IF your lying down, you are taller than when standing up.

[The Real Bingo]

are you referring to the male penis?

As opposed to the female penis?

[excuzzzeme]

It has been proven to be true. The amount varies from person to person. To prove it out you need to measure yourself every morning and every night at the same time every day. you also need to ensure you spend that same amount of time in repose.

We used to measure our guys in early morning so that heavy individuals would benefit by this and be closer to height/weight requirements.

[Toadman]

This is proven when you get in your car in the morning and have to adjust the rear view mirror up. After a long day your spine compresses and you may have to adjust the mirror down a bit again. If it wasnt true then the mirror should be left untouched, right?

[jokostel]

are you referring to the male penis?

No, your mother's strap on.

[jokostel]

This is proven when you get in your car in the morning and have to adjust the rear view mirror up. After a long day your spine compresses and you may have to adjust the mirror down a bit again. If it wasnt true then the mirror should be left untouched, right?

That or the gnomes that live in your car need another hobby.

[The Real Bingo]

This is proven when you get in your car in the morning and have to adjust the rear view mirror up. After a long day your spine compresses and you may have to adjust the mirror down a bit again. If it wasnt true then the mirror should be left untouched, right?

This is another thing about accuracy and not being able to test this. Sometimes I get in the car and I have a better posture - my ass is snug between the seat bottom and back. Other times, I slouch, in which case, I have to move the mirror down.

Same with having to take a measurement of someone...you can't stand the exact same way every time when you get your measurements taken. Sure, you may shrink as the day goes on, but you could be slouching more as you're getting measured, too.

[batmeat]

The explanation goes like this: Because we are standing up, Gravity compresses our joints making us shorter than while lying down. While lying down our joints uncompress allowing our bodies to expand, therefore become taller. While I think it would change our height by only a few millimeters, and therefore barely measurable much less noticeable, what do you think? Does it sound right to you?

No, it's not gravity. It's the weight placed on your axial skeleton by your body that compresses your discs in your back. Gravity has very little to do with it.

[jokostel]

No, it's not gravity. It's the weight placed on your axial skeleton by your body that compresses your discs in your back. Gravity has very little to do with it.

Gravity has everything to do with it...
more gravity=more weight =more compression

[batmeat]

Gravity has everything to do with it...
more gravity=more weight =more compression

I guess my post was not quite clear. Gravity has nothing to do with it until your weight is considered. Gravity pulling down on your axial/appendicular skeleton is why compression of your vertebral discs takes place. The original statement,

Gravity compresses our joints making us shorter...

is false. It's the weight that gravity is pulling against, not just gravity.

[The Real Bingo]

Without gravity, there is no weight - it's just mass.

[Keymaker]

No, your mother's strap on.

This thread is comical!

[anes]

you do get taller when u are lying down.....