? Maybe not all the model years were quite that tight, but the one I tried was much, much to small and as mentioned I'm 5'6" on a tall day and about 150lb. As you've said its a trade off, so bigger folks can pack more, but will wear out things like hiking boots and vehicle and equipment seats noticeably faster than smaller folks. For a last chuckle, I worked for awhile with a wonderful fellow named Wayne at a small cabinet shop where we did everything from build to install. I want to say Wayne was about 6'2" or so and while he'd tease me about my height for sure, when it was time to install the Lazy Susan hardware that was my job and I'd hold the upper boxes while he put the mounting screws in because he could reach. I will say that back in the day when we had horses and did a fair bit of packing and horse back hunting, sometimes I had to reposition Carly the Appy a few times on the side of the mountain as it was just a little too far up to load her! That's me finishing up loading my tall hunting partner's only horse hunt mulie buck. He and the horses just didn't gel either, though he did try, I'll give him that. Best to you all today. Dwayne
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