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Original poster

Younger siblings are always more attractive

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AnyWetCuntweaselsInTheFuckerGr · 03/11/2013 19:50

.. and frequently cleverer, funnier and generally more talented.

I am struggling to think of a counter-example from my personal experience.

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TheGinLushMinion · 03/11/2013 23:35

Don't.be.so.fucking.ridiculous.
End.of.
HTH

UserError · 03/11/2013 23:36

I'm the eldest. I'm definitely more intelligent than my sister (she'd agree; it's not just me being big-headed) but she is prettier. My DP agrees she's more conventionally pretty but according to him I have 'something' that makes me more beautiful. I'm not sure whether to believe him as this is the same bloke that thought telling me I had 'thunder thighs' was a compliment...

Thatisall · 03/11/2013 23:37

The Hemsworth brothers. End of conversation.

Ruralninja · 03/11/2013 23:38

well I'm the younger and I'm prettier, more clever, nicer, kinder, funnier, taller, more well balanced, harder-working and an all round good egg. Case closed. And more modest too.

MiniMonty · 04/11/2013 02:55

So Caine was better looking than Able ?

Rosencrantz · 04/11/2013 02:56

Not the case in my family.

NewtRipley · 04/11/2013 02:57

Older and younger siblings are ^different6 from each other. That's all.

NewtRipley · 04/11/2013 02:58

different

NewtRipley · 04/11/2013 03:00

Any

But the solemnity wasn't just down to personality. Probably down to a child who was sati in an uncomfortable situation with one or two (or more) probably anxious adults looking on and assessing how much spinach was going down..

HerRoyalNotness · 04/11/2013 03:16

Now this is quite interesting. My brother, older is quite the ladies man, tall and slim. I'm okay looking. Then I have a younger half brother who is the dogs bollocks and also a younger sister who is pretty but not more so than me. She is just fresher being some 16yrs younger!

For my DC and others I've observed I see the elder looking like the father and the younger like the mother, anyone else noticed this?

Catchhimatwhat · 04/11/2013 05:59

Ok.
Let me think about friends children...
First born better looking.
Equal.
Not sure (all a bit weird looking, sorry).
Second of four best.
First and second of four joint best.
First best but different fathers.
Second best.

I can't decide on lots because how do you compare a 19 year old boy to a 6 year old girl? Or a 7 year old to a newborn?

Oh well, I will send my rulings to the mums on Facebook anyway. I'm sure they'll be interested!

goldopals · 04/11/2013 06:46

I reckon its a lie! I am the oldest of twins and am definitely the smart, attractive one at the moment :)

LoreleisSecret · 04/11/2013 06:56

My youngest son is better looking than my eldest although they are both utterly gorgeous ofc.

Iam the younger sister. My sister has a beautiful face that she plasters with makeup but is naturally big like our mother. She has a wonderful ability with people. And big boobs.

I got the figure, our dad's humour and am smarter. But I got our dad's chin Confused and no boobs.

SeeYouNT · 04/11/2013 09:45

what i want to know though is what about children with different dads? does that make any difference??

i have 2 with different dads, and am pg with #3 with same dad as the middle one.

so does this theory only count for siblings with the same mum and dad?

BerstieSpotts · 04/11/2013 09:49

Well, younger children are "cuter" than older children because they have faces which are closer to babies' faces which we are programmed to find cute.

I think I'm far better looking than my little sister Wink As kids she was way cuter though. Probably because when I was 6 she was still 3 and adorable.

ladyantigone · 04/11/2013 09:50

Very much not the case in our families!
We are both elder siblings, and our younger ones are not better looking or cleverer: however, they are both far far more outgoing and self-centred. Really sociable and great with people. Not very genuine. I put that down to their birth order. You get so much more indulgence as a youngest sibling, it makes sense that you learn how to use it.

SeeYouNT · 04/11/2013 09:55

Well, younger children are "cuter" than older children because they have faces which are closer to babies' faces which we are programmed to find cute

oh deffo my 4 yo still looks like a baby in the face but i reckon when my new baby comes along she will suddenly look really grown up next to her :(

DismemberedDwerf · 04/11/2013 09:56

I'm the older of two.

My sister is prettier, got all the common sense and is slimmer. But I'm taller, more intelligent and wittier.

If we were one person, we'd be absolutely spot-on. Clearly, there was too much awesome for my parents to have just one child, so they had two and the awesomeness was shared out fairly equally Grin

Taffeta · 04/11/2013 09:57

I don't agree that younger siblings get more indulgence. Certainly with mine, the second had been more or less roundly ignored as her elder brother is such hard work. I think a lot of PFBs get more attention, and therefore indulgence.

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AnyWetCuntweaselsInTheFuckerGr · 04/11/2013 10:06

My Pnot-FB got the shitty end of the stick re: careful parenting - but I think that might have been more than made up for by sibling attention.

We have always had enough food etc to go around - but with each subsequent child there is a little more love to share. and Haribo to share .

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AnyWetCuntweaselsInTheFuckerGr · 04/11/2013 10:09

... But maybe youngers are born anticipating having to compete for scarce food etc ....

IIRC there are definitely womb differences linked to birth order - eg the thing about how later-born boys have lower testosterone - presumably to give a better chance for a large band of brothers to live harmoniously and accept being bossed around by the eldest .

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lljkk · 04/11/2013 10:35

DH thinks our middle lad is handsomest, doesn't fit any theory.
Middle boy also the most obnoxious, high strung, aggressive (still doesn't fit any theory).

VoiceofRaisin · 04/11/2013 10:48

Later babies (2nd, 3rd born etc) tend to be slightly bigger (on average) which is a marker of better uterine nutrition and health.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3260664

Looks are (partly) judged on symmetry which is a also a marker of health and good uterine nutrition so it seems plausible that (on average, and probably not by much) younger children will be better looking than the first born.

It will not help if posters jump in with couterexamples - "I know 10 families where the younger child is less attractive" or "well my second baby was smaller than my first" - as there will still be an awful lot of families where this is not true!

womblingalong · 04/11/2013 10:55

My oldest is properly ravishingly beautiful, my youngest is very handsome, but not quite as drop dead gorgeous as my oldest.

OTH, my younger sister is stop traffic pretty and I am average.

So YABU, it varies.

WhereIsMyHat · 04/11/2013 11:41

Well, I'm the eldest but my brother is a different gender so it's hard to judge. Academically I'm probably stronger but looks wise it's hard to judge.