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Did Anyone Watch Sports Personality Of The Year?
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I stopped watching it years ago when they started to include so called amusing set ups. involving some of the sports stars. These were never funny, just excruciatingly embarrassing. I just wondered if it still insists on trying to force funny moments into the proceedings which arent.
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The highlights for me were the Team Award acceptance speech by England Netball Captain, Ama Agbeze and Bille Jean King's delivery of the results.
Not one "tension building" dramatic effect pause of "and the winner is . . . . ." (all of which get on my wick!!).
There were also moments when Mrs King appeared to glower at the presenters with a "I've got the envelope - I know what to do!" look when prompted to read out the 3rd , 2nd and 1st place prize recipients. Priceless!
Not one "tension building" dramatic effect pause of "and the winner is . . . . ." (all of which get on my wick!!).
There were also moments when Mrs King appeared to glower at the presenters with a "I've got the envelope - I know what to do!" look when prompted to read out the 3rd , 2nd and 1st place prize recipients. Priceless!
Finally ...
Netball getting the recognition it deserves ...
Team of the year ... England Netball
Most exciting sporting moment of the year ... Helen Housby scoring THAT point against Australia in the in the CG Netball final !
My faith in Sports Personality of the Year has been restored.
As a bonus, that ratty little weasel who fled Britain to avoid paying tax like the rest of us, but still bizarrely expects the Brits to embrace him ... didn’t win the main award.
Netball getting the recognition it deserves ...
Team of the year ... England Netball
Most exciting sporting moment of the year ... Helen Housby scoring THAT point against Australia in the in the CG Netball final !
My faith in Sports Personality of the Year has been restored.
As a bonus, that ratty little weasel who fled Britain to avoid paying tax like the rest of us, but still bizarrely expects the Brits to embrace him ... didn’t win the main award.
It was dreadful. Previous years 12 nominees, this year 6; why? Full praise to the Ladies Netball team, Billy Monger and to be fair Gareth Southgate.
The Skinner Baddiel "Three Lions" was unbearable, and only the BBC could praise something that came fourth, with Lineker as master of ceremonies then football will have priority. Billy Monger - rudely interrupted but they did give him a reprise.
As someone said earlier, better if BBC actually had any sport!
The Skinner Baddiel "Three Lions" was unbearable, and only the BBC could praise something that came fourth, with Lineker as master of ceremonies then football will have priority. Billy Monger - rudely interrupted but they did give him a reprise.
As someone said earlier, better if BBC actually had any sport!
But New Judge, the government doesn't nick our money. It uses if for things that the voters decide are important ... Defence, Police, health, schools, and sports.
For someone to grow up, taking full advantage of that system, and then say ... I don't want to put anything back in ...
I do appreciate that, with a current income (before sponsorship) of £40 million, if he did contribute towards the public kitty (like the rest of us), he would have to struggle by on £25 million after tax ... and I know that £2 million a month doesn't go very far these days ...
So fine ... turn your back on Britain ... use your new found wealth to avoid contributing like the rest of us ... but don't then try to play the card that "I'm British, my fans are British, the British GP is my home race" etc.
When people in business tuck money away offshore, the public get all righteous and snotty about it. But with LH, they make him runner-up Sports Personality!
I dated a Swiss guy for a few years, and spent lots of time there. I could easily have squirreled my income away over there, and avoided chipping into the tax fund. But I didn't because, frankly, if we all did that, then Britain would be in the poop.
For someone to grow up, taking full advantage of that system, and then say ... I don't want to put anything back in ...
I do appreciate that, with a current income (before sponsorship) of £40 million, if he did contribute towards the public kitty (like the rest of us), he would have to struggle by on £25 million after tax ... and I know that £2 million a month doesn't go very far these days ...
So fine ... turn your back on Britain ... use your new found wealth to avoid contributing like the rest of us ... but don't then try to play the card that "I'm British, my fans are British, the British GP is my home race" etc.
When people in business tuck money away offshore, the public get all righteous and snotty about it. But with LH, they make him runner-up Sports Personality!
I dated a Swiss guy for a few years, and spent lots of time there. I could easily have squirreled my income away over there, and avoided chipping into the tax fund. But I didn't because, frankly, if we all did that, then Britain would be in the poop.
take a good look at this link, which nails it...and other programmes: https:/
The netball was an obstruction. I think it was Helen Housby Who took the initial shot in the last second of the game, which missed. I think the offending Australian player was the one who raised her arm to move in front of HH as she was taking the shot. So England got to retake the shot, with no time left on the clock
From the Sun link:
//Harry Kane started the night as favourite and ended it third, after something else happened during the song that was so horrendous and disturbing no one who heard the incident can ever mention it or the offender ever again.
I hope you’re bloody proud of yourself, David Baddiel.//
What was that all about?
//Harry Kane started the night as favourite and ended it third, after something else happened during the song that was so horrendous and disturbing no one who heard the incident can ever mention it or the offender ever again.
I hope you’re bloody proud of yourself, David Baddiel.//
What was that all about?
I think it's probably referring to this ...
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“When people in business tuck money away offshore, the public get all righteous and snotty about it.”
I don’t, jayne. I admire them for their ingenuity. It is quite true that the government spends some of the money appropriated from taxpayers on the things you describe. However it is my estimate that somewhere between 30% and 50% of it is utterly wasted on schemes that provide no tangible benefits whatsoever for those providing the funds. This could be because the scheme as a whole does not deliver (e.g. Overseas Aid) or that the scheme overall might but waste and inefficiencies within the scheme burn money (e.g. the NHS).
In the 1960s government spending in the UK was, in real terms, about 25% of the sums spent today (if public spending had followed inflation since 1960 it would be a little under £200bn – this year’s figure is £818bn). The population was about 80% of today’s figure so making spend per head a mere 30% of today’s amount. Yet I don’t recall three times as many people dying in the gutter of starvation; I don’t remember three times as many people sleeping on the streets; I don’t think hospital waiting lists were three times as long. The country had a navy, army and air force that was effective and a medical service that by and large mainly worked.
Politicians will spend as much money as they can lay their hands on (and some more). They measure their success on how much they spend (or “invest” as they quaintly like to put it). Instead they should measure their success on what they provide. Accordingly I believe that every person and company has an absolute duty to minimise the money they must pay to the Exchequer. Lewis Hamilton and others are helping to wean politicians from their ridiculous addiction to spending vast sums of taxpayers’ dosh on projects and schemes which provide little or no benefit. The less cash they have to waste the more their minds will be concentrated on providing what they must rather than what their egos tell them they’d like to.
I don’t, jayne. I admire them for their ingenuity. It is quite true that the government spends some of the money appropriated from taxpayers on the things you describe. However it is my estimate that somewhere between 30% and 50% of it is utterly wasted on schemes that provide no tangible benefits whatsoever for those providing the funds. This could be because the scheme as a whole does not deliver (e.g. Overseas Aid) or that the scheme overall might but waste and inefficiencies within the scheme burn money (e.g. the NHS).
In the 1960s government spending in the UK was, in real terms, about 25% of the sums spent today (if public spending had followed inflation since 1960 it would be a little under £200bn – this year’s figure is £818bn). The population was about 80% of today’s figure so making spend per head a mere 30% of today’s amount. Yet I don’t recall three times as many people dying in the gutter of starvation; I don’t remember three times as many people sleeping on the streets; I don’t think hospital waiting lists were three times as long. The country had a navy, army and air force that was effective and a medical service that by and large mainly worked.
Politicians will spend as much money as they can lay their hands on (and some more). They measure their success on how much they spend (or “invest” as they quaintly like to put it). Instead they should measure their success on what they provide. Accordingly I believe that every person and company has an absolute duty to minimise the money they must pay to the Exchequer. Lewis Hamilton and others are helping to wean politicians from their ridiculous addiction to spending vast sums of taxpayers’ dosh on projects and schemes which provide little or no benefit. The less cash they have to waste the more their minds will be concentrated on providing what they must rather than what their egos tell them they’d like to.
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