is tom wier ( wiers way tv prog )......

[gnasher]

......still alive ?

[sft42]

Indeed the great wee man still is.

I used to love watching him present his show from the marvellous countyside and he always had a sense that the views were the star and he was merely there to show us them.....it was such an appealing thing to watch as my life was full of grey tower blocks in the 70s and the rich green of the hills shown like a beacon.........He was born in Springburn in Glasgow in 1914, the son of a railway worker, so this puts him in his nintieth year but he still goes walking for a hour or so every day quite a lot of the time by his beloved loch lomond .....I think, sadly though, his famous sister Molly has passed away

Also on a sour note despite hauling in a 30% audience share with Weir's Way's new midnight slot he is not getting a penny as Tom's original deal had no arrangement for residuals. Needless to say, the eijits at Scottish Media Group are hiding under the cover of the phrase "no moral obligation" and, in effect, sticking two-fingers up to Tom and saying "tough luck". Now dignified as always, the man himself simply says the pleasure that his show gives the public is payment enough - once a gentleman, always a gentleman. But it is utterly despicable of SMG not to make, at the very least, a one-off payment to one of Tom's favoured causes in lieu of the enormous good he has done them. If anyone from SMG is reading this, then shame on you. And if, by some small miracle, Mr Weir is reading this, then I say simply thank you for the enormous pleasure you've given us all. You are a credit to Scotland. May your God bless you, sir.

[Gef]

Very well said, sft.

[bernardo]

From the point of view of the strong anthropic principle, I doubt if he can possibly "still" be alive, as he was never alive in the first place - i.e. I have never heard of him. But the fact that you have asked about him may now have brought him into existence.

[sft42]

I suppose when you live in as ego-centric a world as you do that may be a possibility but I am talking about a man who has the quiet respect and dignity of millions of people.

Save the purile humour and your unbounded gay wit for more aposite threads and obviate the need for a slapping down please.

[elpea]

He died this weekend, aged 91. Shame.
RIP