Posh Spice: Woman of the decade

Birneybau · 05-06-2013 1:13pm #1

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/victoria-beckham-named-woman-of-the-decade-at-glamour-awards-8644972.html

Very telling award for the vacuous decade that's in it.

Fair enough, it's Glamour magazine, not Time but still.

Edit: In a previous incarnation of this post, I referred to Mrs. Beckham as a vulgar pig.

What I meant was, fair play to her p.r. team for creating a money making wheeze out of an unpleasant, talentless no mark. Champions of the modern world.

bacon n eggs · 05-06-2013 1:39pm

what a vulgar description, she did what to you????

FearDark · 05-06-2013 1:40pm

She even looks like a pig.

jaja321 · 05-06-2013 1:41pm

Vulgar pig?! Now who is being vulgar..

Peregrine · 05-06-2013 1:44pm

Woman of the decade? For what?

Also I don't know about them but my decade just started 3 and a half years ago.

Wattle · 05-06-2013 1:45pm

Must have been a pretty slow decade.

Boombastic · 05-06-2013 1:46pm

Sure if we had her money, stylists and helpers for everything we'd be just as glamorous and win awards

bacon n eggs · 05-06-2013 1:46pm

How about businesswoman, mother, wife and very successful at all three, as well as putting up with all the crap from begrudgers and press putting her down at every turn. I think she has done a fine job of staying sane as well as keeping the show on the road.

wandatowell · 05-06-2013 1:47pm

She has above moderate good looks IMO

Vulgar pig is a bit harsh

Toto Wolfcastle · 05-06-2013 1:49pm

She seems nice and I'd say she has a great sense of humour from what I've seen on her on TV. She has also worked pretty hard to build up her business. I don't know about her being woman of the decade, but I think people get a bit unnessarily mean when they talk about her.

tmc86 · 05-06-2013 1:49pm

Didn't take long for the good old Irish trait of bashing those more successful than you to come out!

I wonder why I read this forum sometimes

Cienciano · 05-06-2013 1:51pm

Birneybau wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/victoria-beckham-named-woman-of-the-decade-at-glamour-awards-8644972.html

Very telling award for the vacuous decade that's in it.

Fair enough, it's Glamour magazine, not Time but still.

What a vulgar pig.

I highlighted the important part which makes it a non story

TheLastMohican · 05-06-2013 1:51pm

Birneybau wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/victoria-beckham-named-woman-of-the-decade-at-glamour-awards-8644972.html

Very telling award for the vacuous decade that's in it.

Fair enough, it's Glamour magazine, not Time but still.

What a vulgar pig.

That's being cruel to Babe

Why was she called Posh? Was she conceived in Peterborough Utd football ground?

Augmerson · 05-06-2013 1:53pm

They should have given it to that woman who was harping on about how hard she had it for being good looking.

Blisterman · 05-06-2013 1:57pm

It's fairly depressing that the most inspiring woman that magazine's readers can come up with is somebody who's primarily known for marrying a famous footballer.

My name is URL · 05-06-2013 1:58pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Very telling award for the vacuous decade that's in it.

It's kind of ironic that you'd rant about how vacuous we've all become, and at the same time react so angrily to the fact she won the award, which is a complete non-story really.

Vacuous indeed!

bacon n eggs · 05-06-2013 2:03pm

a glamour magazine has picked a glamorous woman, I can't see how they got it wrong.

Meritocracy Wins · 05-06-2013 2:07pm

The vulgar pig statement by the OP is so wrong. The Beckhams PR machine is one of the best in the world either that or the have sold their souls to the devil. Either way good luck to them.

The woman of the decade is my mother, she has been for the last 3 decades.

tmc86 · 05-06-2013 2:08pm

Blisterman wrote: »

It's fairly depressing that the most inspiring woman that magazine's readers can come up with is somebody who's primarily known for marrying a famous footballer.

I think she was actually known for being a member of one of the world's most successful girl bands - then she married Becks.

Tiddlypeeps · 05-06-2013 2:13pm

Glamour magazine are obviously going to pick their woman of the decade based on fashion/beauty based achievements.

If you think there is somebody else in the fashion/beauty industry more deserving then fair enough, but suggesting that a fashion/beauty magazine should hand out awards based on non fashion/beauty achievements is just silly.

It's not like the award means anything to anybody out side of the fashion/beauty industry anyway, so why care?

kunst nugget · 05-06-2013 2:18pm

I think she is an inspiration to every girl out there. She proved that you didn't have to be particularly good looking, talented or appear to be very bright to be successful. Just get a boob job, be skeletal thin, never smile in a photo, be a walking billboard for sickeningly expensive brands and bob's your uncle. Every time I duckface in a photo I'm doing it for Posh!

super_furry · 05-06-2013 2:20pm

What does she do exactly?

kunst nugget · 05-06-2013 2:24pm

super_furry wrote: »

What does she do exactly?

Pouts a bit and… em… I'll have to get back to you on that…

SeventySix · 05-06-2013 2:29pm

She is a pretty sucessful designer now. Shows in Paris and New York I think

Seachmall · 05-06-2013 2:35pm

bacon n eggs wrote: »

How about businesswoman, mother, wife and very successful at all three

I don't want to bash her but I do wonder how great a businesswoman she really is. It seems like everybody who becomes a celebrity these days is also, coincidentally, a fantastic business person. Everybody in Heat Magazine looks to operate a multi-million dollar empire when they're not on the cover. It looks less like they genuinely built their new business from scratch and instead purchased, or were given, some cookie-cutter type company that didn't require the genuine dog-eat-dog, finger-to-the-bone entrepreneurial spirit that I'd associate with being a successful business person.

I'm not trying to knock her, I'm sure she's a sound person, but I can't help but wonder how much business acumen she actually has or if she is simply someone who wouldn't be where she is if she hadn't the celebrity status in her pocket beforehand.

As they say; the first million is the hardest. That's particularly true if you already have the market and just need something to sell them.

dark crystal · 05-06-2013 2:35pm

super_furry wrote: »

What does she do exactly?

She designs clothes for rich people. And brings out a mid-priced range fragrance every now and then too.

kunst nugget · 05-06-2013 2:38pm

SeventySix wrote: »

She is a pretty sucessful designer now. Shows in Paris and New York I think

She's no more a designer than I am an olympic gold-winning gymnast. She is a serial endorser of products and is successful at it because there are enough retarded women out there willing to spend good money on products with her name attached to them.

My name is URL · 05-06-2013 2:42pm

She's authored a few books too. Sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Also, she's patron for various charitable organisations.

I don't get why people have such a disdain for her. It's not as if she just woke up one morning and had everything that she has. She worked damn hard for it over many years. She's more inspirational in that regard than many of the socialites present in today's media obsessed society.. people who have literally done nothing to deserve what they have, but just happened to be born to rich / famous parents.

I have no interest in anything she does, but I wouldn't knock her for doing it either.

DipStick McSwindler · 05-06-2013 2:44pm

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JD DABA · 05-06-2013 2:45pm

Should we go with one of the women scientists, surgeons, astronauts, ngo workers, political activists......

... or should we go with the professional skeleton.

Its so hard to choose.

Birneybau · 05-06-2013 2:54pm

My name is URL wrote: »

She's authored a few books too. Sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Also, she's patron for various charitable organisations.

I don't get why people have such a disdain for her. It's not as if she just woke up one morning and had everything that she has. She worked damn hard for it over many years. She's more inspirational in that regard than many of the socialites present in today's media obsessed society.. people who have literally done nothing to deserve what they have, but just happened to be born to rich / famous parents.

I have no interest in anything she does, but I wouldn't knock her for doing it either.

Sure she has

WilyCoyote · 05-06-2013 3:02pm

As a foot fetishist I find her Spanish Onions captivating.

https://www.google.com/search?q=posh+spice+bunions&client=gmail&rls=gm&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=dUSvUZTgFur54AOTvYDIDw&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=576

bacon n eggs · 05-06-2013 3:07pm

Should we go with one of the women scientists, surgeons, astronauts, ngo workers, political activists......

And again glamour award from a glamour magazine.......

mikom · 05-06-2013 3:08pm

Posh Spice: Woman of the Orangeade

jimgoose · 05-06-2013 3:14pm

My name is URL wrote: »

It's kind of ironic that you'd rant about how vacuous we've all become, and at the same time react so angrily to the fact she won the award, which is a complete non-story really.

Vacuous indeed!

Glamourous Twit outraged at Glamourous Twit's victory in Glamourous Twit Of The Decade Awards.

Blisterman · 05-06-2013 3:19pm

tmc86 wrote: »

I think she was actually known for being a member of one of the world's most successful girl bands - then she married Becks.

"Was" being the key word. Has she even released any music in the past decade?

Legs.Eleven · 05-06-2013 3:41pm

Don't really understand the disdain for her. She seems lovely in interviews.

Meritocracy Wins · 05-06-2013 3:43pm

How do you report a thread?

Birneybau · 05-06-2013 3:50pm

Meritocracy Wins wrote: »

How do you report a thread?

Do you believe she would be where she is if we lived in a meritocracy?

Seachmall · 05-06-2013 3:51pm

Meritocracy Wins wrote: »

How do you report a thread?

You have to send a bag of coke and money for a hooker to one of the mods along with a list of threads you want to report.

Meritocracy Wins · 05-06-2013 3:57pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Do you believe she would be where she is if we lived in a meritocracy?

That's a different story. Glad to see you looked it up.

Cunning Stunt · 05-06-2013 4:01pm

She rattled on about how women should be supporting each other - maybe she could lower the ridiculously high prices on her clothing range then, and give the non-celebrity women a chance of actually buying some...

Birneybau · 05-06-2013 4:05pm

Meritocracy Wins wrote: »

That's a different story. Glad to see you looked it up.

:rolleyes:

BillyMitchel · 05-06-2013 4:25pm

Jayus by the way half are going on here you'd swear she was a kiddie fiddler or something. She was part of the most successful girl group of all time, worth 100's of million squid. Seems to be like a great mother. Not once has she ever been in a tabloid for nasty horrible stuff. So what if her and her husband are two of the most famous people on the planet. Good luck to them.

If it's annoying you so much what you doing reading glamour/celeb mags for anyway? Did it annoy you Tulisa or some other skank didn't win?

Since it came from a celeb mag I'm sure she won it for fashion and style etc not for trying to stop the nuclear arms race.

Boombastic · 05-06-2013 4:43pm

Meritocracy Wins wrote: »

How do you report a thread?

I don't know either David

Seachmall · 05-06-2013 4:46pm

BillyMitchel wrote: »

not for trying to stop the nuclear arms race.

Her work in that area is severely understated imo.

Posh Spice: Woman of the decade

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