Good Looking People

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Do they get everything they want? Are they happier? Do they get bigger tips?
Discuss the power of being beautiful

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 31 December 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

you think it's so easy. try being me for a day.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

survival of the fittest

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Of course they don't get everything they want, but they do get more: Research has shown that they get less strict punishment (?) in court for example. On the other hand people expect more of them: for example people tend to assume they are cleverer.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

There's a well-known article from The Economist about discrimination based on height: www.shortsupport.org/News/0106.html

Depressing reading. It shows that taller people have significant advantages in the areas of:

Politics
Business
Professional status
Jobs
Money
Sex

You can probably double that advantage for good looking people.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 31 December 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

for example people tend to assume they are cleverer.

Do they really? Wow. I didn't think I assumed anything about good looking people, except that I don't want them standing next to me in photos.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm quite tall and that's just not true bob.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I like to squint at good looking people, it diminishes their power!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 31 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Good looking people are in danger of never getting what they want, cos most people look at them and think: "They're good-looking, they probably already get what they want, therefore they are getting nothing they want from me." A presumption of spoiledness, maybe.

Having said that, there is a bus driver who thinks I'm good looking. (I think he would think a boiled egg was good looking, but there we go.) He told me not to worry about anything, cos good looking people get everything they want in life. I told him thanks but this was untrue. I was saying this as he took me beyond the bus route to drop me right outside where I was heading.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

(x-post Jel)

Louis Theroux has stolen your luck (and looks).

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I am tall and good-looking and I have found life a picnic. Success had been very easy for me, opportunities presenting themselves at every turn. People stop in the street to tip me generously. Bus drivers offer a complete chauffer service and pick up my dry cleaning for me.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but you're so old you've started shrinking. It's gonna end.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Oi.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

you don't want to be labelled

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I am quite successful, 6' tall, but my nose has been broken three times and I have crazy-man eyeballs.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

More interesting would be statistics on people who look like me. Like Jon Williams and the pinefox, apparently.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

TOMBOT, yesterday
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00186/Marty_Feldman_ameri_186080m.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=12052003

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

me to thread!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 31 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I have always been the type of man to be easily seduced and manipulated by good looking women. This troubles me. It is my kryponite?

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Sunday, 1 January 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

i'm an unhappy person who doesn't get what he wants and i'm considered good looking.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Sunday, 1 January 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

In the middle of a conversation recently, I said: "... and, I'm not good-looking, so..." - and was interrupted with "you don't think you're good-looking?" in incredulous tones.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

(I still don't think I'm good looking, though)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

YOU DONT THINK YOURE GOOD LOOKING!!!!!!?????????

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

He doesn't think he's good looking?? He needs to take a better look.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Did that come out right?

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

i am far too nearsighted to be good at looking. at least i'm tall.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 2 January 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

trees are tall, and they're beautiful

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 2 January 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Not always:

http://saltfactory.com/images/dumbugly.gif

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.