Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
ashley cole should black up for his next game
alan carr: batty man
I don't think that's news to anyone. What brought that on?
in the same way a lot of republicans probably wish Sarah Palin was a marxist.
Stayed in an awesome b&b in Norfolk last year run by one of the campest men I've ever met (he answered the door in his studded diamante t-shirt and introduced us to his small dog called Butch) and one of the books on the shelf in our room was an autobiography of this Alan Carr guy (he's not the one with the big face right? That's Jimmy Carr I think) and I read almost all of it over the course of the weekend. Never seen him on telly but the book obviously had something that kept me turning the pages."I've said it before about Alan Carr, but I'll defend him again. He just is what he is. I know people like that. It's not like he's pretending. I would take him any day over the cooning of Graham Norton - who's profoundly dumbed himself down - or any of the other gay stereotypes on telly.
I just don't think Alan Carr is the best target. It's not his fault that the Cambridge misanthropes who run television chose to have him. He'd be like that anywhere he is. At least he's real."
Stayed in an awesome b&b in Norfolk last year run by one of the campest men I've ever met (he answered the door in his studded diamante t-shirt and introduced us to his small dog called Butch) and one of the books on the shelf in our room was an autobiography of this Alan Carr guy (he's not the one with the big face right? That's Jimmy Carr I think) and I read almost all of it over the course of the weekend. Never seen him on telly but the book obviously had something that kept me turning the pages.
The b&b is highly recommended anyway - if you ever go for a weekend in Cromer pm me and I'll give you the details. Everything about it was great and he had some amazing stories to go with breakfast.
Jesus, that's fucking annoying; both my dad and sister do it constantly, with the additional irritant of constantly buggering about with the volume control. It's actually worse when it's TV I think.
He sounds fab. You know what I mean though? That's Alan Carr right there.
Right, so this is verbatim (me and the Doc just sat here talking now with me typing it in )
Hating Alan Carr is a class issue. There's a preparatory point and then a main point to be made here.
If your stated objection to Alan Carr is the portrayal of homosexuality on TV, since when was Alan Carr in charge of determining the portayal of homosexuals on television. If that's your supposed and stated objection then you're absolutely picking the wrong target.
If I suspect, that hatred of Alan Carr is hatred of a camp white lower middle class man, then I think its coded hatred and its easier to hate a white camp Northern lower middle class man than it is to hate for example black people or whoever else it is you really hate.
It's bullying.
He's a magnet for hatred. And people who he draws out are people with hatred issues. What we have to question here is why television controllers still seek to put these very narrow archetypes of homosexuality on TV. It's because they're expressing their hatred of humanity and of homosexuality and are drawing out hatred of humanity and homosexuality in the public. It's misanthropy as entertainment.
This is a direct throwdown for critical self reflection to anybody who has a problem with Alan Carr as a human being. Cos I'd like to think that he's the guy in your class that you defended from bullying rather than taking your place in the circle of bullies.
While people may find Alan Carr irritating in his amped up/overboard role on TV (but that's the game, as is also true of someone like Russell Brand, who's fucking irritatingly overbearing on TV but who I think has some decent things to say aside from that), I don't think there's anything hateful about him. Contrast him to namesake Jimmy, for example.
What we have to question here is why television controllers still seek to put these very narrow archetypes of homosexuality on TV. It's because they're expressing their hatred of humanity and of homosexuality and are drawing out hatred of humanity and homosexuality in the public. It's misanthropy as entertainment.
Also, mistersloane, when you say this:
how serious are you being? Sounds a bit conspiratorial. TV programmers select shows on the basis of what's popular, don't they? I expect they just respond to what people want to watch much more than they try and push any active agenda of their own. Just comes down to $$$ at the bottom line.