# This guy's face creeps me the hell out **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683 "2012-01-07T00:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/61 "2012-01-09T21:25:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Here’s his official photo, which is a few years older than the one on Wikipedia.](http://filner.house.gov/sites/filner.house.gov/files/images/Bob%20Filner%20color%20portrait.JPG) Warning: it’s not as bad, but it’s still nightmare fuel. There’s just something about the guy’s face with that long nose, wide mouth and cold eyes that makes him look nightmarish when he smiles. And there’s dandruff all over his jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/62 "2012-01-09T21:26:17Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > And there’s dandruff all over his jacket. Ew. Now that you mention it, it looks like he was knocking down a wall in his house before his picture was taken. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/63 "2012-01-09T21:34:14Z")
LOL, I was just kidding - it’s dust all over the negative. How unprofessional! When I re-take Filner’s portrait, I’ll make sure the negative is clean before I scan it. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/64 "2012-01-10T00:05:23Z")
I only know cis- and trans- because I took organic chemistry in college. \ ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/65 "2012-01-10T17:39:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Here’s his official photo, which is a few years older than the one on Wikipedia.](http://filner.house.gov/sites/filner.house.gov/files/images/Bob%20Filner%20color%20portrait.JPG) Warning: it’s not as bad, but it’s still nightmare fuel. There’s just something about the guy’s face with that long nose, wide mouth and cold eyes that makes him look nightmarish when he smiles. Yikes. He still looks like he’s going to push you off a cliff as soon as you turn your back on him. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/66 "2012-01-10T17:46:49Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Black hole sun, won’t you come. > And wash away the rain. > Black hole sun, won’t you come. LOL I was thinking the same thing… How many babies has he made cry just by smiling at them?? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/67 "2012-01-10T18:03:16Z")
His eyes are too small, or something. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/68 "2012-01-10T18:23:21Z")
Wow, is there some stretchy EyeLiftBooth app I’m not yet aware of? ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/69 "2012-01-10T18:27:14Z")
He’s my congressman and has helped a lot over the years. When I’ve seen him in person, he really isn’t scary looking. Bad photographer! No cookie! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/70 "2012-01-10T21:19:00Z")
Huh. I always thought Pudding-Face was a digital effect. ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/71 "2012-01-10T21:36:07Z")
Reminds me of a billiken: > **[Billiken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken)** > > The Billiken is a charm doll created by an American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz of Kansas City, Missouri, who is said to have seen the mysterious figure in a dream. It is believed that Pretz found the name Billiken in Bliss Carman's 1896 poem "Mr. Moon: A Song Of The Little People". In 1908, she obtained a design patent on the ornamental design of the Billiken, which she sold to the Billiken Company of Chicago. The Billiken was monkey-like with pointed ears, a mischievous To bu... ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/72 "2012-01-10T22:05:11Z")
Bob Filner, huh? He’s going to run for mayor of San Diego, and I hope he wins. Oddly enough, I know someone he’s dating or has dated, and she’s never mentioned being scared by his face. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/73 "2012-01-10T23:24:51Z")
I think we all agree it’s just a horrible, horrible photo. Probably the effect of an overly-wide focal length on the camera lens, and a very unnatural expression as well. As I said, I volunteer to retake his portrait. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/74 "2012-03-19T02:43:51Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > . . .He’s going to run for mayor of San Diego . . I didn’t know that. There’s a cartoonist down there at the local paper who [has an issue with that and, apparently, his face, too](http://www.utsandiego.com/photos/galleries/steve-breen-gallery/33849/#galleries). ---
**Author:** ![domajoju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@domajoju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domajoju)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/75 "2012-03-19T02:58:37Z")
He looks like the guy who served me my double cheeseburger and fries last night. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/76 "2012-03-19T11:42:44Z")
Replying to the OP – I get that same vibe from omnipresent televangelist Joel Osteen: [http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?\_adv\_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=Joel+Osteen](http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=Joel+Osteen) I have a theory about Ostenn, who seems to have too many teeth and weird eyes (this applies to the OP’s guy, too) – he’s the result of a human who was hunted and skinned by some alien Predator race, then taxidermied back together by someone who’d never seen a human before, so they didn’t know what we’re supposed to look like. (In the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem MA is a stuffe penguin that was taxcidermied by an artisan who had never seen a penguin, and so came out with a weirdly non-penguin shape. Same idea. They keep it on dis[play in East India Hall, te oldest part of the m,useum, as a commentary on the history of museums.) ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683/77 "2012-03-19T12:17:02Z")
I’m regretting not seeing this thread the first time around. Because If I had seen it, my response to the following… > [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > Ann Coulter identifies as a woman. There is no doubt about that. Therefore, the implication is that, if she were born with male genitalia (hence the Adam’s apple) she would no longer be a woman, or wouldn’t be a “real” woman. > > That’s the joke. That’s what makes it “funny”. And that is transphobic. > > Now, I’m done with this hijack. I was trying to point something out in a friendly way, and I did that, and I’m done. …would have been, “Yeah! Let’s stop being offensive and mean and get back on topic, which is making fun of a guy based on his appearance.” There is something ironic and funny about waltzing into a thread where the purpose is to bash a guy about something he can’t help—the way he was born—then ignoring that, and getting indignant because some other group was possibly, marginally, questionably, and indirectly offended. We’re supposed to be equal opportunity offenders here on the SDMB. Unless it’s about fat people…they’re off limits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guys-face-creeps-me-the-hell-out/608683.md?page=3)