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Try showing your teeth? Or doing a narrower smile? Or a poker face?The Duchess of Zeon wrote:the Infamous Marina Photo Look, which despite my best efforts, according to all my friends, never actually changes.
Agreed. No teeth smiles are kinda ... creepy?Adrian Laguna wrote:Einy, the image quality of your latest pics suck, but when I squint I can see you've grown some facial hair. It looks very good.
*thumbs up*
Now post a version that doesn't look like ass.
Try showing your teeth? Or doing a narrower smile? Or a poker face?The Duchess of Zeon wrote:the Infamous Marina Photo Look, which despite my best efforts, according to all my friends, never actually changes.
I haven't smiled while showing my teeth in more than a decade, to the point where I've lost the muscles to do it. I always found smiling while showing your teeth to be extremely creepy, and nasty--it's like you want to take a bite out of the person who is taking a picture of you. If my closed-lipped smiles of secret contentment don't fancy you, well, don't ask me out.havokeff wrote:
Agreed. No teeth smiles are kinda ... creepy?
I think it varies from person to person. In some people it looks warm and friendly, in others it doesn't. In my case, it either looks fake, or makes me look like an unhinged loon, which is why I usually only smile for the camera when my family pesters me about it. That's in pictures though, I do show my teeth when I laugh out loud, and it seems a bit odd that you'd not even do that (as suggested by lacking the muscles).The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I haven't smiled while showing my teeth in more than a decade, to the point where I've lost the muscles to do it. I always found smiling while showing your teeth to be extremely creepy, and nasty--it's like you want to take a bite out of the person who is taking a picture of you.
Vendetta wrote:Richard Gatling was a pioneer in US national healthcare. On discovering that most soldiers during the American Civil War were dying of disease rather than gunshots, he turned his mind to, rather than providing better sanitary conditions and medical care for troops, creating a machine to make sure they got shot faster.
Depends how, natural teeth smile look great on me, but I don't know how to do them consciously, and lips closed looks old, while unnatural teeth showing makes me look like Jack the ripper. (I'll demonstrate sometime, but all my natural teeth showing pictures are in printHawkwings wrote:I'm with the Duchess. Teeth smiles are not friendly, they're predatory.
).You could, Y''know get someone else to take a picture, maybe when you're not waiting for it, at a different angle. Crazy idea, I knowThe Duchess of Zeon wrote:the Infamous Marina Photo Look, which despite my best efforts, according to all my friends, never actually changes.
. See, to me, I equate the teeth smile with laughter. To me a nice toothy smile seems more genuine. To me a big pearly white show means you really mean it. I'm not saying be 70's Joker, but let 'em show.The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I haven't smiled while showing my teeth in more than a decade, to the point where I've lost the muscles to do it. I always found smiling while showing your teeth to be extremely creepy, and nasty--it's like you want to take a bite out of the person who is taking a picture of you. If my closed-lipped smiles of secret contentment don't fancy you, well, don't ask me out.havokeff wrote:
Agreed. No teeth smiles are kinda ... creepy?
You're talking to someone who to express humour frequently slaps her own thigh or the table rather than actually open her mouth. Or simply doubles up shaking, without actually making a noise but with a mirthful tight-lipped little grin on my face. I have to force any laughter at all.havokeff wrote: See, to me, I equate the teeth smile with laughter. To me a nice toothy smile seems more genuine. To me a big pearly white show means you really mean it. I'm not saying be 70's Joker, but let 'em show.
Oh, well CLEARLY.The Duchess of Zeon wrote: Anyway, the smile to me seems to hint that I know something you don't--and most of the time when interacting with people, I do, as I'm far more intelligent than they are.
I was more commenting on the fact that he mostly just takes pictures of his head and shoulders, but yeah... that could work too.Zuul wrote:He's really lost weight, too. Good on him. Unless he has a tapeworm, which is cheating.
Also, I always read his name in an Arnie voice and add "you sunuva bitch" on the end.
actually it's from Three Penny Opera.Adrian Laguna wrote:Hah! I think you just channeled Mart Twain right there.The Yosemite Bear wrote:I refer to it as a carnivore showing an honest face.Hawkwings wrote:I'm with the Duchess. Teeth smiles are not friendly, they're predatory.
Word to this, we chilled later in the day in our spring casual. If you want to see how it was a few days earlier, I have a picture of my front yard a page or two before that.Academia Nut wrote:That's because it was about 20C at the time the picture was taken, the snow being the result of a freak storm in the middle of April, so that was just an amusing set of pictures taken to show just how weird our weather is that we could get enough snow for it to stick around and for it to still be warm enough for me to be bare foot and in short and shirts shovelling it a few days later.
Build me some nice weapons then sex me up, Tony!Maxentius wrote:
My true name is Grumpkfkmkfmfmf. I am an ambassador from Almighty Imperium of the Serene Xixixlzix Republic, dispatched from our capitol of Rectum IV to categorize your puny dirt planet for the possibility of future invasion. Your cousin Alex was kind enough to donate his body to our Holy cause.The Yosemite Bear wrote:max looks like my brother Alex
