# Are you ugly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132 "2005-02-09T03:45:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/81 "2005-02-09T22:11:10Z")
You’re better off looking at [me](http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=5109673&friendName=Patrick&Mytoken=20050209142255) than staring at the sun all day. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/82 "2005-02-09T22:16:53Z")
Ugly as a hat full of arseholes. Well, no. I am not movie star material. I am a meat and potatoes bloke. some women like that, some do not. I have received genuinely positive and negative comments about my appearance. I scrub up extremely well in a suit and tie, but I probably only wear that get up once or twice a year. Rest of the time, it’s jeans and T-shirt. I’ve got a buzz cut, I wear unpolished steel cap boots, etc, so if I’m not really trying to be in the race. In the end I don’t really give a rats. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/83 "2005-02-09T22:30:43Z")
My honest guess: Within one standard deviation of the mode, on the positive end. 😃 So perhaps out of 10, I would get a 6 1/5- 7? Depends on the sample size. [Me.](http://kansascity.tribe.net/person/cdb23dfe-0742-4329-974f-ccc677c44348?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Person%5B%24listingPerson.id%5D&r=10500') ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/84 "2005-02-09T22:35:09Z")
Hmm, not working for some reason: Try this [one](http://kansascity.tribe.net/person/cdb23dfe-0742-4329-974f-ccc677c44348?r=10500). ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/85 "2005-02-09T22:51:57Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I’m a fox, but that’s because I’m a red head, have a great rack and put out. > 😉 Hey, me too! See, we’re more alike than you think. 😃 (plz note smiley) ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/86 "2005-02-10T00:02:13Z")
I’ve always considered myself to have that “girl-next-door” look. Ugly? No, not really ( I hope!). Beautiful? Gorgeous? Stunning? Not even in the same area code. I’m perky, friendly, and I try to make others feel comfortable. I, too, carry a little more T&A than average, and I have one of those faces that prompts people to say “You look like my aunt”…“I have a cousin that looks like you”…“Did you go to So-and-So High School?” I suppose, I am really just unremarkable, and a doppelganger. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/87 "2005-02-10T00:11:14Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > \ I have one of those faces that prompts people to say “You look like my aunt”…“I have a cousin that looks like you”…“Did you go to So-and-So High School?” > > I suppose, I am really just unremarkable, and a doppelganger. That happens to me all the time. Both when I was thin and now. When I was in the hospital last summer two different nurses mistook me for a cousin. One refused to believe I wasn’t her cousin and thought I was just pulling her leg - even when my Mom told her that we aren’t related. I live in fear that I will be called in for a police lineup, and even though I’m innocent, the witness will pick me out of a crowd. Since I live alone, I would have no alabi… ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/88 "2005-02-10T00:37:33Z")
Well, if we’re going by the number of guys who catcall me on the street, I’d have to say that I’m pretty fine. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/89 "2005-02-10T01:07:18Z")
I am [completely average](http://sairai.tripod.com/sarah.html). Though I do have an absurdly small head – I wear children’s glasses because the adult frames overwhelm my face. When I wear my hair up, I look like one of those misshapen peanuts. But what the hell does it matter? I have a nice laugh, I’m smart, babies don’t cry when they see me. Also, when I met Ben Logan, he told my teacher I was his ideal of intelligent beauty. So, HA. (Kidding! I bet I looked like his wife or something.) I nominate **Roland Orzabal** as SDMB posterchild. And I want that poster hanging on the ceiling over my bed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/90 "2005-02-10T01:08:43Z")
Hmm…“ **Khadaji** ”…sounds kinda familiar. Hey, my cousin used to use that handle! You aren’t from upstate New York, are you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/91 "2005-02-10T01:13:58Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Hmm…“ **Khadaji** ”…sounds kinda familiar. Hey, my cousin used to use that handle! You aren’t from upstate New York, are you? 😉 Actually, I was born in Poughkeepsie NY… But I have no relatives from that area. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/92 "2005-02-10T01:14:40Z")
I am not ugly. People who don’t even know me have stopped me in stores and told me that I was beautiful. Granted, they were little old ladies, but it counts! **Roland Orzabal,** the new pictures are much appreciated. You’re a handsome fellow. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/93 "2005-02-10T01:17:11Z")
…and thanks, by the way, to **Susie** , **RGB** and **Miss Purl Kittington** (for whom I must also include – how _you_ doin’? – the “intelligent beauty” look you have going really appeals to me). Y’all had better watch it; you’re going to give me a big head. And if that happens, I’ll have to bring back the big hair to go with it. Those of you who remember that old thread will understand the implicit horror there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/94 "2005-02-10T01:19:34Z")
> [@Me](#): > > … **Miss Purl Kittington** … You’ll have to forgive me; you see, I was so distracted by the picture that I completely flubbed the spelling of your name… :smack: Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/95 "2005-02-10T01:28:41Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > …and thanks, by the way, to **Susie** , **RGB** and **Miss Purl Kittington** (for whom I must also include – how _you_ doin’? – the “intelligent beauty” look you have going really appeals to me). Ah, thank you! If you could only see how much I’m blushing . . . and I’m fine. How _you_ doin’? Never mind the spelling thing. I spell it wrong myself. Thank god for the “remember me” check box! ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/96 "2005-02-10T01:30:53Z")
Wow. Some of us are quite beautiful. \*\*overlyverbose[/], tell your mom to take a hike, you’re STUNNING. [Since everyone else is posting pics…](http://www.lifeonwry.com/the_auth.html) And remember, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/97 "2005-02-10T01:33:31Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > Wow. Some of us are quite beautiful. > > \*\*overlyverbose[/], tell your mom to take a hike, you’re STUNNING. > > [Since everyone else is posting pics…](http://www.lifeonwry.com/the_auth.html) And remember, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all! Is it nice to say, “Hubba hubba”? Oh, I feel really silly right now. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/98 "2005-02-10T01:41:09Z")
When I fix myself up, I’m rather nice looking. But I don’t like wearing make-up or dressing up so that means that I’m rather plain-jane. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/99 "2005-02-10T01:55:08Z")
I am completely unattractive to all things female. But gay guys seem to like me okay, which is an interesting dichotomy. Shame I’m not gay. If I was, I’d be jammin’. ---
**Author:** ![down\_by\_law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@down\_by\_law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/down_by_law)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132/100 "2005-02-10T02:06:00Z")
i’m either unconventionally attractive or kind of scary looking. i haven’t really been able to come to a conclusion on that. but i neither have a scanner or a digital camera, so you’ll just have to imagine… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ugly/289132.md?page=6)