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Ladies, do you find any pre-1950 leaders hot?

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Politics aside, do you find Jefferson, Napoleon, Mussolini...or any other political leaders pre-1950 attractive?
 
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FDR wasn't a bad-lookin' guy.
 
:popcorn2: (Getting ready for the thread to inevitably head further south the further this conversation goes.)
 
OrphanSlug said:
:popcorn2: (Getting ready for the thread to inevitably head further south the further this conversation goes.)
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Let me oblige you.:mrgreen:

To my knowledge they're all pretty much very cold by now. What is this, a necrophilia survey.:roll:
 
If Stalin didn't have the mustache he might have been good-looking.
 
Speaking of the post immediately above mine.

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Ladies... :mrgreen:
 
Josie said:
Yeah, he's pretty sexy.
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Supposedly, a colorized and slightly photoshopped picture of Hitler actually wound up scoring pretty well in an internet "Hot or not?" poll not too long ago as well.

"Go figure," I guess. :shrug:

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I read Stalin's bio and he was a real ladies man when he was younger. He used to sing and supposedly had a sense of humor. But he was still rotten even in his youth as he allegedly impregnated several women without a single care as to how they would manage it.
 
JC Callender said:
I read Stalin's bio and he was a real ladies man when he was younger. He used to sing and supposedly had a sense of humor. But he was still rotten even in his youth as he allegedly impregnated several women without a single care as to how they would manage it.
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Hardly surprising, IMO.
 
On a less "mass murdery" note, my mother's said that she finds Robert E. Lee kind of sexy before.

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She said that the eyes remind her a bit of my father's, actually.

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Gathomas88 said:
Supposedly, a colorized and slightly photoshopped picture of Hitler actually wound up scoring pretty well in an internet "Hot or not?" poll not too long ago as well.

"Go figure," I guess. :shrug:

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the scowl is too outputting for me
 
It's kinda hard for me to find a lot of them attractive because I love it when a man smiles in his picture.
 
Josie said:
It's kinda hard for me to find a lot of them attractive because I love it when a man smiles in his picture.
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Yeah, I think it was a dentistry issue back then, although there is the rare pic of someone smiling from time to time.

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I guess since Stalin was given a SO already ... Another Communist, Friedrich Engels when he was 20. Although he looks a bit doughy.

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opendebate said:
the scowl is too outputting for me
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Josie said:
It's kinda hard for me to find a lot of them attractive because I love it when a man smiles in his picture.
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I guess I should have been born a Russian. :neutral:

Why Don't Russians Smile?

Russians call a constant respectful smile a "duty smile" [дежурной улыбкой] and it is considered a bad character trait, an expression of insincerity, concealment, an unwillingness to express one's true feelings. "Wipe that duty smile off your face!" someone said to a Voronezh teacher of English who was constantly, in the American manner, wearing a smile.
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In Russian communicational awareness there is an imperative that a smile should express a sincere reflection of one’s good mood and positive relations. In order to have a right to smile, one must truly have positive feelings toward the other person, or, at the given moment, to be in a truly exceptional mood.
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I'm friendly enough, I suppose. I'm also often in a pretty decent mood, which keeps me from looking too severe. However, the big fake "Stepford" smiles a lot of people like to wear positively give me the creeps sometimes.

I guess that's why I'd never make it as a salesman. :lol:
 
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JC Callender said:
Yeah, I think it was a dentistry issue back then, although there is the rare pic of someone smiling from time to time.
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Exposure time was a minute for early cameras, and moving would cause the photo to blur. Which with me smiling even for 10 seconds or longer turns out as a grimace. Actually a lot of early portraits are of people bracing themselves up against a hidden headrest trying their best not to breathe.
 
Napoleon was handsome when he was young...

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Josie said:
Ugh...
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Okay..so if you had to chose...what pre-1950 leader do you find...hot?

I see you more as a Martin Van Buren type. lol
 
JC Callender said:
Politics aside, do you find Jefferson, Napoleon, Mussolini...or any other political leaders pre-1950 attractive?
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FDR was handsome.
Lincoln was supposed to have been ugly...even called ugly. I think he looked kinda sexy, though. Not handsome, but kinda sexy.
Teddy Roosevelt was cute. Not handsome, but cute.
James Madison pics indicate he was handsome
Not sure about Thomas Jefferson. Sometimes he looks attractive.

The problem with Presidents is that they are old by the time they are elected. Some of them would've been considered lookers in their younger days, probably. Also, the animation of being alive adds something to just a picture of someone. Sometimes a pic alone doesn't fully indicate how attractive someone is when they are in person, moving and talking. Personality is part of attractiveness, as is physical agility and grace of movement.
 
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