Pretty? Let’s Vote on It!
BeautifulPeople.net: a dating site full of okay-looking people.
The bastard child of those Hot or Not? Websites and Match.com, BeautifulPeople.net is coming to the U.S. The dating site professes to be the online home of people “who because of their attractive appearance and personal qualities stand out from the majority.” It recently went live in the U.K. Admitted narcissists submit a photo and stats, which are posted for approval by members for three days (one in fifteen supposedly make the cut). Last Thursday, which was still pre-launch, the U.S. site counted 103 members, with 915 being voted on. Who’s been deemed pretty enough? There’s a solicitous-looking tan blonde named Savanah. Or Ania Maria, who submitted a photo of herself sitting down, which seems like cheating. There’s Loula, a Liv Tylerr look-alike. There’s JJason Gale, a dead ringer for Harry Connick, Jr., and Daniel John, a slightly saner Joaquin Phoenix. If you don’t look like a celebrity, you might try what member Julius did: You can barely see what he looks like, but he’s sitting in a BMW.
—Duff McDonald

EDITED BY CARL SWANSON

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