She looks like Jessica Simpson, but tall and thin.
Also blocked as Adult Content. Is my filter just freaked out? Because if that were a reasonable blockage, the post should probably be a little warnier.
Totally safe for work, although that site is not always.
Very pretty, but not exotically beautiful
Racist.
(2: Just publicity shots of a pretty woman. Your filter's either a prude, or it's a feminist.)
Too hot for *my* workplace, evidently. And I'm occasionally astonished by the stuff I *am* allowed to click through to.
(Google Images, however, tells me everything I need to know.)
She looks very Seventies to me, like she should be in a Sun-In advertisement.
She is pretty. A bit of Michelle Pfeiffer and Sigourney Weaver in the face, I say.
7: The google image results are far superior, anyway.
I kind of agree with Amber, though not on the decade. I think she's distinctive-looking. I think she looks very femme-fatale/50s movie star. And she had a great, slightly gravely voice.
If she had an updo and red lipstick, I would concur with 11.
Boring, especially in those pictures. I have liked her in the movies, but not for her looks. She is TV-material, like Garner or Selleck. Comfortable, not threatening. Not interesting.
And blonde.
McManus is objectively pro-orientalism.
That's a great colour to wear on a red carpet.
Question: If a woman is named "Ali", should we assume it's pronounced to rhyme with "rally"?
It doesn't fit the rules of English or any other language's orthography, but I've come to understand that this is the case. Sigh...
Weird. Ogged thinks she's pretty, and I think she's pretty. I suppose there had to be one woman somewhere who met all the requirements, but I hadn't really expected her to be blond.
19:Pro-jihadist, also. Pro-Cruz & pro-Hayek, I watched the entirety of a terrible comedy this week just for the pairing.
Okay, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Shepherd, Luc Besson;it was worth a shot.
Larter looked good in first FD, on image search, that was seven years ago, but it may be the straight hair.
She looks like a news anchor. I'm not sure what it is.
The thing is that she's very pretty and actually a pretty good actress. I think I first saw her in Varsity Blues, and I think her role was sort of Sexploitee. Cheerleader/hooker, or something like that. But she was actually pretty good. And she was better in Heroes. There is something about her that commands a sort of immediate reserved respect. She's not unsexy, but her sexuality is neither forward nor restrained. It's quiescent or something.
I like her lot, and am sort of impressed by her.
She looks like a news anchor.
Less so here. (probably nsfw)
"I felt like I disappointed God."
looks like a news anchor.
The news anchor I met once at a party was remarkable for having facial features a liitle too big for her head; looked great on camera, odd in person. Are widely spaced eyes always sexy? I would have expected one of the eigenfaces to be wide-spaced eyes, but no.
The cherries in the photos in 24 swing the scene from "sexy" to "comical."
28: The cherries but not the cream? You're kidding, right?
She's sunny, but she often looks exhausted on Heroes, and I don't think it's intentional. Dresses fit her very well.
25 is insane. That's totally unreasonable. She survives lung cancer and she wants to celebrate by showing off her chest—really, this is an offense for which she must be shunned? The shrinking violets responsible for the evening news. 26 disappoints me; I wish she'd been the sort to attack right back.
You're kidding, right?
Typical troll behavior.
31: Oh, I so do not need that today.
Keep it up, and I'll show you what trolling is.
Here's the photo Ogged needs to make his case. I know beauty when I see it. (You know, I'm considered something of a hottie in certain media markets.)
I like her voice. And the violent killing.
Question: If a woman is named "Ali", should we assume it's pronounced to rhyme with "rally"?
It's because it's short for ALIson Ned. I had a boyfriend once who called me Sonnny - I couldn't decide whether it was cute or fucking annoying.
Untouchable, unapproachable, and unavailable ... are these the qualities, Ogged, that turn you on? Either change your criteria, get yourself a girlfriend, or check out moveon.org.
OK, Bob, terrible comedy, but: was it worth it? Bearing in mind that Salma is very close to my favorite-looking woman on earth.
You sure do love the white-bread types.
I know beauty when I see it. (You know, I'm considered something of a hottie in certain media markets.)
I so welcome the reign of our hilarious new hottie overlords.
celebrate by showing off her chest
I googled up the photos, and that's one bad implant job.
Isn't the word here "cute?" I'd say she's cute. And I'd say it in a "eh, good enough" tone of voice.
She's pretty but a sucky actress.
Are you going by Heroes and Varsity Blues, or something else? I think those are the only two things I've seen her in.
If Ali Larter is merely cute, I may have to start wearing a veil, like those poor cursed girls in fairy tales. Except she isn't, and I don't. So NYAH.
43: Ignore Cerebrocrat, he's part of the gay fashionista.
Are widely spaced eyes always sexy?
Prey have widely spaced eyes (better to see something sneaking up), and predators have close set eyes (for depth perception). I don't know if that's significant to human attractiveness, but it's fun to speculate.
On the veldt, women had eyes on the sides of their heads, the better to attract mates.
Women still have eyes on the front side of their heads.
As do men. Why does everything have to be about gender?
On the veldt, the wives of the best warriors wore eye makeup. That's how you could tell which warrior was the best.
47: That's only because feminism has overturned the laws of nature.
37:Of course. Cruz & Hayek cat-fighting in bustiers with Steve Zahn trying to break it up. They were fun, and it was fun watching the leads having fun. Like daughters to me, they are. Anybody remember the old Malle Bardot Moreau romp? Blondes, tho.
Ya know, not to be a troll, or arrogantly insist on posts on my pet topics, but if there was just a little more of an economic or financial orientation at this blog, the commenters would be able to drink deep from the well of the "liquidity event."
Alright. So now I have multiple commenters implying that I'm sexist. I think my afternoon could have been spent better.
If Ali Larter is merely cute, I may have to start wearing a veil
Now see, I didn't say MERELY cute. You added the merely. I think cute is a good thing. Regarding Ali, I meant cute as a kind, rather than degree, of hotness.
45: It is. Or at least it is in some cases - there was a friend of a friend who did indeed seem like she had far too much peripheral vision to be really interesting.
52: Out of the area of the expertise of the blog. But I'm starting to hear from people who are directly affected by the ongoing implosion.
53 is the most sexist comment ever in the whole history of the Internets.
54: Totally disingenuous. You said "eh, good enough." Same diff.
Gay fashion nazi.
Actually, D2 has relevant expertise, I suppose. But he, wisely, treats this as something other than a place to talk shop.
53 - DS - who is a guy - was just making a joke about the way all these threads go. I don't think anyone minds your 48 (of course, I'm a patriarch myself, so what do I know?).
You know, DS, even though you annoy me sometimes, when you're good you're really really good.
I'm not defending cerebrocrat, but "cute" is a category just as is "bombshell" or "girl next door." Whether he was being dismissive is another issue, but I think that he was semi-right that part of this woman's allure is in her "cuteness."
But, really, she's no Salma Hayek.
but if there was just a little more of an economic or financial orientation at this blog, the commenters would be able to drink deep from the well of the "liquidity event."
I'm waiting for someone clever to explain it to me, at which point I will link.
Wow, it's like B knew that 64.2 was coming.
55:The point was not a discussion of M3, but a launching pad (tee-hee) for dirty jokes. I'd troll DeLong, but he deletes comments.
I suppose an idiot who giggles at "liquidity trap" is not mature enough for this blog.
We have standards? No one told me we had standards.
Wow, it's like B knew that 64.2 was coming.
Must be the eyes on the sides of her head.
you know, it's not a bad pseudo, either.
She's all right, but not hot enough to get away with tucking her pants in at work.
financial orientation
equity private is often hilarious and regularly insightful.
How does one value a Bank's stock in these interesting times to determine when it's unreasonably low? Price/book is really crude, and book value for banks seems like a complicated thing, hard to compare even between banks.
It was certainly the combination with "eh, good enough" that made me read the "cute" as being of the "merely" variety.
57: Not disingenuous! "Eh, good enough" described my hypothetical tone of voice, so as to distinguish it from the leering quality it would have, were I referring to a guy of similar quality. As in, "He's CUTE," which means "Stop talking to me for a minute so I can enjoy thinking about this guy naked;" and then there's "She's cute," which means "She's cute, and if I were straight, I'd probably be excited about it."
Someday I'm going to learn to avoid this kind of thread.
Teo, that's funny!
You seem so surprised.
There is also a pretty common -- though not exclusive -- use of "cute" as a scalar adjective that falls lower on the scale of attractiveness than, say, "gorgeous". Certainly "cute" can be used to describe a type, rather than a degree, of attractiveness; I'm just saying the "good enough" gave me reasonable reason to interpret you as speaking degree-wise rather than (or as much as) type-wise. But now I know better!
No, I see what you mean. In fact, I thought about taking out the "eh" for that very reason, but my post-button-hitting-finger was already launched.
40: Holy crap you're not kidding.
Did she do those herself? It makes me sad that she somehow thought having THAT done to her would make her more appealing.
Salma Hayek is not related to the "Road to Serfdom" Hayek. Ironically, Olivian Newton-John is the granddaughter of the physics Nobelist Max Born.
You may return to your previously-scheduled program.
Like several hundred million brown guys, Ogged has a blonde fetish. Quick, someone sell him a blonde!
B. is a blonde, you know. Just sayin'.
But I'm funny looking and I wear heels, don't forget.
i think cute and hot overlap, but cute doesn't go as high as hot does, and can go lower.
Actually, I prefer brunettes, but Emerson's sketch of my personality over the years has been much more entertaining than the real thing.
Plus, isnt Bitch a little old for Ogged's taste? (I think Bitch and I are the same age.)
LB, this is pretty good (from the schadenfreudetastic Calculated Risk blog). This illustration of how mortgages work in the 21st century is also good.
Ali Larter was non-person Allegra Coleman in a rather stupid Esquire prank: A writer on suck.com noted that the Coleman satire was essentially indistinguishable from the normal run of the magazine's celebrity reporting. So I'd be fond of her even if I didn't like her work on Heroes.
Salma Hayek is not related to the "Road to Serfdom" Hayek.
Yeah, but they're both Lebanese.
How does one value a Bank's stock in these interesting times to determine when it's unreasonably low? Price/book is really crude, and book value for banks seems like a complicated thing, hard to compare even between banks.
don't be silly. Tangible book value (=shareholders' funds - goodwill, leave revaluation reserves in there) is perfectly comparable between banks. If they are reporting on fucking IFRS subtract preference shares and minorities. Book value is one of the most comparable things there is.
Otherwise, the cash flow on a bank share is the dividend. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Accrual earnings are an opinion, and subject to radical revision. Dividends are a fact and have the whole board plus the regulators agreeing that they are distributable. Dividend yield is the One True Valuation Metric for banks. When it is above the yield on short dated bonds, banks are always a buy. I can rattle this shit off even half asleep.
Meanwhile, everything is going to shit. You know what happens then? There is one guy at every bank who was hired specifically for his inability to say "no" to any project, no matter how obviously doomed. That guy ends up on a fucking multi-centre holiday trip, flying round Europe like a twat, trying to save three deals at once. In return for which he gets a bonus. Which is denominated in fucking US dollars so I can actually *see* the fucking thing getting less valuable with every passing day. Life sucks. Fuck you all, I'm off to get drunk. By the way there are three better looking women than that working down my local chip shop. Bastardhole.
by the way Felix Salmon's is the only finance blog worth reading. All the rest of them are embarrassingly shit.
Wiki: On his mother's side, [Hayek] was second cousin to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. When the Great War began in 1914, Hayek [not Salma] lied about his age and joined the Austro-Hungarian army.
The Road to Serfdom dude was also flat-chested.
So, Ogged, have you gotten laid yet recently?
I mostly represent the ideal Ogged, rather than the defective actual Ogged. The Ogged that could be, if he only cared.
Wikipedia clearly has been infiltrated by Syrian agents.
So, Ogged, have you gotten laid yet recently?
I don't understand the question.
Ogged is of my party without knowing it.
When a mommy blogger and a daddy blogger love each other very much....
Heroes has just started showing over here in Blighty. When Ms Larter first appeared on screen I nearly fell off the sofa. The "cute" (and I absolutely do not mean that in a derogatory way) actress on Heroes is Nora Zehetner.
Nora Zehetner is brain-melting. Definitely.
I'm in agreement with my friend, who said of Larter, "someone needs to feed her a sammich." Also,she's a bit too stiff and ice-queeny for me, at least in her roles [sic] on Heroes.
Hayek [not Salma] lied about his age and joined the Austro-Hungarian army.
He's the one on the left
76: Someday I'm going to learn to avoid this kind of thread.
It is my fervent and heart-felt desire that someday ogged will learn to do the same.
Cerebrocrat was merely regretting that he hasn't mastered the ways of these threads like, say, I have.
53
Alright. So now I have multiple commenters implying that I'm sexist. I think my afternoon could have been spent better.
I nominate this for the hovertext.
Oh, I don't like Nora Zehetner at all. Her head is too large for her face. But I don't really go for anyone on Heroes. Fortunately Battlestar Galactica (Jamie Bamber's arms!) has got me through the wait for the return of Prison Break.
well some of that is she often has short hair. that could balance out things.
82: and Helena Bonham Carter is the great-grand-daughter of Lord Asquith, who was PM when the First World War broke out; also related to Ian Bonham Carter, who ran the Operations Room for Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
Ali Larter in Heroes would be cute, if not for that little sneer she wears almost exclusively.
re: 110
She's quite cute -- short hair is something I generally like -- but she doesn't exactly set the heart pulsing, yeah.
Cute is wholesome and pretty but not devastating. It's the sidekick look. Cute doesn't drive men wild and bring on the destruction of cities. Helen of Troy was not cute.
It is my fervent and heart-felt desire that someday ogged will learn to do the same.
She likes you! Ask her to dinner!
"Cute is wholesome and pretty but not devastating. It's the sidekick look. Cute doesn't drive men wild and bring on the destruction of cities. Helen of Troy was not cute."
Discuss with reference to Maggie Gyllenhaal. I'd destroy cities.
I've never watched Heroes, but from what I've seen of the show's female stars on wwtdd.com, Hayden Panettiere is the hot one. Especially given that she's, like, four feet tall.
Gyllenhaal is quirky or interesting but not cute and could be devastating.
Just because of the names I invariably confuse her with Renee Zellweger, whose smirky moue I can't stand.
Gyllenhaal, I'd take out Providence for. Larter, Fresno, maybe.
Hey, some people find Zehetner irresistibly sultry and fascinating, and some people are soulless robots. I don't judge.
and some people are soulless robots
I don't believe pdf23ds has weighed in on this question yet.
Wait, Nora Zehetner was the villain in Brick and people are saying she's not all that? Y'all are smoking the crack rock.
Nora Zehetner looks about 14 years old. Any of you who are not yourselves under age may have issues.
Not everyone who lacks cantaloupe-shaped bolt-ons looks immature, slol.
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Woah. Zehetner's in Brick? My decision to Tivo it the other day is looking better all the time.
