Wow, that totally sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before…recently? I know it wasn’t about Jews…hmm…
I think you can tell criminals by their faces. You’ll often see pictures in the paper of both the accused and the victim, both pictures not mug shots but probably supplied by their families, perhaps even their yearbook photos, and it’s easy to pick out which is which before you read the captions. A hint of a sneer or shifty eyes, the basic tells in a poker game.
That link had some kind of weird browser hijack.
I can go along with that.
This is strictly my personal opinion, but when I see someone with their eyes in what appear to be a permanent half-shut mode, I get the impression of someone who doesn’t pay attention much and is probably not a deep-thinker. And the ones whom I’ve interacted with have proven to be so.
On the other hand most of the people who I know who are average or above average intelligence have an “eyes wide open” facial expression.
I always wait for someone to speak or do something stupid before I judge them. I have never looked at someone and said to myself, “that person looks stupid.” Ever. However on many occasions I have thought and sometimes said “you do not look at dumb as you sound.”
My apologies - I haven’t read the thread, as it is late and my eyes are blurry. I did, however, do a cursory search and saw that this Wiki article wasn’t linked. Good read - talks about how minor physical anomalies often belie minor developmental disorders that can lead to lower intelligence.
I have a game I play with people’s faces. I look for people in jobs that don’t seem to require intellect, or who otherwise “look stupid”. I try to imagine that I had just been introduced to them as a university professor. Could I imagine that physiology as a highly qualified academic?
It’s amazing what effect that mental transition can have. Sometimes I can almost see their faces re-arranging themselves from “stupid” to “eccentric individual”. I would contend that there is NO arrangement of facial features that unambiguously say “dumb as a box of rocks”; your “lights on but no-one’s home” expression is someone else’s “thinking deeply and not paying attention to YOU” expression.
runner pat and lobsang, since both of you Googled for “hillbilly” to find your impressive photo, do you have any evidence that these particular men are actually mountain men or have they just been labelled as being “hillbillies” by various people owning websites?
I ask because the term hillbilly is, according to some dictionaries, often used to refer to the men living in the Appalachian areas of the Southeastern United States. It is an offensive term because it belittles people based upon their being from a certain region of the country. It perpetuates a myth about Southern men – (especially those from near the research center of the triangle area of North Carolina).
Uh oh, did it? I clicked on it (and found out, to my annoyance, that someone had already posted a link to that exact same person earlier in the thread!), but I didn’t see anything happen. What was “supposed to” happen? Did I avoid it, or did something subtle happen?
I wish I’d seen your post before I clicked on that link. Yes, there seems to be an internet worm there. To anyone who clicked it, scan your machine.
Anecdotal, but I find how open or closed the mouth is in a default/neutral expression is a very reliable indicator of intelligence. The “slack jawed” types have always been dumb in my experience. I noticed it at a very young age and it has been entirely reliable. It’s also more common - dumb kids are more likely to be slack jawed than dumb adults - so you notice it more when you’re younger. I can’t recall meeting a single person that wasn’t dumb who held their mouth open - even people who have a stuffed up nose and have to breathe out of their mouth don’t leave it gaping. I’m not saying it’s utterly foolproof, but in my experience I’ve yet to see anything contradict it.
Actually, when I’m half-awake in the morning and my brain isn’t quite running yet, I notice that my mouth is sometimes open. And this probably sounds silly, but try for an hour just to let your jaw hang loosely - just leave your mouth hanging open - and you’ll probably feel dumber somehow.
Most film shops are giving double prints now. 
I never said they were hillbillies, I was responding to CT-Damsel’s question of how two people had the same photo.
I did the search just to show that it was the second picture in line on the first page using “hillbilly” as the search term-in other words, very easy.
I was not trying to verify the authenticity, just the result of a search.
I saw one result that identifies them as South African twins. They are twins, no doubt there.
Can you post its name? I’m on a Mac and use Firefox, so I’d like to know if it affected me. Plus, I’m sure others on this thread need it too. 
That was my link and it was a picture of Stephen Hawking. If I caused any problems I’m sorry. The link works fine for me.
Oh, it works fine. That seems to be the problem: that it works fine putting a worm on your machine. That’s why I’m asking: so I can look it up to see if it affects Macs.
(Plus, someone had already posted a link to a photo of Stephen Hawking making the same point, so it was moot. :D)
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I’ve killed the link in blood63’s post.
ETA: And also in FoieGraeIsEvil’s quote of blood63’s post.
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Great point. It is all in your prejudiced little minds!
There was a girl in my math class who was slack jawed, especially when answering questions, and I found it very irritating. Except this was in a gifted school and we were in AP Calc. Even if I could let believe she was dumber than everyone in the room, she was smarter than almost everyone else. I think the slack-jawedness might have been an indicator of what was going on inside her head–perhaps confusion, perhaps being ill at ease–when she answered those questions (and she could never answer them well or quickly), but it is not a mark of her intelligence.
When any of you are nervous, I am sure most of you are unpleasant to look at and inspiring of negative judgments.
They are South African. I first found the picture on the photographer’s website, part of a black and white series of rural poor white South Africans. The images haunted me. Can’t remember the photographer’s name, though! I figured Google would bring up the image again.