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Personality or looks?! Come on be honest!

  • 14-09-2009 2:06am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭


    Its the question that no one answers truthfully, but since we are all on this interweb gadget posting our "honest opinions" what is the verdict? Me? Honestly its 70% personality 30% looks, this used to be the other way round but when you get older you realise there are idiots out there!

    Let the games(kinky optional) begin;)

    EDIT No offense was meant from option 3, please think of it in a metaphorical sense.....and that I dont know how to edit polls:(

    Come on in 241 votes

    Personality
    0% 0 votes
    Looks
    57% 139 votes
    Im blind dumb and deaf
    39% 96 votes
    What is this? love day?!
    2% 6 votes


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Comments

  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,916 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Wow, I've never been asked that question before!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    same answer as the last 50 threads about this :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Looks... a personality can be worked on... ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    None, in my case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Paddo81


    Both if possible. I want the mind of Stephen Fry and the body of Megan Fox. Never to be vice-versa'd!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Anonomyte wrote: »
    Honestly its 70% personality 30% looks

    You're not being honest there Ted!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    None, in my case.

    You dont have looks or personality lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Personality - 35% important
    Looks - 65% important.

    In fairness though there's a bit of overlap.
    Confidence is a positive aspect of a persons personality and can be largely related to one's looks. So I'm gonna need to make a more complicated mathematic model.



    (I'll settle for whatever I can get though :)) :)


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I'm extremely picky, I actually want both.

    Crazy, I know!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Depends what I am looking for out of the particular girl.

    I won't date a girl with a bad personality and good looks.
    I would Fcuk a Girl with a bad personality and good look.
    I won't Date a girl with good personality and bad looks.
    I would Fcuk a girl with good personality and bad looks
    I won't Date a girl with Bad Personality and Bad looks
    I would Fcuk a girl with bad personality adn bad looks
    I wonld Date a girl with Good personality and Good looks.
    I would Fcuk a girl with Good personality and good looks.

    tl;dr I would fcuk any girl I will only date a girl with a nice personality and moderately good looks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    it takes a lot of personality to make up for bad looks, but only slightly good looks to make up for a bad personality


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    1. Great personality and looks.
    2. Great personality, mediocre looks.
    3. Mediocre personality, great looks.
    4. Mediocre personality and looks.

    I guess that puts me in the personality side.
    I didn't leave anyone out, if you're much less than average on either you're not considered, no point going with someone you aren't even remotely attracted to no matter how great they are, or someone you hate no matter how hot they are.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    seanybiker wrote: »
    You dont have looks or personality lol.

    Yup! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    No need to look at the mantelpiece while poking at the fire


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭994


    indough wrote: »
    it takes a lot of personality to make up for bad looks, but only slightly good looks to make up for a bad personality

    Ah, but someone with slightly above average looks and a great personality will have a better life than someone with great looks and a slightly above average personality


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    994 wrote: »
    Ah, but someone with slightly above average looks and a great personality will have a better life than someone with great looks and a slightly above average personality

    yeah but i thought this thread was about who youd rather have as a jump off, not who will have the 'better life'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Hmm...

    Id say personality... but then I thought would I go out with the soundest girl ever if she looked like the elephant man...and no, no I wouldnt.

    So its got to be a balance of both, probarbly 60/40 in favour of personality.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Frankly? A split of the two, but I really couldn't tolerate a total idiot so I've definitely erred on the side of personality moreso than looks.. although my last one was lucky, had both, so I'm not complaining.

    But I can be damn superficial when I wanna be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    Anonomyte wrote: »
    Its the question that no one answers truthfully, but since we are all on this interweb gadget posting our "honest opinions" what is the verdict? Me? Honestly its 70% personality 30% looks, this used to be the other way round but when you get older you realise there are idiots out there!

    Let the games(kinky optional) begin;)
    For me that's 100% personality 100% looks.

    What I'm saying is, with me, your personality score doesn't add up to your looks score, it multiplies. With 0% personality you can be hot as hell I won't even bother, and with 0% looks you can be more witty than Oscar Wilde trying to impress Doogie Howser (oh yeah, you know he'd just have to go for him!), it just won't cut it.

    So yeah, I don't like compromises anyway, which is perhaps why I'm single, but I'd rather be on my on than with an overall "just ok" girl. I just wish my fellow men would understand that they don't need women, they want them.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    They need both or I'm not interested. Of course tehir personality can make them more attractive to me though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭DamoDLK


    Looks, initially, but personality is probably more important in the long run..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    You sign up for mainly the looks, you stay for the personality. Although your decision to have a one night stand or whichever is based purely on looks, your decision to go into a relationship will be looks/personality on an 70/30 scale


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭magicianz


    Looks are the hook me, personality is the difference between being thrown back or kept in the keep bucket


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭FutureTaoiseach


    I like cuddly men but I don't want a relationship I just want man-hugging okay-to-gorgeous fellos and then see you later. Nice personality is a bonus though. I want a cuddly friend with extra's but only casually.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    I've never been more mad about a girl than I was with a supposed plain jane. Her personality was just infectious. So I think if I really click with you mentally, looks can be overlooked to a certain extent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    jackncoke wrote: »
    No need to look at the mantelpiece while poking at the fire
    Still, i like to have a nice mantelpiece.Couldnt sahg a minger just because shes sound.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,710 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Initially it's looks, but who really would be bothered with a good looking girl with a crap
    personality. I think a combination of both. For example, imagine having to wake up every morning to listen to the likes of Cheryl Cole?:eek: Okay, good looking girl, but man, what an absolute headache to have to listen to. So, I would settle for decent looking with great personality as opposed to great looking and a crap personality. Although, I do have the best of both:)

    But, for one night only, definitely a hot chick...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Porkpie


    Most often you have to compromise on one. It's very rare to find a beautiful, sound woman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    jackncoke wrote: »
    No need to look at the mantelpiece while poking at the fire

    While that's solid household chore advice I fail to see what it has to do with the discussion.......


    It's Monday morning, metaphors are beyond me until I get my third cup of coffee.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    I'd say for me it'd be 60/40 in looks/personality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Looks are temporary anyway. If you want to be with someone for life, you need to make sure that in 20 years time when it all drops that you're still left with someone who's good conversation and whose company you actually enjoy.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 496 ✭✭renraw


    beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....but that doesn't count when you're p1ssed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    i think if i am being honest its looks first but personality next. We have this debate quite often amoung friends and one lad put it in a crude by interesting way,

    If you were in a night club and the music was so loud it was to the point of defening and a georgous leggy blonde came over and kissed you would you refuse it? I dont think so!

    Haveing said that if you spoke to a lovely women who connected with you on all levels on the phone would you not feel a slight attraction regardless of how bad she looked when you met her!


    Looks first personality second. However personality endures where as looks fade!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    I'd say I'm 70/30 in favour of personality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Both really... I'm quite bastard-ish in that way. I can't say I'd value one more than the other... Though as someone said already, a good personality counts loads. It really does make someone more attractive.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    It'd have to be a very muddy puddle not to cool a hot iron.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭Bob_Harris


    Rabble Rabble.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Initially, looks. If you're not sexually attracted to your partner it won't work, regardless of how sound they are.

    After the initial attraction evaluation though, personality matters greatly. It will last even less time if you don't get along.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    Looks get you interested, personality seals the deal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Im gonna say looks at first but then you need personality to be with someone long term!! But as far as my saturday night goes its looks :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    A good personality can make someone more physically attractive to me for some very odd reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    It's all about the looks baby.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Nothing better when you get both that can be great!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    jackncoke wrote: »
    No need to look at the mantelpiece while poking at the fire
    I never understood this phrase since when im riding someone I dont exactly be lookin at her ghee the entire time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Anonomyte wrote: »
    Its the question that no one answers truthfully, but since we are all on this interweb gadget posting our "honest opinions" what is the verdict? Me? Honestly its 70% personality 30% looks, this used to be the other way round but when you get older you realise there are idiots out there!

    Let the games(kinky optional) begin;)

    Some people have both, i tend to go for them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭fintonie


    there all the same to me even sound the same, Baaaa Baaaa


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    I like cuddly men but I don't want a relationship I just want man-hugging okay-to-gorgeous fellos and then see you later. Nice personality is a bonus though. I want a cuddly friend with extra's but only casually.

    What?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭JohnThomas09


    I would definetley say Personailty,if you have a good looking Girlfriend your going to feel insecure when she chats other fellas,which will happen all the time due to her good looks.I rather go with an average looing girl that i got on really well with.Good looking girls are more hassel than their worth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    She must have both.

    If she has a personality thats electric but looks like Ed the talking horse, im not hitting that.

    If however, she looks like Halle Berry but her head is so vacuous that she is pulling the moon closer to earths orbit, i'll hit it, but leave..

    You need both, personality intelligence and hottness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    i have to find her attractive on both counts (attractive to me that is:))


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