Hairy Angel

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Blackburn Scotland

Margaret ....you are a star..............Doe.........

[Margaret Pilkington]

Royboy, did you think she came from Blackburn Lancs?

[lindsay ormerod]

My point was simply that people who go on these shows put themselves in the firing line for public ridicule, surely that's why most of us watch these shows, to laugh at the majority of no hopers on there and to be amazed when one of them actually does something amazing. Fair play to her , I don't think she is good enough to win and to be honest if she was a size 10 stunner I doubt she would have got this far, we love an underdog.

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Royboy, did you think she came from Blackburn Lancs?

I dont think so..........I happen to know where Blackburn is in Scotland.

Been ther but never met the lady.

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Royboy, did you think she came from Blackburn Lancs?

this is better than Laurel and Hardy!

[Margaret Pilkington]

I suppose folk thought that about Paul Potts too.
Anyway whatever the outcome of the contest, it has taken her out of her village life and given her a wider view of the world......and maybe that is why she isn't complaining.

Sometimes getting your dream in life has a price on it.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Mancie

this is better than Laurel and Hardy!

You don't take much amusing, do you?

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

You don't take much amusing, do you?

True.....The modern day Bill Sykes.....got to pick a pocket or two.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

this is better than Laurel and Hardy!

Or Gordon and Alistair

[Taggy]

Well at least she wasn't called a Golliwog!! Good luck to her, i like her, she's a bit eccentric....and i like eccentric's!!

Best Regards - Taggy

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Taggy

Well at least she wasn't called a Golliwog!! Good luck to her, i like her, she's a bit eccentric....and i like eccentric's!!

Best Regards - Taggy

Think that's what was so spell binding about her Taggy, that something that no one expected, including Simon and company

[yerself]

Originally Posted by MargaretPilkington

something like this just makes me realise what a cynical and shallow nation we have become......we look at someone and make value judgements on them.

So when you're taking your ma for a stroll and you come across a group of foul-mouthed youths wearing hoodies or baseball caps, their tracksuit trousers tucked in their socks and drinking from cans of Stella Artois, what immediate value judgement would you make?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by yerself

So when you're taking your ma for a stroll and you come across a group of foul-mouthed youths wearing hoodies or baseball caps, their tracksuit trousers tucked in their socks and drinking from cans of Stella Artois, what immediate value judgement would you make?

Excercise extreme caution........persons who gather in packs, identically dressed, are displaying a tendency towards a primitive pack instinct ie. hunting.
Incidentally the same applies to football crowds.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by yerself

So when you're taking your ma for a stroll and you come across a group of foul-mouthed youths wearing hoodies or baseball caps, their tracksuit trousers tucked in their socks and drinking from cans of Stella Artois, what immediate value judgement would you make?

I probably make the same value judgement that you have made.
Yes of course I do.......I have no nail holes in my hands........the foul mouthed bit does it for me........in a public place, drinking from cans, with two elderly ladies passing by. They are uncouth and rude, and probably realise full well that their presence intimidates people like me.

What you are trying to get at, is that we make value judgements on people because of their clothes....or appearance.

Same group as above but without the bad language, and the stella equates to a different situation altogether.......young men such as these(without the nasty language and alcohol) have helped me with Ma's chair on more than one occasion.

But there is a huge difference between looking at someone and making a value judgement in a situation like that, and the one where they give another Older lady a demeaning and derogatory nickname. It is very shallow.

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Excercise extreme caution........persons who gather in packs, identically dressed, are displaying a tendency towards a primitive pack instinct ie. hunting.
Incidentally the same applies to football crowds.

. You are spot on Margaret about football. I'm a football fan, but it's essentially tribal isn't it.