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The success of Claudia Winkleman. I just don’t understand it.
We live in a world where millions tune in to watch idiots perform like monkeys on a Saturday evening, while Simon Cowell counts his billions, and Piers Morgan is one of the highest paid TV presenters on the planet
Don't try and understand it sweet-cheeks. It only encourages them
Reminds me of the Half Man Half Biscuit track; Rod Hull Is Alive, Why?
Mum is successful journalist, Eve Pollard. That'd be a good boost for her surely. But for what it's worth, she seems like a perfectly capable presenter and is quite a nice person by all accounts. These kinds of people should succeed in life.
Rod Hull Is Alive, Why?
Except he isn't 😉
Women: How many pairs of shoes do they need? Isn't one handbag enough?
Except he isn't
Well, he isn't now but he was when the song was written.
I love Claud. The wife knows if I had the choice she'd be out on her ear. She is fine with this, as it's unlikely in the extreme.
Her hair is nice
Veggies that eat dairy.
Piers Morgan is one of the highest paid TV presenters on the planet
..and given that that simpering pile of pungent effluent is even given the opportunity to pollute the airwaves there's hee-haw point in trying to understand anything
who is claudia winkleman? think I may regret asking this, is she safe to google for whilst at work?
Oi! Prawny, get in the queue..
Claudia is quite lovely IMO. She is a competant presenter of TV and Radio and comes across as quite normal when interviewed.
There are far more people on TV for you to question the existance/pre-eminence of above Claudia.
I don't understand the Dancing show thing "Come on GTF!"
twitter
diesel cars for people who live in towns and never go anywhere
women
people who have 2 kids and have to drive a 7 seater
29ers- on my 3rd now and still not feeling it
veggies that eat fish- imagine if we drowned cows?
29ers- on my 3rd now and still not feeling it
I don't understand this! It really took you 3 bikes to decide that?
Traffic etiquette in india
where a pair of my biking socks have gone. I washed them the other week, and haven't seen them since.
Claudia Winkleman - well it's all in the goofiness I suppose, I saw the dancing thing the other day, you can see someone told her to cut her fringe so she can see what is going on.
Ha! I didnt even know she was in the dancing show! Still not watching it!
Things I don’t understand:
Chicken, seriously was it this before the Egg?
Noodles
Lights on in Offices after work has closed down
The Burka
1960’s high rise Flats
Folk who don’t drink coffee
Folks that sit swiping mobiles whilst in meetings
Why I can’t get a 3G signal in Canary Wharf
Why MrsBouy says “more ties/socks/shirts/shoes??” whaddsitgottodowithherwhatibuy?
How the Moon stays “up there”^^^
Why Trains can’t run on time
How I could just kill a man?
Chinese
Blokes
Why my fender goes out of tune in a day
The appeal of Chinese food
Gravy on chips
Why Chris ( housemate) needs a massive telly
You don't understand
?Gravy on chips
Eeeee.
Eeeeeee, lass.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, bloody 'ell lass.
Tha's wrong, and tha knows tha's wrong.
How the Moon stays “up there”^^^
The following explanation is wrong in a number of ways, but I hope you get a feel for it:
1. Put a weight on a bit of string and gently spin it around (don't hit yourself or anyone else).
2. Do you feel the weight pulling-away at your hand? That is the "spinning" energy you imparted. The moon has a lot of that. (If you stop spinning, the weight falls toward Earth; if the moon span slower, it would fall to Earth).
3. You are resisting it flying-away through holding the string and that is like the effect of gravity between Earth and Moon. The gravity is acting through "invisible string". (if you let go of the string, it will fly-away; if gravity "failed", the moon would fly away)
4. Because the moon's spinning and the gravity are in equilibrium (balanced), the Moon is a satellite body i.e. it neither falls to Earth, not pulls away.
5. Actually, but not noticeably to us, the moon is so large that the moon does not spin around the centre of the Earth - they spin around each other: "Considering the Earth–Moon system as a binary planet, their mutual centre of gravity is within the Earth, about 4624 km from its centre". That is a slightly odd thought to the normal Earth-centric paradigm!
OK?
[now get a physicist to explain this properly]
People who've promoted, defended, bought or thought about buying 650b.
Crikey it was a question on that Northern test that was posted here, I've never put gravy on chips it would make them all soggy bleeurgh.
Ketchup on chip shop chips, mayo on maccyD
xcgb - Member29ers- on my 3rd now and still not feeling it
I don't understand this! It really took you 3 bikes to decide that?
I don't understand that you don't understand that I thought a 29er that was 9 years more developed than the first one I had might be better.
I like Claudia Winkleman, along with Sara Cox they'd make up my very kooky and slightly odd fantasy 3-some.
I like women who dont take themselves too seriously and can have a laugh.
Salad. Hateful stuff.
How people can't see that chips and gravy are just so right.
veggies that eat fish
Veggies don't eat fish. You don't need to not understand something that doesn't exist?
Claudia however is gurt lush.
The difference between chickens and hens.
Alive = it's called a hen
On the shelf in Tesco = it's called a chicken
WHICH IS IT???!!!
Don't give me no sauce based nonsense; you so wrong, you ain't [i]never [/i]gone be right.
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Have to admit, Claudia makes me feel a little tingly in nice places. 😀
I also don't understand why male youths of today sport this weird outfit of drainpipe jeans that look like they fit a person two foot shorter than the lad actually wearing them.
It mainly seems to function to give the appearance of a fat arse located by their knees. Odd, just odd.
How I could just kill a man?
😆
Claudia's a cutie 😉
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EDIT - oh, and my OH really dislikes Claudia Winkleman. I think she's great. Doesn't mind having a laugh, seems quite down to earth and funny. Could imagine nipping down the pub with her for a pint and having a reet good time.
along with Sara Cox
Areyewavinalaff?
I have it on very good authority that she has personal hygiene issues.
Gravy on chips is ok but only if you've run out of curry sauce.
Curry sauce on chips is absolutely ace.
However, is it me or do no chip shops north of the Watford Gap understand what a saveloy is?
I think the chips/gravy thing might need a thread by itself. Well at least find out who the weirdos are LOL
PJM1974 - MemberCurry sauce on chips is absolutely ace.
However, is it me or do no chip shops north of the Watford Gap understand what a saveloy is?
I think they understand perfectly well what a saveloy is.
Which is why they don't sell them. 🙂
People who queue/rush to board a plane when they have a pre-assigned seat, are going to be stuck in the plane for hours, and are going to get to the destination at the same time.
????
How the Moon stays “up there”
It's moving forward and falling towards the earth at the same rate the earth is disappearing around its own curve.
The difference between chickens and hens
Chicken = the avian species
Hen = female bird = female chicken in this case
Cock = male bird = male chicken in this case, aka cockerel aka rooster
1960’s high rise Flats
After the war a great many houses had been demolished, by the Luftwaffe. So they build temporary prefabs. But a more sustainable solution had to be found, and population was increasing, so high rise flats meant a lot of people could live, without having to extend infrastructure all that much.
When they were built they were often considered the height of luxury. Don't forget people an awful lot of people were still living with outside bogs and no heating at the time.
Folks that sit swiping mobiles whilst in meetings
They're bored.
Why Trains can’t run on time
They can, and usually do. But there's very little slack in the system. One train is followed at minimum safe distance by another, often. So if anything happens anywhere in the network that delays a train, then other trains have to wait for it to clear, then more trains have to wait for that one to clear and so on. Any problems have significant knock-on effects in the UK network.
Equally its a cow in a field but beef on a plate... Or a pig when its alive but pork, ham, Bacon or gammon when its dead. At least lambs are consistent.
And while we're on food, does anyone care whether their gravy is called a reduction, a jus, a veloute or whatever.
Equally its a cow in a field but beef on a plate
Blame the Normans. The words for the animals are derived from Anglo-Saxon, because they were the peasants who looked after them. The words for the meat are derived from the French, because the rich Norman gentry were the ones who ate the meat farmed by the peasants.
Agree there is "something" about Claudia (nice but hard to define) but not the tall blond bint or that old national embarrassment that stands next to her.
molgrips - Member
After the war a great many houses had been demolished, by the Luftwaffe. So they build temporary prefabs. But a more sustainable solution had to be found, and population was increasing, so high rise flats meant a lot of people could live, without having to extend infrastructure all that much.
Not just down to the Luftwaffe though - shame at the amount of outdated housing played a big part too, as did a desire to practice a little social engineering.
When they were built they were often considered the height of luxury. Don't forget people an awful lot of people were still living with outside bogs and no heating at the time.
My mum was one of the first people to move to a flat in Hulme - there was a huge waiting list.
24 hour heating, hot water on demand, indoor plumbing. Many people hadn't experienced anything like it before.
Shame they didn't take human nature into account when designing the place & scrimped on the materials. 😐
The prefabs have actually outlasted the high rises.
People who queue/rush to board a plane when they have a pre-assigned seat, are going to be stuck in the plane for hours, and are going to get to the destination at the same time.????
I know what you mean...
I've flown with people that when I say I don't want to rush for the seat you can see them get all edgy and can't relax... to the point where any conversation dies and I just concede and we all rush pointlessly to the back of the massive boarding queue. Odd.
Claudia Winkleman is an utter gobshite. The put-on "kookiness" in place of personality is painful to watch and beneath it she's just a beige talentless vacuous husk of a human being. Sadly, she's not the only one of those polluting the airwaves.
1.People who appear on Embarrassing Bodies!
2.A chav
3.Majority of american sitcoms
1. Quantum physics
2. Why did the chicken cross the road
2. White dog poo
How a woman can work for a firm as the first point of contact when they know the firm is scamming people but be vehement in their defense probably for minimum wage.
Each to their own. Personally I think Claudia is a great person for tv. She has, in my eyes, a very appealing look and has what comes across as a natural personality. She generally seems to be able to be spontaneous and natural and not have to rely on an autocue. And while she may not be Mrs Mensa that is a skill and a talent - one that I suspect most of her naysayers on here would not be able to do.
And prawny and all the others can get to the back of the queue. And also the Sandra Bullock queue. 🙂
Thanks for the explanations folks, I feel enlightened 😀 (cough)
Now for the Claudia conundrum, hmmmm... ? Yes. 😉
Piers Morgan is one of the highest paid TV presenters on the planet
A report I read in the paper last week said that he'd received a death threat; American police are currently checking out 26,000,000 suspects.
unknown - Member
Claudia Winkleman is an utter gobshite. The put-on "kookiness" in place of personality is painful to watch and beneath it she's just a beige talentless vacuous husk of a human being. Sadly, she's not the only one of those polluting the airwaves.
Unknown, eh? Obviously a vacuous, talentless husk of a human being, unable to even bring his miserable self to create a proper username. Troll.
Have you actually [i]met[/i] the girl? Personally know close friends of hers? Didn't think so. 🙄
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Unknown, eh? Obviously a vacuous, talentless husk of a human being, unable to even bring his miserable self to create a proper username. Troll.
Hi Claudia!
I'm not sure if this needs pointed out or not, but unknown is my username, I'm not sure what makes it any less "proper" than any others?! Or that expressing an opinion that differs from yours makes me a troll 🙄
And anyway, heaven forbid that I meet the creature. It's like she's been force fed episodes of Friends foie gras style until her brain exploded.
Hmmm... 😯
Time for a rethink?
Nah, she's still lovely.
Claudia winkleman and her evil twin davina McCall are automatic reasons to not watch any program that involves them.
A shame so few people have mentioned that Claudia is actually quite clever. She's no muppet.
And how can people get so upset about a presenter? Her or Davina or Piers? Just change the channel.
Perhaps you could try turning off the tv and living some life instead.
Find Claudia quite annoying, but the Winkleman/Cox threesome idea stirred something......
Sara is also quite annoying, but there's something about a farmer's daughter, doesn't really care too much and up for a laugh.
Tess Daly - does nothing for me, long old blokey northern thing, not keen, and Bruce, well, can't see how he does any work these days!
Management speak
Drivers who think it's ok to make a 3 lane motorway a 2 lane motorway by driving in the middle lane.
Women
differentiation
Why a plane won't take off if it's on a conveyor belt
Anyone who even contemplates the ridiculous notion that a plane might take off on a conveyor belt.
People who queue/rush to board a plane when they have a pre-assigned seat, are going to be stuck in the plane for hours, and are going to get to the destination at the same time.
My wife does this. It's not the only thing I don't understand about her either ❓
Claudia is lovely. She's nice looking, is clever and funny and can have a laugh at herself. Works for me. Nothing worse than a woman who takes her self too seriously (possibly a man who does the same)
People who don't like gravy on chips. For the love of god! 😉 Chips, gravy, mushy peas, sausage or pie. Meal of champions.
I often struggle to understand cats. I mean I know they're evil and everything but I always imagine it's such a conflict of emotions inside a cat.
"Ooh, the big one has opened the back door, must run in and get warm.
Oh no, the big one is walking towards me, must run away
Oooh, the big one is walking towards me, must get stroke
Nope, I'm going to run away again"
etc etc
Although I guess it's entirely feasible that cat is messing with my head.
Its a long list but a few for starters
Why people buy new build houses on massive housing estates when there are better priced, bigger, quieter, nicer looking houses nearby
Why people watch reality TV
People who say they cant cook
People who cant do basic DIY like painting or building flatpack furniture
People who drive 200 yards when they could walk
People who buy a new car every 3 years so they dont need to pay for a £45 MOT. Yes, £5k per year depreciation is definitely cheaper and better value than getting an MOT and paying for a few repairs...
In fact, I don't think I understand people in general 😳
samuri - Member
People who don't like gravy on chips. For the love of god! Chips, gravy, mushy peas, sausage or pie. Meal of champions.
I felt proper champion after yesterdays lunch of Chips, mushy peas, sausage and both gravy & curry sauce 😀
The ferocity & aroma of the resulting wind was also pretty champion!
As for Claudia I'm indifferent, I prefer taller women as on the whole I find them less prone to random moods and odd behaviour?
Chips should be dipped in either gravy or curry sauce not swimming in them.
Curry sauce is a bit random, some is great some is rank, gravy seems universal.
I dont understand why people think it is ok to drive through red lights especially on temporary traffic lights.
People who say that can't do things when they've never tried (basic DIY, oil change, bike maintenance, etc)
People who say they don't like a certain food when they've never tried it.
What the hell goes through people's heads when they park across 2 spaces.
People that don't wash their hands after using the loo... then going back to their table to finish their meal. grim.
People in general really... and cats. Like a previous poster on here... I don't get cats.
(this is just a bit of a rant really... not sure if it's what the OP had in mind but I feel better 😉
[i]What the hell goes through people's heads when they park across 2 spaces. [/i]
It's so no-one parks right next to them and they risk having a car door opened onto their pride and joy. No I don't do it but I know someone who does and that is his reasoning.
Like a previous poster on here... I don't get cats.
Amen brother.
A dog that likes you will give you a nuzzle or a lick.
A cat will stick its claws in you.
zippykona - Member
A cat will stick its claws in you.
Only if you like to "flick" their balls, which I did as a kid as mine did not like that.
But apart from that they would wake me up every morning to go to school and they would welcome me home when I got back from school. Just like my dogs.
Why shibboleths neighbour dispute post got taken down.
Annoying isn't it. With a bit of thought you can get 2 cars in 1 spaceWhat the hell goes through people's heads when they park across 2 spaces.
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