Babies B and C look *freakishly* like the babies in my extended family, including my own two.
Except (one presumes) for the baby about to be born to my non-white cousin and his non-white wife -- which leads to the question:
Only white babies are cute? I'm guessing that their skin color is "nude," too.
(I know, I know, it was a research thingie and no one's saying that non-white babies aren't cute, blah fucking blah. But when I thought about the babies in my family and was suddenly reminded of my cousin's baby-to-be, I struck by the absence of BOC. And I'll tell you what: That baby is going to be HELLA cute).
The cuteness is about proportion. C and A have very proportional faces. B and D both have more space (cheek) between their eyes and their jaws. B has beady eyes and D's face is more rectangular than the others.
@SarahMC: You're basically right- there was one "cute" girl and one "cute" boy and one "less-cute" of each gender...I was the one who sent in the tip for this story, so I feel all proud that they actually used it, even though it's all kinds of weird (which was the reason I sent it in in the first place).
I know that the story of the Miss World contestant is pretty sobering, but when looking at her photo from the accompanying article, all I could think about was how cool it was that she didn't shave her legs. I'm terrible like that, sometimes.
Aww, old man dancing. Good thing he made it home OK. It's hard to get cuter than an octoagenarian in his fanciest suit cutting a rug because he's just in such good spirits.
I don't think that the schoolgirl ban is fair; the hair colour may not be 'natural', but it also isn't a shade unknown to the human hair palette, and their dye-jobs look relatively well done.
After a brief foray into brunette-dom in seventh form, a girl in my dorm attempted to help me restore my locks to their previous, natural blonde glory. Emphasis on 'attempted'. The end result was that my hair ended up brittle, with varying shades (or highlights, if you will!) of orange, yellow, and white. Although traumatised, I returned the first day of school with my hair tucked into a bun to hide the worst parts. I lasted only a period before our sadistic deputy principal pulled me aside between classes to tell me that my hair colour was unacceptable, and that it had to change a.s.a.p.
Given that my hair's colour wasn't technically natural, I wouldn't have minded the rebuke so much, if not for all the other schoolgirls with the brunette-gone-orange and ginger-gone-black manes passing us by as she was telling me off.
I realize Men's Health has different criteria, but my all-time worst food had to be when I tried a box of Tofu Helper that I picked up at my food co-op in college. It was cheap and I had tofu and was hungry, yet that stuff was so shiteous that mere words cannot describe the level of awfulness.
I drank the rest of my fifth of cheap vodka to wash the taste out of my mouth and gave the entire mess to my dog, who would eat her own crap but wouldn't eat that.
@Gretchen: I had a similar experience with 'instant' Hamburger Helper. I took some out when I was hiking the Appalachian Trail, and let me tell you, I was STARVING and I still couldn't even swallow the first bite.
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But um D is still definitely the cutest.
Apparently I'm not a real woman. But I reckon that everyone has their own ideas about what makes a cute face.
Fuck off, pseudo-science!
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Except (one presumes) for the baby about to be born to my non-white cousin and his non-white wife -- which leads to the question:
Only white babies are cute? I'm guessing that their skin color is "nude," too.
(I know, I know, it was a research thingie and no one's saying that non-white babies aren't cute, blah fucking blah. But when I thought about the babies in my family and was suddenly reminded of my cousin's baby-to-be, I struck by the absence of BOC. And I'll tell you what: That baby is going to be HELLA cute).
Also: All babies are beautiful.
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After a brief foray into brunette-dom in seventh form, a girl in my dorm attempted to help me restore my locks to their previous, natural blonde glory. Emphasis on 'attempted'. The end result was that my hair ended up brittle, with varying shades (or highlights, if you will!) of orange, yellow, and white. Although traumatised, I returned the first day of school with my hair tucked into a bun to hide the worst parts. I lasted only a period before our sadistic deputy principal pulled me aside between classes to tell me that my hair colour was unacceptable, and that it had to change a.s.a.p.
Given that my hair's colour wasn't technically natural, I wouldn't have minded the rebuke so much, if not for all the other schoolgirls with the brunette-gone-orange and ginger-gone-black manes passing us by as she was telling me off.
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I drank the rest of my fifth of cheap vodka to wash the taste out of my mouth and gave the entire mess to my dog, who would eat her own crap but wouldn't eat that.
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