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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I was once in an out of the way place in Thailand at a time that Westerners were very rare there. It was the holiday where people float little boats with candles. I asked my wife to be why everyone was looking at me and smiling (not the land of smiles smile). Her reply was, "Because you are a giant." If you've never seen anyone who was 6'3" you would think them a giant.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Well I am in no danger of that. I peaked at under 5тАЩ10тАЭ and after a bad accident and age shrinkage I think IтАЩm 5тАЩ8тАЭ now.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Age shrank me to 6'2" which still leaves me in the bump my head on everything realm.

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Chris Fox's avatar

Vietnam is going through what Japan did after WWII. Forbidden a military they had vastly more money and the standard of living soared. Including diet. A generation grew up with as much protein as they wanted and youтАЩd see families with the sons a head taller than their parents.

You donтАЩt see a lot of six foot tall teens here but in 1998 there were none.

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