Jonathan Ross to leave the Beeb

[Atila Reincarnate]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Don't you just love him? He's so macho.

Not nearly as macho as you big guy. I've got to chuckle at many of the posters on here, if you have the audacity to challenge their views they get all self righteous. And worse still they feel they have to stick up for a talentless man who earns over ?6 million a year. Who says we're not obssessed with celebrity.

[????]

Jonathon Ross maybe overpaid, you may not like him but he's not a talentless presnter or broadcaster

[Atila Reincarnate]

woofmarkthedog Wrote:

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> Errr.....

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> Who, the angry "Big Guy" is "macho" too....NO...

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> Wow I'm really scared, imagine a "tubbs with a

> tache" whoopin' yo' ass Jah.....I mean

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> "Who you callin Fatty...?.. hmmm sweet mutha

> @#$%&....I'm whoooopin your sorry saggin ass...."

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> "Yeah.... whoopin' my ass"

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> "I'm wooopin' yo ass"

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> "Yeah.... whoopin' my ass"

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> "I'm wooopin' yo ass"

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> "Yeah.... whoopin' my ass"

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> "I'm done now .....wooopin' yo ass"

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> "Yeah.... OK done now.....whoopin' my ass"

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> I'm there with you Jah , I'm feeling your pain

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> W**F

This is not the place to post your homoerotic dreams big boy.

Bark****** or something

[Atila Reincarnate]

???? Wrote:

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> Jonathon Ross maybe overpaid, you may not like him

> but he's not a talentless presnter or broadcaster

Of course you entitled to your opinion as am I, I think he is mediocre in the extreme, and there are far more people in the world deserving of more money in their paypackets let alone the obscene amounts he gets. Who says we're not obssessed with celebrity, god help us all if this what we've sunk to.

[Jeremy]

How do you judge what salary someone is "worth"? The fact is that we live in a society where the value of labour, services, products - in fact almost anything - is determined by how much people are willing to pay. It's a free market economy. Let's see how much money Sky offer him!

Yeah it sticks in the throat that some people earn millions, but what do you want to do about it? Would you rather have a communist "wage grid" system for everyone?

[Atila Reincarnate]

I'd rather people stopped sticking for the talentless pratt

[Alan Dale]

removed

[Michael Palaeologus]

Talentless? Your benchmark is what?

It takes some talent to pull in the amount of money that he has done. The fact that you do not respect that talent does not mean that it does not exist.

[mockney piers]

I'm not sure why your negative opinion should somehow supercede anyone's positive one atila?

As bob said this sort of thing is totally subjective (although sounds like we all agree that he was being paid too much, but sadly not a damn thing we can do about it, I used to get just as annoyed by Ericsson's wage for mediocrity in his field).

For the record I thought he was an excellent film reviewer, he helped me become genuinely passionate about cinema, especially the more alternative films when he was on channel four with The Incredibly Strange Film Show. The Jackie Chan episode was a classic (before jackie made more mediocrity in Hollywood).

I wasn't a big fan of the chat show (or the format full stop) though it was passable entertainment especially if he had genuine rapport with a guest. It was more the awful obsequious nature of the 'big name' interviews like Maddonna that annoyed me; god if ever someone deserved taking down a peg or two, or actually yet laughing at themselves, it's her. Whereas others like Dustin Hoffmann with genuine humility were actually little bit revealing and entertaining.

Obviously somewhat ambivalent then, in summary, breezes.

[mockney piers]

Thinking about the chat show, how about we take some of that money and give it to Melvin Bragg to make the Soith Bank Show at the beeb.

Or if he's knocking on then some young replacement in our dumbed down age ... Err ... Fearne Cotton?

[Jeremy]

Atila Reincarnate Wrote:

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> I'd rather people stopped sticking for the talentless pratt

In that case your argument is purely one of taste/opinion... which is fair enough, everybody has one. But don't make it out to be something more than that!

[Atila Reincarnate]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Atila Reincarnate Wrote:

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> > I'd rather people stopped sticking for the

> talentless pratt

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> In that case your argument is purely one of

> taste/opinion... which is fair enough, everybody

> has one. But don't make it out to be something

> more than that!

Unfortunately while it may be about taste/opinion, there is more to this than that. Namely that as a society we seem to have persons that feel he deserves it and feel sufficiently moved to defend him. WTF is going on there?

[Mick Mac]

Give it a rest Atila. You are more annoying than all the people who have been banned put together. IMO.

[Sandperson]

I wondered how this thread had got to 3 pages so I thought I'd have a read. Now I see Atila is involved I can see why. :))

[Atila Reincarnate]

Sandperson Wrote:

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> I wondered how this thread had got to 3 pages so I

> thought I'd have a read. Now I see Atila is

> involved I can see why. :))

Thought you said you ignored me, oh sad one.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Give it a rest Atila. You are more annoying than

> all the people who have been banned put together.

> IMO.

The feelings mutual.

[Sandperson]

I ignore you on the football thread becasue you talk nonsense. Everything else is fair game.;-)

[Keef]

How do you judge what salary someone is "worth"?

This made me think of house prices. The same pile of bricks that was worth ?100k 15 years back, now "worth" ?400k, because someone is willing to pay that to live there.

Like Ross or not, lots of people watch him, so the beeb must have believed it was "worth" paying him that much to bring in the viewers / listeners.

Simple as.

[Keef]

Oh, and this isn't a football thread, so for those who are just jumping in and making it worse, stop it.

The likes of *bob* and David are able to stick up for themselves, and if they find Atila that out of order, they can report him.

Atila, you are getting a little bit overly angry about this though, it really doesn't matter that much.

[Mick Mac]

Keef Wrote:

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> The likes of *bob* and David are able to stick up

> for themselves, and if they find Atila that out of

> order, they can report him.

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Keef - Its not about bob and David. Its about being able to read an interesting thread without it being littered with FFS and WTF etc and generally aggressive comments.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Sandperson Wrote:

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> I ignore you on the football thread becasue you

> talk nonsense. Everything else is fair game.;-)

That's rich coming from a man ure fan who uses his butt hole to talk out of. Just ignore me, but you can't can you. Bless

[Jeremy]

Keef Wrote:

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> This made me think of house prices. The same pile

> of bricks that was worth ?100k 15 years back, now

> "worth" ?400k, because someone is willing to pay

> that to live there.

Yep, pretty much. It's the same with most things. How else can you judge what something is worth, other than what someone will pay for it?

Whether someone "deserves" a salary or not... that's a different matter, but since when was salary correlated with contribution to society?

[Sandperson]

Erudite as ever Atila. Personally I think Wossy should be laughing all the way to the bank. On the one hand I can't stand my license fee being spent so freely on him, although I do find him funny when I watch him, on the other if they offered it to me I'd bite their hands off so who can blame him.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Sandperson Wrote:

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> Erudite as ever Atila. Personally I think Wossy

> should be laughing all the way to the bank. On the

> one hand I can't stand my license fee being spent

> so freely on him, although I do find him funny

> when I watch him, on the other if they offered it

> to me I'd bite their hands off so who can blame

> him.

Admit it, you can't ignore me can you, bless your little cotton socks. Erudite enough for you?

[mockney piers]

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