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A Favor to Humanity
FOUND by Audrey
in Connecticut
Found in the hallway at the local college.
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to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
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How, pray tell, would it benefit humanity?
That's thoughtful.
Is it another note on toilet paper?
I think this note is far uglier than "she" could possibly be.
Mean people suck.
writing "she's" instead of "shes" might have been more helpful to humanity...
i love this. being mean fucking rocks.
:D
I have seen so many hanging out thongs and bellyfat that these notes should be mandatory. Some fashions aren't meant for some people, and some shouldn't exist!! (Thongs are underpants... UNDERpants... sigh)
Ouch.
Ugly is as ugly does.
The author of the napkin note is the truly unfortunate person in the equation.
YIKKES
Aw, this reminds me of something my roommate and I would have written to each other during our unbearable art history lecture. It's not mean if you don't actually say anything.
i wouldn't be surprised if some catty girl writes a note like this about me someday. to anyone who thinks they have to tell someone, here's the thing: it'll just make them feel bad. i'm sure they can tell if they're ugly. girls who are much, much prettier and skinnier than me think they're ugly and no one will ever like them because of that, because of how people are expected to look these days. so, you don't need to say it. being honest is very good. but i'm sure they know already. i know i do.
darcy baby, beauty is a state of mind!
I agree with Kelsey. Everybody bitches behind people's backs sometimes. If they TELL her, that's evil - unless this girl is a real bitch and did something to deserve it. Who knows? Maybe the note-writers are the victims in this situation, and they're just trying to make themselves feel better. See, you can come at this from several angles.
This person has watched too many teen soaps. She's obviously looking forward to the day when she can take someone by the arm, look meaningly into their eyes and say, "Tiffany, we need to *talk.*" And then she will proceed to lay down the law about a traumatic situation in Tiffany's personal life which is patently none of her business! Or she will destroy her with personal, negative criticisms followed by, "I'm telling you this because I'm your *friend*. It's for your own good."
Don't flush the note--flush the writer.
okay- it is a mean note, but i agree with Kelsey and others that as long as they dont say anything, they are innocent.
I mean, if the ugly person finds the note and knows that it was about her, that's not okay, but sometimes you just have to vent.
maybe this ugly chick is an evil bitch?
in my school there's a girl (who is clearly not ugly at all) who is SUCH A BITCH and we talk about how ugly she is behind her back. it makes us feel better, i guess.
maybe i'm wrong, but it seems harmless to me.
Being "ugly as a favor to humanity" isn't as easy as it sounds. Takes a lot of hard work. Years of study. Lots of grant funding.
Whoever wrote this Found was probably on the final panel of judges deciding whether she had finally achieved her goal of being designated "ugly as a favor to humanity".
What?? There was supposed to be a comma after "ugly"? Oh, that changes everything.
Sweet & Cali - I'm with you guys... Although being mean defiantly kick's ass, correctly punctuating a contraction is ultimately better for humanity.
Kicks... oops! How embarrassing?!
My reaction was the similiar to Librarian's, but I thought the purpose of the ugliness was to keep the hatefullness out of the gene pool. It may be just a Southern thing but being ugly doesn't necessarily mean you aren't pretty, it can also mean you are being hateful and cruel.
It's a rainy, gloomy day in Freon's world so here's a site to make sure you too don't get any work done today: www.other-peoples-pictures.com and then click on Collectors Resources. Let the surfing begin!
*MEAN GIRLS* This FIND reminds me of that movie...I can just see it now...LINDSAY LOHAN and her mean g/f's.
Truly sad.
Children, teens, and early twenty year olds, in College, can be so terribly cruel.
"Then we can lure her to your house and beat her up and get it on video and that will prove we are the cool ones and she's not and maybe she'll quit acting like she's all that and a side of fries and our boyfriends will come back to us and we'll be happy forever."
this was found at college? when I was in college we had moved past making fun of people for being ugly (you know - maturity and all that) and we were simply judging people based on who they went home with the night before...
Freonz, thanks for the link!! Nice to know I'm not alone in my obsession with other people's (lost ancestor) photos.
@Chrome in photo heaven, I love to look at photos, especially black & white. Some have no soul to them and are easily flipped by, but others reach out and hold your attention. When I hold one of those it's almost like a portion of their life goes through my mind - snatches of conversations, names of people who were important, glimpses of places they've visited. And some landscapes...I swear I can smell the breeze and hear distant voices.
But, then again, that may just be those darned hallucinations. *wink*
Pretty people are always being told how pretty they are. Why not tell the ugly people how ugly they are? Seems fair.
"Hey, you look like your face caught on fire and someone put it out with a wet chain. Has anyone ever told you you couldn't be a model?"
Maybe "she" is some self-centered, narcissistic, arrogant bitch who needs to be knocked down a few pegs. Telling someone like that that she's ugly might not exactly be a favor to humanity, but I bet it would at least be fun.
I'll bet that the writer is the ugly one. And jealous too.
Ah....as a child I had many people 'do me this favor'. I can't tell you how much humanity has improved since Mandy and Jeanette told me that I was fat and ugly. I'm pretty sure that as soon as I was informed of this, several pandemic viruses were instantly erradicated. Thanks MANDY!
@Josie: People who wear low riding jeans to the point that the top of their thong is completely showing are said to have a "whale-tail" LoL
@Bee: Totally agree there. It is truly sad when notes like this can still be found in the halls of a college. But then again...seeing all the posts on today's found...I guess some people will never grow out of the ol' "let's point out the uglies" game.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I wonder if those who think it's fun or funny to be mean will have a shift in perspective if and when they have children.
"Ugly" is subjective and a matter of personal taste.
@Lady Brandy... Just curious, as I am in the Mountains of Tennessee... where are you from?
I saw her the other day. Believe me, they didn't say ANYTHING.
Yikes.
"What is 4 times 7"?!?! Who's dumbing down the spam questions?!
@freonz ... I'm agreeing with you that another take on this is that "ugly" here refers not to lack of facial prettiness (as defined by magazine covers at the grocery store checkout). It could be that "ugly" means something like ill-mannered, rude, spiteful, hateful, and cruel.
As in "Don't be ugly with me!"
Yeah, I've heard that, too. And some of the "pretty" people can be the ugliest in this sense.
I have a horrible compulsion to snap "whale tails"... What bra-snapping was in elementary school, whale-tale-snapping should be in high school. Would certainly make a few girls put on either low-rider thongs (to go with said low-rider pants) or just cover up. *snap* Painful AND humiliating, yay! Much more effective than ugly notes.
"The prettiest people do the ugliest things"
Maybe she is ugly in a deeper sense- and then maybe they should let her know it.
Brutal! Why are women such bitches?
Freonz, thanks for the link. Old photos are almost as much fun as old letters/diaries. (What are historians of tomorrow going to learn from--old computer chips?)
Turbo, you remind me of a line from "Uncle Vanya" when Sonya asks her stepmother, "Do I look funny?" The beautiful Yelena responds, "Oh no! You have beautiful hair, and lovely eyes!" Sonya shrinks into herself and says, "Only plain women are told they have beautiful hair!"
"Plain" is a much kinder word than "ugly." Plain...nothing special. It still hurts to be told you're plain, though.
"Why in the world are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear."
-John Lennon
Beauty is a burden. And beautiful women seldom are funny because they really don't have to be.
Whoa, there are many insightful comments here today, all inspired by something mean written on a scrap of toilet paper. Thanks for the link, Freonz. I thought I was the only one! When my mother wanted to toss out all the old photos of her parents' friends after they died, I took them. We don't know the people. But I love to look at old photos. I can spend hours in a history museum, staring into the faces of the people arranged in neat rows -- students in front of old schoolrooms, nurses in front of hospitals or loggers in front of lumber mills. May the gloom be lifted.
It's junk like this that makes memories of junior high so depressing. Don't tell me it extends through the college years now!
What's so kinky/taboo about having underwear lines, anyways? Never understood that.
Randomness: Anybody else like the song "Panty Lies" by Sonic Youth?
Also, I think these are just nasty girls and I don't know how you can defend this nasty note or give it a sympathetic interpretation.