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Why Dutch People Are So Tall
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| 4-8-2015
| Richard Ingham, AFP
Posted on 04/08/2015 7:17:23 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:17:23 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
[sarc]
I have been to the Netherlands and believe that the country’s unusual tallness is a result of self preservation. When the sea dyke breaks and the land floods, the tall people will be the only ones able to breath.
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To: blam
“.. women stand almost five feet six inches tall...”
At five foot eight and a half inches... I must have come from the Amazons. :)
To: blam
By comparison, the height of the average American man has risen a mere six cm over the same period. A 150 years of mass immigration in America, with the last 50 years being non-white, so we are comparing apples to Mexico and the orient.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:29:07 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: blam
It’s those wooden shoes. They just make the Dutch look taller.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:29:32 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: taxcontrol
Hmmm You’d think that after centuries of ducking spinning windmills, they would be genetically predisposed to be shorter ...
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:30:13 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Humpday BUMPty)
To: blam
Global warming.and evolution at work
.this is the Netherlands or lowlands all at low lying floodplains
The people have to grow taller because of the rising waters
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:33:40 AM PDT
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: blam
There are a couple of other possibilities:
- Lots of Huguenots who moved to the Netherlands to escape pogroms in France. Most of the early "Dutch" settlers in America came from Huguenot stock, who tend to be tall.
- Tall men also tend to have taller and longer male private parts, which are more capable of reaching and ejaculating into the deeper recesses of the corresponding female private part.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:42:00 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: blam
I was only there once...but I couldn’t help but notice how tall some were. Several men over 6’6” and women at 6’. Perhaps a smaller population and tall folks oversampled? Who knows.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:42:43 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: blam
To: taxcontrol
Thanks a freakin’ lot!
I really didn’t know what a SEA DYKE looked like, so I searched.
I wasn’t counting on using eye bleach this morning!
To: blam
They may be tall, but they also have big butts and wear mom jeans.
There, I said it.
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:54:19 AM PDT
by
phugg
To: blam
The tallest (at least according to wikipedia, so take the source for what it's worth). Most are either Germanic related or Balkan Slavs.
Dinaric Alps area - 6'1 (Balkans)
Dutch - 6'0
Montenegro - 6'0
Denmark - 6'0
Norway - 6'0
Sweden - 5'11 1/2
Serbia - 5'11 1/2
Germany - 5'11 1/2
Lithuania - 5'11 1/2
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posted on
04/08/2015 7:59:35 AM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(We need a conservative electable candidate in 2016)
To: momtothree; All
No offense momtothree, but did Maryland have a contest to come up with the ugliest state flag? wtf???
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:05:47 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: notdownwidems
Didn’t hear about that one. I will say IMHO... Maryland does have a nice flag. Very distinctive.
To: blam
Rutabagas. You can’t walk a block in Dutchland without seeing five or six of them wolfing down rutabagas.
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:10:18 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ansel12
A 150 years of mass immigration in America, with the last 50 years being non-white, so we are comparing apples to Mexico and the orient. Good point.
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:11:10 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(DHS has the same budget as the USMC and has TWICE their headcount - - freeper gaijin)
To: WakeUpAndVote
Sea dyke. I laughed, too. I deployed with a bunch of those in the ship’s deck division :)
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:12:57 AM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: blam
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:14:03 AM PDT
by
BigBobber
(`)
To: blam
women stand almost 5 feet 6 inches tall, and its men 6 feet tall Just keep importing muslims, and everyone there will get to be about ten inches shorter.
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posted on
04/08/2015 8:15:31 AM PDT
by
meadsjn
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