tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post1883637010629354391..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: We do not like thee, Huw boyoRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-3381395063401543982011-10-06T20:55:15.235+01:002011-10-06T20:55:15.235+01:00I must see this man in action. I'm so excited....I must see this man in action. I'm so excited. I wonder if he could be as boring as my husband's uncle Ted who is, to date, the most boring man I ever met.Hattiehttp://hattie.typepad.com/hatties_web/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-37836673035785227902011-10-06T15:41:04.875+01:002011-10-06T15:41:04.875+01:00The Crow: I'm delighted that HE's qualitie...The Crow: I'm delighted that HE's qualities raise transatlantic hackles and I admire your full-flighted fantasy that (probably) implies he beats his wife, albeit with a feather duster. I could plead my 300-word limit but I still haven't managed to reach down and palpate his essence and it worries me. Often, as in the US I seem to remember, the news ends with a "funnny" (My younger daughter labels this part as "A snake learned to roller-skate") and when the camera cuts back to HE at his desk he can be seen smiling, not because the "funny" was funny but because he's doing what he imagines news presenters should do. He is the master of the artificially generated gesture.<br /><br />Plutarch: You are careful not to align yourself with HE's critics. From politeness, from fear of retribution or from the need to hide an even greater antipathy than mine?<br /><br />Lucy: Well-spotted, the superficial desire of the dull to be seen as hell-raisers. This <em>tendance</em> emerged in one of the most stiflingly middle-class autobiographies ever written in which Janet Baker, whose singing I admire the far side of idolatry (I even wrote a sonnet about her and you were kind enough to be kind about it) claimed to have an over-developed sense of mischief. Perhaps it's a mark of her pathological restraint that her claim was such a mild one. Janet Baker in cap and bells! Then surely it would be time for the graves at Cookham to open up and spill out their dead.<br /><br />If I say I was terribly pleased (and secretly flattered) Tom chose Works Well as the compost heap on which to drop his delightfully non-PC observations, I hope you realise that this in no way diminishes the pleasure I get from spotting that briefest of blogonyms in my email inbox and then rushing straight over to Blogger so that I can read it framed as it ought to be. Good wine, as it were, always deserves the decanter. I am pleased that an anti-HE bond brings us closer together.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-40404100516968877792011-10-06T13:27:19.923+01:002011-10-06T13:27:19.923+01:00One eyebrow up one eyebrow down was roger Moore...One eyebrow up one eyebrow down was roger Moore's self-confessed acting style wasn't it?<br /><br />I think the final nail in Huw's coffin for me was that awful trail thing he did many years ago for BBC news where he was simperingly saying about how he just sometimes has to go off on a wild tangent and do his own thing because he's just that kind of guy... when, as a friend once cruelly remarked about Brando in 'The Wild One', he's about as wild as Alpen. Dull people insisting on how wacky and eccentric they are never fails to annoy and more firmly convince one of the opposite. Whereas I liked Angela Merkel's reply to the question of how she got on with Sarkozy: 'I think I'm probably the most boring person Mr Sarkozy has ever met.'<br /><br />Also, I don't remember Huw E ever being otherwise. George Alagiah is pretty smug and inane these days to my mind but I do remember him once having some credibility as a proper correspondent which still counts for something.<br /><br />But I don't think you always have to explain and justify a dislike, as your title implies, there have always been and always will be those Dr Fell characters about.<br /><br />Re stats, much as I dislike to dismiss my loved one's pulling power, there is something downright funny going on with stats these days, again. Mine are implausibly through-the-roof and the referring addresses mostly seem to be weird encoded URLs which all lead to the same site run by someone in Korea, I think.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-45108227546657360182011-10-05T16:58:30.141+01:002011-10-05T16:58:30.141+01:00May be it is the way Huw's left eyebrow rises ...May be it is the way Huw's left eyebrow rises involontarily regardless of what he is saying while the other eyebrow remains static that upsets you. Rory Bremner seems to share your dislike with his rather cruel mimicry.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-14117704797535152582011-10-05T13:24:19.365+01:002011-10-05T13:24:19.365+01:00Okay, first impression of Huw is that he looks lik...Okay, first impression of Huw is that he looks like Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show - heavy browed scowl insinuating overweaning sense of self-importance, which probably means he actually has low self esteem, but puts on a good face.<br /><br />Mrs. BB is reacting to that countenance the same way I would.<br /><br />Flehh!The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com