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I guess it just depends how you use your height, and whether or not you maintain enough abdomen and back strength to not put to much strain on your spine. It sounds like you grandpa was a pretty active guy. Anyways, There are other reasons I wouldn't want to be that tall. Buildings are just not built for people like that; architecture seems to favor people 5'8 ish -6'2 ish

Renegade_Turner wrote:I'm 6'2"...some buildings don't favour me at all. I hit my head on things a lot.

Building don't favor me sometimes and i'm 7.5 cm shorter than you.

I was helping my sister move by fixing up some stuff on her house. (changing locks, painting, moving washing machines, etc)

In the basement was a lightbulb that was right at forehead level with my head. I kept telling my sister (who is shorter) that at any moment I might turn into that thing and do my impression of Edward Delacroix from the green mile.

i'm gay

That's cool bro.

Renegade_Turner wrote:I'm 6'2"...some buildings don't favour me at all. I hit my head on things a lot.

Note the disclaimer from all semantic responsibilty:

I wrote:...-6'2 ish

Also basements don't count. Even I hit my head in basements.

About back problems in tall people:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20191500

Except that what Jack said is near the truth, while Hitler wasn't nice at all.

Exactly. Architecture varies from region to region, and I know people >6'2 who do just fine. I thought it was a good, average number.

Renegade_Turner wrote:Ignoring what that guy said since the Hitler comment was very obviously untrue

That was my point, it is so obviously wrong, while what Jack said is either very close, or it works in some cases, or both, making it reasonable to say -ish as a way of stating vagueness. He didn't say "architecture seems to favor people 5'8 ish -9999999'2 ish," but if he did your argument would be valid. You can probably give more cases of his statement being true than not, while you can make at least 50 very strong arguments against Hitlers niceness, and maybe 2 or 3 for it. It's like comparing apples to hyper-apples:

You've deduced that Hitler wasn't nice. Clever boy.

Anyway, the fact remains that he said 6'2", and what I was doing was explaining that I am 6'2" (actually 6'1.9") and have trouble in a lot of places with low hanging parts of ceilings, lights, and various other fittings.

So I'd say most places favour something more like 5'4" - 5'11"-ish (*snickers*) people. 5'10" is around the average height for men, anyway.

Could've sworn 5'8" was average male height.

I'm 6'1" but likely to grow more.

Renegade_Turner wrote:You've deduced that Hitler wasn't nice. Clever boy.

Anyway, the fact remains that he said 6'2", and what I was doing was explaining that I am 6'2" (actually 6'1.9") and have trouble in a lot of places with low hanging parts of ceilings, lights, and various other fittings.

So I'd say most places favour something more like 5'4" - 5'11"-ish (*snickers*) people. 5'10" is around the average height for men, anyway.

Wow, you completely ignored what I said. I was just discrediting your analogy, because of your response to my response to your analogy. The max height that it's good to be isn't quite so obvious as the fact that Hitler wasn't awesome.

In most cases I've seen, being 6'2" is just fine, but in some cases it isn't, hence the appropriate -ish. It's not clear cut and exact, and Jack hasn't taken worldwide surveys, but in my and probably his experiences, 6'2" is about the max height that architecture favors, but apparently not in other places. In America, there aren't many places with low hanging parts of ceilings or lights, except in basements(though where I live there are no basements), so that was probably causing some disagreement. By snickering at the -ish, you are ignoring many cases in which being taller is just fine. Maybe it would be better to say about instead of -ish, but it has the same meaning

Also, at 5'4" it's going too be hard to reach things at a grocery store or such, but I guess 5'4" ish works.

So what I am going to say, and you might disagree, is about 5'4" to about 6'2". Is that good?