I've had a sort of fascination for ugly insulators. Not that I have many in my collection, but I notice them. And I've been collecting pictures of them... so I thought I'd share a few. I suppose there are lots of candidates, and we all see things differently. I find a lot of chocolate brown porcelain to be pretty unattractive, but there is a difference between not attractive and truly ugly.

I remember finding these composite black things (pictured above) while collecting in Illinois as a kid. We thought they were truly ugly, and kind of despised them. You couldn't even break them to relieve them of their misery! Believe it or not, this one is actually less ugly than most of them. The next photo gets uglier, so proceed at your own risk... [id=163880069]