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Originally Posted by Mike Lyle
Sacha wrote:
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While I take your point, but speaking as one who grew up on an
island, the first rule of diving is don't unless and until you know
the depth of the water and what is beneath it!
A friend's brother long ago accidentally killed himself by diving off
Carmarthen Bridge. At that spot, I've actually seen somebody wade
across at low tide: I was working for the local newspaper group at
the time, but we suppressed the information in case some other clot
decided to imitate. (You see? The drunken hacks can be responsible
citizens!)
What I thought was
the most utter rubbish that verged on the insulting, was all that
fatuous 'teasing' stuff about someone cramming himself into a wet
suit and the camera play on his supposed six pack or firkin or it
is.
I hope the director got a thrill out of it - we were even further
incensed by this waste of our licence money.
I was furious! I could have bitten a horseshoe nail in half, as an
uncle used to say. That didn't _verge_ on the insulting: it was a
punch in the bloody face. As I said the other day, they treat sport
with more respect. At the beginning they suggested, or maybe even
said in so many words, that this was the something like the
horticultural equivalent of the World Cup; and that's true -- so why
not treat it that way?
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Mike.
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I absolutely agree with Janet. The program was nothing more than an excitement focused cocktail party for a bunch of TV personalities and the current "in" crowd amongst to-days fashionable Hardcore Landscape merchants, - but then that's all it has been for at least the last decade. To believe that to-day's Chelsea Show has anything to do with gardening is to live in cuckoo land. No serious gardener would dream of watching this raucous over the top collection of superlative junkies in the hope of finding anything remotely apposite to their gardening interests. They would getas much out of "Come Dancing", - where at least music is appropriate. TV producers,
in spite of their time honoured denials, are interested in one thing and one thing only, - competition with their peers in the matter of ratings. Their future employment depends on this.
They have a simplistic formula for achieving this, - Faces, faces, faces, - noise, - colour, - excitement, (however achieved), - any kind of gimmickry, - second by second change and movement.
They invariably trash every possibly interesting program by their inability to break out of this straight jacket. Did you notice how Monty and Carol et al, in last weeks gardening show, were being encouraged to "hot it up" with the
superlatives. I don't give a monkeys what they think of a plant only whether I like it.
They will never understand why Geoff Hamilton was so popular.
Have a nice one
Dave