TOPSHOP MANEQUIN ROW.

“Topshop is at the centre of a row over body image after a photograph which compared the "shocking" skinniness of a mannequin to a "normal girl" in one of their stores went viral.”

It's clear that mannequins aren't always meant to be a representation of real body sizes. The Topshop main demographic is teenage girls, and they're going to see rake thin legs and think that's what they need to be, in order to be fashionable/popular/attractive.

Thus, Topshop are responding to the market, and the market is telling them skinny. People have to ask who is influencing this skinny culture, the fashion industry or the fashionists.

Mannequins, to a certain extent, should be aspirational though. They are there to show off the clothes in their best light, and attract who want to buy them in the same way that models in ad campaigns are.

There is ever more call for the fashion industry to reflect 'real life'. Fat mannequins that hold up a mirror to how obese our society has become aren't necessarily a positive thing. Being too fat and unhealthy isn't something people should aspire to any more than being thin and unhealthy is.

NO ROMANIAN ALLOWED.

One student girl was turned away from having a room at Holiday Express In, all because she is Romanian; also she was targeted by the hotel staff as a prostitute.
Holiday Express In had its brand on newspapers because of the situation which it sounds more a discrimination case. When the hotel manager was asked about the situation, it was rejected the discrimination word and it was told that they had booked previously to one Romanian woman and she was a prostitute attending her customers at Holiday Express In .The question is…if they refuse to give you a room because of the nationality, what name is given then?
None can judge one country for the behaviour of just one citizen.
It is clear that Holiday Express In need to train its staff because this is not the reception that the customer wants to receive.

THE POISON THAT COMES FROM DRINKS!

“Are sugary drinks causing 8,000 cases of diabetes every year?
Sugar-sweetened drinks could be triggering up to 1.8 million diabetes cases over 10 years in the United States and 79,000 in the UK.”

This is one new that is not so new. Studies were made regarding to sugary drinks, the government was warned, but it seems that little or nothing is being done with the matter.
Sugary drinks can be found at every corner of the city, let’s not blame the giants’ supermarkets for selling it, they are not the only ones. This case is being put on shelves for a long time. It is a case of national health. The first to be affected are the children. They are the most which tend to consume more fizzy and sugary drinks. Why not tackle the problem at its root. For example, who are the sugary drinks makers? Why not putting pressure on sugary drink makers to change its products from unhealthy to healthy one?

PLASTIC BAGS.

“UK plastic bag use up for fifth year

Average household has 40 plastic bags at home, but number of single use bags taken at supermarkets keeps rising ahead of 5p bag charge in England.  The number of single-use plastic bags handed out by UK supermarkets has increased for the fifth year running.”
It is not that plastic bags are worse than other plastic waste, rather that reducing them is easier to achieve (because there are alternatives and eliminating the plastic requires only changes in behaviour, not changes along a supply chain). We should certainly work towards reducing other plastic waste, though. It will be very interesting to see shops offering a greater range of unpackaged goods.
Both shops and customers need to take greater responsibility over plastic bag waste. Shops give out bags far too readily; afraid that customers will be offended if they do not. It's good that the forthcoming bag charge in England will at least give shops a standard framework for changing their policies.

60 MILLION OUT.

 According to the Telegraph “BBC iPlayer watched abroad by ‘more than 60 million people’ for free. Viewers have been using location blockers to watch the BBC iPlayer, according to new research.

The BBC’s iPlayer is supposed to be inaccessible outside the UK but, according to new research, more than 60 million people are bypassing the services restrictions to watch BBC programmes online. The research, conducted by GlobalWebIndex, found that people have been using proxy servers or virtual private networks which make it seem like their computers are located in the UK.”
This shows the enormous popularity and quality of the BBC across the world. 
I don't see any reason why the BBC should not make the iPlayer available worldwide, with a subscription. The iPlayer can and should still be free to UK license payers, wherever they are in the world when they watch it, if the BBC would just get its tech act together.
Every UK TV License should simply have a bar code / viewer ID number on it, which combined with a username and password allows access to the iPlayer, wherever the license holder is. Only available to UK domiciles of course.
The rest of the world can pay a part or full subscription, and why not?
If Amazon, EasyJet, eBay et al can manage millions of subscribers and customers, why cannot the BBC?
 Attempting to stop people watching via VPN is just stupid. People pay for a VPN to watch the iPlayer - I'm sure they'd pay the same to the BBC if they were allowed to.

Bacon is missing from my packet!

It happened with one Tesco consumer who went to buy the bacon for his Sunday breakfast, but the world came to the end because he had found six bacon rashers instead of seven.
Facebook was the first place to share his sorry feelings, where more than 200 hundred users had shared the sad news. The thing is that Tesco, whether for good or bad news was being talked once more about social media.
But I can feel sorry for the consumer, who had just the Sundays to spoil himself with a great breakfast and the main ingredient was missing by one rash on the pack. The thing is...if Tesco says that the bacon pack comes with 7 rashers, off course we are going to pay for the 7 and not 6.  Tesco had answered the consumer complaint with a great humour that they would make up with the consumer asking the receipt and the packet barcode. But who keeps the product barcode after open the simple bacon packet and start cooking? Better not throw away the barcodes and receipts while we are not satisfied and certified with quantities.
The main thing is to keep the client happy after the stress and the Tesco has managed.

TOTAL DARKNESS!

“The world plunged into total darkness for 15 days”.This is as it was published on The Sun newspaper, it was on the newspapers but came from Facebook. If we read like that it will sound  like some theories of conspiracy or  even  finding similarities with “War Stars” series but not. This is what is going on mouth to mouth and social media sharing.
The earth being in total darkness for 15 days is something that was prophesied long time ago not with exact number of days, but is something that men have been talking about it
When we read stories like that the world is a small village and the news runs faster like a tornado.  Facebook really is one of social media where people can get the most exciting news or the scariest ones.
It will be very curious just to observe the human behaviour in these 15 days of darkness, if people would continue with their daily routine. Certainly many conversations would take place in all over the media.
What about after the 15 days of darkness?  I am thinking that this is where the darkness would start because of the electricity bill. Yes! We have to compensate the lack of natural light with the electrical one and we know that electricity does not come cheap.
The good thing is that NASA has answered the Facebook PR and there is no such thing coming to us, I hope so, this way our pocket money is saved from the total darkness.