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Loved it. I would like to be friends with Ricky Gervais - even though I know he would treat me poorly.

I was born with a genetic deformity that renders me generally "Ugly" to most of the population. It's impossible to miss and it's so glaring and "ugly" to some people that I've been compared to a bug, told I was "gross" and had (quite a few) people tell me they could not imagine me ever getting laid. I still get asked "where's your friend, you know THE GOOD-LOOKING one?" when I go out alone. Because most of my friends happen to be strikingly good-looking whereas I am strikingly ugly. Nice to be reminded every time I'm out. *eye roll*

Yet every single thing you listed as a problem of being pretty was a problem I had (or the flipside of it)

The biggest difference between us in this arena would be that you knew you were pretty and don't tell me there weren't benefits to being pretty - if there are benefits to being consider hideous I am unsure as to what they are. Do you think I didn't occasionally wonder if my friends were really my friends or if they merely hung around me to look good by comparison? (friendship based on looks) Do you think I didn't have a hard time getting men to treat me like a female but not a (desperate) whore? Do you think I never intimidated a man by being so impossible to ignore? Do you think I didn't run into extremely embittered men who made it clear that I was oh-so-lucky to be female because EVEN THOUGH i was ugly as could be I could still get laid but they couldn't?

I understand every point you make - yeah it sucks to be FEMALE in our culture. Any female. And it especially sucks to be physically difficult to ignore - whether that's because of beauty, ugliness or deformity or whatever. However, being all those things because you are beautiful has upsides that the rest of us noticeable people didn't get. Be happy. I'm happy for my very beautiful friends and they are happy I am me. Id' suppose the only real benefit I guess I had was that I always knew how important it was to be beautiful on the inside; I suppose gorgeous people might not grok that so easily.

lol, thanks sifty! 500 sifts and this is how you treat me!

Just try and ignore this *quality!!

Cops = assholes. I know people always try to qualify it with "but not all cops are assholes" but I have yet to have one treat me as though they weren't.

I don't think this is cruel to the cat. I have a cat and he's treats me a lot worse than I treat him. The cat doesn't seem angry or annoyed at all. Just very confused.

I wonder how the owner came up with this though? "Oh, you know what this painting tape would be good for?" (It looks like painting tape to me... the kind you stick on the corners of a wall you don't want to get paint on... usually blue in the US, but hey, things are different in Japan)

I dont know about you, but this is the sexiest clip ever! No matter the context...

Treat me rough! Him, I mean him...

^ are you saying the celts were part of the roman invasion? I thought they predated it. i'm not a history dork, so treat me gently...