# Physical decription thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142 "2014-10-12T21:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Longshanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Longshanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Longshanks)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/1 "2014-10-12T21:09:34Z")
This thread is for people to give everyone else a rough mental image of what they look like. Descripe the usuals of height, weight, colour etc… But also include any minor details or bodily quirks that may be of interest to us. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/2 "2014-10-12T21:48:18Z")
245 10 ‡a Motorgirl ‡h [realia] / ‡c Motormama, Motorpapa. 260 \_\_ ‡a Ithaca, N.Y. : ‡b Tompkins County Hospital, ‡c 1970. 300 \_\_ ‡a 44yr : ‡b blonde caucasian ; ‡c 163 cm. 500 \_\_ ‡a Left ear non-functional since 1982 ; please contact Resource Sharing if you require an edition with 2 working ears. 856 42 ‡u [Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) ‡y SDMB Member Profile ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/3 "2014-10-13T01:00:28Z")
> [@Longshanks](#): > > This thread is for people to give everyone else a rough mental image of what they look like. Descripe the usuals of height, weight, colour etc… But also include any minor details or bodily quirks that may be of interest to us. Starting with… You. Go…! _tick_ _tick_ _tick_ _tick_ _tick_ _tick_! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/4 "2014-10-13T01:27:10Z")
Think of a Pulp Fiction era John Travolta. I don’t look anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/5 "2014-10-13T01:31:34Z")
Me: Unusually tall, slightly overweight, 2 different colours in each eye, and apparently I’m androgynous-looking because I’m regularly mistaken for a man. Why, do you need to recognize me? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/6 "2014-10-13T01:44:58Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Me: Unusually tall How tall is “unusually tall”? My brother is 6’ 5". His wife is very close to six feet tall. I always describe her as “freakishly tall”, so I’m guessing you to be 5’ 10". 😃 Yeah, you probably think in centimeters, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/7 "2014-10-13T01:54:35Z")
My face has a certain thematic progression that it would be hard for even a dilettante of faces not to appreciate. The nose resonate with the eyes, the eyes resonate with the ears and the ears resonate with the sound of the taunts of the hoi polloi . It also throws up interesting questions such as “is that human?”, but tantalizingly leaves them unanswered. Moving up to the rest of the body (my anatomical layout casually laughs in the face of convention): the arms recall the apathy of the arms of Meursault, the protagonist in Albert Camus’s _L’Etranger_, in both form and temperament with soupçon of Roger Hargreaves’s Titular hero _Mr. Tickle_. The legs try to re-define the notion of what legs are, though admittedly with only limited success. As a cheeky nod to the avant garde, the torso is entirely absent. I am also unfeasibly well-hung. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/8 "2014-10-13T01:54:35Z")
I’ll play, nearly 50, male. 191cm tall, 100kg weight, probably 5 of those kilos are in the gut I need to flatten out a tad over summer but it’s nothing a bit more exercise won’t fix. Blond sort of wavy hair, green eyes. think like a cross between Chris Hemsworth and Paul Hogan (pre the facelifts) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/9 "2014-10-13T02:00:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How tall is “unusually tall”? My brother is 6’ 5". His wife is very close to six feet tall. I always describe her as “freakishly tall”, so I’m guessing you to be 5’ 10". 😃 > > Yeah, you probably think in centimeters, huh? 5’9" or 10" is right for me. And I still do think in feet/inches. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/10 "2014-10-13T02:33:48Z")
So far, the best bet to play Me in The Story Of My Life is Tina Fey. And she’s not super close, just, closer than anybody else I can think of. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/11 "2014-10-13T03:28:19Z")
I am indescribable. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/12 "2014-10-13T04:43:30Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I am indescribable. I would like to remind you that once upon a time, I posted a picture of myself here and you said “Wow.” I still remember that. And then hazelnutcoffee said she wanted to be my friend. So there’s my description: I hit the sweet spot between being attractive and not threatening other women. Because I’m the kind of woman who would cast a comic actress to play herself. One with brown hair. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/13 "2014-10-13T09:35:45Z")
5’5", 135 lbs, brown skin, black hair, wild brown eyes. I look like a young virgin’s nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/14 "2014-10-13T10:41:09Z")
I’m actually somewhat close to Johnny Galecki in looks only 10 years older. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/15 "2014-10-13T11:00:09Z")
I just turned 60, and damned if I’m not looking more and more like [Frank Bartles of Bartles & Jaymes every day.](http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_bartles.htm) ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/16 "2014-10-13T12:08:20Z")
I look like a tall soccer mom who likes good food a little too much. 😃 Blue eyes, long reddish-blondeish-with-white-in-it hair. Good skin. I’ve been told that I have a “perfect” nose, whatever that means (we were having a conversation about a “nose-shaping” device one of my Asian coworkers bought, and I’d said “WHY?”). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/17 "2014-10-13T13:27:38Z")
I have the body build of my father (q.v.), only taller. Facially, I look, in my old age, much more like my mother (q.v.) than I ever did before. Peaked at just over 5’11", never weighed over 185. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/18 "2014-10-13T13:44:05Z")
Let’s see… White male, blue eyes, short brown hair that’s slightly thinning at the back and temples and parted on the right side. 6’1" and about 295 lbs, but in a very burly, big shouldered kind of way. Clean shaven, probably wearing a polo shirt, jeans and casual shoes. Supposedly I’m fairly handsome. Probably the first thing you’d notice would be my voice- I have one of those classic radio voices that tends to be on the booming side. I’ve been told I sound similar to Bob Phillips of “Texas Country Reporter” fame, but without the goofy phrasing or delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/19 "2014-10-13T14:27:23Z")
I’ve been compared to both Jon Cryer and Alan Ruck. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/20 "2014-10-13T17:52:44Z")
They’re still decrypting me… 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142.md?page=2)