# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/81 "2008-08-22T23:21:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Honest question: I’d like to know if there is precedent for an OP asking to have their thread closed and being told no. I’ve been around here for awhile, as you can see, and I have **never** seen this happen. Quite the opposite, I’ve seen plenty of instances of the OP vaguely suggesting a thread might be better off closed, then changing his/her mind and continuing with the discussion, and a mod comes along and locks it anyway. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen it a lot, mostly in the pit, some one posts something, expecting rousing chorus of ‘you go grl’ type of shit and is astonished to discover that not everyone agrees that it was ok to stomp on cute puppies. (ugly ones, it’s obviously ok) ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/82 "2008-08-22T23:23:01Z")
Well, I didn’t post it in the pit, I posted it in IMHO and **Czarcasm** moved it to the pit. Anyway, if there was no precedent before, there is now. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/83 "2008-08-22T23:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Well, I didn’t post it in the pit, I posted it in IMHO and **Czarcasm** moved it to the pit. Anyway, if there was no precedent before, there is now. [/QUOTE] So? The sentiment was the same, you posted it in IMHO, wondering if lots of people had this odd predjudice as you did. Expecting, no doubt, a certain amount of folks to agree w/you. Doubt you’d have posted it at all if you believed that most folks would think you were full of shit, right? The mod just allowed them to say it more bluntly. ---
**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, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/84 "2008-08-22T23:39:41Z")
Well, after I both apologized and requested that it be closed, I don’t see the refusal by the moderator to do so as anything other than “punishing” me, and I would think that gentlemen would be above such vindictiveness. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/85 "2008-08-22T23:45:21Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Well, after I both apologized and requested that it be closed, I don’t see the refusal by the moderator to do so as anything other than “punishing” me, and I would think that gentlemen would be above such vindictiveness. [/QUOTE] Are you new here? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/86 "2008-08-22T23:58:18Z")
Well, there’s getting “punished” and then there’s getting “spanked.” I don’t think it’s the mods’ job to close any thread upon request anymore than it’s their job to edit people’s typos. Sometimes you just have to live with what you posted. Mods _can_ do lots of things, but I kind of like how they sometimes don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/87 "2008-08-23T00:14:08Z")
Mods love a good train wreck as much as the rest of us, but I think it’s time to put this one to bed. **Argent** has saved what dignity could be saved (and received a good number of supporting anecdotal backups) and the RO and humour has played itself out. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/88 "2008-08-23T00:14:33Z")
I know two really tall guys who I’ve always thought were kinda dickheadish. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/89 "2008-08-23T00:28:12Z")
Maybe the tall assholes that some have known had [Klinefelter Syndrome](http://men.webmd.com/tc/klinefelter-syndrome-symptoms). ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/90 "2008-08-23T01:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Honest question: I’d like to know if there is precedent for an OP asking to have their thread closed and being told no. I’ve been around here for awhile, as you can see, and I have **never** seen this happen. Quite the opposite, I’ve seen plenty of instances of the OP vaguely suggesting a thread might be better off closed, then changing his/her mind and continuing with the discussion, and a mod comes along and locks it anyway. [/QUOTE] All the time. I’d say I close only a small fraction of the threads that people request to be closed. Any topic that I think other people might want a chance to voice their opinions on, I’ll leave open, barring special and/or especially pathetic circumstances. I do think it happens most often in the Pit, but I’ve seen it happen elsewhere as well. [QUOTE=Argent Towers] Well, after I both apologized and requested that it be closed, I don’t see the refusal by the moderator to do so as anything other than “punishing” me, and I would think that gentlemen would be above such vindictiveness. [/QUOTE] Maybe you could challenge him to a duel. If you knock his top hat off when you slap him with your glove, it might land in the mud, which would be a minor victory all its own. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/91 "2008-08-23T01:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] In my experience - \ These guys also usually seem to have bigger noses, bigger ears, and bigger teeth. [/QUOTE] 6’3" about 180. I have big hands. I seem to get a lot of comments on my hands. So I like to say “Big nose, big feet, big hands… you get the picture?” Most people find that mildly funny. Anyway FWIW I think I’m a pretty nice guy ---
**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 23, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/92 "2008-08-23T01:32:00Z")
I think this ship has pretty much sailed but 6’3" and 180 isn’t really the kind of build I’m talking about. I’m referring to people who are taller than that, like basketball-player tall, but still very skinny. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/93 "2008-08-23T01:57:03Z")
If it’s any consolation, my sophomore roomate was 6’x" and like a hundred and nothing and he was a whinny spoiled prick. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/94 "2008-08-23T02:15:28Z")
Just wanted to say that I prefer men to be tall and on the wiry side–think a young Dick Van Dyke. There’s something about a lanky guy… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/95 "2008-08-23T06:18:07Z")
“Short people ain’t got no reason to live.” – Randy Newman Truer words have never been written. ---
**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 23, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/96 "2008-08-23T06:22:22Z")
Short guys tend to be pricks too, actually. The majority of guys I know who are like, under 5’6", tend to be little Napoleon-complex assholes who talk tough and are hotheads. One short guy I know, I have had to physically restrain him when we were out drinking. The tall guys tend to be introverted and sullen. The short guys are usually unpredictable and dangerous. The most trustworthy guys are usually between 5’7 and 6’2. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/97 "2008-08-23T06:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > **Cisco** : Honest question: I’d like to know if there is precedent for an OP asking to have their thread closed and being told no. Yes, it happened to me. I don’t even remember what the subject was, but I was getting an ass-whupping and I asked that the thread that I had started be closed. The mod told me no and said I would just have to live with it. It was a little humiliating, but I took it like a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/98 "2008-08-23T06:31:05Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Short guys tend to be pricks too, actually. The majority of guys I know who are like, under 5’6", tend to be little Napoleon-complex assholes who talk tough and are hotheads. One short guy I know, I have had to physically restrain him when we were out drinking. The tall guys tend to be introverted and sullen. The short guys are usually unpredictable and dangerous. The most trustworthy guys are usually between 5’7 and 6’2. [/QUOTE] You’re cutting far too much slack, there. Personally, I only trust guys between 5’9 and 6’0. If the metric system meant anything to me in terms of human height, I would narrow it down even further. But seriously, while I know a lot of tall skinny non-assholes, the biggest assholes I -do- know are tall skinny guys. Short assholes are more easily laughed off than someone with a more noble bearing. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/99 "2008-08-23T06:41:26Z")
I have found that if you participate in a thread that gets moved to the Pit, and that move is likely to permit flaming or piling on you, then simply abandon the thread immediately and save yourself the headache. Just leave and never open it again. ---
**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 23, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889/100 "2008-08-23T06:51:43Z")
Trust me, I stopped taking this thread seriously a long time ago. I wasn’t intending to be serious with my last post either, it was just a joke. Come on, you really think I only trust people within some narrow height range? Anyway, I do have to question the impartiality of **Giraffe** here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-guys-who-are-tall-and-skinny-more-likely-to-be-jerks/460889.md?page=6)