Irish Models

starn · 16-12-2005 07:15AM

panda100 wrote:

Its not jealousy.The Irish Independent, the largest selling paper in Ireland every day, which i presume is sold to an equal measure of men and women,everyday without fail has a photograph of a scantily clad female.Why cant us girls have one of a scantily clad man?surely that'd be fair?

With all due respect this presumption is wrong the indo is bought prodomnetly by men and blue shirts, and althougth Glenda G, Is very scary loooking there are other reasons for her constant exsposure in the Indo aside from then Maggs booking her for every modeling job on the go.

Cabaal · 16-12-2005 07:58AM

LadyJ wrote:

Few Irish models are actually good-looking imo.

However,to the OP,dear God,don't open page 3 of the Sun! :eek:

The Sun is a rag, its not even a paper
Looking at a dish cloth is more interesting

Kersh · 16-12-2005 09:45AM

Ah , yes - this gets on my tits too. Every day. And as for those eyebrows, jeez, it must be the 'im constantly surprised' look. I hear peter Marks can do it for any girl for a fee.
But anyhow, it bugs me too. The same ones all the time. Promoting all sorts of sh1te. It never used to happen, so why now??

delly · 16-12-2005 10:00AM

panda100 wrote:

If your an Irish model look away now as this is a total rant about you! It is so embarrasing and sexists how on the front of our national newspapers everyday we have an Irish model promoting some sort of product.This is so degrading for us women that the editors of the Irish Indepent etc think the Irish public want this sort of pathetic eye candy to greet them every morning as we read the news.
It's the same 10 models all the time who all look exactly the same-fake tanned to the nines and dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows. Surely,Irish companies have better ways to promote their products then a scantily dressed roberta rowatt on the front of the evening herald?

Hey Panda, i'm very interested on your opinions. I'm a member of a very special group which promotes such views. My good friend Sparky-s is also a respected member. This group is called 'The Slydice Specials'. I'll see what i can do to secure you membership.

joejoem · 16-12-2005 10:20AM

panda100 wrote:

If your an Irish model look away now as this is a total rant about you! It is so embarrasing and sexists how on the front of our national newspapers everyday we have an Irish model promoting some sort of product.This is so degrading for us women that the editors of the Irish Indepent etc think the Irish public want this sort of pathetic eye candy to greet them every morning as we read the news.
It's the same 10 models all the time who all look exactly the same-fake tanned to the nines and dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows. Surely,Irish companies have better ways to promote their products then a scantily dressed roberta rowatt on the front of the evening herald?

Mongo post of the year

joejoem · 16-12-2005 10:21AM

panda100 wrote:

If your an Irish model look away now as this is a total rant about you! It is so embarrasing and sexists how on the front of our national newspapers everyday we have an Irish model promoting some sort of product.This is so degrading for us women that the editors of the Irish Indepent etc think the Irish public want this sort of pathetic eye candy to greet them every morning as we read the news.
It's the same 10 models all the time who all look exactly the same-fake tanned to the nines and dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows. Surely,Irish companies have better ways to promote their products then a scantily dressed roberta rowatt on the front of the evening herald?

Mongo post of the year

joejoem · 16-12-2005 10:21AM

panda100 wrote:

If your an Irish model look away now as this is a total rant about you! It is so embarrasing and sexists how on the front of our national newspapers everyday we have an Irish model promoting some sort of product.This is so degrading for us women that the editors of the Irish Indepent etc think the Irish public want this sort of pathetic eye candy to greet them every morning as we read the news.
It's the same 10 models all the time who all look exactly the same-fake tanned to the nines and dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows. Surely,Irish companies have better ways to promote their products then a scantily dressed roberta rowatt on the front of the evening herald?

Mongo post of the year

joejoem · 16-12-2005 10:23AM

How the hell did that happen?

16-12-2005 10:51AM

delly wrote:

You should be able to delete.

Yeah but then he'd have to delete his post after.

phantom_lord · 16-12-2005 12:27PM

panda100 wrote:

dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows.

She's ugly!! and weird looking....and what the hell's the story with the eyebrows...

Is she not related to someone in the indo? And that's why she gets in it so much?

I think that magazine they've on sunday is worse. Who the hell give's a **** about Irish models lives? Or the new 'it girls' from belfast a few weeks ago. Such bull****. Just an excuse to print some pictures to replace the 03 team. The indo is fast developing into a rag paper.

HashSlinging · 16-12-2005 12:35PM

joejoem wrote:

How the hell did that happen?

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joejoem · 16-12-2005 01:19PM

HashSlinging wrote:

CAPTAIN CAAAVE MAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!

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bullrunner · 16-12-2005 01:22PM

panda100 wrote:

If your an Irish model look away now as this is a total rant about you! It is so embarrasing and sexists how on the front of our national newspapers everyday we have an Irish model promoting some sort of product.This is so degrading for us women that the editors of the Irish Indepent etc think the Irish public want this sort of pathetic eye candy to greet them every morning as we read the news.
It's the same 10 models all the time who all look exactly the same-fake tanned to the nines and dont get me started on glenda gleesons eyebrows. Surely,Irish companies have better ways to promote their products then a scantily dressed roberta rowatt on the front of the evening herald?

jaysus...at least get the girl's names correct...glenda gleeson?? how about glenda gilson!

might make your complaint a little bit better.

stevenmu · 16-12-2005 01:25PM

Every time something like this comes up it really confuses me. I've thought this through many times over and I can't see how it could possibly be degrading to women, if anything it's testament to the power women have over men.

On the other hand, I could see how it would be degrading to men. It means the marketers think we're all a bunch of slobbering idiots who are going to buy a newspaper, or whatever product, because of a picture of a good looking girls in a mini-skirt.

xzanti · 16-12-2005 01:30PM

Yes being made up and clothed in nice gear for the day to have your photo taken and have people lick your a*rs everywhere you go... And then get paid a small fortune for it.... Very degrading

???

cournioni · 16-12-2005 01:51PM

What a stupid thread. Getting paid good money for modelling clothes or your body is something a woman should be proud of. None of them are forced into any of it.

joejoem · 16-12-2005 01:53PM

This reminds me of the photo of the ugly woman protesting outside a hooters in the states witha poster saying "This is sexist" or something, and behind her you see 4 hooters girls walking toward her with drinks. The face on her is brilliant!

If anyone can find that photo I will give them 10p

ionapaul · 16-12-2005 01:58PM

http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/page.cgi/hooters-protest

enjoy

joejoem · 16-12-2005 02:02PM

Link not working

panda100 · 16-12-2005 02:15PM

Ok i must defend myself.Perhaps I didnt explain myself properly yesterday. You see no other country in the world has these sort of pr stunts on there papers day in day out. Actually if you read any of the interviews from Irish models they say that the work that they do is degrading too. Its not fashon modelling,its not page 3 stuff so for the likes of the assests models who consider themselves proper models,these sort of pr jobs day day in and out out is degrading for them. Pick up any english paper and you will not see a half pretty girl standing in hyde park dressed in a bikini for a vodafone summer special. I have absolutely no problem with the sun and page 3 girls. They are proffesional models who arent promoting any company. However, on moving back to Irealnd i couldnt believe on the front of our national papers so called broadsheet papers everyday(its even creeping into the times) there are these cheap publicity stunts. What does this reflect on us as a nation that editors of these daily nationals think the men an us women want to see a picture like this. Surely the irish independent and times photographers are paid to do a decent job and get intresting pictures of dthe country instead of trotting down to stephens green for the same worn out picture of andre roche with another product to flaunt.

I wouldnt consider myself a feminist,far from it. I have huge respect for Katie Price and glamour models who work hard to get where they are. Even though it is strange how these so called irish 'models' cant get work anywhere else in the world except Dublin...and glenda gleeson in particular has tried so hard to break into british modelling. However,the fact is they are too ordinary and cheap looking to get work anywhere else. The have nothing special or stunning about themselves and i just think there is far more attractive girls in Ireland than those same ex miss Irelands that are always on the front of the Herald.

Miguel_Sanchez · 16-12-2005 02:39PM

The Indo is a rag anyway. These 'models' are hardly an incentive for people to buy it, are they?

Jaysus - if someone actually picks the Indo purely because it has a picture of Glenda ****ing Gilson on the cover then they're a sap.

Sap - man I haven't used that word for ages. I like it.

Sap. Sap. Sap.

joejoem · 16-12-2005 02:45PM

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Sap. Sap. Sap.

why did you say it tree times?

Caprisun · 16-12-2005 02:46PM

Im glad to hear that other people find those pictures in the herald etc to be completely random. in the last week i think ive seen roberta rowatt promote irish tourism, healthy eating week and something else equally less glamouress. its not jealousy, feck it, i think she's right to do it if she's being paid but honestly theres plenty of better looking girls out there. i think its a case of mammy and daddy know people who know people

panda100 · 16-12-2005 02:47PM

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

The Indo is a rag anyway. These 'models' are hardly an incentive for people to buy it, are they?

Jaysus - if someone actually picks the Indo purely because it has a picture of Glenda ****ing Gilson on the cover then they're a sap.

Sap - man I haven't used that word for ages. I like it.

Sap. Sap. Sap.

Then why are they putting them on the front of the papers all the time?

Surely the editors of the papers have done their research and these sort of photos must sell-dont you think this just reflects badly on us as a nation?No other nation needs to do this to sell papers? and this doesnt include the sun or the likes because those models are professional and not promoting anything

Kersh · 16-12-2005 02:57PM

Ye, must agree, sap is a great word.
@ Joejoem - he wrote sap x 3 cos you put up a post x 3.

Anyway, I do reckon its a case of who you know etc.
Still bugs me too. Bring on the new talent - any will do at this stage.

Dilly1 · 16-12-2005 02:59PM

Sure the designer Paul Costello was saying that he would never use them, because they all look the same and the agencies in Ireland over-charge for very ordinary models. Its funny when you hear a designer come out and say that, because I am no expert but I always thought they had been using the same handful of models for the last 20 years and maybe vacum packing them away in the evenings or something hehe :-). But its just that they all look the same. :rolleyes:

of course people like to play the "degrading" card when it suits them. I say if you have, it use it.

the_menace · 16-12-2005 03:04PM

Seriously - as someone said, 'mongo post of the year'. GET A LIFE.

panda100 · 16-12-2005 03:09PM

the_menace wrote:

Seriously - as someone said, 'mongo post of the year'. GET A LIFE.

I just wanted to see what peoples views were on the use of them on the front of our daily papers?as i am still relatively new to Irealand, i thought it was quite funny to see these same models all the time and found it strange. Sorry if i cma acroos as 'mongoish', I just was intrested in what people thought thats all?

Victor · 16-12-2005 03:10PM

Picz?!?!?!?!??

joejoem · 16-12-2005 03:12PM

panda100 wrote:

I just wanted to see what peoples views were on the use of them on the front of our daily papers?as i am still relatively new to Irealand, i thought it was quite funny to see these same models all the time and found it strange. Sorry if i cma acroos as 'mongoish', I just was intrested in what people thought thats all?

Thats ok, first post seemed like an ugly girl mad at god for not making her attractive. Its all good now

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