The most beautiful woman in the world... and we're all freaking jealous...

[crazy canuck]

Besides CC is conceited giant

Truth is always a defence. 

[Maximus]

I find the whole height obsession sort of puzzling.

Indeed

[Jacob]

I find the whole height obsession sort of puzzling.

IIRC, you're tall and thin.

By some standards in some places. In others, not so much.

[Ideologue]

Studies tend to show people react to beautiful people positively across the board.

Not me, man.  I treat them with the same loathing and distrust I reserve for ugly people.

Concur.  Any very beautiful woman (on the conventional scale) is presumptively a bitch.  Some 9s and 10s on my idiosyncratic scale are all right, because on the conventional scale they may be more like 7s or 8s.

I am proven wrong from time to time, but it's a good rule.  And psychologically defensive!

Simply attractive men don't bother me as much, although I envy them; however, tall men I want to kick right in the fucking shins.

[CountDeMoney]

Studies tend to show people react to beautiful people positively across the board.

Not me, man.  I treat them with the same loathing and distrust I reserve for ugly people.

Concur.  Any very beautiful woman (on the conventional scale) is presumptively a bitch.  Some 9s and 10s on my idiosyncratic scale are all right, because on the conventional scale they may be more like 7s or 8s.

I am proven wrong from time to time, but it's a good rule.  And psychologically defensive!

Simply attractive men don't bother me as much, although I envy them; however, tall men I want to kick right in the fucking shins.

Seconded on the sheer usefulness of the psychologically defensive presumptive bitch posture.
Tall guys get the kick in the balls.  But tall AND thin?  Get the fucking bat. 

[Jaron]

  I keep searching for a 'Like' button.

[Eddie Teach]

Define "tall".

[CountDeMoney]

Define "tall".

You know it when you see it. 

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe she was really hot when she was in her 20s and is just futilely clinging to past glory?

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe she was really hot when she was in her 20s and is just futilely clinging to past glory?

She had that same nose in her 20's.

[Josquius]

Not hot.

[Richard Hakluyt]

As I have said many times before, the Daily Mail is very good at what it does.

A story about a beautiful woman who actually is a beautiful woman is not very interesting. One where the woman is decidedly average is much more interesting.

British print newspaper sales are in terminal decline. To keep turning a profit they need to work out some way of making money from their online editions. According to The Economist fewer than 30% of the visits to the Mail's site are from Britain, so they are appealing to an increasingly global audience. The Guardian has a report on their financial success from this :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/08/mail-online-revenue-growth

[Brazen]

Yes, I'm currently batting off reports the Daily Mail made saying Russia is developing a zombie weapon. Russia did actually announce that it was giving more money to research unconventional weapons including psychotronic ones (which I'd already reported on last week), then deftly segues into a report to say they'd actually researched an energy weapon that makes people in a crowd uncomfortably hot. Sigh.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123415/Putin-targets-foes-zombie-gun-attack-victims-central-nervous-system.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Judging myself equally as attractive as Ms Brick but without the wonky nose, eyes and teeth, where's my champagne?

[Richard Hakluyt]

The Guardian has joined in the fun :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-hated-good-looks

[Valmy]

The Guardian has joined in the fun :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-hated-good-looks

Oh my God that was good.

Just last November a woman I've never met stopped me outside a supermarket to give me a poppy.

I feel a rage I can hardly express in words for this handsome bastard.