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Once again Ian hits the nail squarely on the head
You’ve no idea what images that has conjured up for me, Paul, with a slight adjustment.
This is a guy who’s always going on about muting the sound on ITV Racing and rarely even watches it anyway. Yet he always seems to comment on it because he can’t help himself from wanting others to know his thoughts. He will use excuses like ‘I unmuted it by accident’ and go on to give us his opinion, which he feels is too great to keep to himself
I’m pretty sure that if most people unmuted something by mistake, they’d be able to mute it again in a couple of seconds.
And all the bollocks he spouts about choosing to be alone. Maybe he left his missus? And surely, he’d rather have his son living with him than scarpering across the pond? Can’t blame Felix, mind, how cruel to name him after the family cat- and to call the kid Felix 2 for five years until the cat died is just unforgivable.
I certainly wouldn’t deny or underestimate male white privilege wordfromthewise, just saying that, even as a female whom your Mail readers would consider “woke snowflake” (or whatever their current term for someone who disagrees with them is), I have not detected any sexism in the engagements between Weaver & Cumani. The whole programme seems to revolve around mildly insulting banter between all the presenters, with Chapman & Harvey being particular targets. I do, however, find the constant harping on about female jockeys, especially Holly Doyle (“wouldn’t it be great if she got a Derby ride on a fancied horse?…”) patronising, albeit invariably prefixed with “well of course we shouldn’t call them ‘female jockeys’ anymore, they’re all jockeys” and they all seem guilty of that, even the women.
FWIW I am conscious of sexism in many walks of life and being far from Woke I still find it offensive. I said the same to the missus when I asked her to fetch me a cup of tea last night
Dont watch Itv extensively so cant comment on Weaver in that respect but so I cant be absolutely sure that he’s absolutely sexist
in all seriousness I do agree with Tonges last post
You should know Tank that muters will occasionally put the words up on screen.
If all that is meant to be a stinging attack on the man Davies you don’t seem to have hit home on any particular sweet spots. If his boy is called Felix 2 I think it’s Davies at his usual inventive self. As for divorce it’s two a penny today and Davies has always given me the idea that he is quite happy in his own company.
Davies’s philosophy of being happy with little and preferably debt free is something I try to aspire to, but in all honesty a leopard of my years finds it hard to get the spots out in the wool wash.
I don’t think you’ve fallen out of the pram but with the country opening up again it may be a bit stressful for you if your vaccine secret is out. Have you noticed any curtain twitchers ?? Could be the ol lockdown blues.Have a good day – preferably not too furtive !
One day I suppose it is remotely possible I might feel the need to justify/explain my life to anyone, but they will be turning the heating up full blast in Hades the day I do as Hell really will have to freeze over first.
Many thanks, nevertheless, to gamble in particular for his kind words.
We have been virtual friends on and off for 20 years now and it’s a friendship I value as gamble gets me more than most.
It wasn’t me who reported the posting for being inappropriate, but you won’t hear me arguing with whoever did.
Tank – I like my internet stalkers to be height weight proportionate, female, and preferably half my age!
I have a feeling you’re a zero out of three, so please find someone else to fester over.
Thanks in advance.
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You’ve hopefully learned two things out of this, Ian, one is that you now use its/it’s correctly- please don’t thank me- and two is don’t tell people to **** off for no reason. Good day to you.
“well of course we shouldn’t call them ‘female jockeys’ anymore, they’re all jockeys”
In the early days of XX being permitted to compete with XY I recall Jimmy Lindley – the beebs rather boring paddock pundit – using the term ‘jockette’
Jimmy Lindley was from a gentler era.
Can’t say I ever learned much from listening to him, even in my youth, but I quite liked him just the same.
He was very “BBC” – ditto Richard Pitman.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Wasn’t it Jimmy Lindley who used to say “Pat/Steve/Willie, etc ……has a lovely pair of hands”
I think the ITV team get far too much criticism. They’re primarily in the entertainment business. So what if Jason Weaver says absolutely a bit too often. tbh I hadn’t noticed, but I suppose people’s vocabulary has never mattered to someone who sometimes struggles with it himself and has stuttered in the past.
Although I’d much rather have Lydia; I would say that, because she knows her stuff and usually talks about the kind of thing I am interested in. But – for the average viewer – whether she quite has the presentation skills of Ms Cumani – doubt it. So got no problem with Cumani either, she’s a presenter that knows a bit (no expert) about conformation.
Value Is EverythingLydia ‘interesting’ Hislop.
Overuse of the word Absolutely would drive me a bit crazy if I heard it, as I used to have a manager who said it all the time. Luckily, I not noticed the Weaver one. Yet.
Never watched much of ITV’s coverage, so cannot comment on what Weaver says there. However, I have always thought he was good on SSR (as long as he is kept away from Harvey and their irritating, giggling schoolboys routine). He is not afraid to voice his opinion, nor is he afraid to tip one a big price. Makes a change from bland pundits who never say anything worth hearing and expect a round of applause when they tip a 5/4 chance.
Wasn’t it Jimmy Lindley who used to say “Pat/Steve/Willie, etc ……has a lovely pair of hands”
Yep, one of his stock phrases along with A/B/C “looks a picture in the paddock”
I can’t help it but I liked Jimmy Lindley, thought he was an excellent paddock judge and superior to his replacement Willie Carson, who looked like he couldn’t be bothered most the time.
I think another Jimmy Lindley catchphrase was “Jockey X/Y/Z, one of our very strongest jockeys”. I seem to recall Simon Whitworth, Tyrone Williams and Nicky Carlisle all being being described as such , I was half expecting to see them give Geoff Capes a run for his money in “Britain’s Strongest Man”.
Simpler times.
I can remember Jimmey Lindley looking like a blood red beetroot orange after Al Bahathri didnt quite get her head in front in a startling big race finnish back in the 80’s ; might have been the 1000 at newMARKET . You could always forgive Jimmey, but it was evident that afternoon he either had shares in Johnnie Walker, or had more likely just lost himself a whopper and had done his rollocks on the secreto side ( Remember Brough Scott’s long plank face and sad eulogy after Secreto’s shock beating of El Gran (I’ve done me a grand) Senor.
On the side issue of Tank in this thread, I must say, that post back there was quite a shock to the system. I have been a great supporter of SPLASH so am not the right person to properly condemn his post, but there are two enduring rules with Splash;
1. Judge and weigh up your opponent.
2. Different rules for real named posters.
Posters can always change ( look at Ricky Lake) over time, but never usually as dramatically as a ‘the hell ya do’ True Grit John Wayne marshall suddenly swapping hoss’s into a YEE HAWING Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.
I’ve got me the lockdown Blues
Right down to me suede spiked shoes
SING IT TO ME
SING IT TO ME SISTER
I’ve got those
LOCKDOWN BLUES
Y’ALL ,(danga dang dang)
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