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Robert Preston
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Annoyingly the one thing that I seem to associate with this credit crisis / financial apocalypse is not Lehman employees leaving with their sad cardboard boxes, or slumping house price graphs, or the US government giving $8 trillion to prop businesses up. It is the BBC's Robert Peston and his annoying voice giving me a running commentary to it all. Seriously, why does he talk that way? I assume the BBC didn't forsee the current financial situation being their main news story for months on end as they would have employed someone who didn't talk like Lloyd Grossman.
I bet he's loving the fame. He'll be on singing on the new Halifax / Lloyds adverts soon methinks.
I bet he's loving the fame. He'll be on singing on the new Halifax / Lloyds adverts soon methinks.
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Yes Robert PESTON is rather a character.
That said, as a young man his father was my economics tutor and seemed pleasant enough.
ps tonight the bbc had a dummy logo of howard riding a horse re the merger, which was amusing."enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb0 -
Why have you called him Robert (de)Preston in the title?
Anyway, I find his voice makes me want to giggle a bit, but he seems to know what he's talking about.Happy chappy0 -
tomstickland wrote: »Why have you called him Robert (de)Preston in the title?
Because I'm an idiot.tomstickland wrote: »Anyway, I find his voice makes me want to giggle a bit, but he seems to know what he's talking about.
Like the opposite of Alistair Darling?0 -
He starts some questions with what seems to me a combination of a nervous giggle & a suppressed burp.0
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For those not annoyed by his voice.
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.0
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