Well seeing as I am a long serving member of the Boozing Society, and therefore am well qualified to give an opinion about this, I can only agree that this is the way it is.
You meet someone early in the evening, and think
'Blimey darling.
I wouldn't say that you are pretty.
But then I wouldn't say that you are ugly either.
Just Pretty Ugly'!
But then as the evenig progresses you think and say...
Do you fancy coming back to my place to see my etchings?!
PS
This has reminded me of something a geed friend of mine always used to say.
'Kenny, I have never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I sure have woken up with a few'!!!
Then there's Willie's song: "Last Night I Came Home at Two with a Ten and at Ten I Woke up with a Two". I'm sure whoever Willie took home, felt the same way at ten, too.