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amcnutt
Joined: 22 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:54 pm Post subject: Measuring chest size? |
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Is it a standard procedure for the hospital to measure your chest size for the health check?
I was wondering if men had to get their chest measured too. I don't really understand the point of this, but then again I don't understand a lot of what they do in Korea. I would (somewhat) understand if they took our complete measurements (ex: waist to hip ratio can give relative information on heart health, etc) but it was ONLY the chest that they measured. What does that tell them, anyway???
Anyone else come across this? |
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soomin
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, it's normal~ I'm female, but I'm sure they do it to the males as well... I don't know why they measure it, but they usually do... The last woman who measured mine seemed uncomfortable, lol @.@;;; |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| soomin wrote: |
| Yep, it's normal~ I'm female, but I'm sure they do it to the males as well... I don't know why they measure it, but they usually do... The last woman who measured mine seemed uncomfortable, lol @.@;;; |
Um... nope. As a male, no one has ever been interested in my chest size :- / |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| comm wrote: |
| soomin wrote: |
| Yep, it's normal~ I'm female, but I'm sure they do it to the males as well... I don't know why they measure it, but they usually do... The last woman who measured mine seemed uncomfortable, lol @.@;;; |
Um... nope. As a male, no one has ever been interested in my chest size :- / |
I guess you need to spend more time doing push-ups and/or bench press. 
Each and everytime I'm gone in for a "health check" I've had my chest measured. |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| comm wrote: |
| soomin wrote: |
| Yep, it's normal~ I'm female, but I'm sure they do it to the males as well... I don't know why they measure it, but they usually do... The last woman who measured mine seemed uncomfortable, lol @.@;;; |
Um... nope. As a male, no one has ever been interested in my chest size :- / |
I think they were more interested in my waist... annual health exam today and if I follow doctor's orders, I'll have to buy new pants in a few months |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I think they were more interested in my waist... annual health exam today and if I follow doctor's orders, I'll have to buy new pants in a few months |
Too thin, were you?
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Underwaterbob
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm male. They've done a chest measurement every time I've gone in for one. |
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Old fat expat
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:35 am Post subject: |
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I'm a guy that has had quite a few trips to the hospital.
Never had a chest measurement.
and one of my trips was for a heart infection, a week in hospital. Never measured.
Not arguing, just saying that's the nature of things here. Things cover the range. |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| I think they were more interested in my waist... annual health exam today and if I follow doctor's orders, I'll have to buy new pants in a few months |
Too thin, were you?
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Yeah, that, or maybe the other 
The cutest thing was how all the nurses and doctors asked me if I needed to have the metric system explained... "You need to lose 7cm, now do you understand "cm"?"... "You need to lose a few kilos, now do you understand "kilo"?" |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| orosee wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| I think they were more interested in my waist... annual health exam today and if I follow doctor's orders, I'll have to buy new pants in a few months |
Too thin, were you?
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Yeah, that, or maybe the other
The cutest thing was how all the nurses and doctors asked me if I needed to have the metric system explained... "You need to lose 7cm, now do you understand "cm"?"... "You need to lose a few kilos, now do you understand "kilo"?" |
If you're American, they're probably right in doing that. Most Americans don't know anything about the metric system |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| methdxman wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
| orosee wrote: |
| I think they were more interested in my waist... annual health exam today and if I follow doctor's orders, I'll have to buy new pants in a few months |
Too thin, were you?
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Yeah, that, or maybe the other
The cutest thing was how all the nurses and doctors asked me if I needed to have the metric system explained... "You need to lose 7cm, now do you understand "cm"?"... "You need to lose a few kilos, now do you understand "kilo"?" |
If you're American, they're probably right in doing that. Most Americans don't know anything about the metric system |
Yeah, I'm not that's why I was wondering when they asked me the first time. It reminded me of some old Dave Barry stories in which he would sometimes convert US to Metric system in a rather haphazard fashion, or just make them up ("Speed Limit: 173 Centipedes", http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19890910&id=Pf5TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1777,2960755).
The really odd measurements were the old British ones, as in "Your weight is 3 stones and 5 shillings" or maybe it cost 5 shillings to buy the stones, all part of the funny past now. |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Meeting with the gym guy: "your weight is perfect"
I gain 1kg of muscle and lose 0.5kg of fat.
Next meeting with the gym guy: "you weight went up, not good, must lose weight"
Makes sense that most of the people in the gym barely know how to workout. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| Hugo85 wrote: |
Meeting with the gym guy: "your weight is perfect"
I gain 1kg of muscle and lose 0.5kg of fat.
Next meeting with the gym guy: "you weight went up, not good, must lose weight"
Makes sense that most of the people in the gym barely know how to workout. |
Maybe you should start weighing yourself....cut out the middleman. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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A Korean male friend says he visually compares size in the bathouse, so if your chest was measured by a woman maybe she was comparing size
As a male I've never had my chest measured in the ROK, just height and weight.
Science classes in the US are taught using the metric system. Chem labs and liquor stores measure in milliliters, archeologists excavate in centimeters and and commodities are measured in bothgrams and ounces.
Where Americans are lacking is in the use of measures of temperature other than Fahrenheit. |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
Science classes in the US are taught using the metric system. Chem labs and liquor stores measure in milliliters, archeologists excavate in centimeters and and commodities are measured in bothgrams and ounces.
Where Americans are lacking is in the use of measures of temperature other than Fahrenheit. |
It's surprising that more advanced States don't mandate the listing of metric alongside imperial units. |
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