enough.
let this year be an end to it.
i like naked bodies as much as the next person (well ok probably more than most) but there comes a time when enough is enough.
what am i talking about - it's those sodding "naked" calendars of normal people stripping off for a good cause and making a calendar of it.
at least one of these calendars has gone too far, well at least in the eyes of the organisation they belonged to. apparently it left little to the imagination and has resulted in 9000 of the 10 000 calendars being pulped. this has meant that something that was done for charity has meant that the people involved now have a £15k debt to deal with, and the charity they were doing it for has nothing.
so on behalf of the rest of us i am begging all you farmers, weavers, firemen, toilet attendants, traffic wardens, cheerleaders (no what am i thinking you lot can still strip off), dentists, pizza deliverymen please when 2005 comes to an end do not have a 2006 calendar ready to hit the shelves. just give the production money to the charity of your choice.
lets leave the saucy calendars to the professionals. the people who make the bare walls of offices and factories a nicer place to stare at while trying to complete the daily drudge. so naked tailor, so naked shelf stacker just leave the calendars to the jordans, nells and abi titmuss' of the world. it may not be fair but it is right.
(sidebar: another thing I would like to see the end of now we are heading into 2005 is the feeble joke book that is chucked out there at Christmas time in the vague hope that it will prove to be a publishing sensation. Lets have no more crap town books – not funny, not even close. Lets have no more parody books of successful books and films, lets have no more half arsed celebrity comedy books (flanimals – who bought it , according to amazon.co.uk a lot of you did, why? Why? Why? was it a present for someone you didn’t like……)
the nadir of this species of book has to be the “fuck off” book (ok it also gives me an opportunity to say fuck) which comprised of lots of basic illustrated cartoons which have the punch line of “fuck off”. Oh look laughed so hard there goes a rib.
Mind you for a truly funny book, though not at all pc, check out the modern toss book. I laughed so hard I had an accident.
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Normally I would agree with you on this - no one but perky Australian soap actresses should bring out a nude calendar (although some years ago I did own the British Girls Of Sport calendar, which had some truly stunning Sharron Davies pictures...).
However, when I moved to the quiet countryside, I found that our local women's rowing club had their own nude calendar, raising money for some worthy cause or other. The fun thing was that you'd see all the women from the calendar in town - working in shops, wandering round the place, one of them took her kids to the same playgroup I took my son to. My appreciation for the whole nude-calendar-thing was suddenly increased...
I still find it difficult to make eye contact with the girl who works in the toy shop, knowing I have seen her with just a slim paddle covering her tender form.
I'm so ashamed.
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