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So I'm 1,80 m tall, quite tall worldwide, but a bit below average in the Netherlands.
I'm shopping online for some new clothes and found a nice shirt.
"Our model is 185 cm tall and is wearing small"
How the hell is 185 cm small!? 
Welcome to the Netherlands... 
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I'm 6'5" tall, and most people I meet are way shorter than me. I think it is relative.
Edit: 195 cm
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What's the weather like down there? 
(6'7" / ~200.66cm)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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 Excellent. Chilly, with a chance of showers in the afternoon.
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The Dutch are great 
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I am 172 cm and recently bought XL size t-shirt. If I come to Netherlands, I might have to shop in kids section.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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180cm, (5'9 in real money) would only be considered "tall" in Asian countries, for the rest of the world it is either average or even slightly below average. Also the size of the top will relate more to things like chest size than height so it's possible a tall person could still wear a "small" depending on their individual proportions.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: 180cm, (5'9 5' 11 1/4 in real money)
Asians too are getting taller, I'm a finger thickness over 6' in the morning, and there's plenty locals here taller than me - almost all younger guys for sure all match me (somehow the girls are still staying smaller but the average is moving up.) Even in China, Japan, - I'm starting to look pretty average - yet clothes I'm minimum a Chinese XL size (sometimes XXL) and no, I'm not fat.
And yet, public facilities like busses have seats so close together I cant fit between without wide spread legs taking almost 2 people width, the bike sharing bikes here are made for children and small midgets even with the seat all the way up, public benches, toilets, sinks are built too low to the ground (even when they have separate ones for kiddies)
... maybe it's changing diet but why they (govt included) still build things here for small people. - and both reasons are true: stupidity (no update of specs) and cheapness.
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6'3 and I can pick out the caucs on the MRT by looking over the top of the locals lol. I'm looking forward to Oz where the dunnies are high enough to sit on without dodging your knees.
Work in MBFC and I can usually pick the Dutch expats, bloody great long streaks of pelican sh*t.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sander Rossel wrote: "Our model is 185 cm tall and is wearing small"
How the hell is 185 cm small!?
This is why I hate such broad clothing size categories since it is all relative. I'm ~182 cm tall but my younger brother is only ~170 cm and we wear the same sized shirts and jackets, I simply have much longer legs than he does.
This is why I end up having to get my shirts and pants tailored to fit. Not too expensive plus the bonus of feeling, and looking, awesome in a perfectly fitting set of clothes.
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Hey, shorty! 
These threads always remind me of the Goodies apart-height sketch. Don't recall the episode but it was funny.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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THat's not very tall here, I'm 6 ft 1 in and there are lots of people taller than me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Luckily (?!) I live in Italy.
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Blackstreet - No Diggity[^]
Last week I posted Postmodern Jukebox who do 20's to 60's styled covers of more modern songs, like No Diggity.
While the cover is good, the original is better.
Been pumping this from my car speakers last week.
So SOTW, enjoy
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Wow thanks, good reminder.
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No Diggity I first saw Oli Brown do it, did he write it? a quick Google search and it appears not...
modified 6-Apr-18 7:01am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... sorry if this might be walking on your toes, @sanderrossel
I'm more worried about the fact that I don't recognize Highway To Hell at all 
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Start listening at about 55 seconds in - that bit'll spring free some memories...
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it is musical though
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Does it take an Oracle...
To take down the Sun?
THX to CPallini for the inspiration
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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what sparc-ed that thought?
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Must have been Some Microsystems.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ah, but can you throw the Apple through the Window, while the Oracle dances in the Sun?
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Cheerful male soldier, we hear (7)
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