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19 Post author: diegocaleiro 26 November 2013 07:24PM

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Comment author: lmm 27 November 2013 12:52:11PM 0 points [-]

Does expressing it as "why would attractive people motivate me" make it less baffling?

Comment author: diegocaleiro 27 November 2013 12:58:47PM 3 points [-]

sure it does, but it is also false. Unless my brain is literally overriding all other attractiveness information with this one thing. Hurley (the fat nonattractive character in Lost) would be more motivating to me than Jack (the hot main actor) or her http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Ciara-short-hair.jpg