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  1. DonS: unfortunately, worse than that. Much worse (hides face in shame).

    Hint: it was on TLC.

  2. Guess I am a throwback, but I appreciate the look of graceful aging and the natural look in general.

    Not opposed to a dab of make-up enhancement to accentuate a woman’s natural assets, and I really enjoy seeing a woman who is dressed stylishly.

    However, I don’t know how the idea of rather grotesque breast sizes, and skin stretched to a ridiculous extreme became the standard for attractive. Well, one dissenting vote.

  3. he was wrong. the more human they are the more we are creeped out and dislike them. like the cartoon for xmas with the train… and other robotic things…. we are ok with robots looking other than human, or animal. but the closer they get the less we like them.

  4. oh… and recently an asian man just divorced and sued his wife. why? she had plastic surgery to look like that and had an ugly baby… the surgeons knife only goes so deep… his point was she committed fraud (at what point does fake boobs, the knife, makeup, pushups, foundation gear, plastic eyelashes… constitute a lie?), and he was very unhappy… and won…

  5. but if you think all htat is freaky, check out the women who want to look like manga…

    Woman Has 10 Plastic Surgeries to Look Like Anime Girl
    Read more at http://www.odditycentral.com/news/woman-has-10-plastic-surgeries-to-look-like-anime-girl.html

    and this one would make a feminist go berserk

    Anastasiya Shpagina, 19, displays her real-life anime look in this photo from her Facebook profile.

    here is before an after
    http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/405167/20121115/anastasiya-shpagina-before-human-doll-surgery-what.htm

  6. artfldgr: isn’t this comment of yours in agreement with what he’s saying? Isn’t he saying the closer the robots get to human the more uncanny and weird they seem?

    The video I posted has a little bit about those Japanese anime-resembling ladies.

    Creepy, indeed.

  7. I had a similar real-life experience, Neo, in the early ’90s when I was given tickets to a charity event for something or other (as a starving student, I didn’t care as long as I was fed free food). I asked a couple of middle-aged women if they were sisters, and there was some smirking when they said, “No.” Later someone armed me told me that the women had the same plastic surgeon who did their noses and eyes. And they were bleach blondes with tans
    and similar builds, too.

    As for “uncanny,” I have always found it creepy when unhappily-married people choose someone who could be their unwanted spouse’s doppleganger. I can understand having a certain standard of beauty, but to choose someone whose voice, mannerisms, etc are so reminiscent of the ex (or soon-to-be-ex). Or worse, to mold the person into the ex’s look by asking her to wear her hair a certain way or something. That’s creepy to me.

  8. I saw a commercial for one of those Real Housewives shows, where they’re all standing left to right at different distances, and that was my immediate thought – they all look the same. Kinda weird.

    P.S. Which is the opposite of fictional families on TV where all the kids and parents look different. When I see a family in real life, where all the kids share traits and you can see they’re related and you can see those traits in the parents, I’m reminded of how fake TV families are.

  9. Shame on you neo….. Descending into the depths of trash TeeVee like that. You’re better than that crap. Aren’t you?

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