"I truly think my friendship difficulties with pretty women stem from my challenging them with words or reasoning, instead of just falling in line with the power dynamic they try to exert."
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from Bookmarklet
Well, it was boring. Something about traveling with her crazy friends.
- anna sauce
I don't really understand how her first example fits in with her premise. Weird. If she'd exchanged pretty women with popular people, I could have given her a pass but the article would still suck.
- pea
Or maybe her problem is that she's a bitch.
- Richard Lawler
What is this, some iReport or whatever? Wait... nope. Just sounded like one.
- Kamilah Gill
+1 Anika. I was all ready to hate on some pretty people but the article failed to deliver.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am so sorry you all were disappointed that the article did not provide a logical, lucid argument for why hating pretty people is acceptable. I shall endeavour to find one for you.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Oh good. Cuz I got tired of looking on my own. ;-)
- pea
I would take the woman with great personality and three cats every time.
- Kevin J Hatton
LOL @Mark and Daniel. I was just curious as to how this person was going to write an article on why pretty people are petty. It's a stupid premise. I'm just jealous they got paid to write that crap. I can write something equally vapid and not get a dime for it.
- Admiral Anika
Oh, and picture the flip: a supermodel writes an article on why it's hard being friends with normal-looking people. How many people would come down hard on a model writing something so incredibly stupid? Or how about the fact that I've had falling outs with 2 white girls. Could I write an article on how being friends with white girls is hard? Should I?
- Admiral Anika
It reads as jealousy. Someone behaving the way she describes has nothing to do with beauty. Besides, all of us are beautiful in some way, so it's sad she categorizes herself as "normal looking." What in the world is that? Ugghhh...this article bugged me.
- Shevonne
i'm also wondering where this lady hangs out. I mean, she's a "3 out of 10" - do you rate yourself That way? Do your friends? Are looks all that matter? What about the crazy factor, of which you have plent. More importantly, who is her editor so I can pitch her some of my weird rantings and get paid?
- anna sauce
@anna Exactly! Who the hell is her editor?
- Shevonne
I was annoyed by this article for all the reasons already stated more eloquently by Anika and Shevonne. In my observation beauty brings with it both benefits and burdens, and can evoke everything from jealousy to stupidity in others. Like many other traits it absolutely has an impact on our relationships and our behavior. Our society has a weird, schizoid relationship with beauty that I've long been fascinated by.
- Anthony Citrano
"A series of extraordinary photos show a rare white tiger lunging into water at feeding time to fight for food. Female photographer Birte Person captured the astonishing shots of the white Bengal tiger as it ate with five others at a zoo in Singapore. White tigers are almost extinct and most of those that survive are in captivity. In the past century only 12 have been seen in the wild. The white tiger is neither an albino nor a separate subspecies. They are born to a Bengal tiger, or Panthera tigris, that has the recessive gene needed for white colouring. This happens naturally once in every 10,000 births and results in a tiger with white fur, black stripes, blue eyes and a pink nose."
- RAPatton
Kitty loves a good swim! Stunning photos.
- rowlikeagirl
The second shot shows so clearly the power and danger of these cats. Beautiful.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Oh I just watched a TED about the white tiger. A lot of the cubs are killed because they are deformed or unsellable. It's really sad...but these are cool pictures.
- Anna Lynn M.
"Authorities are calling a hoax rumors spread by text messages and the Internet that gangs will carry out violent initiations at area Wal-Mart stores. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office has received text messages that gangs plan to attack women and children shopping at Wal-Mart as part of a gang initiation rite — even though there is no Wal-Mart located in the jurisdiction of the agency. The closest Wal-Marts are in Oakland and San Leandro. Sheriff's spokesman J.D. Nelson dismissed the story, also being circulated on the Internet, saying that such rumors pop up periodically and have always been a hoax. The details and locations vary, he said, but "every single one of them have been unfounded." Oakland police Capt. Tony Rachal said that as a precaution, police will have periodic patrols going by the Wal-Mart in Oakland. Such urban legends seem to have begun in about 2005 with threats that gangs would target shoppers at big-box stores such as Wal-Mart from Washington, D.C., to Colorado. In each case, no"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
There is perhaps no greater attack upon science and rational thought than the doctrine of a recent creation. Young earth creationists deny much of astronomy, geology, biology, paleontology, chemistry, linguistics, geomorphology and physics in favor of pseudoscience and their biblically based view that the world is more or less only 6,000 years old. This article presents some of the reasons why we know that the world is not "young".
- Alejandro
Gregory: That would require the existence of an actual existent infinity, which I don't think is coherent.
- Tanath
People do seem to have an almost irrational love for these little things. I have my own theories as to why, which I'll be posting as part of my "World of Netbooks" series of articles soon. Not that I'm trying to be a tease, but I don't have it written yet, and it's too complex to explain in a FF comment. ;-)
- Josh Bancroft