Irish men ranked “ugliest in the world”February 13, 2012 - 15:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A website for so-called beautiful people has ranked males from the island of Ireland as the ugliest in the world, Belfast Telegraph reported. Just one in 20 of Northern Ireland single males who apply to land their profiles on beautifulpeople.com are accepted, according to the website's latest statistics. New analysis of last year's nation-by-nation figures has also revealed that the Republic of Ireland and Poland are joint second-to-bottom on the list, with just a 9% success rate. That's no consolation to Irish men, who at just 6%, have been rated as the world's ugliest by the Los Angeles-based site's chiefs - a stark contrast to the table-topping Swedes at 65%. The elite dating club now claims more than five million members worldwide, despite its strict vetting procedures whereby picky members of the opposite sex rate you on the basis of how attractive you look in a submitted profile picture. Although an average of one in five, or 20% of all global applicants - up to 3,000 every day - make it on to the site, there are huge discrepancies between nations. Men from India (15%), Germany (15%) and the UK (12%) also proved a turn-off for voters, while hunks from Brazil (45%), Denmark (40%) and Italy (39%) got the thumbs-up. However, there was better news for Irish women, who have a respectable 19% admission rate, above the bottom-of-the-list Germans at just 13%. Scandinavian babes dominated the top three places, with Norwegians the pick of the world's beauties at 76%, followed by Sweden at 68% and Iceland at 66%. Top stories As a result of floods in Armenia’s northern Lori and Tavush provinces, 17 bridges, including five large ones, have collapsed. David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. Partner news Most popular in the section | Aliyev travels to Turkey at Erdogan's invitation On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. CSTO budget “to be adjusted due to Yerevan’s non-payment of contributions” The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Russia sends note of protest to Armenia over envoy’s trip to Ukraine’s Bucha Russia has sent a note of protest to Armenia over the visit of Vladimir Karapetyan and Tigran Ter-Margaryan to Bucha. Concept to complete Yerevan Cascade discussed at city hall A conceptual proposal to complete the Cascade complex in downtown Yerevan has been presented by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. |