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#1 2013-02-24 05:04:21

formby
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Is beauty really worth it...?

Discuss, if you wish.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9633359/Why-beauty-is-rarely-worth-it.html


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#2 2013-02-24 06:54:38

4F Hepcat
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

Beauty is culturally defined and in any event personality can be seductive, but in saying that, I couldn't live with a face that looked like a cow chewing a brick.

I like Rubenesque beauty, like Christina Hendricks,  and I married one.


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#3 2013-02-24 08:51:00

Chévere
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

There is so much common sense, sociological research, developmental research, facial and body esthetics research, etc, to refute the article that discussing it may generate words and feelings but nothing that approximates the workings of the real world.


Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.

 

#4 2013-02-24 13:10:01

formby
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#5 2013-02-24 13:24:00

Kingston1an
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

Keats? Arentchajustsickofhim?

I don't mind browsing through the poems what he wrote, but I resent having to answer questions on them in a written examination.


"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#6 2013-02-24 16:18:23

Film Noir Buff
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

I guess we know his target market.

Every now and then I get into an argument with some bonehead about the fact that I only like blondes and gingers. I always ask them that because of my opt out they've got one more awesome brunette to choose from, and thus what's the argument about?

 

#7 2013-02-24 20:23:40

Chévere
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From: Baltimore
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.

 

#8 2013-02-24 23:02:33

captainpreppy
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

I am a devotee of the old Grecian ideal of "kalos kai agathos." I detest ugliness in men or women and any sort of bodily deformity. Need I go on....

I think of how old Homer characterized the god Hephaistos as a "horrible monster" merely because he had a gimpy leg. I was thinking of this when that horrible monster Oscar Pistorius murdered (in all probability) the lovely, Aphrodite-like Reeva Steenkamp. I rather felt she got what was coming to her for bestowing her charms on such a horrible monster!

 

#9 2013-02-25 01:49:35

The_Shooman
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

l could never be with a woman who didn't look good. Good looks have always been important to me.

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#10 2013-02-25 02:59:29

4F Hepcat
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

^I am surpised at that Shooey, I would have thought someone at your chakra spiritual level would like Buddha eschew aesthetiscism for something more deeper and meaningful?


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#11 2013-02-25 03:18:55

adorable homunculus
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


We dont need any of the clothes we buy except as a means to be the star in the film of our life populated by constructs  - FNB

 

#12 2013-02-25 03:40:59

The_Shooman
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

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#13 2013-02-25 04:21:49

RobbieB
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.

 

#14 2013-02-25 04:38:14

adorable homunculus
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


We dont need any of the clothes we buy except as a means to be the star in the film of our life populated by constructs  - FNB

 

#15 2013-02-25 06:14:53

The_Shooman
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From: AUSTRALIA
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

The girls with tatts are always the best ones. wink Whole sleeves, tramp stamps and lots of artwork on the back. Very sexy.

 

#16 2013-02-25 06:52:50

Chévere
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From: Baltimore
Posts: 856

Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.

 

#17 2013-02-25 11:56:41

formby
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/ugly-is-the-new-beautiful-from-aesthetic-monstrosity-to-design-masterpiece-8219717.html


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#18 2013-02-25 14:58:12

Bishop of Briggs
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/roger-scruton-fake-culture/


Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.

 

#19 2013-02-25 19:31:48

Film Noir Buff
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

 

#20 2013-02-25 21:25:24

fxh
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#21 2013-02-25 22:21:06

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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

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#22 2013-02-25 23:13:28

The_Shooman
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From: AUSTRALIA
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

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#23 2013-02-26 02:44:04

adorable homunculus
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


We dont need any of the clothes we buy except as a means to be the star in the film of our life populated by constructs  - FNB

 

#24 2013-02-26 02:59:41

Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?

As my superstar Ivy career continues to rocket towards the stars I've been visiting even more Gay bars than usual to socialise with clothing people and have been tickled by how I can be ogled in some places and ignored in others. I remain the same but the perception of my beauty changes as many as three times an evening sometimes...

I try to discuss this with Mrs Jimmy and she informs me that that's just how it is for women. For men in a straight environment the perception of how well they are dressed (rather than their beauty) must always be morphing too...  It all depends on your audience ?

 

#25 2013-02-26 03:01:57

adorable homunculus
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Re: Is beauty really worth it...?


We dont need any of the clothes we buy except as a means to be the star in the film of our life populated by constructs  - FNB

 

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