# How hot do YOU think you are? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393 "2006-07-13T22:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/1 "2006-07-13T22:33:03Z")
My husband did this poll on his pokerroom message board, and got interesting results, so I thought I’d give it a try here. The premise is pretty simple - on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being basically dead and 10 being Halle Berry, where do you put yourself on the hotness scale? I’ll start - I’m a solid 6 (because I don’t try at all). Yeah, baby! (This should probably be in MPSIMS, because there really isn’t any point to it at all, but it’s a poll, too, so here it is.) ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/2 "2006-07-13T22:37:44Z")
With hair done and makeup on, I’m probably about a 6. With hair in a ponytail and no makeup, I’m about a 5. The small difference is the reason why I rarely make the effort these days. If I could get my ass in gear and lose the extra 30 pounds I’m carrying around, I’d move my marks up one. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/3 "2006-07-13T22:41:00Z")
I’m probably about a 2, except to my husband, who sees me as I used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/4 "2006-07-13T22:46:05Z")
Absolute values only, or can we use negative numbers? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/5 "2006-07-13T22:47:18Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Absolute values only, or can we use negative numbers? 😃 Since a score of zero means “basically dead,” I’d expect that zombies could use negative numbers. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/6 "2006-07-13T22:48:50Z")
People always give the example of a 10, but I wish someone would give examples (at least their own opinion) of a few of the other numbers before I want to answer. Like, if you think Halle Berry is a 10, who’s a 5? Who’s a 7? Anyway,… Assuming 5 is as average as can be (neither ugly nor beautiful, just plain, I guess), I would say that I rate myself about a 7, though I know that I can be dolled up to an 8 by a professionals. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/7 "2006-07-13T22:49:52Z")
Well, my tastes happen to run pretty close to my own appearance (lucky or unlucky, you decide), so I would probably have put myself at 8 or thereabouts when I was at my peak six months ago. Right now, what with the hospitalization and surgical scars and loss of muscle… I’m still a 7.5. I pause on my way past the mirror several times a day just to admire myself, not because I’m so hot but because I haven’t been hot before. Others might put me at 6 or so, but who cares? _I_ think I’m gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/8 "2006-07-13T22:51:39Z")
I was never “hot.” At my best, when I was 25, 35, I was an icy Hitchcock blonde (only brunette). A 10, but a 10 that would give you frostbite. Now, I’m a Helen Hokinson matron. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/9 "2006-07-13T22:54:30Z")
During certain points of my life, I have been an 8 or 9. I let myself go for a while for external and internal reasons and I bottomed out at about a six. I am working my way up at this point and probably am a mid 7 at this point. I am 33 now so the competition is quickly falling back. I don’t know if relative scales count though. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/10 "2006-07-13T22:55:33Z")
I’d say a 4. A 5 on a good day. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/11 "2006-07-13T23:05:06Z")
At the risk of sounding conceited, and even with the extra 30 lbs I’m carrying, I think I’m a 6 or 7. In my late thirties, but I still have good curves and carry it well. In my younger, slimmer, shorter-skirt-wearing days I’m pretty sure I was a solid 9. Of course I didn’t know it. I couldn’t figure out why on earth men were looking at me. _I_ thought I was a 4 or 5. I remember one time I was in college and I was walking downtown and I smiled at this business man who was quite handsome. I must have startled him because he took a step backward off the curb and almost got hit by the light rail train. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/12 "2006-07-13T23:24:51Z")
A solid 0, maybe a 1 on i good day. I’d honestly be floored and might in fact pass out if someone were to find me attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Carlyjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/13 "2006-07-13T23:54:10Z")
Almost impossible to say. Some days I feel really, really ugly. Other days I feel like a million bucks. Sometimes I feel like a million bucks, and then I look in the mirror and think “Whoops! Wrong feeling.” Who knows? I know my vision of what I look like is eternally skewed and not at all accurate. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/14 "2006-07-14T00:38:26Z")
Buncha haters here! Me, I’m a solid 12 on a bad day–just ask my sweetie… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/15 "2006-07-14T00:40:37Z")
Broken down to parts, I’m a 6. But since carriage and personality are the real dealmaker/breaker, put me at a solid 8.5 when I’m “on”. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/16 "2006-07-14T00:46:16Z")
I’ve done the hot or not thing and apparently I’m a pretty solid 5.5 according to random voters. That would be about right… I figure I’m about a 6. Nothing special…maybe a 7 when I was younger. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/17 "2006-07-14T01:02:02Z")
I reckon an everyday 6, perhaps 7 if I got dolled up. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/18 "2006-07-14T01:03:58Z")
I’m reasonably attractive, I suppose, but I’ve been a little down in the mouth recently (which Im’ sure knocks me down a notch or 2) so that’d put me somewhere around a 7, I suppose. I could also use a haircut but I’m not gonna hold that against myself because it’s a relatively simple procedure. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/19 "2006-07-14T01:06:29Z")
> [@Carlyjay](#): > > Almost impossible to say. Some days I feel really, really ugly. Other days I feel like a million bucks. Sometimes I feel like a million bucks, and then I look in the mirror and think “Whoops! Wrong feeling.” > > Who knows? I know my vision of what I look like is eternally skewed and not at all accurate. This is true for me, as well. My husband likes the way I look, though. He thinks he’s the luckiest guy in the world. I’m just glad he eyeglasses prescription obviously needs updating! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393/20 "2006-07-14T01:08:20Z")
…_his_ eyeglasses prescription. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-think-you-are/364393.md?page=2)