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Strong/weak chins and respect.

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  • 26-08-2013 9:39am
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    THT
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23 ✭


    Up until recently I wouldn't have consciously notice people's chins. However, a colleague in work recently had jaw surgery to have it lengthened and it dramatically changes the presence you feel off him in his company. There's just an increase in respect that I feel for him, it's obviously hard wired to feel more respect for a stronger chin.

    Has anyone else noticed this?


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    MarkR
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    You are shallow and easily swayed.


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    positron
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    Now if only that works for double / tripple chins...


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    Festy
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    I have more chins than a chinese phone book


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    anncoates
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    Am I the only one that never realized you can get your chin surgically lengthened? Do you just go to a surgeon and say Nobody listens to me in project meetings, gimme a big chin?


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    Banjo String
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    SEPT 23 1989
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    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-09HEpDwfKR4/T36zW2fInXI/AAAAAAAAAIE/-1en5AMHFFY/s320/jimmy_hill.jpg

    The King of Chin


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    Fr_Dougal
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    THT wrote: »
    Up until recently I wouldn't have consciously notice people's chins. However, a colleague in work recently had jaw surgery to have it lengthened and it dramatically changes the presence you feel off him in his company. There's just an increase in respect that I feel for him, it's obviously hard wired to feel more respect for a stronger chin.

    Has anyone else noticed this?

    One guy I know applied for a job in the company I work for and he didn't get it, so he had a chin op thinking he'd fit in. It didn't work, so he had another and another and another. We tried to tell him no matter how many chin ops he had he just wouldn't fit in, towards the end he looked pathetic.

    He's still having these chin ops and is still being turned down, I reckon he must think he'll get in under the radar at this stage, he won't. Maybe he thinks he'll break some sort of record for chin ops, maybe he will- but it's only a measure of how sad his own life is.


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    THT
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    anncoates wrote: »
    Am I the only one that never realized you can get your chin surgically lengthened? Do you just go to a surgeon and say Nobody listens to me in project meetings, gimme a big chin?

    The procedure in particular this guy had done was in combination with orthodontics. You can also get a chin implant to lengthen your chin. It can make you dramatically better looking if you have a weak chin.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    THT wrote: »
    The procedure in particular this guy had done was in combination with orthodontics. You can also get a chin implant to lengthen your chin. It can make you dramatically better looking if you have a weak chin.

    do you have to wear a scaffolding on your face for a few months like you do braces on teeth?


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    THT
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    One guy I know applied for a job in the company I work for and he didn't get it, so he had a chin op thinking he'd fit in. It didn't work, so he had another and another and another. We tried to tell him no matter how many chin ops he had he just wouldn't fit in, towards the end he looked pathetic.

    He's still having these chin ops and is still being turned down, I reckon he must think he'll get in under the radar at this stage, he won't. Maybe he thinks he'll break some sort of record for chin ops, maybe he will- but it's only a measure of how sad his own life is.

    I don't know what to believe, that this story is true or that that is an incredibly unfunny joke. Both hard to believe.


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    THT
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    do you have to wear a scaffolding on your face for a few months like you do braces on teeth?

    No. In neither procedures. The chin implant is a fairly straight forward procedure.


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    BeerWolf
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    Guess it's human nature to see people with receded chins as weak?

    /shrug.


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    Wibbs
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    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Guess it's human nature to see people with receded chins as weak?
    Which is interesting as modern humans were the first to have a discernible chin. Clearly it was selected for. The very earliest modern humans from 200,000 years ago, had one but it wasn't much larger than other sub species of us at the time. Maybe that's why it's seen as bad to not have a strong one now? A very distant reminder of when we stood out for having one and something to be admired?

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    Ihatecuddles-old
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    I have a big chin. I hate it! but my nose is pretty perfect so every cloud...


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    dd972
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    This sort of thing is unfortunately a feature for superficial people, in Ireland particularly, if you have what's deemed to be a more quintessentially Irish look, let's call it the Wayne Rooney look ( you get the picture ) you get a worse time of it in terms of preconceptions and prejudices than someone who looks like Amy Huberman or Ryan Tubridy.


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    Wibbs
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    Because the wayne rooney look is simply less physically attractive? Hardly an Irish thing. Physical attraction is considered a bonus worldwide.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    Birneybau
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    "Look, Daddy got a goddamn butthole on his face"

    "He sure is a Spartacus-lookin' Motherfcuker"


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    Fr_Dougal
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    THT wrote: »
    I don't know what to believe, that this story is true or that that is an incredibly unfunny joke. Both hard to believe.

    Its a true story, we call the pathetic wee lad Chin Boy, or CB for short.


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    McDermotX
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    Respect me

    http://mimg.ugo.com/201202/4/8/4/218484/cuts/2b3e6daa90a8_480x270.jpg


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    --Kaiser--
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    Consciously or subconsciously, people make judgements about people's personalities based on their face and general physiology - i.e. men with big jaws and broad shoulders would be seen as more dominant (and as these are signs of high testosterone - it may be true) and women with small chins and big eyes are seen as kinder (as these are signs high oestrogen and low testosterone).

    I'm generalising, but you get the idea. We may make unfair preconceptions based on looks but there is something behind them


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    anncoates
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    I always knew there was a reason why I felt strangely compelled to respect Rocky Dennis.


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    krudler
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    dd972 wrote: »
    This sort of thing is unfortunately a feature for superficial people, in Ireland particularly, if you have what's deemed to be a more quintessentially Irish look, let's call it the Wayne Rooney look ( you get the picture ) you get a worse time of it in terms of preconceptions and prejudices than someone who looks like Amy Huberman or Ryan Tubridy.

    Ryan Tubridy? the human Woody the Cowboy doll?


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    biko
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    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Guess it's human nature to see people with receded chins as weak?
    Odd because it's really hard to knock them out.


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    Mr Benevolent
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    Glenn Quagmire.

    That is all.


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    #26
    take everything
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    That's mental.














    Ba dum tsh.


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    #27
    Means Of Escape
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    The boxing chin of Marvelous Marvin Hagler
    Legend


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    RDM_83 again
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    There's a ridiculously easy solution to this dilemma, Grow a beard !


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    [Deleted User]
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    I wouldn't argue with this guy.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120494/

    You have to respect the chin.


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    WoollyRedHat
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    Just need to chin up.


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    bullpost
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    Also possible that those companies have a glass chin ceiling?
    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    One guy I know applied for a job in the company I work for and he didn't get it, so he had a chin op thinking he'd fit in. It didn't work, so he had another and another and another. We tried to tell him no matter how many chin ops he had he just wouldn't fit in, towards the end he looked pathetic.

    He's still having these chin ops and is still being turned down, I reckon he must think he'll get in under the radar at this stage, he won't. Maybe he thinks he'll break some sort of record for chin ops, maybe he will- but it's only a measure of how sad his own life is.


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