Congrats to the Canadians

[dr_mabeuse]

Obviously.

Rumple Foreskin

I'm kind of shocked. I mean, I'm not into seeing these things as expolitative or anything and more power to them, but doesn't the idea of a bunch of people sitting around in tuxedos rating the bodies of near-naked women seem kind of odd in this day and age?

Oh wait! I forgot the talent competition.

I wonder if she's for or against world peace and understanding?

 

[rgraham666]

Eh. Checked her picture.

Doesn't do a thing for me. Too much of a marketing product to be interesting.

 

[oggbashan]

A search revealed this:
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New Miss Canada is 23 years old. She was born in Russia in small coastal town and moved to Toronto with her parents when she was 12. Ever since, she adores Canada, a country which became her new home. Natalie is working as a model and studies Information Technology Management and Marketing at Ryerson University.

Natalie Glebova is also a classical pianist and composer who dreams to have a small business of her own one day. In her interview to GlobalBeauties.com Miss Canada explains what spurred her to take part in beauty contests: "I decided to enter the Miss Universe Canada competition as a new way to challenge myself. I constantly look for new experiences that I can learn from, and improve myself."
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Og who has refrained from adding a personal comment.

 

[Guest]

http://www.faz.net/imagecache/%7BCE339F14-D38B-47BF-AD8F-DD6BE0D1EF5B%7Dpicture.jpeg

Just another hypenate.

Natalie Glebova is actually a Russian-Canadian.​

Wait a minute. During the cold war, they told us Russian women were all ugly!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I'm kind of shocked. I mean, I'm not into seeing these things as expolitative or anything and more power to them, but doesn't the idea of a bunch of people sitting around in tuxedos rating the bodies of near-naked women seem kind of odd in this day and age?

Oh wait! I forgot the talent competition.

I wonder if she's for or against world peace and understanding?

What about world hunger?

But seriously, what I like about the Miss Universe, as opposed to Miss America, event is the former makes no bones about being a BEAUTY pagent.

The outcry against these type of events as being exploitative of women has always struck me as an attempt by certain groups to control the activities of others, and impose their own standards in order to advance their agenda. In other words, become moral censures. To the best of my knowledge, none of the contestants were forced to participate.

I'm for the overall goals of these groups, it's just their methods that I sometimes find self-righteous and objectionable.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Lauren Hynde]

You're not going to believe it, but I swear it is the truth. I saw the news report on this last night, and according to that report, the clincher was when she answered the last question, saying that her greatest challenge was to always think of a glass as being half-full.

Damn, what insight.

 

[LadyJeanne]

You're not going to believe it, but I swear it is the truth. I saw the news report on this last night, and according to that report, the clincher was when she answered the last question, saying that her greatest challenge was to always think of a glass as being half-full.

Damn, what insight.

It's tough to always think of a glass as half full when you see that sometimes it's empty, sometimes its cracked and leaking, sometimes its overflowing, and sometimes there is no glass at all.

 

[impressive]

You're not going to believe it, but I swear it is the truth. I saw the news report on this last night, and according to that report, the clincher was when she answered the last question, saying that her greatest challenge was to always think of a glass as being half-full.

Damn, what insight.

Ugh. Give me a woman with a MIND. Keep the over-tweaked twit.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

It's tough to always think of a glass as half full . . .

Few of these girls come from wealthy homes.

Ever see anyone like a Paris Hilton take a chance on coming in dead last in a beauty contest? (They just pay their cosmetic surgeon another $200,000.)

The trick is to not think of it as a jelly jar that is half full.


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As a matter of note, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto is not a University, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious Technical College in Canada.

A huge percent of the upper echelon of Canada's Radio & Television professionals have passed through RPI.

Unless she flunked out immediately, Natalie Glebova's educational background indicates that she is no dumby.

Also, this was her second time --- she came in third last year --- may she had learned it is necessary to answer their dumb questions in an approved manner.


(Not: No, I am not in favour of World Peace. I believe that is an unrealizable goal. )