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Describing peoples looks in the media

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  • 02-11-2012 10:06pm
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    PC CDROM
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    So I was looking at a few stories and was taken aback at how the media used the words "beautiful" to describe people/victims.

    Why do they do that?

    Does your looks help if you are missing?

    Are we that transparent that looks "count" and are worth mentioning?

    What do you think?


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    Spunge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    Attractive people are more important


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Because pics or gtfo!










    or something like that I guess....


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    Skinhead Kane
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 150 ✭✭Skinhead Kane


    Well they're hardly gonna say "ugly" victim/person.


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    My name is URL
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    'Angelic'.. esp. when used after children have died.

    You never hear the same word used to describe dead adults.. the wings fall off during puberty.


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    deelite
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    Personally I think on Crime Call they should describe the criminal as " an ugly person with a huge nose and bad breath and bad teeth" - the crims would be disgusted!!!


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    Turtyturd
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    Maybe it's like when you die you instantly become a good person. Kidnapping makes you beautiful.


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    Duggy747
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    If I wind up in the papers I'll probably be described as "visually offensive" :(


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    af_thefragile
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    deelite wrote: »
    Personally I think on Crime Call they should describe the criminal as " an ugly person with a huge nose and bad breath and bad teeth" - the crims would be disgusted!!!

    But what if the criminal is one of those charismatic serial killers?


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    deelite
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    af_thefragile wrote: »
    But what if the criminal is one of those charismatic serial killers?

    Have we ever had a charismatic serial killer? :D


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    deelite wrote: »
    Have we ever had a charismatic serial killer? :D

    Ask those girls that fell for Ted Bundy...


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    Turtyturd
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    deelite wrote: »
    Have we ever had a charismatic serial killer? :D

    Cocaine...it robbed us of Gerry Ryan, Katy French, and a couple of people nobody remembers because they weren't in the papers regularly.


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    deelite
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    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Ask those girls that fell for Ted Bundy...

    He'd never have appeared on Crime Call - Garda Patrol perhaps!


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