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Unfair to the facially challenged...

How terrible it must be to be ugly. Or, as the PC brigade would say, not very attractive.

According to a recent report, people are being paid more (or less) depending upon how they look, rather than their abilities.

Okay, okay, that sort of thing has been going on since ... well, I was a boy ... but in today's world of fairness to all I'm astounded it still continues.

Now I can understand short people - those under six foot tall - not being hired to pack high shelves.

I can also see the point in tactfully declining a person with running sores on their face for a waiter's job (you don't need to see that while trying to eat jelly and custard).

And, I find it hard to criticise a potential boss who thinks mini-skirts are not appropriate on someone with anorexic legs - particularly if he's sitting at a desk all day and runs the risk of worsening his obvious vericose veins.

But, why on earth would you pay Heidi Klum more than this chap? Beats the hell out of me.

Anyway, the survey results showed that people in the top 30 per cent of lookers can earn between 3 and 5 per cent more than ordinary people in the middle. The poor buggas in the lowest 10 per cent of lookers, who the academic in charge of the survey rated as "pretty ugly people", earn up to 10 per cent less.

Luckily for this old codger not only do I have a brain the size of Albert Einstein, the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the virility of a rabbit on Viagra - but I scrub up pretty well in the facial department.

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