jeremy vine

Alegrias1

*People of colour....*

sigh

And the prize for the first completely mis-placed post of the day goes to......

Somebody will be along in a moment to say that the previous phrase was fine a week ago and they just can’t keep up with all these changes ?

A nice article about colour blindness in race. For added outrage, its from the Oprah website.

www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a32824297/color-blind-myth-racism/

Can we go back to JV being a prat now?

So, if only my family came to my funeral(there won't be one BTW on my specific instruction) would there be complaints about the lack of diversity? In these COVID-19 times that is exactly what funerals are, solely for nearest and dearest. Does he not get that? Talk about being provocative! And it makes him look a complete fool.

shropshirelass I agree I have worked with people from different countries ,I see the person not the colour
I think Jeremy Vine comes across has condescending especially when speaking on the phone and the leaping about he does makes him look stupid like an overgrown school boy. I like program when Anne Diamond or even Storm both do a better job.

hulahoop

shropshirelass I agree I have worked with people from different countries ,I see the person not the colour
I think Jeremy Vine comes across has condescending especially when speaking on the phone and the leaping about he does makes him look stupid like an overgrown school boy. I like program when Anne Diamond or even Storm both do a better job.

It’s a pity that we don’t live in a world like that isn’t it that only sees the person not the colour? Comments like that come perilously close to denying the reality of prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s colour/ ethnicity. I’m sure you don’t mean to do that but it could come across like that. Not with reference to the funeral, but there are many situations where I look at a large group of people and think, that’s a very white group ( often in tandem with also very male, middle class and older)

Strangely, I'm going to be more blunt than suzie about this.

Can we just stop this "I see the person not the colour" nonsense? Its like saying "some of my best friends are Jews".

If you "don't see the colour" you are denying the history of race relations in this country and in others. If you need to tell us you're not racist, then.....

Off track completely but Anne Diamond is really good I think, I am not sure why she has never really obtained national treasure status.

Alegrias1

Strangely, I'm going to be more blunt than suzie about this.

Can we just stop this "I see the person not the colour" nonsense? Its like saying "some of my best friends are Jews".

If you "don't see the colour" you are denying the history of race relations in this country and in others. If you need to tell us you're not racist, then.....

Thanks Alergrias1, very well put.
By the way, I’d avoided Venessa Feltz but heard her on the JV show. Definitely not an intellectual but I find her discussions with listeners warmer. More empathic so more likely to allow people to express themselves than with Mr Patronising

Feltz may be annoying but she has a first in English from Cambridge and she is one of the 10 highest earning women inthe BBC at about £355,000. She is actually an intellectual!

Thanks trisher. I stand happily corrected.

Oops, me too. But I can't agree that a first from anywhere, even Cambridge, automatically makes you an intellectual

Haven’t watched or listened to anything with JV in since I found the off button on my remote. Patronising, arrogant and ignorant.

Saw Tim Vine live at a charity gala and he is very bright and very funny. Odd how the same parents can produce two very different personalities. He did say his brother was nothing like his tv persona in real life. Strange that he chooses to behave publicly like a total prat.

I honestly didn’t know who Jeremy Vine was until I glean from this thread that he controversially, apparently, hosts a radio show. Must listen, don’t want to be out of the loop. ?

Greeneyedgirl I genuinely envy you!
I wish that I wasn't firmly embedded in that particular loop!

Jeremy Vine constantly infuriates me on Eggheads. Is he really as ignorant as he makes out or is it an act to make him relateable (!) The things he claims never to have heard of that I was learning about in primary school ......................................

Greeneyedgirl

I honestly didn’t know who Jeremy Vine was until I glean from this thread that he controversially, apparently, hosts a radio show. Must listen, don’t want to be out of the loop. ?

Do you never watch the election results Greeneyedgirl?

He's usually jumping around with his swingometer and thinks he's an expert on everything

Oh - that contradicts what Deedaa says
Is he really as ignorant as he makes out or is it an act to make him relateable (!) The things he claims never to have heard of that I was learning about in primary school .......

Ah ha! That’s him. Never take much notice of the presenters TBH. He’s quite nice looking if he’s the one I’m thinking of.......

Kamiso

Haven’t watched or listened to anything with JV in since I found the off button on my remote. Patronising, arrogant and ignorant.

Saw Tim Vine live at a charity gala and he is very bright and very funny. Odd how the same parents can produce two very different personalities. He did say his brother was nothing like his tv persona in real life. Strange that he chooses to behave publicly like a total prat.

I think one of them was accidentally swapped at birth ?

I've tried watching his morning TV show. I turned him off.
As for Eggheads stopped watching ages ago it was so fixed.

Corbyn, Vine & Clarkson don't like any of them it must be the name Jeremy ?

Deedaa

Jeremy Vine constantly infuriates me on Eggheads. Is he really as ignorant as he makes out or is it an act to make him relateable (!) The things he claims never to have heard of that I was learning about in primary school ......................................

Totally agree with you Deedaa, I do sometimes watch his morning show because I like discussion programmes but I'm often amazed at the everyday things he seems to know nothing about, he must never listen to the news even if he does work in TV and radio

He's slightly better on the radio but he's so naively ignorant about so much I wonder if it's a knack. I do like his shirts.

Not not a fan here either. He was originally a journalist and we all know how they can stir things up. Very unnecessary and I am also so sick of the race card as well.

Greeneyedgirl

Ah ha! That’s him. Never take much notice of the presenters TBH. He’s quite nice looking if he’s the one I’m thinking of.......

He can't be!

You must be thinking of someone else