Heh, yeah, I didn't offer much options - sorry. I was trying to keep it as narrow as possible. It's certainly not the most profound of polls. Thanks for answering it! :)

(I like your prompt.)

Yeah, definitely more red than Amanda - but she is particularly yellow-blonde. The colour-names cover a multitude of possibilities.

And I'm starting to see that people don't necessarily have a mental image of other people on lj. I don't, either - but then again, when people have mentioned something about their appearance, my reaction often tends to be 'hm - I wouldn't have guessed that' - you know? It's like... there's not a complete preconception of what someone is, but there's kind of a preconception of what they're not. Or... something.

Sharing a picture... I might. I'm not very fond of putting pics of me up - I prefer to remain an enigma (*g*). But I do have some nice photos from my last holiday...

And Teal'c's muscles look particularly lovely by candlelight. :)

Gawd bless you for that. *g*

I don't remember a description of her, actually... I imagine she'd look like a grubbier, smaller, more real version of War, actually. And War was red-headed...

Me too!

*looks at icon* Bald?

Yeah, I hadn't thought about that - sometimes we might not have any mental image as specific as hair-colour. I think I picture you as resembling a picture of Eric Idle, I'm afraid. (Not Eric himself, but a picture of him.) Still, could be worse - it could be John Cleese.

And I had a suspicion that, if I put ticky boxes, I'd get people voting for all of them. *is strict* Anyhow, I am going to work on all of them, eventually... I'm just no good at prioritising, so I'm getting you lot to do it for me. :)

Once you have an idea of someone's personality, preconceived ideas of someone from their looks disappear anyway, to a large degree

Absolutely. I'm curious, though, how it works the other way around - whether a preconceived notion of someone's personality affects your idea of their looks.

Not that this poll is really going to tell me much; it's not that scientific. But it's interesting.

And, heh. I think it's a more abstract idea of how you look, though... To me, most people on lj are really a collection of words - a way of phrasing things that is 'them'. Like you said before, to you, I look like snarky fluff.

Hee. *preens, shows off icon*

Yes, there is that, too - I guess we all judge people by the colours they use on their lj, all that stuff. It's all very abstract - nothing to do with how we might expect someone to look.

Not really. :)

Well, it's kind of inconclusive, but it is only a superficial lj poll. I am going to post about it tomorrow. Want to give it a few more hours, see if I can get some Australian votes. :)

Heh. You're a red-head by spirit.

I'm not so sure about the reality of the red-head discrimination thing. I suspect that it's mostly something cooked up by the tabloid press, to be honest - and ironically, they're the most likely to pick on something like that. Billie Piper's ex-husband, a DJ, is very red-headed, and every tabloid headline about him manages to have some pun on "Ginger".

But in real life? I don't think it's picked on than any other characteristic that makes someone stand out.

I do not see the captured by pirates WIP on the list *pouts*

There's "Other"! I didn't want to put them all - got bored of writing it. :)

For instance, I'm always surprised when I learn that LJ friends are male or live in England or Africa or anywhere other than the US because I am female and live in the US, so obviously it's the same for everyone else.

And that is exactly what I'm curious about. Because that's what I tend to do, too. Basically, I'm wondering if people will put mirrored answers - that they're blonde and they think I'm blonde, for example.

Notsomuch, so far, as it turns out... Another beautiful theory ruined. :)

Yeah, that's what most people seem to be saying - that they don't have a precise idea, but conversely, finding out what someone actually does look like doesn't always hit what you expect.

Then again, most people have guessed right. And then again, it's the most common colour, according to the second question.

Hee. Somehow I am not surprised. ;)

Aha, but what if it's red pepper?

I love the names they give hair colours. And nail varnish - they give nail varnishes the best names. My current favourite is Titania - a kind of pale, sparkly green, appropriate for the Queen of the Fairies.