Looking the Part

[TahoeHorn]

Do you believe people look like they have certain attributes, even when they all have the same dress and haircut? I do.

It can be the first day of class, gym, summer camp, fraternity rush or whatever. Or it can be an ad on TV. You look somebody over and right away you have opinions on many topics. You know these first impressions are often wrong, but you have 'em. And what is interesting to me, they are invariably the same as everybody else. Who's the athlete, the ladies' man, the smart guy, the leader, the **** up, the funny guy, and most important the girl who'll put out? Most people seem to have a coomon view. I've heard that criminals can be shown a huge array of photos and be asked to pick out victims. They all pick the same ones. Movie casting agents do this well. Sean Connery looks like James Bond. Clint Eastwood looks like Dirty Harry. Tom Cruise looks like the fun loving frat boy. Harrison Ford looks like the President.

I'm sad to say I don't look like any of those parts. But I do have a look. It's fairly distinctive. Everybody immediately sizes me up the same way. For the most part it's favorable but parts are not. I don't know if the ones that are accurate but unflattering are more annoying, or the ones that are inaccurate and unflattering.

What about you? Do you think people have "a look"? Do you know your "look"? Is it accurate?

 

[bluto]

i was thinkin about this the other day actually. and yes, people most def have a look. there is one truth, everybody's look changes w/ the amt of alcy in their system.

 

[bevosayshi]

I had a co-worker tell me once that she thought Mariah Carey looked like she smelled bad. I have no idea what that look is to be honest.

 

[Do I Make You Horny?]

I see a guy in the office hallways that would be a great NYPD detective---bald, grizzled looking white guy, always has his sleeves 3/4 rolled and drinking coffee out of a styrofoam cup. I keep thinking he's staking out someone in the office.

 

[accuratehorn]

My look is always accurate.

 

[Beau Vine]

My jib is well-cut.

 

[K-Man]

I know I am always wary of people that look like they spend a lot of time concerned with their appearance.

 

[Fievel121]

I almost always am the smartest, honest, most confident looking person in the room. I've never been to a job interveiw that I wasn't hired. Only once was I on an interveiw where they actually checked my references.

Oh little do they know.....

BTW: I'm most deffinetly not the smartest. (yes I did that on purpose) nor am I probably the most honest (especially when trying to pick up chicks). But I probably am the most confident, which if I didn't look so smart and honest would come off as total BS cockyness.

 

[MaduroUTMB]

I don't put a lot of faith in this, mainly because of myself. I can go from "hunting guide" to "student doctor" in about 30 minutes (maybe add an hour if I have to get a haircut).

 

[TejasHorn]

Act as if, baby. Act as if.

 

[DeadHorse]

I look like Brad Pitt.

Don't hate.

 

[Sooner-Tuf]

Never judge a book by it's cover. Reserve that for women.

 

[Ramathorn]

Rumor has it Mariah Carey does have bad breath, lol. Sometimes, I look at someone and think "yeah, he probably has bad breath." Like Rasheed Wallace or MC Hammer's daddy.


I believe in a "tone of face" is accurate at times. Some people that look mean, really are mean.

 

[GarCiaRia]

Along these lines, I've always held the belief that no matter what your beliefs are, just look normal if you want to be considered normal. For example, I've been a metal head, metal thrashing mad guitar playing fool for my whole life. I don't look (nor ever have) looked the part though. I just think that society is much more superficially judgemental than ideologically judgemental. I think that if I would have had that look, I wouldn't have the professional career that I have and have had.