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The other evening I was listening to Radio 5 and that obnoxious gobshite John Gaunt came on. Only the lack of a suitable hod prevented me from lobbing a sizeable brick at the radio. It made me wonder which other 'people' would provoke the same reaction. I'm not talking about that feeling of numb indifference and annoyance that most so-called 'celebrities', eg Katie Price, engender in me. I'm talking about those people whose very existence would genuinely induce brick throwing tendencies. For me, John Terry and Esther Rantzen come to mind.

Who are yours?

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Stewart.........

...... yup you guessed...... Lee !

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mojitojoe | 15 November 2011 - 4:28pm

I can be quite tolerant, but

these annoy the bricks out of my hand:
Piers Morgan
Peter Andre
John Barrowman
Ed Milliband

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Rigid Digit | 15 November 2011 - 4:29pm

Jeremy Clarkson

Piers Morgan
Melanie Philips
Pretty much anyone on Thought for the Day
Thingy Hammond off Top Gear
Alan Carr

That will do for now, but they are near the top of a very long list.

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Gatz | 15 November 2011 - 4:47pm

Gaunt

Loathsome individual. He appeared briefly on the Guardian media podcast recently bleating on about not having a radio programme at the moment as "noone is brave enough to take a chance with him". I prefer to this it is evidence of some level of quality control where I didn't expect it!

Piers Morgan of course. Bliar. Natch.

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Twangothan | 15 November 2011 - 4:53pm

Don't dislike many people

(not in my nature) but I could happily train to be National Brick Hurling Champeen if these were on offer;
El Hadji Diouf (a footballer, alledgedly, a knob, most certainly)
Gary Neville (see above)
Graham Smith (South African cricket captain - don't know why - knob)
Lou Reed (Charlton, 1974, blonde hair with swastikas - knob)
Peter Mandelson (Uriah Heep-no, not the band-creepy, slimy knob)
Ed Millipeed (see above - nothing to say, waste of good oxygen-knob)
Fearne Cotton (knob, knob, knob, knob)

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niallb | 15 November 2011 - 4:58pm

Gary Neville

A knob of the highest order.
Possibly the luckiest England player ever - who was his competition for England for all those years?
Sees himself as some sort of Union Leader/Shop Steward, but withou the intellectual capability or political nous to discharge this "self appointed post".
Don't like the bloke, and didn't rate him as a player either
(although he is/was/still probably a better footballer than me)

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Rigid Digit | 15 November 2011 - 8:06pm

Diouf

My friends and I once freaked him out. Certain things had passed over our tonsils and we thought it would be fun to hit the dressing up box. When we bumped into him, I was dressed as a Ghostbuster and was accompanied by a startling approximation of Bin Laden and a rather less stunning Princess Leia. As soon as we saw him we burst into uncontrollable laughter. He literally ran away.

Later he found us all wearing tennis skirts, laughing at his car

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Chimney Singing... | 16 November 2011 - 9:04am

Radio Off

Alan Carr, Fearne Cotten, Whiley-turn offs on the radio for me I'm afraid.

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David Wright | 15 November 2011 - 5:24pm

James Corden

Joey Barton
Jamie Carragher

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Almost Simon | 15 November 2011 - 5:41pm

The rotating occupiers of the Question Time C*nt Chair.

So that would be Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips, Douglas Murray, David Starkey, Gaunty et al. The only time I've ever seen Delingpole on the telly he was getting handed his arse by Paul Nurse, which was brilliant, so he gets let off.

Also Morgan. But I can avoid him easily. Ditto Cowell. George Lamb appears to have thankfully vanished. May his braying idiocy never tarnish my consciousness again.

Nick Ferrari drives me mad. Everytime he gets on This Week I can feel murderous rage coming on.

I watched Graham Norton last week, and I had an odd sense of disappointment with Cliff Richard. I don't hate him in the slightest, I just wish he was less of an arse.

NICKY CAMPBELL, NICKY CAMPBELL, NICKY CAMPBELL (twat).

Kevin MacCloud only because wall to wall repeats of him are denying me The Daily Show. Through no fault of his own, were we to ever meet, my wrath would descend upon him heavily.

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ganglesprocket | 15 November 2011 - 5:41pm

The poor put upon Delingpole

According to a recent piece in the Telegraph sweet baby James was forced to appear on Any Questions:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100115390/why-does-the...

I agree with the title of his piece, but not for the reasons he states. It is of course that the BBC must hate us if they are going to put him on the radio to feed us his neo-con, ultra-libertarian drivel.

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Carl Parker | 15 November 2011 - 7:33pm

I take it back about Delingpole.

He's plainly barking mad and is to be pitied.

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ganglesprocket | 15 November 2011 - 7:47pm

Liz Jones

and then I'd do it again. And again. And once more for luck.

And I'm not a violent man officer.

I was astounded, no "ASTOUNDED" to note that Jones was/is the paramour of one famous rock star (widely thought to be Jim Kerr). My flabber was truly gasted.

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Six Dog | 15 November 2011 - 5:51pm

What? Liz Jones in The M**L?

Complete and utter waste of space, time and energy. Jim - Chrissie Hynde! Patsy Kensit! Liz Chuffing Jones? No. Chrissie would eat her for breakfast (if she was a vegetable, obviously)

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niallb | 15 November 2011 - 5:58pm

Apparently so....

Must be true. Says on the internet. Though now my research is leading down the path of Robert Plant so I'm inclined to believe it was all nonsense. Which is kind of a shame. I was on the point of pitching a sitcom to BBC3.

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Six Dog | 15 November 2011 - 6:03pm

largely a tolerant man,

But my word, vanessa feltz annoys the hell out of me

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Mint | 15 November 2011 - 6:05pm

Do not get me started. too late.

I just don't understand why Fiona Bruce when presenting Antiques Roadshow, and all of the BBC news team too, have to address us as though everything is like a Blue Peter programme. I'm sorry but when she presented that art forgery programme I suddenly understood why Elvis picked up a rifle and shot his tv. I turn the sound down whenever she appears. Strewth.

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MrTaylor | 15 November 2011 - 6:06pm

Outside. Now. You and me.

I'm not having that talk about La Bruce going on here.

Hold me coat, lads..

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Lenny Law | 16 November 2011 - 12:02am

Fiona Bruce

Just walked past me. She's compereing the event I'm working on today. Shall I get you an autograph?

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davebigpicture | 16 November 2011 - 9:33am

Well, I asked her

and she said,"Lenny Law, the dentist from Portsmouth?" and walked off with a knowing smirk on her face

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davebigpicture | 16 November 2011 - 10:44am

I just offered to buy the job of fitting a radio mic to Fiona

from my colleague but I couldn't afford the asking price.

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davebigpicture | 16 November 2011 - 11:10am

There is only one for me

Jeremy Kyle. Rhymes with 'vile'. Enough said.

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Carolina | 15 November 2011 - 6:17pm

Jeremy Vine

Rhymes with swine. Reactionary, thick wanker of the first water

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Toffee the Cat | 15 November 2011 - 8:45pm

Any bastard politician who begins

Any sentence with "The American [substitute country of choice] people demand/need/want/expect" and sound like THEY have the hotline to The People.

Oh, and religious radio. Not hymns. Despite being of the atheist persuasion, I love me some classic hymns. But the revivalist, Colorado Springs based religious stuff? Bastards.

I've only thrown something (empty beer can, both times) at the television. The first was when Jon Callard slotted that last minute penalty; I then dissolved into a flood of tears. And the second when Lee Byrne dived and got Godman off the park. I was incandescent. I like to think any reasonable one eyed maniac fan would have done the same thing.

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sitheref2409 | 15 November 2011 - 6:43pm

Dermot O'Dreary

How did this man EVER get to the stage he's at now.

Steve Jones - unbearably full of himself
Nick Grimshaw - trendier than though
Christian O'Connel - a tit
Richard Bacon - an even bigger tit
Alexander Armstrong when not in comedy - can't take him seriously

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Five-Centres | 15 November 2011 - 6:43pm

This one will run and run ...

The ones which spring uppermost to my mind are all women, which worries me somewhat:

Vanessa Feltz (full of herself)
Janet Street Porter (full of herself)
Kate Humble (oh, you get the picture).

Mind you, Peter Mandelson is a good shout too.

It's not so much their (lack of) personal qualities, it's the depressing frequency with which they appear unbidden onto my TV.

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Douglas | 15 November 2011 - 7:18pm

Dare I mention

the 'Whiley' word?

John Simpson

Cowell

Morgan

Kyle

Bacon

Who was that tit on mid-morning Radio 6?

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happy harry | 15 November 2011 - 7:45pm

Horrible lying twat

Kelvin MacKenzie

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jet_slipstream | 15 November 2011 - 7:55pm

Seconded

a million times over, utter scum. Let's see if he's willing to put himself in front of the select commitee and answer for his actions. I'll gladly watch that.

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ian s | 15 November 2011 - 9:03pm

Thirded

Quick update to original post..

KMc
Janet Street Porter
Ed Balls
Millibandwagon
Stephen "can I actually be in everything" Fry

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Twangothan | 15 November 2011 - 11:40pm

Ray Wilkins...

... being interviewed - never says anything negative about anyone involved with football, and manages to get "exceptional" into every sentence. He truly is an exceptional cunt.

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Formbyman | 15 November 2011 - 8:07pm

An obvious one

Back in the day an appearance by Thatcher on TV actually resulted in a broken set.

It was only a black & white portable. No remote control so when Thatcher came on I decided to change channel by lobbing a handy shoe at the off button.
It did work and the TV went off, but so did the button itself.

These days I am more tolerant... at least 50% of the people Sky News have on to review the papers are annoying, but I just laugh at them.

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Skuds | 15 November 2011 - 8:08pm

Melanie Phillips

When the Moral Maze comes on Radio 4 i belt across the room and flick the off switch ... she's arrogant and a bully

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Glenbervie | 15 November 2011 - 8:08pm

Very probably

going against the grain here, but Stephen Fry and his self important pronouncements on just about everything, John Motson and the way Radio 5 indulge him, some little twat called Russell Howard, Ed Balls and Robert Peston.

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Francis Barry-Walsh | 15 November 2011 - 8:49pm

Wynne Evans

Better known as the voice of those Go Compare ads; the ones regularly voted most annoying on TV. I have to mute all commercial breaks just in case he re-appears........

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RS65 | 15 November 2011 - 9:09pm

This thread helps me justify

not being able to receive broadcast television since they switched analogue off.

On radio, on the other hand:
The "Today" programme should be cut by at least half.
Any visual sport on the radio should be scrapped, especially if it's on Radio 4 LW (I thought this was why they invented Radio 5 Live.)
Most local radio is crass in the extreme.
Having to hear Fearne Cotton on Radio 1 when I'm at work makes me want to run amok with a sockful of wet sand.
Radio 2 isn't worth the money spent on it.
The supposedly funny continuity announcers on Radio 4 Extra make me laugh less than the doctor did who recently put me through my cancer biopsy. (This is true.)
There's a twat who presents science programmes on Radio 4 in a breathless, constantly surprised style which does neither him nor the subject any credit. I'd rather they didn't make the programmes if they're going to patronise the listener.
"Clare In The Community" - a sitcom where more work went into coming up with the title than has gone into any of the scripts. Now in its 96th series.
Jo Caulfield. Why?
Likewise the two goons who co-present Dave Gorman's Absolute Radio show, presumably put there to make Dave appear witty and intelligent.
You know that "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" should be put out of its misery when you hear routines on it you first heard in 1984, and they weren't new then.

Otherwise good.

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Wardour | 15 November 2011 - 9:23pm

Clare in the Community

is almost bearable compared to that thing with Lenny Henry and his dad in some music shop. Radio 4 puts out some dreadful stuff in the sit-com slot.

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Helena Handcart | 15 November 2011 - 10:25pm

That'll be "Rudy's Rare Records."

It makes me cringe when I catch it on, but I give it a pass as a friend of mine adores it. This might have less to do with the scripts and everything to do with the fact she claims to have dated Larrington Walker (who plays Lenny Henry's dad) when they both lived in Jamaica.

I've just thought of another one. Lynne fucking Truss. Give me strength!

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Wardour | 16 November 2011 - 2:20am

Agree

But another shout out for "Listen Against" on Thursday night which is surreal and brilliant.

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Twangothan | 16 November 2011 - 8:22am

Heard it last night

in the car.

I listened aghast.

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Helena Handcart | 19 November 2011 - 12:59am

Eamon Holmes

Smug fat bell-end.

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Spartacus Mills | 15 November 2011 - 9:24pm

Feltz? Knob

Brian Sewell - posh, poncey knob
Russell Howard - his own biggest fan - knob
Neil Warnock - chip on his shoulder the size of Algeria ........and the shape of a knob
Jim White (Sky Sports News)-will insist on making the most insignificant, dull thing sound like The Second Coming. You read an autocue for a living you stupid Scottish knob
Shahid Afridi-cheating, conniving weasal. And all your mates. Seam raising, ball tampering knob
James Blunt-KNOB!!!!

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niallb | 15 November 2011 - 9:47pm

I have just read this thread in the style of Alan Partridge...

Because I am half way through the audio book.

Try it.

It could be the second edition of his book!

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Uncle Wheaty | 15 November 2011 - 10:05pm

Bricks at the ready

Here goes...
Richard Bacon. Self regarding twat and not a patch on Mayo.
Ed Balls.Smug grinning oaf who only looks good next to..
Gideon "George" Osborne.Do people still stick his head down the toilet like they did at school? Does he fag for Cameron?
Andy Parsons. Only has that one way of delivering a line which makes all his gags sound as poor as each other. Oh wait a minute...
There are probably others but that'll do for now.

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Chris Young | 15 November 2011 - 10:11pm

Here's another list

Phil Jupitus (of course)
Russell Brand
Terry Wogan
Simon Cowell (too obvious)
Alex Ferguson
Christiano Ronaldo
Justin Bieber
Philip Schofield

Enough to be going on with

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wezz | 15 November 2011 - 11:46pm

And another thing....

Dwain Chambers-you cheated. Don't fool yourself into thinking 'the country's'behind you.' We're not. You're a drug-taking knob
Tracey Emin-every month is Movember. Artist? Go stand in front of a Caravaggio-unmade bedknob
Idiot sportsmen (step forward Ashton)-you screwed up the World Cup, came home in shame yet you continue to hawk your book round town, all the while defending your team mates drunken actions. Shut up,apologise, take your medicine. Swallow dive knob

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niallb | 16 November 2011 - 12:13am

Just thinking..

How those last three words should be punctuated so the insult works.

Swallow-dive knob.
Swallow, dive-knob.
Swallow, dive, knob.

All work in their own way.

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Lenny Law | 16 November 2011 - 12:19am

Too many to bother listing

It would just make me cross. But Gaunt is top of the list. Or bottom. Whichever underlines how fundamentally loathsome he is. He's so full of shit, his eyes are brown.

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Leedsboy | 16 November 2011 - 12:13am

A few..

Alan Green. He has moved beyond parody. A vile, self-aggrandising twat.

Jeremy Vine. Lowest common-denominator radio at its lowest and most common.

Zoe Ball. Dear Johnny Ball: How can it be that you are so clever whilst your daughter is so thick?

Richard Bacon. His taking the bullet for the jazz-talc misdemeanours of one of the people listed above resulted, apparently, in the rest of his BBC career being rubber-stamped. He's a halfwit.

I don't watch much telly so there's not so many people for me to get annoyed about.

Oh. Yes.

John Culshaw. The man of a million voices. All of which sound like John Culshaw doing a funny voice and nothing like anyone you would ever recognise.

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Lenny Law | 16 November 2011 - 12:16am

Culshaw

Is he the one who does a really good impersonation of Tom Baker as Doctor Who and hundreds of impersonations of people who all sound a little bit like Tom Baker doing an impersoantion of them?

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Skuds | 16 November 2011 - 12:29am

That's him.

The one who introduces every impersonation by saying "[name of person being impersonated] here" and then proceeding to impersonate them with a Yorkshire accent. Even if they're from a completely different country.

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Wardour | 16 November 2011 - 2:15am

Zoe Ball

Lovely kid. Knows her football and likes a drink.

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Six Dog | 16 November 2011 - 8:21am

Another vote for Richard Bacon

His nauseating whine and his shamelessly piss-poor insensitive handling of the 2004 tsunami (apparently buying shirts in the post Christmas sales is more fun) resulted in my complaining to the 5Live Controller. Despite not even using a green font in the email, I still didn't get a reply so assumed that there goes another member of the BBC hierarchy the wretched individual must have some hold over.

The words "and now Richard Bacon" are usually met with the resolute click of the OFF button.

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Phil Pirrip | 16 November 2011 - 12:33am

All these

And yet Starkey survives?!

I like him myself, but I thought he had a bum rap around here...

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sitheref2409 | 16 November 2011 - 1:32am

Cut him some slack.

"Octopus's Garden" wasn't that bad.

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Wardour | 16 November 2011 - 2:13am

cap suitably doffed

bravo sir!

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sitheref2409 | 16 November 2011 - 2:59am

For any Alan Partridge fans...

... I can recommend the "Richard Keys and Andy Gray Show" on talkSHITE. The sad thing is there's no acting involved. I challenge anyone to listen longer than 10 minutes without either smashing their radio or calling the police.

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Formbyman | 16 November 2011 - 10:48am

Keys

Ego-centric, no-nothing, shaved hands, condescending and a knob. What's not to like?

I listen to the radio show just here the pleasure of the self styled "King of Sky's Football Coverage" say "3 for 2 at Wickes - get yourself down to Wickes for all your DIY needs".

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Six Dog | 17 November 2011 - 1:00pm

Surprised

Surprised to see so little reference to David Cameron. Watching his entrance to the Mansion House in his Lord Snooty garb the other evening made my fingers twitch brickwards. Maybe it's his PR smoothness that makes him imprevious to this kind of thing.
On the other hand - Vanessa Feltz and Jeremy Vine - yes, yes, yes!

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jazzjet | 16 November 2011 - 5:54pm

Those inspiring brick-tossing include...

(in no particular order)

Beth Ditto
Russell Brand
Ed Balls
Jedward
Harriet Harman
Alan Carr
Ed Miliband
Janet Street-Porter
Vanessa Feltz
Piers Morgan
any journalistic Murdoch
Timmy Mallett
Christopher Biggins
Simon Cowell
Any judge on Strictly Come Dancing
Johnny Rotten
the opera singer on "Go Compare"
Silvio Berlusconi
Steve Coogan
Ricky Gervais
Nicolas Sarkozy

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Baskerville Old Face | 16 November 2011 - 6:33pm

Eight words to strike terror in to any right-thinking person...

'Now, Thought for the Day, with Anne Atkins'.

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pocket.calculator | 16 November 2011 - 6:47pm

The first five do it for me

.

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count jim moriarty | 16 November 2011 - 11:13pm

A few..

Sue Perkins (she's everywhere at the moment, and bloody useless on everything)
Eamonn Holmes (how has this talent-vacuum managed to carve out a 25 year career?)
Ed Balls (partially due to him reminding me of a local loonie)
Dotun Adebayo (overnight Radio 5 Live host - hopeless)
John Bishop (do I need a reason?)
Jon Culshaw (he popped up on The Sky At Night last week, adding nothing)

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JQW | 17 November 2011 - 12:01am

That man

After his recent comments on racism in football, Sepp Blatter has got to go on my list.

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jazzjet | 17 November 2011 - 11:01am

Two from me

Claudia Winkleman - must run in the family
Vernon Kaye - he is positively Wotsit

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jimmyshoes01 | 17 November 2011 - 12:25pm

Late entry

Having just read this I was reminded that Michael O'Leary should be on the list.

I don't have a problem with Ryanair, and living just a few miles from Stansted I use them often, but what an insufferable arse the boss is.

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Gatz | 18 November 2011 - 10:19pm

I have a problem with Ryanair.

It's called Michael O'Leary.

I've used them once. Because I had no alternative.

Otherwise, no. Unless there is no other way, I refuse to give the vile little shyster any of my coin. I would rather pay more to use another carrier.

I wouldn't cross the street to piss on MOL if he was burning. Actually.... I say that.. I would. I'd wee on the edges. Just to try and damp them down a bit and prolong his agony.

Then I'd hand him an invoice for urine charges incurred.

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Lenny Law | 19 November 2011 - 12:51am

Ryan Air

Have succeeded in making the whole experience so dreadful I won't fly with them any more. I suspect it is an elaborate situationist trick to see how appallingly you can treat customers before they give up. Promise flights for a tenner which end up costing a ton, make 'em queue for 2 hours, no service, uncomfortable flight, tell them you hate them through everything you do, and see how long they keep coming back.

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Twangothan | 19 November 2011 - 1:12pm

Gotta be Bacon

Sure it's a tough gig following Mayo, but please someone tell me how after all these years of being god-awful in everything he's done he is still in broadcasting?

I have no problem with ye olde drugs thing - "Media Celeb does coke shock" - it's the pure shiteness.

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pompeygeorge | 18 November 2011 - 10:58pm
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