 Out of all the women there, the world's
symbol of female beauty for the coming year is a busty blonde that
wouldn't look out of place on the cover of Zoo or wrapped round a pole
in some sleazy nightclub! From Left to right: Miss 'I'm 17 &
actually think this dress looks good', Miss 'Nuts Mag 2006' &
the ladylike Aussie who should have won.
That was not
however the first comedy moment - that had come earlier in the show when
the judges had picked Miss Squinty Eyed Scotland as their pick from
Southern Europe for the top 16 (the girl for our region chosen by the
public went through & came in 2nd)! I'm sorry but I roared with
laughter!
Last year wasn't
so funny, I'd actually been dumb enough to pick the most beautiful girls
from their website pictures & wager on the event, only to discover
Miss Russia had all her natural, long red hair hacked off & had gone
bottle blonde with a spray on tan & Miss Philippines had been very surgically enhanced (a boob job) between
winning Miss Philippines & turning up for Miss World. Had I known
the most beautiful girl definitely won't win (Miss Canada last year), I
wouldn't have bothered. Miss Canada was stunning but on the tele did
have a sort of exotic/erotic look which wasn't flavour of the year last
year, if only she'd entered this year I'd have cleaned up - Slutty was
in! Returning to Miss Scotland's entry into the top 16, what was utterly
unbelievable is, she probably was the best. Southern Europe was
represented by an incredibly ordinary gaggle of women & I can't
help thinking that these countries could have found better
representatives for their countries if they'd gone scouting for beauties
in the shopping malls of their respective nation's capitals. Oh, also
check out Miss Southern Europe's lampshade dress.
Similarly Britain's Next Top Model never fails to
disappoint. While I agree the girl who won (Leanne?) takes a
good photo, she's an emotional mess, hard work on shoots &
is not going to make a good go of it & will probably be dropped by
her agency pretty quick. Why oh why do our versions of American shows
have to always look like the poor relations? You only have to see our
final pair do their 'walk & a bit of a topple off' & see the
ridiculous high praise from the judges for their (in one case)
embarrassing efforts & what the final pair on America's Next Top
Model look like doing the same 'walk off' (Series 6, Living
TV, double bill starts Monday - my Sky+ is set). No comparison. Tyra
& Co. would have died if their girls had looked like our
girls come the final show!
Also, thank you
Marie Claire, have you heard of this site: www.weddingbetting.com ? Would you be
brave enough to post your 'happy couple' photo & have strangers cast
their votes on how long your marriage will last? Go look, it's
real!
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What's
new on the site?
I've dropped Kirsty's showroom images
in to my Real Brides album & worked a little on making the 'More Info' section even
clearer.
 
 Log
on, donate to charity & create your
mini-masterpiece.
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Oct/Nov '06 WEDDING Magazine:
I have a Designer Profile in the new issue of
Wedding magazine:
3 October 2006 ~
Unsolicited Crap - I'm
feeling the need to name & shame!
My god, I do get fed up with the amount of spam
that lands in my inbox (& I'm not the only one), as well as the
normal Viagra stuff & offers to sell me qualifications, I get
regular emails from China, India & the like offering to make up
my designs for me & it's always acompanied with a few Jpegs or a
link to a catalogue which shows their own range of high quality designs.
Today I had this
one:
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Dear Chantal mallett,
I would like to introduce myself and my
Company to you. I am Derick Shen, owner of
Alleaya
Evening Gowns. We are a manufacturer of
high quality ladies evening, wedding and prom dresses
- our factory is in the Chaozhou area
ofChina, noted for
its highly skilled workforce, exquisite embroidery and hand
beadwork.
Our customers benefit from several
advantages:
- We produce all gowns in-house to a
very high standard. We have our own
designers, cutters, machinists, embroidery and beadwork
specialists.
- We have much lower overheads
than
larger operations and can therefore offer very competitive
prices.
- We can offer limited runs in
smaller quantities where required and can
also efficiently handle large production schedules
easily.
- We can turn around orders quickly
where required.
- I personally oversee all production
so there are no quality issues with our gowns. In fact, our gowns are
higher quality than most of the large scale producers yet at a
lower price. Special care is taken
to ensure your order is 100% satisfactory to you as
we value your custom.
- We welcome all customers, and treat
our customers as our friends - since you will have the
personal attention of the owner at all times.
We have a range of stock designs to
choose from, and can also offer OEM service to make your own
designs from example sketches or pictures. Our designers are very
skilled at producing designs from your ideas. We have a large range of
fabrics and colours to choose from.
Patterns can be sized to suit your needs.
We are currently supplying customers in
the UK, Europe and USA and are
familiar with the sizing and designs required for the
European market. We are fully conversant
with shipping procedures and documentation, including EU
quota requirements. I also have
permission to supply you with previous customers email
address so you may contact them and check our reputation.
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My freind got an email asking her to advertise with
this lot
yesterday:
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Greetings!
Wedding M
etropolis, a UK-centric all-inclusive online wedding directory,
would like to welcome you in an opportunity
to both increase revenue andawareness in
the growing on-line wedding market.
The British
wedding industry is worth almost £8 billion a
year!
By advertising
your business with W edding Metropolis you will be able to
reach the increasing number of
brides-and-grooms-to-be, family and friends
who are going online to shop for all their
wedding needs, spending on average
£25,000 per wedding.
Included in
our Introductory special offer are: Company Name, Adress, Phone, Mobile and Fax
Number; Website and Email Address; Map
Location Reference; 250-Word Description; Weekly Details of
Special Offers; Company Logo; Image Gallery
- Four Pictures; Ability for Customers to
Vote and Review Your Company; Ability for Customers to Refer
Your Listing to Friends and Family; Gift
Registries; Banner Ad 190
X120..................
..................
INTRODUCTORY OFFER IS
£50.00/ANNUM !
ALL advertisements will be
displayed across all regions in the UK, as well as being
filtered by the visitor's region. All of this for ONLY £50.00
per annum - works out to less than 5.00 pounds per month!!!
Why is Wedding M etropolis
the place to advertise? We will help you connect with your
target audience who choose to come to one destination for all
their pre and post wedding needs. Furthermore, we will have over
2 million unique visitors every 6 months and we have opt-in
emailing list categories.
Unlike other wedding
websites, we are not only a wedding directory but we also are a
wedding resource - We provide forums for people to post
information and experiences, articles written by the most
professional article writers in the world, hosting for unlimited
personal e-wedding sites, advice columns, gift registries,
on-line proposals, announcements, wedding vows, we cater to
multicultural and non-traditional weddings, as well as
information on the origins of popular wedding traditions, and we
are not stopping there .... !
Your business has until
October 7,2006 to take up our current special, and for the first
200 customers we are offering a FREE rotational sponsorship
banner valued at 2000.00 pounds per annum!! These are just a few
of reasons to put your advertising dollar in the right spot so
act SOON!!
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Over 2 million visitors every six
months hey? Only £50 per annum - a bargain no? These Yanks know how
to talk a load of **** - would Brits refer to my advertising dollar?
Think not.
I won't print their weblink
because I don't want to give these people any traffic but lets just
say, so far they have zero takers, as in, not one advertiser on their site. A quick
look up on WhoIs says they're based in
Chicago, USA & the domain's creation date was 1st August
'06 & was last updated on 28th September '06 - for such a baby
of a site, they're pretty cocky about the predicted sucsess of this site
& quite frankly I am sick to the back teeth of websites like this
direct mailing people like me, to part me with £50 here, £150
there.
Here's another one from this
week:
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UKWEDDINGSTORE.CO.UK
The wedding Directory that serves the
UKONLY
We have top ranking listings with every
search engine online
WE RECEIVE OVER 1700 UNIQUE VISITS PER
DAY!!!
YOU PAY JUST THE ONCE – THEN YOU STAY ON
OUR DIRECTORY
FOR LIFE!!!
(NO RENEWAL FEES – EVER!!!)
A £15 ONE OFF PAYMENT
WILL GET YOU LIFETIME ADVERTISING
THERE IS NO OFFER LIKE THIS ANYWHERE
ELSE
WITH FREE UPDATES ANYTIME!!
Take a look today *******************
You can either apply on our website to
have your company added or please feel free to email us your
request
IF YOU DON’T HAVE A WEBSITE DON’T WORRY –
WE CAN MAKE YOU ONE FROM JUST £50.00
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