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So called sex symbols you never understood why.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    I literally cannot fathom anyone finding Maggie Gyllenhaal attractive...the mind boggles!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Brad pitt
    Victoria beckham


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭Compu Global Hyper Meganet


    All sex symbols are overrated. While some are better than others, none of them are that much better than everyone else to warrant being salivated over. I guarantee that a top notch make up artist/stylist could make pretty much anyone look fantastic, so it's not all that impressive.


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


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Brad pitt
    Victoria beckham


    Yeah, the Brad Pitt love wore thin very quick, around the time he decided he wouldn't always be dependent on his looks and it turned out he was actually a capable actor! :eek:

    Though he'd had a good run at it from his stint in Dallas.


    Victoria Beckham? I thought it was Geri Halliwell was supposed to be the sexpot symbol with that union jack dress! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,052 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Brad pitt
    Victoria beckham

    Not sure was VB ever really a sex symbol, for as long as I can remember she looked like a skeleton and those fake tits were like footballs.


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


    Christina Hendricks.

    No sex appeal whatsoever, just a pair of tits. So just like every other woman then.

    A sex symbol is a celebrity of either sex, typically an actor, musician, supermodel, teen idol, or sports star, noted for his or her sex appeal. The term was first used in the mid-1950s in relation to the popularity of certain film stars, especially Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.


    Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_symbol


    It's like I was saying earlier- Sex appeal is more than just about looks, it's about the whole package!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Victoria's legs + Geri's boobs + Emma Bunton's face all together = the only decent Spice Girl.

    Conversations like this actually happened with lads in Irish pubs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,197 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Victoria's legs + Geri's boobs + Emma Bunton's face all together = the only decent Spice Girl.

    Conversations like this actually happened with lads in Irish pubs

    Victoria Beckhams name shouldn't appear in the same sentence as the work "decent". She might look good on a red carpet or something, but the woman is as far away from sexy as you can get


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    Margaret Thatcher.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Most Hollywood male actors. They leave me cold (I do like Brad Pitt though). I much prefer the actors of yore; a lot more rugged with a genuine glint in their eye that modern actors have to feign.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Micky Rourke or Juliette Lewis spring to mind.


  • Site Banned Posts: 24 call_me_early


    Micky Rourke or Juliette Lewis spring to mind.


    juliete lewis was hardly ever a sex symbol , apart from not being good looking , shes far too edgy


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Victoria Beckhams name shouldn't appear in the same sentence as the work "decent". She might look good on a red carpet or something, but the woman is as far away from sexy as you can get

    Her legs in the 90s were



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    juliete lewis was hardly ever a sex symbol , apart from not being good looking , shes far too edgy

    I wouldn't have minded spending one night with her i.e. From Dusk 'Til Dawn.


  • Site Banned Posts: 24 call_me_early


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    I wouldn't have minded spending one night with her i.e. From Dusk 'Til Dawn.


    never noticed her

    salma hayek could make me her eternal slave in the demon world and I be like " whats the catch "


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Victoria Beckhams name shouldn't appear in the same sentence as the work "decent". She might look good on a red carpet or something, but the woman is as far away from sexy as you can get

    She was sexy in her pre-emaciated days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Victoria's legs + Geri's boobs + Emma Bunton's face all together = the only decent Spice Girl.

    Conversations like this actually happened with lads in Irish pubs



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭jma


    Gillian Anderson ... !?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    jma wrote: »
    Gillian Anderson ... !?

    Mmmm, sexy ginger


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    jma wrote: »
    Gillian Anderson ... !?

    She has aged incredibly well! Like a female George clooney


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Because it looks like she was shot with Homer Simpson's make-up gun?
    But I don't think the venom directed at her has ever been to do with her wearing too much make-up. It's her, fairly benign really, facial features that people pretend are utterly unsightly.
    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Sarah Jessica Parker definitely isnt a looker now but I remember seeing her in Honeymoon In Vegas as a kid and thinking that I needed to go to bed early to touch myself.

    She was a fine thing

    http://brianorndorf.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ee7b6428833017c317dfd2c970b-800wi
    She didn't look that different in the earlier years of S&TC either.
    WhiteRoses wrote: »
    Georgia Salpa. I just do not see the attraction at all! She looks like a poor man's Kim Kardashian or Nichole Scherzinger.
    That's pretty good-looking surely!

    (Not saying people should automatically fancy her but she's very pretty and her body is off the chart - too thin for some, but still, pretty amazing; mile-long legs, perfectly toned).


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,360 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    But you said you can't believe she's considered a sex symbol.

    The vitriol heaped upon her is such bandwagon-jumping. And the way people still call her a horse years and years later as if it's really original.

    This was her during the S&TC years - obviously people can't help who they do or don't fancy, but how the **** is the woman in that picture so horrific-looking? :confused:
    Answer: she isn't - it's just the thing to say.
    I'm with you FF. I would rather attack my organs of generation with a rusty blade than watch SATC, but I don't get the SJP hate. She's got a helluva toned body for a start and while she wouldn't float my boat I can see why she'd float anothers. Plus for a Hollywood couple, her and the hubby have been together for a very long time and that would appeal too.
    I literally cannot fathom anyone finding Maggie Gyllenhaal attractive...the mind boggles!
    So not my bag either, but like SJP I can kinda see how others might dig her. Only kinda mind you.
    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Christina Hendricks.
    On this I'm on board 100%. Can't see the gig at all at all. Like you say, big bewbs, so what. Otherwise extremely bland. Irish guys, we do like our bewbs though so maybe that's it. :)
    juliete lewis was hardly ever a sex symbol , apart from not being good looking , shes far too edgy
    And a card carrying scientologist*. And going by interviews, not exactly Alberta fcuking Einstein. Instant antiViagra. For me the most interesting thing she's done to date is to have De Niro's thumb in her mouth.





    *as is Laura Prepon(70's show/Orange is the new black etc), a lady I would find very very attractive. I'd well risk a beating from her security to say "hows it going". Not your usual meh looking woman kept trim by gym and contract spat from a mould Hollywood starlet(Quod Vide Kaley Cuaco et al). Clearly has an actual non starved body, but any mind that considers the nature of existence and then reckons a drug addled aggressive half baked walter mitty like Hubbard is some sort of messiah, or even guru, or even vaguely intelligent worthy of further consideration, needs their bloody head read.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Julia Roberts

    Elizabeth Taylor

    And Maggie fooking Gyllenhall[/QUOTE]

    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    juliete lewis was hardly ever a sex symbol , apart from not being good looking , shes far too edgy



    aaaaand a Scientologist.


    Edit: Wibbs beat me to it. Gosh darn it! I never have the juicy gossip.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    Anyone who doesn't get Ms Hendricks is just schwul.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Christina Hendricks.

    No sex appeal whatsoever, just a pair of tits. So just like every other woman then.





    Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_symbol


    It's like I was saying earlier- Sex appeal is more than just about looks, it's about the whole package!

    Lies!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭jma


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    Anyone who doesn't get Ms Hendricks is just schwul.

    I do get it, but she wouldn't be a first choice for me....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    Cameron Diaz.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    J. Marston wrote: »

    And her trumps aren't even their usual size in that clip!


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