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Is This The Most Middle Class Programme On Television?
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- Oct 2011
- 26998
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
There was some shit on recently about up-cycling or re-purposing old things, where the presenter was trying to take all the credit for these creations and the 'value I'm adding' or somesuch, when all the work was usually done by a bloke in a workshop.
Can't remember who it was or what it was called, but best avoided.
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- Oct 2011
- 26998
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Ah, found it. "Money For Nothing" apparently! I'd prefer the title The Labour Theory Of Value, perhaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYSksGFwhE
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There are a fair few seventies BBC sitcoms that might vie for the title of 'most middle-class programme ever'.
Originally posted by diggedy derek View PostNot Grand Designs. I can't be the only one who hopes it all goes hideously wrong.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostUnless I'm very much mistaken, that has happened once or twice, no? (I don't really watch it, see...)
While The Repair Shop may tick the boxes for current middle class obsessions with shabby chic and upcycling, it has hardly knocked Today At Wimbledon right off its fucking perch yet.
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by Vicarious Thrillseeker View PostI love 'The Repair Shop'. The episode when they repaired the lady's grandmother's violin - that she had while being imprisoned in Auschwitz - was phenomenal.
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A good number of cooking programmes are sickeningly middle class. Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Mary bloody Berry. All their delicious ingredients from local delis and farmer's markets and health food shops. None of these fucks have ever been near a fucking Aldi or a Lidl.
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- Black Country Green Belt
- Crusaders FC, Norn Iron, not forgetting Serendib
- Blueberry vodka Jaffa cake on marzipan base
Originally posted by Janik View PostIs it presented by Lucy Worsley? If yes then, in response to the thread title, possibly though it will have to go some to beat her talking excitedly about what dresses long dead royals wore. If someone else is helming it, then no, it isn't
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostA good number of cooking programmes are sickeningly middle class. Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Mary bloody Berry. All their delicious ingredients from local delis and farmer's markets and health food shops. None of these fucks have ever been near a fucking Aldi or a Lidl.
This. I’d like to see food poverty addressed properly outside of Dawn Foster articles and some not great Jack Monroe recipes. Nowt on tv but. Instead we get Jamie Oliver blaming the fatties again.
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Back to the cooking thing, that's a noticeable issue with the poorest families. They, generally, can't cook. They, generally, have very little understanding of how to prepare food and they stick to what they know. Kebabs from the shop. Microwave dinner. What mum used to do before she passed (at 49 from a combination of diabetes complications, COPD and the embolism she got from smoking). Add in how hard it is to feed a family on benefits and it's a vicious cycle that is already killing the next generation of poor children.
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It's not the solution to the problem mentioned above, but one of my favourite challenges I ever saw on Top Chef was when they had to create a decent meal solely from ingredients they could get in a petrol station shop. I don't think they ever repeated it - I don't think because it was poverty tourism, either. I don't really know why they didn't do it.
I always found the Jamie Oliver style of cooking to be deeply annoying when I watched it: go to a farmers market and spend an absolute shit ton on fantastic quality ingredients, then don't overcook them. I mean, it's good advice if you can afford the 50 quid for your lamb, but it's not very helpful for the larger public.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostDid Blue Peter ever get beyond being for middle-class kids only? I suppose John Noakes had some Kershaw-like qualities, both good or bad.
That's why Blue Peter never asked for money for their Christmas appeals but stuff like Milk Bottle tops so the poorest kids could join in.
Magpie just asked for cash.
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I remember watching an edition of How on the other channel and Jack Hargreaves explained how to make a sock puppet. "Take a pair of socks your mother has rolled up in your sock drawer and .." I didn't have a sock drawer and my mother didn't roll up my socks. It was at that moment I realized I wasn't middle class enough to watch ITV.
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