Posted on 03/15/2005 7:27:20 AM PST by freepatriot32
If you were neglected as a child or if your parents paid more attention to your siblings, take heart.
It might not be your fault. It might be because you're ugly.
That's what Andrew Herrell's research at the University of Alberta suggests. Herrell, the director of the population research lab in the university's sociology department, studied parents' behaviour in grocery stores, where children often suffer minor injuries. He was trying to understand what factors contributed to those injuries.
What he found would stun most fair-minded parents - ugly kids were neglected more often than attractive ones.
"They'll deny it," said Herrell of most parents' reactions, but adds that 426 observations in 14 local supermarkets are telling.
Herrell and his colleagues followed parents and their 2- to 5-year-old kids around the grocery store for 10 minutes each. They checked if the adult buckled the child into the grocery cart seat, and how often the child wandered more than three metres away.
Only 1.2 per cent of the least attractive kids were buckled in, compared with 13.3 per cent of the most attractive kids. Uglier kids were also allowed to wander away more often than their cute cohorts.
Of course, ugly is subjective. Herrell and his research team judged it on a sliding 10-point scale, one being the Lyle Lovett of kids, 10 being Brad Pitt.
Edmonton Journal
© The Gazette (Montreal) 2005
The Lee twins, Ugh and Home: so beastly that their bank turns off the security cameras.
"Reparations? We
don't have to show you no stink--
in' reparations!"
It doesn't need to be cash.
"It takes an ugly village..."
They already do. That's where all those ugly children wandering around unsupervised in stores come from.
That is a nasty thought!
I think Lyle Lovett is cute.
LOL!!!!
Uglo-Americans???
So didi, I see you are a Napolean Dynamite fan.
On the witness stand in court, good looking perps get off more than the fugly ones do.
Who wouldn't want to be in the presence of beauty vs. skanks?
Michael Moore's parents used to buckle him to the junk food isle while they sneaked away for a leisurely lunch, a casual walk along the river ... capping it off with a few beers and some karaoke before returning to retrieve him just before closing at 11:00 PM.
You need to demand reparations from the breweries for all the ugly girls you went out with!
What are you doing on Friday night?
I want a refund for me beer goggles.
Yessss.
"It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic."
My parents never let me go anywhere with them.
Hey you just want money! Reparations and refunds. Not to proud to beg.....
Medusa was said to be Helen's real mother.
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