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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There's Gethin Jones - Blue Peter, Strictly, BBC presenter - and someone who was a professional footballer but after that, no idea.      

    Pointless gets it right.

    I don't see why those poor islands should get all the dross polluting them and disturbing the wildlife @B3.   Lock them all up in one of those big shopping centres that are going bust and keep them there.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited June 2020
    I know six of the contestants. Anyone with a even a passing interest in sport will know John Barnes, Judy Murray and Matthew Pinsent. I have seen Dom Littlewood and Jeff Brazier host TV shows, both likeable people, but I think the one person whose profile will rocket is Amar Latif. He is extremely engaging and reflective, determined to embrace all that life offers despite being totally blind since the age of 18.

    Unfortunately I will not be watching the programme because I cannot abide Greg Wallace the greengrocer.

    It is seemingly acceptable on this forum to denigrate footballers and celebrities but I have just been reading about John Barnes and he must be doing something right judging by the way his four oldest children are making their way in the world: the oldest is a consultant plastic surgeon specialising in burns and car crash victims, the next got a 1st in maths at Leeds University and is working in banking, the third is a junior doctor and the fourth is studying criminology at university.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You've been watching the trailers a lot more closely than I have!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Not seen the trailers, Obelixx, I googled it.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Cheating! I'm more perturbed by 2 weeks of Not Wimbledon on the Beeb.   Bad enough when it's live.

     
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    These are just the ones that have been dealt with after the community kicked up a fuss. A drop in the scumbag ocean I imagine.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @BenCotto  ...  I’ve always been a huge John Barnes fan ... as well as his footballing achievements he’s always appeared to me to be a thoughtful and intelligent man. Not perfect, but then few of us are, but a good role model for anyone at a time when role models are sorely needed. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Judy Murray will seemingly appear on anything and everything.  If these programmes were always simply about people outside their comfort zone doing the absolute best they can they might be worth watching.  Unfortunately there are always some amongst the number whose only interest is in getting as much camera time as possible by being as outrageous as possible, and they P me off big time.  As for Greg Wallace.......
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    It seems that being the parent/ offspring, or "ex" of a celebrity make one a celebrity these days. 
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're beyond scum @wild edges.
    We've been plagued with them round Loch Lomond, despite the advice. As one of the high heid yins there said - 95% of the [Scottish]  population doesn't live within five miles of L. Lomond, so why are they there causing trouble? That's not counting all the ones coming from down south because they wilfully ignore the rules and regs. 
    I know Wales has had the same problems too because some people don't bother to find out about the place they're going to. The 'me, me' me' brigade at their finest.  :|
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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