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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: franksolich on February 19, 2009, 09:15:32 PM
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I've had a long day, and so am hitting the sack soon, but I won't be able to sleep until I get this off my chest.
I had lunch today with a blonde chick, because I was curious about her recent weekend trip to Oklahoma.
She was not appreciative of the physical qualities of Oklahomans; she had never been down there before, and was harshly startled at how unaesthetic they appeared to her.
I've never been to Oklahoma myself, but of course in college met lots and lots of Oklahomans, not finding anything especially unappealing about them, other than that the women, like women from Texas, tend to wear their hair too high up in the front, and it's a turn-off, at least to me.
I reminded her that, actually, our judgement is distorted, because people from the upper Great Plains states--North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas--tend to be the most normal-looking people in America, the standard against which all others are compared.
I've had quite a few more worldly experiences, and seen more of the world, than she has seen thus far, and I think I'm being eminently fair in saying that.
We here are the most normal-looking people in the world.
Yeah, sure, we have our human grotesquities and monstrosities, a few Fat Ches grossly obese, a few Lil Avas chin-challenged, a few subway cats cleanliness-absent, a few Bostonian Drunkards flaccid and flabby and boryborygmous, a few dwarves and hunchbacks, things like that, but not many.
When I lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, I couldn't help but notice the discrepancies, discrepancies in just about every aspect of appearance, are considerably greater, wider, than they are of we normal-looking people.
And of course I've spent much time in the states of New England.
A much greater variation.
It's sort of difficult to describe "normal-looking;" I guess a close one would be "where all parts are in neat proportion to all other parts." Legs and arms the right length, heads the right size, those sorts of things.
Not much variation between us, in the Upper Great Plains states.
And this of course includes Hispanics, circa 15% of the population, and blacks, circa 2% of the population. Even those of Vietnamese or Azerbaijani derivation are normal-looking, nothing askew or distorted.
It must be the molding effects of the climate.
This is why we're legendary--there's always been plenty of newspaper stories about the phenomenon--for recognizing each other in blue-city crowds or faraway places, such as the top of Mount Everest or in the middle of the Amazon jungle, even if we haven't ever met each other before.
Essentially, if some stranger looks normal, the odds are pretty good he's from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, or Kansas.
This is not to disparage physical characteristics of other people--no way--but simply to point out something.
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We here are the most normal-looking people in the world.
Have you seen a DUmmie picture thread? :stirpot:
They walk among us.
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To me dark haired dark skinned people are normal looking. A vast majority in this area are of Italian descent. When we lived in NY it was the same. We lived in Iowa a while and I thought everyone out there looked kind of weird. So many blonds with fair skin, small noses, taller and thinner there too. Where my family lives in Kentucky many of the people have pinched skinny faces with light eyes(Scott/Irish and English mostly). A lot of them have really dark skin too. Some are dark haired and thick features. Many come from native America ancestry even if they refuse to admit it. A lot of Melungeons there (including my family). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
I have to say the most startlingly different faces I have seen in America were in Central Tennessee. There were a ton of ginger kids and adults there. I don't think there are more than 3 gingers in my kid's entire school.
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To me dark haired dark skinned people are normal looking. A vast majority in this area are of Italian descent. When we lived in NY it was the same. We lived in Iowa a while and I thought everyone out there looked kind of weird. So many blonds with fair skin, small noses, taller and thinner there too. Where my family lives in Kentucky many of the people have pinched skinny faces with light eyes(Scott/Irish and English mostly). A lot of them have really dark skin too. Some are dark haired and thick features. Many come from native America ancestry even if they refuse to admit it. A lot of Melungeons there (including my family). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
I have to say the most startlingly different faces I have seen in America were in Central Tennessee. There were a ton of ginger kids and adults there. I don't think there are more than 3 gingers in my kid's entire school.
that's cause they are all related to each other and marry first cousins! :-) :tongue:
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I don't think there are more than 3 gingers in my kid's entire school.
Any Maryanne's? :tongue:
WTH is a "ginger"? Seriously, I've never heard of this. I'm starting to feel really bland.
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http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/01/international-ginger-kids-foundation.html
Everything you ever needed to know about gingers.
BTW, I am in fact a ginger.
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http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/01/international-ginger-kids-foundation.html
BTW, I am in fact a ginger.
WHAT?....You're not an "Indigo" or at least a "Crystal"?....We're all praying for you... :-)
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I've always kind of been an odd girl out wherever I was. When I was growing up in Miami it was dyed bleach blond on the beach or Latinas. Well, I looked more like a Latina since I was short and had dark features, but my skin was light by comparison.
Now I live in the midwest and all the women seem to be tall and, for the most part, lightish hair color. I am a short, dinky little auburn haired girl in a mass of long, light Northern European looking women. At my gym, in the group I hang with, I am the shortest by about 3 inches at least. :-)
I guess what I'm saying is in some ways I'm such a mutt, I have a hard time finding a group of people that I think I 'look like'. I do find it interesting when I'm in an area where you can tell there was less 'variation' and people do resemble one another, at least with their very basic features. I see that up here when it comes to height and build with regards to women. It's just interesting to see genetics in action in that way.
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WHAT?....You're not an "Indigo" or at least a "Crystal"?....We're all praying for you... :-)
I'm and indigo redneck ginger. :-)
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Magical hair-weave of power stops bullet. (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Magical_hair-weave_of_power_stops_bullet&in_article_id=548845&in_page_id=2)
A woman survived a bullet fired at her head - after it got tangled up in her hair weave.
The 20-year-old woman, from Kansas City, was uninjured after he ex-boyfriend allegedly shot at her the car park of a convenience store.
She told police that she was in her car at around 11.25pm when a man flagged her down. When she stopped, the man told her that her ex-boyfriend still loved her.
Her pithy reply - 'Well, I don't love him' - was greeted with gunshots which shattered her rear windscreen. She says that she saw her ex firing a handgun at her, and promptly floored the accelerator.
After escaping, she called police - who extracted a bullet from her hairpiece.
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Magical hair-weave of power stops bullet. (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Magical_hair-weave_of_power_stops_bullet&in_article_id=548845&in_page_id=2)
woah! There are times it pays to be ghetto I guess...this was one of them. :lmao:
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You know, I've lived or worked in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming and Utah. I've visted Austria, Florida, Alabama, Connecticut, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Colorado, Missouri, and Washington (state.) I can't recall ever thinking that most of the people looked....different. :clueless: There may be different mixes, more African-Americans, more Hispanics, more Orientals...and the clothing can change quite a bit...but the people are just people. :clueless:
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I think the people here in D.C. are uglier than in Texa, Oklahoma and the South in general. :tongue:
My husband is an Okie. He looks pretty normal to me. Although he's a native mutt like most of the state. There are a lot of natives hispanics in that part of the country. More so than where I grew up. That's what I notice when I'm there.