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Jawidar posted:Edit: Definitely not a fan of Jake Humphrey, though. I think it's the way he pronounces every syllable in every word like some sort of presenting robot. Jake Humphrey was loving awful at the Velodrome, I just wanted Cavendish to punch him. Every time they cut to him he'd somehow bring up the fact Cav has no Olympic gold medal, completely glossing over how dominant he's been in the sprinting at the Tour de France, and that getting Gold at London was an all or nothing effort by Team GB.
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They showed him kissing him earlier. Clearly it's a case of schoolboy romance.
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Claire Balding has been fantastic, but for me she gets beaten out by Matt Baker's giddy excitement at the improved state of UK gymnastics. John Inverdale is a terrible awkward guy with no idea how to deal with heavy emotions, Gary Lineker has been pretty bad but his bromance with Ian Thorpe saved him. And yeah, the velodrome coverage was like a constant parade of gently caress You Cav 
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John Inverdale was in tears along with Purchase/Hunter when they only got silver. So I don't buy that heavy emotions stuff. The only problem (and this is universal) is when they try to get soundbites out of people. So many times you get: Interviewer: You just won the bronze medal, how does it feel? Athlete: Yeah I came third. Interviewer: 4 years ago did you think you could do that? Athlete: Well I've got bronze so I guess. Interviewer: Is this the best moment of your life? Athlete: I just want to thank my coaches... Interviewer: Was this medal for the crowd? How much does it mean to you? Athlete: I just want to go to bed why aren't you letting me go? Interviewer: TELL US THAT YOU WON THIS MEDAL FOR THE CROWD AND THAT IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO YOU. The worst ones are the interviews with failures. See Phillips Idowu, Euan Burton and the guy who had a really poo poo time in the 400m today. And that one VVV incredible bear fucked around with this message at Aug 7, 2012 around 23:08 |
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The saddest interview I've seen was the guy who wouldn't stop apologising to his coaches for wasting their time and to his wife and kids for not spending more time with them 
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| # ? Aug 7, 2012 23:05 |
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Jake Humphrey is a terrible host. Everything about him rubs me up the wrong way. He seems tailor made for shite like The One Show. Have David Gower present every important sporting event for the rest of his life.
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goatface posted:The saddest interview I've seen was the guy who wouldn't stop apologising to his coaches for wasting their time and to his wife and kids for not spending more time with them Jesus, I never saw that interview but just reading that is making me sad as hell
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I've barely seen much Olympics but from what I've seen of Lineker, it seems very clear that he's much more of a football guy than a sports-in-general guy.
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incredible bear posted:The worst ones are the interviews with failures. See Phillips Idowu, Euan Burton and the guy who had a really poo poo time in the 400m today. And that one VVV Seeing as Phillips Idowu hid an injury so he could cash in on the pre-Olympics hype money, I really find it hard to pity him
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Handsome Dead posted:I've barely seen much Olympics but from what I've seen of Lineker, it seems very clear that he's much more of a football guy than a sports-in-general guy. Rarity posted:Seeing as Phillips Idowu hid an injury so he could cash in on the pre-Olympics hype money, I really find it hard to pity him
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Handsome Dead posted:I've barely seen much Olympics but from what I've seen of Lineker, it seems very clear that he's much more of a football guy than a sports-in-general guy. He's not really a football guy any more, he's a flinty-eyed golem who exists only to pimp crisps and emit soundbites at random.
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There is a huge difference between being somebody who was a sportsman/woman and moves into doing a bit of TV presenting in a tightly controlled/scripted studio environment and somebody who is a professional television presenter. And then there's a huge difference again between a television presenter and somebody who has gravitas, personality, and knowledge to be able to handle changing situations in a live environment. Gary Linekar -> Jake Humphrey -> Clare Balding. There's your scale, from left to right as I explained it. Clare Balding is the best sports presenter the BBC have and I hope she carries on forever. She's brilliant.
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thehustler posted:Gary Linekar -> Jake Humphrey -> Clare Balding -> Ortis Deley Fixed that for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RCgXqoyLc
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jfjnpxmy posted:He's not really a football guy any more, he's a flinty-eyed golem who exists only to pimp crisps and emit soundbites at random. I only found this out the other week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_8pfbCH-4 He's done very well for it not to be the only thing the public remembers him for.
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Z-Magic posted:Fixed that for you Haha I forgot about that holy poo poo
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jfjnpxmy posted:He's not really a football guy any more, he's a flinty-eyed golem who exists only to pimp crisps and emit soundbites at random. It's a shame, because he was a really good pundit, certainly better than anyone else the BBC have had in years. He might be off to BT next year, maybe that'll be the kick up the arse he needs.
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thehustler posted:Haha I forgot about that holy poo poo There's a great clip where Michael Johnson has decided to cut Ortis out of the loop and conduct his own interviews. On that note they should just have Michael Johnson presenting athletics coverage from now anyway.
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Radio Times reckons Trev Nelson is doing commentary on the closing ceremony too. Hold on to your hats. Also odds of McCartney singing Hey Jude for the nth time?
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Giedroyc posted:Radio Times reckons Trev Nelson is doing commentary on the closing ceremony too. Hold on to your hats. No, inexplicably it will be the Stones playing "Start Me Up".
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HoldYourFire posted:No, inexplicably it will be the Stones playing "Start Me Up". They've got to have another song from 2005 when it was announced we won the games a la the Arctic Monkeys. So looking at the hits from that year it's either going to be 'Axel F' by Crazy Frog or Peter Kay's 'Is this the way to Amarillo'... oh no...
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incredible bear posted:Linekar's the weaker link for me. I think my lowest moment was when Gary Lineker was interviewing John MacEnroe...about the 100m final.
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| # ? Aug 8, 2012 18:01 |
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Urgh, and the interviews with the fastest qualifiers. Asking them questions that are unanswerable. It's like asking a football manager how they did 70 minutes into the game and it's 1-1. They made Dai Greene really beat himself up about not finishing in the top two, and then 5 minutes later he's through to the final. Surely they can hold them aside until their fate is known.
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Kin posted:
Little late, but I need this on DVD. Still makes me chuckle after all these years, and I do wonder how they got away with so much for kids TV at the time
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I can't stand Clare Balding and the teacher thing on the Incredible Games show gave me nightmares as a kid. What are you doing to me thread?
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goatface posted:The saddest interview I've seen was the guy who wouldn't stop apologising to his coaches for wasting their time and to his wife and kids for not spending more time with them That was great. They're always shouting about how these gold medal winners and their family sacrificed everything and look how it's worth it. They never mention the sacrifices of the losers. As for presenters, I like Balding and Logan. Linekar makes a meal of every segment link, mispronounces names of participants and forgets the olympic achievements of the people he is interviewing. Linekar: we've got a guest with us now who won a medal in 92 in Barcelona. Wow, was it really that long ago? Guest: Well it was 88 in Seoul Linekar: but you look so young.
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Did anyone watch the recent Channel 4 documentary The Girl Who Became Three Boys? I'm watching it now and it's utterly mad, as the title suggests this girl basically created 3 male personalities and then tricked her friends into believing they were real. Somehow she was so good at it that she met up with her friends and entered relationships with them as different boys  I don't get how the gently caress
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Paperhouse posted:Did anyone watch the recent Channel 4 documentary The Girl Who Became Three Boys? I'm watching it now and it's utterly mad, as the title suggests this girl basically created 3 male personalities and then tricked her friends into believing they were real. Somehow she was so good at it that she met up with her friends and entered relationships with them as different boys Kids are pretty stupid these days tbf. No, I need to watch this, sounds really interesting.
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Paperhouse posted:Did anyone watch the recent Channel 4 documentary The Girl Who Became Three Boys? I'm watching it now and it's utterly mad, as the title suggests this girl basically created 3 male personalities and then tricked her friends into believing they were real. Somehow she was so good at it that she met up with her friends and entered relationships with them as different boys Was it this girl? I read about it the other day, really weird story.
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Paperhouse posted:Did anyone watch the recent Channel 4 documentary The Girl Who Became Three Boys? I'm watching it now and it's utterly mad, as the title suggests this girl basically created 3 male personalities and then tricked her friends into believing they were real. Somehow she was so good at it that she met up with her friends and entered relationships with them as different boys The girl with the lower lip piercing who went out with 2 of the male personas was either compromised mentally from birth or willing to delude herself just to boast to her facebook friends that she had a boyfriend.
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This weeks Vexed is brought to you by Richard Littlejohn's midlife crisis, in which our heroes infiltrate a group of post-genderist university students and inadvertently calls them a bunch of lesbian slappers. What the loving gently caress?
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Padje posted:The girl with the lower lip piercing who went out with 2 of the male personas was either compromised mentally from birth or willing to delude herself just to boast to her facebook friends that she had a boyfriend.
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Christ, is anyone watching Young Bright and on the Right? It's only been on for 5 minutes and I hate every single one of them.
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The guy with the elbow patches has already learned his place. Good tory boy.
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Muppetjedi posted:Christ, is anyone watching Young Bright and on the Right? It's only been on for 5 minutes and I hate every single one of them. The weird blonde one saying tories face more discrimination than gays, 
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:it's amazing, these toffs going "I don't think the conservatives are nasty" and then showing what a bunch of backstabbing shitheels they are. I thought it was weird that the advice from his mother was to "look electable" and "look like you are listening to people." What about actually being electable and actually listening to people?
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Hahah he actually has a headshot of Maggie as a screensaver.
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Xachariah posted:I thought it was weird that the advice from his mother was to "look electable" and "look like you are listening to people." You have... you are familiar with British politics right?
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Xachariah posted:I thought it was weird that the advice from his mother was to "look electable" and "look like you are listening to people."  Hello! Nice to meet you.  My name is Nick.
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Sion posted:You have... you are familiar with British politics right? I am, I was pointing out that this is a stupid attitude. "Look like you are competent" and "look like you aren't an amoral bastard who cares nothing of the plebs". It's loving stupid advice, try and BE competent, try and BE a nice person. I'd be offended if people told me to act decently and honourable, because they are assuming it's not something you can actually be.
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Xachariah posted:I'd be offended if people told me to act decently and honourable, because they are assuming it's not something you can actually be. Why? It's not a comment on you, it's a comment on the system and how it works. It doesn't really matter if you're a great, caring guy who listens to the people, because being that doesn't get you elected, making people think you are will. So, you could as well be a total scumbag, if you know your PR and media game, you're still a great guy and totally electable, unlike someone who's actually a decent human being but isn't as good in telling that to everybody and avoiding any scandals or taints in your image.
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