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[Former-Member]

YOU 'BEAUTY' - THE NEW CLUB BANNING UGLY PEOPLE.

Finally, there is a venue that caters specifically to the most physically stunning individuals among us, writes Ben Pobjie. How hot people suffer when we're forced to mingle with uglies.

In today's increasingly corporatised world, there are businesses who are motivated purely by financial considerations, and then there are businesses who are determined to make a difference in people's lives.

Firmly in the latter category sits BeautifulPeople.com, a dating website restricted to users with intensely pleasing appearances, which this week announced it will be opening "an exclusive new club" in California that will take its online philosophy into the real world, by denying admission to anyone who does not meet a minimum standard of physical beauty.

That sound you just heard was the collective sigh of relief from thousands of gorgeous individuals around the world, overjoyed at the news that, finally, there is a venue that caters to them.

The standard of physical attractiveness required for entry to the BeautifulPeople club will reportedly be determined by an expert panel of models, actors and fitness trainers — people trained to identify beauty and ruthlessly weed out the aesthetically distasteful.

'HOT' PEOPLE ARE FED UP
But this is more than just a ploy for exclusivity; this is an investment in the mental health of the wider community.

Readers who are what might delicately be termed "anatomically sub-optimal" will perhaps struggle to understand the distress that a beautiful person is liable to suffer when forced to spend extended periods of time in close proximity to those whom God has carelessly sculpted.

As BeautifulPeople.com managing director Greg Hodge said: "We listen to our members and they are fed up of going out to expensive bars, hoping to meet similarly beautiful people, only to spend the night wishing that the lighting was lower."

And even lower lighting isn't always enough. Sometimes you go to an expensive bar and wish the lighting was faulty and would cause a cleansing fire.

Let me tell you right now, rubbing shoulders with the uglies is the hardest part of a stunner's life — even harder than exfoliation.

Imagine you are attractive. You decide to go out for a night on the town with some equally attractive friends. You share a few laughs, have a few drinks, mix a few high-class genetic cocktails.

You get into the club feeling good, looking fabulous, you sidle up to the bar, turn to the person beside you and …

BOOM. Your whole night just went down the toilet, because standing next to you is some godforsaken creature who looks like someone melted a chihuahua.

Gazing around the club, you see more of these testaments to the random mirthless cruelty of DNA.

FROM THIS MOMENT ON IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO RELAX
You'll spend the entire evening on edge, constantly afraid that one of the benighted fairytale nightmares in your vicinity will try to talk to you, dance with you, maybe even touch you.

You go into your shell, reluctant to socialise lest your circle be infiltrated by the pockmarked or the saggy.

Everywhere you look there is another refugee from Island of Dr Moreau: teeth sticking straight out, stomach wobbling like jellied vomit, strange asymmetrical face hiding beneath impenetrable masses of bristly eyebrows or shining luminously on the dance floor like so many irradiated love-children of Marty Feldman and an anglerfish.

And you all have to use the same toilets.

The real anguish is caused by the fact that you can't even speak up about the problem.

Being a beautiful person, you are naturally kind and sensitive to the feelings of others, and so despite your overwhelming desire to scream, "GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU FILTHY FUR-NECKED MUTANT!" — you don't, because you know it is not appropriate.

And so your repressed feelings build up toxically within, and begin to poison your psyche from the inside out.

IS GOD PUNISHING UGLY PEOPLE?
An ugly person, you see, is not just an ugly person. It is a reminder to the rest of us that 'there but for the grace of God go I'. And although it's obviously nice that God decided to make them ugly and me beautiful, there are also disturbing implications when you consider that God deliberately filled the world with squashed noses and buggy eyes and huge flapping ears and flabby buttocks and drooping breasts and big, gross moles.

Why would God do that? Is he punishing the uglies? Or is he punishing the rest of us, who have to look at the uglies? What did we do to displease him?

These are unsettling questions, and it is awful to have to contemplate them when all you wanted was to dance and drink and grab a quick knee-trembler with a prominent PR representative in a corridor.

The facts are quite clear. Studies show that beautiful people forced to spend more than 90 minutes per week in the same room as non-beautiful people experience an 80 per cent greater risk of depression, a 60 per cent greater chance of chronic anxiety, and a 75 per cent greater incidence of homicidal ideation.

THIS IS REACHING EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS - ITS HELL BEING BEAUTIFUL
So how do you feel now, you doughy, shapeless nuggets of sexual kryptonite?

You with your snarky comments and unkind jokes at our expense, fuelled by incurable jealousy?

How we suffer for our beauty, and how little you understand.

But relief is at hand, and it is in the form of BeautifulPeople.com and all other companies with enough of a social conscience to provide a safe space for the attractive, a refuge of peace and loveliness where we can go to escape the hideous world and for once in our blasted lives, feel good about being beautiful.

Hopefully these clubs will now proliferate around the world, and with the goodwill and support of the business community, we can achieve that most cherished dream of human civilisation: total unambiguous segregation between groups of differing physical appeal.

Now THAT will be beautiful.

2016 ABCNEWSONLINE

[Former-Member]

Couldn't believe it when i read, just had to share this news article today. How the other half live (or think). Love to hear your views on this @Appleblossom, Don't know how they'll cope getting old. haha.

Its not all in our heads!

[Nearly80]

They have lost the plot.  I m not surprised that such ideation comes out of America.  Such segregations are brought in to try fill an ugly personal void that is not understood.  If this gets off the ground then yes it will promote discord and anger by segregation, superiority and degrading of fellow humans.  We do not need mythical rules of elitism's to engender "superior people".  Arrogance needs no support.

Our human attractiveness from a persons personality lasts forever.  The skin deep superficial good looks are subject to mood change.

The most attractive and best good looks for me is when I see the face of some one who has just experienced a great boost to their self confidence and self esteem.  This is what human happiness is about.  I rejoice in this.  Nearly80

[Kurra]

True beauty lies within people. The superficial beauty of youth changes with the years and our life experiences.

[Former-Member]

I am new on here. Well I started yesterday and responded to a few people. I haven't a clue what I am doing. I can't find any of the posts I responded to.

I have read a few new ones today. I have lost the confidence to respond now.

I have been flicking through different pages, reading stuff, a lot of it I already know as I have had depression on and off since I was a young adolescent. PTSD and anxiety jumped on board at some stage when I wasn't paying attention. Most likely at a time when I was lost in the fog.

My son has finally been diagnosed with schizophrenia after slipping through the cracks for so long. He is in denial.

I have read this article even though the title put me off. I just needed to stay on the website somewhere.

I now feel sick to the stomach to discover that this is real. I have said for ages now that many people today are obsessed with taking selfies, messaging each other backstabbing others, facebooking, twitting, instantgrammaring and whatever is the latest. Sorry not meaning to offend anyone on here who does any of these things.

many people are having botox, surgical procedures , experiencing bullying on social media. They are spending thousands on makeup and eyebrows, eyelashes, it goes on and on. all to look the same

This has become out of control. Social media has so much to answer for. These people are trying to alter how they look to fit in and to look the best. But they are all trying to look the same. It is like watching some scifi film

There are so many sites to get help, specialists to see, support groups to assist. it is so confusing

There is just so much of so little. i find it overwhelming. i can only begin to imagine how a young person not accepting that there is something wrong might feel

Then I read this article and all that I can feel is utter despair and sadness. I feel that the health system has been almost diminished. The experts and trained people are leaving in droves. The apathetic and a few empathic ones are left to check over the continuing incoming "mentally unwell" to give them a bandaid and sed them on their way. I cant say send them home because some dont have homes. the waiting lists are endless, the groups assigned to help rely on family and friends taking over as these workers know that there is not much out there that the "mentally ill" can afford.

So back to the article, I found I was asking myself "surely not?" i will get to the bit soon where it turns the message around and states that nobody can segregate the beautiful. who defines who is beautiful. how can anyone say out loud that there are ugly people. I could go on and on and on because that is what is gripping me inside tugging at my throat.

i'll just try to forget that i have read this. I dont want to think about people who are like this. I dont want to further burden myself with concern.

I dont even know if i should be on here. Im not sure which page i should be writing on. i dont even know how to start a post i only understand how to reply. i am feeling very hopeless, lost and so weary. i feel that I have been propping up too many people for too long now. wearing one of my many masks and saying that i am fine. but now that i have an illness and have a son who is diagnosed with an illness it is going to be even harder for the mask to fit. Even more so where do i fit?

[esprit]

This article was hilarious.