I am getting shorter – how about you.

[RobinParticipant @robin]

The tidemarks for overweight and obese are measured as your weight but set by your height. As I grow older and shorter do I need to lose weight? Another of life's cruel tricks, n'est ce pas?

[Dave WoottonParticipant @davewootton]

I'm getting wider as I get shorter too, I tell my wife it's just settlement!

Dave

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

I'm not sure about getting shorter, I'm certainly not as bendy

Roy

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

The soles of your feet wear down from all that walking at one end. The top of your head wears down from all that head-scratching at the other. In the middle, plastic deformation causes length to shorten as width increases as we get squashed down by the pressures of life.

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

Posted by Dave Shield 1 on 08/02/2022 18:04:50:

My arms are getting shorter, or my legs are getting longer. Trouble reaching my feet to put my socks on in the morning.

Please advise.

I have the same problem. This gadget works for me.

[Mike HurleyParticipant @mikehurley60381]

Why oh why do trouser manufacturers insist on making waistbands higher & higher ever 5 years or so. My 'waistband' is now nearly halfway up my belly (or beer-gut to be precise) now. I think its a bad design flaw.

Anthony – love the sock putter-onner! Must get one!

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by Hopper on 09/02/2022 09:36:55:

The soles of your feet wear down from all that walking at one end. The top of your head wears down from all that head-scratching at the other. In the middle, plastic deformation causes length to shorten as width increases as we get squashed down by the pressures of life.

Do you get taller in Australia as you are upside down all the time? My uncle moved to Australia as a young man and many years later returned to the UK for a visit, he was by now sporting a bald head and one comedian in the pub said I know Australia is upside down but didn’t realise you walked round on your heads.

Mike

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

No, we just get dizzier.

Love the sock putter-onner. Been living in the tropics so long I had forgotten about wearing socks. Thongs (flip flops) just slide right on. But we only wear them for going out somewhere special where bare feet are frowned upon. Or in the workshop for safety.

Edited By Hopper on 09/02/2022 11:28:07

[DutchDanParticipant @dutchdan]

Posted by Dave Wootton on 09/02/2022 09:11:39:

I'm getting wider as I get shorter too, I tell my wife it's just settlement!

Dave

You can't really do anything about that, all governed by poisson's ratio…

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Poisson's ratio? Is that in proportion to the amount of fish and chips you eat?

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Hopper on 09/02/2022 11:29:36:

Poisson's ratio? Is that in proportion to the amount of fish and chips you eat?

I think you're supposed to reduce the chip component to improve the Poisson ratio.

Not everyone complies.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Its a fact that as men get older they get deafer and hear lower sounds, women on the other hand get higher hearing frequency.

So no behind the back utterences. they will hear you.

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

Peter,

I also have had ankylosing spondulitis since I was 24 (almost 72 now) and two knackered knees. I have maybe lost 1/2" in height at the max. Luckily I can still get into diving drysuits and wetsuits and also can slither into/climb out of my Caterham 7 car. Crawling under the house floor is a little (LOT) more uncomfortable now, but having just chatted to my plumber It looks as though I am going to have to remove all the double layers of pipe insulation of the underfloor central heating pipework (9 radiators) to find a slow leak. Not looking forward to doing this. This is likely to take several days to remove and replace.

Colin

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Once, somewhere I read that from the age of 35 onwards, we lose 1/32" in height each year. On that basis, I should be about 1.5" shorter. Not certain, but definately have been abbreviated!

Or are shelves becoming higher, and bottle tops tighter?

Howard

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I must be getting taller because I can't see the ground as well as I did. I've not been able to bend to put socks on for years so I wear crocs/no socks unless we have to go "posh" (infrequently). Only then does m'lady insist on socks and shoes which she puts on for me, she also keeps a hanky in her bag for when I dribble

Rik

[Dave Shield 1Participant @daveshield1]

Just measured my legs, but I cannot hold the tape measure far enough away to read the numbers (imperial). Back to square one, my arms must be shorter.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

6' 6" , 5' 10" , 5' 4" ….

Now I know where Natures' supply of tallness went….

I was all of 5' 2" . I think I'm now nearer 5' 1". Much shorter and the preserved railway will be using me as a permanent-way gauge!

Even so, it's strange how it's much further up than it was down having been grovelling on the floor in my very cramped den to work on my miniature steam-wagon (isn't there a thread elsewhere on this Forum about how awkward vehicles can be? )

Having had both knees replaced doesn't help as they won't bend past about 95º and are painful to kneel on – though because I can't lean back on them slightly, as one would normally do for balance, if I try kneeling as in prayer I topple forwards onto my face.

I can still drive my club's 7.25" g loco from its normal driving-truck, but I think a 5" g one on ground-level would be impossible.

I've to think how I am going to drive this wagon if a) I ever finish it, and b) it works. I have experimented, using a small folding step on a board across the chassis, to see if and where I fit the thing.

It's awkward underground too, in caving, as footholds and ladder-rungs all seem to be just slightly more than one knee-bend step apart!:

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Our family have all been tall

35 years ago they buried my 80 year old grandmother. She was 6ft tall & to her parting days stood ramrod straight, Shoulders back. She was a real battle horse & would accept b.. s..t from no one. My father said that her 4 kids got a good hiding most days, but if anyone touched them, they had better look out. I still can picture her standing over a blue/grey enamelled 4 burner gas stove with a Woodbine stuck to her top lip, coughing while she cooked.

At her funeral the coffin was being lowered into the hole & it had not been dug long enough. The 4 pall bearers looked at each other & began to waggle the box up & down each end so it wore the earth away.

We were all seriously sad at the loss of a much loved lady when my cousin said, quite loudly " just like her, won't even go in her grave without a fight" upon which 30 people went from crying to laughing. I cannot recall a funeral where the coffin was lowered in the ground to sounds of laughter.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 10/02/2022 13:08:33

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Here's something, as you get older your ears get longer and bigger!

[MikeKParticipant @mikek40713]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 10/02/2022 13:31:22:

Here's something, as you get older your ears get longer and bigger!

Cartilage keeps growing.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

My hair has migrated from my head to my ears and eyebrows, not too worried about losing my hair but appearing at new sites I could do without.

Mike

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Mike Poole on 10/02/2022 15:04:19:

My hair has migrated from my head to my ears and eyebrows, not too worried about losing my hair but appearing at new sites I could do without.

Mike

But as I pointed out to one of the bald headed directors at a company I was contracting to, ( Infront of all his office staff) after he made sarky comment to me.

"At least it has to be easier to wash your head with Mr Muscle & a J cloth".

He was not amused when he heard some sniggering from heads suitably lowered behind computer screens.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 10/02/2022 15:35:41

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