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Stanislaus Wisneiwski

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Dec 12, 2009, 3:05:21 PM12/12/09
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are among the ugliest people in the world,
according to a dating website that says it only allows "beautiful
people" to join.

Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have
applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted, an emailed statement
from the website showed.

Existing members of the "elite dating site" rate how attractive
potential members are over a 48 hour period, after applicants upload a
recent photo and personal profile.

Swedish men have proved the most successful, with 65 percent being
accepted, while Norwegian women are considered the most beautiful with
76 percent accepted, the website said.

The way that BeautifulPeople.com accepts new members is simple. A
potential member applies with a photo and a brief profile. Over 48
hours, existing members of the opposite sex vote whether or not to admit
them, the site said.

Options are: "Yes definitely," "Hmm yes, O.K," "Hmm no, not really" and
"No definitely not."

The site was founded in 2002 in Denmark and went live across the globe
last month. Since then, the site has rejected nearly 1.8 million people
from 190 countries, admitting just 360,000 new members.

"I would say Britain is stumbling because they don't spend as much time
polishing up their appearance and they are letting themselves down on
physical fitness," Beautiful People managing director Greg Hodge said.
"Next to Brazilian and Scandinavian beauties, British people just aren't
as toned or glamorous."

Only the male Russian and Polish applicants fared worse than British
men, although Russian women had a 44 percent acceptance rate. Polish
women did not appear in the table.

German applicants were slated for offering up unflattering photographs,
which may have hindered their acceptance rates at 15 percent for men and
13 percent for women, the lowest rate in their category.

"German men and women aren't faring well, but they are submitting stern
images, they need to soften up," Hodge said.

American Democrat women are just as ugly as the Brits, perhaps more.
Most look like they have been beaten with ugly sticks.

Harry Merrick

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Dec 13, 2009, 8:04:46 AM12/13/09
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"Stanislaus Wisneiwski" <st...@stanford.edu> wrote in message
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Such nonsense! Britons are a beautiful race which normally does not have to
resort to dating websites for their company or sexual pleasures!

Obviously, conceited and unsure psychology has a lot to answer for.
Otherwise these sites would not make any money.

--
Harry Merrick.

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