Comments on: Smile! (Or You’ll Wind Up Divorced!) http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/ As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Fri, 17 May 2013 21:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sara http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7350 sara Fri, 01 May 2009 15:46:41 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7350 “unhappy singledom” is an oxymoron in some cases.

]]> By: Ari http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7329 Ari Fri, 01 May 2009 13:55:24 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7329 What if you were just having some bad days on picture day?
What if the girl in line behind you pinched your right before you got in front of the camera and the photographer started barking his/her demands? “Move to the left, put your arm here, tilt your head a little to the right.. no, a little to the left. now look up.. oh oh! only with your eyes! tilt your head back down… too far..”

Seriously? School pictures amount to crap anyway. You’re sooo frustrated by the time they snap that photo that, at best, you’re grimacing.

]]> By: madaha http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7277 madaha Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:14:16 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7277 what if you’re like me, and were totally NOT smiling with your eyes? My lips were smiling, but my eyes looked on the verge of tears. Looking at the pics now, the internal pain is sooo obvious to me.

But technically, I was smiling.

]]> By: Alyssa http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7270 Alyssa Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:57:26 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7270 I’m warry of the “That study is courtesy of the Institute of No Shit” attitude because knowing something and being able to proove it are two vastly different things in science. A hypothesis might seem obvious, but it doesn’t amount for shit in science if there is no proof.
That being said, this smiling study really tells us nothing. First, in order for any study to be valid, it has to be repeatable by anyone. Until I see the same results from someone else, I find the results highly suspect. Second, this study shows correlation, not causality. In other words, it is likely that children who have unhappy childhoods often end up with problems that affect their marriage later in life, and their unhappy childhood also caused them to be not smiling in their childhood photos. In this case, childhood photos and divorce rates have nothing to do with each other; they only sare a common variable: unhappy childhoods.
The fact that the researcher (or reporter?) tries to make a causility statement based on a correlation is crap. Whomever made the obedience statement needs to be reminded that correlation does not equal causality.

]]> By: Pilgrim Soul http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7241 Pilgrim Soul Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:52:35 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7241 I don’t smile with my teeth either, because my teeth and very discoloured and terrible-looking because of the front two being chipped and fake. I’m actually getting them crowned soon less out of cosmetics than a “right now I have great dental insurance and I will not have such forever” and considering whether I’m gonna throw in some bleach so that at least I can minimize my self-consciousness.

And as the Harpies know, I refuse to have my picture taken. I look fine in person, but cameras hate me. Forever and ever, awomen.

]]> By: politicalpartygirl http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7240 politicalpartygirl Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:50:07 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7240 *timbre of their voices

]]> By: politicalpartygirl http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7239 politicalpartygirl Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:48:40 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7239 Ugh. This reminds me of a study I learned about in Psych 101: They had boys and girls (all below the age of 7) read a book aloud and analyzed the tabor and tone of their voices since there is no scientific difference between the vocal chords of young girls and boys. But the girls’ voices sounded different from the boys because they were SMILING like good little girls when they spoke.

Also, I contend that my school photos may have caught me mid-word or in the “wait just one second” pose, I’m smiling with my eyes, dammit! I can haz happy marriage nao?

]]> By: DangerMouse http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7238 DangerMouse Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:48:11 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7238 I seem to remember that it was Not Cool for guys to smile in photos when I was in high school, particularly driver’s license photos.

I hope no worried woman goes to our yearbook to find someone after reading this study.

]]> By: SarahMC http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7237 SarahMC Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:46:19 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7237 “unhappy singledom.” Isn’t that redundant!?

]]> By: PhDork http://www.harpyness.com/2009/04/30/smile-or-youll-wind-up-divorced/comment-page-1/#comment-7236 PhDork Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:00:45 +0000 http://www.harpyness.com/?p=5733#comment-7236 I was never a smiler, and I still hate cameras with a passion. AND I HAVE NEVER MARRIED!!!eleventy!! I have been SCIENCED!

(It occurs to me that a “Bish, plz” tag might come in handy.)

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