Swedish men, Norwegian women get highest ratings for their looks

 LONDON - Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating Web site that says it only allows "beautiful people" to join.

 Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted, an e-mailed statement from the site showed.

 Existing members of the "elite dating site" rate how attractive potential members are over a 48-hour period, after applicants upload a recent photo and personal profile.

 Swedish men have proved the most successful, with 65 percent being accepted, while Norwegian women are considered the most beautiful with 76 percent accepted, the site said.

 The way that BeautifulPeople.com accepts new members is simple. A potential member applies with a photo and a brief profile. Over 48 hours, existing members of the opposite sex vote whether or not to admit them, the site said.

 Options are: "Yes definitely," "Hmm yes, O.K," "Hmm no, not really" and "No definitely not."

 The site was founded in 2002 in Denmark and went live across the globe last month. Since then, the site has rejected nearly 1.8 million people from 190 countries, admitting just 360,000 new members.

"I would say Britain is stumbling because they don't spend as much time polishing up their appearance and they are letting themselves down on physical fitness," Beautiful People managing director Greg Hodge said. "Next to Brazilian and Scandinavian beauties, British people just aren't as toned or glamorous."

Only the male Russian and Polish applicants fared worse than British men, although Russian women had a 44 percent acceptance rate. Polish women did not appear in the table.

German applicants were slated for offering up unflattering photographs, which may have hindered their acceptance rates at 15 percent for men and 13 percent for women, the lowest rate in their category.

"German men and women aren't faring well, but they are submitting stern images, they need to soften up," Hodge said.

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Nothing personal just found it amusing that such a site even existed with such rules.....

I wonder if they have Mongolian or Papa New Guinea applicants.

Thu 10 December 2009 5.03am, muzungu wrote:

I wonder if they have Mongolian or Papa New Guinea applicants.

Possible, one would have to join to search..

What a load of c r a p.

Put up that you have in your profile 20 million pounds spare and you own a boat, airoplane and want to take them to paris or Vegas on the first date.

I think you may become very beautiful very quickly.

Money equals beauty that simple.

lets all of us put up profiles and pictures of us our wives and girlfriends and some have no job or money and some have lots of money and all kinds of fun stuff not true / or true (who cares) and see who is beautiful.

YUK YUK YUK:- I am afraid to tell you they all have the same bits as everyone else just more expensive no better or worse. But it would be fun to try and get admitted.

Canny has a lot of money doesn't he and owns a business lets try him first.

The real title for this should be-

"Dating site nobody has heard of releases a load of sh!te in order to get publicity and more business"

Also, good looking people do not need dating sites, why would they feel the need to sign up for that rubbish?