Twitter favourites

I am a bit of a twitter addict, and recently for the Leeds Student Paper, I constructed a TV Tweets of the Week section. I thought I would post the one I created then, and I'll try to make this a regular feature, collecting funny tweets and then reposting them on here for your please.

So this was constructed at the end of November, so is a little out of date, but I shall be posting some more recent ones in the next few days :)

Me and @JamesBennewith are sitting in Italian restaurant, to get the waiters attention I said ‘Hola’ that’s Hello in Spanish! Lol crakin up!

       An insight into the ever so witty mind of @JoeyEssex_

Well my sob story worked on the weekend so now I need to try and find another one for the next show. Any ideas? #mishasobstory

       MishaQueenB, parody account.. apparently.

Hands up if you wanted Craig to grab the mic kitty style and sing ‘McDonalds, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut’ #XFactor

     @mistajam maybe that would finally get Tulisa off his back for being predictable!

Oh dear. Edward’s stormed off very upset. Sequins everywhere. He worshipped Russell Grant. #scd

       Even the Royals can’t resist a bit of Strictly Come Dancing! @Queen_uk (parody account)

Family Guy is really funny, even miserable, moaning, cynical me, laughs at it. Well when I say laugh I mean begrudgingly smile, occasionally.

      Really @Joey7Barton.. do you?

Do you girls still fancy Mark even after watching him on this show? I mean great looking man, but... #imaceleb

      Yes @timlovejoy. Absolutely, 100%, always and forever. 

Don't Tell the Bride- Would you let your future husband plan your wedding? (Written for Leeds Student Newspaper- Argument Section)

Coming from a girl that has been mentally planning her own wedding since the age of 9, I find the concept of passing the job over to a potential fiancé a rather staggering idea.

Why on earth would you let a man, who doesn’t know the difference between Vera Wang and Vera Duckworth, choose the dress you’ll be wearing on one of the most important days of your life? Would you trust him to carry out the notoriously tiresome task of buying you a new pair of jeans? Probably not. So letting him pick your wedding dress seems rather ridiculous.

I have watched the program ‘Don’t Tell the Bride’ many times, and 9 times out 10 find myself in a state of disbelief at decisions made by the grooms. The £12,000 budget they receive may seem an appropriate incentive..

Add another zero and I may just be tempted.

One Tree Hill Review (Written for Leeds Student Newspaper)

One Tree Hill is a typical American sitcom: unrealistic, dramatic, and painfully addictive.

Across the first four seasons, the main characters endure more distress than the average Jeremy Kyle guest witnesses in a lifetime. From teenage pregnancies, to stalkers pretending to be your brother, the residents of Tree Hill do not have an easy time of it. Things take a drastic turn in season five, when it would seem producers finally noticed the characters could no longer pass for well-built high school students, as they chose to set it 4 years in the future. Recurring themes of sport and music feature throughout the series, with appearances from the likes of Kid Cudi and Noisettes.

Despite being farfetched, One Tree Hill has proved its popularity over 8 seasons, and with new episodes currently airing on E4, rumour has it a familiar face will be reappearing in the next and final season! 

The Daily Mail Online

Does anyone else suffer with this addiction?

I feel that I need to get this out there, I am 100% totally obsessed with this website. In fact, I would say I am in love with it. No longer do I spend a fortune every week purchasing the regular glossys to satisfy my hunger for salacious celebrity gossip and fashion mistakes from people that with so much money, really should know better. Now I don't even need to leave the house to get this fix. I simply double click that google chrome logo, and there on my home page is everything I need to know.

Obviously I do read the other sections, if I am honest with myself the usual order of events is TV and Showbiz, Sport, and then maybe the News if I have a bit more time to kill. The fact that I have even gone to the effort to blog about this website shows you just how important it is, and to think I didn't even realise it existed a year ago.

So I would like to say this,

Daily Mail, thank you so much for informing me just how Wayne Rooney's hair transplant is getting on, who is  at war with who on twitter, who slipped a nip in that all too revealing dress, and just what level of orange is acceptable this month.

Oh, and thanks for helping me on the way to failing my degree.

How large is large?

Whilst I am under no illusions that I have the body of a catwalk model, I would not consider myself to be hugely overweight. In the current nanny state we are living in, I recognise that we have become a country of extremes, with 60% of us being overweight, and 1 in 4 of us medically obese. 

However, there are other issues to be considered here. Body image has become an unhealthy obsession for many and cosmetic surgery is at an all time high. We are constantly bombarded with images of celebrities before and after a substantial weight loss and are frequently told how much better they look for it, even if they weren't big to begin with. 

Watch out though, because if you lose a few pounds too many, suddenly you're anorexic. It really is a lose lose situation. Take Rosie Huntington-Whitely for example, who up until recently was considered a body idol according to the popular weekly glossys (despite the fact that she was more than likely clinically underweight)

But she's not so popular anymore.. 

Once this photo appeared online and in magazines, Rosie was suddenly the object of substantial criticism, with captions like 'hope she's on her way for a burger'. If celebrities, who are constantly monitored and surrounded by professionals to ensure they are remaining healthy, can't manage to maintain a healthy weight, then how can we expect impressionable teenagers to manage?

I have a 14 year old sister, who recently told me she was on a diet. Upon hearing this news I was furious, and asked her why, at such a young age, she thought that she needed to diet. She informed me how upon shopping in Abercrombie and Fitch, at a size 12, she'd had to purchase a 'Large' and had felt embarrassed by this. Why, when the average size of a UK woman is a 14, are we suggesting to younger audiences that a size 12 is large, especially when this is a perfectly healthy size? I decided to take action with regards to this issue, and emailed Abercrombie, asking them whether they felt that labelling a size 12 as large was acceptable. This was the reply I got:

Antonia, 
Thanks for your feedback. 

Your feedback about sizing is one we see fairly often. It may be disappointing, but we’ve found the best direction for our company is to limit the range of sizes we offer. By focusing on a few select options, we know we can’t appeal to everyone. That’s why we’ve chosen to expand our non-clothing merchandise like our classic scents, leather flip-flops, and cotton messenger totes. 

While this is the direction we’ve chosen for our business, we also want you to know that we haven’t stopped listening. So, we’ve captured your feedback and passed along to our business teams. 

Thanks for letting us know what's on your mind. 

I was not impressed. 

I do think that whilst obesity is an issue that needs to be tackled, there needs to be some focus on the other end of the scale. Why have so many shops stopped stocking sizes above a 14? What message is this sending to the youth of today? Even if they are at a healthy size 14, just how comfortable are they going to be in buying the largest size in the shop?

This won't be the last email I send regarding the issue of sizing, as it is something I am hugely passionate about. 

I'll keep you posted..

Is Manchester turning purple?

No I am not referring to a new Willy Wonka inspired trend sweeping the nation, where people are swapping fake tan for purple paint.. I am talking about football.

I'll give you a second to get over the initial shock that I have an interest in sport. I am aware that I wear make up and wash my hair occasionally, but that does not mean I can't have just a little bit of tomboy in me..

As I was saying.. I'm talking about football.
As painful as this memory is to recall, I would like to remind you all of the 23rd of October 2011. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what happened on this day. (I probably do). On this day, Manchester City beat Manchester United, with 6 goals to 1, with 3 of those goals taking place in extra time, clearly they hadn't been told that that's United's trick..

Whilst I was standing in a pub in Leeds watching this horrendous display, I checked my twitter account several times. I then proceeded to unfollow every single person that felt it appropriate to make the moronic and narrow minded declaration that 'Manchester is blue'.
Manchester is blue?
Manchester. Is. Blue?

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR TINY LITTLE MINDS?


Have these people heard of Manchester United, the team who have broken records, winning 19 league titles, 11 FA Cups, as well as four league cups, 19 community shields, three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup, and one FIFA Club World Cup? They are also the only English team to win the treble, and I mean the proper treble (sorry Liverpool), in 1998- 1999, winning the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the UEFA Champions League. Try saying all that after a few drinks..

Manchester City on the other hand, have, in comparison, done nothing. Even with all this new found cash, we still managed to knock them out of the FA Cup, and don't get too excited about the league either because there's a long way to go yet.

I have no interest in people telling me I'm wrong on this matter, because history speaks for itself, and history is most definitely something that Manchester United has.

So don't tell me Manchester is blue, don't even insult me saying it's purple. Manchester is, and always has been

RED

Now, let me tell you about New York.

For my 21st birthday I was lucky enough to visit 'The City That Never Sleeps'. 
Despite promises from my sister that her best friends mum, who works at Heathrow Airport, could get us on first class, mother and I found ourselves slumming it with the common folk for the entirety of the journey to JFK. 


(I must stress that having originally lived in Watford, and now living in Dunstable, I am allowed to use the word common)


I wasn't sure what to expect from New York. I couldn't help feel that a city with such a huge reputation to live up to, may end up proving a disappointment. All I can now hope is that New York forgives me for even thinking such a foolish and ridiculous thought. 


New York is quite possibly the most incredible place on Earth. I spent the best 4 days of my life wandering up and down 5th Avenue, pretending I was Carrie Bradshaw, whilst also adopting her spending habits..


'Oh look Tiffany's'
'Oh we have to go in, just to look!'
'OH HELLO NECKLACE LET ME BUY YOU!'
I'm sorry, but who exactly do I think I am..

 As for visiting the sights, normally not much of a culture vulture, even I could not resist the fantastic views from the top of the empire state building, taking a trip to Lady Liberty and even, of all things, going to a museum.

We even found the time to catch a show on Broadway.. luckily taking a visit to the TKTS booth in Times Square, where we managed to get tickets for less than half of what the snooty lady at our hotel reception was trying to sell them for! Phantom of the Opera- Congratulations, you beat the unbeatable, and overtook Wicked as my favourite musical. 


Like many others before me, I fell in love with this beautiful city, and would go back in a heartbeat, perhaps by the time I've retired I'll be able to afford to go again <3

Daily struggles

I really like lists. I like them because it makes me feel as though I have made progress, without really having to do much.

To recognise ones jobs, is to achieve a job- Antonia Ainsworth 2012

My first list I shall share with you is my to do list- very generic, overly ambitious and ultimately doomed to fail.

1.   Stop eating like I have the metabolism of a Olympic athlete who needs 7000 calories a day to function. With my current rate of activity at an all time low, I could probably survive off 7. Once have reached the size of a toothpick, embark upon modelling career and tell Kate Moss to hand over her crown.

2.    Do some work. Seriously now, I’m in my 3^rd year, this matter is very pressing and is not to be ignored.

3.    Win the lottery*. I’m not joking. I even bought a ticket last week..

4.   Repeat following mantra 1200 times before getting up: ‘A mulberry bag will not solve your problems’- despite the fact that it obviously will..

'Buy me Toni, I'll fix your sad, miserable life'

* If lottery attempts prove unsuccessful, finding a job may be the next best thing.