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Loughton_Monkey

A._Badger wrote: »

May I add the rent-a-gob Mockney, Jamie Oliver, to the list, please?

You certainly can!

I remember distinctly that while in Asia (until late 2005) I kept hearing this name. I kept hearing that he was a "God" who had "Saved" British kids from the evils of fast food and chips......

Came home early 2006. Didn't buy a TV until Autumn that year. Didn't have a clue who Jamie was.

I happened to see a Sainsbury advert that (for reasons I can't fully explain) that irritated me. Some lisping guy passing round cheese in an Irish Pub if I recall correctly. I kept saying to Mrs LM that one day I'm going to throw my G&T at the television when that advert comes on.....

Only a few weeks later did I realise it was the 'great man' himself.

Pompous little pr1ck! It's not only ducks and peppers that need stuffing!

KrytenIceCubeHead

"Pompous little pr1ck!" You're projecting again Loughton.

Loughton_Monkey

KrytenIceCubeHead wrote: »

"Pompous little pr1ck!" You're projecting again Loughton.

My abject apologies. I didn't realise you could see anything over this interweb forumatic thingie....

As the Jamie Oliver fan club president that you obviously are, I will leave you to spend your valuable time reading all his cookbooks, cooking all his recipes, and salivating about when he will next show his face on TV to slaughter yet another live lamb, or boast about his Sudanese ancestry (which he doesn't have), or claim to use local produce in his Glasgow restaurant [from a Bicester factory], or do yet another advert for a supermarket he never uses.

PasturesNew

dinofabio wrote: »

Why does everyone in Homes under the Hammer always seem to come out on top?

No matter what lemon they buy at auction they always seem to make a paper profit!

It's so easy.........

Not all of them.... only this week a couple paid £200k with valuations coming in at £165k. Of course "we bought it to live in".... but it's still possible.

I take notes... and occasionally I revisit old addresses to see what happened.... and it's surprising how many couldn't sell them, or sold them at a loss... but the programme doesn't show you those. Just the agents' speculative business-winning guesses.

callyw

It drives me mad on these property shows if it just ends with them 'choosing' one of the houses they've been shown and the programme following it up no further. I like to find out whether they successfully offered and exchanged on the house they liked, and it's especially interesting to see what they've done to the place after they moved in.

nollag2006

callyw wrote: »

It drives me mad on these property shows if it just ends with them 'choosing' one of the houses they've been shown and the programme following it up no further. I like to find out whether they successfully offered and exchanged on the house they liked, and it's especially interesting to see what they've done to the place after they moved in.

True. That would be very interesting.

Indeed, there have been one or two specials on just that topic:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/location-location-location-specials/4od

Overall though, its good to see these property shows back on the box again.

They disappeared completely during an after the property crash of 2008, and are only really coming back in strength now.

ruggedtoast

I love Kirsty Allsopp's total lack of any bargaining ability. Something will be on at £350,000 and then she'll suck her teeth, and pull faces and timorously ask the sellers agent "Do you think they might, possibly, maybe, accept an offer of... of... three four eight?".

seven-day-weekend

I like Grand Designs, Homes under the Hammer and the Location programmes.

We used to watch A Place in the Sun avidly until we actually bought a place abroad and lived there for eight years. Now we only watch it when it is about the area in Spain where we lived.

I chose to go Grand Designs Live at the NEC last year for our 40th wedding anniversary (how sad).

It didn't even cost anything as I got free tickets from a code on MSE and we went on the train which is free for us in the West Midlands County with our OAP bus passes. We took sandwiches from home and got a free coffee from one of the stalls inside.

I loved it, and very MSE!

(My husband's outing was a fossil and minerals exhibition That didn't cost anything either, other than the £80 he spent on a beautiful huge geode ).

Sorry to go off-topic.

Matt1977

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I love Kirsty Allsopp's total lack of any bargaining ability. Something will be on at £350,000 and then she'll suck her teeth, and pull faces and timorously ask the sellers agent "Do you think they might, possibly, maybe, accept an offer of... of... three four eight?".

I'd expect a Tory Advisor to be more confident when dealing with Estate Agents on the phone than she does. Kirsty almost seems to be working for the Estate Agents as opposed to the client on the show.

Love him or loathe him, Phil seems to do a better job of negotiating.

Those flats on the last LLL in North London underwhelmed me. If that is what £200k-£360k buys then I'm glad I don't live there.

Jennifer_Jane

Would it be considered unBritish to add "Antiques Roadshow" to the list of programmes I hate? I realise this has been partly covered by the Fiona Bruce reference, but I disliked it even before she was presenting.

I'm sad to confess that I only like "Come Dine with Me" and watch it avidly every evening/ Sundays, well, any time. It's astonishing how little people seem to know about food - and how to pronounce it: "basil" / "bAsil" ; "What's 'Tapenade?' "Does 'Pavlova' come from Italy?"

Grrrrrr..

PS - I sometimes watch "A Place in the Sun" just to see some ... sun.