22 Responses to THE THREE AGES OF HELEN SKELTON….

    • Loobyloo says:
      August 9, 2016 at 8:52 pm

      Thank you Katie for saying what needs to be said! Perfectly sums up how I feel.

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    • GRIM REAPER says:
      August 10, 2016 at 1:50 pm

      Oooooh Helen…..what a pair of legs……those pirhana missed a treat when she paddled the Amazon river..don’t you just love the discomfiture of the pc brigade and nasty lefties…

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  2. Mackers says:
    August 9, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    Liberal left & Islam pointless to argue about. We need to focus are concerns with the conservative party. Labour will be in the wilderness for a very long time. The government needs guidance from the tory right. Deselect the wets, ken Clarke Michael heseltine retire.

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    • NCBBC says:
      August 10, 2016 at 10:06 am

      The whole point about Brexit is that the UK makes its own decisions. Top of the “to do list”make is to ensure that in 50 years or less, this country does not become Islamic. To prevent such a catastrophe, actions have to be taken now. All politicians who are careless, or will not take this existential crisis seriously, should be deselected.

      Europe’s Last Chance

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      • Mackers says:
        August 10, 2016 at 10:31 am

        Thank you ncbcc i couldnt agree more.

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      • embolden says:
        August 10, 2016 at 10:38 am

        Not a line you`ll hear on the BBC, to them, as I heard on Today, Brexit is all about whether the UK is in the single market or has access to the single market….its back to trying to frame the argument entirely around “trade” and “economics” with no mention of the strings attached….open door immigration or compliance with EU set laws for instance.

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        • richard D says:
          August 10, 2016 at 2:39 pm

          ….and on the Today programme this morning, discussing (or ‘dissing’ as far as the BBC is concerned) trade deals we will be setting up around the world, I noted the Beeboid referred to the extra trade we shall have to create (and how difficult that might be) to make up for the ‘loss of our trade with the EU’.

          Whoa….hold on there Neddy. Who the hell says we will lose our trade with Europe ? And on what basis ? We have such a thing as a ‘trade deficit’ with the EU, which means that EU countries stand to lose far more than we do if the trade lines break down completely. Or is the BBC complicit with the EU line that EU countries will happily be able to just go on freely trading within the UK if there is no reciprocal agreement to allow the UK into European markets at all ? Typical brie-eating, Bordeaux-swilling surrender monkeys who just can’t get used to the fact that THEY LOST the referendum.

          The BBC never misses an opportunity of just casually dropping in even more negativity (right or wrong) regarding Brexit. BBC impartially reporting the news? Yeah, right.

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  3. Mackers says:
    August 10, 2016 at 12:01 am

    Apologies for my main thread list it was meant to separate the promoted and undermining views of the left and islam but alas they merged into a mess of words. Im calling it the mess maybe a turner prize. If tracy emin can win for that bed I’m in with a shout. I’ll have to lie though tell them im a leftie and respect islamic ideology.

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  4. Mackers says:
    August 10, 2016 at 12:28 am

    Well done to adam peaty. Badly done to bbc for repeat showings and commentators drivel. Would be nice for patriotism rather than supporting everyone. Left ideology on display. Like when I was at school being told its not the winning its the taking part. Left ruining everything and conservatives doing nothing about it. I’m still thinking what needs to happen for you to act. On a different subject why do most people start a topic with the word so, it’s irritating, think I preferred do ya no what I mean or innit. Remember how the conservatives were so quick to attack Andrea leadsom it reminded me of the bbc left pincer attacks on daily display. A bloody outrage she’s a breath of fresh air. Good night all.

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    • G.W.F. says:
      August 10, 2016 at 9:57 am

      Mackers, Interesting you mention starting a sentenc with ‘so’. Habit I guess. What bother me is starting an argument with the expression ‘I am sorry’, as in ‘I am sorry but your figures are misleading’. As if we have to apologise for expressing our views.

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      • Cranmer says:
        August 10, 2016 at 10:32 am

        Here’s a list of annoying broadcasting verbal tics:
        ‘So’ to being every question, eg ‘So there doesn’t seem to be any connection between all these attacks’.
        ‘Now’, followed by a pause, used as a verbal tic instead of to indicate the present. ‘Now…this presents a problem’.
        ‘Well’ and ‘well, basically’ used to open any and every sentence. Monty Python joked about this over 40 years ago but it’s still going strong!
        ‘Obviously’ to describe something not obvious, eg ‘On the outside we was calm when we lost but obviously inside we was gutted.’
        ‘I’m sorry’ used in an angry tone, eg ‘I’m sorry but Islam is a Religion of Peace’.
        ‘With respect’, ‘With all due respect’, ‘With the greatest respect’, ie, without any respect.
        Overuse of second person. ‘Here’s your weather’. ‘Here’s what we have for you tonight’. etc

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        • GCooper says:
          August 10, 2016 at 10:44 am

          ‘So’ as the opening word of ever sentence has been driving me increasingly crackers for a couple of years now.

          Trying to work out whence it came, I realised it seemed to coincide with the prominence of bad stand-up comedy. I suspect that is where it crept into the language.

          Agreed about the others and, yes, ‘here;s your weather’ is particularly toe-curling!

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          • richard D says:
            August 10, 2016 at 2:55 pm

            Regarding the source of using the word ‘so’ to commence almost every response to a question, I first heard this in the US quite some time ago, used especially by political pundits and ‘experts’ from the educational establishment on the news networks there. Usage grew over time like ‘like’, ‘you know’ and other such superfluous expressions which have been added, without any benefit, to our incredibly expressive language, which really does not need them.

            I found it really irritating then, and fervently hoped that it would not pass into common usage. Unfortunately, some people on this side of the Atlantic must have thought it sounded ‘trendy’ and started using it….the rest, as they say, is History. More’s the pity.

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      • Mackers says:
        August 10, 2016 at 10:36 am

        So i am sorry but the politicians are neglecting are wellbeing.lol.

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  5. Mackers says:
    August 10, 2016 at 12:55 am

    One more thing bbc4 with Dan walker and the bloody tweets I got one for ya dan when’s the big wave coming your way. Soon come bruv.

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  6. Mackers says:
    August 10, 2016 at 1:07 am

    Your woman in black reminds me of the slag brothers in wacky races I wouldn’t want to see her knickers god forbid anything else.

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  7. Mackers says:
    August 10, 2016 at 9:03 am

    Green swimming pool at Olympics. Where are the experts when you need them certainly none in the BBC.

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 10, 2016 at 9:07 am

      Maybe Mandelslime will turn up with some tortilla chips? He seems a BBC commentary box 1A regular.

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  8. NotSure says:
    August 10, 2016 at 9:56 am

    Not to mention the Egyptian Ladies Beach Volleyball team pushing the limits of absurdity. Just don’t bother entering rather than making your athletes perform at high levels of exertion wearing full ‘uniform’ in what I can only guess is quite a warm place this time of year.

    There’s a big difference between walking solemnly behind your husband and jumping about batting a volleyball.

    I already hear the cries of ‘It’s my right of religious expression’.
    Bulls**t. Sometimes cultures blend, other times…. just leave it alone.

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    • Cranmer says:
      August 10, 2016 at 10:48 am

      NotSure, exactly. Has anyone pointed out to them I wonder, that the original Greek Olympiads competed naked? What people don’t seem to see is the hypocrisy of wearing an outfit which is basically the uniform of a highly conservative, traditional, some might say oppressive ideology, while taking part in a modern event which is at odd with all that. It’s like someone going to an anti-war rally wearing a full dress Guards officers’ uniform.

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      • embolden says:
        August 10, 2016 at 2:49 pm

        My time in the Middle East was enlivened sometimes by pondering the mystery of why Muslim Arab people wore 7th century clothes to demonstrate their adherence to their “superior culture” and railed against “innovations in religion” whilst wearing spectacles…the invention of Italian Churchmen, refined by the American Benjamin Franklin.

        Western civilisation: the farsighted leading the shortsighted since 1286.

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