Why are british people so ugly?

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Were they last in line when God handed out the good looks genes?

― , Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"A smart witty answer" tm

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i dunno what yer on about i know elizbeth hurley and posh spice are both hot

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

have you NEVER seem marc bolan?

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this was going to be a thread started by Mary & Felicity after meeting me at the weekend. Thankfully it's just more weak trolling.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I refute blankster THUS:

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://lorry.org/baa/Wool-pics/morrismen.jpg

Sex in motion

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.uklandscape.net/features/Martparr08.jpg

Like I said

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

VERY BAD MANGG!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it's because their accents make them so much sexier that they can get away with it? That's my guess at least.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

what about emma bunton? eh? eh?

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sfcamerawork.org/books/src/0714839914.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's not forget

http://www.guitargonauts.com/pix/slv_dennis.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It could be worse though Skidmore, you could be Mongolian.

― , Tuesday, 21 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

emmy kate montrose is british and you are therefore totally incorrect

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Beckinsale in Emma - ROWR!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Me and my girlfriends poll of dapper gents and English roses. Not just attractive, Britishly Attractive.

DAPPER GENTS - Robbie Williams, Hugh Grant, David Beckham, Sean Connery, Gordon "Sexbomb" Brown, Ralph Fiennes, Patrick Stewart, Jarvis Cocker, Anthony Stewart Head, Sean Bean, Ewan MacGregor, Johnny Lee Millar, Colin Firth, Pricne William

ENGLISH ROSES - Kate Winslet, Louise Lombard, Felicity Kendal, Sophie Dahl, Emma Bunton, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, the Queen (in her day), Twiggy, Diana Our Lady of Landmines, Nigella Lawson.

Hmm the ladies are proving hard. Help . . . .

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Rachel Weisz - the (hot) mummy
Samantha Bond
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Heidi Sugababe (and Atomic Kitten if you're feeling generous ;)
Miss Dynamite

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

only two of them probably qualify as 'enlgish rose' stereotypes tho perhaps...all generally 'goijus' tho

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

ERs personified:
Jennifer Ehle
Tara Fitzgerald

Welsh rose: Catherine Zeta-Douglas

conventional orange cuties:
Jennifer Ellison
Girls Aloud (altho my gay friend reckons they're all 'pramfaces', ha)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Emily Watson, Tilda Swinton, Kate Moss, Charlotte Rampling.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Moss is not cute. Like, not even a little.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

agreed

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

she did sorta scream 'fuck me' for awhile there though

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

'feed me' also to make the early 90's graffito joke

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

sure Dan, whatever.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the island in-breeding maybe? btw would you say british men & women are ugly on average or is it just the chix?

― g (graysonlane), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they're not as ugly as TROLLS

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess if you really go for the emaciated I-look-like-an-underdeveloped-twelve-year-old-boy-with-unflattering-alien-eyes look, then Kate Moss had it goin' on.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Island in-breeding"?! England isn't that small!

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, troll. Tch.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

blimey thanx a lot stevem!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003020087,00.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

JBR has a Mel C. pic for every occasion!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

(For a brief second, I thought Sporty had six fingers.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You Wish!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

...i know. *sob*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

PERVERSION. Dan is to wash his hands of this affair.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i love in silence of the lambs where thomas harris says "it is the rarest form of polydactyly": like lecter is a wine snob, a cookery snob, a philosophy snob ("oh dwarling the stoics you know") and a HOW-TO-HAVE-SIX-FINGERS SNOB!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

DENTISTRY slightly more important than HEPTAGONAL CURRENCY

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/jonnymmm.jpg

I'll take anything as an excuse to post this picture.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashton Kutcher will play him in the movie; Max Perlich will play Thom Yorke.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Ewww, no! Not Ashton Kutcher!

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you know that Ashton Kutcher emits a faint buzzing noise at all time?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Like a fridge?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

over troubled water?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, you slay me.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah for the last few posts. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

they shall remain...[sings] like a bridge...

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My heart sings.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

My heart sinks.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Drumroll.

― Please (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

look, no soft-faced boy with a chin like a traffic cone is going to play the chiseled Jonny Greenwood, who in that photo surpasses even his brother

― Heather (Heather), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Island in-breeding"?! England isn't that small!

Chriddof, British=!English

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

what does =!=?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Erm, me being a daft twunt and putting != backwards *blushes*

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, I thought it was a "it really does equal."

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Duh - British people are all ugly cos we have Great Personalities.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

and we're better in bed cos we have to be

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

We are ugly because we are poor. Americans are fat because they are rich. In the urgent and key physical consequences of affluence vs physical consequences of poverty debate, I'm on the side of the scrotes.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

americans arent fat because they are rich though. its poor americans that are fat?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

even poor americans are rich.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Seeing as we've got both the greenwoods in i'll submit mr o'brien

http://www.geocities.com/the_harem/photos/edtv5.jpg

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Aww Leigh... You can't post geocities photos. *posts one for you*

http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/edsexy.jpg

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

he looks like bernie!
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/check/see/img/bernie.jpg

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernie = love-child of Bert and Ernie???

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that was the rubber duckie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i don't think i'll tell you who he really is because love child of bert/ernie is a much better answer!

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger? I preferred rubber duckie.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernie from Room 222? I don't see it.

http://www.seespanrun.com/redafro.gif

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"Like a fridge over troubled water" is still cracking me up like an idiot.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll be here all the week. Tip your waitress.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Christian Bale? He's attractive and he rid the world of dragons!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

He's not so attractive. He has a *old* face.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

*chokes*

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

He has a *old* face.

This is madness.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I think N. has a point. Don't you think that he could look any age given adequate attention to make-up etc? That's not a quality a lot us have, to our obvious detriment.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

That's why he got the part in EOTS.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh? Gosh!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just trying to be a jerk anyway. And I have succeeded.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 24 January 2003 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I moved to London two weeks ago and I must say this is somewhat true but not at all as bad as the stereotype would have you believe. I genuinly love London and I'm so glad I moved here but on Saturday when I went to a Swedish pub so I could see the Sweden-Croatia game it made me miss Stockholm when I saw all the Swedish ladies there.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you are used to Swedish features and prefer them out of habit/unconsciously?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

No, I find all types of women attractive. I just think the ratio of attractive people is a bit lower in Britain(not just compared to Sweden). I know how awful I must sound but I'm just being honest and it's not like I'm some kind of hearthrob. But I must say I have a very soft spot for British features when they look beautiful. Perhaps much more so than typically beautiful Swedish features.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.autoplates.com/Aluminum/MilitaryFlags/Sweden.jpg

― feminazi (feminazi), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

there was another swedish fanny, saying this, on saturday night

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I AM SWEDISH AND WEARING A SWEDISH SHIRT

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea you were Swedish, Lovelace!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

FORGET * ABOUT * THE * SUGAR (7th Oct 2005) Bar Oporto New Venue omg. wtf. lol. rofl. ONLY JOKING - OR AM I?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Re Kate Moss

she did sorta scream 'fuck me' for awhile there though

And a million saddos did in fact do her.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

My girlfriend is British and in spite of a strong Birmingham accent, she is absolutely beautiful.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

DENTISTRY slightly more important than HEPTAGONAL CURRENCY

-- Millar (tmilla...), January 22nd, 2003 12:26 AM.

ROFL all over again

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

But everyone in London is a tourist.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Everyone in the world is a tourist, for we are all journeying to the same destination - the grave.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Or teh urn.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

or the organic and friendly cardboard box stuck under a tree in the lake district, not put in the ground, just left under a tree

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

are you sure you're not mixing up life with the last Super Furry Animals album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

my life isn't quite that bad

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

700 Years of OPPRESSION!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

"I had no idea you were Swedish, Lovelace!"

Oh, but I thought my typical Swedish features would give it away.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Hasn't it been proven by science that Sweden has the hottest people in the world? It's an unfair comparison.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Weisz - the (hot) mummy
Samantha Bond
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Heidi Sugababe (and Atomic Kitten if you're feeling generous ;)
Miss Dynamite

-- stevem (bluesk...), January 21st, 2003.

who is samantha bond? miss dynamite is teh butters. but otherwise otm. americans are mostly overweight, aren't they.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Country/City With Most Attractive Women?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

There are a lot of very attractive Americans, but I hate the way that cornfed-blonde-in-black-Calvin-Klein thing is held up as an example of American attractiveness. Dull, dull, dull.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

i was being mean to americans: i think andrew sarris once said the real reason he liked films was for the chicks, and he's not wrong.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

and he wonders why time out hasn't offered him any work recently...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

haha 'red alert': TEN OUT OF TEN, 'mean girls' OSCAR MATERIAL, 'lord of war' THAT CHICK FROM I, ROBOT OMG

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

er, 'red eye' (sorry rachel!)

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

We were to busy running an empire for ages to take care of looks, and by the time we'd lost the empire the bad looks had stuck.

Countries with (historically) big empires = ugly people.
(I have no science to back this up with)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

but english girls are hot, everyone knows this, wtf? the mens, maybe less so?

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Also, why is nearly every Swede I've met such a pompous, supercilious jerk? Same for Italians. I thought these people were supposed to love life!

(with exceptions, of course)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Samantha Bond plays Moneypenny in the most recent Bond films. I think really I just crush on Moneypenny (whoever is playing her).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I kinda find a great cuteness in plain and "hearty" British / Irish looks. As, like, maybe typified by the woman from Extras.

http://www.thestage.co.uk/images/pics/8821.jpg

(Alternately, ha:)

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8889/aybs/brah01.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

right on. not sure about Wendy Richard though - but then obv. I can only think of her in Eastenders. (Simpsons shudder) No wonder Arthur had an affair with Mrs Hewitt!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I am kinda kidding about even Are You Being Served-era Wendy Richard -- she goes beyond the type I'm talking about into something, umm, else.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Better "English" type:

http://www.iheartny.com/yourenotthere/handt/6sarah.GIF

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

They're pretty, but are they sexy?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Face it, the British are an ugly lot. Thank God for the influx of Easten Europeans and asylum seekers say I!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Many British ILxors are not ugly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but in general. Tho British ugliness is largely down to the English and the Scots, the Welsh are quite attractive (well, the women are and who cares about the men anyway?)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

tom jones/richey manic/kelly stereophonic/delete where applicable fan club to thread

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Hasn't it been proven by science that Sweden has the hottest people in the world? It's an unfair comparison.

Sweden definitely doesn't have the hottest people in the world steve.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

try Ecuador more

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh absolutely not. Especially if you don't like blondes much. (xpost) Dunno about Ecuador, are they all hotties or what?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

I believe it was Ken C playing with words you see is funny.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

just stating the facts, innit.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

That was so crap ken, even I didn't get the joke for once and I'm usually right down there in the comic depths alongside you!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

My understanding is that the baltic states are supposed to have the most classical beauties. Ti(i)t to thread?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

i knew a girl who was half ecuadorian she was very cute

i might go to one of the ecuadorian restaurants on holloway road soon.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

i'm teh hottness, ergo not ALL british peo...what? take a look in this mirror? oh ok...aaaargh!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

My understanding is that the baltic states are supposed to have the most classical beauties. Ti(i)t to thread?

Which Baltic states tho? Estonia = Nordic, Lithuania = errrrrrrr not Nordic (Slavic?), Latvia = errrrrrr, oh I wish I'd never started...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

When we got back from NYC the other week, we couldn't believe how ugly most people walking around in central Manchester seemed. Part of the problem is a taste for terrible fashion - suede boots that make legs look like sausages, layers of fake tan, way-too-short denim minis and enormous chastity belts. Oh, and horrible furry vests.

When I was in Stockholm, I felt very ugly.

― elisabeth k, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

I think I'd feel very beautiful, I hate that blonde Nordic look

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Consensus etc.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Consensus - that'd be a good name for a message board...

Must admit Frida always excited me more than Agnetha.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

There were just so many typically gorgeous blondes with perfect features. Though weirdly lots of people kept talking to me in Swedish - apparently it's my half-Lithuanian features that threw them. One guy thought I was his long lost friend from some minute village up in northern Sweden.

― elisabeth k, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

i'm not so into the nordic look.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Must admit Frida always excited me more than Agnetha.

Seconded

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

the brunette in Ace Of Base was hotter than the blonde too.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Brunettes are always hotter. Look at Anne Widdecombe.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't have tried it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

she's out of my league, by about 20,000 to be precise

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

I have strange tastes when it comes to the opposite sex, it has to be admitted, but Anne Widdecombe is way beyond my ken.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Ann Widdecombe hasn't been brunette for about five years. Or are you saying she looked hotter then than she does now?
http://www.randomshite.co.uk/shite/pope-widdy.jpg v http://www.political.co.uk/annwiddecombe/images/out64.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Theresa May, yes. Julie Kirkbride, yes. Anne Widdecombe, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

One guy thought I was his long lost friend from some minute village up in northern Sweden.

haha, that old line.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

My theory is that as brunettes are obviously so much hotter than blondes that, if you are - not to put to fine a point on it - ugly beyond hope of redemption, then dyeing your hair blonde will make you less ugly... I've not worked it out fully yet

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

do you prefer a bald lady to a blonde one? what about the fabled 'readhead'?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

i haven't eaten today which explains most of the typos

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

my missus is a 'readhead'.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Redheads are in the category of their own, beyond the realm of mere mortal women

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.flwlib.org/images/book-head.gif

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

adam's comment, about swedish people, can't be fair but it might not be inaccurate

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

NICOLA GIRLS ALOUD END OF ARGUMENT

(it IS Nicola who's the redhead, innit?)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

not even she knows

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's nicola, sometimes.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

there are non-blonde women in sweden too i think. i remember seeing some in the women's world cup qualifiers swedish team.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Those were the attractive ones, as I recall

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Very few of my Swedish friends are blonde, although the mannequins in Åhléns department store were.

Anni-Frid from Abba is half German, of course.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

what the hell? i'd say it's roughly 50-50 between blondes and non blondes in sweden.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Frida Out Of Abba the product of a NAZI EXPERIMENT IN COLOUR?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

She was Norwegian into the bargain too!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Despite being "Ginger", I got described as blond in Sweden. I didn't really like this.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Aaah, so the *real* reason they have so many blonde people in Sweden is: they just describe lots of other colours as blonde!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Do they have blonde jokes in Sweden?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

I know. Cheating Viking bastards.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I have been told (by a Swede) that a great many swedish women bleach or highlight their hair and that it is only the children who are properly blonde.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

There certainly seem to be a lot more blonde teenagers there than older people.

My Finnish friend recently launched a massive drunken diatribe about "stupid snooty blonde Swedish girls" recently, in spite of her being blonde herself.

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Sigh.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

lol that was random

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw a TV game show recently with Sarah Cracknell trying to get some junk out of a hotel room while being menaced by two jolly white sumo wrestlers. Is this possible?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Not if they stand in the doorway.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

is this takeshi's castle?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

it is only the children who are properly blonde

As opposed to improperly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

most swedish people i know dye their hair black, or went through a long phase of doing so. it looks VERY good with blue eyes and pale yet rosy-cheeked complexions.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sr.se/p3/p3guld/p3guld2003/images/galan/nina_persson.jpg

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe it was Never Mind The Buzzcocks

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Here I thought the British were merely understated and self-deprecating. Imagine my surprise.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

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