Posted on 08/13/2008 8:12:15 PM PDT by Soliton
It is a blow for Ugly Bettys everywhere.
Research shows we value beauty over intelligence.
A study of a quiz show - similar to the Weakest Link - revealed those lacking in looks were twice as likely to be eliminated by their fellow contestants, even when they got more questions right, than those easier on the eye.
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Because there are always men willing to have sex with them.
If you want to get really depressed, beauty over intelligence is nothing. Look at the ridiculous candidates we vote for. Now there’s a real downer.
Sometimes we (particularly we FReepers) make too much of politics. Some day we will all be dead. You can worry. I bought a canoe and learned how to cook my favorite foods. Jimmah Carter and Clinton couldn't kill America. President Obama won't either. You will just have to spend more time canoeing and cooking gumbo.
I don’t even know if I qualify in this. I have no track record, no women have expressed interest.
And I’m laughing about it. Oh boy am I going over the deep end.
And run like hell if someone handsomer, quicker and smarter than you takes an interest in you.
I don’t know, Hollywood ‘lookers’ may be successful from a wealth standpoint, but many do not seem particularly happy. Most flit from relationship to relationship, never satified or content. This plain Jane wouldn’t trade places with Paris Hilton for all the money in her bank account. Not to overgeneralize, but the happiest people I know, with decent incomes and the longest relationships, are ordinary-looking folk. It is a myth perpetuated by Hollywood and Madison Avenue that gorgeous people have better lives and the rest of us are doomed to misery.
Yep
I agree. I would trade being ugly for being filthy rich any day. I can prove it too. I already did
Thank you for that wise and patient comment.
I too have expressed my faith in America's resiliency, and been taken to task for being insufficiently scared. Like you, I plan to fight for Right as I see it, and ride out whatever results come of the elections.
I don't canoe much these days, but I tend to my windmill project and my little house in the country. And somehow all this too shall pass. Gumbo... good stuff!
There is an old saying: Beauty is only skin deep while ugly goes clear to the bone.
My wife and I have been busy the last 20 years with raising kids. We became mom and dad rather than Frank and Shelley. A $300 dollar canoe has changed all that. We go to a different lake or stream every week. It costs almost nothing. It is quiet, often beautifully so. You are never so "equally yoked" as when you are paddling a canoe. You either coordinate, or paddle in a circle.
Sometimes that can be several feet.
Can’t canoe. Can’t swim. But I found heavy drinking helps a lot.
I’m working on that mindset.
Ain't -that- the truth! LOL.
In earlier years, I canoed a bunch, always preferred stern position, since I could generally make up for the shortcomings of the bowman with a well-timed J-stroke. Plus, if my partner was female, I got double the scenery, albeit from the rear.
Probably just as well you don't canoe or swim -- doing so after heavy drinking can cause you to strike up an excessively close friendship with catfish.
There is a line in a movie called “Roger Dodger” which captures how I wish natural selection went, something to the effect of: give me the nastiest, harriest guy every time. If women were won through hair-pulling and carotid-artery-chopping, I’d give it my all. As it stands now, I lack the necessary motivation to make myself look more like a woman in order to attract more women.
Won’t be able to afford gumbo if Obama destroys the economy.
The amusing thing is the actress who plays Ugly Betty isn’t ugly. She could lose some weight but she’s not ugly.
That’s the problem when you make up words - how do you spell ‘em?
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