What’s the weather like up there? Do you play basketball? Were you always this tall? That’s just a bite-sized collection of the types of questions that tall people have to deal with on a daily basis. However, most of them smile, chuckle, and get on with their day without worrying too much.
It becomes very obvious that a person is the tallest person around when there’s a short person right next to them for comparison. And this often creates comical tall vs short situations where tall people look like giants from fairy tales (or Hagrid from Harry Potter) and short people start to resemble the tenacious hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. To brighten up your week with some humor, Bored Panda spent lots of time cultivating, growing and perfecting this list of the most eyebrow-raising times tall and short people stood next to one another for a perfect height comparison. Scroll down, enjoy, and leave us a comment with your thoughts.
When you’re done with this list, check out Bored Panda’s previous posts about tall people people problems and the times that people traveled to Japan and realized they’re too tall for it.
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Vern Troyer, The Guy Who Plays Mini-Me In The Austin Powers Movies Wanted A Photo With Me. I'm 6Ft10
The Dutch Giant at McDonalds in the Philippines
There are advantages to being short and advantages to being tall. BBC Future writes that taller human beings, when running for political office, tend to get more votes; they also tend to earn more money.
Protection Come In All Shapes And Sizes
Buddy Of Mine Who Stepped Up And Got Married
This is really sweet though! I know some guys would be insecure about being shorter than their wife, but he's not
The thing I don't get is the women that won't date a shorter guy. Talk about limiting your options....
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She also may have been wearing some crazy high heels, as he doesn't look that much shorter.
Awww it’s like tall girl ( yeah I know the plot was trash, but it was kinda supposed to be lighthearted) anyways.....
This is incredibly shallow and I deserve all the hate I'll get but I can't date guys shorter than me. I'm not particularly tall (5'8ish F) but if he's shorter it makes me feel blokey and clutzy.
my father was slightly shorter than my mother, though l really never took that much notice until my partner pointed out in their wedding photos that dad ACTUALLY stood on an upper step to at least come equal to mum..chuckle..l get my height from my father..
I have a friend who is 6’2” (2 meters or so) who married a man five or six inches shorter—they walked in together and she had her arm over his shoulder. It was adorable.
It reminds me of my mom and my dad. He looks so happy as being able to marriage a long legged girl, haha
This is amazing... usually, tall girls wouldn't even look at guys smaller than her...
Sophie Turner (Sansa from game of thrones) is taller than her husband, Joe Jonas
Trying To Fit Entire Body In The Shot
Being tall can be a real boon in sports because long legs help you run faster and farther than your opponents. However, being small has its bonuses as well: nerve impulses travel from limbs to brains faster, which means reaction times are faster and the individual in question is more nimble. That can be a huge plus for martial artists just like Jackie Chan. Furthermore, shorter and smaller people are better at snowboarding, gymnastics, skating, diving, and skiing than their taller counterparts.
A Friend Of Mine At A Recent Checkup
My 6'0" Girlfriend And Her Minions
The Mountain From GOT With His Wife
Being a 6-foot tall guy myself, I often find that I’m rarely (if ever) the tallest or shortest around. I’m pretty much average. And, unfortunately, nobody asks me if I’m a professional basketball player or Samwise Gamgee, so sometimes I’m a bit jealous of the attention others get. But then I realize being middle-of-the-road in terms of height isn’t all that bad. What about you, dear Pandas, how tall are you? What’s it like? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
Prom Pictures With GF And Her Dad
Women Basketball Players vs. Cheerleaders
Husband And I Went To Wedding... We Are All The Way In The Back
My Wife Is 5’1” And I Am 6’7”, When It Comes To Hotel Robes, One Size Does Not Fit All
7 Foot Female Basketball Player... Didn't Even Come Close
6'8 Me With My 4'10 Friend Jackie
A Dutch Employee Gets Interviewed By Chinese Media
When You're At A Wedding And There Are No Close Snack
This Is How My Mum And I Hug Now
My Short Mom Sends Our Family Photos Of Her With Really Tall People
Gave My Friend My Pants To Use As A Blanket During Our Sleepover. 6’5 And 40” Inseam
Wold's Tallest Teenager With Her Boyfriend
Gymnast Flávia Saraiva, 1.33m, With Basketball Player Nenê, 2.11m
I Have An Extremely Important Question And I Need Your Help!! What’s The Better Way To Hug - Shoulder To Shoulder Or Hip To Hip?
At 6'5", NS Premier Stephen McNeil Looked Pretty Tall On Election Night. At 6'9", I May Have Shattered That Illusion Today
For other people wondering what NS stands for: it stands for Nova Scotia, Canada. Had to look it up myself.
Me With My Best Friend. She's 4'11", I'm 6'1"
Took Away The Spotlight
Yao Ming Visited My Girlfriend's Restaurant, She's 4'11
Woo hoo!!! Yao Ming!!! - my father and I used to say to each other, instead of "when pigs fly"... we'd say "When a Chinese gets in the NBA" (We're Chinese. Stop raging. We know we're generally pretty short)... when we saw Yao Ming, we cheered ... and also started to wonder (hope) if we were going to suddenly win the lottery...
I'm Moving Away From My 4'9" Sidekick. I'm Going To Miss This
Me And My 6'4" Date To Our Rowing Formal. I'd Say We're Pretty Cute
Shrimp On Rye
This Tall Man And Short Woman
I Feel The Pain
I Recently Went To Spain
I'd Say Short People Probs But It's More Like Kelli Tennant Problems
News reports need them to be in the same frame, tht is why he's on the tub.
Spotted This At A Bar Last Night, Tall Girl Problems
Getting A Shirt Tailored In Vietnam
The Towering American Who Measured A Staggering 2,72 M (8 Ft 11,1 In) Tall When Last Measured On 27 June 1940, Becoming The Tallest Man In The World
Giant Rugby Player Dwarfs NZ's Prime Minster
The Difference Between UCF's Two Tallest Volleyball Players And Shortest Cheerleader
A Little Old Lady Asked Me To Reach Some Eggs For Her At The Grocery Store. I Look Like An Actual Giant Next To Her
That was very very sweet of you to help her! She looks like she’s well under 5’ tall. Heck, I’m 5’6” and those top shelves can be a struggle, especially when the last package is shoved all the way in back.
Never Felt More Like Crushing A Building In My Life
Yao Ming And Retired American Basketball Player Muggsy Bogues
On, that suit doesn’t fit him. Looks as it he was wearing Ming’s suit.:(
Just Look At The Height Difference Here
Hey Everyone! Meet Mom & Dad
Japan Isn't Made For Tall Guys
Yep... You don't have to be extremely tall. I'm 6' tall. This is a gate in Kyoto. gate-5d891...9962e8.jpg 
It Can Be Hard To Do It When Looking Into The Eyes Of A Good Friend
Our Tallest And Shortest Instructors
Advantages To Being Tall: Short People Are Arm Rests
If You're Wondering What A Two Foot Difference Looks Like
So This Is Me (18, 6'7) Next To My Pal In Their House... I Hate Their House...
Had Fun At The Concert With These Beauties
The Difference Between An Olympic Swimmer And An Olympic Gymnast
Me And My New Friend
while I was scrolling, I thought she was piggybacking until I saw the legs
I (5’5’’M) Asked My Crush At The Time (6’0’’F) To Our Senior Prom A Couple Of Years Ago
I jokingly brought a stepladder to our pictures because nobody at the time could fathom a shorter guy going with a taller girl, but we had a wonderful time regardless.
Where The Tall Girls At? Sick Of Being Introduced To Short Girls. I'm 6 Ft 5
When Your Friend Stands Two Steps Above To Be An Inch Or Two Taller Than You In Heels
Same But Different
Collecting Man Mountains Wherever I Go
Cool If I Rest My Elbow On Your Head?
Great and funny pics, a nice representation of human diversity! Just confused about the feet and inches, when will the metric system be adopted everywhere ;)????
As an American I agree. We need to kill off the imperial system. Medicine already comes in metric measurements so it's not like it's not already in our society. I remember learning it in grade school. It makes Sooo much more sense than our imperial system.
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So Godzilla was based on my great-grandfather?
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My husband and my eldest son are both very tall. I feel extremely short when I stand in the middle. I am 1.70m. They are 30cm taller then me and my son is still growing. I always tease him by saying that we work and pray to get to heaven one day. He just grows there. My youngest son is 13 years old, and just 2cm shorter then me. So guess who's gonna be the short s**t in the house...
Look at the positive: at lest you don't need a ladder too often around the house
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I am 181 cm, my husband 186 cm and our kids are already tall: my son is 9 years old and he's 147cm tall and my daughter is 6 and she's 129 cm. I don't really want her to be so tall because I remember myself as a teen being very ashamed of my height and unable to find suitable shoes, but nowadays everything is different, so I hope she'll be happy :)
Just Fyi. If you take the length of your child at age 2 and double it, you'll get their adult length.
Load More Replies... Went to a fancy bar in SF with much-shorter male friend----all heads turned and smiled like we were the entertainment. What an absolutely AMAZING sight---tall woman with short man. I didn't like being stared at, but I see from this article that people get used to it and take it in stride. Good attitude.
When I was in high school, I was at least 2 inches shorter than all of my friends (and most of them were a lot taller than that!), and I am a huge Lord of the Rings nerd, so my one friend made me this t-shirt in her graphics class that I still wear, and it says "I'm quite TALL for a hobbit!"
My dad was 6’5” and my mother is 5’4” I am 5’6” everyone on my moms side is short and everyone on my fathers side is at least 6’ including the women. It will be really interesting to see where our son ends up because my fiancé is 5’9”. Genetics is crazy.
I don't understand some of the couples and how they manage to stay together, there must be so many challenges. I would think just having to modify the height of the bathroom sink and toilet would be a major problem.
You obviously didn't meet many then. Europeans really have all the height ranges out there, and we're not all robust and muscular. Also, Japanese people are not all hobits either. Been to Tokyo not so long ago, saw it for myself. Furthermore, Koreans are pretty tall too, especially the younger generations, and they're as east Asian as could be. Also, what do you mean by "normal westerners" anyway? My short Italian friend is a very normal and very a western person, as much as me, a tall Slavic woman.
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Im 6'2 and im only average here(Dutch), my fiancee is also 6'2 but comes from a tall family(Canadian).
My good friend is a big and tall dude, and it does NOT seem like a fun existence :(
We have just binge-re-watched the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings movies.......Hobbits are real!!!!!!
Being a tad under 5'3", I can definitely relate. Hubby still laughs when I climb cabinets when cooking or cleaning kitchen.
My daughter is a senior in an American university - she's just hit 5'1", her roommate and best friend is 6', and they're both slim and blond. When they go out together, they are often mistaken for mother and daughter, which my daughter plays up for laughs (calls her roomie "mom", etc. ;-) But they both think it's fun).
Is no one going to point out the most important detail here?? The fact that Japan's McDonald's has McSpagetti...WHAT
I got a first cousin that just retired from the army a year or two ago. He was an officer in one of the armoured divisions stationed in Europe. He is 6' 8", which, at the time he went into the Army, was the max height for what he wanted to do. He told me once that it was down right funny to see the jaw dropping expressions on the faces of European civilians when they saw him get out of a car, in particular a small Fiat or Mini Cooper.
A friend of my brothers is 6'9 and very wide musculair build, he had a mini for years. Bucket seat bolted against the back seat. He could steer with his knees. Was always funny to see
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I'm an 1.85 Romanian. Everybody called me "giraffe" in high school. I'm well above average in my country and get insulted often for my height. I visited Sweden last year. Finally felt at home :)
What I don't get is why tall women need to wear high heels? Sure it may be for the looks but why would you make your life more difficult?
In elementary school (4th 5th and 6th grade to specific) I was REALLY REALLY short (and still am). I was best friends with the tallest kid in the school.
Reading this reminded me of my parents, my Mum's average height but my Dad's 6ft 8!
in Croatia, if you're under 6ft (180 cm) you're considered a midget, a dwarf, a bottle cap... and so on. I'm 6ft7" and I'm just a tad above average. Dalmatians are tall people.
I'm a 178cm tall Croatian woman and I think you're exaggerating. 170cm was considered pretty average for both men and women back when I used to live there. But indeed I noticed that nowadays when and if I see other fellow Croatians here in Korea, indeed they tend to be as tall as I or taller. But then, again, I was born and grew up in Istria. Everybody knows we're different. ^_- (Joke. Peace, and nice seeing other Croatians here)
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I read that Dutch people are so tall because of some kind purposely mating the tallest people he could find, as kind of an experiment. Is it true? Rotterdam area.
Nah, we're just a small, northern, densely populated country. So it's a genetic struggle to get yourself some of that sunlight! Plus we live below sea level, so there's that. ;) But seriously, there is a study that indicates natural selection (taller man were more fertile) played a roll, and the fact that dutch women prefered taller men. That presumably all happened during the baby boom.
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Great and funny pics, a nice representation of human diversity! Just confused about the feet and inches, when will the metric system be adopted everywhere ;)????
As an American I agree. We need to kill off the imperial system. Medicine already comes in metric measurements so it's not like it's not already in our society. I remember learning it in grade school. It makes Sooo much more sense than our imperial system.
Load More Replies... So Godzilla was based on my great-grandfather?
Load More Replies... My husband and my eldest son are both very tall. I feel extremely short when I stand in the middle. I am 1.70m. They are 30cm taller then me and my son is still growing. I always tease him by saying that we work and pray to get to heaven one day. He just grows there. My youngest son is 13 years old, and just 2cm shorter then me. So guess who's gonna be the short s**t in the house...
Look at the positive: at lest you don't need a ladder too often around the house
Load More Replies... I am 181 cm, my husband 186 cm and our kids are already tall: my son is 9 years old and he's 147cm tall and my daughter is 6 and she's 129 cm. I don't really want her to be so tall because I remember myself as a teen being very ashamed of my height and unable to find suitable shoes, but nowadays everything is different, so I hope she'll be happy :)
Just Fyi. If you take the length of your child at age 2 and double it, you'll get their adult length.
Load More Replies... Went to a fancy bar in SF with much-shorter male friend----all heads turned and smiled like we were the entertainment. What an absolutely AMAZING sight---tall woman with short man. I didn't like being stared at, but I see from this article that people get used to it and take it in stride. Good attitude.
When I was in high school, I was at least 2 inches shorter than all of my friends (and most of them were a lot taller than that!), and I am a huge Lord of the Rings nerd, so my one friend made me this t-shirt in her graphics class that I still wear, and it says "I'm quite TALL for a hobbit!"
My dad was 6’5” and my mother is 5’4” I am 5’6” everyone on my moms side is short and everyone on my fathers side is at least 6’ including the women. It will be really interesting to see where our son ends up because my fiancé is 5’9”. Genetics is crazy.
I don't understand some of the couples and how they manage to stay together, there must be so many challenges. I would think just having to modify the height of the bathroom sink and toilet would be a major problem.
You obviously didn't meet many then. Europeans really have all the height ranges out there, and we're not all robust and muscular. Also, Japanese people are not all hobits either. Been to Tokyo not so long ago, saw it for myself. Furthermore, Koreans are pretty tall too, especially the younger generations, and they're as east Asian as could be. Also, what do you mean by "normal westerners" anyway? My short Italian friend is a very normal and very a western person, as much as me, a tall Slavic woman.
Load More Replies... Im 6'2 and im only average here(Dutch), my fiancee is also 6'2 but comes from a tall family(Canadian).
My good friend is a big and tall dude, and it does NOT seem like a fun existence :(
We have just binge-re-watched the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings movies.......Hobbits are real!!!!!!
Being a tad under 5'3", I can definitely relate. Hubby still laughs when I climb cabinets when cooking or cleaning kitchen.
My daughter is a senior in an American university - she's just hit 5'1", her roommate and best friend is 6', and they're both slim and blond. When they go out together, they are often mistaken for mother and daughter, which my daughter plays up for laughs (calls her roomie "mom", etc. ;-) But they both think it's fun).
Is no one going to point out the most important detail here?? The fact that Japan's McDonald's has McSpagetti...WHAT
I got a first cousin that just retired from the army a year or two ago. He was an officer in one of the armoured divisions stationed in Europe. He is 6' 8", which, at the time he went into the Army, was the max height for what he wanted to do. He told me once that it was down right funny to see the jaw dropping expressions on the faces of European civilians when they saw him get out of a car, in particular a small Fiat or Mini Cooper.
A friend of my brothers is 6'9 and very wide musculair build, he had a mini for years. Bucket seat bolted against the back seat. He could steer with his knees. Was always funny to see
Load More Replies... I'm an 1.85 Romanian. Everybody called me "giraffe" in high school. I'm well above average in my country and get insulted often for my height. I visited Sweden last year. Finally felt at home :)
What I don't get is why tall women need to wear high heels? Sure it may be for the looks but why would you make your life more difficult?
In elementary school (4th 5th and 6th grade to specific) I was REALLY REALLY short (and still am). I was best friends with the tallest kid in the school.
Reading this reminded me of my parents, my Mum's average height but my Dad's 6ft 8!
in Croatia, if you're under 6ft (180 cm) you're considered a midget, a dwarf, a bottle cap... and so on. I'm 6ft7" and I'm just a tad above average. Dalmatians are tall people.
I'm a 178cm tall Croatian woman and I think you're exaggerating. 170cm was considered pretty average for both men and women back when I used to live there. But indeed I noticed that nowadays when and if I see other fellow Croatians here in Korea, indeed they tend to be as tall as I or taller. But then, again, I was born and grew up in Istria. Everybody knows we're different. ^_- (Joke. Peace, and nice seeing other Croatians here)
Load More Replies... I read that Dutch people are so tall because of some kind purposely mating the tallest people he could find, as kind of an experiment. Is it true? Rotterdam area.
Nah, we're just a small, northern, densely populated country. So it's a genetic struggle to get yourself some of that sunlight! Plus we live below sea level, so there's that. ;) But seriously, there is a study that indicates natural selection (taller man were more fertile) played a roll, and the fact that dutch women prefered taller men. That presumably all happened during the baby boom.
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