In all honesty... I think smiling is a form of insecurity.

[Master Quan]

It takes less facial muscles to form a smile than something resembling a frown. Your chin, lower lip, and upper lip are most comfortable in a smiling-like position.

I'm pretty sure the face is most comfortable when it is neither frowning or smiling.

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[rubah]

Are they all different muscles?

[lovehurts]

does it take more muscles to have a straight face than it does to smile? Does it or doesnt? I dont realy know...

[Master Quan]

Are they all different muscles?

The two expressions are likely to have a few muscles in common.

[fantasyjunkie]

I smile from being HAPPY!!! WOOHOO!!! YAY!!! WEE!!!!!!!

[Meow]

And you don't have to waste all that energy to frown either, because wearing a spiked dog collar says all that really needs saying about one's basic outlook on life.

[Loony BoB]

Sometimes I smile without even realising it. I'm sitting around at work thinking of something (or someone) that makes me happy, and then someone asks what I'm smiling about. I don't even notice it. I smile a lot when there is nobody else around, too. Insecurity? No, sir. Maybe sometimes, but most certainly not all of the time.

My face naturally frowns when I'm thinking seriously on something, and it naturally smiles when I'm around someone I love. It would probably be more of an effort to not smile when I'm around Danielle than it would be to smile, so maybe that whole muscle-usage thing is just a load of bollocks.

[Anaisa]

And you don't have to waste all that energy to frown either, because wearing a spiked dog collar says all that really needs saying about one's basic outlook on life.

Not if you are actually a Dog though. Of the animal variety that is.

[Croyles]

People feel compelled to make sure people know what they're feeling, so they smile rather than just take the risk of letting others assume what they're feeling.

I doubt it. In all honesty, it sounds like a justification for yourself to me. But i could be completely wrong.

[Dr. Casey]

That's wonderful, Casey.

I never thought you'd say anything this nice to me, Ryûkishi...

Thank you.

[Hambone]

People feel compelled to make sure people know what they're feeling, so they smile rather than just take the risk of letting others assume what they're feeling.

aww, well aren't you a little goth. No, I'm just kidding. I don't smile. I like not smiling. I have a terrinble smile anyway.

[xX.Silver.Wings.Xx]

Sometimes you smile or laugh as a defencive mechanism... it's called Gallow's Laughter.. when you laugh when someone dies or something... not because you think it's funny.. just because it's a reaction you can't help... (I think that was Freud.... maybe... I forgot... )

[Madame Adequate]

Sometimes you smile or laugh as a defencive mechanism... it's called Gallow's Laughter.. when you laugh when someone dies or something... not because you think it's funny.. just because it's a reaction you can't help... (I think that was Freud.... maybe... I forgot... )

Oh, that actually has a name? I do that all the time, when I'm delivering bad news. I have to hide my face half the time.

[No.78]

It takes less facial muscles to form a smile than something resembling a frown. Your chin, lower lip, and upper lip are most comfortable in a smiling-like position.

I find smiling uncomfortable, and I can't do it properly unless someone makes me laugh. Other times, I tend to force a smile as opposed to saying hello to someone as I walk past... But I think most of the time they get the wrong idea, because, I can't smile.

[KentaRawr!]

We should tape our mouths shut so that we can't smile. Thank you Dr. Casey!