The unflattering photo thread.

Are those fur pants? That’s awesome! :smiley:

“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 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.

Not a damned one of you is going to tell me “Oh, c’mon, you look cute!” in this picture, two days post-surgery.

Do I win the thread? :smiley:

This is from the time when I was heavily into pot.

“Yeah, yeah…hippity hop, hippity hop…I’m cute and pink and fuzzy. Now put the fucking camera away.”

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 picture. Fortunately my boyfriend is the king of bad photos so here is some more of him. Yes, that is a dead raccoon, and he has a beer in his pocket.

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.

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

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!)

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 is me with my rather more composed sister. And here is me drunk as a skunk. Nice.

Nick

I like the fact that you’re wearing a Monday Night Football t-shirt.

Two of my own personal rules of attractiveness:

Lack of sleep and personal hygiene can adversely affect your appearence.
(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.
(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.

Trying hard here.
Got the coke specs, collections, cheezy hat, novelty tee, weekend alertness level, slight facial breakout and ten extra pounds.

:eek: GOOD GOD, WOMAN! What sort of surgery WAS this? Lycanthropic??!!

Ah yes. Here we go. I think I was about 14 or 15 here.

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.

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. The handsome guy on the left is Nick, sneering at my snapping fingers.

I will admit thay my submission was an OK photo, however, I was fishing more for laughs than compliments. :wink: 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 look.

And here, you can observe the puffer fish with nostrils flared 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.

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.

here is the only picture of me on the internet. No picture of me is ever good.

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.

I have many bad pictures due to having a friend who has a camera glued to her fingers at all times :smiley:

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. :slight_smile: