Cheryl Goh the inconsistent blogger

If Looks Could Kill, You’d Be Lying On The Floor

In my entire lifetime, I’ve met less than a handful of people through the Internet. Call me traditional, but I’m inclined to believe that a guy who approaches me online is more likely to be a child pedophile or a serial rapist than say, a guy I meet through a mutual friend. While I personally know three couples who’ve tied the knot after getting to know each other through the Internet, I’ve had no such luck and tend to attract cyberspace’s greatest low lives:

 

So anyway, let’s just say one day an attractive person messages you via Friendster or MySpace or some other social networking/dating site, and after several email exchanges and MSN conversations, you discover that both of you share common interest and have the same wave lengths. A few telephone conversations into the wee hours of the morning - confirm the presence of chemistry, and both of you decide to met up.

You put on your best clothes and rock up to meet her - full of anticipation.

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To your great horror, she lied about her looks but nothing else.

What would you do?

Would you be polite and try to make things work?

Or would you be so pissed by the deceit, you’d storm off?

Would you still try to have sex with her (yes, I know many desperate men) and take off the second you ejaculate?

Or would you scream at her in your best Hokien?

 

Well according to this news article, a 17-year-old boy in northeastern China was so disappointed with the looks of a woman he met over the Internet that he hanged himself after seeing her face-to-face.

 

I would die to see what the chick actually looks like.

 

The unnamed teenager first contacted the woman — known by her chat moniker “Qunjiaofeiyang”, or “Flying Skirt” — using the popular Chinese online messaging software QQ, Xinhua news agency said.

The girl described herself as a beautiful 19-year-old and the pair chatted on the Web for weeks before arranging a December 26 rendezvous in the nearby city of Mudanjiang, in far northeastern Heilongjiang province.

The boy arrived to discover the woman far less attractive than advertised and 10 years older than him, Xinhua said.

The boy immediately returned home, lost his appetite, and four days later hanged himself from a tree.

 

This brings a whole new meaning to the term “killer looks“.