Be Excellent To Each Other

Elderly son of a bishop presents the BBC weather:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/summer/2008/weather/ayianapa_weather.shtml

What next? Dave Lee-Travis presenting the news (subs please insert the name of a popular current radio 1 DJ if DLT is no longer on Radio 1).

westwood is a hateful cunt, but that was pretty funny*



*Disclaimer, I've had 4 pints

Thats not a shirt, it's a dress.



(and how old is he? Wikipedia says 51 - I guess thats someone having a lark I though he was forty odd.).

EDIT: Shit no he is: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/10/happy_50th_birthday_westwood.html

Amazing! The Cunt.

How is "He was Tim Westwood" not a defence to murder?

"Elderly Son of a Bishop!!"

Yeah that was considerably less shit than I expected.

Then again, he's 50 and damn doesn't he now look it, died hair or not.



There was a big editing war on wiki over it, with people rejected every citation going.

Then someone got a copy of his birth certificate.

Don't know much about this toaster, other than that he's a big radio presenter who likes his hip-hop. Does he always look as though he's trying reeeeaaaaaally hard to appear menacing? I hope he's just taking the piss, and is actually a perfect gent off-camera.

I'm really afraid not. This is a massively toned down version of normal Westwood.

I quite like the Big Dog after watching Pimp my Ride UK.

You certainly have to admire his balls to continue to be a 20 year old black guy as a 51 year old white guy.

At what age should someone stop listening to hiphop and enjoying it, and, also, at what age should someone change their broadcasting style?

When it's acutely embarrassing.

Of course with that broadcast style there's no point it's not acutely embarrassing.

Michael Fish, you've officially been pimped

Westwood, consider yourself, WARNED.

(Cue ace Public Enemy beats)

Surely Tim Westwood is a character, I mean I bet he doesn't talk like that when he is chatting to his accountant about what to do with all the money he's made from it.

I'm still not sure whether all of this 'big dawg, HOLLA!' nonsense is really a bit of a joke and done for effect. Maybe he was 'ahead of the game' in getting into the so-called cringe-comedy thing. But then again, maybe he started that as a joke or way to get attention but eventually started to believe it. 20-odd years is a long time to keep doing it.

I love to hate him, but yet find all that schtick quite funny. Laughing at him (or his character, uless I'm giving him too much credit), mind.

Soundboard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/westwood/soundboard.shtml

Speak 'street' in Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/summer/2007/feature/downloads.shtml

I have a horrible, horrible feeling he does.

He's living the dream, yo.

It'd be amusing if he were mysteriously and magically deprived of his money, identity and transported to the projects of Westside Baltimore.

I suggest you pitch this idea to Channel 4 as a reality TV show.

Westwood is awesome! End of.

And that's how he nailed his job interview.

Speaking of weathermen has anyone noticed the rather strange chap who seems to randomly pluralise words and so says things like "overnights tonights we'll see this front moving west"?

Why hasn't someone put him out of our misery yet?

He's 50, and I think he's great

Here he is on the Nathan Caton show taking the piss out of himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnLv1eGLLR8

He's Jimmy Saville 2.0

Jim'll was rockin' the Run DMC look decades ago, bling and blunts baby BRAP BRAP BRRRAP

Jimmy Saville invented night clubs.
FACT.

I do think that Portia is a beautiful name for a girl, mind you

Do you mean Porsche? Like the car?

I liked it since I first heard it, as the name of Lord Portico's daughter, Lady Door's sister, in Neverwhere.

It is a name heavily reliant on the grace of the bearer, however. Says I.

Louis Theroux docu-fixed for you

You know that's really pronounced "Porsh", don't you? The "porsha" pronunciation was a big joke played on the 80s yuppies by the Germans. The Germans are still laughing about it now (well, they get few things to cheer them up, so its only to be expected that they have to make them last).

I'm just reading up on Jimmy Savile on wikipedia. Honorary Royal Marine Commando, apparently!

It'll all come out when he carks it. The Popbitch board has had a few good stories down the years.

Was he ever Noddy Holders landlord?

Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.

No. That's Olive Oil.

Someone should tell the Germans.

[edit]The lead engineer who built the Porsche engine for the McLaren in the 80's (and early 90's, maybe) pronounced it with an 'a', too.

Chav alert!

Yes, we know. Be aware that you're on this forum because the nice chav set it up for you. Are you going to answer the question?

Portia, as in 'the mercant of Venice'.

Well, that's what I thought, but why did you suddenly come out and say it? Is it in that video?

It is, the name after 'Mercedes' which I think is also a nice name. It amusies me that the chav sterotype co-opts these names for children as it represents material wealth and misspells 'Portia' as 'Porsche'.

I've always pronounced Portia "port-e-a".

And, indeed, larvay.

Well, then the joke doesn't work half as well in my head.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portia

@Craster: Indeed. I have a unique way of reading names.

I thought, until I was 23, that Chloe was said "Sch-low"

I still refuse to call Bicester 'Bister'. It's fucking Bi-ses-ta.

Only if Gloucester is glou-ses-ter.