People Are Fucking Stupid

[MrScorpio]

It appears that an attractive-baby-making service — BeautifulPeople.com — has drawn in a lot of dumbasses. Some 600,000 customers from 150 countries, in fact.

The concept is simple and intuitive, if you have a very rudimentary understanding of genetics: take the jizz of two very attractive people, and the resulting baby will be even more attractive.

But this is not how genetics works. This is not how real-life experiments in genetics work. There are demonstrable factors like reversions to the mean and genetic drift that make a simple mating of the most-attractive couple not necessarily likely to produce the most-attractive child. Not to mention that the theory of natural selection does not hold that the conditions that define today’s beauty/strength/child-bearing capacity/wit/smarts will define tomorrow’s beauty/strength/child-bearing capacity/wit/smarts … in fact, quite the opposite. It’s a bit of a crap-shoot.

Only dumb and pathetic dumbasses are lured by this sort of pseudo-science. And there are a lot of them out there, so my advice is to invest in BeautifulPeople.com — it’s bound to make tons of money.


http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/31933.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SadlyNo+%28Sadly%2C+No%21%29

If you ask me, I say that if they want to up their chances of having some really good looking kids, their best bet is to definitely go BIRACIAL!


Adorable!

[Bonobo]

1. Bi-racial power!

Agreed!

But isn't "People are fucking stupid" a broad brush attack against a group of people and thus in violation of our rules at DU?

[MrScorpio]

3. Hmmmm.... Nah

It's more like an understatement

[Locrian]

4. "People are fucking stupid" = it's the title of the site/link - n/t

[Chulanowa]

8. Best possible future for mankind...

screw until everyone is peanut-butter colored with brown eyes and curly hair.

'Course, I say this as a biracial guy who's standards of beauty were set by women belonging to neither of my parents' backgrounds, so.... hey.

[JuniperLea]

13. I couldn't agree more!

This from a pasty white American woman of British descent; blue eyes, blond hair, the whole ball of wax.

One of my very Irish cousins married a Black man and they have the most beautiful children I've ever seen in my entire life.

Hey, I spent far too much of my youth trying to get a tan... permanent, creamy, café au lait has been my heart's desire for a very long time... I think my subconscious has been trying to tell me something. Café au lait = peace.

[AnArmyVeteran]

25. No, he's only talking about people obsessed with appearance.

If all the people on earth were 'beautiful' there would always be ways for some to find ugliness in others.

[Vinca]

2. What a beautiful family!

[Robert DAH Bruce]

5. the jizz of two very attractive people?

Or the jizz of any two people: Right off the bat, you fail!

[AnArmyVeteran]

24. Doesn't the 'jizz' only come from one of the people?

[Swamp Rat]

6. Lot of interracial love here:

http://interracialloveandspicebysara.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-let-white-girl-song-bother-you.html

Like my family. :)

[MrScorpio]

7. And Mine!

[JuniperLea]

16. You are all so beautiful!

:hug:

[polly7]

20. Another gorgeous family, what a great picture. ..... nt.

[G_j]

11. I enjoyed looking at the website

but I wish I had missed..

"Diana Ross and Jon Voight In Love"

:eyes:

[JuniperLea]

15. Is that you, Swamp Rat?

OMG! I want to pinch some cheeks! Those girls are too cute! They remind me of a dolly my great-grandmother from New Orleans made for me. She is a rag doll (I still have her) and she has pink skin and blond curls just like that... blue eyes just like that... and when you flip her upside down and pull her skirt over her head, you reveal a beautiful little brown girl with brown curls and eyes like a deer.

[polly7]

19. Absolutely gorgeous family. The babies are just stunning. nt.

[shireen]

9. who unrec'd this thread?!

I don't understand this ... does that person have something against interracial families? This is insane! I'd expect to see unrecs for politics. But against racial diversity?

:wtf:

[Jennicut]

10. I rec'd it.

The pics are all beautiful.

[petronius]

28. Maybe the title hits too close to home for some people?

:shrug:

[Lugnut]

12. Awwww!

What a beautiful family! The children are just adorable. :)

[SwampG8r]

14. i thought this was going to be a sex thread

about some new wierd stuff and positions
way to let me down dude

[SidDithers]

17. Enthusiastically recc'd...

I couldn't possibly agree more with your subject line.

Sid

[TheKentuckian]

18. That's what my folks thought, thankfully

[KonaKane]

21. "Take the jizz of two people" and put it together?

I believe you need to put the jizz and the eggs of two donors together for that. The author of the article seems to know about as much about reproduction as the organization they are criticizing.

[pitohui]

23. yeah actually they seem to know less! EOM

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[pipi_k]

27. Maybe they're talking about Teh Gay Jizz!!!

:dunce:

[pitohui]

22. well i have eyes in my head

and it's pretty obvious that most pretty people have one if not too pretty parents

i don't know why you think it's pseudo-science to say so
next it'll be pseudo-science to say 2 blond folk have a higher likelihood of having a blond kid?

genetics does have some say in how you look, sorry to break the news

[pipi_k]

26. Crapshoot is right!

I've seen some really unfortunate looking people have gorgeous kids, and I've seen some gorgeous people have ugly kids.


Genetics. Lots of people don't understand it.

If it were only a matter of kids looking like their parents, then I would have the same hair and eye color as my parents and two full-blood sisters.

They all have/had dark hair and eyes.

My hair was blonde as a child, and my eyes are blue/green/gray

I look more like my paternal grandfather than I look like either of my parents.

[pipoman]

30. "Ugly in the cradle, pretty at the table"

[pipoman]

29. "People Are Fucking Stupid"

Can this wait? I'm getting ready to watch 'Billy the Exterminator'

[Lorien]

31. Pics of the cousin of a good friend; Swedish/ African American/ Asian:

[JerseygirlCT]

32. Those are some beautiful kids! nt

[unapatriciated]

33. I agree - the cutie in the middle is my Great-Granddaughter Aaliyah

I just got back from visiting and holding her for the first time.
She is pure joy.

[tabasco]

34. Excellent thread title.

Ain't it the fucking truth?

[blondeatlast]

35. My Asian Indian ex and I have a gotrgeous son with knock-you-over brown eyes and light caramel skin.

No recent photos but he is bee-yoo-tee-ful!