ear shapes

[sammmo]

Can the shape of peoples ears tell you anything about their charactor or health or anything else.. has anyone ever studied ear shapes?

[jd_here]

Yes, if they have cauliflower ears it generally means they have been a rugby player!

[WELSHYORKIE]

Yes, if they also say 'live long and peosper' lol !

[boxtops]

some people have HUGE ears

[boxtops]

seriously though - if you google, there is a lot about face reading, ear shapes are in there too.

[Sqad]

Yes.......but not the shape.

If they have "gritty" deposits on the top of the ear lobes, they may well be well off, hard drinkers (port maybe)...... Epicurean perhaps.....gouty tophi.

Ulcer at the top of the lobe.....lived in the sun..Mediterranean perhaps...sun damage.

The shape associated with character is a load of "b0llocks"

[starone]

I read once that criminals have very small or no ear-lobes. Complete rubbish. I know some lovely blokes and blokessses with small earlobes who have no criminal tendencies whatsoever. jd. cauliflower ears could be boxers as well.

[sammmo]

I was thinking along the line of the study of palms is palmistry so could the study of ears be earistry? theres big small thin and fat sticky out pinned back all sorts of shapes.. i'm surprised theres not been a proper study done on ears..

[McMouse]

Spock has pointy ears and he can do amazing things.

[sammmo]

I bet my lobes are longer than your doc

[rowanwitch]

If they are really ugly to look at they are a bit of a sh1 t after all they have dire ear

sorry

[Sqad]

rowan....;-) you get cheekier and cheekier............thank goodness!

[Clanad]

On a semi-serious note, here in the U.S. at least two studies indicate the possibility of heart disease in people with creases on their ear lobes:

"...Possible association between earlobe creases and coronary artery disease first garnered attention almost 2 decades ago when the results of an 8-year, 108-person study by hypertension specialist Dr. William Elliott, proposed a link between distinctive, diagonal creases in human earlobes and heart disease. Dr. Elliott found that individuals with a crease in at least one earlobe were much more likely to die from heart disease than those whose ears were crease-free.

In a follow-up study of 1,000 people admitted to the medical service of a large hospital, Dr. Elliott's results seemed to confirm his earlier studies. Of the 373 people with earlobe creases, 275 (74%) had coronary artery disease, and 98 (26%) did not. Of the 627 people with no earlobe creases, 101 (16%) had coronary artery disease, and 626 (84%) did not."
Further, The reason for any such association between earlobe creases and heart disease is unknown. Interestingly, in Dr. Elliott's larger study, earlobe creases were not linked with other known risk factors of heart disease...Until larger, more definitive studies are available, the presence of a distinctive earlobe crease may indicate the need for closer attention to all possible risk factors for heart disease." (Source: University of Alabama Medicine)