# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/41 "2014-10-15T19:04:52Z")
Imagine a tree that you can’t quite get your arms around. Now lop it off at about 5’ so you’ve got a big, thick tree stump. Then put 8" worth of a bushy brown bush on top, and give it blue eyes. This is me. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/42 "2014-10-16T03:03:08Z")
Male, 36. 6’, 207lbs 44" chest, 36" waist, broad-shouldered, a little thick in the back/chest. blocky waist, but no “belly.” Big legs, large calves. Black hair. Brown eyes. No wrinkles/lines (would get carded clean shaven). Thick lips, but a narrow mouth. Eyes avg/wide set. busy brows, long eyelashes. In the face I look like Gregory Peck with a little more fat and a short beard, currently. I walk like a gunslinger. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/43 "2014-10-16T03:52:12Z")
Gray Hair, but lots of it, cut short at the moment. Really tall dwarf or really short giant. My inseam is 28" but I am about 5’7". Stocky, OK huge at 240 lbs, but my bench is well over 300 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/44 "2014-10-16T04:09:24Z")
I look like one of the Simpsons babysitters, but I won’t say which one. It’d best to keep the mystery alive, don’t you think? Also: Not a Yellow-American. Also: No, not [this](http://images3.makefive.com/images/entertainment/television/most-brilliant-simpsons-quotes/lawyer-tatoodie-bart-diesideshow-bobno-that_s-german-for-the-7.jpg) babysitter. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/45 "2014-10-16T04:18:52Z")
I’ve been called “pretty, for a Jewish girl.” Really. To my face. More than once. Even by my own mother. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/46 "2014-10-16T04:49:30Z")
I get told that I look very much like Ernest Hemingway at least once a year. And Santa Claus at Christmas time, but that may be due to my white beard and red stocking hat rather than my bowl of jelly - at least that is what I like to think… ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/47 "2014-10-16T09:51:28Z")
Wally (from Dilbert strip), only with more hair. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Holdsworth_Effect)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/48 "2014-10-16T12:05:22Z")
Shodan, I see your problem. It’s the yellow tie :). Now I’ll be thinking of that and the earring when I see your posts. It’s possible Zipper JJ is part of my extended family-by-marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/49 "2014-10-16T12:14:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’ve been called “pretty, for a Jewish girl.” Really. To my face. More than once. Even by my own mother. So, really pretty, then. How _you_ doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/50 "2014-10-16T12:16:39Z")
Gray-eyed caucasian male. Shaved head. 52 years old. 5’ 11". Not particularly overweight, but not athletic as in my youth. Tats on both upper arms, one shoulder blade and one calf. I walk with a cane due to balance issues following a stroke. ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/51 "2014-10-16T13:02:10Z")
I have height and weight. I’ve been told I have baby brown eyes and a burly manliness. And I has a superpower. My skin goes… [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/38c69948b91955a9df5660a5bb024778/tumblr_mq1jx9LS6J1swqozuo4_400.gif) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/38c69948b91955a9df5660a5bb024778/tumblr_mq1jx9LS6J1swqozuo4_400.gif) like Jeremy Clarkson when I dance. Or sit still…everybody should see me helicopter. Ladies…how you doin? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/52 "2014-10-16T13:14:02Z")
6’8" ectomorph. Broad shoulders and good muscle tone but skinny, narrow wrists/ankles. Fortunately, well proportioned so that I have neither ridiculous long legs or torso. Dark brown hair that’s usually cut almost military short, going to a little grey in the front and temples. Medium blue eyes. Glasses, I get told all the time that in the face I look like Ed Norton. I’m wearing a blue, green, and shite striped shirt, brown ‘tactical’ pants, and topsiders. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/53 "2014-10-16T14:53:24Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > So, really pretty, then. > > How _you_ doin’? Jewfro that got me called “Roseanne Roseannadanna” in jr. high school; big nose, sharp cheeckbones, olive skin, which gets kind sallow in the winter, and gets everyone asking me what really good fake bronzer I use in the summer (because it gets dark so fast), a tendency toward being “strong like ox,” and when I was in my late 20s and worked out, I could bench press 180lbs, and ride a bicycle 50 miles in a day, which wasn’t a very Jewish activity, just that peasant “type.” For all that, you think I’d at least get birthing hips out of it, but I didn’t, and now have a c-section scar. Also, I am middle-aged, and about 15 lbs. overweight (my doctor isn’t concerned, because my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. are good; my mother is concerned because I am her daughter; any other woman, and she say “Fight the patriarchy!”) So no, not pretty right now, although oddly, I did have a couple of men hit on me out of the blue recently. It was very strange. I haven’t worn my wedding ring in a while, because I need to get it sized. When my mother gives me Hanukkah gelt this year, it’s on the top of my list. But, no, right now I am not very pretty, and I’m not available anyway. ETA: I’m also near-sighted and wear glasses, and had to get bifocals the last time I was in, for reading fine print. I don’t wear glasses at all when reading regular books. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/54 "2014-10-16T15:58:59Z")
> [@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. Bill Gates with darker hair. At least, I photograph that way. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/55 "2014-10-16T16:13:08Z")
I am a short, slightly overweight sixty one year old man with rapidly thinning grey hair and a five day old beard. Appearance wise, I look quite a bit like Bill Murray does today. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/56 "2014-10-16T17:00:20Z")
6’ 2" tall 170lb striking pale-blue eyes luxuriantly thick and daringly coiffured blonde hair ruggedly handsome with strong manly jawline fit and toned body like a classical greek god radiates raw sexual charisma on the megawatt scale I’m just a regular guy, nothing special. _flashes a self-deprecating grin, and a little sparkle glints off perfect white teeth_ ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/57 "2014-10-16T20:35:51Z")
Stand here, pee into this, bleed into that, stick this here, drop drawers, bend over, turn head, cough. That’s pretty much the description of my last physical. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/58 "2014-10-17T11:16:31Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’ve been called “pretty, for a Jewish girl.” Really. To my face. More than once. Even by my own mother. Almost as nice as handsome, in your own way…(thanks, Mom) ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142/59 "2014-10-17T11:23:17Z")
Well no surprise in the hair department…shaved light brown receding hair, vaguely brownish, vaguely hazel eyes. 5’ 10" 190. 46, goatee always, sometimes a beard. when I’m clean shaven I look extremely like Evan Handler…so much so, that when someone on Facebook posted a celebrity look alike challenge, or some such nonsense, I used his picture and was actually fooled myself when I swapped it to my profile pic… Best feature are my tree trunk like legs…a result of carrying 200 extra pounds pre gastric bypass thirteen years ago [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physical-decription-thread/701142.md?page=2)