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The hotness police at BeautifulPeople.com have reportedly booted off 3,000 ugly folk, telling them "their looks no longer come up to the rigorous standards expected". The site, which helps people looking for love who love themselves meet other people looking for love who love themselves, periodically reviews the suitability of …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

    And I was lead to believe the standards were high. Doesn't look like she was anywhere near the front of the queue when the beauty gene was being handed out and after reading her statement I would hazard a tentative guess that she was probably first in line for the dumb blonde gene.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      Concur. Dunno about the acute blondness gene, but the hollowness gene for sure. There are people which you just look at and your first thought is: "Is there anything inside?". That look fits the bill 100%.

      1. The Vociferous Time Waster

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        Still would though

    2. MrT

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      Is that her, ahem, "professional" name?

    3. h4rm0ny

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      And here come the usual parade of people needing to disparage the looks of someone who is generally considered attractive to make themselves sound superior. Or if it is not possible to disparage their looks, to make unsupported claims about how they must be shallow or dumb. Because as we all know, you only get a couple of good qualities when you're born and if you choose looks or popularity, you must also be stupid or shallow.

      Don't like the site, don't join. Don't like that they turn away people who don't meet their standards? Same is true when I interview someone for a job (or am interviewed). Different people want different things from a partner. What is wrong with specialist dating sites in principle?

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        And here's me thinking M[rs] * Lynn disparaged first.

        * Regex.

        1. h4rm0ny

          Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

          >>And here's me thinking M[rs] * Lynn disparaged first. * Regex.

          How so? I haven't seen her disparaging the looks of anybody here. Claiming some sort of first strike from her seems unsupported. Also, your regex will lead to a lot of false positives. Try the far less exciting but accurate "Mrs|Miss|Ms".

          1. Dan 55 Silver badge

            Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

            S?[Hh]e said that, “If the management failed to maintain the quality of the site by polluting the gene pool, most members would leave" which is pre-emptive disparagement.

            I know my regex, S?[Hh]e's not going to slip one past me.

            1. h4rm0ny

              Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

              >>"I know my regex, S?[Hh]e's not going to slip one past me."

              Unfortunately for you, it's rather too late as you already attempted to be clever with your first regex and messed it up (a very simple Mrs / Miss / Ms) that included an infinite set of false positives. Normally it's not that important but given that this thread is mainly people making unsupported statements about the intelligence of people they don't know, I figured I might as well point out some of the flaws.

              As to "pre-emptive disparagement". Not really convinced. People are making lots of insults of the intelligence, personality and looks of people they've never even met and you're attempting to say she started it by being a member of a club. Has she come here and made personal attacks such as people here are doing? Has she turned down any of the posters here and said they're not good enough to be members? I don't think either is true and I don't see being a member of a specialist dating site constitutes attacks on people here who may or may not be members. It's not like El. Reg has been targeted and told we're not good enough for the club.

              1. Dan 55 Silver badge

                Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                I was going for two possible matches. I'm sure you'll get it eventually.

                1. h4rm0ny
                  Facepalm

                  Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                  >>You were trying to add a footnote to your regular expression weren't you? Except you actually turned your regular expression into a different one! Muppet! I should have realized what you meant.

                  But really, didn't it occur to you that you'd just written a completely different expression by putting an asterisk on the end? It's not like anyone wouldn't have known what you meant! :D

                  1. G Watty What?

                    Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                    You didn't realise the * was for the footnote?

                    Careful now, that horse is pretty high, climbing off maybe difficult! Muppet* **

                    * There is no regex in this message :)

                    ** Apologies for the insult but as you'd said it already, I couldn't resist. I only mean it in jest, I am sure your a nice person really and not a [Mp]uppet***

                    *** There was some Regex there but the *** was not part of it.

                    1. h4rm0ny

                      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                      >>"You didn't realise the * was for the footnote?"

                      That is correct. When I see a regular expression with an asterisk on the end, I read it as part of the expression. Natural enough, I would have thought. Anyway, my mistake I suppose. I tend to put regex's on their own line in a post. Or use delimiters.

                      >>** Apologies for the insult but as you'd said it already, I couldn't resist. I only mean it in jest, I am sure your a nice person really and not a [Mp]uppet***

                      No offense intended. And I did use the term first so it is fair to return it to me. Not sure about the nice person or not (I seem to provoke extreme opinions on the subject) but I do admit when I am wrong. ;)

                      I'm going to maintain that putting an asterisk on the end of a regular expression is darn silly, however! ;)

                      1. Benchops

                        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                        > When I see a regular expression with an asterisk on the end, I read it as part of the expression.

                        There was clearly a space before the '*' which means it would match

                        Mr

                        Ms

                        Mr␣

                        Ms␣

                        Mr␣␣

                        Ms␣␣

                        ...

                        in fact to express it succinctly,

                        M[rs] *

                    2. The First Dave

                      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

                      Of course not: in that context * has a meaning within the Regex, but neither †

                      nor ‡ do, conversely both of the latter are well-known as being mainly used for footnotes, while * has about a billion different meanings.

                2. Jedit Silver badge
                  Joke

                  "I was going for two possible matches. I'm sure you'll get it eventually."

                  What's the difference between BeautifulPeople.com and EpilepticPeople.com?

                  One has members taking fits...

                  1. LucreLout
                    Coffee/keyboard

                    Re: "I was going for two possible matches. I'm sure you'll get it eventually." @Jedit

                    What's the difference between BeautifulPeople.com and EpilepticPeople.com?

                    One has members taking fits...

                    This deserves way more upvotes than it's getting. Funniest thing I've read all day.

          2. G Watty What?

            Can't we all just agree regex is beautiful?

            I don't get it....won't M[rs] match:

            Mr

            Ms

            I maybe wrong, happy to be corrected. Was your beef with the 'Mr' match?

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        h4rm0ny, so which bit of not wanting to share a lift with someone because they may not be as perfect as you and your friends think they are do you find not to be shallow or rather dumb.

        1. h4rm0ny

          Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

          >>"h4rm0ny, so which bit of not wanting to share a lift with someone because they may not be as perfect as you and your friends think they are do you find not to be shallow or rather dumb."

          I don't see that it relates to intelligence at all. I have been stuck on a plane next to some large and unpleasant people and not liked it but my dislike has not stemmed from intelligence or lack of. It's a matter of preference uninformed by that. As to shallow, no, I don't think that's true either. Shallow would be if I only cared about that criteria. Having it as a criteria amongst others does not make one shallow.

          What one is attracted to or seeks in a romantic partner is not all that defines somebody. There are a lot of interesting or complicated people who have a wide range of talents, interests or work that makes them fascinating. If I find that a writer or director or scientist who's work I find fascinating or has interesting views on things happens to like physical qualities X or Y in their sexual partners, I don't immediately call that person shallow. Nor should you. But that is what you are doing here, if you think about it.

      3. Robert E A Harvey

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        >usual parade of people needing to disparage the looks of someone

        I rather think that anyone who puts their head above this particular parapet is fair game for gettting shot at.

        1. h4rm0ny

          Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

          >>"I rather think that anyone who puts their head above this particular parapet is fair game for gettting shot at."

          Why? They didn't ask to be featured on an international IT news website.

          1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

            Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

            They didn't ask to be featured on an international IT news website.

            Perhaps you should consult your dictionary on the customary meaning of the phrase "press release".

      4. Goldmember

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        "What is wrong with specialist dating sites in principle?"

        Nothing, I suppose. Each to their own, and all that. Putting aside the comments of the girl in the picture and taking the view of the airheads who frequent such a site, she isn't all that hot. Sure, caked in makeup and with the professional (or decent amateur) shot plus possible retouching she looks moderately attractive in the photo, but take all that away and she's just plain. I imagine she's no beauty first thing in the morning.

        But she talks of herself as though she's a stunner, and has completely set herself up for scrutiny. That's what I take issue with.

      5. Loyal Commenter Silver badge

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        Because as we all know, you only get a couple of good qualities when you're born and if you choose looks or popularity, you must also be stupid or shallow.

        I think it's more a case of, if you judge people solely by their looks, then you are 'stupid or shallow'. Stupid, because people have no choice over the looks they are born with, and shallow, because when it comes to the vast number of attributes that a person may possess, their looks are a single one.

        Judging people based on their appearance would appear to be the sole function of this site, so it is reasonable to conclude that the users are, in fact, quite likely to be stupid and shallow individuals.

        The featured individual's reference to 'polluting the gene pool' also smacks rather of eugenics, which doesn't exactly endear her to me.

      6. NumptyScrub

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        Don't like the site, don't join. Don't like that they turn away people who don't meet their standards? Same is true when I interview someone for a job (or am interviewed). Different people want different things from a partner. What is wrong with specialist dating sites in principle?

        The horribly grey area involving bigotry / discrimination legislation, IMO. If they specialise in interests or activities then fair enough, but when they specialise purely in physical characteristics, it does start to skirt dangerously close to existing discrimination legislation.

        Or if it is not possible to disparage their looks, to make unsupported claims about how they must be shallow or dumb.

        Regarding Ms. Lynn, then I am perfectly happy judging her purely on her words:

        “If the management failed to maintain the quality of the site by polluting the gene pool, most members would leave. ... It would make BeautifulPeople just like every other dating site – full of the kind of people you wouldn’t want to share an elevator with, let alone date.”

        It is only 2 sentences, but I think there are enough hints in there to gauge the depth of her character, at least superficially.

        1. h4rm0ny

          Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

          >>"The horribly grey area involving bigotry / discrimination legislation, IMO. If they specialise in interests or activities then fair enough, but when they specialise purely in physical characteristics, it does start to skirt dangerously close to existing discrimination legislation"

          No it doesn't. Not unless the government has started to mandate who we are attracted to. (They haven't, have they?)

      7. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

        Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

        What is wrong with specialist dating sites in principle?

        What is wrong with mocking them, on principle?

        Also, of course, people who pronounce themselves beautiful are opening the door for disparagement.1 And they're guilty of a category error, since while some aspects of physical attractiveness seem to be cross-cultural (e.g. facial symmetry), beauty is largely evaluated on subjective grounds that are highly culturally inflected. The pictures I found claiming to be of Lynn don't meet my standards, and I'd guess the same would be true of many of their members. There's no reason they should care about that, but having pronounced themselves beautiful according to some arbitrary metric, they have no defense against being evaluated, in public, against other such.

        Now, as to whether she's shallow, stupid, etc, I cannot say; perhaps she's simply playing the role in order to take advantage of people who are shallow and stupid. In which case more power to her.

        1I'm quite a looker myself. Disparage away!

    4. Christoph
      Joke

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      I wonder where he got that photo he's using?

    5. Lamont Cranston

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      You weren't supposed to look at her face!

    6. LucreLout

      Re: Tawnie Lynn (pictured)

      Ms Lynn is a looker, no doubt about that. While I'd be willing to share a condom with her, that is about as far as it goes. I'm certainly not looking to share the rest of my life with the sort of person who values looks over intelligence, personality, etc etc (were I not already married this is).

      Sorry Tawny, but in 20 years time my Mrs will still be smart, funny, and reasonably good looking for her age. You'll just be reasonably good looking for your age, and your husband will have replaced you with a girl who's likely not born yet. I see it all the time in the City.

  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Three things come to mind here

    1) The Groucho Marx saying

    I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member

    2) The Carly Simon song

    You're so Vain

    3) The 1960's band 'The Pretty Things' who were not that pretty.

    I say, let them stew in this own self gratification of wonder. Who says that they are that pretty anyway?

    1. Paul Crawford Silver badge
      Thumb Up

      Re: Three things come to mind here

      You deserve two up-votes for getting Groucho & Carly in to one post.

    2. skeptical i
      Thumb Up

      Re: Three things come to mind here

      The old Charles Addams "Is there someone else, Narcissus?" cartoon also leaps to mind -- http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PHVP8f4nIxM/UCS0n2Yf5vI/AAAAAAAAARU/QdJpkyFVJyI/s980/SH838.jpg

  3. Arctic fox
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    How does one express ones feelings about this kind of site..........

    .........and the kind of people they cater to? The words "nauseated contempt" come to mind.

  4. Bloodbeastterror

    Naomi Campbell

    Living proof that beauty is only skin deep.

    (And the UK isn't a county...)

    1. Richard 81

      Re: Naomi Campbell

      Everyone knows it's a small province of the superstate Oceania.

  5. Nigel Brown

    What was it they used to say?

    Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder?

    1. DropBear
      Trollface

      Re: What was it they used to say?

      Yeah, but how do we get women to drink some of it...?!?

  6. Sealand
    Pint

    Interesting. Exactly how are they checking members' beauty once you're a member?

    Automatic scrambling of the avatars? Checking through your windows? Or just: "Hey, you've been a member for so long - you can't possibly be beautiful anymore. At least not as beautiful as us".

    It's Friday. Beauty is in the beer.

    1. h4rm0ny

      >>"Interesting. Exactly how are they checking members' beauty once you're a member?"

      There are periodic reviews and your photo gets voted on by the general membership. Also, from time to time a site admin will require you to have a video call with them so they can check your photos really do look like you.

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        1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

          Have you faded from your 70's glory perchance?

          Don't be silly. Harmony's a vampire. Her beauty will never fade.1

          1Modulo wooden-stake disease.

  7. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge

    The shallow end of the gene pool

    Even by the standards of the general internet, this is an extreme load of vacuous twaddle. I would not want to spend any time in the presence of said Tawnie, let alone in the confined spaces of an elevator, where the stench of her (no doubt liberally applied) perfume would probably trigger an allergic attack. Besides, to paraphrase the immortal words of Marvin the Paranoid Android: "I get a headache trying to think down to their level"

  8. tony2heads

    How about a dating website called

    PhotoshoppedPeople.com

    Of course there would be the need to weed out people with extra limbs, or body parts floating in space - but it would be about as realistic as BeautifulPeople.com

    1. Androgynous Cupboard Silver badge

      Re: How about a dating website called

      My favourite is still going strong I see: http://richorbeautiful.com. I, of course, am accepted there on both counts.

  9. Novex
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    Not 'Darwinian'. The site is more like a form of eugenics.

  10. Richard 81

    Better to keep them all in one place, so they don't bother the rest of us.

    1. Steven Raith

      A thousand times this. I've met some seriously narcassistic people in my time, and with one exception (someone who was narcassistic but knew it and made up for it by also being a good lass overall) they've all been the sort of people that I tend not to associate with.

      If this keeps them off dating sites for us normals, that's fine by me....

      Steven "tends to find people to be more attractive once he gets to know them better" R

  11. elaar

    If they're all so beautfiul and perfect, then why do they need to resort to using a dating website?

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