Interesting phenomenon...

[Finn]

Ok, here's my take...
In the Army we were always measured/weighed in the morning. The explanation was that while sleeping & lying flat, the body extended. As the day progressed gravity worked its marvel and pulled the body downward. What was slim became... not.
I've always held that I'm shorter at bedtime than at waking.
Anyway, those were my pennies...

[Tommie]

Ok, here's my take...
In the Army we were always measured/weighed in the morning. The explanation was that while sleeping & lying flat, the body extended. As the day progressed gravity worked its marvel and pulled the body downward. What was slim became... not.
I've always held that I'm shorter at bedtime than at waking.
Anyway, those were my pennies...

Now this makes sense.Gravity!.Yeah! Thats it!.
Now if I can convince my wife thats whats causing my belts to keep shrinking.

[Pleater]

I do the hanging up and taking down of laundry in the mornings - because I put the things on hangers and stand on tiptoe to get them up onto the rods in the conservatory roof.

If I need anything down from the rods in the evening I have to stand on a brick to reach it - I have shrunk during the day.

Its just the effect of gravity on the soft parts - the price we pay for getting up on our hind legs and standing perpendicular to the world.

It is no wonder we are such agressive little primates - all the others have two heights - normal and threateningly upright hear me roar - we only have the one. It is as though we are destined from the age of eighteen months to be totally at odds with the rest of the world.

[Big Homestead]

I know this one.

The body has a certain amount of movement and elasticity to it. When you sleep, your insides shift and your spine elongates a bit. Thats why you are taller in the morning. As the day progresses, your spine compresses and your midrift gets wider as you get shorter through the day. How much you eat in a day, and your bowels play a big part. Water retention should be taken into account, but thats the most of it there.

When the opposite is taking place, you are burning up calories and water, combined with you are stretching the material in your kilt.

Cheers

[James MacMillan]

I know this one.

The body has a certain amount of movement and elasticity to it. When you sleep, your insides shift and your spine elongates a bit. Thats why you are taller in the morning. As the day progresses, your spine compresses and your midrift gets wider as you get shorter through the day. How much you eat in a day, and your bowels play a big part. Water retention should be taken into account, but thats the most of it there.

When the opposite is taking place, you are burning up calories and water, combined with you are stretching the material in your kilt.

Cheers

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

[Big Homestead]

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

hahahaha!!!!, yeah, I kind guess so.

[Nighthawk]

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

No no. I'm always full of that- Morning, noon, and night.

[Finn]

Gunny, you said it, we didn't!