vis-a-vis other passengers, you were “pretty”? :rolleyes:
Yeah, the brunette was kicked off the plane for being too pretty. :rolleyes:
The blonde? I think she was kicked off for being a dipshit.
This sounds like a stunt to me.
“Let’s be as Paris Hiltonesque as we can be and then get on TV! We’re so fuckin’ hawt not even Anderson Cooper will be able to resist us!”
Maybe it is my age showing. Maybe it is that I don’t frequent places where college co-eds frequent. Maybe it is that I was never handsome enough to go around insulting anyone because they didn’t live up to the Bo Derek ideal. Maybe it is that most of the women in my peer group have children who are approaching the ages of the girls in the clip. Maybe it is all of these things that colours my opinions. These girls are indeed full of themselves, but I can’t see either of them as “ugly”. Heck, the brunette, compared to what I see daily, is better than average, and the blond is prettier.
That said, she could certainly have dressed better and put on some makeup for a TV interview. She looked better in every picture of her shown during the interview.
catsix, my guess is that the girls in question were being obnoxious, and made themselves very easy to find. Of course, they have no idea that they might have been annoying others and can’t understand why they are being singled out.
In related news, the parents of Anthony P. Alvino, 19, pled guilty to covering up his hit-and-run killing of Carlee Wines, also 19. The penalty - $4,000 in fines that they paid on the way out the door. Both the parents response and the penalty for their response makes me think, Stop the world, I want to get off!
I must have missed something in the story. I listened to it twice, but I didn’t hear either of them say they were pretty. The girl at the end says that she was discriminated based on her looks, but that doesn’t mean good looks. It could mean any number of things that people judge based on looks, perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly.
The other one said essentially the same. . . that they were young, decently-looking girls and that there weren’t others like that on the plane. That doesn’t say much. It certainly didn’t say pretty.
They could have meant that they were discriminated based on how young they looked or how they were dressed, not how pretty they were (neither of them mentioned pretty).
Get thee to any college campus in the country. Within five minutes you’ll see dozens of girls hotter than these two, who are both average at best.
I was too distracted by her neon nails to notice any distraction. My vision just dropped two points.
Dude, you ain’t lying!
::sob!:: Won’t someone please think about the attractive young spoiled women of the world? Can’t we just please satisfy their every whim immediately? You’re all unfeeling brutes.
I’ve been waiting all day to watch this. So not what I was expecting. That’s what passes for “breaking news” on CNN these days?
IMO only, of course, the dark-haired girl talking was ‘pretty’ in that kind of way when you’ve had seven pints of beer and you’re feeling horny and you can vaguely make out a shape near you that has tits and hips, so you go back to her place, and then you wake up the next morning and gnaw your own arm off at the shoulder to avoid waking her up so you can leave.
The blonde girl, from her stills - yeah, I would.
I also swear that she just about stopped herself from saying they were “white” at one point.
Cite. And yes, I am talking about the lady on the left.
But eye of the beholder and all that.
I for one, have a very, very different idea of beauty than most in this society, thank goodness, or else I would be a basket case about my own appearance! But I do know what kind of looks this society normally seems to value, and the blonde seems to fit it to a tee. I am very surprised to see so many post that she is not pretty.
[Loyd Bentsen]" Lady, I’ve studied with pretty women. I’ve worked with pretty women. Pretty women have been friends of mine. **You, Ma’am, Are *Not a Pretty Woman…! * ** "[/Loyd Bentsen]
By golly, you’re right. I can’t believe I missed this upon viewing the video for the first time. The blonde said they were ‘decent-looking’ (in a list of traits) and the brunette only answered a question regarding their ‘prettiness.’ That’ll teach me to be influenced by CNN’s brief video descriptions (and, hey, SDMB OPs). This looks more like crap reporting than media whoring.
I was trying to find a way to express my opinion of her, but your description sums it up nicely. Except I wouldn’t wake up next to her since she’s a girl, and I’m straight, but if I were a guy, and I was drunk, and . . . oh, never mind.
I’m sure the girl thought it was the height of humility to describe herself as “decent-looking.”
Ah, a Monet girl.
One of the few things I remember from Clueless.
Blonde girl is reasonably cute, but not pretty. She won’t really age well, as another poster said. The brunette looks like someone who photographs well and knows how to put on good skanky makeup. In the video, she’s merely nice average. Neither would be considered Hollywood/celebrity pretty at all, but for ‘normal girl’ they’re respectively ‘relatively cute’ and ‘prettier side of average, but still completely average’.
Um… so, the girls had just enough sense to not use the word “pretty”? Her statement (corroborated by almost every news station covering this today, for whatever reason – do a google search) was
Okay, so when this skank says “we’re decent looking girls, and nobody on the plane looked like us,” that doesn’t mean “we were pretty”?
Seconded. Brownie was attractive in an 18th century tavern wench way (must have been that elastic top); but geeze, you get the impression they haven’t had to interact as adults with anyone but frat boys before.
Wait. . . and you’re saying that’s the only possible interpretation?
Decent-looking might have meant clean, respectable, well-bred. . .and on top of that, young.
I haven’t seen any other reports. If you come up with one where they say they’re pretty, I’ll take your word for it.
But the fact that you used the word “skank” says that you made the interpretation based on more than their words. If it was a guy speaking, you’d likely not make that interpretation. So if the fact that those girls looked a certain way made you interpret their words in a specific way, then no, I’m not likely to say that there was only one way to interpret it.
I gotta ask it. Because I thought I knew for a fact what is considered pretty in this society. I should have known better than to be so presumptuous.
For those that are saying the blonde isn’t pretty, could you explain to me what could make her prettier? I am serious. I am genuinely interested in which of those features I see in that still pic that are not consistent with what people have been trying to teach me is ‘pretty’ my whole life.
Is the blonde as pretty as Paris Hilton? Is Paris pretty? Lindsy Lohan? Britney Spears? (6 years ago Britney).
No, but given the video interview, the girl’s attitude, and her choice of words, I’d say with 99.99% certainty that that’s clearly what she meant.
Either way, that doesn’t make the case any better. Either way, she’s stuck up enough to elevate herself above X number of other people onboard, whether she’s saying that “no one else was pretty,” or “no one else was clean,” she’s still a brat.
I did make the interpretation based on more than words. I used my real-world knowledge of people with similar attitudes in conjunction with her words to form my opinion. If it were a guy speaking, I’d say the same (though I may have chosen to use “jackass” instead of “skank”). How the girls looked really had little influence; if it had been a morbidly obese woman who hadn’t showered in weeks using the same words with the same attitude, I’d still come to the conclusion that she thought she was prettier than everyone else. It seems a fair number of reporters agree.