Are Irish men the ugliest in the World?

Amirani

I'd be interested to know how they come up with their results.

Do they just ask people to rank from a list? Rank based on a number of photographs? Either way it's unlikely to be very scientific.

You're not going to get a collection of photographs that adequately represented the population. How many people would you need and what would be the sampling process? If it's just based on a list, respondents are unlikely to have come in contact with enough nationals of a particular country to make an informed choice. These type of polls are generally always lacking in any sort of proper statistical procedure and aren't worth giving credence to.

What troubles me is the Irish Times continuing slide into complete mediocrity. The IT has generally been my paper of choice since I started reading newspapers as it was of a much higher standard than anything else that was available. This no longer seems to be the case, Ireland seems to be sorely lacking in terms of decent print media.

Amirani

Knex. wrote: »

Is there even 200 countries?

Ya, close enough.

Montroseee

My mum tells me I'm bloody gorgeous.

py2006

Irish women in top 10?

sopretty

Diego Simeone wrote: »

I'd be interested to know how they come up with their results.

Do they just ask people to rank from a list? Rank based on a number of photographs? Either way it's unlikely to be very scientific.

You're not going to get a collection of photographs that adequately represented the population. How many people would you need and what would be the sampling process? If it's just based on a list, respondents are unlikely to have come in contact with enough nationals of a particular country to make an informed choice. These type of polls are generally always lacking in any sort of proper statistical procedure and aren't worth giving credence to.

What troubles me is the Irish Times continuing slide into complete mediocrity. The IT has generally been my paper of choice since I started reading newspapers as it was of a much higher standard than anything else that was available. This no longer seems to be the case, Ireland seems to be sorely lacking in terms of decent print media.

The 'Newsagent Irritants' thread is this way >>>>>>>>>>>>>

FullblownRose

Artful_Badger wrote: »

I don't think you'd find anywhere in the word with an average heigh of 6'4 ! The human race is too short for your liking

England has a slightly higher proportion of freakishly tall men. My husband is an import

py2006

FullblownRose wrote: »

England has a slightly higher proportion of freakishly tall men. My husband is an import

Do you have to pay some sort if import duty?

Pocoyo

FullblownRose wrote: »

England has a slightly higher proportion of freakishly tall men. My husband is an import

Interesting fact we were the tallest men in europe pre famine.

RoboRat

Do you have to pay some sort if import duty?

BIC... Benefit in Cu..?

Angry_Mammarys

Jesus that's ridiculous, Irish men are great:D , sure look at Daniel O'Donnell:cool:

sopretty

Pocoyo wrote: »

Interesting fact we were the tallest men in europe pre famine.

Tall men STARVE!!!!

FullblownRose

I always wondered about the low doorways in old cottages. Is that because peope were short or because of some kind of tax like the window tax?

FullblownRose

py2006 wrote: »

Do you have to pay some sort if import duty?

He didn't cost me a cent

Pocoyo

sopretty wrote: »

Tall men STARVE!!!!

Tall men easily barge through ques,they all went to america.

zenno

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. By the way, that is a ridiculous news story. It seems that whoever came up with it doesn't like Irish men, it must have come from some angry feminist movement.

Now, does anyone have a spare few beers ?.

Knex*

Pocoyo wrote: »

Interesting fact we were the tallest men in europe pre famine.

Couldn't afford a sandwich, but there we all were with the measuring tapes out.

My Father's side of the family have always been tall. I'm 6ft2". My auld fella is 6ft1", and his two brothers are around the same, if not taller.

My Grandfather and his brothers were all 6ft or over, and apparently his Father, and his Father's brother's again were tall too.

I know that the human race as a species is getting taller and taller, but I wonder what used to be considered tall in the late 1800's/early 1900's, during my Great Grandfather's time?

If he was 6ft as well, would that have been considered the equivalent to being, say, 6ft4" today?

Sorry if my mindless rambling has taken this a little off topic...

Pat Mustard

BBDBB wrote: »

Pat Mustard FTW

The cheek!

Skeleton XIII wrote: »

I was accepted onto that site. So yay me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXyAYTAwleA

Daveysil15

py2006 wrote: »

Irish women in top 10?

Ahh shur any lower than that would be politically incorrect.

wp_rathead

Not until you go abroad do you realise how fecking ugly we are..

Ann Landers

funk-you wrote: »

Bit of a confused spud head on a lot of us alright.

-Funk

:pac:

Ann Landers

I think ye're a handsome bunch, by the way.

Some other nationalities are sort of generically good-looking if that makes sense? Not for me, thanks.

Ann Landers

Zardoz wrote: »

Short back and sides haircuts do most Irish men no favours at all .
Longer hair would suit alot of people .

Yes! Scruffy hair *ahem* does things to me...

FullblownRose

Ann Landers wrote: »

Yes! Scruffy hair *ahem* does things to me...

Seconded. or thirded? love floppy hair actually..

Pocoyo

wprathead wrote: »

Not until you go abroad do you realise how fecking ugly we are..

Not true swedish people dont see us as mutton heads or see our women as rag dolls,to them were exotic,The irish are and always have been a race of self loathers.... the polish are the only people iv heard saying that we were ugly and the rest see me for what i am, a beautiful independent irish man..

annascott

Ugliest in the world is stretching it a bit (aborigines and pygmies?) but on the whole probably the ugliest in Europe. There are good looking men here, but they don't look Irish...

Skeleton XIII

sopretty wrote: »

Ah God bless ya. You're giving out about THEIR superficiality, when you admit to having submitted your own photo to THEIR website? I actually thought you were taking the piss.

Just a pretty face it appears!

You're very passive aggressive for some reason.

I'm sorry for whatever that person did to piss you off, but I'm not them, ok?
You can pm me if you want, I think you'll find that I'm a delight.

If you must know, I was curious. Like anyone else, knowing if strangers found me physically attractive was (at the time) interesting to me. I got accepted, got a date out of it (I was single, this sort of helped the old motivation) and then deleted the profile a couple of weeks later because so what, right?

Happy?

py2006

Irish women are ugly too says Beautifulpeople.com website

Irish women fare better than Irish men according to the latest figures from Beautifulpeople.com, but they still have one of the highest rejection rates for joining the "beautiful people" site.

Ann Landers

Pocoyo wrote: »

Irish men are considered attractive,Foreigners like irish men,But they arnt into our women.

What a masterfully-constructed sentence.

jimgoose

Pocoyo wrote: »

...the rest see me for what i am, a beautiful independent irish man..

Fair moxy to ya. Furk the begrudgers, and g'wan Kilteely!!

Ann Landers

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Ahh shur any lower than that would be politically incorrect.

Why would an international site care about political correctness towards Irish women?