Patrick Moore
Posted by: JamieWednesday on 08 May 2007
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by u5227470736789439
When I saw this I thought perhaps it was "Patrick Moore RIP!"
My solution is to not bother with TVs at all. That way all this modern PC stuff just passes me by. Radio Four is much more varied, though hardly a male dominated instition any more, it does retain balance and provides journalism and reasoned debate on important issues completely outside TV's adgenda...
ATB from Fredrik
My solution is to not bother with TVs at all. That way all this modern PC stuff just passes me by. Radio Four is much more varied, though hardly a male dominated instition any more, it does retain balance and provides journalism and reasoned debate on important issues completely outside TV's adgenda...
ATB from Fredrik
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by J.N.
It'll be a sad day when Mr Moore is no longer with us. He popped up in a programme about the history of the typewriter recently.
He has written over one hundred books on his 1908 'Woodstock' machine, given to him at the age of eight - and continues to use it.
What a wonderful character he is.
John.
He has written over one hundred books on his 1908 'Woodstock' machine, given to him at the age of eight - and continues to use it.
What a wonderful character he is.
John.
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by Chillkram
quote:Originally posted by J.N.:
What a wonderful character he is.
And the host (the original one) of the longest running tv programme in the world. Which must make him the longest serving tv host in the world as well.
Mark
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by acad tsunami
He is not wrong. TV companies all pander to the lowest bloody common denominator (not women per se but thickos and chavs of both sexes)and it is so dumbed down now that I fear it will never improve.
Posted on: 08 May 2007 by Rasher
That is probably true Acad, but he's still a silly old bugger (but can't help but like him).
Posted on: 09 May 2007 by Bob McC
Luckily he only expounded his more silly opinions inthat interview. Politically he is a very nasty specimen who would probably consider Mick Parry a pinko commie!
Posted on: 09 May 2007 by BigH47
Mad as a box of frogs, so no similarity to anyone here then?
Posted on: 09 May 2007 by Rasher
Yes, I know he refused some schoolchildren an autograph on an astronomy school trip too, which was unnecessarily mean.
He's just one of those old boys that lived with his mother all his life. He isn't going to be normal, is he! Best just ignore him.
He's just one of those old boys that lived with his mother all his life. He isn't going to be normal, is he! Best just ignore him.
Posted on: 09 May 2007 by Diode100
quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
.....the lowest bloody common denominator (not women per se but thickos and chavs of both sexes).....
As the late great William S Borroughs said in his famed cut-up novel, Nova Express, 'That one should stand in an aquarium'
Posted on: 09 May 2007 by fidelio
somebody needs to start a thread on burroughs - now there's somebody with a double "box of frogs."