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Brains or Beauty?

Brains or Beauty?

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mpw said:
then bam out of the blue I met a woman absolutely bursting with personality/pizzaz/that indescribable quality that makes looks an irrelevance. Of course I'm incredible lucky as this amazing person just happened to be gorgeous to boot:)
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It's just a terrible pity that many of those people are taken :( I sometimes wish that I had less mainstream tastes. Like a real fondness for the flat-chested, annoying, etc. so that I could be easy to please.

Though, thinking of it right now from my vantage point... *shudder*
 
Not sure what you're asking here.

What you'd choose to have, or what you look for in a partner?

If the former, then may I be greedy and ask for both?

If the latter, then again, both. Brains takes precedence but looks are obviously what you first notice about a person. I can't go out with someone that I can't have an intelligent conversation with, or that my personality doesn't gel with, but nor can I date an ugly guy! I have in the past been out with people that I've not fancied, but just got on well with... but because there was no physical attraction and no 'spark' it just didn't work out. So, I'm *never* doing that again... it's all or nothing...

Of course I'm lucky that I've recently met the most amazing *and* gorgeous guy ;-)
 
A bit of both helps!! and usually you get a bit of both in most people! tbh i find that id rather have someone with common sense not just brains! I once knew an Oxford university graduate who couldnt change a lightbulb! so u can be the brightest person in the world and it still wouldnt matter without an ounce of common sense!

You can get on with intelligent people but in a relationship if your not attracted to that person its utterly pointless therefore you can never truly say one or the other!
 
vniow said:
Hrm?
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I was just being picky with my English. Original = run away. Just kidding = I wouldn't run away. But after thinking about it, if a girl like that did come up to me, I probably would run away. So I'm not kidding about running away. But I'm kidding because I hope that you're not a flat-chest annoying girl.

Who am I kidding. Of course you're not.

The internet,
Where men are men,
Women are men,
And children are FBI agents. :D

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that everyone's looking for some combination of both. It's more a factor of which one you'd rather have more of - the drop-dead beautiful girl who's fun to talk to, or the very intelligent/fun to talk to girl who's pretty cute.
 
Brains by far, beuty would be nice too. I couldnt STAND someone who says stupid ditsy things.
 
Brains all the way. There's a type of look that I find attractive (in theory) over others, but the people I've actually properly fallen for have been male and female, young and old, short and tall, thin and not so thin, and so on.

Sense of humour, strength of personality, intelligence, passion and all the other aspects of personality are what makes me actually attracted to them. Looks mean eff all — some of the people I've truly fallen for have been far from what most people would find attractive, but I did because we clicked so well and they were such an amazing person, and consequently found them far more attractive than some random 'attractive' person.
 
You know what's most important in people? A good sense of humor. I find that smart good-looking but humorless people tend not to be good company for very long.

With Mac OS X and Apple computers we get both brains and beauty. Even though you can ask a Mac to tell you a knock-knock joke and Apple has specs that remind us not to eat their products, there's only a small bit of humor built into our computers. But that's ok. It matters a lot more with people.
 
What's "smart"? :confused:

I don't want to date an encyclopedia, or someone who's going to talk circles around me. However, I'd date someone who is great with people, handles herself well when there are problems, and is willing and capable of learning, although she may not know a lot of facts or figures. :)

And if you choose beauty, does it mean that the other person is a complete airhead, or does it mean she's of average intelligence? I'd choose beauty then. :eek:
 
ahem

all i have to say is if i make an effort to keep my self in top shape when im 35ish, my wife better do the same or else she probably shouldn't blame me if i leave her for someone more health concious....
 
In no way bragging, but I'm often told I have both (behold my A+ in my Danish essay:D ). Anyways, if I were to give away one of them, It's be brains. You can gain that, you can't really change your looks.
 
vniow said:
Yeah. That. ;)

In my case its more of an availability problem. :eek:



First isn't much in dispute, second depends on who you ask. ;)
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ok, I've seen your pics in the Member photos thing. You're a stone fox. If you think otherwise you are quite mistaken.
 
Like Doctor Q says, brains are no good without an accompanying sense of humour. Beauty is great for a night (and oh boy, what nights you can have!!) but airheads get very dull after a week, especially when they start ringing you five times a day and leaving increasingly irate and/or desperate voicemails.

So it's got to be brains. I need someone witty as a companion. Probably to make up for my own inadequacy in that department :)
 
backsidetailsli said:
what do you mean by brains? ;)
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wits, smarts, whatever.

he means whether you believ intelligence or good looks are of higher importance...;)

I will seem very stupid if you asked as a joke. :p
 
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