Mannequins

[Sir Tigger KC]

M&S don't sound very diverse to me! 

You're clearly offended and should demand compensation for your hurt feelings Rae! 

[dave the builder]

M&S don't sound very diverse to me! 

You're clearly offended and should demand compensation for your hurt feelings Rae! 

box of black magic chocolates 
some socks perhaps  but what colour would you like 

[Raeturbo]

Yeah, good idea 

[Raeturbo]

Milky bar

[dave the builder]

Milky bar

Are you the milky bar kid ?
from the TV advert clicky

[Raeturbo]

Yeah.. the hell I am.. and I'm looking for the Bournville.

[Lizzie Zoom]

This is the official reason why black Mannequins have become so popular:

"Black mannequins are in high demand within the retail world. Their colour serves to make them look less lifelike and more abstract. This way the customers' attention will be on the clothes displayed on the mannequins' bodies."

When you think about this it may very well be true.  It is also the way architects have gone with their "artist impressions"  of planned buildings, such as offices and shopping centres.  The 'people' are  represented by black silhouettes in their shape, so they do not detract from the important feature in the picture, the buildings themselves  

[Raeturbo]

Crazy

[Bigron]

As in L.S. Lowry's townscapes?

Ron.

[Lizzie Zoom]

As in L.S. Lowry's townscapes?

Ron.

Yes Ron, and what an impact they made!

[Varche]

Britain has gone so far the other way on equality, race and so on.

spain is about twenty years behind maybe fifty in some areas. Recently the first prize in a womens squash tournament was legwax and a vibrator.

[Bigron]

Batteries not included? 

Ron.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Batteries not included? 

Ron.

Solar power, Ron. We need to be environmentally friendly these days.

........not sure a vibrator will get much sunlight where it is going to be used though.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Batteries not included? 

Ron.

Solar power, Ron. We need to be environmentally friendly these days.

........not sure a vibrator will get much sunlight where it is going to be used though.

Apparently the sun shines out of some people's arse? 

[TheBoy]

I know that ITV's Midsomer Murders got slated a few years back, for not having many ethnic characters. The producer at the time, Brian True-May, suggested that was due to the fact small country villages did not really have metropolitan communities, which I believe he is right.

Needless to say, that same programme, under a different producer, now has a significant number of such characters, and lost any realism it may have had.


Programmes set in more metropolitan areas - generally the big cities - should have a proportional spread of characters.


As said earlier, having positive discrimination will alienate many, and undo all the good progress that has been made over the last couple of decades, be it colour, gender, sexual orientation, whatever.