Handicapped By Height (Travails Of The Tall)

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Charles Byrne - the fabled "Irish Giant" - expressed a wish that his remains be buried at sea to avoid their becoming an exhibit. His wish was not realized, and his skeleton has long been on display at the Royal College of Surgeons. There's a growing campaign to finally fulfill Byrne's wish for a burial at sea.


SOURCE: https://www.thesun.ie/news/6032925/irish-giant-skeleton-sea-burial/

If ever there were a dead man who came back as a ghost, and a man who deserved be haunted by him, it's Byrne and Hunter.

 

[ramonmercado]

He got short shrift from the jury.

A tall robber who tried to blame a raid on his brother has been jailed after jurors heard his sibling was too short.

CCTV from a Gateshead bookmakers showed Geoffrey Urwin, who is 6ft 6in (2m), wielding a hammer during the robbery. Urwin said his brother was the robber but he is three inches shorter than the man caught on film, police said. Urwin, 37, of Balmlaw, was jailed for five years and three months at Newcastle Crown Court after being found guilty of robbery and common assault.

Northumbria Police said Urwin was wearing a balaclava and carrying a hammer covered by a sock when he raided Coral, on Durham Road, in Low Fell in August 2018.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-57484173

 

[Spudrick68]

This poor lady is over 7 foot tall but the article promotes accepting who you are:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/ne...est-in-world/ar-AAPradN?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[EnolaGaia]

Meet Malee, the world's tallest teen... and even at 6ft 10in she could still be growing

... Towering head and shoulders above her parents, this giant teenager is the tallest in the world at a whopping 6ft 10 in and she could still be growing.
Weighing in at 20.5 stone, Malee Duangdee from eastern Thailand knew she was different from a young age, growing much faster than her school friends. ...

Malee was officially recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest girl in January 2009 knocking Brazilian Elisany Silva off the top spot. She was just 6ft 9in tall.

Update ... Malee Duangdee died in August 2016 after a long history of health problems.

Thailand’s tallest woman died at 24
Aug 29, 2016 | 11:25am Bangkok time

Thailand’s tallest woman, who was once recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest woman in the world, died at the age of 24 on Saturday.

Malee Duangdee, who was measured 212 centimeters, died from a heart attack on Saturday at a hospital in her hometown of Trat province.

The doctors said Malee’s death followed a long history of chronic disease including high blood pressure, heart disease and a brain tumor

FULL STORY: https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/thailands-tallest-woman-died-24/

 

[Victory]

Here is a bit from a Daily Telegraph article:​

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17 April 2022 • 7:56pm

"Teachers dwarfed as pupils become taller and heavier​

Going to work 'like walking into the land of the giants', say staff as average size of schoolchildren has ballooned since the Seventies

The average height is also said to have risen in the past 50 years from 4ft 10in to 5ft 8in, Elaine Paling told delegates at the teaching union’s annual conference in Birmingham on Sunday.

Whilst telling the audience she was “a big fan of statistics”, the history teacher claimed that these figures had been taken from the World Health Organisation website.

However, a study from University College Cork placed the average height of a 14-year-old boy in 1970 at 5ft 3in and in 2007 at 5ft 6in."



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...st-worried-growing-class-sizes-pupils-taller/



I see many teenagers/early 20's males now are over six foot, something not so common even 30 years ago.

What is causing this?

Is it increased junk food consumption, with growth hormones in the meat?

 

[maximus otter]

"Teachers dwarfed as pupils become taller and heavier​

I see many teenagers/early 20's males now are over six foot, something not so common even 30 years ago.

What is causing this?

Better nutrition for the pupils.

Also, most teachers are women, therefore the shorter sex; and the proportion of teachers who are women is increasing year on year.

maximus otter

 

[Min Bannister]

Fergal McGuckin

There's a name that lends itself to spoonerisms.

 

[Coal]

There's a name that lends itself to spoonerisms.

Or Limericks...

 

[ramonmercado]

Charles Byrne - the fabled "Irish Giant" - expressed a wish that his remains be buried at sea to avoid their becoming an exhibit. His wish was not realized, and his skeleton has long been on display at the Royal College of Surgeons. There's a growing campaign to finally fulfill Byrne's wish for a burial at sea.


SOURCE: https://www.thesun.ie/news/6032925/irish-giant-skeleton-sea-burial/

Still not becoming fish food but at least he's not on public display any longer.

The skeleton of an Irish giant is to be removed from display at a London museum due to "sensitivities".

Charles Byrne grew to be 7ft 6in (2.3m) and his bones have been on public display for more than two centuries at the Hunterian Museum.
Confirming the news, the museum said the skeleton would remain available for "bona fide medical research".

Despite calls for repatriation of the remains, distant relatives of Byrne have supported continued research.

Brendan Holland, whose family share a common ancestor with the Byrne family going back 1,500 years has said the skeleton should continue to "benefit the living".

Byrne was born Charles O'Brien in mid Ulster in 1761. By 1782, his height meant he was one of London's greatest celebrities, being paid to entertain audiences by displaying his body under the stage name of Charles Byrne. He had an undiagnosed benign tumour of his pituitary gland, an adenoma, which caused acromegaly and gigantism.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64234653