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AIBU?

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Original poster

Calling pedants, teachers, wordsmiths and class warriors.

469 replies

shylock · 14/03/2007 08:22

I have a question.

OP posts:
potoroo · 14/03/2007 12:11

Well I read somewhere that Eurasion people are considered the most attractive because they are attractive to both Asians and Caucasians, the two groups together making up the majority of the population. Or something equally scientific.

Therefore I feel justified in saying that my (Eurasian) children are beautiful and everyone else must be ugly.

How's that for political (in)correctness?

Anna8888 · 14/03/2007 12:11

Yes, beautiful apartment, beautiful daughter, gorgeous partner, lovely furniture, etc

We speak French mostly though.

Anna8888 · 14/03/2007 12:10

I said: no value judgements. Beauty makes ME happy (and lots of people I know) and therefore I encourage it around me.

If ugliness makes YOU happy - so be it.

MrsBadger · 14/03/2007 12:09

ROFL at thought of Anna8888's life in her beautiful house in a beautiful town with beautiful children and beautiful husband who all speak beautiful English. Sounds lovely.

Feel free to come round here when you need to do ugly useful things like supermarket shopping, having the car MOT'd, taking the DCs to A&E with mystery rashes and taking your old and no longer perfectly beautiful sofa to the tip.

AitchYouBerk · 14/03/2007 12:08

anna you are a card, really you are. ae you a namechanger or have you just appeared, fully formed and ready to rock MN?

Molesworth · 14/03/2007 12:08

So ugly can be good then Anna?

AitchYouBerk · 14/03/2007 12:07

not for me. i got a headache by page 5. i really don't like wading through piles of passive.

Anna8888 · 14/03/2007 12:07

No, you are all being "thick". Nowhere did I say beauty = good, ugly = bad. That's what you chose to read into what I said. I did not make a value judgement.

zippitippitoes · 14/03/2007 12:06

ah now I think that is a brilliant book

AitchYouBerk · 14/03/2007 12:06

HATE james kelman's writing. hate it.

Soapbox · 14/03/2007 12:05

Anna - you are clearly not just displaying ugly behaviour but also being obtrusive/deliberately thick!

zippitippitoes · 14/03/2007 12:05

how come shakespeare and his contemporaries haven't put in an appearance?

or burns

or books like how late it was how late

or even the canterbury tales

when talking about language and beauty

snowleopard · 14/03/2007 12:03

Not "defending ugliness" - pointing out that what is ugly is largely, if not completely, subjective (though of course to just what extent still scientifically debatable).

If you think all of what I've been saying boils down to "defending ugliness", you certainly don't have a scientific mind yourself.

NotQuiteCockney · 14/03/2007 12:02

[ignoring Anna8888's last post, re: ugly children etc]

Anna8888 · 14/03/2007 12:00

soapbox - a lot of people have expended a lot of energy in this discussion defending ugliness. What is rude about saying that that is OK for them (but not for me)?

NotQuiteCockney · 14/03/2007 12:00

Huh? That book appears to be about dating and sex, not art and accents. Confused

AitchYouBerk · 14/03/2007 12:00

i have a bastard husband who speaks ugly english, does that count?

Soapbox · 14/03/2007 11:59

Anna - that is actually quite hurtful to a lot of posters on this site.

It really is beyond rude

It is highly regrettable that your definition of beauty does not encompass inner good. To act and behave in a way to others that considers that everyone may not have been dealt the same hand in life.

Really - you should be thoroughly ashamed of youself - it is rare to see such UGLY behaviour on MN!

KathyMCMLXXII · 14/03/2007 11:58

Awww, I love my ugly children.

snowleopard · 14/03/2007 11:58

I don't know why but the thought of the ugly and ill-spoken husband to top it all off just makes me PMSL.

My wonky man does make me happy Anna!
(And is incredibly tolerant about the affairs)

MrsBadger · 14/03/2007 11:58

pukka science review

AitchYouBerk · 14/03/2007 11:57

R
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F
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welcome to MN, anna.

Molesworth · 14/03/2007 11:57

You're hilarious Anna8888, thanks for the laugh!

Anna8888 · 14/03/2007 11:55

Look, we are all free to read and believe what we want. I happen to attach great importance to the contribution of beauty to human happiness, and ugliness to human misery.

If you all love living in ugly slummy houses in ugly towns with ugly children and ugly husbands who speak bastardised English, all well and good. Wouldn't make me or anyone I know very happy.

snowleopard · 14/03/2007 11:55

Nah too busy with thoughts of Bernard.

Shit I really do have to do some work, much as it pains me to tear myself away.