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State Department Deletes Tweet Suggesting You re Not a 10 – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

Yes, the federal government had just awkwardly referred to ranking attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10, while puncturing a fantasy of vacation travel: the possibility of romance. If you re unattractive here, the tweet seemed to imply, you re unattractive there. And you could be robbed.

That s apparently too cold even by the standards of the Internet.

via www.nytimes.com

This is very funny, but it’s difficult to explain exactly why.