Why should only the beautiful people (apologies for quoting Marilyn Manson) get paid, anyway? They're already skating through life because they won the genetics lottery, so they don't need the money like the ugly people do.
Well, I keep trying to get people to pour habanero juice on themselves before blocking my windpipe, but no one wants to try it. Something about sensitive skin.
But that's not a sick burn right back in their mean faces to show them you don't even care what they think and that you can't even help that it's like that.
I had long hair (blonde, very thick and curly) in my late teens. Back then men with long hair were pretty rare outside the larger cities, so I usually got a large variety of insults nearly every time I went to countryside.
Sometimes people would throw money at my feet and yelled "Go to a barber, freak!" I always thanked them out loud and then I picked the money up.
But a few decades ago in my backwater country this was reality. It happened to me twice on different regions and one of my friends who also had long hair told me it had also happened to him. I only got pocket change, but still enough to buy a can of beer ;)
At the time we deduced that there had to have been some broadcast TV show which had given them this bizarre idea, since widespread Internet access was years away at the time.
But as if this was not enough, the wierdest heckling I got was when I walking the dog with my girlfriend and a group of guys about our age passed us and called us "fucking gay". My girlfriend was feminine, pretty and I was very far from both.
I always wonder about casting calls for acting when they're looking for someone who is ugly or otherwise unsightly. Like, what's kind of paper trail do they have on that?
39 Comments
shalafi@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 295d
For $1,000 bucks you can call me slurs for 8-hours straight.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 295d
That's $125/hr. That's a hell of a lot more than I get paid, but at least I get breaks. And most of the time I'm not called slurs.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 295d
Sorry you have to put up with that crap at all.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 295d
I mean, usually it's me being mean to myself.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 295d
"Why're you hitting yourself?" - as my older brother makes me do so by whipping my arm around...
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 295d
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 295d
I'm aware of the likelihood, but I try my best not to ass-u-me.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 295d
it’s not when working customer support
lengau@midwest.social · 12 pts · 295d
I can multitask. Get called slurs while I'm working and make an extra $1000/day.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 295d
Then multiplying it by suing your employer for a hostile working environment.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 50 pts · 295d
I'm already ugly so might as well get paid for it.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 295d
Why should only the beautiful people (apologies for quoting Marilyn Manson) get paid, anyway? They're already skating through life because they won the genetics lottery, so they don't need the money like the ugly people do.
robocall@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 295d
Anybody offering?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 295d
Pay me and I'll gladly offer a verbal beatdown.
Imadethis@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 295d
A thousand bucks? No, sorry, but I do have other things that could help. Holes that could be filled in your life.
Chivera@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d
You're offering holes? Where's the line
Imadethis@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 295d
Well, I keep trying to get people to pour habanero juice on themselves before blocking my windpipe, but no one wants to try it. Something about sensitive skin.
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 295d
That's literally free money, yes please.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 288d
Fucking capitalist! /s
Neomega@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 295d
That is the answer I would expect from logic Queen
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 295d
Are you implying she's the logic queen because of her looks? 😜
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 295d
Sure. Make the check out to, "I know you are, but what am I?"
klemptor@startrek.website · 8 pts · 295d
Fuck that, make the check out to Cash!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 295d
But that's not a sick burn right back in their mean faces to show them you don't even care what they think and that you can't even help that it's like that.
original_reader@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 295d
Sure. Not my fault that that person cannot appreciate true beauty. If they even want to pay for that lack of understanding, by all means, be my guest.
mhague@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 295d
I'd take the $1000 and then pay someone $100 to tell me I'm beautiful.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 295d
I'll do it for free. You are beautiful.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 295d
Yes i am, tyvm.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 295d
Not ugly, but everybody has their own view and $1000 is $1000.
InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 295d
Pay me and find out.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 295d
Without any hesitation.
I had long hair (blonde, very thick and curly) in my late teens. Back then men with long hair were pretty rare outside the larger cities, so I usually got a large variety of insults nearly every time I went to countryside.
Sometimes people would throw money at my feet and yelled "Go to a barber, freak!" I always thanked them out loud and then I picked the money up.
Free money is always nice.
phar@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 295d
People throwing money at you because you have long hair seems somewhat unbelievable just saying
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 294d
Nowadays, definitely.
But a few decades ago in my backwater country this was reality. It happened to me twice on different regions and one of my friends who also had long hair told me it had also happened to him. I only got pocket change, but still enough to buy a can of beer ;)
At the time we deduced that there had to have been some broadcast TV show which had given them this bizarre idea, since widespread Internet access was years away at the time.
But as if this was not enough, the wierdest heckling I got was when I walking the dog with my girlfriend and a group of guys about our age passed us and called us "fucking gay". My girlfriend was feminine, pretty and I was very far from both.
It was a very, very strange time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 295d
Do I get paid $1,000,000 if I'm Ugly²
?
KenOh@feddit.online · 6 pts · 295d
I always wonder about casting calls for acting when they're looking for someone who is ugly or otherwise unsightly. Like, what's kind of paper trail do they have on that?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 294d
Sorry, best we can do is a beautiful person with glasses and shoddy clothes.
notarobot@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 295d
Yeah! Is it like "there is a character that is so ugly they are always sad and kill themselves and you seem perfect for that role!"?
Botzo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 295d
Omg thank you for the money!
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 295d
Yeah?
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 288d
Who exactly would not take that?!