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You're lucky I'm in a good mood today littletoe!
It was only red for about 2 weeks just a shock tactic used against a supervisor I didn't get along with. Thought it was an appropriate pic for me here though.
I haven't heard anyone use the word passe' in years by the way. passe' is passe'! LOL
Look at my pic in the member directory and you'll see the red beard!
Darn. My little joke backfired, don't you know...
Consigned to the annals of history, along with my archaic language and viking looks (just need a hat with horns on it, to complete).
~sweeps a lock of hair aside~
I prefered the one with the hat, but the beardy one is fun - LOL.
Which reminds me that I'm probably overdue an avatar change.
This thread has turned into a good one....Nice comments!
M&M:Gah, you're only saying that cuz you started it!!!
LOL
i can liken this to men not wanting to be friends with women they think are ugly. women prefering to be friends with attractive men, or most white people not having any black friends, most christians not having any muslim friends etc. (i am not stating this accross the board, just as a thing that is very common, if not 'normal' among humans)
I feel comfortable around gay and lesbian people, very comfortable.
I do not feel comfortable around people as petty as the type of people mentioned in the above quote.
Are there really that many people who only will be friends with "beautiful" people? If there are then a lot of people miss a lot of good friends and good times.
The only people I think I really find it hard to be around are people who are judgmental.
Flyin'
Well said FHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before, when I was a JW, I'd say most definitely. I'd always try to change them, but being hateful. Now, for the most part no...I find gay men to be quite charming!
I can say that being around certain straight people bothers the shit out of me.
No but a do have this thing about lil red dots that ask annoying questionsROFLMAO
LOL at Gumby THINGY
Are there really that many people who only will be friends with "beautiful" people? If there are then a lot of people miss a lot of good friends and good times.
the original statement wasn't just about looks now was it, and it's a blatant fact that whites mix predominantly with whites, blacks with blacks etc, and so on and so forth, but everyone will deny being racist, and most aren't, it's just the natural thing to be drawn to the thing you are most familiar with, or attracted to. look around you, at everyone on this board, how many of you are white and have only white friends? how many of the gay people here get on better with the gay people on the board, because they have that in common? how many of the abuse victims can relate to eachother and understand eachother better? it's the same things, people are drawn to eachother for many reasons, physical attraction is one such reason.
the very existence of this board is testimony to people being drawn or attracted to eachother for reasons, familiarty, etc.
i saw an interesting documentary about looks, and the influence on kids, and how in tests performed by 'scientists' that babies (maybe 18 months old) responded better (happy smiling faces) to attractive people than ugly ones, with whom they frowned and were clearly not as keen to be held by, they also did a test on children (around 8 years of age) showing them photos of people, and asking them who they thought were good and who they thought were bad, they showed the kids photos of attractive smiling models, young and old, and also real life pictures of good people, like bob geldof... all of the kids thought the attractive smiling people were good, and the others were not nice, or bad.
sometimes i think people are in denial that humans have a nature. it is our nature to want to be around the things we like, and it's no different when become adults... yes as adults it often trancscends beyond being drawn just to physical appearance, but in esscense, and as a rule, we humans only choose to be around the people we like, the ones that are 'beautiful' or pallatable 'to us as individuals'... as the saying goes 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', and there are other forms of beauty besides physical.
having read this, try applying the statement below across the board, and think about it.
Are there really that many people who only will be friends with "beautiful" people? If there are then a lot of people miss a lot of good friends and good times.
think about that for a second.
to someone, everyone is beautiful, and with that reasoning we all miss out on billions of friends in our lifetimes, and trillions of hours of good times... we're all guilty of the same crime.
we are human.
