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[Do not agree. You ain't picking me out Scott. I'm tattooed, !$%*!$ head, cut-offs, exercise enthusiast, Vibram Five Fingers, and conservative. We're everywhere buddy and you just never know... ;-)]

Assuming !$%*!$ head is s-h-a-v-e-d head, I'm picturing a skin head, which are mostly ultra (or do you prefer the word Ãœber ) conservative.

Did you read the last line here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/11/AR2010051104570.html.

The father of the nation has called for cartoons to promote health food. He is doling out 10bn overall for this noble cause. Why don't you dig in?

Liberals look like they worry and care too much. Sociopath's and Neo-Cons always are sure. But are mostly wrong. As history shows over and over. Sociopath's make good pols and bosses.

People insisting that looks don't matter are the reason we all have to deal with grocery cards. Am I the only person who hates those things? I never remember to carry the right one, more often than not I hold up the checkout line fumbling around at the register. God help me if I only want one or two items as, "Do to have your Giant Market Card" resonates from the cashier. Then, the socially disagreeable person with bad breath standing next to me insists I use theirs so we can get the show on the road. Why? Because grocers discovered long ago that in an effort to maintain better inventory control when they tried simply asking customers about what foods they buy --- they lie. When people are faced with the prospect of even mild judgment, even if it is by someone they don't even know, they have no incentive to tell the truth. Hence, electronic monitoring proves we eat Ketchup and microwave cheese fries far more than spinach and boneless chicken breasts. Facing the question, do looks matter? offers up the same mild uncomfortableness. If you admit they do, it may seem to a bunch of folks you'll probably never meet that you're a narcissist. Better to cite a few exceptions to the rule and pretend the entire concept is silly. Ahhhh, humans. Got no choice but to love 'em.

This guy may not look like your typical lord of the universe but is the CIO for a fund that manages $US140 billion. (And yes that was meant to be a "B".)

http://bc1.handelsblatt.com/ShowImage.aspx?img=2261760&width=168&height=168

What is it they say about books and their covers?

Male liberals look like they got their asses kicked around on the playground growing up and Male conservatives look like they'd be quite comfortable in a gestapo uniform.
Female liberals look like they grew up kicking the asses of male liberals at school playtime and female conservatives look like they grew up ... well, they actually look pretty good, but when they talk they sound like they grew up in an intellectual vacuum.

p.s. - this is written in a spirit of fun. not ALL liberals or conservatives fit these molds although MOST male conservatives would look good in their little tan uniforms.

Just 3 stories for some entertainment and in hope to un-piss anyone i might have peeved.

The chemist had made his greatest discovery yet. He had successfully made love.

Grieved, Tom resolved himself to monk-hood to escape the trappings of the worldly life. "To the mountains", he planned, and packed for the change. He marched out the door carrying only the essentials. Bread, water, and iPhone.

The operation had given her a new lease of life. Before, he always felt so misunderstood.

Hello, sorry to digress onto a completely unrelated matter. But I was just wondering if in your opinion (Scott), would UFS ever ever syndicate this? - http://www.facebook.com/reallyshortstories?ref=mf

It is a collect of short stories written to entertain. A word comic sort of.

Be great to send you a list if you are keeping away from a facebook account.

Thanks!

It's easy to tell the CEO. He/she is the one with the hand in your wallet whilst stabbing you in the back.

You can tell if someone is a democrat or a republican by their faces:

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/can-you-tell-someone-is-a-republican-or-democ


This is a very good site about interesting researches.

The original research can be found here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1571469

First of all, I doubt the "need" for such researches :) I remember reading in one of my MBA classes that taller the person, better were his chances of becoming a CEO :) And then there was also a "Level 5 Leadership" which said all of these were BS.

I have liberal friends, enjoy the local music scene, shop at Whole Foods and am reticent about poitics. Yet I can't help but look like the Republican that I am, and people correctly peg me as a conservative. Liberal men just naturally seem to look like the guys from Peter, Paul and Mary. If you put Peter and Paul in a suit they'd still look liberal. And if I tried, I could never look like Peter or Paul.

More on Australian politicians. Never heard that old saying before.

Julia Gillard (deputy PM) is definitely a kangaroo. A previous PM, Bob Hawke, I think was more like a lizard. Paul Keating (ex-PM) and Joh Bjelke Petersen (Qld Premier) are also hard to categorise. Neither kangaroo nor koala.

Another ex-PM William McMahon was definitely a koala, and even had the ears to prove it.

Like you said a while back, Scott, it usually comes down to 'hair, height, and Harvard'. Two of those things factor directly into looks.

In Australia, there's an old saying that the elite look like koalas and commoners look like kangaroos. Elite and commoner might be difficult to differentiate in Australia today but as a frequent visitor I have noticed that for the most part liberals (labor party) look like koalas and conservatives (liberal party) look like kangaroos. For evidence Google labor party PM Kevin Rudd (koala) and liberal party leader Tony Abbott (kangaroo). This holds remarkably true to form although former liberal party leader John Howard was definitely a koala.

I agree, the true conservatives are normally pasty faced, a tad bloated and are often red heads. A sweater vest does not hurt.

The liberals tend to have narrow weasel like faces. Slicked back hair is common

The concept is pretty old. The picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, uses the idea that our lives are mapped onto our appearances in and that was published in 1891. To my mind the only interesting question is wether people have the appearance first, or aquire it.

At first I thought you wrote, "I believe that political conservatives can be identified by their FECES" and thought that would be a pretty good party trick.

But then I realized that no, this would not actually be a good party trick.