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I received this e-mail and thought it too good not to share with all of you.

This woman is 51.

She is a TV “health guru” advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and  ill health, promoting exercise, a pescetarian diet high in organic fruits and  vegetables. She recommends detox diets, colonic irrigation and  supplements, also making statements that yeast is harmful, that the colour of  food is nutritionally significant, and about the utility of lingual and faecal  examination. 

This woman is 50.

 She is a TV cook, who eats nothing but meat, butter and deserts.  

So forget “join a gym and eat more celery”.

This festive season, it’s food  and booze all the way!!! And the only exercise you need is dancing!

Have fun!

So girls, are you secretly hoping that your man finds his way into a shopping mall over the next few days and purchases you something a little racy and gorgeous this Christmas? Perhaps, you are hoping he will spice up your underwear drawer a bit and give you a bit more to choose from other than those unexciting, but ever so practical Woolies bras??

Well, perhaps you want to point him in the direction of this little video clip…I have a sneaky suspicion that once he has seen these gorgeous girls, he will be high-tailing it off to La Senza faster than you can say “Ding, Dong, Merrily on High” and your underwear drawer will be looking fab by Boxing Day!

The ‘Cup Size Choir’ is made up of seven models dressed in just their bra and knickers singing a note from A to G based on their cup size in cheeky ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’.

Those of you that have been reading That Blog for a while now, are familiar with my lamenting over the Barren Manscape in Cape Town. I have decided to test the waters in Jozi and see if the Manscape is any less barren.
I took the bold step of signing up for internet dating…

The responses to my profile thus far have varied considerably (which indicates that there have been responses, so that is a good thing). Whilst there have been a limited number of suitable looking gents (whom I hope to meet up with soon…reports to follow), I can report that there is also a healthy collection of nutters out there! Maybe my standards are just too high??

Married girls, please take this moment to thank your lucky stars for the man in your life…because even when he is driving you completely bonkers, or comes home late from a night out with the blokes, he almost certainly doesn’t describe himself like this…

Pation – could he possibly be referring to passion??? Actually, am really hoping he has misspelt Patrón, my new favourite tequila! If that is the case…he might suddenly come back into the mix and I can overlook his lack of a fancy, little, nerdy car!
Tame nudist – what exactly is that? 

Or perhaps this guy:

Anyone else getting the feeling that he might be a little needy or perhaps desperate? Or maybe he is just casting that net far and wide to see what he finds!

Then, it all looked a lot more promising…there was a guy, that on paper, looked every part the suitable candidate…the picture was acceptable, he could spell correctly and seemed to be looking for similar things to me. We exchanged some banter on-line and arranged to meet for a date. Much excitement!!! If I were in London, I would definitely attribute the heavy snowfall to this event…anyway, date went well, no sign of axe murderer/psychotic tendencies and I was rather excited about it all. Imagine my surprise when I got an sms a day later along the lines of “it’s not you, it’s me”…blah, blah, blah…”I’m just not ready for a relationship right now…” blah, blah, blah.
Mmm…I know, if that is the case, may I suggest you give dating sites a wide berth??!! Oh well…

Anyway, I am going to persevere with this avenue of adventure and shall keep you posted on how it goes!

Please let me know if you have any good tips or suggestions…or single friends !

Girls, do you agree that despite the fact it is for a good cause…the concept of MoVember is just too grim for words? The old ‘tache never has and never will do it for me!

It seems that everywhere I look, there are perfectly normal men disfiguring their otherwise good looking faces with a hideous display of facial hair. All I can say is that 30 November, and the eve of the shave-a-thon could not arrive soon enough!

Well done to all the girls that put up with a MoVember bloke in your life…does it entitle you to participate in Fanuary?

Those of you that have been following That Blogger on Twitter, will know that the time on the mud island continues…as does my fascination with the bizarre events reported in the spectacular piece of free news called the Metro. For those of you that aren’t familiar with this paper…The Metro is a newspaper that is given away each morning at every station in London and reports on a few important newsworth items, some pretty random things…but mostly hyped up, tabloid news.

The article on page 2 of today’s Metro caught my eye. You see, I was always lead to believe that the closer an article was to the cover of the paper (front or back), the more important it was. This is why I was a little perplexed at the content of this article and how it could possibly be deemed important in ANYONE’S life and why it should be on page 2.

This is the jist of the story…A mother and her daughter were taking their daily stroll somewhere in Shetland (I am assuming they were fighting their way through herds of little horses at the time) and a seagull flew overhead and dropped a live budgie on the mother’s head. Yes…a budgie…you know, those little pretty little blue/yellow/green birds that spinsters have?? See below for example

This is a budgie

 From her account of the incident, the woman was most alarmed…as I imagine most people who get a budgie dropped on their head might well be. Anyway, after the initial shock had passed, the 2 women managed to catch the little bird and it is now living with a friend of theirs who’s budgie recently ‘fell of it’s perch’…

The article then goes on to speculate where this stray budgie might have come from and how it got into the mouth of a seagull…including speculation that it travelled 14,500km from Australia (I assume not in the mouth of a seagull). At NO point is there even the remotest suggestion that the budgie might have escaped from a home or an aviary in the area…

Clearly, South African spinsters are not the only ones to own budgies…as demonstrated by the fact that they mentioned it had gone to a happy home in Shetland and I haven’t noticed Sky News having to cover that as a rare occurance…I guess the thought of a well travelled budgie is far more exciting from one that escaped from the clutches of Sylvester the Cat somewhere in an old age home, only to be snapped up by a seagull and then dropped on someone’s head…that is the stuff news headlines are made of. Earth shattering stuff isn’t it?

[Source: The Metro]

By now, I am sure you have heard about the crazy woman, Mary Bale from Coventry, UK, that thought it would be funny to pick up some unsuspecting kitty cat and drop it into a wheelie bin. Maybe my sense of humour is just a little too mainstream but not sure where the humour in that lies. Pretty odd behaviour if you ask me! Anyway, unfortunately for her…and fortunately for Lola the Cat, the bizarre action was captured on CCTV and is now available for all the world to see. Needless to say, her actions have gone down like the proverbial lead balloon and I fear that the full might of the RSPCA will descend upon her (not sure what might they have, but whatever it is, it will certainly be exercised!)

Anyway, in response to Catgate – as the whole drama is being called…a little clip is doing the rounds on the old interweb showing the Revenge of the Cat.

Am fairly sure that this will spark off a flurry of letter writing to the local newspapers and MPs about abuse of the aged.

So, when the time does eventually come for me to head back to Sunny SA…I really do plan to keep a VERY low profile when whisking my case through the Green Aisle and hoping for the best…so really, what I am hoping for is that someone sees fit to stick one of these little beauties on their suitcase and head through just ahead of me. They are apparently designed to stick to anything and are bound to attract the attention of pretty much everyone at the airport…

If the baggage handlers leave this one alone...you have done VERY well!

Customs might take some interest in this one

Looks like something from CSI

Not entirely sure why you would want to attract the attention of anyone at the airport to be honest! I have spent a considerable amount of time in my life hoping that my suitcase escape the attention of the baggage handlers at OR Tambo!

[Source: The Cheeky]

Every year, South Africa blog readers nominate their favourite blogs for the SA Blog Awards. This year is no different and I would be really appreciative if you could demonstrate your love of  ThatBlog by nominating me for the Best New Blog award…or any of the others that you see fit!

It really is easy enough to do…all you need to do is click on this link (Nominate That Blog) and this should take you to the nomination page where you can work your magic.

 I know you really love That Blog and really want to see your favourite Blog recognised for the joy it brings to your life so often…but every nomination you send will just overwrite the last one you sent, so it won’t really help whiling away your work hours by clicking on this loads and loads of time…unless you have more than one e-mail address of course then go for it!!

Please don’t forget to click on the confirmation e-mail that they send you once you have done the nomination, as otherwise it won’t count as a nomination.

Thank you so much My Lovelies….

That Blog fans, I am sorry…I have been neglecting you and I am a BAD blogger!

I am still in London town and life is very social and busy…what with trawling the High Street for fashion finds and visits to Buckingham Palace, I have been a busy little Gal. Anyway, I am back and will do my best to keep you up to date as often as possible.

So…this morning, I was paging through the Metro (classic tabloid journalism) and happened upon this clanger of an article.

It would appear that Manhatten’s wealthy cat owners decided to have a fancy dress birthday party for Matilda, the puss-in-residence at Algonquin Hotel. Please peruse some of the Kitteh’s that strutted their stuff…

Matilda - The Birthday Gal

Halebop, a sphinx cat, models an appropriate costume

Wizard, who came dressed as the popular American doll Raggedy Ann and looks pretty pleased about it too...

Halebop, dressed as a Japanese geisha (nice to have more than 1 costume at a fancy dress party)

Carmel sports some delightfully fruty headgear

Elvis has NOT left the building

Words cannot begin to describe this...a Cat Wig??

Don’t think there is much more to say really. 

[Source: Metro and Guardian]

Shy Armani Potgieter realises that a tough life lies ahead

Well, whilst paging through that spectacular display of British journalism known as the Metro on the way to work this morning, a rather entertaining article caught my eye.

A while back we spoke about the impact that Vampires are having on naming trends of children and may have been chuckled at people naming their children after said Vampires…well, I have to say that I would bank one of those Vampire names ANY DAY compared to some of the other options that people seem to be going for these days.

I can’t even begin to understand why you would want to call your child Puppy and have to say that you are really setting your child up for something if you call them Shy (referring to their name rather than their disposition). These are just some of the unusual names parents have given their children over the past ten years.

Other very unusual choices include celebrity names such as Rooney, Bowie and Cobain, along with hippy-style names such as Stone, Gift, Heaven and Echo and fashion names such as Denim, Diesel and Armani.

‘It’s great to see parents being creative and wanting their children to stand out from the crowd with more unusual names but there are a few here that children may find hard to live up to!’ said Faye Mingo, of www.Bounty.com.

‘Parents need to think carefully about everything that comes attached to an unusual moniker as it can definitely shape a child’s experiences at school and beyond.’

One in three of the 3,000 parents polled by Bounty said their offspring had an unusual name, but more than one in ten regretted their decision. Awesome…imagine your parents being interviewed and saying they regret the name they chose for you…that has to have some impact on your psychological well being!!

One in ten say their child doesn’t like their name, and 14 per cent of the children have asked to change it.

The poll also shows that three out of four parents who gave their child a traditional name believe children with wacky monikers are more likely to be bullied.

Top 20 most unusual names

Sensational isn’t it?? What ever happened to good old fashioned names?

[Source: www.metro.co.uk]

So, I told you yesterday that Betty Windsor was headed Stateside…yip, obviously inspired by the recent Sex and the City 2 movie, Bettie and Phil decided it was time to hit the Big Apple and see how things had changed since their last visit in 1976.

On the off chance that any New York residents were faced with HRH and weren’t sure what to do or how to behave, the New York Daily News offered its readers a quick etiquette guide. They were advised not to mention the Duchess of York, to stick to small talk about dogs or horses, and reminded: ‘Don’t offer a handshake, a fistbump or a high five.’

Brilliant!! I would just love to see the average New Yorker trying to High Five or fistbump HRH!! I think the line that might be used is “We are not amused…”

[Source: The Daily Mail]

I have often seen the ad on the home shopping network for The Bedazzler and wondered whether anyone had ever bought one and if so, whether they used it…now I see that they do.

Betty Windsor is currently on tour of Canada and the US of A and decided that why go buy a new frock when you can just bedazzle up and old one. 

She first wore this frock to a State dinner in Trinidad and Tobago…and to give it a bit of an island feel, she got her peeps to pretty it up by embroidering it  with appliqué birds and flowers…nice touch don’t you think? 

Betty goes with a subtle island vibe

Then, when wondering what to wear to a banquet during her trip to Canada…Betty did what all street-wise girls would do…save money for shopping and sight-seeing on the trip by breathing new life into an old frock. Yip, Betty got her peeps busy again and this time they were to unpick the island feel (not really appropriate for Toronto) and get busy with the Bedazzler. What a stroke of genius…a fortune freed up for shopping and perhaps some pressies for friends and family back home and maybe even be able to catch a show on Broadway! Nice one Betty!! 

Betty bedazzled to the Max

 So, for a little close up view of what she did there… 

The Island Vibe

Unpick that embroidery, bring on the Bedazzler and look what you get… 

Swap Island-vibe for a bit of Bling...

Good work Betty!!

[Source: The Daily Mail]

You may or may not be aware of this guy. He has become pretty well known for the brilliant e-mails that he writes. He wrote the brilliant Spider e-mail and the brilliant Party in Apartment 3…amongst a load of others. Anyway, the latest tirade is about a missing cat and it is sensational!

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Poster

Hi
I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon.

This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old. missing on Harper street and my phone number.
Thanks Shan.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.26am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Poster

Dear Shannon,

That is shocking news. Luckily I was sitting down when I read your email and not half way up a ladder or tree. How are you holding up? I am surprised you managed to attend work at all what with thinking about Missy out there cold, frightened and alone… possibly lying on the side of the road, her back legs squashed by a vehicle, calling out “Shannon, where are you?”

Although I have two clients expecting completed work this afternoon, I will, of course, drop everything and do whatever it takes to facilitate the speedy return of Missy.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.37am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Poster

yeah ok thanks. I know you dont like cats but I am really worried about mine. I have to leave at 1pm today.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.17am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Poster

Dear Shannon,

I never said I don’t like cats. Once, having been invited to a party, I went clothes shopping beforehand and bought a pair of expensive G-Star boots. They were two sizes too small but I wanted them so badly I figured I could just wear them without socks and cut my toenails very short. As the party was only a few blocks from my place, I decided to walk. After the first block, I lost all feeling in my feet. Arriving at the party, I stumbled into a guy named Steven, spilling Malibu & coke onto his white Wham ‘Choose Life’ t-shirt, and he punched me. An hour or so after the incident, Steven sat down in a chair already occupied by a cat. The surprised cat clawed and snarled causing Steven to leap out of the chair, slip on a rug and strike his forehead onto the corner of a speaker; resulting in a two inch open gash. In its shock, the cat also defecated, leaving Steven with a foul stain down the back of his beige cargo pants. I liked that cat.

Attached poster as requested.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.24am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

yeah thats not what I was looking for at all. it looks like a movie and how come the photo of Missy is so small?

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.28am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

Dear Shannon,

It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.33am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

Thats just stupid. Can you do it properly please? I am extremely emotional over this and was up all night in tears. you seem to think it is funny. Can you make the photo bigger please and fix the text and do it in colour please. Thanks.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.46am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

Dear Shannon,

Having worked with designers for a few years now, I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. I don’t come downstairs and tell you how to send text messages, log onto Facebook and look out of the window. I am willing to overlook this faux pas due to you no doubt being preoccupied with thoughts of Missy attempting to make her way home across busy intersections or being trapped in a drain as it slowly fills with water. I spent three days down a well once but that was just for fun.

I have amended and attached the poster as per your instructions.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.59am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

This is worse than the other one. can you make it so it shows the whole photo of Missy and delete the stupid text that says missing missy off it? I just want it to say Lost.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.14am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.21am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster

yeah can you do the poster or not? I just want a photo and the word lost and the telephone number and when and where she was lost and her name. Not like a movie poster or anything stupid. I have to leave early today. If it was your cat I would help you. Thanks.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.32am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Awww

Dear Shannon,

I don’t have a cat. I once agreed to look after a friend’s cat for a week but after he dropped it off at my apartment and explained the concept of kitty litter, I kept the cat in a closed cardboard box in the shed and forgot about it. If I wanted to feed something and clean faeces, I wouldn’t have put my mother in that home after her stroke. A week later, when my friend came to collect his cat, I pretended that I was not home and mailed the box to him. Apparently I failed to put enough stamps on the package and he had to collect it from the post office and pay eighteen dollars. He still goes on about that sometimes, people need to learn to let go.

I have attached the amended version of your poster as per your detailed instructions.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.47am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Awww

Thats not my cat. where did you get that picture from? That cat is orange. I gave you a photo of my cat.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 11.58am
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Awww

I know, but that one is cute. As Missy has quite possibly met any one of several violent ends, it is possible you might get a better cat out of this. If anybody calls and says “I haven’t seen your orange cat but I did find a black and white one with its hind legs run over by a car, do you want it?” you can politely decline and save yourself a costly veterinarian bill.

I knew someone who had a basset hound that had its hind legs removed after an accident and it had to walk around with one of those little buggies with wheels. If it had been my dog I would have asked for all its legs to be removed and replaced with wheels and had a remote control installed. I could charge neighbourhood kids for rides and enter it in races. If I did the same with a horse I could drive it to work. I would call it Steven.

Regards, David.

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.07pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Awww

Please just use the photo I gave you.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.22pm
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.34pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

I didnt say there was a reward. I dont have $2000 dollars. What did you even put that there for? Apart from that it is perfect can you please remove the reward bit. Thanks Shan.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.42pm
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

Can you just please take the reward bit off altogether? I have to leave in ten minutes and I still have to make photocopies of it.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 12.56pm
To: Shannon Walkley
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

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From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 1.03pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Awww

Fine. That will have to do.

I am fairly sure that some time in my school education, some well-meaning teacher tried to teach me cross stitch. Now I could just kick myself that I didn’t pay more attention…little gems like this don’t come along every day and you really need to be able to capitalise on them when they do…unfortunately, I was clearly more interested in the latest developments in Loving (you may recall that was the soapie of the day) to focus on cross stitch and now I will have to let this opportunity pass me by.

Whilst perusing the British tabloids today, I discovered a link to a PDF file of a Wayne Rooney cross stitch pattern. Honestly, can you think of a better way to remember the excitement and drama of World Cup 2010 than to have your very own Wayne Rooney scatter cushion??? No seriously, is there in fact a footballer that would go better with your beautiful carefully selected St Leger and Viney sitting room decor than Shrek aka Wayne Rooney?

The newest trend in home decorating

So, for those of you that did actually pay attention in Needlework Class…good luck and get stitching!!

(I really tried to find gems like this about our own Bafana Bafana, but it seems that the Poms outstrip the Bafana Bafana fan base when it comes to memorabilia like this!)

[Source: The Guardian]

So, first there was designer glasses frames and now we have gone one step past that, to designer eyes. Now, you can get contact lenses with the ‘CD’ logo etched in alongside gold flakes…because everyone knows nothing brings out your inner vampire like unnatural eye colors!!

The contacts have a ‘CD’ logo etched on the left side and a gold strip covering the entire right side. There’s also what appears to be a black rim surrounding the circumference of the contact. Am hoping that the wearing of designer contact lenses doesn’t limit you to mascara that makes your eyelashes go all clumpy like that though…not a GREAT look!!

That Blogger is not completely sold on this new fashion item to be honest…We are all for non-permanent ways of playing around with your look, but branding your eye ball? Is that not taking things just a smidgen too far. Can’t wait to see what the designers at Louis Vuitton and Gucci can do to improve on this…LV is not known for making things subtle and understated, so the Battle of the Eyeball is bound to be an interesting one!!

Nothing says “I love Soccer” quite like a R20-million life-size soccer ball encrusted with 900 carats of white and black diamonds set in 18 carat white gold.

If you don’t love Soccer to the tune of R20m, the good news is that there are eight crystal replicas that will be on sale throughout the country for R8000 a piece at Shimansky stores. Proceeds from the sale of these little trinkets will go to charity.

Not really sure what I would say if I was presented with one of those R8000 beauties…other than to quote one of my favourite movies “This is going STAIGHT to the Pool room”. Please note, I am not even bothering to say what I would say if someone presented me 2,2kgs of diamond encrusted soccer ball…but I think you could safely say that if I was presented with 900 carats, you could safely assume that the State of the Man-scape had changed considerably!!!

Picture Source: The Times

Despite every effort to stage a mass exodus from Facebook on 31 May, it was a complete non-event for the movement organisers. For every Facebook user who pledged to delete their account as part of the Quit Facebook Day campaign, there are more than 15,000 other Facebook members who didn’t.Only 32,522 people pledged to delete their profile and it is possible that not all of them followed through

Facebook claims that they average 150,000 new members a day, so it is estimated, that based on normal FB signup pace, for every user who threatened to quit, there would have been 4 or 5 new signups.

So it seems that despite the occasional information security blunder, Facebook is still going strong.

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a single woman (over the age of 28) living in Cape Town is lamenting the barren or dire state of the man-scape (apologies to Jane Austen for the misquote).

However, when I spotted this pic I had to laugh and thank my lucky stars that things aren’t quite so dire that you might feel the need to respond to, perhaps, the worst personal ad EVER written!!! And when I say written, I mean it….because it is actually hand written!!

I particularly like the part about meeting “Tina Turner’s Son in person 7 times”…

A recently released on-line poll conducted in the UK by the online fashion retailer offerssupermarket.co.uk, has revealed the top 10 iconic dresses of our time. I have a sneaky suspicion that No 1 might not fall into a global opinion of Most Iconic Dress of our times, but interesting to see what was voted for in the UK.

The poll does not give any detail on the sample of people questioned or whether they were actually qualified to give a view on this…while I do agree that everybody is entitled to their own opinion, I cannot believe a representative sample of the UK population came up with this selection!!

No 1. Geri Halliwell – Union Jack dress at the Brit Awards in 1997

No 2. Liz Hurley – Gianni Versace safety pin dress worn in 1994 at the London premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral

No 3. Marilyn Monroe – White dress in Seven Year Itch

No 4. Audrey Hepburn – Black dress and pearls in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

No 5. Lady Gaga – White outfit and wig worn to the Brit Awards

No 6. Diana, Princess of Wales – Wedding dress designed by The Emanuel’s

No 7. Kylie Minogue – Gold hot pants worn in the Spinning Around video, 2000 (Do hotpants count as a dress??)

No 8. Jennifer Lopez – Sheer green Versace dress worn to the Grammys

No 9. Björk – Swan dress worn to the Oscars designed by Marjan Pejoski, worn to the 2001 Oscars

No 10. Cindy Crawford: Red Versace dress worn to the Oscars

As the most popular social network in the world, Facebook has become the de facto destination for web users to share their thoughts, photos and videos and connect with long lost friends and loved ones.

However,  there does seem to be growing movement calling for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Critics of the social networking site, are citing privacy concerns and plummeting trust in the company and its leader, Mark Zuckerburg. The “delete-your-Facebook” movement-scheduled for May 31- doesn’t seem to have picked up quite as much support as its originators had hoped…but maybe it is still early days.  There are over 450 million Facebook users at the moment…it is going to take a serious amount of disgruntled users to put a dent in that number!!

Facebook, it would appear, is comfortable that most users won’t even consider quitting despite the multiple bugs. Maybe, Facebook are relying on the fact that when it comes to the web, most users tend to gravitate towards the familiar. For example, when it comes to search and e-mail, they go for Google…and Facebook is the tried, tested and trusted social media space…that, and the difficulty of actually deleting a profile on FB (by all accounts, it is not an easy thing to do).

Facebook recently launched a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about the users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each users interests and tastes. The use of the Facebook “Like” button on non-facebook sites will give users the ability to share their favorite songs, movies, restaurants and news items back with their Facebook friends and integrate them into their profile. This information can be made available to vendors looking to gather information about potential customers. This leaves many people completely mortified at the through of so much personal information being made public.

I personally am quite a fan of FB and so am not sure that I will be signing up to the 31 May initiative, but will be watching with interest to see what happens. Will you quit?