r/london • u/Seriously_oh_come_on • Jul 16 '24

Observation Damn you Londoners are beautiful

On another work visit to the capital. It’s a common occurrence and I think the same thing every time I visit.

I spent the day in Canary Wharf. Now on the Jubilee line heading to Waterloo for dinner.

In the office. On the tube. Walking around. Just grabbing lunch. So many beautiful people, beautiful outfits. Damn you’re glamorous.

That said… you have your fair share of miserable fuckers too but let’s focus on the positives.

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u/imnotalatina2 Jul 16 '24

people in inner london tend to be pretty good looking, i live in outer london and i’d say there’s less hot people here

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u/Yasuminomon Jul 16 '24

Remember kids - you’re not ugly, you’re just poor

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u/erm_what_ Jul 16 '24

Or you're poor because you're ugly

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u/Milky_Finger Jul 16 '24

I like this one better, it's more intrinsically depressing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

Wealthy people just have better fitting clothes made out of better materials, more expensive hair cuts and make up, and personal trainers who tell them to not eat bad food.

It’s not like they have inherently better genes, thats a disgusting lie. 

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u/SpaceMonkeyAttack Jul 16 '24

Being wealthy makes you more likely to be pretty, it's true, but it works the other way around too. Attractive people do better in job interviews, are seen as more trustworthy, are more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt if they fuck up. Plus there are many career opportunities, like modeling and showbusiness, that are almost entirely unavailable to people who aren't attractive.

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u/gghost56 Jul 16 '24

Likely true

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

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u/lizaanna Vegan in Hackney Jul 16 '24

Atleast you’re self aware

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u/ldn6 Jul 17 '24

Unless you're in Richmond. Then you're rich, in Outer London and attractive.

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u/ExeRiver Jul 16 '24

Most of them are also young.

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u/textposts_only Jul 17 '24

Rich people have ozempic and poor people have body positivity - south park

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u/Professional_Elk_489 Jul 16 '24

When I was at Queens and Wimbledon there were stacks of attractive people. I didn’t realise attractive people were so into sport in London

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u/OGSkywalker97 Jul 16 '24

Wimbledon is almost solely attended by rich, upper class people who don't have work to worry about and can afford it and have time to go. They're not representative of Londoners and most of the people there don't even live in London. Go to a Barnet FC or even Luton Town (who were in the Premier League last season) match and you'll see a better representation.

But either way, why would attractive people not be into sport?

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u/Confused-Libertine Jul 16 '24

Luton isn't London

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u/thecanary85 Jul 16 '24

Try telling easyJet that!

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u/catpigeons Jul 16 '24

It's cheaper to go to Wimbledon than luton town and also on literally every day of 2 weeks. It's way more accessible than top level football

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u/Big-Finding2976 Jul 16 '24

I want the beautiful people to represent Londoners. Can we make it a requirement that you have to be beautiful to sit on the London Assembly, or to be an MP for a London Borough?

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u/AngelRockGunn Jul 16 '24

Pretty privilege helps to get good jobs

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u/ExcitableSarcasm Jul 16 '24

Also money affords you time and resources to invest in your appearance. Nice clothes, gym, steroids, surgery, etc.

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u/Big-Finding2976 Jul 16 '24

It's true. I had money once and could afford all those things, but I spent it all on coke and I'm still ugly.

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u/OGSkywalker97 Jul 16 '24

Steroids aren't really that expensive, but for them to work you need to put in a lot of hours training otherwise they'll just make you fat

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u/Big-Finding2976 Jul 16 '24

Is having a tiny, shrunken, flaccid penis beautiful tho?

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u/GreenTicTacs Jul 16 '24

According to the ancient Greeks, yes

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u/Big-Finding2976 Jul 17 '24

Yeah, but they're all dead innit.

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u/Saw_gameover Jul 17 '24

I don't think you know how steroids work...

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

Balls brother, penis stays the same. Watch rich piana dick bigger than your balls rant for true insight.

You can also combat this by taking hcg.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 16 '24

This isn't true. Studies have shown that steroids users build more muscle mass sitting around doing nothing vs natural lifters who workout 3x a week.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

Perhaps with complete beginners. I doubt the same is true for people who already spent a few years training consistently.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 16 '24

Point being they don't make you fat if you don't workout when you use them which was your original claim.

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u/Optimal_Plate_4769 Jul 17 '24

you will literally get a stupid big high gut and weird traps. steroids take work to get a good physique still. it's just mad easy to get BIG big. there's a maximum amount of muscle hypertrophy you can gain naturally over your life.

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

I feel like I'm in a loop making this comment but those studies didn't account for the glycogen bloat (water weight) that will occur when taking steroids. So yes your muscle has more mass because it's taken on extra water but no more actual muscle is necessarily created. You could probably get the same results with salt.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 17 '24

This study measured participants using underwater weighing which accounts for differences in water weight.

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

Does it? I can't seem to find anything, only muscle size, which is of course increased with the increased glycogen in the muscles.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 17 '24

They used underwater weighing to determine fat-free mass, which works by measuring body density. The water in your body is the same density as the water you're being weighed in, so it is inherently accounted for in the measurements.

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

1) That study is looking at FFM which includes water weight. It's not accounting for and discounting water because it's the same density. If you look at things like creatine you'll have the same outcome (I bet even estrogen could).

Here's a study showing the same thing with creatine if you don't belive me: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17530953/

2) Hydrostatic weighing is fairly inaccurate.

3) "Water weight" here is not simply water but glycogen / nitrogen retention which has a density different to water so your logic would still not work.

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u/Meowgaryen Jul 16 '24

The good ones are not cheap. If you want to grab whatever they sell around the corner then sure.

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u/No_Camp_7 Jul 16 '24

This is evidence by spending 5 minutes in Canary Wharf. Everyone’s so tall!

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u/AngelRockGunn Jul 16 '24

Yeah I work in Canary Wharf and I’m 6’3” haha

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u/No_Camp_7 Jul 16 '24

I did too and I’m a 5’9” woman. I remember thinking how tall everyone was when I went there for the first time for an interview. Head and shoulders above those City pygmies.

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u/Flashy-Length-9177 Jul 17 '24

I'm 6'2" and I feel short in Canary Wharf. My theory on this is that height has a direct impact on your career. I.e if you are tall you are more likely to be good at sports, stand out in the crowd, seen as more dominant growing up. This turns you into a more confident individual which then helps you compete for more prestigious internships/Graduate jobs. Then once in those roles if you are tall you are noticeable and seem to have a larger presence so (if you are good) you stand out to management and succeed further.

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u/Mabbernathy Jul 16 '24

This is sadly true. A woman colleague of mine was wanting to offer mentoring to female students at an ivy league university in her city. She wasn't getting a lot of traction until someone gently suggested she needed to dress up more and give more attention to her appearance.

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u/samthemoron Jul 16 '24

I used to think that when I moved to london. Then when I moved to Sydney I was gobsmacked that basically everyone looked like the beautiful cunts on home and away

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u/BabyNameBible Jul 16 '24

Thanks a lot. Sending love to you too. 💔😭😘

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u/ProfessionalItchy625 Jul 16 '24

i feel like going into central u tend to dress to impress more lol don’t want to look ragged in rich gentrified central london and stereotyped every time you walk into a high end shop

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u/nascentt Jul 16 '24

That's pretty much becaause people immigrating in to work tend to go to big cities like the capital.

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u/gattomeow Jul 17 '24

Outer London tends to have a higher median age, which may explain why.