# The unflattering photo thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769 "2006-02-16T08:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/41 "2006-02-17T19:22:37Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Your idol is some weird guy in a grey shirt? That’s Brisco County, Jr! (or Autolycus if you’re a Xena fan) ---
**Author:** ![meow\_meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@meow\_meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meow_meow)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/42 "2006-02-17T19:23:52Z")
> [@meow meow](#): > > That’s Ash. From Evil Dead. He’s groovy. Oh, _grey_ shirt. Whoops. That probably is just some weird guy. ---
**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/43 "2006-02-17T19:23:57Z")
I LOVE this thread. [![](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/heliumgirl/6665091/22448/22448_original.jpg) ](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/heliumgirl/6665091/22448/22448_original.jpg) I cannot even BEGIN to defend this. [![](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/heliumgirl/6665091/22248/22248_original.jpg) ](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/heliumgirl/6665091/22248/22248_original.jpg) (vaguely not work safe) My personal favorite – aside from the fact that it looks like I have no hair and my face just looks deformed, I’m not wearing a shirt because I’d just thrown up on it. And no, I was not drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/44 "2006-02-17T19:43:23Z")
You guys are brave! Insipired by you, I may post one. I have to be home to do it, though. **Stasia** , you are adorable. Stop that right now. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/45 "2006-02-17T20:57:26Z")
My economics teacher managed to capture two of the worst images of me ever recorded. The first is [this](http://faculty.ivc.edu/mmcneil/classpix/e1pix/e1sp05tth1230a.jpg) where I am the hideous troll in the blue jacket and dark pants. It doesn’t help that a water spot or something covers part of my pants. I have tried taking horrible pictures of myself, but none were nearly as bad as that. I like to send it to people to get them to stop talking to me. 😛 The second is [this](http://faculty.ivc.edu/mmcneil/classpix/e2pix/e2f05tth11a.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/46 "2006-02-17T21:28:08Z")
> [@kimera](#): > > My economics teacher managed to capture two of the worst images of me ever recorded. > > The first is [this](http://faculty.ivc.edu/mmcneil/classpix/e1pix/e1sp05tth1230a.jpg) where I am the hideous troll in the blue jacket and dark pants. It doesn’t help that a water spot or something covers part of my pants. I have tried taking horrible pictures of myself, but none were nearly as bad as that. I like to send it to people to get them to stop talking to me. 😛 > > The second is [this](http://faculty.ivc.edu/mmcneil/classpix/e2pix/e2f05tth11a.jpg). Having throughly examined both of those photos, I can safely say that hideous troll you are not. Cute pixie, I can see. Troll? Never. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/47 "2006-02-17T22:31:25Z")
This is very old, but very silly-looking. The young man pictured will be driving soon. Younger, I should say. Anyway, [here](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ptb99000/album?.dir=/dd2d) is me and my son both looking goofy. If I seem pensive, it’s because I’m trying to figure out why Buddy Hackett always seems to come over to visit while I’m away at work. ---
**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 18, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/48 "2006-02-18T00:37:10Z")
**saoirse** , you look very stoic. And it’s only compounded by the fact that baby looks stoic too, and I’ve never met a baby capable of doing that. **Anastaseon** is adorable. Now [behold me](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/frenchified/sarah2.jpg) in my blinding whiteness! I’m the one on the right. Yes, that’s my natural skin color, even in the middle of August. I swear I actually have a nose and did not witch it off my face for that picture. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/49 "2006-02-18T00:40:26Z")
International treaties forbid me from posting a higher res version of [this](http://www.squidgeblossom.com/QuickGallery/?image=DORK.jpg). Besides, it’d probably break the internet. That was 1982, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/50 "2006-02-18T00:44:15Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > Now [behold me](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/frenchified/sarah2.jpg) in my blinding whiteness! I’m the one on the right. Yes, that’s my natural skin color, even in the middle of August. I swear I actually have a nose and did not witch it off my face for that picture. Actually, you’re kinda cute there (of course, I have a thing for girls in glasses). ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/51 "2006-02-18T00:49:56Z")
All right, I’ve laughed at you all enough. Now you can laugh at me. [I’m the laughing one.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/stellamavis/MEPICS/newcamera008.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/52 "2006-02-18T00:56:00Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > International treaties forbid me from posting a higher res version of [this](http://www.squidgeblossom.com/QuickGallery/?image=DORK.jpg). Besides, it’d probably break the internet. > > That was 1982, btw. Man them’s some, well, I guess they could be fantsy. **Miss Purl,** there is no shame in being pale. Trying to smile broadly with your lips together is a different matter, though. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/53 "2006-02-18T01:05:44Z")
why do really cute girls always think they look hideous in pictures? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/54 "2006-02-18T01:57:00Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > why do really cute girls always think they look hideous in pictures? [because it’s true.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/39821055@N00/100993163/) ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/55 "2006-02-18T02:21:46Z")
> [@kimera](#): > > My economics teacher managed to capture two of the worst images of me ever recorded. > > The first is [this](http://faculty.ivc.edu/mmcneil/classpix/e1pix/e1sp05tth1230a.jpg) where I am the hideous troll in the blue jacket and dark pants. See, you’re cute. However, the girl next to you…SCARES ME. That’s just condensed evil! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/56 "2006-02-18T02:27:28Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > See, you’re cute. However, the girl next to you…SCARES ME. That’s just condensed evil! Hmm, looking again, I think that might be you (stupid crappy monitor). If so, I stand by my remarks. CONDENSED EVIL. When you inevitably take over the world with your cool evil powers, can I be made a Duke? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/57 "2006-02-18T02:46:50Z")
Okokok, here’s one of me I really hate. I was over my aunts’ house, and we were trying on saris and stuff, only they didn’t have a choli (blouse) for me, so they made me put on a blouse that didn’t match. Not to mention I hadn’t showered or even washed me face! and hadn’t combed my hair …it was still in a braid from the previous night. [Me!](http://photobucket.com/albums/v713/Elenia25/?action=view¤t=IMG_0476.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![wasson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@wasson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wasson)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/58 "2006-02-18T03:27:37Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Your idol is some weird guy in a grey shirt? The weird guy in the grey shirt is me. The other guy is Bruce Campbell, B-level celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/59 "2006-02-18T03:29:25Z")
> [@wasson](#): > > The weird guy in the grey shirt is me. The other guy is Bruce Campbell, B-level celebrity. Who is also one of \*my \*idols. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/60 "2006-02-18T04:02:17Z")
It was a late night in the linguistics lab, completely doped up on candy and stress, and for some reason my friend had a camera, and I had a need to grab some [ass](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/java99/lab.jpg). And, yes, it does say “Je te déshabille avec mes yeux” on the white board. There’s another picture from this night where I’m trying not to blink, but I can’t find it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769.md?page=4)