Hi, Big Rob from CelebHeights here, with a wee video talking about Height Lingo.
The kind of terminology we might use on CelebHeights.com
Or you might see on Youtube or other Internet Forums
Now, everybody watching this has a Morning Height.
Let's call it Peak.
And an Evening Height.
Let's call it Low.
Now we shrink of course, because of the effects of gravity.
When you're standing upright, your discs lose a tiny bit of water content, and when you
lie down, they're not under as much pressure, so they can re-hydrate and thicken slightly.
That's why we're taller in the morning and over the course of the day we shrink.
On average it's pretty close to 2 centimetres, about 3/4's of an inch.
We also have an Absolute Low or an Extreme Low height.
That's a rare height.
That's the kind of height you see after you''ve being playing a game of football for two hours.
So it's pretty rare.
And you shouldn't really be claiming your extreme low height.
Another pretty common term we here on CelebHeights.com is Strong or Weak.
Now that pretty much refers to whether a person holds a certain height or they fall underneath it.
For instance, in my case I'd class myself as a strong 5 foot 8, because I don't really
measure underneath the 5 foot 8 mark.
Now Jenny, she's now a kind of weak 5 foot 8, because she measures say a 1/4 or 1/3rd
underneath 5 foot 8.
Also in a similar vein, we have the term Solid, which is pretty much interchangeable with Strong.
You know a solid 6 footer in my mind, they don't really drop underneath 6 foot.
Maybe at the evening they're still holding Six Foot, or at worst a tiny bit underneath it
Another interesting term I hear quite regularly on CelebHeights.com is Upgrader or Downgrader.
Basically, that refers to somebody who might be inflating a celebrity beyond what they
might claim themselves, or short-changing them.
A downgrader.
Knocking an inch or two from their claim.
Now that's pretty much subjective.
You know, one person's Upgrader could be another person's Downgrader.
One term I came up with once, was Height Blindness, which basically refers to a person who may
be 5 foot 10 or 11 and they feel short in public.
They might suffer from Height Blindness or selective or cognitive bias.
In other words, they only see people the same height or taller.
They're filtering out all the shorter people, so their perception of what the average height is
Is distorted due to this kind of selective bias.
Now you should be able to joke about all sorts of subjects, Height being no exception.
You've probably seen some of my videos and I've certainly had a joke or two about Height
or at my expense in relation to Height.
But sometimes, people can step over that line.
They can go from a little joke...a bit of humour around the topic to becoming quite
hurtful, or aggressive or derogatory.
And of course there are some terms, which I would class as derogatory.
Probably the one that I'm not, not a fan of is
Manlet. You know you see this all over the place, in all sorts of forums...except on CelebHeights.com.
If you use that kind of term, nope, I'm not wanting it.
Just don't use that kind of term.
I will delete it.
Why?
Because it's quite derogatory and it's got quite a negative association, you know You're
viewing a person based on their height and you're thinking they're less of a man.
That's not what CelebHeights is about.
CelebHeights is about equality.
You know I don't care if you're 5 foot 2 or 6 foot 2 or 4 foot 2, it's all good to me.
It's what you say and what you do with your life....
That's the real measure of a man.