I don't even hate real people, let alone the virtual ones they put on our telly box, such a waste of energy.

oh sorry forgot, there is an exception, I was cool towards, bordering on icicly about John Seargeant but I had actually heard him give an after dinner speech prior to scd which left me unwarm
Last edited by Lesley_Rigg : 10-12-2013 at 15:37

I don't see the problem with the phrase. I don't dislike any of the contestants. Some have personalities/public personas I "warm' to more, but they are all decent people just trying to make a living. What reason is there to actively dislike any of them?

I felt like I didn't warm to Susanna at the beginning of the show. That didn't mean I disliked her, I think she's a lovely person, but I wasn't motivated to vote for her. She has grown on me throughout the series though.

I do sometimes think that phrases get noticed and picked up and then become stock statements, often accompanied by other info which gives much more of an indication of how the person feels.

No doubt I will now get "e-shot" for even referring to words I've read on other threads, but I'm thinking of "smug" as one particular example (and only an example - I'm not trying to create a diversion to discuss the merits or otherwise of that particular term).

But to return to the particular phrase in question here, and again for example even just on this thread (hope I can't get "e-shot" for referring in the abstract to past postings on the same thread ) I have read "I can't warm to X, I think he/she is overmarked".

Thinking about it, surely in that case it's the alleged overmarking you dislike, not the person.

Perhaps separating the issue from the person, especially when it isn't their fault, might help in these sorts of cases.

I couldn't warm to Julien McDonald if I was cremated with him.