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Quote: from Peaty Sandy on 7:10 pm on Jan. 10, 2006[br]Jayne Garvey and Peter Allen ?
You must be joking? The radio five live presenters?
Apalling interviewing technique, classroom humour.
A couple of ignorant little Englanders that are as funny as cancer, and incredibly, are even further up their own arses than the worst right-on offenders on this forum.<br>
<br>Must be the wrong Peter and Jane to whom I’ve devoted most of my teatimes for the last eleven years, then. By turns serious and easy-going, biting and welcomingly familiar, they are peerless in making the most indigestible, ghastly or even just outright boring news stories perfectly digestible and understandible without any modicum of dumbing down.
Their program also helped set the blueprint for the station’s breakfast and weekend evening shows after a few abortive attempts other formats in those slots. I could listen to Five Live non-stop all day if so forced, especially these two exceptionally talented broadcasters.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Peaty Sandy on 8:03 pm on Jan. 9, 2006[br]To rectify things I’d start of by re-introducing the cane/belt.
In my day the rule in school was, ‘****<br> around and you get a thrashing. I f**ked around once. I got a damn good hiding. Guess what? I didn’t f*** around in class after that.
And I have turned out to be an extremely well balanced individual that you could hope to find. ÂÂÂ
<br>Conversely, I have gone my whole life without being hit either by teacher or parent. Firm and responsible – yet at the same time compassionate – parenting ensured this was never required.
And yes, I also happen to crap rose petals . :biggrin:
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from dave jay on 5:54 pm on Jan. 9, 2006[br]I suppose rehabilitation is okay if your not a victim or you reckon the victim was just asking for it jeremy.<br>
<br>Try option C) – or have an almost boundless belief in people’s potential for good.
To date the worst incident of crime which I have personally experienced was when my car was written off by a teenage joyrider in a stolen Porsche Boxster in Leith a few years back.
I wasn’t especially bothered about the actual crime in and of itself, as the car was insured fully comp and is, when all is said and done, little more than a few bits of metal and wire stuck together.
I simply wondered whether the youngster had ultimately been driven (pardon the pun) to such activities by some combination including (but not limited to) boredom induced by inadequate provision of suitably stimulating local amenities, poor parenting, and peer / societal pressure, none of which are beyond remedying.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Peaty Sandy on 3:41 pm on Jan. 9, 2006[br]Jeremy
IF you wake up in the middle of the night and find a stranger in your house (and god forbid that you have chiildren) what are you supposed to do ?
Call the police? Hide under your bed? Try and establish the criminals intent? See if the criminal has a weapon ?<br>
<br>If it is possible to remove myself from the house safely, I’d do that – with my mobile and car keys to hand – and take myself to a safe enough distance to be able to get help (accepting, as per my previous posting, that in some cases this may not always be as immediately forthcoming as one would like).
Further, it can’t be that hard to convert your bedroom into adequate refuge by the simple application of a variety of locks and / or a steel door, from behind which any phone calls to the police in the event of an intrusion can be made safely.
Really, there’s plenty you can do to help yourselves personal security-wise in the face of the circumstances Peaty Sandy proposed, before having to resort to criminal tactics yourselves.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Peaty Sandy on 1:36 pm on Jan. 9, 2006[br]It’s a ******* joke and is typical of the sh*te that happens to normal law-abiding folks these days.  <br>
<br>…rather than an indictment of the, shall we say, limited response of the police in that particular instance?
Taking the law into his own hands in the face of extreme provocation made Tony Martin an unfortunate, rather than a hero of any recognisable description.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hiya,
Hard to disagree with much of the discussion about Kennedy’s successor. As a lifelong LibDem voter I reckon Ming Campbell would definitely represent the safest pair of hands, by dint of being both experienced at senior level and at the same time comparatively high-profile as non-leaders of third-placed parties go.
There could be an irony, however, real or imagined, that the party supposedly most synonymous with thrusting, radical centrist politics at present would then have a leader far older than those of either of the two dinosaur parties against which it is rallying, but there you go. Not a problem for me, but maybe for the more fickle out there.
T.V. is the stomping ground for political candidates<br>Where bears in the woods are chased by Grecian Formula’d bald eagles…<br>…where straight teeth in your mouth are more important<br>than the words that come out of it
– Michael Franti, 1989
<br>I suppose the only other LibDemmer with nearly as much media profile / savvy as Ming would be Lembit Opik, but whilst he has the (relative) exuberance of youth on his side, his predilicition for doing silly things on telly, and his reasonably high-profile marriage to Sian Lloyd, means that there are already two angles from which any suitably enterprising tabloid could attack him.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 12:20 pm on Jan. 9, 2006)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Given the generally right-wing tenor of the Forum (and the lounge in particular), I presume nobody here is going to suggest rehabilitation of some description for the wrongdoer? Nobody, after all, is actually born evil.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 11:56 am on Jan. 9, 2006)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Zoz – way ahead of the game where discovering Arctic Monkeys was concerned. Which wasn’t necessarily a Good Thing.
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Happy Jack – founder and sole member of the Patrick Millington Fan Club :biggrin:<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
An easy enough truism to swallow, EC, and I’d be interested to see how the 2005 net total of posts to TRF – particularly the Racing and Lounge areas where Ian was mostly to be found – compares to last year.
He was a prolific poster not just in the sense of how many posts he posted, but also in how many he stimulated in / provoked out of others. I’d have him back on here in a heartbeat.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Graysonscolumn – TRF equivalent of vacuous, perma-grinning kid out of The Fast Show;
"Hey, in’t Quixall Crossett brilliant? He’s just like a racehorse, but he travels slower so you can see him for longer. Fantastic! Cartmel, that’s brilliant an’ all! They let you barbecue your own sticky toffee puddings and everything. Brilliiiiiiiiiiiiiant!!"
etc.<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Ach, I am undone! Ta, Bear.
Not seen them live in person, although the gig they did that 4Music broadcast a few weeks ago was pretty special. Power Out is a real fave of mine in particular.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from dave jay on 1:19 pm on Dec. 28, 2005[br]
graysonscolumn Posted on 9:24 am on Dec. 28, 2005 <br>I don’t get it. ÂÂÂ
The name of the shop in ‘are you being served’ was  ??<br>
<br>Grace Brothers rather than Graysons.
So I still don’t get it. :confused: <br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Rory – frequently hugely amusing (and a good sport in the TRF Mastermind to boot, if memory serves).<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Scottish Jamie on 9:21 pm on Dec. 27, 2005[br]Fine choice of women Bear but being one of many pedants here I should point out that band is just Arcade Fire not The Arcade Fire. I think she (the violinist) is married to the lead singer so you will have to be a home wrecker to win her hand. Best of luck to you though.<br>
<br>Completely correct. Win Butler is a lucky fella.<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I don’t get it. :confused:
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Bigtony – top bloke with lots of jumping expertise. Never materialised to buy me a pint at Perth last April, mind :biggrin:<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
