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Manter said:
The three I saw didn't look unhealthy... Just odd. The shortest must have been 6'1, and their eyes were too big, cheekbones too sharp, fingers too long..., they were all very beautiful but in the way you might say a sculpture is beautiful, or an animal is beautiful.... Seemed to bear no comparison to an ordinary human being
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I sometimes see fashion models. The ones that model agencies choose are exactly how you describe them.

Someone told me that fashion models are chosen for having perfectly symmetrical faces. Most people do not. Though unless one looks its not that noticeable.

There are a lot of East European models. Slavic women have high cheekbones. Also they are often exotic looking and tall.
 
Greebo said:
More exasperating than email - the automatic formatting does my head in. :mad:

Edited to add: it's visually cluttered too.
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Diaspora is clear of ads and does not market you data.

Works on "pods" Such as the one I use Diaspora European

Like Urban its easy to join. Only valid email is needed.

Its not cluttered. It works well as combination of twitter and FB features. As couple of nice addon features like instant share of article.

Trouble is not enough people are on it.

So you need FB and Twitter as well.
 
Brixton Hatter said:
Mandela in Brixton, on the steps of the Rec.

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RIP.

Amandla Awethu!
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Look how he smiles and looks relaxed while everyone around has a worried frown (although Charles is doing his best). Is that Heather Rabbatts? Has she put her hand on some wet paint from the speedy facelift they gave the Rec?

RIP, Madiba.
 
editor , the Jerk pan man selling Xmas trees on Loughborough Road by Amigos now has a good selection available so you can update the Brixton Buzz guide for the benefit of the public in those parts if you wish :)
 
BBC Radio 5 strolling on Brixton Station Road doing vox pop interviews about Mandela visiting Brixton.
I choose not to be interviewed, as i'd had a drink, but a friend i was having a beer with gave a long rambling piece to microphone, which i'm sure they won't use.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
BBC Radio 5 strolling on Brixton Station Road doing vox pop interviews about Mandela visiting Brixton.
I choose not to be interviewed, as i'd had a drink, but a friend i was having a beer with gave a long rambling piece to microphone, which i'm sure they won't use.
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Is that what the big crowd of people was by the christmas tree?
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
BBC Radio 5 strolling on Brixton Station Road doing vox pop interviews about Mandela visiting Brixton.
I choose not to be interviewed, as i'd had a drink, but a friend i was having a beer with gave a long rambling piece to microphone, which i'm sure they won't use.
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I hated doing vox pops: asking people moronic questions and then trying to get their name, age and picture.

An especially hopeless assignment, in Sidmouth, Devon, ended with a seagull crapping on my head.
 
This is a thread i like and i asked myself if it is not just quiet but nosediving.
So i did some maths and it is nosediving.
Comparing July to October (inclusive) with November and a projection for December (based on 6 days), this is the conclusion;

November was 31% down on average replies and 32% down for average views.
December will be 43% down on average replies and 50% down on average views.

(I have rounded up to the nearest figure and can provide the maths if you insist.)
 
leanderman said:
I hated doing vox pops: asking people moronic questions and then trying to get their name, age and picture.

An especially hopeless assignment, in Sidmouth, Devon, ended with a seagull crapping on my head.
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Everyone hates doing vox pops. I had an editor once who loved them and used to make me do them all the time. The worst bit is seeing people deliberately avoiding eye contact and scuttling by as you desperately try to get their attention.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
This is a thread i like and i asked myself if it is not just quiet but nosediving.
So i did some maths and it is nosediving.
Comparing July to October (inclusive) with November and a projection for December (based on 6 days), this is the conclusion;

November was 31% down on average replies and 32% down for average views.
December will be 43% down on average replies and 50% down on average views.

(I have rounded up to the nearest figure and can provide the maths if you insist.)
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the other adjacent chitter chatter threads hv stolen your gossip. if i knew what hyper local meant i might say gossip round here has become hyper local
 
Ms T said:
Everyone hates doing vox pops. I had an editor once who loved them and used to make me do them all the time. The worst bit is seeing people deliberately avoiding eye contact and scuttling by as you desperately try to get their attention.
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At the Olympics, channel 4 sent out a team of incredibly hot journalists- one male, one female. They seemed to get lots of people to stop :D
 
I see Fat White Family are continuing their revolution by taking part in the oh so rebellious thing that is an NME sponsored tour. Sell outs.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
This is a thread i like and i asked myself if it is not just quiet but nosediving.
So i did some maths and it is nosediving.
Comparing July to October (inclusive) with November and a projection for December (based on 6 days), this is the conclusion;

November was 31% down on average replies and 32% down for average views.
December will be 43% down on average replies and 50% down on average views.

(I have rounded up to the nearest figure and can provide the maths if you insist.)
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in fact this thread is going down the toilet, literally as I dropped my phone down the loo whilst reading it:oops:
 
Manter said:
At the Olympics, channel 4 sent out a team of incredibly hot journalists- one male, one female. They seemed to get lots of people to stop :D
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I'm told that to make 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle was not allowed to shut the roads but was allowed to ask people not to walk / drive that way.

He got girls in bikinis to hand out bacon sandwiches to early morning traffic, mainly hgv sorts and tacksi-ists. They were happy to sit for ages.
 
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