sphericalfox Posted 8 July 2012 Author Posted 8 July 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk...ashire-18753658 An academic has used descriptions and image-generating software to create the "first picture" of a character from EL James's novel Fifty Shades of Grey. University of Central Lancashire's Dr Faye Skelton made the image using descriptions of how women said they imagined protagonist Christian Grey. Dr Skelton said the composite, created with software used to make images of criminal suspects, was "a bit of fun". She said she hoped the image would not "intrude on anyone's fantasies". 'Quite handsome' The erotic novel, which recently became the fastest adult paperback novel to sell one million print copies, tells the story of the steamy relationship between billionaire businessman Christian Grey and "unworldly, innocent" literature student, Anastasia Steele. Dr Skelton used the descriptions of 12 women given to a radio station to create the composite and said most had drawn "comparisons with famous film stars". "While we don't want to intrude on anyone's fantasies, based on a small sample of women, this is the image of Christian Grey they have in their heads when reading the novels," she said. "Personally, I think he's quite handsome - although everyone's interpretation will be different." She added that the image "was just a bit of fun, but it does show the quality of image we can now generate". The university's psychology department has been at the forefront of facial composite technology and created advanced software which uses the selection of multiple complete faces to create an image of a person. It has been used by police forces across the world to identify criminal suspects.
Saxondale Posted 8 July 2012 Posted 8 July 2012 The character, being a supposed captain of industry, is more likely to look like one of these: Sorry ladies.
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 50 Sheds of Grey @50ShedsofGrey I managed to stay calm as my wife bound my wrists & ankles. Although I did get a little nervous when she bundled me into the boot of the car
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I went to Bristol at the weekend, and saw about 8 women reading it, openly, brazenly. Quite coincidentally I am currently reading this, A great book that I would highly recommend.
FoxyPV Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I went to Bristol at the weekend, and saw about 8 women reading it, openly, brazenly. Quite coincidentally I am currently reading this, A great book that I would highly recommend. I didn't like it as much as his other stuff. I suppose that might be because I don't know the difference between magena and magnolia mso most of the jokes had to be explained to me by MsFoxy.
Captain... Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I didn't like it as much as his other stuff. I suppose that might be because I don't know the difference between magena and magnolia mso most of the jokes had to be explained to me by MsFoxy. I just love the world he creates, it is so bizarre, yet well thought out, I've just go to the bit where the Apocryphal man explains what the stars are, even though he was being thoroughly ignored, it certainly has elements of 1984 in there, but I just think it is so well written and conceived that even though I don't know my Lincoln from my Lapis Lazuli, I just love it. "All children will leave school with an above average education" - genius. Edit: I even considered going to the Fforde Fiesta in Swindon, but it clashed with going back to Spain, maybe next year.
FoxyPV Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I just love the world he creates, it is so bizarre, yet well thought out, I've just go to the bit where the Apocryphal man explains what the stars are, even though he was being thoroughly ignored, it certainly has elements of 1984 in there, but I just think it is so well written and conceived that even though I don't know my Lincoln from my Lapis Lazuli, I just love it. "All children will leave school with an above average education" - genius. Edit: I even considered going to the Fforde Fiesta in Swindon, but it clashed with going back to Spain, maybe next year. It is still head and shoulders above most of the other fiction I've read but not up to his usual standard. I'm looking forward to the new Thursday Next but would really love it if he did another book for the Nursery Crime series.
hairy Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 #50ShadesOfCymru https://twitter.com/#!/search/%2350ShadesOfCymru Her vajazzle sparkled in the light of Wetherspoons' loos. He slipped in a cheeky finger. She murmured, "Mate, thas lush."
Zingari Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 #50ShadesOfCymru https://twitter.com/...50ShadesOfCymru
Rincewind Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 Not read any yet. Still going through the Foundation series by Asimov. I have two of the books on Calibre Ithink I'll read them after. Trouble with the Ebooks I have my brother downloaded a load off some site and the print layout is terrible. There are also spelling mistakes in some books and words bunched together. Don't think they should be like that. But they were free.
Guest Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 It is still head and shoulders above most of the other fiction I've read but not up to his usual standard. I'm looking forward to the new Thursday Next but would really love it if he did another book for the Nursery Crime series. I've only just started reading Fforde after a recommendation by someone on this forum. Read the first Thursday next - Jane Eyre - it's okay, some very clever parts but it doesn't captivate me. Still it was his first and I'll definitely try the next as well.
FoxyPV Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 I've only just started reading Fforde after a recommendation by someone on this forum. Read the first Thursday next - Jane Eyre - it's okay, some very clever parts but it doesn't captivate me. Still it was his first and I'll definitely try the next as well. The series gets better until 5+6 which are both meh. His Nursery Crimes series is brilliant.
Phube Posted 11 July 2012 Posted 11 July 2012 50 Shades of Clegg 10-07-12 THE Daily Mash presents an exclusive excerpt from the erotic memoir that is setting the publishing world alight. The million-selling book tells the story of an ambitious young politician who enters into a sado-masochistic relationship with a seductively powerful Old Etonian… Pain becomes pleasure for Clegg The Downing Street office reeked of wood polish and Tory man musk. In my former life – debating some half-baked ‘double garage tax’ with Vince Cable over lasagnes at the Ramada Inn – I had been confident, domineering, a leader of sorts. But this was the pheromone-scented gorilla nest of power. His world. He swivelled in his chair as I entered. I noticed that He was eating a peach, noisily. “What the **** do you want, Clegg?” I realised my mind had gone blank. Why had I come? Student fees? Some tax or other? It no longer mattered. I was the rabbit. He was the headlights. “I…I…think…” He sucked out the peach stone, like some pedigree sex hoover, and spat it into my forehead, making a small dent. “Who gives a rat’s cock what you think, you worm?” “But…I’m the Deputy Prime Minister.” “You realise that vanity title is nothing but longhand for ‘**** Pony’? It’s meaningless crap. There is only one truth in this world, Clegg…pain.” He laughed, mirthlessly, rapaciously, revealing strong canines utterly unlike Vince Cable’s dentures, which were fit only for weakly sucking at pasta sheets. “Let me show you something, Clegg. It is time for your initiation to begin.” He pressed a button on his desk and a section of oak panel slid back. A hooded figure emerged from the rectangle of darkness. Although its face was covered, from the aimless limping gait and laboured breathing I could tell it was Michael Gove, dressed as a member of the Spanish Inquisition. “Take him into the playroom Michael, and strap him to ‘Le Pouton’. Shave him top and bottom, I’ll see to him after this conference call.” With the phone handset wedged between chin and shoulder, He opened his desk drawer and removed something that looked like a ping pong bat studded with nails. Michael Gove looped a rope around my wrists and yanked them hard behind my back. Gove, who is surprisingly strong, dragged me into the secret room, where strange devices gauged to inflict both pain and pleasure lined the wall. I felt scared and demeaned and excited, knowing no one would hear my screams when He finished his conference call and came to administer his terrible, loving punishment. No one… Except George Osborne, who wouldn’t care anyway.
Darkon84 Posted 12 July 2012 Posted 12 July 2012 Haha, just read that on the mash website and was coming here to post it, only to be beaten to it by a day . Genius stuff, all hail The Mash
Saxondale Posted 18 July 2012 Posted 18 July 2012 Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob 17-07-12 Gemini (21 MAY-20 JUN) Since your wife read 50 Shades Of Grey your love life has really changed – her saucy text messages have become grammatically all over the place.
Rincewind Posted 21 July 2012 Posted 21 July 2012 In W H Smiths you can get 3 for the price of 2 of those books.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 July 2012 Posted 22 July 2012 In W H Smiths you can get 3 for the price of 2 of those books. Don't encourage people!
Guest Posted 22 July 2012 Posted 22 July 2012 Just seen the young blonde in one of the flats we summer let reading this. Might pop down later
Jaspa Posted 26 July 2012 Posted 26 July 2012 "As he approached with those pasty white arms hanging out of his Gola vest, his smile told me it was benefit day and I knew my velour tracksuit would be hanging off the lamp shade tonight! It was Dwayne's birthday. I was preparing his special tea of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Pot Noodle. I would let him take me any way he wanted tonight. His favourite position was what he...... called The Dogs of War. Where he took me from behind and played Call of Duty at the same time. Our 6 week anniversary was approaching. This would be my longest relationship without becoming pregnant. I thought of this as he lay on top of me making love. His skinny arms straddled my head like breadsticks either side of an orange. As I rubbed his whiter than white back I imagined every mole I felt was spelling out Braille for I love you! As I stood in line at the Job Centre thinking of reasons I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, B.O and Lynx Africa. I turned around and there was Dwayne. Our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind the Iceland. He had tied up his Staffy to block the ally way so we wouldn't be disturbed. There was a tramp watching but it just added to the mystery. I knew it was love and my life would never be the same. My mum had told me to leave Dwayne many times due to the violence but I knew he loved me as he always took his rings off before he hit me. Tonight though he was in a foul mood, I had ****** his tea up after failing to de-frost his prawn ring I had nicked from farm foods. He picked up the power lead from my kids mega drive and whipped it across my doughy ****. It stung but I liked it. I shouted again again so he carried on. I thought my shell suit would rip into a million pieces. As I looked over my shoulder I saw his Weetabix toothed smile. He even had a semi on which is rare as the crack normally played havoc with his erections.........
Parafox Posted 29 July 2012 Posted 29 July 2012 Now, I don't geddit... If my missus caught me reading the "true stories" sections of a mens porn mag I'd be persona-non-grata for at least a week and would have to do mountains of domestic duties to get close to being forgiven... right guys? Yet she has it FSoG downloaded on her ****ing kindle and it's ok... !?? edit. I've got triangular sandwiches in my lunchbox tonight... does that mean I'm forgiven?
21st Century Fox Posted 29 July 2012 Posted 29 July 2012 Now, I don't geddit... If my missus caught me reading the "true stories" sections of a mens porn mag I'd be persona-non-grata for at least a week and would have to do mountains of domestic duties to get close to being forgiven... right guys? Yet she has it FSoG downloaded on her ****ing kindle and it's ok... !?? edit. I've got triangular sandwiches in my lunchbox tonight... does that mean I'm forgiven? Crusts on or off?
ozleicester Posted 30 July 2012 Posted 30 July 2012 Now, I don't geddit... If my missus caught me reading the "true stories" sections of a mens porn mag I'd be persona-non-grata for at least a week and would have to do mountains of domestic duties to get close to being forgiven... right guys? Yet she has it FSoG downloaded on her ****ing kindle and it's ok... !?? edit. I've got triangular sandwiches in my lunchbox tonight... does that mean I'm forgiven? It means youre in!. I dont get anyone complaining about your missus reading it...surely it just enhances your opportunities for more rooting?... well it did for me.. and yes..she said i was better than you
Zingari Posted 30 July 2012 Posted 30 July 2012 Now, I don't geddit... If my missus caught me reading the "true stories" sections of a mens porn mag I'd be persona-non-grata for at least a week and would have to do mountains of domestic duties to get close to being forgiven... right guys? Yet she has it FSoG downloaded on her ****ing kindle and it's ok... !?? edit. I've got triangular sandwiches in my lunchbox tonight... does that mean I'm forgiven? no, it means she wants you to munch on the triangle
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