Beauty is only skin deep

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Spacecadet replied

10 September 2008, 14:37
Originally posted by foritisme View Post

double take - clothing, hairstyles (colours), size, weight, looks

in fact anything that is not the 'norm' to the observer

One christmas during my uni days I was taking a train back home.
I must have been looking good cause plenty of girls seemed to be checking me out as I walked to the train station, bought a ticket, waited for the train, got on the train, changed trains at Preston and eventually got home....

It was only when I got home that I realised that I had a big black smudge on my cheek
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DS23 replied

10 September 2008, 14:30
Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View Post

I always look a woman straight in the chest so it wouldnt bother me.
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foritisme replied

10 September 2008, 14:13
double take - clothing, hairstyles (colours), size, weight, looks

in fact anything that is not the 'norm' to the observer
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Incognito replied

10 September 2008, 14:13
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

I think it's the gormless expression you habitually employ that they object to.

Yes, I call that my Sasguru routine.
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The Lone Gunman replied

10 September 2008, 14:10
I always look a woman straight in the chest so it wouldnt bother me.
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sasguru replied

10 September 2008, 14:10
Originally posted by Incognito View Post

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7607905.stm

Should we have to apologise for doing a double take. Is that not how the brain is wired up. The double take is sub conscious as the brain has not been able to make sense from the first image.

Next they'll be trying to make it discriminatory to knock back a minger. (You'll be able to get a bit soon Sas).

I think it's the gormless expression you habitually employ that they object to.
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Spacecadet replied

10 September 2008, 14:08
Originally posted by Incognito View Post

Should we have to apologise for doing a double take. Is that not how the brain is wired up. The double take is sub conscious as the brain has not been able to make sense from the first image.

I'd have to agree with you there.. and how many people with a facial disfigurement do you see on a daily, weekly or monthly basis?
For people who live with it or a related/friends with people with a facial disfigurement then the reaction to double take will obviously be little or nil.
But the rest of us have to cope with the inbuilt instinct to make sense of what the eyes have just seen and which the brain can not automatically deal with
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Incognito started a topic Beauty is only skin deep

10 September 2008, 13:59
Beauty is only skin deep

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7607905.stm

Should we have to apologise for doing a double take. Is that not how the brain is wired up. The double take is sub conscious as the brain has not been able to make sense from the first image.

Next they'll be trying to make it discriminatory to knock back a minger. (You'll be able to get a bit soon Sas).
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