Unattractive kids less liked by parents, study shows

[Evo]

I've never heard of a good-looking couple that produced an ugly child.

I have and I've seen ugly parents with attractive offspring. Also siblings can look as different as night and day, one ugly and one beautiful. It's a crapshoot.

And how many people would be able to eat squash through a picket fence without having spent years with braces on their teeth?

 

[Huckleberry]

And how many people would be able to eat squash through a picket fence without having spent years with braces on their teeth?

Took me a second to get the full visual effect on that. I've heard variations on that joke, but somehow reading it made a much more distinct visual image.

 

[ShawnD]

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Maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Instead of saying "cute kids get more attention", what if it's "attention whores are cuter"?

It's the difference between saying "ugly people are more likely to be meth addicts" and "meth addicts are ugly people". The ugliness was not a cause; it was an effect.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Eat squash through a picket fence?

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have and I've seen ugly parents with attractive offspring.

Did you just call your parents ugly?

 

[Moonbear]

Eat squash through a picket fence?

That's a new one to me too.

 

[ShawnD]

And how many people would be able to eat squash through a picket fence without having spent years with braces on their teeth?

I can't figure out what this is implying... is it some old time pre-1960's slang, or is it something sexual?

 

[Huckleberry]

I can't figure out what this is implying... is it some old time pre-1960's slang, or is it something sexual?

It means their teeth stick straight out and this enables them to chew things inbetween the narrow fence posts.

I think I first heard this joke from Jeff Foxworthy. "You know you're a redneck when..."

 

[ShawnD]

It's confusing because the sentence seems to imply that braces make your teeth stick out.

 

[Evo]

It means their teeth stick straight out and this enables them to chew things inbetween the narrow fence posts.

I think I first heard this joke from Jeff Foxworthy. "You know you're a redneck when..."

Little Betty Jo Bobbie Sue was so bucktoothed she could eat squash through a picket fence. Of course in this case "squash" would be pronounced "squarsh".

 

[Evo]

It's confusing because the sentence seems to imply that braces make your teeth stick out.

Oh, sorry, that could be read wrong. Ok, rephrased "And how many people would be able to eat squash through a picket fence if they hadn't spent years with braces on their teeth?

Make more sense now? Maybe?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I was so ugly as a kid that when I was born, the doctor took one look at me and slapped my mother.

 

[JamesU]

I was so ugly as a kid that when I was born, the doctor took one look at me and slapped my mother.

should've slapped your father. (they're his genes too)

 

[Jason]

Evo,

Ugly parents with good-looking kids ain't exactly uncommon. Though, good-looking parents with ugly kids, is rare from what I've seen. Good-looking people produce good-looking offspring. Though there are ugly duckling cases. In which a person was an unattractive kid, and teenager, but grew up to be a very attractive adult.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

The researchers independently graded each child on a scale of one to 10 on attractiveness.

I can't believe that this report sparked a discussion on whether attractiveness is subjective. It seems not to have sparked such discussion among the researchers. Apparently they never took it upon themselves to ask the parents what they thought of the kids.