# Are guys who are tall and skinny more likely to be jerks? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889 "2008-08-22T02:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/21 "2008-08-22T04:17:16Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Argent Towers, you are looking for the old [idea](http://changingminds.org/explanations/personality/sheldon_personality.htm) of “body types” [/QUOTE] This is exactly what I meant - exactly - and I wish I was knowledgeable enough to have just mentioned that in the first place instead of posting my OP which was quite admittedly very harsh and indelicate. Thank you. There’s no reason for this to have been moved here other than because the moderator feels like power tripping. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/22 "2008-08-22T04:21:09Z")
Unfortunately all the mods are tall and skinny. And they’re good-looking, so they’ve never had to be nice to get what they’ve wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/23 "2008-08-22T04:23:42Z")
Alright. Anyway, I’ve apologized three times for my OP, and now I’m going to apologize once more, and I mean it. It was never my intention to imply that all people of a certain body type are jerks. I was trying to basically express the idea in **Maastricht** ’s links, but I did so very rudely, and for this, I am sorry. I bear no ill will against anyone. ETA: While I’m at it, I apologize to **Czarcasm** also for calling him names. It was not really necessary and I don’t want to get into a pissing match. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/24 "2008-08-22T04:26:41Z")
Nope, but I have noticed that tall skinny guys tend to have big dicks and also tend to be really good at cunnilingus. Sorry there, **AT,** did your girlfriend run off with a tall skinny guy? Well, now you know why! The above also explains the egotism… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/25 "2008-08-22T04:28:57Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Nope, but I have noticed that tall skinny guys tend to have big dicks and also tend to be really good at cunnilingus. Sorry there, **AT,** did your girlfriend run off with a tall skinny guy? Well, now you know why! The above also explains the egotism… [/QUOTE] Please note that statements of fact belong in General Questions, not The BBQ Pit. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/26 "2008-08-22T04:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=threemae] Unfortunately all the mods are tall and skinny. And they’re good-looking, so they’ve never had to be nice to get what they’ve wanted. [/QUOTE] I wish I resembled that remark. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/27 "2008-08-22T04:45:47Z")
Anyway, I admit it, it’s just jealousy. I am five foot two and weigh two hundred and eighty pounds. My penis is two inches long and five inches in diameter, and my girlfriend just left me for Michael Phelps. So I’m just bitter. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/28 "2008-08-22T05:22:26Z")
AwRIGHT, TunaCanMan, right on! 😛_punches **Towers** on his tiny shoulder_😃 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/29 "2008-08-22T05:27:03Z")
Yup, they call me Charlie, and it ain’t because I’m a member of the Viet Cong or a silent film star. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/30 "2008-08-22T05:30:28Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Go ahead, why don’t you jerk off to it while you’re at it. . . .You think you’re so great because you have the power to move a thread from one forum to another. [/QUOTE] I don’t know about **Czarcasm** , but moving threads _does_ make me feel tingley all over. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/31 "2008-08-22T05:37:05Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] I don’t know about **Czarcasm** , but moving threads _does_ make me feel tingley all over. [/QUOTE] Do they make jackboots to fit your tall and skinny legs? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/32 "2008-08-22T05:37:55Z")
How the hell do they make jackboots small enough to fit a hummingbird? ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/33 "2008-08-22T05:40:00Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] How the hell do they make jackboots small enough to fit a hummingbird? [/QUOTE] Wee little jackboot cobblers 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/34 "2008-08-22T06:01:46Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] Well, I’m 1,93m and 65 kilos (6’4", 143) with big ears, big front teeth and a long nose that’s been broken twice. I’m a bit of a jerk, but not in the rude fashion. (Very polite, but also very egotistical) But this just seems like trolling to me. Would the Dutch and the Norwegian populace be more than average jerkish, because we’re on average taller? [/QUOTE] I can’t even imagine how that height/weight ratio is capable of sustaining human life. Im almost a hundred pounds heavier than you at your height, and almost anybody would call me thin. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/35 "2008-08-22T06:10:10Z")
It’s definitely possible. I lived for two years in a house with a guy who fit that description, except he was about 6’6. He drove me absolutely insane with his bullshit, which was really the inspiration for this ill-begotten thread in the first place. Thank Christ I have my own place now… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/36 "2008-08-22T06:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Please note that statements of fact belong in General Questions, not The BBQ Pit. Thank you. [/QUOTE] Damnit! Now I have to like you again. [sup]JK, Always have. Well, mostly…[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/37 "2008-08-22T06:17:11Z")
I actually joined this thread to second Argent’s purely anecdotal evidence. As ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE\* only, I can say that all of the tall skinny guys I’ve known in my 27 years have, to a man, been assholes\*. \*ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE is only evidence in the sense that it’s not, really. - I have never met anyone participating in this thread so they are of course exempt and can go on about thier business of kissing pretty girls and having large genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/38 "2008-08-22T06:25:27Z")
I once worked with a guy who was about 6’4" and probably weighed 150 or so. He had a goatee and looked like an identical twin of Tom Green. This guy was absolutely the surliest, rudest, most unlikeable piece of shit ever. He was totally pretentious - one of those guys who only listened to rap, and thought that rap was the absolute pinnacle of musical achievement and that all other music was beneath it. The only other kind of music he ever listened to was old-time blues, for some reason. He thought of himself as this great intellectual-yet-street-smart guy, but everyone there hated him because of his surly attitude. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/39 "2008-08-22T06:27:22Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I once worked with a guy who was about 6’4" and probably weighed 150 or so. He had a goatee and looked like an identical twin of Tom Green. This guy was absolutely the surliest, rudest, most unlikeable piece of shit ever. He was totally pretentious - one of those guys who only listened to rap, and thought that rap was the absolute pinnacle of musical achievement and that all other music was beneath it. The only other kind of music he ever listened to was old-time blues, for some reason. He thought of himself as this great intellectual-yet-street-smart guy, but everyone there hated him because of his surly attitude. [/QUOTE] I think the part two of this thread should be “Is Everyone Who Enjoys Rap Music In Any Fashion A Talll And Skinny Asshole?” I don’t see how that could fail… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/40 "2008-08-22T06:28:39Z")
The only thing he ever listened to besides gangsta rap and old Delta blues recorded on a wax cylinder in 1903, was NPR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889.md?page=3)