Posts by Joanna

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  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    When you see Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour you will see that he is also built for engaging and enthusiastic knowledge sharing in the Reithian tradition of public telly that informs as well as entertains.

    Oh yes sure, but in my fantasies, mostly he's telling me off. As I mentioned before.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    He is absolutely NOT posing, he looks uncomfortable and embarrassed

    Actually I've seen him with his shirt off before, diving into a loch on which a house was built. I just meant that while he's fine in a swimsuit, he's really built for voicing narration and for delivering stern tellings-off to people.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    You can see how buff he is then, if you aren't gagging that is.

    Oh be-have! I don't want my thinking crumpet to be all posey, just as I wouldn't want my eye-candy to talk.

    Um, also, objectification is bad, mmmkay kids?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    One of the best bits about Grand Designs is when they go to Foreign Places and Kevin can always hold a conversation (or at least make a game go) of the local language

    OH MI GOD that is the thing that makes him insanely hot despite all the reasons for him not to really be all that hot after all (like his obsession with taps). I think that's one reason why (typical) Brits will always be (stereotypically) so much hotter than Americans - their acknowledgement that other countries actually exist and their efforts to understand that company. Honestly, Kevin McLeod could sit there and recite the names of bylaws to me in a foreign language and I'd still be keen for him to ram my earth and bale my straw up high.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    Even Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs just called wood sensuous. That is about as sexy an image one can imagine and he is talking about a building.

    I would very much like to plough Kevin McCloud, although the spelling of his last name will have to change if we marry (it's H U B R I S after all...) I want to do him so he'll say something like "Traditionally a ripple here and those curves there would not be considered the classical look, but now I find that they are rather beautiful..."

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Hard News: Body image and the media,

    Wow, so far very few comments on this post have made me want to head desk (or more specifically head headboard), for which I am greatly relieved. I remember writing an essay on depictions of women in the media in 1999 that covered how Joe was treated on Popstars (going shopping in places that carried clothes that obviously wouldn't fit her so that she'd cry on TV but not at all questioning why it was so hard to find good clothes in a size 18) and I know she's been through a lot of different stuff since then (how much did I want to punch Mike King in the head even more than usual when he had that terrible wanna-be-Letterman show and she was on it and he kept making fat jokes? A lot) so I'm sure she will have very interesting things to say about it. I also like how I've developed in the past ten years so that I know that being called fat really isn't such a bad thing at all, no matter how it's intentioned.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Up Front: Go For Launch,

    I remember the Thistle Inn back in the 80s, when it scared the stuffing out of me as a kid

    Well they do serve their chips with gravy, but now I think you'll find the most scary people in it are public servants.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Up Front: Go For Launch,

    The backs of his ears were a very interesting shade of fuschia.

    As I am a paragon of clean living and virtue, I will blame this on your KAOS stories, not anything I may have said.

    But Jo, you, and I have not been. That's a crapload of cleavage for one evening.

    Oooh, I will have to find something fabulous to wear and notify the twins that they will be on display.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Up Front: Go For Launch,

    Maybe no one died, but if they had been in earshot, they might have turned a startling red colour...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • Field Theory: Zombies with Wheels,

    but I'm well down with Dr Diablo

    Everybody who's anybody knows that Lazarus Volt is the wrestler to support. However, since he's not fighting tonight, off you go.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

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