Comments on: It’s all about drawing lines

By: Melanthios

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:41:46 +0000

Really? Where are you? That seems odd, a town that has a higher concentration of hiccups. I mean, I know that trans* people congregate in MD and northern CA, so logically I suppose there are places where people of a certain genetic hiccup would also congregate.

*I do consider trans people to fall under ‘genetic hiccup’.

By: Ben

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:00:20 +0000

You’d love this town then. Plenty of genetic hiccups here.

By: Melanthios

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:36:56 +0000

I love the very tall to a point where I find it more sexy for a person to be extraordinarily tall (such as from acromegaly or Marfan’s). I have not had much contact with little people, unfortunately, though I find the physical difference to be attractive despite the fact that I am not sure what kind of ‘attractive’ my brain means.

By: DmL

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:59:15 +0000

I like that: “hiccup.” I’ll have to remember that. I also like height-related things… I get really nervous around really tall and really short girls. : D

By: Melanthios

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:42:20 +0000

Proportions being perfect is nice on an artistic level, but not for me. For reasons of my own, I prefer ladies that are ‘bottom heavy’. I am also more inclined to find an ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’ lady attractive, as well as being more positively affected by men with silver in their hair. This former is likely part of the ‘Well-fed = fertile! YAY!’ wiring. The latter…possibly because older partners are less frantic and more experienced. I’m talking strictly from instinct, here. There are conscious reasons I assign to my physical ideals, as well as learned behaviours and responses that have roots in experience (blonde women frighten me, for example, because all of the women that have hurt me emotionally have been blonde).

I also favour individuals with certain genetic hiccups* over others–especially hiccups that relate to pigment, like albinism or dichromia or vitiligo. I also find arachnodactyly and height-related hiccups attractive. This is not, as far as I know, a learned response. I think it’s a branch of ‘exotic = pretty because exotic = genetically different from you in a large way’. Which, of course, is part of the ‘SPREAD THE GENES APART’ instinct.

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*I disdain the use of the word ‘disorder’. ‘Hiccup’ seems less insulting to me.

By: Melanthios

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:31:15 +0000

Pretty faces? The majority’s definition don’t really match with mine–especially the definition the fashion industry uses.

By: Roo

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:10:13 +0000

Ah, that’s better! Thanks.

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By: Adam

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:02:58 +0000

I’ve re-sized it, just to make more sense.

By: Roo

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:17:16 +0000

Also, it’s odd to see a drawing so much larger than life-size: I’ve a bit of a resolution fetish, but the web doesn’t care about assigned sizes. It’s really only about half that size.

By: Roo

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:15:29 +0000

Haha, no problem. If anything, I think I’ve aged you bit, somehow, in the drawing (or maybe that’s because it’s the one in your attic). I’ve certainly given you a slightly more serious expression than is typical.

By: Adam

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:56:02 +0000

Who’s that handsome chap staring from a page?

… I’m not that vain really… If anything I’m a little creeped out by an image of myself staring at me. Still, top work Roo, thanks.

By: Davey

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:49:14 +0000

hmmm… Now I see why no one else would show up….

By: Roo

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:25:29 +0000

Well, I guess that's a "no" then, huh? So much for embedded pictures. Here's a link:

By: Roo

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:24:39 +0000

As promised, a portrait of Adam York Gregory. I wonder if I did that HTML correctly? Guess I'll find out in a second...

By: Xia

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:44:43 +0000

Stewey Griffin? Hmm, fascinating. This is more on a general note. Simply put; humans are animals with brains. The “animal” part is how we relate to the birds and the bees; like a male parrot’s color to a female parrot. But we’ve been able to grow and infest with our intelligent brains thus far, so I’m sticking with the latter. But it’s always cool to have both looks and brains:).

By: jeff@Natural Beauty Tips

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:05:23 +0000

Very funny, a great little read.

I have to say though, the geek in me sometimes does come out when judging a woman and try and figure those angles out and all other proportions.

I dont think beauty is all about looking like a model, infact i think i fancy more people who dont look like models than do.

I think women who look nice and tidy and natrual and all in proportion are great.

Stick insects on the catwalk dont do it for me

By: RT Wolf

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:29:13 +0000

Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.

By: RT Wolf

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:28:55 +0000

Mod parent +5 for Truth.

/. humour. Enjoy it while it lasts.

By: DmL

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:42:00 +0000

I figured he was a standard British Male. Didn’t know I was in the presence of a Dorian Gr(a/e)y.
:: bows ::

By: Ben

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:23:53 +0000

The problem with Adam entering a beauty contest is that he’d win. He’d piss it in. I’ve shown his pic to some friends and they were all suitably impressed.
So, yeah, no one would show, there’d be no point.

By: Davey

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:58:51 +0000

Oh yah, I think I was one of your tenants on Boardwalk at the time.

By: beemoh

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:18:47 +0000

I came second in a beauty contest, once.

Unfortunately, the high of this was dulled somewhat as the very next day, I had to make general repairs on all my buildings, which cost me £25 per house and £100 for each hotel.

By: RT Wolf

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:07:04 +0000

Ah, I see. My bad, thanks for clarifying. I understand you disliked the pretense of being in an academic setting when one has little to do with the other.

To continue playing devil’s advocate: “IQ” could be replaced with “inherited beauty” and “education” could be replaced with “actualized beauty” and your paragraph would still mostly make sense. Basically, I feel that beauty is not 100% inherited, and for women above about 18 or 19, most of ‘em have to work at it. The hottest girls I know do go to the gym, refrain from crap food, are healthier than most others, etc. And you know how long women take to “get ready”. :p

All that said, I want to create a new measure of achievement, the “What you’ve done with what you’ve got” Scale. Basically, its basically whoever’s beaten the odds gets prizes. So, a phd with a 110 IQ gets a prize while a phd with 165 don’t. Or, people who’ve risen to high levels of education or other success in life despite being in unfavourable socio-economic conditions in their youth. That would, I believe, capture our ideas of “merit” better.

By: Roo

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:21:34 +0000

So many context where that could be so, so naughty.