Originally Posted by boksbox:
“That's a figure of speech folks”
“That's a figure of speech folks”
If you're twelve.
The Wright Stuff Discussion Thread (Part 4)
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"I met Bowie" is a little different to "I hear you were a good friend of David".
I'd argue that Macca's band and Jools Holland is not a strong enough draw to get folks to hand over more than £100.
I'd argue that Macca's band and Jools Holland is not a strong enough draw to get folks to hand over more than £100.
I think Rebecca's outfit is the best of this wacky week of clothing.
It works best with her hair, much less clashy than some of her earlier ensembles.
It works best with her hair, much less clashy than some of her earlier ensembles.
His rudeness to a caller just got a little reaction from someone.
"If you would just listen X... because you obviously weren't listening in the last section..." (paraphrased).
Really no need to add that little dig.
He needs to be reined in.
"If you would just listen X... because you obviously weren't listening in the last section..." (paraphrased).
Really no need to add that little dig.
He needs to be reined in.
Rebecca's missing a trick by not selling her nails-on-a-blackboard fake laugh to manufacturers of those modern scarecrows. She could make a fortune!
If her, Wrighty and Jimmy Carr ever appeared on the same show their combined fake laughs could end the universe.
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Invites callers to phone-in and then talks all over them, correcting their solicited opinions by way of repeating his own POV as if to corral them into agreeing with him. I don't think he even realises he's doing it anymore.
If her, Wrighty and Jimmy Carr ever appeared on the same show their combined fake laughs could end the universe.
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Invites callers to phone-in and then talks all over them, correcting their solicited opinions by way of repeating his own POV as if to corral them into agreeing with him. I don't think he even realises he's doing it anymore.
Originally Posted by Anya D:
“His rudeness to a caller just got a little reaction from someone.
"If you would just listen X... because you obviously weren't listening in the last section..." (paraphrased).
Really no need to add that little dig.
He needs to be reined in.”
“His rudeness to a caller just got a little reaction from someone.
"If you would just listen X... because you obviously weren't listening in the last section..." (paraphrased).
Really no need to add that little dig.
He needs to be reined in.”
If that had been me on the phone my temptation to go tell Matthew to go f*ck himself would've been hard to resist. He was needlessly rude.
Originally Posted by Creamtea:
“If that had been me on the phone my temptation to go tell Matthew to go f*ck himself would've been hard to resist. He was needlessly rude.”
“If that had been me on the phone my temptation to go tell Matthew to go f*ck himself would've been hard to resist. He was needlessly rude.”
I agree.
The thing that would stop me is that he would entirely miss the point of why it was done and just dismiss you as a rude caller.
I wouldn't want him to apologise to the audience and viewers for my rudeness when he's never apologised for his own.
Originally Posted by Straker:
“Invites callers to phone-in and then talks all over them, correcting their solicited opinions by way of repeating his own POV as if to corral them into agreeing with him. I don't think he even realises he's doing it anymore.”
“Invites callers to phone-in and then talks all over them, correcting their solicited opinions by way of repeating his own POV as if to corral them into agreeing with him. I don't think he even realises he's doing it anymore.”
I don't think he does either.
He seems so convinced of the veracity of his own argument, that if you disagree it must be because you aren't able to fully grasp his thinking, so he needs to loudly explain to you again until you realise you're wrong.
Originally Posted by Creamtea:
“If that had been me on the phone my temptation to go tell Matthew to go f*ck himself would've been hard to resist. He was needlessly rude.”
“If that had been me on the phone my temptation to go tell Matthew to go f*ck himself would've been hard to resist. He was needlessly rude.”
Tell him what, blimey!!! not arf
I don't like the national anthem.
Complete dirge, utterly inferior to many others.
The anthem should be about the country, imo, not the monarch.
When I'm in Canada I sing the anthem with great pride.
Complete dirge, utterly inferior to many others.
The anthem should be about the country, imo, not the monarch.
When I'm in Canada I sing the anthem with great pride.
I can't understand why all the misogynists and other general haters of this programme continue to watch it.
I wasn't taught by a male teacher until the third year of middle school, so when I was 11.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.
Why don't more men teach?
Because kids are more horrible, precocious and belligerent now than they were before?
Women significantly less likely to be accused of sexual impropriety than men.
Because kids are more horrible, precocious and belligerent now than they were before?
Women significantly less likely to be accused of sexual impropriety than men.
Originally Posted by Straker:
“Why don't more men teach?
Because kids are more horrible, precocious and belligerent now than they were before?
Women significantly less likely to be accused of sexual impropriety than men.”
“Why don't more men teach?
Because kids are more horrible, precocious and belligerent now than they were before?
Women significantly less likely to be accused of sexual impropriety than men.”
Well, all of that, but I also think Rebecca's point about teacher's pay was relevant.
When I was younger, teaching was a fairly atrractive career option.
I think for the reasons you stated, plus the pay level, it isn't any longer.
There are plenty of people who would love to make what a teacher makes, but not for doing what a teacher does.
No love lost between Rebecca Wheatley and Matthew? She seemed to snipe back at him during the paper review, possibly because she's quite inept on this show and he was calling her on it. Yesterday or the day before, she was struggling to find the next story!
I looked it up at the time and it seems that's the modern parlance, but I also thought "roofs" couldn't be right.
Originally Posted by TrishaS:
“I know I'm being petty here but shouldn't it be rooves not roofs
”
“I know I'm being petty here but shouldn't it be rooves not roofs
”
I looked it up at the time and it seems that's the modern parlance, but I also thought "roofs" couldn't be right.
Originally Posted by Anya D:
“I wasn't taught by a male teacher until the third year of middle school, so when I was 11.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.”
“I wasn't taught by a male teacher until the third year of middle school, so when I was 11.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.”
I agree.
I was at school in the 50s, there were no male teachers in the infants and in the juniors there were three male teachers plus the headmaster the rest were female so that was 3 out of 12 male teachers plus the headmaster. The male teachers were in the classes for the last three years.
In the secondary schools the grammar and technical schools were either girls or boys schools and they had women teachers in the girls schools and men teachers in the boys schools. The other schools had a mixture but I believe most were women. We were in an outer London.
Originally Posted by Anya D:
“I don't think he does either.
He seems so convinced of the veracity of his own argument, that if you disagree it must be because you aren't able to fully grasp his thinking, so he needs to loudly explain to you again until you realise you're wrong.”
“I don't think he does either.
He seems so convinced of the veracity of his own argument, that if you disagree it must be because you aren't able to fully grasp his thinking, so he needs to loudly explain to you again until you realise you're wrong.”
It would be great if enough callers were on the same wavelength and had a plan that when they phoned in and got through to the show they just capitulated and agreed with Matthew telling him that he was right.
That would really show him up for what he's doing.
It would be like reverse psychology. Instead of arguing with him thus allowing him to act sanctimonious and as though you're an idiot for disagreeing with him and for not playing ball, everyone just agreed with him so easily it would make a mockery of the show.
Originally Posted by Anya D:
“I wasn't taught by a male teacher until the third year of middle school, so when I was 11.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.”
“I wasn't taught by a male teacher until the third year of middle school, so when I was 11.
High school was a more even mix of male and female.
eta. Just went through the male and female teachers in my middle school.
Three classes to each year, so twelve teachers.
Five male, seven female, so a pretty even mix really, I was just not in any male teachers class until the third year of that school.
I can't remember a single male teacher from my infant's school.
I really don't think there were any.”
That's the same as my experience. When I was at school up until I was about twelve in the 1970s, I can only remember having female teachers. I distinctly remember having a female headmaster at one school between 1974 and 1976.
I probably did have one or two male teachers, ah actually I've jogged my own memory and can remember one, but remember mainly having female teachers.
But then when I moved on to other schools from the age of thirteen and over in the 1980s it was more mixed between male and female teachers. But again, I still have more memories of having female teachers even then.
I didn't watch today's show so I don't know if this was brought up, but it's just come to my mind that I wonder if whether a subject was taught to you by a male or female teacher would affect what career you are more likely to go into when you're older?
The reason I ask myself this question is that from the male teachers I remember having they taught maths and science subjects, while from what I remember female teachers taught me more language based subjects such as French and English.
Some people often speak about the unfairness of society based on gender and that men get paid more money. But couldn't it simply be the case that males and females are more inclined to be interested in certain fields due to the nature of their gender?
Missed today's show but caught kevs tv review on catchup the best bit. Comrade little is back next week. Matthew will be happy to have a fellow socialist and corbyn fan in attendance, power to the people and all that. Time to stock up on the vodka and clear my brain of Wheatley s cackle
Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“That's the same as my experience. When I was at school up until I was about twelve in the 1970s, I can only remember having female teachers. I distinctly remember having a female headmaster at one school between 1974 and 1976.
I probably did have one or two male teachers, ah actually I've jogged my own memory and can remember one, but remember mainly having female teachers.
But then when I moved on to other schools from the age of thirteen and over in the 1980s it was more mixed between male and female teachers. But again, I still have more memories of having female teachers even then.
I didn't watch today's show so I don't know if this was brought up, but it's just come to my mind that I wonder if whether a subject was taught to you by a male or female teacher would affect what career you are more likely to go into when you're older?
The reason I ask myself this question is that from the male teachers I remember having they taught maths and science subjects, while from what I remember female teachers taught me more language based subjects such as French and English.
Some people often speak about the unfairness of society based on gender and that men get paid more money. But couldn't it simply be the case that males and females are more inclined to be interested in certain fields due to the nature of their gender?”
“That's the same as my experience. When I was at school up until I was about twelve in the 1970s, I can only remember having female teachers. I distinctly remember having a female headmaster at one school between 1974 and 1976.
I probably did have one or two male teachers, ah actually I've jogged my own memory and can remember one, but remember mainly having female teachers.
But then when I moved on to other schools from the age of thirteen and over in the 1980s it was more mixed between male and female teachers. But again, I still have more memories of having female teachers even then.
I didn't watch today's show so I don't know if this was brought up, but it's just come to my mind that I wonder if whether a subject was taught to you by a male or female teacher would affect what career you are more likely to go into when you're older?
The reason I ask myself this question is that from the male teachers I remember having they taught maths and science subjects, while from what I remember female teachers taught me more language based subjects such as French and English.
Some people often speak about the unfairness of society based on gender and that men get paid more money. But couldn't it simply be the case that males and females are more inclined to be interested in certain fields due to the nature of their gender?”
I was only taught by male science teachers at high school.
There were a couple of female science teachers, I just didn't get taught by them.
English and maths were a fairly even mix.
They never really go into any subject in too much depth on the show.
Too many subjects each show and everything entirely dominated by Matthew.
The focus of any conversation will be broad or impossibly narrow at his whim, or so it seems.
Although it wasn't my experience with the teachers I had at high school, I can see there could very likely be gender-based reasons why some men and women choose particular careers.
Of course that doesn't explain or excuse why men are often still paid more than women when doing exactly the same job (not that you were suggesting it does
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