# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/61 "2006-02-18T04:47:37Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I’m the one with the [horns.](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/colinblackthorn/detail?.dir=6dea&.dnm=33e7.jpg&.src=ph) > > Safe for work, unless you’re not supposed to laugh at work. In which case, maybe not. Are those fur pants? That’s awesome! 😃 ---
**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, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/62 "2006-02-18T04:51:23Z")
“I’m undressing you with my eyes.” Hee hee hee. That’s wonderful and I will have to say it all the time in French. Because everything sounds better in French. And **saiorse** has hit the nail on the head on why that’s a horrible picture of me. I had just licked my lips and was on the end of pressing them together, when the jerk\* taking the picture deciding then was the right time. \*He’s not actually a jerk. Actually one of my best friends. But he has a talent for capturing the worst of me on film. Like this [one](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/frenchified/boobgrab.jpg) of me having my boob grabbed. (No, I was not encouraging said boob-grab. I was trying to prevent it.) Of course, it had to be taken with my absolutely gorgeous, hideously photogenic actress friend. At the end of August. With, um, a _small_ – infintessimal, really – amount of liquor involved. Good times, best-friend. Now step away from the camera. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/63 "2006-02-18T05:02:45Z")
Not a damned one of you is going to tell me “Oh, c’mon, you look cute!” in [this picture](http://community.webshots.com/photo/145850906/1169590149000735275lgkOrQ), two days post-surgery. Do I win the thread? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/64 "2006-02-18T05:12:06Z")
This is from the time when I was heavily [into pot](http://pics.livejournal.com/skipmagic/pic/0001bk3z). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/65 "2006-02-18T06:23:06Z")
“Yeah, yeah…hippity hop, hippity hop…[I’m cute and pink and fuzzy](http://www.sirblah.com/misc/ears.htm). Now put the fucking camera away.” ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/66 "2006-02-18T06:32:38Z")
I realized that I don’t have any horrible pictures of myself because I usually delete them. However, I do look a little…odd in [this](http://razz.zoto.com/img/640x480x1/882345c37c3d922546e15d572373a993-.jpg) picture. Fortunately my boyfriend is the king of bad photos so here is some [more](http://razz.zoto.com/img/640x480x1/e89599c3b5f4dfeea771d4a00f33a2d3-.jpg) of [him](http://razz.zoto.com/img/640x480x1/80ede00e14f1d9ca77d4de0ef7b84019-.jpg). Yes, that is a dead raccoon, and he has a beer in his pocket. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/67 "2006-02-18T08:20:34Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > 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? Yeah, I forgot that the girl standing next to me was wearing a similar outfit and also took the second class with me. I’m the long haired one. I’m quite proud of that picture. As I’ve said, I’ve tried to take uglier ones on purpose but failed. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/68 "2006-02-18T09:36:55Z")
[http://rinni.iputthedotinthe.com/greenandpink.jpg](http://rinni.iputthedotinthe.com/greenandpink.jpg) I was talking! I don’t remember why I was gesturing so wildly. [http://www.rinni.iputthedotinthe.com/wtf/Picture%201.jpg](http://www.rinni.iputthedotinthe.com/wtf/Picture%201.jpg) My teeth, otherwise known as The Reason I Hate Smiling. I love this thread. I laughed. I cried. I hurled. (Hurled chips into my mouth with the force of a thousand HURRICANES!) ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/69 "2006-02-18T13:30:13Z")
Heh. This thread is great. My favourites so far are **MrFantsyPants** from 1982, and **Raz** ’s boyfriend scraping up some roadkill. **Jennyrosity** , you look _gorgeous_ in your photo. Unfortunately I can’t defend your **Crusoe** in the same way. (But a big Hi! to you both.) Okay, so [here](http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/nickerlesswalsh/detail?.dir=7369&.dnm=14d3.jpg&.src=ph) is me with my rather more composed sister. And [here](http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/nickerlesswalsh/detail?.dir=2fdb&.dnm=e226scd.jpg&.src=ph) is me drunk as a skunk. Nice. Nick ---
**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, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/70 "2006-02-18T16:02:49Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > “Yeah, yeah…hippity hop, hippity hop…[I’m cute and pink and fuzzy](http://www.sirblah.com/misc/ears.htm). Now put the fucking camera away.” I like the fact that you’re wearing a Monday Night Football t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/71 "2006-02-18T16:42:19Z")
Two of my own personal rules of attractiveness: [Lack of sleep and personal hygiene can adversely affect your appearence.](http://teemingmillions.com/profiles/images/UselessGit/UselessGit_photo2.jpg) (shaved the beard off recently after finding out it had even more grey than my hair) [John Stossel looks good with a mustache. You do not.](http://teemingmillions.com/profiles/images/UselessGit/UselessGit_photo4.jpg) (the girl next to me is not laughing at my appearance–she is an unwilling participant in the age-old Icelandic tradition we call grab-ass) Dorjän, I would kill or die for that sweater. Kill or die. How tall were you back then, in case you still have it? It would look great with MEBuckner’s eerie jacket. I love picture threads. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/72 "2006-02-18T17:30:10Z")
[Trying hard here.](http://static.flickr.com/37/101216198_227a739b25_o.jpg) Got the coke specs, collections, cheezy hat, novelty tee, weekend alertness level, slight facial breakout and ten extra pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/73 "2006-02-18T18:01:15Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > two days post-surgery. :eek: _ **GOOD GOD, WOMAN!** _ What sort of surgery WAS this? _Lycanthropic??!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/74 "2006-02-18T20:38:04Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Somewhere I’ve got a picture of me first thing in the morning, in a purple-flowered granny nightgown, opening a box of cereal while making the same kind of face an orc might have. I’ll see if I can find it. Ah yes. [Here](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Grrr.jpg) we go. I think I was about 14 or 15 here. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/75 "2006-02-18T20:46:42Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Not a damned one of you is going to tell me “Oh, c’mon, you look cute!” in [this picture](http://community.webshots.com/photo/145850906/1169590149000735275lgkOrQ), two days post-surgery. > > Do I win the thread? 😃 I have to give you props for following the spirit of the thread instead of fishing for compliments by posting an OK photo and pretending like it’s a really horrible one. There are one or two other people who also deserve such props but I think they were really fishing for compliments, so I’m afraid to name names. I’ll have to find an unflattering photo of me… shouldn’t be hard, as by some miracle it looks like the camera always catches me in the middle of the letter ü. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/76 "2006-02-18T21:25:37Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > :eek: _ **GOOD GOD, WOMAN!** _ What sort of surgery WAS this? _Lycanthropic??!!_ Removal of a thyroglossal duct cyst, a benign growth that I’d had for years but was getting big enough to be uncomfortable. The surgeon said it was about the size of a golf ball when he took it out. You can get an idea of what it looked like before surgery [in this photo.](http://community.webshots.com/photo/735286/1128044052000735275qFdlZC) The handsome guy on the left is Nick, sneering at my snapping fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/77 "2006-02-18T21:52:34Z")
> [@Brain Wreck](#): > > I have to give you props for following the spirit of the thread instead of fishing for compliments by posting an OK photo and pretending like it’s a really horrible one. I will admit thay my submission was an OK photo, however, I was fishing more for laughs than compliments. 😉 But come on, I do “Vicious Badger” pretty well, I think! Today, though, I got my external drive back, and I have access to some pretty horrendous pictures. Whee! Welcome to the Dark Side. No one will be saying, “Aww, Stasia, that’s cute, cut it out!” Prepare. Prepare to cringe in horror. Here, we have the classic [psychotic chipmunk](http://img315.imageshack.us/img315/927/stace0063ac.jpg) look. And here, you can observe the [puffer fish with nostrils flared](http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/792/stacec6uw.jpg) look, which was so popular in my graduating year. Here we have a monstrosity of epic proportions. Not only am I wrapped in some shapeless, saggy-looking, velvety garbage-bag of a dress, but, yes friends and neighbours, I was caught about to [sneeze](http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/6215/snarf5nw.jpg). And… ugh… just taken on Valentine’s Day, but unable to send to the computer until this morning - my husband took this beauty of a picture - I was caught off guard, it was taken too damn close, my nose was stuffed up and red, and I was resting my eyes… opening one sleepy dragon eye to give the glare of death when my husband stuck the camera around my screen and said, “SAY CHEESE!” [Cheese, motherfucker.](http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4452/movies0196bc.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/78 "2006-02-18T22:07:53Z")
[here](http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drm437/detail?.dir=8a22&.dnm=5236.jpg&.src=ph) is the only picture of me on the internet. No picture of me is ever good. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/79 "2006-02-18T23:02:20Z")
My problem is that I make weird faces in pictures without knowing I’m doing it. Like Chandler Bing does in that episode of Friends. If you haven’t seen that episode of Friends, it’s an episode in which Chandler Bing makes weird faces in pictures without knowing he’s doing it. And yes, I was actually trying to look nice for this one. [![](http://www.j0k.com/pics/may04/IM009642.JPG) ](http://www.j0k.com/pics/may04/IM009642.JPG) I have many bad pictures due to having a friend who has a camera glued to her fingers at all times 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769/80 "2006-02-19T09:02:22Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Removal of a thyroglossal duct cyst, a benign growth that I’d had for years but was getting big enough to be uncomfortable. Yep, I had that done too — when I was in about 3rd grade, I think. Don’t have any pictures from that, and now I’m glad I don’t. Uh, no offense or anything. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unflattering-photo-thread/344769.md?page=5)