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Do parents genuinely know if their children are ugly?

  • 14-03-2020 9:59am
    #1
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭


    When the kids are adults or are they too blinded by their affection for them?


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  • #2
    Class MayDresser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    You can love ugly people too OP.


  • #3
    Caryatnid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Caryatnid


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    When the kids are adults or are they too blinded by their affection for them?
    Ask your parents hun. xoxoxo


  • #4
    sadie1502
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭sadie1502


    Caryatnid wrote: »
    Ask your parents hun. xoxoxo

    Lol.


  • #5
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    What's your opinion on this vital matter mr_fegelien?


  • #6
    tmabr
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭tmabr


    100% no
    At the time they are the most beautiful things in the world

    Looking back at old pics - where they really that fat and dribbly?


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  • #7
    Tordelback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Tordelback


    Of course you are aware of how your kids compare to societal norms - all societal norms. It's practically all parents do.


  • #8
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Caryatnid wrote: »
    Ask your parents hun. xoxoxo

    Oh they know he's ugly.


  • #9
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    And he's back!! Urgent issue to solve!


  • #10
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Oh they know he's ugly.

    In all seriousness, I think I am unattractive because I'm too dark skinned. I'd like to use a skin lightener to go a few shades lighter.


  • #11
    Hoboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,590 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    Be right back wrote: »
    And he's back!! Urgent issue to solve!

    He ain't got **** on iloveyourvibes


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  • #12
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    When the kids are adults or are they too blinded by their affection for them?

    I think that's enough of this thread, or as the midwife told your mother "this is going to get ugly".


  • #13
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Oh a new joke thread.

    Op was sooo ugly the midwife slapped his mother.


  • #14
    JoChervil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭JoChervil


    Have you never fallen in love with unattractive person? You are aware that they are but they are "your" unattractive sweetie.

    One of my friends had the most ugly baby I had ever seen. It was really hard to me to find something to complement, when I first saw it. I lost contact with her for years. And I met her accidentally years later with that daughter. Wow! This ugly baby become a beautiful girl.


  • #15
    JoChervil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭JoChervil


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    In all seriousness, I think I am unattractive because I'm too dark skinned. I'd like to use a skin lightener to go a few shades lighter.

    If you really think it's true, tell it to all these "orange" people out there...


  • #16
    JoChervil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭JoChervil


    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"


  • #17
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Mums think their baby is beautiful no matter what they look like, it's built into the brain to make sure the less attractive babies are still cared for.


  • #18
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    tmabr wrote: »
    Looking back at old pics - where they really that fat and dribbly?

    Telling you. If I didn’t have snot caked into my face it wasn’t a photo op


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All babies look roughly the same though?


  • #20
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    JoChervil wrote: »
    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

    You mean in the eye of the beer holder


  • #21
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Deleted User wrote: »
    All babies look roughly the same though?
    that reminds me of the scene from ''the guard'' where one lad ask's the other if he wants to see a picture of his baby and the other lad replies something like ''no sure they all look the same unless one of them is ugly and i don't want to see a picture of an ugly baby''


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  • #22
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'm not sure to be honest.
    I do know some people settle for partners that were below there standards previously. So maybe.


  • #23
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Deleted User wrote: »
    All babies look roughly the same though?

    They used to say in the UK that all babies looked like Winston Churchill...

    Every baby is totally beautiful to its parents... and define "ugly" also? I have never really seen a physically ugly person; each is different is all.


  • #24
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    It’s not even our final form. I recall in pictures I had light blonde, curly clown hair offset by a toxic green whilst a half irani cousin was already sporting sideburns however I became that dark whilst she went on to become a little too hirsute.

    Looked like pennywise in my onesie and all, some contrast.


  • #25
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I miss going to work.


  • #26
    Jonybgud
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Jonybgud


    JoChervil wrote: »
    Have you never fallen in love with unattractive person? You are aware that they are but they are "your" unattractive sweetie.

    One of my friends had the most ugly baby I had ever seen. It was really hard to me to find something to complement, when I first saw it. I lost contact with her for years. And I met her accidentally years later with that daughter. Wow! This ugly baby become a beautiful girl.

    Looking into the cot you could always say 'the blanket's lovely'

    But you're ok yourself, the ugly's on the inside....


  • #27
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Nah, parents are blind to that stuff. Most can't even see that their little shit is a noisy, smelly, unruly little bollix either.

    Some are right though, a lot of babies looks the same (understandably). But the "ugly" ones do indeed stick out, you know, the ones that most other people would say only a mother could love.


  • #28
    teddy_303
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭teddy_303


    :pac:


  • #29
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    JoChervil wrote: »
    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

    And other shibboleths peddled by ugly people.


  • #30
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    No, they haven’t a clue. You get these lumps plopped down on the floor, noses “caked” with snot and chins soaked in slobber but still the new parents are smitten.

    It’s probably an “evolutionary” thing. Their crap isn’t supposed to smell as bad to the parents either.

    My kids are pretty cute but when I look back at some of the early photos they don’t look exactly as I remember. Still cute though.

    I’d say other parents get more of a shock when they seen the “gremlins” they used to fawn over and parade around.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #31
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I have a nephew who is an extremely ugly child. He's so ugly that it upsets me to look at him for too long.

    My absolute waster of a brother had a child with the sort of overweight woman who drinks pints of Bulmers in the worst pub in town on a Tuesday night.

    The resulting monstrosity looks a little bit like that kid in Mad Magazine, only with some uniquely Irish features; the oversized ears, a mouth where it looks like the teeth are trying to get as far away from each other as possible, that deathly pale skin with clusters of yellow freckles, and small beady suspicious eyes.


  • #32
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    ...shibboleths...

    TIL! Completely unnecessary word for it though. Still like it!

    'Male travellers marrying female travellers under the age of 16 is a shibboleth!' (if I understand it correctly)


  • #33
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    TIL! Completely unnecessary word for it though. Still like it!

    'Male travellers marrying female travellers under the age of 16 is a shibboleth!' (if I understand it correctly)

    It's fine in the context I used. It's a belief held by ugly people.

    And I will now shoehorn the word into my next 10 posts just to be stubborn.


  • #34
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    It's fine in the context I used.

    Sorry, I meant it's an unnecessary word in general, and one which really makes no sense unless you know what it means! Couldn't even guess that one tbh.

    But yes, overuse of this word has now ensued.


  • #35
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Sorry, I meant it's an unnecessary word in general, and one which really makes no sense unless you know what it means! Couldn't even guess that one tbh.

    But yes, overuse of this word has now ensued.

    Shibboleth.


  • #36
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    In all seriousness, I think I am unattractive because I'm too dark skinned. I'd like to use a skin lightener to go a few shades lighter.

    In all seriousness, you need to sort your fcuking life out mate.

    Theres 2 options here.

    1. All your threads are genuine, get a professional mental health check.

    2. All your threads are bollox, get a professional mental health check.


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  • #37
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    In all seriousness, you need to sort your fcuking life out mate.

    Theres 2 options here.

    1. All your threads are genuine, get a professional mental health check.

    2. All your threads are bollox, get a professional mental health check.

    His threads are fine, dude. What makes them all the better is how salty they make some of the angry old-timers around here.


  • #38
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Another thing new parents bang on about is that “new baby” smell.

    Sure, it’s there for a, very, short while but after a couple of weeks you just smell piss, old milk and baby vomit.

    Same goes for the house. It’s like having cats.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #39
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    His threads are fine, dude. What makes them all the better is how salty they make some of the angry old-timers around here.

    Yeah youre right, my bad.

    Im a salty c.unt, got a case of da'Cronas!


  • #40
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    My mother has basically told me that I wasn't the best looking. Not in mean way. She just didn't want me getting notions about myself.


  • #41
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    His threads are fine, dude. What makes them all the better is how salty they make some of the angry old-timers around here.

    It bonkers the responses on after hours threads. Sense of humour transplants required.
    Some of the OPs threads are very thought provoking!


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  • #42
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Hoboo wrote: »
    He ain't got **** on iloveyourvibes

    Or that one who’s seen everything, done everything, been everything, just everything everything, G7


  • #43
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Absolutely, but eh what are they gonna do?

    *Put up to adoption*

    Aww now that's just sad. :(


  • #44
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    His threads are fine, dude. What makes them all the better is how salty they make some of the angry old-timers around here.

    That particular poster likes to emerge from the shadows to take potshots at people, especially if they’re backed up by their mates and the moderators.

    My advice is that it’s best to ignore them.


  • #45
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    I'm more surprised that ye folk actually remember the posters names. Only for all the giving out, I wouldn't know Amy from Adam when a topic is posted (nor care!). Some topics I will reply to, others I won't, even if they're not designed to actually discuss the topic at hand, I find if people actually do, it defeats the purpose of the thread to begin with, and may even lead to a good thread!


  • #46
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I'm more surprised that ye folk actually remember the posters names. Only for all the giving out, I wouldn't know Amy from Adam when a topic is posted (nor care!). Some topics I will reply to, others I won't, even if they're not designed to actually discuss the topic at hand, I find if people actually do, it defeats the purpose of the thread to begin with, and may even lead to a good thread!
    I recognise a few people, mainly the ones who like to slither from the gutters they’re living in to have a go at me. I don’t mind but what usually happens is I’ll have a pop back, hand their arse to them and they go telling on teacher (the moderators) to grass me up. Anyway they’re the ones I remember.


  • #47
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    His threads are fine, dude. What makes them all the better is how salty they make some of the angry old-timers around here.

    You'd miss Srameen getting the first dig in, I think it made his day.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #48
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    You'd miss Srameen getting the first dig in, I think it made his day.

    Very strange.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #49
    corks finest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,708 ✭✭✭corks finest


    No such thing as an ugly child


  • #50
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    corks finest wrote: »
    No such thing as an ugly child

    Oh yes there is!


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