Originally Posted by Robin Davies:
“I'm 56 and totally out of touch with modern music and most mainstream light entertainment but even I have heard of Cheryl Cole and knew she had a Geordie accent! Some people are so famous you become aware of them by a sort of cultural osmosis, whether you want to or not.
It's a valid point though. As we get older and the makers/presenters of shows become much younger than us, we'll miss more and more of the cultural references. Then we'll be reduced to watching recordings of old stuff and pining about the good old days...
Ray Mears isn't the first guest to play the "serious" card. I remember Spike Milligan took the opportunity to slag off fox-hunting.”
“I'm 56 and totally out of touch with modern music and most mainstream light entertainment but even I have heard of Cheryl Cole and knew she had a Geordie accent! Some people are so famous you become aware of them by a sort of cultural osmosis, whether you want to or not.
It's a valid point though. As we get older and the makers/presenters of shows become much younger than us, we'll miss more and more of the cultural references. Then we'll be reduced to watching recordings of old stuff and pining about the good old days...
Ray Mears isn't the first guest to play the "serious" card. I remember Spike Milligan took the opportunity to slag off fox-hunting.”
That must have been a long time ago - I didn't think room 101 had been going that long
Must admit, I found Ray Mears extremely boring. It was like an edition of Newsnight.
I thought Katherine's diatribe about Cheryl Cole was the best thing about it TBH.
. I heard the name at the start but since it meant nothing to me I'd forgotten it (other than Cheryl + F something) by the time I'd come on here. You have to know she was trying to do a Geordie accent to get the joke and I was so lost by then nothing made sense, it was like a series of unconnected statements and very hard to follow if you're not in on it.
