Glasgow Girls Considered Ugliest in Britain

[Mwezzi]

Because we're all lazy fuckwits with nothing better to do. Or, rather, we are when we post here.

[MarkMono]

Thats what I said.

[TSR]

Originally Posted by Mwezzi

I think one thing that most of us can agree is that a person's appearance is not an accurate indicator of their health. Nor is BMI.* Another thing most sane people can agree on is that bikuki probably knows more about healthcare than the average forumer. Move back to the shallowness now, people.

*If it was, my recent results from the doctor would be 'see you in five years, DNR' and left at that.

my only issue was with her saying the girl's unhealthy simply because she's slim. i accept she prob knows more about healthcare than me

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

Nope.. this is AN... they like big tits..



Al

actually, i hate huge tits.

[Draven]

Originally Posted by TSR

actually, i hate huge tits.

Seconded.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by TSR

my only issue was with her saying the girl's unhealthy simply because she's slim. i accept she prob knows more about healthcare than me

She didn't. She said she looks unhealthy.

[Jaemi]

Based on the fact that she was slim.

[Dario]

Originally Posted by TSR

actually, i hate huge tits.

Originally Posted by Draven

Seconded.

Self-loathing isn't cool.

[Erstwhile]

I love how personality seems to automatically denote integrity and authenticity to some folk, whereas they dismiss physical appearance as a somehow lesser expression of our innermost selves.

Real enlightened.

I have no illusions about the value of keeping a good appearance in both of our respective cultures. There are multibillion dollar corporations out there hawking their products on the tube, in magazines, and on billboards to make people improve their body image: the implication being in many of these instances that improved body image leads to greater self-confidence. I understand improving one's own self-confidence can be a good thing. On the other hand--and this applies to women hawking beauty products--some young girls draw the conclusion that in order for boys to notice them, them need to starve themselves into nothingness to look like Kate Moss. Clearly this is where the addiction to the image can have terrible consequences.

As far as the personality denoting integrity more than the body, I certainly think that this is plausible considering that I can only get an idea of a person's character by how he or she acts, what he or she says, and how he or she relates to others. I really can't get all of that merely from a person's body or physical appearance. While the upkeep of one's physical appearance might suggest favorable social habits and values, there is no necessary connection between the two: the same would also hold for the relation between a frazzled, unruly appearance and intellectual/artistic sophistication.

[MarkMono]

So body language and facial expression tell you nothing about a person?

It comes back to the old "Is the mind inside the body or is the body inside the mind?" argument. Your body is as much a part of you as some intangible sense of inner self.

Didn't mention anything about upkeep, a 'good' appearance, or societys illusion of ideal beauty and how it reflects on its citizens. Don't know where you're getting all that from, think you must've misinterpreted something I said.

[Draven]

I think Mark really is a charming, nice boy in real life, outside the forum.

[MarkMono]

I think that rather neatly proves my point.



Oh, and thank you.

[Gaias Id]

The heat makes it impossible to have a reliable opinion on this.

Look one way and an extra layer of sweat appears on your forehead, look the other way and decide to become celibate, and back and forth.

Harrowing either way, im avoiding the city center until the weather sorts itself out.

[Erstwhile]

So body language and facial expression tell you nothing about a person?

Sure they do but they can often be misleading. And I don't need to go through countless situations in which body language or expressions can and often times do signify something other than what was originally intended. I don't need to call in the paddy wagon for the guy who has just won a million dollars: despite the fact that after discovering that he has won a million dollars, he is running around, yelling, and ripping his clothes off. Yet someone else, unaware of the context, might just do that. Image or appearance has to be contextualized in some way and there can be no way in which an image ought to signify exclusively and definitively one thing independently of the social/linguistic means of identification.

It comes back to the old "Is the mind inside the body or is the body inside the mind?" argument. Your body is as much a part of you as some intangible sense of inner self.

I won't deny that the body is a part of the person. But the identity of the person isn't exhausted in his or her bodily appearance/attributes. Keep in mind that (and this is important) I'm also not making any metaphysical claims about an intangible self. How a person acts, carries himself, or relates to other individuals are all observable things.

[MarkMono]

So not only is the appearance of a person how they express themselves to the world around them, it is also how they communicate with the rest of their species.

I mean, how else do people communicate that isn't misleading?



I'm intentionally excluding telepathy.

[Deutsch]

Originally Posted by Sgt Craig

Haha, had a quick look at this there;
best name i've noticed so far "Shade-anne" ??!?!?!?!?!
Isn't this the guy of Big Brother ? >



Almost every genuinely decent one i've seen has been from Edinburgh

It's the feral kid from Mad Max 2!!