How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

My height was last measured at the hospital with a digital stadiometer when I did the heart scan thing. Your GP probably has one so you could just ask him/her to measure you at your next appointment. Doing it yourself, I’d imagine you’d just need to stand upright against a wall (with your shoes off) and make a mark on the wall level with the top of your flattened hair. Wouldn’t be as accurate though.

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

Stand against a wall or door jamb, put a ruler on your head, push it back against the wall or door jamb, hold it there, duck out from under it and mark with a pencil. Measure from the floor to the pencil mark.

buffy said:

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

Stand against a wall or door jamb, put a ruler on your head, push it back against the wall or door jamb, hold it there, duck out from under it and mark with a pencil. Measure from the floor to the pencil mark.

Every house with children should have a back of a door with progressive heights penciled in. Interesting to be able to compare at what age the growth spurts happen.

Witty Rejoinder said:

buffy said:

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

Stand against a wall or door jamb, put a ruler on your head, push it back against the wall or door jamb, hold it there, duck out from under it and mark with a pencil. Measure from the floor to the pencil mark.

Every house with children should have a back of a door with progressive heights penciled in. Interesting to be able to compare at what age the growth spurts happen.

I think my Mum’s laundry door still has our marks on it. And we are all now aged 50 to 55 years. I guess it’s a long time since Mum and Dad had the laundry door painted.

:)

take so that you unfond
saw that arm off at the elbow
walk it cubit, end to end
then in that wheelie bin throw

I suggest using a right-angled bracket or block of wood or book or similar, so you can feel when the base (on your head) is at right angles to the architrave. A thin ruler could well introduce centimetre-scale errors, because it is not easy to feel whether or not it is orthogonal to the architrave.

Lay on ground, feet against wall, use anything that sits stable (chair leg, packet of cornflakes, can of beer,) to place behind the head. Measure resulting distance between wall and item.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Lay on ground, feet against wall, use anything that sits stable (chair leg, packet of cornflakes, can of beer,) to place behind the head. Measure resulting distance between wall and item.

>>>>>>>packet of cornflakes

That’s thinking outside the box!

mine doesn’t.. we don’t go in for that sort of thing.

Witty Rejoinder said:

buffy said:

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

Stand against a wall or door jamb, put a ruler on your head, push it back against the wall or door jamb, hold it there, duck out from under it and mark with a pencil. Measure from the floor to the pencil mark.

Every house with children should have a back of a door with progressive heights penciled in. Interesting to be able to compare at what age the growth spurts happen.

try again..

mine doesn’t, we don’t go for that sort of thing.

Arts said:

mine doesn’t, we don’t go for that sort of thing.

I bet the wolvez are keeping track.

:-)

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

mine doesn’t, we don’t go for that sort of thing.

I bet the wolvez are keeping track.

:-)

we sacked the wolvez, they were actually looking after them and stuff.. how’s a kid supposed to learn some self sufficiency with all that going on?

Night two of the Adelaide invasion continued. Another 4 hours sleep. Sigh

At exactly mid-day on March or September 22nd go into the garden and move around until when you are standing upright your shadow just touches some well defined point. Place a tent peg or other marker at the mid point of your feet (move the feet first), then measure the distance between the peg and the point where the shadow of your head was. Then look up the angle of latitude of your location, and multiply the measured distance by the cotangent of this angle. That is your height.

This won’t be very accurate, especially if you live near the Equator, but it avoids marking the walls, or having to explain what you are doing lying on the ground with a box of cornflakes.

The Rev Dodgson said:

At exactly mid-day on March or September 22nd go into the garden and move around until when you are standing upright your shadow just touches some well defined point. Place a tent peg or other marker at the mid point of your feet (move the feet first), then measure the distance between the peg and the point where the shadow of your head was. Then look up the angle of latitude of your location, and multiply the measured distance by the cotangent of this angle. That is your height.

This won’t be very accurate, especially if you live near the Equator, but it avoids marking the walls, or having to explain what you are doing lying on the ground with a box of cornflakes.

LOL, Gold.

The Rev Dodgson said:

This won’t be very accurate, .

From an engineer?

Take a tape measure, piece of paper and a pencil, then walk to the front door. Exit the house.
Hopefully you are wearing slip-off shoes, go for a walk until you find someone willing to help you measure your height.
When you find them make a note of the height they give you, offer to reciprocate.
Be prepared for some strange people to make weird facial expressions when you vocalise your request. Maybe have a camera with you to document these people. Just because you can.

kii said:

Take a tape measure, piece of paper and a pencil, then walk to the front door. Exit the house.
Hopefully you are wearing slip-off shoes, go for a walk until you find someone willing to help you measure your height.
When you find them make a note of the height they give you, offer to reciprocate.
Be prepared for some strange people to make weird facial expressions when you vocalise your request. Maybe have a camera with you to document these people. Just because you can.

I like the cornflakes method.

Tamb said:

kii said:

Take a tape measure, piece of paper and a pencil, then walk to the front door. Exit the house.
Hopefully you are wearing slip-off shoes, go for a walk until you find someone willing to help you measure your height.
When you find them make a note of the height they give you, offer to reciprocate.
Be prepared for some strange people to make weird facial expressions when you vocalise your request. Maybe have a camera with you to document these people. Just because you can.

I like the cornflakes method.

+1

Tamb said:

kii said:

Take a tape measure, piece of paper and a pencil, then walk to the front door. Exit the house.
Hopefully you are wearing slip-off shoes, go for a walk until you find someone willing to help you measure your height.
When you find them make a note of the height they give you, offer to reciprocate.
Be prepared for some strange people to make weird facial expressions when you vocalise your request. Maybe have a camera with you to document these people. Just because you can.

I like the cornflakes method.

Not everyone has cornflakes.

Rice Bubbles would also suffice, or Coco Pops.

Divine Angel said:

Rice Bubbles would also suffice, or Coco Pops.

Nope, don’t have those either.

Divine Angel said:

Rice Bubbles would also suffice, or Coco Pops.

Weet-bix are more consistent

kii said:

Tamb said:

kii said:

Take a tape measure, piece of paper and a pencil, then walk to the front door. Exit the house.
Hopefully you are wearing slip-off shoes, go for a walk until you find someone willing to help you measure your height.
When you find them make a note of the height they give you, offer to reciprocate.
Be prepared for some strange people to make weird facial expressions when you vocalise your request. Maybe have a camera with you to document these people. Just because you can.

I like the cornflakes method.

Not everyone has cornflakes.

Not everyone wants to self measure their height. Hopefully they are the same people.

Dropbear said:

Divine Angel said:

Rice Bubbles would also suffice, or Coco Pops.

Weet-bix are more consistent

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

i think it is only short people who are concerned about their height, or rather their lack of it.

;-)

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

I vote that we all measure our heights and report back. And don’t say that you know how tall you are. Some of the old people might be shrinking as we speak.

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

Are they organic or macrobiotic? What the hell happened to the big thing of macrobiotics anyway?

JudgeMental said:

i think it is only short people who are concerned about their height, or rather their lack of it.

;-)

And now will ensue a long series of posts on the ethics of heightism.

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

You’ve mentioned these before. What are they and how do they work?

kii said:

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

Are they organic or macrobiotic? What the hell happened to the big thing of macrobiotics anyway?

Macrobiotics are only for tall people. It’s microbiotics for the shorties of the world.

kii said:

Are they organic or macrobiotic? What the hell happened to the big thing of macrobiotics anyway?

Just regular home brand oats. I’m happy to be a pleb.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

You’ve mentioned these before. What are they and how do they work?

They’re bikkies and they make you lactate :P

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I haven’t got any of those things, just a plastic bag of rolled oats from the food co-op.

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

You’ve mentioned these before. What are they and how do they work?

They’re an old wives’ remedy for increasing milk supply. Apparently the magic ingredient is the brewer’s yeast. AFAIK there aren’t any actual studies done on it but lots of anecdotal evidence.

Divine Angel said:

AFAIK there aren’t any actual studies done on it but lots of anecdotal evidence.

6970 pieces of anecdotal evidence, according to a well known search engine.

They’re an old wives’ remedy for increasing milk supply. …

we just used to leave a note in the empty bottle saying we wanted two pints today please.

By the way, if you don’t want to get peculiar looks from neighbours, look up cotangents, or do un-natural things with a box of cornflakes, why not adjust a shower head so it just touches the top of your head, and measure that?

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

I have rolled oats too, for the lactation bikkies.

You’ve mentioned these before. What are they and how do they work?

They’re an old wives’ remedy for increasing milk supply. Apparently the magic ingredient is the brewer’s yeast. AFAIK there aren’t any actual studies done on it but lots of anecdotal evidence.

Ah, thanks. I wonder how brewers yeast might work. I can’t quickly think of a plausible mechanism.

JudgeMental said:

They’re an old wives’ remedy for increasing milk supply. …

we just used to leave a note in the empty bottle saying we wanted two pints today please.

We got 6 pints per day. Occasionally we’d nick one and mix it with dirt to make chocolate milk, but that never worked.

The Rev Dodgson said:

By the way, if you don’t want to get peculiar looks from neighbours, look up cotangents, or do un-natural things with a box of cornflakes, why not adjust a shower head so it just touches the top of your head, and measure that?

Nice solution.

Michael V said:

Ah, thanks. I wonder how brewers yeast might work. I can’t quickly think of a plausible mechanism.

Me neither. But my new favourite word is galactagogue.

The Rev Dodgson said:

By the way, if you don’t want to get peculiar looks from neighbours, look up cotangents, or do un-natural things with a box of cornflakes, why not adjust a shower head so it just touches the top of your head, and measure that?

Because the water will leak out of it when you move it and it will be cold and make me cranky.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

You’ve mentioned these before. What are they and how do they work?

They’re an old wives’ remedy for increasing milk supply. Apparently the magic ingredient is the brewer’s yeast. AFAIK there aren’t any actual studies done on it but lots of anecdotal evidence.

Ah, thanks. I wonder how brewers yeast might work. I can’t quickly think of a plausible mechanism.

Brewers yeast makes beer. Beer makes people drunk. Drunk people get pregnant. Pregnant women have babies. Babies need milk. New mothers make milk. Simple.

Tamb said:

Brewers yeast makes beer. Beer makes people drunk. Drunk people get pregnant. Pregnant women have babies. Babies need milk. New mothers make milk. Simple.

By George, I think you’ve got it!

Did I forget to use the word “plausible”?

;)

Just did a quick drive-by read of lactation biscuits. They have lots of healthy stuff – which is pretty essential when you are breast-feeding a baby and they say drink a large glass of milk or water when you eat them. I know I was told to eat healthy stuff and drink lots when I breast fed – so maybe it’s just those two things? Especially the drinking water/milk thing.

*shrug *

Divine Angel said:

Tamb said:

Brewers yeast makes beer. Beer makes people drunk. Drunk people get pregnant. Pregnant women have babies. Babies need milk. New mothers make milk. Simple.

By George, I think you’ve got it!

I smell a Nobel Prize…

Apologies to p_p for derailing the thread with talk about lactation :)

Divine Angel said:

Apologies to p_p for derailing the thread with talk about lactation :)

It’s all part of growing up :P

kii said:

Divine Angel said:

Apologies to p_p for derailing the thread with talk about lactation :)

It’s all part of growing up :P

…and being British.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Divine Angel said:

Apologies to p_p for derailing the thread with talk about lactation :)

It’s all part of growing up :P

…and being British.

And a nursing mother.

I used to know a lady who, when a nursing mother in the UK, was prescribed stout ( the dark ale) on the NHS.

captain_spalding said:

I used to know a lady who, when a nursing mother in the UK, was prescribed stout ( the dark ale) on the NHS.

I’ve heard of that too.
My Gran was prescribed high iron content burgundy for anemia. The doc reckoned it was more easily absorbed than iron tablets.

I suppose I could just eat Vegemite for the same supposed effects.

if that were true then why do we bother with the ‘world’s tallest man’ record?

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

I used to know a lady who, when a nursing mother in the UK, was prescribed stout ( the dark ale) on the NHS.

I’ve heard of that too.
My Gran was prescribed high iron content burgundy for anemia. The doc reckoned it was more easily absorbed than iron tablets.

that’s why they encourage eating the placenta.. lots of iron

I’m pretty sure party_pants will love the direction this thread has taken

Arts said:

I’m pretty sure party_pants will love the direction this thread has taken

He seems pretty cool with baby talk. If you think back a bit, p_p is the one who started the DA’s baby thread.

Plus it’s an important community service to eliminate mummy guilt over not being able to breastfeed. Sometimes, it just doesn’t happen.

Divine Angel said:

Plus it’s an important community service to eliminate mummy guilt over not being able to breastfeed. Sometimes, it just doesn’t happen.

Well, this an appropriate thread, that’s for sure.

Divine Angel said:

Plus it’s an important community service to eliminate mummy guilt over not being able to breastfeed. Sometimes, it just doesn’t happen.

Very true. Plus other people in the bub’s family get to bond with her over breakfast, 2nd breakfast, morning tea, snack time, early lunch, lunch, 2nd lunch…..

kii said:

Arts said:

I’m pretty sure party_pants will love the direction this thread has taken

He seems pretty cool with baby talk. If you think back a bit, p_p is the one who started the DA’s baby thread.

I wonder how cool he is with placenta eating

Arts said:

kii said:

Arts said:

I’m pretty sure party_pants will love the direction this thread has taken

He seems pretty cool with baby talk. If you think back a bit, p_p is the one who started the DA’s baby thread.

I wonder how cool he is with placenta eating

Maybe we should ask him?
Have I ever told you about the blood clot I dropped after son#1? I swear it had legs and a postcode.

so p_p tl:dr – use a box of cornflakes

Arts said:

so p_p tl:dr – use a box of cornflakes

Or a bag of oats.

kii said:

Arts said:

so p_p tl:dr – use a box of cornflakes

Or a bag of oats.

Or a breast?

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.

Divine Angel said:

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.

:)

Divine Angel said:

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.

I quite like my ‘pillow’ to be less bosomy than the ‘pillow’ I provide… man boobs aren’t at all attractive

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Lay on ground, feet against wall, use anything that sits stable (chair leg, packet of cornflakes, can of beer,) to place behind the head. Measure resulting distance between wall and item.

You’re a genius Gump!

Arts said:

so p_p tl:dr – use a box of cornflakes

Copy that Gold Leader.

Divine Angel said:

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.

And every subatomic particle needs a Boson for a pillow.

>Lay on ground

Yeah but that will give you your length, not height.

party_pants said:

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Lay on ground, feet against wall, use anything that sits stable (chair leg, packet of cornflakes, can of beer,) to place behind the head. Measure resulting distance between wall and item.

You’re a genius Gump!

Except are you the same height without gravity effects? Shirley when horizontal, you are now measuring length?

Bubblecar said:

>Lay on ground

Yeah but that will give you your length, not height.

Chickens lay, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in nest things. People lie on the ground, with or without cornflakes.

it sounds so right though, doesn’t it? to lay on the ground. ahhhh english.

JudgeMental said:

it sounds so right though, doesn’t it? to lay on the ground. ahhhh english.

I bit Dylan-esque, so American, I reckon.

Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my
big brass bed.

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

>Lay on ground

Yeah but that will give you your length, not height.

Chickens lay, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in nest things. People lie on the ground, with or without cornflakes.

Politicians lie all the time.

At least there’s nothing in the Bible that says thous shalt not lay down with thy cornflakes.

Penitent monks sometimes sleep on a bed of cornflakes as a form of punishment.

party_pants said:

At least there’s nothing in the Bible that says thous shalt not lay down with thy cornflakes.

Let’s all hold hands and sing….

Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile
At the ones who stand and frown…

Bloody chickens are even in this song!

Bubblecar said:

Penitent monks sometimes sleep on a bed of cornflakes as a form of punishment.

A bed of down is very soft.

party_pants said:

How do you measure your own height, when you’re all on your Pat Malone with nobody to take a reading for you?

Inaccurately. I used to joke that tape measures disagreed with each other over such a long distance. I also suspect I grew taller when 35 years old, or even older.

I only finally got a reliable measure of my height one week ago by being left alone in a doctor’s office. 188 cm. There was a scale up against the wall there so I measured my height on it. Shoes off, back to the wall, stand straight, lower the level until it touched my head. Sit back down quickly just as the nurse comes in.

I reached maximum height at 28. I am now somewhat shorter. I contend that my fat belly is dragging me down.

Michael V said:

I reached maximum height at 28. I am now somewhat shorter. I contend that my fat belly is dragging me down.

I seem to be developing a similar problem.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I reached maximum height at 28. I am now somewhat shorter. I contend that my fat belly is dragging me down.

I seem to be developing a similar problem.

But you can’t blame a fat belly.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I reached maximum height at 28. I am now somewhat shorter. I contend that my fat belly is dragging me down.

I seem to be developing a similar problem.

But you can’t blame a fat belly.

You reckon? I certainly can’t slip sideways through narrow gaps anymore.