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timmy
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The Beauty Pageant goes live at Midnight UK time, on 31 July. Which means you can vote from 00:00 on 1 August.
Vote for as many of the guys featured to select the finalists. A new poll will happen to select the finalists. Your finalists, from your votes
Click the Pic to see the pageant and to choose your finalists
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Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I mean, like, how many times each guy was submitted?
Some were undoubtedly submitted only once, but it would still be fun to know. Maybe not now, since that might skew the voting results, but when it's all over and done... Btw, some of my guys didn't make it to the list (well, one at least, I have only given it a cursory glance so far). Kinda curious as to why... 
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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The guy I thought was missing actually wasn't. LOL, sorry!
Btw... Cirro Clofton's real name is actually Cirroc Lofton. (Guess this means I've watched too much Star Trek, heh heh. Wasn't my submission though. )
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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timmy
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voting opens in just under an hour
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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125 candidates, ONE session to vote, and you vote for as many of the guys in that session as you like.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Me. too. and a lot of others as well...
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Me, too!
Excellent job done by all: Tom for coming up with the idea, and Timmy and Bernd for making it happen. Congratulations and thanks to all three of you!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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saben
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Thanks to my own laziness in not nominating Haley Joel Osment isn't there, so as a result I'm not gonna vote *pouts* There are some other cuties there, no doubt, but that still doesn't change the fact that I'm not voting 
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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timmy
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Yup, after all, someone else will do it!
Go on, vote! What will it cost you?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Vote please... Come on, join the fun!
There's a slight problem though... Well, I don't know if it's a problem per se, it depends on how you look at it I guess.
What I mean is, unless we change the rules so this round chooses the top 50 or so guys, there won't be a single non-pink guy on the roster for the second round. I utter a somewhat startled, 'wtf?'
Does skin color really play THAT large a part in determining what's hot for people? I must admit I find that not only disappointing, but actually more than vaguely disturbing.
I'd like to hear people's opinions on this. I know I'm not perfect myself, I did a conscious attempt to nominate non-pinks, not because I felt I had to, but because I truly enjoy people of all colors, yet I still only managed to scrape together four guys and of those one barely counts as non-pink. Now to be fair to myself, that really tells more about my lack of imagination than anything else because there's tons of non-pink hotties out there (and the pink-competition is awfully stiff *ahem*), but I'd still like to hear how some of you people reason.
Why is this apparantly such a big deal? What are the possible social repercussions of such a prevalent attitude? Come on people, let's get a nice discussion going here.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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but see like my fvaorite is matt damon (yes i nominated him too and sean patrick) but like i dunnoi voted for will smith to because he is so cute on saved by the bell. but besides that i dunno, just not attracted to other races really.
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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saben
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But if I was I think that I'd be voting almost solely for whites. Why? It's not because I think that they are any more attractive, in fact I find asians in general more appealing than whites and people of african decent, indians (from India, interestingly enough they are actually caucasian and more closely related to whites than to blacks or asians) can be very attactive in their own way, too.
So, why then would I be mainly voting for white people? Well, quite simply because I find the ones nominated more attractive than any of the non-whites nominated and I don't believe in being politically correct just for the sake of being politically correct. I judge people on their individual merits REGARDLESS of race, gender or anything like that, minority groups should get no special treatment as far as I'm concerned.
The western media is filled with white people, so obviously the quantities of good looking white males is going to be higher, provided that the chance of being good looking is equal regardless of race. If there is even a 10:1 ratio of whites to other races, then there is high chance that the top ten good looking guys will be white. Not to mention that a lot of the guys of other races that DO get into movies/ music or whatever are usually older at entrance level than their white counterparts.
One could also say that because the top x number of males are straight that we are actually being discriminate against gays, obviously I don't think that is the case, just the number of gay guys is a lot less and also when they are still kids they seldom publically acknowledge being gay.
Anyway, if I could read kanji better and if I wasn't so lazy, you would maybe have got some real Japanese cuties who would well deserve to be in the top whatever, with the current selection however, I would have to say that my votes would only be going to whites (were I to be voting!)
Oh well, I hope that's the kind of discussion you wanted and I hope that I haven't offended anyone! I'm still not gonna vote though *pouts off into the sunset*
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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OK, you can close the polls aned count the ballots.
Think good thoughts,
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timmy
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An attraction is more "tribal" than ethnic.
Look at married couples. She with a big nose is with the guy with the big nose. Big nosed kids arrive, and are desirable to other big nosed people.
In terms of human genetics, big noses tend to be tribal things.
We are pre-programmed to find people most like we are as attractive people.
It is logical, therefore, that people of the same ethnicity tend to find each other more attractive than other ethnicities. The closer the ethnic background the closer the similarities.
To have a relationship across an athnic boundary requires a huge piece of good fortune. It needs each person to be able to reciognise beauty (in whatever form it takes) in the other ethnicity. And to find it an attractive beauty as well.
In heterosexual relationships which produce children the challenges are even greater. The child will be seeking, by nature, the same type of person in looks. Because of mixing the genes from one ethnic group to another, such a match will be hard to find. The practical challenges are immense.
I do realise there are many exceptions to this general set of quasi-rules. And peolpe reading them shoudl not interpret them or me as racist
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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110 people have cast a vote, and voted for 2269 people. That's an average of 18 per person.
And we have not yet been running 24 hours.
This is an amazing set of votes.
So, if you haven't voted and are going to vote, do it now
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Thats pretty close cuz theres only like one type of guys I really look like and thats it. Actually that type isnt so much the same as me but in fact the same as my big brother josh more or less. So yeah I guess I can see what ya mean...
Peace and Trees
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Was Johnny Sheffield of Tarzan fame. I guess you just have to be old enough to remember him swinging through the trees in that breach cloth to appreciate hehehe.
Boy! pacy pacy. LOL
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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I was raised in a pretty much all-white environment, and didn't meet my first non-white person until I was in University. Plus back then there weren't any minorities in the media, either.
But I ended up not being attracted to other Caucasians, opposite to Andy and what timmy was saying.
I have only ever been attracted to Hispanics and South-east Asians, which actually look fairly similar (It's difficult to tell the diffference between a Thai/Indonesian and a Mexican, for example, in many cases. So how did that happen, I wonder? I'm a shrink, and nobody really knows how attraction works!
In non-white countries, there is still a color stigma. Darker people are considered lower class in countries all over the world.
Here in Thailand, people from the north are considered the best looking because they are "whiter". In the media, mixed-race people are considered the most beautiful. Yet, the name for mixed race people in Thai language also indicates a prejudice, as the term means literally "half-person".
Weird and wonderful world, huh?
I also agree that we have fewer minorities to chose from in thiss poll as there are far fewer minorities in the movies, etc. Sounds very logical!
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Rumour here has it that Yong might like you, too, smith...did you check out his website for more pics, etc.? hehehe
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We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Hey smith, don't those computer expert contacts of yours in the US Justice Department and the CIA owe you favors? [ ].
Seriously (I may have mentioned this here before, so my apologies if you're not reading this for the first time): a close friend of mine was discussing his daughter with me this one time (she was about 11 then). When we got on the subject of her dating, he said there was one thing for sure: she better not ever bring home a black boy (he was Italian, by the way). I was stunned that he would say such a thing, but then I told him, "You know, there's every chance in the world that she'll bring home a black boy who proves to be the total and complete salt of the earth; there's an equally good chance that she'll bring home an Italian boy who ends up being a total and complete son-of-a-bitch." He had no answer for that.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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timmy
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184 people have cast a vote, and voted for 3405 people. That's an average of 27 per person.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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He said at first that he didn;t know whether to be simply disgusted or to be sick.
We talked some more.
The issue was and is that he is not attracted to guys. No, that was his issue. Past tense. He need never be attracted to guys.
We talked more about women and beauty.
Examples are Ulrika Jonsson, beautiful but unattractive, and Suzi Quattro, attractive but not beautiful. He started to see the difference between being able to admire beuaty without wanting to sleep with it, and wanting to sleep with someone even if they are not beautiful.
I wonder if he'll be able to acknowledge that another man is beautiful one day? I'm working on it.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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279 people have cast a vote, and voted for 5269 people. That's an average of 18 per person.
OK, we got the average a bit screwy before. SQl is Sql!
We have the finals pages ready to click in automatically and the final results pages ready too.
Now anyone who wants to say "WOW!" well done" better write to Tom who did all the legwork on the pics etc, and to Megaman who created the entire polling engine, and has done all the behind the scenes work.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Good Job Tom and Megaman, is so cool when we get to see others get along and work together. You two did a super job. Can't wait for the next round.
Brian
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Could we get a list of the number of submissions please? 
WHHHHHEEEEEE I VOTED!!!! 
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