Dan Snow is 6ft 5in - as a rather short friend of mine discovered when he did an item on The One Show with DS. Dan was trying to reduce his height by slouching on a stair rail!
I thought tonight was pretty lame - Osman was struggling and clearly in some tiff with Snow, who is too stiff for comedy programmes. Steel is just a tw*t from the 80s. It only sprang to life towards the end, but was interesting for the Paxo WW1 piece (I always suspected other people wrote his books) and Hislop on the press reform - that libel costs issue could break Private Eye very quickly.
Paxo didn't know who Kitchener was or his role in WW1 ?
I think (but haven't checked!) that Paxo didn't know what fate befell Kitchener during the war (the ship he was on hit a mine), rather than him not knowing who he was. Still'n'all, as we're talking about a major figure, I'd expect anyone writing a book about WWI to know the story!
For someone who snorts and sniffs at errant answers on UC, he's got a bleedin' cheek.
I hope on the next UC, if Paxo asks a question about some obscure subject, someone will have the bottle to say "I don't know the answer to that, but I do know what happened to Kitchener!"
So England played football against Germany during the first world war did they and all the Polish are over here in England. It's 2013 and the BBC still don't know what the first B in their name stands for.
So England played football against Germany during the first world war did they and all the Polish are over here in England. It's 2013 and the BBC still don't know what the first B in their name stands for.
I always thought the match mainly involved men from the Royal Welch Fusiliers (and yes, they did use the archaic spelling of "Welsh"!), which is why men who'd served with that regiment re-enacted the match in 2008 when a memorial was unveiled at Frelinghien.
I thought I might be dreaming but I did hear Hislop actually giving the Daily Mail a grudging crumb of praise ?
I've misjudged him all them years, although I suspect his private Political leanings are more to the Centre Right.
recently yes, I think Hislop feels he has been naive in thinking there can ever be a truly left-wing party as ultimately all of those who go into politics and seek "power" will ultimately shift to the right and become champagne socialists.
Well, that's an intelligent way of deciding how to vote.
Possibly the most sensible reason I've seen to vote for Farage and his mob though, the others are general nonsense, built on prejudices and lies, spread from publications like the Mail:)
I think Mark Steele's getting a rough ride in here, so I think I need to speak up in his favour. His anti-Mail rant was spot on. And Ian Hislop's very pertinent rant - if you don't like something, you don't ban it - you just don't buy it...
The thing about this whole head shaking/Nystagmus debate, is that I've never once seen him do it whilst he's on Pointless and the last time he was on HIGNFY, as a guest, so it must have been a combination of nerves, (as I think this is the first time he's ever hosted HIGNFY) and the discord with Snow, that exacerbated it, last night.
I thought I might be dreaming but I did hear Hislop actually giving the Daily Mail a grudging crumb of praise ?
I've misjudged him all them years, although I suspect his private Political leanings are more to the Centre Right.
I don't think he was really praising them; he just acknowledged that he and the Mail were, for once, on the same side. He was pretty clear that, while he didn't want to ban the Mail, his hope would be that people would stop buying it.
Actually, I'm torn on this subject. I think the press have to be subject to some kind of oversight; they've abused the freedom they enjoy too often and too badly, and they'll never change left to themselves.
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Too tall??? :eek:
I've heard lots of reasons why people dislike certain TV personalities, but that's gotta be a first!
I guess you're not a basketball fan!
No, I like sport.
Man, there's tall, and then there's freaky tall.
Over 6' 5" is officially freaky tall.:eek:
I thought tonight was pretty lame - Osman was struggling and clearly in some tiff with Snow, who is too stiff for comedy programmes. Steel is just a tw*t from the 80s. It only sprang to life towards the end, but was interesting for the Paxo WW1 piece (I always suspected other people wrote his books) and Hislop on the press reform - that libel costs issue could break Private Eye very quickly.
For someone who snorts and sniffs at errant answers on UC, he's got a bleedin' cheek.
I think (but haven't checked!) that Paxo didn't know what fate befell Kitchener during the war (the ship he was on hit a mine), rather than him not knowing who he was. Still'n'all, as we're talking about a major figure, I'd expect anyone writing a book about WWI to know the story!
I hope on the next UC, if Paxo asks a question about some obscure subject, someone will have the bottle to say "I don't know the answer to that, but I do know what happened to Kitchener!"
Bollocks, his whole HEAD was shaking.
he looked terrified
Yeah, I thought he looked terrified too. I like him on Pointless but he was a fish out of water here.
The 'comedian' was just embarrassing. Lost in a time warp.
I agree with you.
I could not get into the show at all last night. I'm not an Osman tbh.
I always thought the match mainly involved men from the Royal Welch Fusiliers (and yes, they did use the archaic spelling of "Welsh"!), which is why men who'd served with that regiment re-enacted the match in 2008 when a memorial was unveiled at Frelinghien.
Maybe the EBC know better!
I've misjudged him all them years, although I suspect his private Political leanings are more to the Centre Right.
recently yes, I think Hislop feels he has been naive in thinking there can ever be a truly left-wing party as ultimately all of those who go into politics and seek "power" will ultimately shift to the right and become champagne socialists.
Umm, he's always been more to the right, his joy at Labour getting booted out last General Election was quite palpable.
Doesn't make him a bad thing, and he goes for all parties in general.
If you see left-wing bias in him, then I guess it's probably your skewed way of looking at things.
Well, that's an intelligent way of deciding how to vote.
Possibly the most sensible reason I've seen to vote for Farage and his mob though, the others are general nonsense, built on prejudices and lies, spread from publications like the Mail:)
Whoever puts these shows together is lazy.
I don't think he was really praising them; he just acknowledged that he and the Mail were, for once, on the same side. He was pretty clear that, while he didn't want to ban the Mail, his hope would be that people would stop buying it.
Actually, I'm torn on this subject. I think the press have to be subject to some kind of oversight; they've abused the freedom they enjoy too often and too badly, and they'll never change left to themselves.
'I can't climb a tree but no one gives me a gibbon'