BS: Join the Ugly Club....

Subject: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 11:40 PM

This is for me. Odd nose and rotund stomach should get me in.

What would be your qualifying feature?


Club says it's good, not bad, to be ugly
By Kate Connolly in Hamburg
(Filed: 16/12/2005)


The ugly are seeking refuge from a hostile world in a German club specially founded to cater for their needs and allay their anxieties.

Hamburg's Ugly Club requires of its members only that they identify the one thing about themselves that they are most unhappy about. Stomachs are at the top of the list, followed by noses and hips.


Harald Gasper, a creative director in an advertising agency with a jowly face and a big nose, established the club with his wife Regina, a tall journalist with big feet.

"We're tired of the idea that you have to be beautiful to get on in life, that beauty equals social power, and beautiful people earn more and get promoted quicker," Mr Gasper, 41, said.

"We're not saying that ugly people are the best. But by coming together we hope to show that we too have something to offer and that the world doesn't just belong to beautiful people."

"Ugly People of the World Unite", is the unofficial motto of the club, which has 270 members. Among the club's role models are Angela Merkel, the new German chancellor, whose own lack of regard for her looks has attracted much criticism, the Duchess of Cornwall and the singer, Janis Joplin.

"All are proof that you don't have to be beautiful to succeed," said Mr Gasper. According to the Ugly Club's seven-point manifesto "it is unfair that the world is dominated by beautiful people".

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: mack/misophist
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 01:45 AM

They're just trying to hitch a ride on my coat tails.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 01:51 AM

My nose and forehead are badly scarred due to a childhood accident, this has never caused me any problems and I've certainly never been considered ugly.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 01:52 AM

Anyway,like beauty, ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 04:00 AM

and the benefits to us ugly bastards are.........

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 04:37 AM

Receding hairline, scars, long pointed nose, double chin (due to operation on lower jaw, bow legs, bit pot bellied, everything moving South due to ageing etc etc.....but still accepted by family and friends so no problem.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 04:49 AM

It's the people who are ugly inside that we should worry about.
It's no use looking like an angel while spouting hatred and bigotry.
I dare say some of our GUESTS are easy on the eye, albeit they are hard on the soul.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 05:33 AM

You beaut, Giok!

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:02 AM

Beauty is in the eye of the the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

{ Spike Milligan }


eric

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 05:44 PM

"People my age are starting to look gross." John Gorka

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 06:52 PM

If I had a dog that looked like me I'd shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 08:39 PM

Remember, the view looks the same to everyone except the lead dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 08:49 PM

Broke me mom's 'eart the day I was born.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: bobad
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:27 PM

Oh yeah, well I was so ugly my mama had to tie a pork chop around my neck to get the dogs to play with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: kendall
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 09:44 PM

When I was born the doctor slapped my mother.

the doctor said "It's a boy" My father said "Yeah, but a boy what"?

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 11:00 PM

Damn shame none of you can match Chongo's good looks! He's out tonight, seeing King Kong again.

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 05:38 AM

He was so ugly, they kept the afterbirth and threw the baby away.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: GUEST,Vlad the Inhaler
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 05:59 AM

afterbirth? This is a club I would like to join, and my friend Boris is also interested. My good mother, bless her anaemic veins, died when I was an infant, still suckling. They had to remove me from her breast, I had been feeding for 56 hours before her pale body was discovered.. She was interred in a very deep grave, with 22 sacks of garlic. Ever since I have never been able to bear the stuff.

thoughtfully

Vald

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 06:00 AM

"He was so ugly, he hurt my feelins." Moms Maybley (spg?)

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 06:30 AM

"Hey man, I saw your wife the other day, an' she's so ugly"
"Yea man but she sure can cook"

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you.

Trini Lopez [I think ]

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: David C. Carter
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 07:44 AM

Why do some people who are ugly on the inside,insist on wearing their insides on the outside.


Quasi modo

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 07:47 AM

Exactly how close to Notre Dame David?
G ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Join the Ugly Club....
From: David C. Carter
Date: 17 Dec 05 - 08:04 AM

Hi 'Giok',about 7klms,Depending on the wind,of course.