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Original poster

to think we can't have someone with such overplucked eyebrows as PM?

135 replies

MardyBra · 09/07/2016 15:13

Come on Andrea, it's not the 90s any more. Seriously we could have the ubergroomed Hillary as US president. We can't have a PM looking like she's more suited to propping up the local golf club bar with her fifth double G&T of the evening.

(Quick breather to say fuck off Daily Mail to make the OP unquotable just in case they take it seriously).

Theresa with her killer cleavage and kitten heels would be much more stylish. Although I seem to remember some outlandish knitwear on more than one occasion.

Disclaimer: not in the least lighthearted.

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MardyBra · 09/07/2016 16:56

"You forgot to put "lighthearted" in the title and or OP Mardy."

I refuse to pander to people lacking in irony.

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MardyBra · 09/07/2016 16:57

I remember the good old days before "lighthearted" was invented.

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ThomasHardyPerennial · 09/07/2016 16:57

Hmm, I'd much rather talk about her terrible clumpy mascara. Get it together Andrea, jeeze!

PreAdvent13610 · 09/07/2016 16:59

Disclaimer: not in the least lighthearted oh no she didn't

TheFairyCaravan · 09/07/2016 17:03

I remember the good old days before "lighthearted" was invented.

I do, too. It was so much better.

ZansForCans · 09/07/2016 17:08

Oh FGS people banged on about Jeremy Corbyn's appearance/style/jackets for months! Dennis Healey, Roy Hattersley, Michael Foot, Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown all had their appearance or aspects of it discussed, or other shallow things like their voice. So it's clearly OK for men. So getting all upset and "I only care about the politics" when it's a woman is a bit, er... sexist.

Discussing someone's eyebrows does not mean you think that's all that matters.

AND it was ironic as OP made clear...

detectiv · 09/07/2016 17:14

All I've picked up about her so far is the kitten heels and the eyebrows.

It's like feminism never happened it didn't

MangoMoon · 09/07/2016 17:33

I'd like to see Theresa May with a nice, non-layered blunt bob.
Perhaps slightly inverted.

The layers age her.

PreAdvent13610 · 09/07/2016 17:45

Politicians have to look the part, talk the part and act the part. Whether they are male, female or asexual and genderless.
Merkel manages all three. Gove failed on most. TM seems to do all three. AL is not looking good on any of them. You don't have to look pretty, you have to look like you are competent and mean business.
It may seem shallow, but humans are. We judge on appearances, very harshly.

MangoMoon · 09/07/2016 17:50

Ruth Davidson & Nicola Sturgeon do it very well, too.

The pair of them are very strident and come across like they are not to be trifled with.

I'm sad that neither of those 2 could be PM tbh, I think they're both great.

PreAdvent13610 · 09/07/2016 17:56

The way things are going I would not rule either of them out of being PM Wink

MangoMoon · 09/07/2016 18:42

Lol - the way things are going I fully believe that they will be the last two still standing!

Idiotxit · 09/07/2016 18:45

I'm only voting for someone with on fleek instabrows.

KickAssAngel · 09/07/2016 18:46

What about Katie Price? Always nicely groomed, AND she won a debate at Oxford Union (or was it Cambridge?) Brains and Beauty - she'd get my vote.

PreAdvent13610 · 09/07/2016 18:49

Good idea kick and she has kids Grin

Idiotxit · 09/07/2016 18:50

There's the end bit of a white loaf on my breadboard that would make a better leader of the Tory party.

mumoseven · 09/07/2016 18:53

I don't think you can have a PM called Andrea. Andreas were always bossy and a bit weirdy tell-tale- tit at school.
Similarly, Theresa was generally swotty, but made a good standby mate when your mate Karen was off school for a few days.

Lorsaidthedean · 09/07/2016 19:55

I was going to call our cat Andrea, but my dh kicked up a fuss and said it was a silly name for a boy cat. Yes, like lemmy is any better.

NotYoda · 09/07/2016 21:10

Mardy made it really obvious this was a parody. Read the OP again

NotYoda · 09/07/2016 21:15

Fairy

I agree. It ruins the flow of a bit of silliness if you have to reassure people you aren't being a twat

VanillaSugar · 09/07/2016 21:33

Andrea Loathsome is two years older than Elizabeth Hurley.

Theresa May wins on the moisturizing front.

KickAssAngel · 09/07/2016 21:47

here we go

I vote rounded for PM.

Straight for education minister.

Arch for foreign minister.

Steep arch for trade minister.

S shape for winning Love Island.

VanillaSugar · 09/07/2016 21:50

What were Hitler's eyebrows like?

NotYoda · 09/07/2016 22:02

HITLER

StickTheDMWhereTheSunDontShine · 09/07/2016 22:04

Did you give any kind of fuck about david cameron's, gordon brown's, tony blair's, john major's eyebrows?

Well, David Cameron does appear to moisturise with vaseline (Shiny Dave), Gordy has rather unruly hair and I never did trust Blair's lightbulb smile, even when he was an ambitious Junior Secretary.