Dictation Manipulation chats to Ella and Kate (Full Audio Clip)

Ok so I reckon you've all waited long enough for the full audio clip... however, please be aware that this is an 18 minute debate and you may need to set aside some time so as to get it's full benefit!

It is for this reason that I have been posting up some shortened version, a few seconds of insight to spark your own debate... I hope some of this will get you riled! Please also feel free to let me know what else you'd like to hear about...

Busy little worker ants...

Ok, so I'm not sure if your all aware of this, but there has been quite a bit of commenting activity going on and I'd like to draw your attention to it! We've been particularly busy on the Is fashion evil? post which seems to have got a few of you going.

Now the reason that I've set aside today's post for this is not because I'm lazy, don't have anything else to say, or aren't feeling particularly inventive because I haven't had a cup of tea yet, but because I do not wish this site to become another form of dictation, that my opinion overshadow everyone else... We are on an equal platform here and I only wish to insight debate.

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So, here's what I've got for today (yet another quote from the wonderful Fight Club - valid none the less)

'I see the strongest and smartest men who have ever lived, and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables... 

Remember this... 

These people you are trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed and guard you whilst you're asleep. We drive ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't.

And we're just learning this fact... So don't fuck with us.' 

So is this something that can be applied to the fashion industry, and if so how far do we agree with it?

Kate Leadbetter...

Now lets be honest, Kate is a God of Knowledge and I love just spending time with her - I feel like I'm learning things by just breathing the same air... but here are the facts!

She is a twenty-year-old, third year English Literature student at Manchester University and is applying for a Masters in Film - 'Which is ultimately where I would like to end up.'

So then I asked her all about herself and here's what she had to say ... who better to describe her but her right? (The literary genius that she is!)

'I go to the cinema about 3 times a week and watch way more films than that on top. I am very much a film nerd and what I don't know about cinema would struggle to fill a matchbox! - Geeky and sad, but true! (Not at all geeky and sad Kate! I love to see someone with such drive and passion for what they want to do, and such an interest in broader culture...)

I read a lot and listen to a lot of jazz and Patti Smith is my hero! (She listens to Jazz - How cool is that!)

I'm chair of a film society in Manchester, as well, which is the biggest student film group in the country, which makes me even more of a nerd!' (Again, Nerd? I know this girl is smart and all but can't she see that it's darn impressive to be running a film society at just little old twenty?)

Any final thoughts Kate? Here's your platform...
...'There is not much I wouldn't do for a bowl of Chili and glass of Lambrini!

(Oh well, at least she knows how to relax - that's how I lured her into talking me for so long! Note to all: If you ever want a students opinion... just offer them free food! - That's all it will take!)

Thanks Kate! - Clever thing.