March 01, 2005

The smile that says where you’re from A study has established that the Americans and the British have different smiles.

While the British smile by pulling their lips back and upwards and exposing their lower teeth, Americans are more likely simply to part their lips and stretch the corners of their mouths. So distinct is the difference that the scientist behind the research was able last week to pick out Britons from Americans from close-cropped pictures of their smiles alone, with an accuracy of more than 90%.

posted by Wolof 19 years ago
  • Wolof, Get in the hole In a wedding dress With a popular first name Writing a caption for this picture As you kill a puppy with your bare hands Counting each word in the English language You bananaguard keeping your civet feces coffee fresh One (more) word: spiderman is gay (like famous monkeys throughout history)
  • And then pull your arse open with both hands...
  • (but dont show us). Tee hee. Never mind. I did it last week.
  • Double posting, that is, not the arse thing...
  • sure, kitfisto, sure ...
  • kitfisto and I are working on a variation to the ol' "putting my head in the lion's mouth" routine. We'll be touring at the end of this year as THE OXBRIDGE CIRCUSE.CX. Middleclass has a whole troupe of prostitute clowns that will "entertain" the kids.
  • I was going to make the obvious comment about how the british smile has "less teeth", but I'll be damned if I understand what the hell is going on over here.
  • *honks nipples, drops pants*
  • I think the article argues that the British smile has more teeth. But without pictures, the whole article is unclear.
  • that is neat, *smile*
  • Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
  • Smile? You goddamn pansies smile?
  • *lifts upper lip, shows incisors
  • moneyjane, you just reminded me of something. It used to be that courteseans in China were said to be "selling smiles" (mai4 xiao4). Sex was not always (but frequently) what went on between courtesean and client. She could play music, write poetry with her client, drink and eat with him, or even just sit and chat. I'm not sure if that term is still used nowadays.
  • mine comment
  • I have perfected a self-satisfied smirk and an unsettling leer (for the lay-deez). Alnedra - there's quite a few prostitutes working in the dodgy old neighbourhood I live in - they advertise their services as 成人保健 (adult massage). They smile at me for free as I pass by of a morning and we exchange neighbourly greetings.
  • That's really cool, alnedra. Really, what I sell is a big bag of not being a bitch. For a variety of reasons, many of my clients do not really meet women in other than business, bar, or travel environments, so having someone friendly, amusing, and hep on current events as well as frisky and lewd is quite the revelation for them.
  • *hides under lower lip*
  • I'm going on tagline cold turkey right now, but there's a hefty chunk of alliteration from moneyjane just up there that's begging, begging I tell you, for a MonkeyFilter: prefix.
  • the last time I tried to tagline a quote of moneyjane's, I spelled monkeyfilter wrong. please, Wolof, do it for us. Please???????
  • MonkeyFilter: being a bitch for a variety of reasons MonkeyFilter: many of my clients do not really meet women MonkeyFilter: what I sell is a big bag (?)
  • MonkeyFilter: being a bitch for a variety of reasons MonkeyFilter: many of my clients do not really meet women MonkeyFilter: what I sell is a big bag (?)
  • hee
  • Dear minda, Do it yourself, it will be good for your confidence! /cruel to be kind