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Critical or just plain rude?

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PECS Sun 03-Feb-19 22:06:24

Celebrities are in the public eye: actors, TV performers, singers, royalty etc. and , like any one they are open for
criticism of their actions, behaviour or even being bad at what they do.

To be critical of someone's appearance or a physical attribute is not OK in my book ..that is just rude. But I do sometimes see or hear people say they dislike someone because of an aspect of their physical being: funny eyes, squeaky voice, bushy eyebrows etc.

Am I too prissy to think like this?

annep1 Tue 05-Feb-19 00:43:32

KW? M?

muffinthemoo Tue 05-Feb-19 00:46:26

is it still alright to dislike a celebrity for being obviously an enormous arse

railman Tue 05-Feb-19 09:37:00

Lilyflower How on earth can there be such a thing as .... Middle class manners ... !

Gobsmacked

lovebeigecardigans1955 Tue 05-Feb-19 09:38:51

We probably shouldn't but we do - maybe it's just part of the human condition to judge. We tend to understand people who are more like ourselves but not others. I try not to be unkind but I know I have been in the past. We're all the same under the skin after all.

Gaggi3 Tue 05-Feb-19 10:10:19

I think I know who you mean, PECS, and it drives us crazy too. Fortunately, don't watch the programme where the offending word occurs so often, but there are at least 2 others where 'thahsands' pops up.

Jalima1108 Tue 05-Feb-19 11:32:29

bushy eyebrows etc
Is it OK to say that I loved Denis Healey's eyebrows?

But Johnny Depp's eye makeup is a real turnoff (I would send him to a desert island with Helen Mirren).

PECS Tue 05-Feb-19 13:38:50

Oh Jalima .send me instead of Helen???

PECS Tue 05-Feb-19 13:42:40

I think commenting on choices people have made..e.g face lifts, over bronzing etc. is different to commeting a natural feature.

Jalima1108 Tue 05-Feb-19 13:47:07

Oh Jalima .send me instead of Helen

goes off mutering 'you cannot be serious, you cannot be serious, you cannot be serious' …..

grin

I agree re commenting on face lifts etc rather than natural features which is unkind.

PECS Tue 05-Feb-19 13:56:24

I find his type of looks appealing.

PECS Tue 05-Feb-19 14:01:16

muffin people have to accept their behaviours and attitudes might not be appealing to everyone.. celeb or not! e.g. If a person chooses to shoot their mouth off in a state of drunkeness and causes offence..they have to take the consequences!

Lily65 Tue 05-Feb-19 15:36:01

Are we not playing scrabble anymore?

PECS Tue 05-Feb-19 18:18:28

Well you can spell it out to some people..but they still don't get it!

Lily65 Tue 05-Feb-19 18:44:09

muffin, is it ok to dislike a celebrity for having an enormous arse?

MissAdventure Tue 05-Feb-19 19:05:18

smile

Jalima1108 Tue 05-Feb-19 19:42:02

oh no, are you trying to drive me off the thread PECS!!

Theoddbird Wed 06-Feb-19 13:57:00

PECS....I agree...people are too quick to critisize. They should look at themselves first. Nobody is perfect...