>>>>Sure it wasn't compression from having to lug all that gear on your back.? :-)
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>>>>Funny how one can presume to guess someone's size from a portrait photo.
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>>>>I was over 6'1" "in my prime". Now I daren't measure myself to find I've shrunk :-) My dad, who was always taller than I, now in his 70s, is several inches shorter. Sad, isn't it.
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>>>It's because your nation doesn't eat vegetables.
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>>What you talkin' 'bou'? Our staple diet is spuds! Besides, it's protein that makes you grow.
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>The potato is a honourary member of the vegetable family only. Akin to tree bark, sod or concrete in nutrition.

Vegetarians don't just eat vegetables per se. The spud is a member of the veg family, as opp. to animal.

>The decline of fall of the British empire can surely be linked to a overfondness for that toxic tuber.

If only we'd known! We could have still been reaping the benefits of our domination of other lands, Old Glory would have featured the Union Jack, and the Quebecois would have been up against the wall, just for being francophone.