Lying about height

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Quote from: ivan on March 26, 2018, 06:07:19 PMThanks! It's really annoying being the short one but at least I'm the young one too so I can have some kind of excuse besides the fact that both parents are kind of short to begin with.

Yes, I do agree with this and I think Dutch people tend to be no more than 182 cm on average. They can get away with claiming 183 cm and higher due to the fact there are significant percentage of very tall people there. Most of the Dutch males I have seen are around 180 cm, give or take a few cms. It's as common to see a short Dutch male as a really tall one.

How tall is your father, by the way? In case you don't mind the question.

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He is pretty much my height but he is in his early 50s so he might have been a good centimeter taller in his youth.

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Quote from: ivan on March 27, 2018, 01:15:16 PMHe is pretty much my height but he is in his early 50s so he might have been a good centimeter taller in his youth.

Ah, you did good still, then! I'm shorter than my father and younger brother. Our parents are also of very similar heights (my father is 175cm, maybe he was taller when younger), but I ended up shorter than you.

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If you don't mind telling, how tall are you (totally ok if you do)? I know few people that are pretty shorter than their father due to their parents height difference. I already shared in another post of mine about a guy that's about 8 cm shorter than his father, even with a pretty average height mother (btw, his brother is pretty much the same height as his father)