The Susan Boyle Factor...

[MrBen]

Give her a break chaps.

She has been living in BATHGATE for 47 years so deserves her moment.

I challenge anyone to do that or to hold that B flat in the chorus the way she did. Can any of you do that?

Well shut up then!

Go Boyle.

[PeckhamRose]

So I walked into this pub the other day and began to remove my half faced helmet and I heard this bloke near me look at me and say to his mates, "For f**k sake keep the helmet on, she's gonna put me off my beer."

Walked into another pub the other day and a guy said, "F**k me, if that's not a dyke, then this isn't my beer."

And today, walked into a pub and someone said "That makes Susan Boyle look good."

Least she can sing!

The uneducated Sun reading working classes are the problem here. We can never grow and rise above this sort of looks culture when the working classes think it perfectly acceptable to say the sort of things they say, when someone like me who is not a young or attractive female thinks it perfectly acceptable to walk into a pub alone. The educated middle classes may think those same things but have somehow acquired the manners not to say it - at least not to say it within my earshot.

So thanks for that!

Off you go...

[BigPhil]

What sort of Bike do you ride?

[PeckhamRose]

Haha!

[daizie]

PeckhamRose, you are right and how rude ! Some people can be really vile. I bet they were'nt any oil paintings. Ignorant, thick, chavs by the sound of it, best avoided, but wish i'd been there . (6)

[????]

...and you've never heard similar from posh rugger buggers for instance PR?

[boosboss]

Take heart PeckhamRose and trust the lonely horse of Glengal Rd over a beer swilling oik. ;-)

[Morag]

Its so tedious the Simon Cowell productions'monopoly isnt it' We have Thousands of students doing performing arts courses'for what there are no playwrights noall round entertainment' just singers all singing through their noses and street dancers' oh dear'. wish i could get rich massaging these talentless morons'.

[PeckhamRose]

Haahahahahahhahahahahhh BoosBoss! yeah me and the Glengall Road Horse. We understand one another.

But Morag - there ARE loads of playwrights and TV writers and clever creative people with something to say - I am one of them and know loads of others. But the TV execs and the budgets and the advertising and the producers and the shareholders... they want what you see.

[Mick Mac]

Susan Boyle I'm afraid will not make it in the long run. She has talent of course, but you need the Duffy look to go with the voice. That's a fact I'm afraid.

[PeckhamRose]

Yep - but only if you're female.

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Susan Boyle I'm afraid will not make it in the

> long run. She has talent of course, but you need

> the Duffy look to go with the voice. That's a fact

> I'm afraid.

[Mick Mac]

Well it maybe true for the guys too PR- the Rat Pack were a bunch of cool guys too. Elvis, Englebert, Tom Jones etc. Take That, Boyzone - not many ugly mugs there. Looks sell. Susan Boyle is probably making a living as a accountant, like me.

[PeckhamRose]

No, never. Honest. Just the ignorant thick male members of the working classes.

???? Wrote:

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> ...and you've never heard similar from posh rugger

> buggers for instance PR?

[woofmarkthedog]

I have a strange mental image of her.

I see her in the morning standing bare foot on the lino in front of the old Armitage shanks basin cleaning her teeth with an electric toothbrush,

she is'nt wearing her glasses so she squints as she looks at her self in the mirror. She is wearing big pants and bra combo (american tan in colour though I don't dwell on this part)As she cleans her teeth she is giving herself a good talking to. She finishes with her teeth & picks up the Listerine, then she belts out a few high notes & finishes with a musical gargle.

[daizie]

its gotta be sun stroke .

[woofmarkthedog]

I think so, but I do kinda fancy her(ish)

[BigPhil]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> but you need

> the Duffy look to go with the voice. That's a fact

> I'm afraid.

Not too keen on the "Duffy" look

more of a "Maria Shavrapova" man myself

however , Point taken...

but surely she is not going for the pop starlet style , she fits opera music fine

[PeckhamRose]

Have you seen opera stars lately?

No, didn't think so.

They're mostly all gorgeous and slim.

[BigPhil]

Please excuse my ignorance

the only female opera singers i know is Kiri te Kanawa (sp)

and the one who the did the starship trooper thing back in the 80's

anyway not all female singers are good looking. just look at the spice girls. hidious !

[mattham]

Clive James did an excellent broadcast on this on R4 on Sat; says all that needs to be said about tv talent shows, Simon Cowell etc.

this link should work

[PeckhamRose]

I agree, he also wrote a fab article in the BBC on line magazine.

He takes his time but he's considered and sensible, and I've always liked Clive James. The ugly bastard.

[jaybee82]

Just seen on the news that Susan Boyle has been admitted to The Priory.

Personally I think that the degree of exposure she's had to the media over recent weeks would have anyone questioning their sanity. I hope she gets better soon.

[MrBen]

After an hour in a City gym on sat morning, staring at myself in the mirror and listening to Genesis, I turned my attentions to Sky News where a respected clinical psychiatrist was interviewed and, based on his observation of her erratic behaviour was fearing the worst. This prompted Piers Morgan to phone in, slate the man with 25 years on Harley St and explain that Boyle was fine, what a load of nonsense, its all show business etc. Before no doubt driving off to the studios in his Ferrari (also listening to Genesis).

Cowell has a genius self orchestrated business model that generates superlative income from TV ratings, phone ins, the albums, the tours then hiving off the international rights. And he can't lose. And for that alone he is one of the very few Small Things that causes me Irrational rage. Morgan has his own thread so clearly no comment required.

I hope our "SuBo" gets well soon and wish her well.

[cupid_stunt]

@JayBee82

Hmmm, call me a cynic but this Priory escapade is a perfect way to divert the attention of 20million BGT viewers from the TV to the newspapers.

Having watched from the sidelines, like everybody else on planet earth, can anyone truthfully say that Susan Boyle ever looked like she was 'all there'? Five high profile days in The Priory isn't going to change much in regard to her mental state, i'm afraid.

She'll be rich but never happy. Why? As she thought she had won it and that fact will haunt her for the rest of her life. I'd be surprised if she wasn't at the Royal Variety Performance in some capacity....

Anyway, time for a run...

[Jeremy]

She'll be on the "Britain's Got Talent Tour", along with all the other finalists. A UK stadium tour sounds rather more lucrative than the Royal Variety Performance if you ask me.