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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:19 pm    Post subject: Children In Need Reply with quote




Where the Tractor Laughing Farmer Wright?


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The annual CiN photo

He gets stranger looking every year.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Change of theme this year Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

which one is Steve Wright?



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That looks like Zammo out of Grange Hill Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is that Emma Bunton again? What's the poor girl done to be lumbered with Wrighty every year?

(Mind you, could be worse - it could be Keith Chegwin!)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
Is that Emma Bunton again? What's the poor girl done to be lumbered with Wrighty every year?

(Mind you, could be worse - it could be Keith Chegwin!)


Jeremy had his pleasure. Bless Cheggars at least he was helping. Poor Sarah, Terry and Ken never had any guests. Where was Guy Henry? I think some other presenters from the station could have come in and done a bit? Unless they were maining the phones.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another excellent turn from the cast of East Enders on this evening's CIN.. very entertaining. I was also pleased to see Duffy ( although "Puffy" might be appropriate soon, put on a little weight I think? ) and Girls Allowed were good too.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
I was also pleased to see Duffy ( although "Puffy" might be appropriate soon, put on a little weight I think? )


Her singing is certainly an acquired taste, and not to mine. Looked... well, I'll just say it's a good job the Dead Ringers crowd are no longer around - they'd have a field day.

The final total on the night was as impressive as it was unexpected in the current climate - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7728182.stm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Another excellent turn from the cast of East Enders on this evening's CIN.. very entertaining. I was also pleased to see Duffy ( although "Puffy" might be appropriate soon, put on a little weight I think? ) and Girls Allowed were good too.


Duffy's new song " Rain On My Parade" is good? Nicola from Girls Aloud does have a pale face?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really like her but I can understand some not liking Duffy's singing voice. My wife can't stand the over-emphasized vibrato she adopts. It doesn't bother me but that's one thing I don't like about Cliff Richard's singing!

Yes, Nicola does look a little pale and I'm not sure about the hair-do either! Laughing
I like these girls as a group, they seem well managed, not too full of themselves and their latest song is pretty good pop material?
I just wish naturally good looking girls like this wouldn't try to go over the top with make up and false eye lashes and end up looking like dolls...
or am I getting old? Confused
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Combination of lighting and makeup overload, I don't think any of the girls looked very good. But then your last phrase applies here as well. Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Poor Sarah, Terry and Ken never had any guests. Where was Guy Henry? I think some other presenters from the station could have come in and done a bit? Unless they were maining the phones.

I still think it was better when it was a 24 hour music marathon and the night shift got to be a part of it as well as the daytime shows.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also enjoyed the Newsreader's section too.. ( Abba songs )
I have a soft spot for Sophie..
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's that display of obnoxious charity arm twisting over for another year.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do like the ugly one in Girls Aloud-the one with ginger hair. Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark Mayhew wrote:
I do like the ugly one in Girls Aloud-the one with ginger hair. Smile


I'm glad you pointed out which one is the ugly one Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Toggy wrote:
That's that display of obnoxious charity arm twisting over for another year.


Don't you believe it, Wogans show won't be worth listening to for at least another 2 weeks Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wogan never shuts up about really does he?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:35 pm    Post subject: It's a SIN...... Reply with quote

Does Mr Wogan still get a sizeable fee for doing the show? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:10 pm    Post subject: Re: It's a SIN...... Reply with quote

Briant wrote:
Does Mr Wogan still get a sizeable fee for doing the show? Rolling Eyes


I bloody hope not. Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To paraphrase Terry's comment this morning, it's amazing how everyone (the media, and some of us) are quick to criticise and splash across the front page every tiny thing the BBC gets wrong, and happily gives coverage to the government when it dips its hands into our pockets and gives £21 million to some cause or organisation worthy or otherwise (at least, they used to until £21m became such small fry and they started adding several more noughts to the figures). However, when it stages a nationwide live event (no matter how cheesey) over seven hours and stimulates such interest to encourage the general British public to pledge the same amount of money, the silence is deafening.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agreed Ron, but wouldn't say "Brandgate" could be described as "a tiny thing".

The beeb is good at many things but time and again it shoots itself in the foot. Credit where it's due - CIN has raised a fabulous amount of money.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Agreed Ron, but wouldn't say "Brandgate" could be described as "a tiny thing".


Hmm, but Jonathan Ross making outlandish jokes does pale into insignifance in comparison to child abuse, neglect and the recent atrocious events that have been reported in the papers this week.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ratings for the TV show trounced everything else that night, including Corrie. They were even getting 7m after the news - twice the size of Ross's ratings in that slot!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sure CIN would have raised the same money? It's strange the same week we had a big story about Child abuse, and people are pledging lots of their hard earn money?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NickSheffield wrote:
MadeinSurrey wrote:
Agreed Ron, but wouldn't say "Brandgate" could be described as "a tiny thing".


Hmm, but Jonathan Ross making outlandish jokes does pale into insignifance in comparison to child abuse, neglect and the recent atrocious events that have been reported in the papers this week.


I found it interesting that last week they were mentioning the child 'P' abuse story and using it as a reason of encouraging people to give to CIN. I found it a bit worrying that people should have to give to a charity to try and irradicate such abuse. The authorities should be solving this not just using the charities however admirable they are. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nod wrote:
NickSheffield wrote:
MadeinSurrey wrote:
Agreed Ron, but wouldn't say "Brandgate" could be described as "a tiny thing".


Hmm, but Jonathan Ross making outlandish jokes does pale into insignifance in comparison to child abuse, neglect and the recent atrocious events that have been reported in the papers this week.


I found it interesting that last week they were mentioning the child 'P' abuse story and using it as a reason of encouraging people to give to CIN. I found it a bit worrying that people should have to give to a charity to try and irradicate such abuse. The authorities should be solving this not just using the charities however admirable they are. Rolling Eyes


I agree but not everyone else agrees with me (and perhaps you) that taxes should be raised in order to allow this to happen. Unfortunately, in a democratic society where political parties want to stay in power, charities will always be a necessary way of providing services.

As for using Baby P as a way of getting money out of us - I never heard that being used? If it was, surely it's not the best advert: requesting money to pay for a service that has been shown to fail... (well according to the papers anyway... before anyone responds to this let me just say that I'm aware we don't know all the facts and that social services saves lives every day. However, i'm sure everyone would agree that the popular image of this case has cast the system in an awkward light and not one that would make people give money).

As for the Children in Need event itself - I missed it - was it really the 'best ever' as Wogan keeps saying?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as I know I do pay taxes to stop Child Abuse etc, that's what the Social Services, Police are supposed to be about. (but with a success rate fall for the police you do wonder)

I definitely heard it on more than one occasion where it was said, and probably not an official line, that there had been abuse stories in the press recently and this is a good time to give to CIN.

Not sure how Terry judges it, maybe how good a time he had. To me its just hours and hours of poor quality TV.
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