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Do good looking people have it easier in life?

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  • #32
    Singularity 1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Singularity 1


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Yip. People tend to hire good-looking, motivated and successful sorts, instead of some mutant swamp donkey with acne, thick glasses, greasy hair and combat trousers.

    At the risk of sounding sexist, isn't that only the case with women?


  • #33
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    A0 wrote: »
    They aren't that good looking in Zoolander...

    It explains the story of how good-looking folk struggle in life.


  • #34
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Is it too late for a Brick joke ?

    No. There's always room for a brick joke.


  • #35
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    I think, in a way, they do.
    I know people say "Looks aren't everything" but to be honest, you are gonna be more drawn towards a person who is well dressed, well groomed and who has good cleaniness, than someone who wears plain, dowdy clothes, bad skin and hair, and might have BO.

    That's why I always try to take care of myself. I am no model but I try to make myself look decent, dress well, do my hair good and clean myself, skin and hair, because I do feel more confident and it shows that I take care of myself and my appearence.

    No one says people have to be beautiful and model-perfect, but there is nothing wrong with making yourself look decent at least.


  • #36
    A0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭A0


    Nemeses wrote: »
    It explains the story of how good-looking folk struggle in life.

    Was messing :) My opinion is that competency outweighs what is perceived by some as negative (i.e., a look not falling into the "norms").

    Having said that, I don't think it hurts to take care of your look in a sensible way, without being obsessed about it. Regarding the OP, it's hard to answer objectively. Some jobs require to be what is considered as "good looking" / to have a "great body", etc., other don't...


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  • #37
    Table Top Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    Surprised the PC brigade hasn't shown up yet, stunned even....but yes,they do


  • #38
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Absolutely. Combined with well spoken, charming, personable, stylish... So all is not lost if your gene pool didn't deliver, you can fake the rest.

    But not just interviews - the world in general is a friendlier the better looking you are.


  • #39
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Singularity 1 wrote: »
    At the risk of sounding sexist, isn't that only the case with women?

    Frankly no. I've lots experience in this area and IMO two men with similar experience, contacts, qualifications - the tall handsome well-dressed one will have the edge.


  • #40
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,602 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Katgurl wrote: »
    Frankly no. I've lots experience in this area and IMO two men with similar experience, contacts, qualifications - the tall handsome well-dressed one will have the edge.

    And if it was short, handsome and well dressed versus tall, well dressed Chris de Burgh lookalike?


  • #41
    miss flutter ups
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭miss flutter ups


    I'd say there's pros and cons

    I'm sure good looking people can be the victims of jealousy/bitching. My friend refused to b photographed on a night out with my (gorgeous) aunt recently, she said "sure I'd look like a whale beside her"-give me self esteem over looks any day! My poor aunt didn't know where to look.


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  • #42
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    swimming in a sea wrote: »
    it never seems to be much of an advantage in Ireland, compare RTE presenters to TV channels in the Rest of Europe, Ireland is the last refuge for ugly people.

    I'd rather see normal-looking people read the news than those feckin' dolly-bird presenters on TV3.

    Possibly people that are too good looking are harder to take seriously?


  • #43
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    josip wrote: »
    And if it was short, handsome and well dressed versus tall, well dressed Chris de Burgh lookalike?


    I know you're taking piss but I'll answer anyway - I think it would be the tall guy. Height commands respect from men. OT but women with curly hair are allegedly not taken as seriously as their straight-haired counterparts!


  • #44
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Boofle wrote: »
    Do they get favoured at interviews etc?

    Some days, but You still have to work at it to reap the benefits of it.


  • #45
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    beauty is only skin deep or so they say.........

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KfyTORRMXk


  • #46
    Ace Attorney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way
    I can't wait to look in the mirror, coz I get better looking each day
    To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man
    O Lord it's hard to be humble, but I'm doing the best that I can

    Its hard to be humble when you're as tasty as i ham, I ham the greatest!


  • #47
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    No they dont imo.

    Ugly people, if they are insecure over their looks tend to let this one short coming in life really effect them.


  • #48
    A0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭A0


    OP, be confident and you'll get the job :pac:



  • #49
    Boofle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Boofle


    A0 wrote: »
    OP, be confident and you'll get the job :pac:


    I don't have an interview!! I was just pondering the issue after a chat with a friend who is a HR manager.


  • #50
    A0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭A0


    Boofle wrote: »
    I don't have an interview!! I was just pondering the issue after a chat with a friend who is a HR manager.

    Just joking, forward the link above to your friend :P

    What did your friend say? Good looking have it easier?


  • #51
    Boofle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Boofle


    A0 wrote: »
    Just joking, forward the link above to your friend :P

    What did your friend said? Good looking have it easier?

    She was interviewing a couple of weeks ago and in walks this absolutely drop dead gorgeous guy; she managed to get through the interview just about :D and off he went on his way.

    After he left she was mobbed by lots of the staff on the floor (she works in a shop) and they were like "Oh my god, who was yer man? "You have got to take him on!" etc etc. And she did! Even though he didn't have the best experience out of all the candidates. . . . .


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  • #52
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    we have it harder, here if in the minority actually you know what I'm not even all that. Come stand beside me and improve my chances sideman... or not so. you'll either make me look good; or bad. act like you don't know me

    note to self; acquire only good looking friends :pac: deal with it.......


  • #53
    A0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭A0


    Boofle wrote: »
    She was interviewing a couple of weeks and in walks this absolutely drop dead gorgeous guy; she managed to get through the interview just about :D and off he went on his way.

    After he left she was mobbed by lots of the staff on the floor (she works in a shop) and they were like "Oh my god, who was yer man? "You have got to take him on!" etc etc. And she did! Even though he didn't have the best experience out of all the candidates. . . . .


    He's lucky I didn't apply for the job...


  • #54
    Boofle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Boofle


    A0 wrote: »
    He's lucky I didn't apply for the job...

    :P


  • #55
    Czarcasm
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    It's an odd one in my experience really. It started when I was about six and my granny turned to my mother and said -

    "Hasn't he a woeful beggar face on him?", before shoving a fiver into my hand. In the 30 years since, it's been incredibly rare that anyone's ever said "no" to me or turned me down for anything.

    I tend not to think too much about it tbh, because àrse kissers annoy me, "yes people", I prefer a challenge, because it's human nature that when something comes easy to us we tend to take it for granted, and when we have to work for something, we tend to appreciate it more.

    It only took me seven YEARS to get my wife up the aisle, and every day since has indeed been a challenge! :pac:


  • #56
    Boofle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Boofle


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    It's an odd one in my experience really. It started when I was about six and my granny turned to my mother and said -

    "Hasn't he a woeful beggar face on him?", before shoving a fiver into my hand. In the 30 years since, it's been incredibly rare that anyone's ever said "no" to me or turned me down for anything.

    I tend not to think too much about it tbh, because àrse kissers annoy me, "yes people", I prefer a challenge, because it's human nature that when something comes easy to us we tend to take it for granted, and when we have to work for something, we tend to appreciate it more.

    It only took me seven YEARS to get my wife up the aisle, and every day since has indeed been a challenge! :pac:

    So your good looks are a bit of a burden really?!


  • #57
    A0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭A0


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    It's an odd one in my experience really. It started when I was about six and my granny turned to my mother and said -

    "Hasn't he a woeful beggar face on him?", before shoving a fiver into my hand. In the 30 years since, it's been incredibly rare that anyone's ever said "no" to me or turned me down for anything.

    I tend not to think too much about it tbh, because àrse kissers annoy me, "yes people", I prefer a challenge, because it's human nature that when something comes easy to us we tend to take it for granted, and when we have to work for something, we tend to appreciate it more.

    It only took me seven YEARS to get my wife up the aisle, and every day since has indeed been a challenge! :pac:

    Sounds too good to believe. Pics - please.


  • #58
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Boofle wrote: »
    So your good looks are a bit of a burden really?!


    Well that's what's odd about it

    I wouldn't actually consider myself particularly attractive, certainly I've seen ten times better looking guys that a 5'10" shortàrse with sky dishes for ears and a gammy leg, lol, so I usually put it down to my granny having been on to something with her "beggar face" comment :pac:

    At best I'd say I was average looking, not quite Quasimodo, and not quite Dorian Gray :D


  • #59
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    I'll say one thing about good looking people

    We're not well liked.


  • #60
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    A0 wrote: »
    Sounds too good to believe. Pics - please.


    Cameras and I don't see eye to eye :pac:


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  • #61
    Rad!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Rad!


    I don't think good looking people have it any different to ugly people.

    Just look at Max Irons and his half-brother Richard Boyd Barrett.

    Both different ends of the scale, but each gifted in their own line of work.


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