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Kirstys handmade Christmas... !!!!!!!!

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  • wymondham
    wymondham Posts: 6,356 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Mortgage-free Glee!
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Worse is to come. Don't forget not to watch A SuperScrimpers Christmas, which will tell you how to cook Christmas lunch for £50 (on which some families feed themselves for a week).

    and this shows how out of touch she really is ..... I'd like to know the viewing figures on her new programmes. I've not seen any - are they on in the daytime (I suspect they are!)...
  • suki1001
    suki1001 Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    I can't remember who annoyed me most, Kirsty or the infuriating Rosie Millard (yes remember her?)

    Women who have nothing to say, getting paid to talk, or now even make twaddle. It drives me up the wall everytime I walk through M and S - there is a Kirsty section now.
    MSE Forum's favourite nutter :T
  • flashnazia
    flashnazia Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    They love her programme on the Old style Board:

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3661071
    "fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell)
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    She needs to be put down. Horrible nasty woman.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's not what you know, it's who you know. That's the way it is.

    I don't like this saying. I fully concede that some people get to where they are in life through who they know, such as their parents being famous or wealthy as per Allsopp. But for every one person like that there are a hundred who have got to what they are through ingunity, hard-graft and a desire not to give up. And I'm talking here about 'normal' people with their own businesses and jobs, not just famous people.
  • Callie22
    Callie22 Posts: 3,444 Forumite
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    I like how it was meant to be about being thrifty and imaginative, yet you still had to pay £40 for things that appeared homemade! I'm sure most of the people I know would rather have the money than the hand made felted waistcoat from a charity shop which actually cost £50!

    To be fair, it is quite thifty and imaginitive to get other people to do your house up and fill it with 'designer' stuff for free ...
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    abaxas wrote: »
    She needs to be put down. Horrible nasty woman.

    How is it that she bothers you so much to the point where you'd like her to be dead? She appears on TV every now and again to talk about a house or a Christmas decoration she's made. In the grand scheme of life it has no consequence whatsoever, why does it wind you up so much? I can't say I'd ever sit down to watch something she's in, but 'horrible', 'nasty' and 'needs to be put down'? Really? I think you have some issues.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    How is it that she bothers you so much to the point where you'd like her to be dead? She appears on TV every now and again to talk about a house or a Christmas decoration she's made. In the grand scheme of life it has no consequence whatsoever, why does it wind you up so much? I can't say I'd ever sit down to watch something she's in, but 'horrible', 'nasty' and 'needs to be put down'? Really? I think you have some issues.

    Everyone has some irrational hatred. Might be a person, spiders, hieights. It's all part of being human.

    I simply dont like her.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    abaxas wrote: »
    Everyone has some irrational hatred. Might be a person, spiders, hieights. It's all part of being human.

    Aren't you mixing up hatred and fear? I know you could say that they are the same in some ways, but in my eyes to hate something or someone you need to base that emotion on feelings of anger towards something because of something that that object / person has done. Most people don't 'hate' spiders or heights, they have an irrational fear of them. I don't like spiders, but I don't want them to come to harm for example.
    abaxas wrote: »
    I simply dont like her.

    A couple of posts ago you were wishing death on a person who comes on TV every now and again making objects you put in your house. That, to me, is a bit stronger than what would be considered normal.
  • macaque_2
    macaque_2 Posts: 2,439 Forumite
    edited 11 December 2011 at 2:46PM
    You don't have to watch bu it, switch it off if you don't like it.

    I agree G&T but you are speaking to converted. Most contributors on this forum realised long ago that Kirstie is a slightly overweight siren luring unwary borrowers onto the rocks of negative equity.

    I see that Kirsty is backpeddling and now saying "Its not her fault". Sorry Kirsty, but no dice. If you use prime time television to promote the virtues of borrowing on overpriced assets, you are a big part of the problem. Remember many of the viewers got their gcse in maths from Edexel.

    I don't condone unlawful acts and if little Kirstie found squatters in all her holiday cottages I would of course dissaprove. I would also however need a staple gun to stop myself from smiling.
    Allsopp said the hike in property prices was not her fault

    http://www.networkpropertybuyers.co.uk/?action=article&id=27
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