Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'There are downsides to looking this pretty': Why women hate me for being beautiful
Daily Mail Online ^ | April 2, 2012 | Samantha Brick

Posted on 04/03/2012 11:01:39 AM PDT by servo1969

On a recent flight to New York, I was delighted when a stewardess came over and gave me a bottle of champagne.

‘This is from the captain — he wants to welcome you on board and hopes you have a great flight today,’ she explained.

You’re probably thinking ‘what a lovely surprise’. But while it was lovely, it wasn’t a surprise. At least, not for me.

Throughout my adult life, I’ve regularly had bottles of bubbly or wine sent to my restaurant table by men I don’t know. Once, a well-dressed chap bought my train ticket when I was standing behind him in the queue, while there was another occasion when a charming gentleman paid my fare as I stepped out of a cab in Paris..

Another time, as I was walking through London’s Portobello Road market, I was tapped on the shoulder and presented with a beautiful bunch of flowers. Even bar tenders frequently shoo my credit card away when I try to settle my bill..

And whenever I’ve asked what I’ve done to deserve such treatment, the donors of these gifts have always said the same thing: my pleasing appearance and pretty smile made their day.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beautiful; beauty; brick; pretty; samantha
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101 next last
To: servo1969

Ummm... maybe I’ve been spoiled by college life but this lady is a 2, maybe a 3 on a good day. Then again, this is Britain so I must compare apples to apples and over there she is a 8!

Ugh


81 posted on 04/03/2012 12:34:44 PM PDT by Black_Shark
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969
She eerily looks like an ex-girlfriend I've had. The ex had a better attitude though.

She's not bad looking, but doesn't stick out until I'm drinking rum and coke.

82 posted on 04/03/2012 12:34:44 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Time for brokered convention)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: avacado; WesternCulture
Since you just had to drag Sweden into this thread...

Swedish vs English Nightclub (YouTube)

(ping to WesternCulture)

83 posted on 04/03/2012 12:37:35 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: wolfman23601
She is attractive, but she thinks much higher of her looks than a reality.

Beauty is fleeting.

84 posted on 04/03/2012 12:52:05 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Before I saw the pictures I thought Helen Thomas had written this article. Guess not...

.


85 posted on 04/03/2012 12:53:22 PM PDT by flatfish
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stalwart

I know. I posted the same Photoshop joke on another thread. It wasn’t funny on that one either.


86 posted on 04/03/2012 1:02:46 PM PDT by GSWarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: keypro

No that woman is HOTT


87 posted on 04/03/2012 1:13:42 PM PDT by Moleman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: TomServo

Please, I just ate.....


88 posted on 04/03/2012 1:19:01 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Retired Greyhound

You know my sister in law?


89 posted on 04/03/2012 1:19:50 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Sometimes a girl can be only a bit pretty yet still be very attractive tho I am not saying that about this woman.

During the 60’s I thought Hayley Mills was hot as all get out yet I would look at her face and realize she was only a little on the pretty side, well maybe a little more than that but still not a knock-out.

I can still remember her in “Moonspinners” and those pink pants she wore.


90 posted on 04/03/2012 1:35:14 PM PDT by yarddog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: keypro

That woman looks totally stoned!


91 posted on 04/03/2012 2:21:38 PM PDT by Isabel C.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: wolfman23601
pretty smile made their day.

I fully understand and agree. I have had my day made by a smile more than once and look forward to it happening a couple of more times before I die.

I also believe there are other men and women who also know and understand.

92 posted on 04/03/2012 2:30:24 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Robwin
So now I’m 41 and probably one of very few women entering her fifth decade welcoming the decline of my looks. I can’t wait for the wrinkles and the grey hair that will help me blend into the background.
And that background would be what, a train wreck?
93 posted on 04/03/2012 2:31:11 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Occupy this!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: kevkrom
My guess is that she dresses as “easy”, rather than being “pretty”, and gets attention from men who aim a little lower because that means that they just might actually have a chance.

I was thinking the same thing.

94 posted on 04/03/2012 2:47:42 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

She is so full of herself! And I find her to be far from being a knockout.


95 posted on 04/03/2012 3:58:01 PM PDT by rawhide
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Robwin; windcliff

LOL!


96 posted on 04/03/2012 5:24:01 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

97 posted on 04/03/2012 6:31:04 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wolfman23601

I’ve just seen this article, and she is reality challenged. Seven at most—obviously, the British scale of beauty is inflated.


98 posted on 04/03/2012 8:50:11 PM PDT by izzatzo (Just beat Obama.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

If that passes as Hot and getting free stuff then I might go around dressed as a woman.


99 posted on 04/03/2012 10:56:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969
Years ago I was watching Oprah (must've been years ago, as I certainly haven't watched Oprah in years.) But she mentioned that she'd planned to have a program about the problems of beautiful people. Her producers put the word out for beautiful people to come and audition for the show. People were showing up saying, "Oh, my gorgeousness is SUCH a burden, people just can't keep their hands off me, the opposite sex is always chasing me!" yada yada yada. And according to Oprah, these people were extremely unattractive! Many people just have a distorted idea of what they look like. And I find that usually, the more people brag about their beauty or complain about the burden of being gorgeous, the less attractive they generally are.
100 posted on 04/04/2012 11:15:44 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson