Beautiful People

[Linford]

What, being good looking or not being good looking? Women can get harassed for both.

(Nothing aimed at Ms Linf, I hasten to add)

She had builders wolf whistling at her in the street when she was 12 and 13. It used to really upset her. She does get a lot of unwelcome attention.

 

[Rob3rt]

Question time, what sort of people do you genuinely think will use a site such as ugly dating?

 

[Doseone]

When Mrs Doseone bins me I think I'll sign up to Tinder.

 

[Linford]

Question time, what sort of people do you genuinely think will use a site such as ugly dating?

People who are self effacing I would imagine.

 

[ColinJ]

A beautiful-looking person is voted in and becomes a hot favourite on BeautifulPeople.com. Then some lowlife in a stolen car jumps a red light and smashes into their car when they are driving back from work. As he/she is recovering in hospital from the injuries received, somebody on BeautifulPeople.com notices a photograph on facebook showing the scarred face of the victim ..

The next time he/she tries to login to BeautifulPeople.com to contact his/her beautiful online friends, a popup box is launched bearing these words:

"Dear former member, It has been brought to our attention that you no longer qualify for membership of our site due to extensive scarring on your face. If at some point in the future, cosmetic surgery has fixed the problem, please feel free to submit a new request for membership. Regards, The Beauty Commissioner."

Not a club I would be able to join, and not one I would want to join!

 

[michaelcycle]

Slick marketing I guess.

The premise is slightly faulty though because it must be based in part on the idea beauty and strong attraction are synonymous to some degree. I guess being good looking does help you get your, errrr, foot in...the door but it doesn't seal the deal by any means.

If everyone is good looking on the site you will differentiate by other criteria such as shared interests and common goals, rapport and the like which makes you wonder why they just didn't look for that in the first place and use the dozens of other sites there are available which would have a broader range of people to choose from.

Sounds a bit dumb to me.

Somebody lend me their log in though...

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I can't remember the exact phrases now, but my Facebook seems to have started giving me adds for 'mature men' 'trustworthy men' 'men in employment' all wanting dates!

That, along with dubious wrinkle treatment ads

I get the single cycling men in my fb

 

[Spinney]

She had builders wolf whistling at her in the street when she was 12 and 13. It used to really upset her. She does get a lot of unwelcome attention.

When I started work at British Aerospace in (cough) 1981, I worked in an office. Occasionally I had to go and see someone in another office and the shortest and driest (this was Lancashire!) way was to walk through the hangars where they did the final assembly of the aircraft. Wolf-whistles all round - induced only by the fact that I wasn't wearing trousers, most came from fitters too far away to see what I actually looked like. Thankfully by the time I left 10 years later this no longer happened.

My vaguely relevant point is that wolf whistles are not necessarily induced by looks, but given by some sad buggers just because the target is female.

Sadly, unwelcome attention frequently happens in all walks of life, from what I have read.

 

[Spinney]

A beautiful-looking person is voted in and becomes a hot favourite on BeautifulPeople.com. Then some lowlife in a stolen car jumps a red light and smashes into their car when they are driving back from work. As he/she is recovering in hospital from the injuries received, somebody on BeautifulPeople.com notices a photograph on facebook showing the scarred face of the victim ..

The next time he/she tries to login to BeautifulPeople.com to contact his/her beautiful online friends, a popup box is launched bearing these words:

"Dear former member, It has been brought to our attention that you no longer qualify for membership of our site due to extensive scarring on your face. If at some point in the future, cosmetic surgery has fixed the problem, please feel free to submit a new request for membership. Regards, The Beauty Commissioner."

Not a club I would be able to join, and not one I would want to join!

Is this true or a supposition?
In either case, what did she expect from such a site...?

 

[Linford]

When I started work at British Aerospace in (cough) 1981, I worked in an office. Occasionally I had to go and see someone in another office and the shortest and driest (this was Lancashire!) way was to walk through the hangars where they did the final assembly of the aircraft. Wolf-whistles all round - induced only by the fact that I wasn't wearing trousers, most came from fitters too far away to see what I actually looked like. Thankfully by the time I left 10 years later this no longer happened.

My vaguely relevant point is that wolf whistles are not necessarily induced by looks, but given by some sad buggers just because the target is female.

Sadly, unwelcome attention frequently happens in all walks of life, from what I have read.

What upset her I think more than anything was the fact she was so young and in her school uniform. She did used to stand her ground and say back to them 'I'm 12 years of age you pervert'. It was more the sexualised comments which understandably upset her. It did infuriate her that they would look to do this to a child.

 

[Spinney]

What upset her I think more than anything was the fact she was so young and in her school uniform. She did used to stand her ground and say back to them 'I'm 12 years of age you pervert'. It was more the sexualised comments which understandably upset her. It did infuriate her that they would look to do this to a child.

That does sound totally out of order. Good for her for answering back, though.

 

[Linford]

Anyway, talking about 'Beautiful People', I see that Melanie Sykes (the Boddingtons Girl) got a police caution for laying into her toyboy (wonder what caused that?) I knew she is Mancunian, but didn't realise that her looks come from her mother being Anglo Indian.....clearly some benefit to being mixed race

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Anyway, talking about 'Beautiful People', I see that Melanie Sykes (the Boddingtons Girl) got a police caution for laying into her toyboy (wonder what caused that?) I knew she is Mancunian, but didn't realise that her looks come from her mother being Anglo Indian.....clearly some benefit to being mixed race

When I read that I couldn't help thinking "so what, you're married to Melanie Sykes. She could beat me up as much as she liked". Kind of makes me one of the losers who puts looks ahead of a case for the prosecution.

 

[ColinJ]

Is this true or a supposition?

It was a made-up story to make a point.

In either case, what did she expect from such a site...?

I suppose that was my point ...

He or she who lives by perfection, shall die by the blemish!

(Even if the vain and superficial buggers think they are so damn beautiful now, let's see how great they look after another 20 or 30 years in their skin!)

 

[vernon]

It was a made-up story to make a point.


I suppose that was my point ...

He or she who lives by perfection, shall die by the blemish!

(Even if the vain and superficial buggers think they are so damn beautiful now, let's see how great they look after another 20 or 30 years in their skin!)

My fantastic looks and ego are undiminished after 55 years.

Some of us have it......