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Re: Suitable role models?
Dame Ellen MacArthur
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Rich_007
(Post 6574166)
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by bazzz
(Post 6574283)
Not having kids, I think it would be great if parents brought up their daughters to look like sexy French newsreaders. It'd make the world a much more cheerful place.
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Re: Suitable role models?
[QUOTE=Jingsamichty;6573987Julie Andrews[/QUOTE]
Funny you should mention Julie Andrews - my two love her to bits - know all her films and recite her lines and songs all the time. The Sound of Music is a favourite already, and they were both glued to "A Problem Like Maria" in the UK and are now glued to the Canadian version on Sunday nights too. We've introduced both girls to some of the old classic musical films. It's a little weird hearing your 10 year old belt out something from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" or "Whip Crack-away" by Doris Day - but I'd rather she was singing "Favourite Things" or getting on down to "Singing in the Rain" - outside influences are strong - her friends are all into rap and hip-hop - but it's nice that she so far feels comfortable to hum her show tunes !! Julie Andrews can be our role model anytime. Daughter number one is very aware of the media and gossip magazines already - and I steer her towards those in the celebrity world that she hardly hears about! Anne Hathaway, for example, rather than Miley Cyrus. But at the end of the day, she'll like and admire who she wants to .... :unsure: |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by ann m
(Post 6575188)
...Julie Andrews...
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by bazzz
(Post 6575335)
You think that someone who bares her breasts for money is a good role model? I quite agree.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Maya Angelou. No contest. Triumphed over adversity in many many ways. Not a victim, just an inspirational survivor.
Mrs Miggins x |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by sinope
(Post 6574232)
Just thought of another one - Paul Watson. And he's Canadian.
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Re: Suitable role models?
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Originally Posted by sinope
(Post 6573376)
OK, so following on from the Brazt thread, who do you think are good role models for children, and in fact, all of us as we all need inspiration sometimes? I love:
Stephen Hawking Condaleeza Rice Bill Gates Michael Vaughn Zara Phillips I'm sure I'll think of more. :) Walt Disney Britney Spears Roy Batty Jesus Christ |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dthomas
(Post 6575529)
Ronald Reagan
Walt Disney Britney Spears Roy Batty Jesus Christ surely... Ronald McDonald Walter, Prince of the Softies Albert Speer Roy of the Rovers Mel Gibson :lol: |
Re: Suitable role models?
For a boy, Charlie Watts. Stoically stuck at a job he doesn't particularly like for years on end, dutifully made a fortune for his family, didn't diddle any children or inhale any dead parents, unfortunate penchant for naming children ridiculously but otherwise the Alf Tupper de nos annees, innit?
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6577038)
For a boy, Charlie Watts. Stoically stuck at a job he doesn't particularly like for years on end, dutifully made a fortune for his family, didn't diddle any children or inhale any dead parents, unfortunate penchant for naming children ridiculously but otherwise the Alf Tupper de nos annees, innit?
I'll bet Charlie Watts never had to rush to a gig on the overnight coal train after a full shift in the foundry, grabbing a greasy fish supper just before the show! |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
(Post 6577092)
Good, but not quite right, dbd.
I'll bet Charlie Watts never had to rush to a gig on the overnight coal train after a full shift in the foundry, grabbing a greasy fish supper just before the show! |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6577112)
He did keep his day job for yonks after they were selling records but I fear it was a white collar job and, of course, we never had any of that messy "industry" stuff in London.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6577533)
I would like to nominate dbd as a fantastic role model!!! ;)
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6577533)
I would like to nominate dbd as a fantastic role model!!! ;)
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
(Post 6577576)
Bleeuurghhh....get a room, you two! :p
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6577596)
I invited him over. If he hurries he can even help unload and stack 200 small square hay bales. Actually, strike that, a real man like him could probably carry them all in one go.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6577626)
Would love to enjoy a nice grolsch and wear my lovely lumberjack shirt to carry some hay in a manly fashion but I'm busy in the s**sthole they call scarborough working atm. Roll on 4pm and I can drive home to the calm and serene quiet north.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6577645)
That must be a horrible drive. Do you go 400/89 or is there some quicker cross-country route?
Either way I dont care I get paid by the KM :) |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6577716)
No 400/89 is best, although I take consession 5 to bypass cookstown atm with the road works, I much prefer it when Im working in Mississauga or further west as then I have a nice drive up 50 thru Bolton or an even nicer one up Airport road. About as close to decent topography as your gonna get here in ON.
Either way I dont care I get paid by the KM :) |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6577728)
Ah yes, I often take those roads if I'm working downtown. Sometimes I stay on Airport Road past the museum where the OH works and turn left at Mansfield, that road has some exciting bends on it.
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Re: Suitable role models?
That's more like it, fellas.
A nice shift from inviting each other round to your house while the OH is away, to safer manly ground like chatting about the best directions or routes to take. A gentle nudge into gas mileages will see you firmly back into appropriate man-talk. |
Re: Suitable role models?
More manly yet than that, I was in the coolest shop evah yesterday.
Nuts Plus, it's called and they don't just sell nuts but bolts, chains, cutting equipment, sockets, spanners, it's a kind of paradise. I felt my testosterone level soar and half regretted having gone their in the pastel New Beetle. As I left I cast aside the content of the dashboard flower vase. |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6578048)
As I left I cast aside the content of the dashboard flower vase.
You need Princess Auto - land of real men. R. |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Rich_007
(Post 6578203)
Oily rag in the dashboard now ?
You need Princess Auto - land of real men. R. |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6577533)
I would like to nominate dbd as a fantastic role model!!! ;)
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
(Post 6577907)
That's more like it, fellas.
A nice shift from inviting each other round to your house while the OH is away, to safer manly ground like chatting about the best directions or routes to take. A gentle nudge into gas mileages will see you firmly back into appropriate man-talk. |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Mikey B
(Post 6578770)
I still like to be in touch with my feminine side ;)
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Re: Suitable role models?
Bill, perhaps also Hilary, Clinton.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon
(Post 6579924)
YOur feminine side, or a nice young ladies feminine side?? ;):p
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Re: Suitable role models?
Not exactly a role-model yet, but it's refreshing to see on the bbc's website this morning that a plus-size model (mind you, size 16 is hardly plus-size in the real world, but I suppose it is in the rarefied world of modelling) has made the finals of Miss England.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Oakvillian
(Post 6581034)
Not exactly a role-model yet, but it's refreshing to see on the bbc's website this morning that a plus-size model (mind you, size 16 is hardly plus-size in the real world, but I suppose it is in the rarefied world of modelling) has made the finals of Miss England.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Souvenir
(Post 6581077)
Monroe was a 16.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Oakvillian
(Post 6581232)
It's long past time for a revival of the fuller figure as fashion icon, IMHO.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by Souvenir
(Post 6581380)
Few women would disagree with you.
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6581389)
I would.
<ducks> <retreats to bunker> |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6581389)
I would.
<ducks> Normal and fat! unfort a lot of girls and women now have the idea that they must be Super skinny and have lost sight of "normal!. |
Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon
(Post 6581414)
i think there is a world of difference between super skinny/ anorexic
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Re: Suitable role models?
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 6581417)
Granted. I think Kate Moss is about right. Posh a bit stick insecty.
nowadays 10 /12 uk isconsidered large - which really it isnt. |
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