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good looks

  • 15-06-2006 10:51am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,744 ✭✭✭✭


    are we all becoming better looking ?
    every year it seams all of us our lookin better, speaking as a straight male , woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out more than normal it seams . Don't know whethere it is the hot weather , more money to look good , or is it just me ... but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    thebaz wrote:
    are we all becoming better looking ?
    every year it seams all of us our lookin better, speaking as a straight male , woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out more than normal it seams . Don't know whethere it is the hot weather , more money to look good , or is it just me ... but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.

    It could be due to all the foreign nationals coming into the country, perhaps? Also, people have more money these days to spend on better food and are generally more able to take care of themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    thebaz wrote:
    but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.

    errrr..yea.......Havent really noticed, maybe it's just changing styles which you find more attractive


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Everyone seems to be getting more overweight, greedy and vile to me.

    So many ugly fat babies running about too.

    I guess it depends on where you live I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Everyone seems to be getting more overweight, greedy and vile to me.

    So many ugly fat babies running about too.

    I guess it depends on where you live I guess.


    You mean crawl around?:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    i thnk peole these days are taking more pride in their appearance, and its like one big competition out there, everyone trying to look better than the next. Then there's the cosmetic surgery getting more and more popular everyday, and always new cosmetics out for this and that...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    thebaz wrote:
    woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out

    thebaz - You're a fussy chap. What about the teens, fifties, sixties, etc? Talk about narrowing your options!

    Durrty!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    Think Irish birds have definitely come on in looks since the old days. Better food maybe.

    In fairness, despite all the threads on boards to the contrary, Irish women are, proportionately, better looking than most of the rest of Europe, with the possible exception of Italy. We run neck and neck with the Poles and ex Soviets but, proportionately speaking, still narrowly beat them. The funny thing is, if you got 100 Irish birds and 100 East Europeans, you would find far less downright ugly birds amongst the E Europeans, but if you were to pick a top 5 from each group, chances are the Irish group would narrowly beat them.

    Emigration or deportation to Australia was probably the worst event in Irish history. Judging by the shots of the crowds after the WC win the other day, the most genetically healthy Irish and Brits emigrated there, resulting in a nation where 90% of the females look like they should be on Neighbours and Home and Away.

    If there had been no emigrations/deportations to Oz, all those tanned blue eyed blondes would still be here :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭johnp


    thebaz wrote:
    are we all becoming better looking ?
    every year it seams all of us our lookin better, speaking as a straight male , woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out more than normal it seams . Don't know whethere it is the hot weather , more money to look good , or is it just me ... but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.

    Maybe its that each year your standards are dropping :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭New_Departure06


    Maybe the ugly people just aren't walking the streets when you are so you make these assumptions. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    thebaz wrote:
    are we all becoming better looking ?
    every year it seams all of us our lookin better, speaking as a straight male , woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out more than normal it seams . Don't know whethere it is the hot weather , more money to look good , or is it just me ... but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.

    Women are but men arent.As a straight female I really do think we will be a country of lesbians in a couple of years.There so many good looking women to look at that I find my head turning to check out a good loooking female but I rarely see a good looking man


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Yeah, its mad, like this morning i woke up feeling ten years younger, then I realised, it was a confirmation photo not a mirror I was looking at.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Check out football matches, game shows, editions of Top of the Pops - any type of programme that features "ordinary people" - from the 70s and 80s and you will see that people are WAY uglier than they are today!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭HelterSkelter


    It could be due to all the foreign nationals coming into the country, perhaps? Also, people have more money these days to spend on better food and are generally more able to take care of themselves.
    Are you taking the píss!! IMO we have the largest amount of fatties in Europe (excluding England) that couldn't be arsed taking care of themselves!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    i am deff getting better looking by the day...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭mountainyman


    panda100 wrote:
    Women are but men arent....
    That's curious Irishmen are famous all over the world for being good lokking women much less so.

    MM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Have to say I was disappointed in Italy, always thought the Italians had the best looking women in the world but tbh, it's a serious minority of them that are hot.

    Irish girls ftw.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I dont think people are any better looking. I do think they have more cash to spend on facelifts and botox though, oh Im late for my appointment, back later. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    That's curious Irishmen are famous all over the world for being good lokking women much less so.

    MM

    There famous for being charming and witty not good looking(imo thats much more important anyway:) ).There are a few exceptions but on the whole if you walk down grafton street or head out to a nightclub you'll probably see at least 20 or so good looking women and for every 20 good looing girls there'll be one good looking fella.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    That's curious Irishmen are famous all over the world for being good lokking women much less so.

    MM

    :D Haha, where are you getting this! Fair enough the women don't get good press worldwide but us men..... You think Italian women are smitten with us?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭HelterSkelter


    panda100 wrote:
    There famous for being charming and witty not good looking(imo thats much more important anyway:) ).There are a few exceptions but on the whole if you walk down grafton street or head out to a nightclub you'll probably see at least 20 or so good looking women and for every 20 good looing girls there'll be one good looking fella.
    Maybe you're a lesbian.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    panda100 wrote:
    There famous for being charming and witty not good looking(imo thats much more important anyway:) ).There are a few exceptions but on the whole if you walk down grafton street or head out to a nightclub you'll probably see at least 20 or so good looking women and for every 20 good looing girls there'll be one good looking fella.

    :D And there'll be 100 brutes following those 20 with saliva dripping out of their mouths. True at least we have a sense of humour


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭HelterSkelter


    Sleepy wrote:
    Have to say I was disappointed in Italy, always thought the Italians had the best looking women in the world but tbh, it's a serious minority of them that are hot.

    Irish girls ftw.
    Go to Spain my man, Premiership compared to Division 3 (italians) and Phoenix Park (Irish women!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,744 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    panda100 wrote:
    Women are but men arent.As a straight female I really do think we will be a country of lesbians in a couple of years.There so many good looking women to look at that I find my head turning to check out a good loooking female but I rarely see a good looking man

    its a pity you don't walk the same routes as me .... seriously, don't blame you questioning your sexuality, with the quality of ladies walkin our streets today. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    Argentina is swarming with hotties, really incredible


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    panda100 wrote:
    Women are but men arent.As a straight female I really do think we will be a country of lesbians in a couple of years.There so many good looking women to look at that I find my head turning to check out a good loooking female but I rarely see a good looking man
    you'll at least let us watch though, won't you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Surrender wrote:
    Argentina is swarming with hotties, really incredible
    most likely of Irish descent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    julep wrote:
    most likely of Irish descent.

    :D haha, I somehow doubt it but who knows


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Go back and look again sober? :)
    thebaz wrote:
    but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Was there in April. Can vouch for this, especially in Buenos Aires
    Surrender wrote:
    Argentina is swarming with hotties, really incredible


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Surrender wrote:
    :D haha, I somehow doubt it but who knows
    i know.
    In the late 19th century, about 50,000 Irish immigrants were in Argentina. Distinct Irish communities existed, including Irish schools and a news paper, The Southern Cross, until the Peron era in the 1950s. In the 1880's the Argentine government sought to promote immigration from Ireland and sent two agents to Ireland to recruit young and able-bodied migrants. The agents, however, promised more than they could deliver and when 2,000 Irish arrived aboard the City of Dresden ship they were plunged into destitution. News of the scandal, known as the Dresden affair, reached Ireland, and scared away future travellers. Today there are about 500,000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina.

    Che Guevara, whose grandmother's surname was Lynch, was another famous member of this diaspora. Guevara's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, said of him: "The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels". On March 13, 1965, the Irish Times journalist Arthur Quinlan interviewed Che at Shannon Airport during a stopover flight from Prague to Cuba. Guevara talked of his Irish connections through the name Lynch and of his grandmother's Irish roots in Galway. Later, Che, and some of his Cuban comrades, went to Limerick City and adjourned to the Hanratty's Hotel on Glentworth Street. According to Quinlan, they returned that evening all wearing sprigs of shamrock, for Shannon and Limerick were preparing for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. (Scotsman Newspaper, The night Che Guevara came to Limerick, Sun 28 December 2003)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora#Argentina


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,744 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    stovelid wrote:
    Go back and look again sober? :)

    stone cold sober i have been knocked out recently by the beauty of irish women -- definitly better than a few years ago -- maybe its the weather ? or my singledom ? -- Maybe bueno aires would be too much -- heart attack in the heat .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    julep wrote:

    Apologies, your well versed, interesting stuff actually


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭dundalk cailin


    Been living in France the last year or so, and in general Irish lads are better looking imo .. im home next week *yay* :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I was bowled over..

    My wife rated the guys too. Well, the ones that didn't have mullets :)

    thebaz wrote:
    stone cold sober i have been knocked out recently by the beauty of irish women -- definitly better than a few years ago -- maybe its the weather ? or my singledom ? -- Maybe bueno aires would be too much -- heart attack in the heat .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    We beat the French, Happy days!, any other women on this thread that can say the same?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭dundalk cailin


    Surrender wrote:
    We beat the French, Happy days!, any other women on this thread that can say the same?
    and i defend the honour of irish men, to all the frenchies who think they're raging alcoholics :rolleyes: :p

    altho i have a weakness for the french-guy-speaking-english's accent :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    and i defend the honour of irish men, to all the frenchies who think they're raging alcoholics :rolleyes: :p

    altho i have a weakness for the french-guy-speaking-english's accent :D

    Thats fair enough, we irish can sound a little rough compared to our european neighbours. Its like English through a meat grinder


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭HelterSkelter


    Surrender wrote:
    Thats fair enough, we irish can sound a little rough compared to our european neighbours. Its like English through a meat grinder
    Well my gf is from London and she and her friends love the Irish accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    Fair enough, I suppose it depends where your from in Irl as well. I'm probably sick to the balls of accents seeing as I'm from the North and we speak at 3,500 words-per-minute and find it difficult to understand the locals any further south than Galway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭dundalk cailin


    people who i meet rarely guess Dundalk as my hometown, which isnt the worst thing ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Irish gals, I wouldn't look at em anymore. It's the exotic foreign imports for me, vastly superior in many ways. Accents are sexier, slightly tanned on the whole a lot nicer and friendly.

    Tbh I could never get over the really hot gals hanging off the arm of some spot faced muppet who as a bloke I would consider to fugly!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Warmer weather = more cleavage on show = in men's heads women are more attractive for some reason they can't put their finger on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    people who i meet rarely guess Dundalk as my hometown, which isnt the worst thing ;)

    Ah naw, Dundalk accent not so bad like a cultured Monaghan/Cavan thing going on. I think though us irish really can't cut it with some of the med countrys. I was in Milan in February and I was gob-smacked by how good looking and healthy people kept thems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Surrender


    latenia wrote:
    Warmer weather = more cleavage on show = in men's heads women are more attractive for some reason they can't put their finger on.

    harsh words


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    layke wrote:
    ....slightly tanned on the whole....

    cmon..... anybody?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭dundalk cailin


    i felt soooo white next to the french gals :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    thebaz wrote:
    are we all becoming better looking ?
    every year it seams all of us our lookin better, speaking as a straight male , woman in there twenties, thirties , forties, have been knocking me out more than normal it seams . Don't know whethere it is the hot weather , more money to look good , or is it just me ... but i think as a nation we are becoming better looking each year.

    the miracle of the paint box can make us all beautiful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭eiretamicha


    i felt soooo white next to the french gals :(
    I find pale skin beautiful. :)

    Am I the only one here who feels that different races have different attractive tributes?

    I'm obviously generalizing here, but for the most part:
    The Mediterranean men and women seem to glow with health--they keep a healthy diet and always have sun-kissed skin.

    The Japanese are delicate and otherworldly--their black hair and almond-shaped eyes are gorgeous to me.

    The Irish are pale and spirited, and have more personality than any other race, IMHO.

    And I'm allowed to say all this cuz I'm a mixed-breed American. ;)

    So many different races of people and as a whole, they're all uniquely beautiful to me. Or maybe I'm just a complete tree-hugging culture-loving sap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    latenia wrote:
    Warmer weather = more cleavage on show = in men's heads women are more attractive for some reason they can't put their finger on.

    I think you'll find that putting your finger on it constitutes sexual harassment...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭eiretamicha


    I think you'll find that putting your finger on it constitutes sexual harassment...
    LOL!!


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