Brian Cox Makes Me Want to Spew

ClovenHoof

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

robertxxx

He's great, I love all his program's.

robvondoom

Pretty much have a hefty distaste for every celebrity scientist. Basically if you've read one book about Science or Space travel you've heard every word they have to say.

Chet T16

My missus wants him to make her gag. Same thing?

4zn76tysfajdxp

I thought he was great in X Men 2.

kneemos

Is that Dr Cox?

dxhound2005

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

I saw what you did there, Brain O'Driscoll, Brain Cox.

ArtyM

wtf are brain cox?

Karl Stein

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

Don't worry about it. Things can only get better.

Billy86

Theres a joke about blowjobs in the tread title somewhere, alright.

As a bit of trivia, Brian Cox was in D:Ream 20 odd years back (keyboard).

The Backwards Man

Started promisingly with Repo Man, career spiralled downwardly since imo

hidinginthebush

robvondoom wrote: »

Pretty much have a hefty distaste for every celebrity scientist. Basically if you've read one book about Science or Space travel you've heard every word they have to say.

I don't know, he has a pretty accessable book about quantum mechanics that helped understand something that made no sence at all in college. His programs are very good at explaining abstract concepts (entropy, for example), plus they're beautifully shot.

I think he's great. He has an infectious love of science.

My name is URL

He makes some otherwise ignorant fcukers aware of some basic science.. what is there to hate?

Me?

Most men have their Brain's in their cocks.

Guy:Incognito

People who make learning interesting should be burned . Learning should be a chore. The last thing we need is people knowing stuff.

quickbeam

Love him!

kumate_champ07

most people who smile all the time irritate me but he has a genuine love of science thats inspiring

endacl

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

I'm sure you're not. Fire ahead there and spew. Use a bucket though, or your stomach acid could damage the flooring. If any spatters, an alkaline solution should help reduce the effect. That's science, and.........




















......... "that's amazing"!




I'll get me coat...

dr strangelove

Thank jeebus, i'm not the only one.

I'd love to stick his smug, stupid smiley face in front of the large Hadron collider beam and do some "science" of my own.

YFlyer

Pat is a smug twat

Chet T16

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I don't know, he has a pretty accessable book about quantum mechanics that helped understand something that made no sence at all in college. His programs are very good at explaining abstract concepts (entropy, for example), plus they're beautifully shot.

I think he's great. He has an infectious love of science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAsk1bkv2M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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He was great in The 25th Hour, the small bit he had

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Catphish

My name is URL wrote: »

He makes some otherwise ignorant fcukers aware of some basic science.. what is there to hate?

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hidinginthebush

Chet T16 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAsk1bkv2M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hahaha brilliant!

ClovenHoof

He is to science what One Direction are to music. He is no Patrick Moore. Com'on now. Idiot TV at its most vapid.

Agricola

Don't think he's smug. He's just really really excited by physics/space and he tends to look like hes stoned when he talks about it.

ClovenHoof

The Omega Man wrote: »

Catholic much? Bet you like a good mass.

Your kind are finished.

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He is a smug, superficial, self-impressed cnut, that is the issue. Not science.

If you need someone like Brian Cox to justify the Enlightenment I suggest you go back to using the Trivium to quantify the witchery of sebaceous cysts on elderly spinsters.

nullzero

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

Maybe you should stick with him... He can only get better.

iguana

I don't care what anyone says. I find his Hannibal far superior to Hopkins'.

DuckSlice

ClovenHoof wrote: »

He is to science what One Direction are to music. He is no Patrick Moore. Com'on now. Idiot TV at its most vapid.

he needs to do idiot tv, so small minded dum dums can understand science. i dont think its idiot tv btw, his book "why e=mc^2" is very good and explains a lot using maths no more difficult than Pythagoras's theorem.

entropi

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I don't know, he has a pretty accessable book about quantum mechanics that helped understand something that made no sence at all in college. His programs are very good at explaining abstract concepts (entropy, for example), plus they're beautifully shot.

I think he's great. He has an infectious love of science.

You, sir/madam, are an abstract concept...not I :mad:



:pac:

Corkfeen

ClovenHoof wrote: »

He is to science what One Direction are to music. He is no Patrick Moore. Com'on now. Idiot TV at its most vapid.

What exactly is idiotic about making science accessible to the masses? It can stimulate an interest in the sciences amongst all age groups while remaining entertaining. If one wishes to gain a further interest in the subject,they read and perhaps pursue a career in one of the fields. And I have no doubt that well made science shows result in people becoming scientists in the long run.

But it's idiot tv according to yourself. :rolleyes:

H2UMrsRobinson

Tv programs that educate are now idiot tv? I'm sorry but there are about a bajillion people more spew worthy than this chap.

MRnotlob606

Hes Gets all the ladies to suck on his matter

Hootanany

Billy86 wrote: »

Theres a joke about blowjobs in the tread title somewhere, alright.

As a bit of trivia, Brian Cox was in D:Ream 20 odd years back (keyboard).

I thought they were a Northu band

ClovenHoof

ClovenHoof wrote: »

He is to science what One Direction are to music. He is no Patrick Moore. Com'on now. Idiot TV at its most vapid.

Oh come on! You've never heard of the X-Factor or Jersey shore then?

I love his (and Moores) shows. I have no problem admitting that accessible shows like his are my main porthole to knowledge of those subjects, and that I find them enjoyable, entertaining and well presented. Cox is easier on the eye than Moore but both of them share the ability to make non sciencey people like me understand things I'd never given much thought to before.

Moore inspired me to buy my first telescope, to take an interest in the stars and our place among them, and Cox is just as interesting.

Thats pretty much the opposite of vapid.

Hootanany

When Moore was first on there was SWF all on the telly thats why he was so popular.

ClovenHoof

Hootanany wrote: »

When Moore was first on there was SWF all on the telly thats why he was so popular.

No. The Sky at Night was a Magical Programme when I was a child from the opening music to the non patronising content which did not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Patrick Moore had cool rock guitarists on his show - TALKING ABOUT HARD SCIENCE. Brian Cox is still a namby pamby boy band type and always will be.

The Sky at Night was glorious, absolutely glorious. I still get shudders thinking of the opening music and credits once a month during the winter nights and the lovely photos. The Sky at Night fired the imagination of millions, Brian Cox just comes across as a New Labour councillor who is pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids.

Hootanany

Hootanany wrote: »

When Moore was first on there was SWF all on the telly thats why he was so popular.

I don't think so, I think he was popular because he was brilliant at his job and his enthusiasm was unmistakeable.

I've got a collection of dvds of his shows, he's a brilliant educator.

Corkfeen

ClovenHoof wrote: »

No. The Sky at Night was a Magical Programme when I was a child from the opening music to the non patronising content which did not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Patrick Moore had cool rock guitarists on his show - TALKING ABOUT HARD SCIENCE. Brian Cox is still a namby pamby boy band type and always will be.

The Sky at Night was glorious, absolutely glorious. I still get shudders thinking of the opening music and credits once a month during the winter nights and the lovely photos. The Sky at Night fired the imagination of millions, Brian Cox just comes across as a New Labour councillor who is pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids.

Frankly, I find his programmes to be fascinating shows about mainstream science. The fact that you have described him as a 'namby pamby boy band type' while ignoring the fact that he's highly qualified in his field.

The productions he appears in are both well received and informative,bringing science to the masses should be commended. Besides ranting, you haven't actually explained what is wrong with his programme. What misinformation and namby pamby nonsense is thought on his shows?

Hootanany

ClovenHoof wrote: »

No. The Sky at Night was a Magical Programme when I was a child from the opening music to the non patronising content which did not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Patrick Moore had cool rock guitarists on his show - TALKING ABOUT HARD SCIENCE. Brian Cox is still a namby pamby boy band type and always will be.

The Sky at Night was glorious, absolutely glorious. I still get shudders thinking of the opening music and credits once a month during the winter nights and the lovely photos. The Sky at Night fired the imagination of millions, Brian Cox just comes across as a New Labour councillor who is pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids.

Im on about the early 80,s

Billy86

ClovenHoof wrote: »

No. The Sky at Night was a Magical Programme when I was a child from the opening music to the non patronising content which did not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Patrick Moore had cool rock guitarists on his show - TALKING ABOUT HARD SCIENCE.

Kind of ironic, since you've had a go at Brian Cox for " pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids". Which I don't think he needs to worry too much there, having ad 3 top 10 its, a #1 single, a Brit award and an MTV award before becoming a scientist. You could have picked something better to have a go at, basically. :pac:

And lets be honest, Patrick Moore was... kind of a sit person. I'll take Cox over him, so long as he's not supporting Enoch Powell, denouncing sex and racial equality, or making such scientifically awesome statements as He wrote that "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)".

Besides all that tough, I just cant see ow Brian Cox strikes you as smug but this guy doesnt...

H2UMrsRobinson

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Brian Cox is still a namby pamby boy band type and always will be. Brian Cox just comes across as a New Labour councillor who is pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids.

I think if you stop watching programs with Brian Cox in you should see a remarkable improvement in your symptoms. Especially the nausea.

Rebellion

Why? He's programmes are incredibly interesting.

errlloyd

H2UMrsRobinson wrote: »

I think if you stop watching programs with Brian Cox in you should see a remarkable improvement in your symptoms. Especially the nausea.

This...

I mean its one thing to rant about BOD (who has been media overload this week), or One Direction who are literally always on the ****ing radio who I appreciate you can't escape, you would need to be literally going out of your way to see Brian Cox. I like him and actively have to seek out his stuff.

He's not some mega rich, cocaine snorting, vagina munching celebrity worth begrudging, he's a lecturer in Manchester University and a guy who does some work every now and then. So he's a smart dude with an English accent and a minor celebrity profile, hardly worth starting a thread about.

Courtesy Flush

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Am I only person who can't stand this smug twat?

But he thinks you are really cool !

StompToWork

ClovenHoof wrote: »

No. The Sky at Night was a Magical Programme when I was a child from the opening music to the non patronising content which did not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Patrick Moore had cool rock guitarists on his show - TALKING ABOUT HARD SCIENCE. Brian Cox is still a namby pamby boy band type and always will be.

The Sky at Night was glorious, absolutely glorious. I still get shudders thinking of the opening music and credits once a month during the winter nights and the lovely photos. The Sky at Night fired the imagination of millions, Brian Cox just comes across as a New Labour councillor who is pretending to be down with Katy Perry's music to be 'hip' with the kids.

In some regards, I tend to agree with you. That said, I understand why Brian Cox is as popular as he is. The sad fact is that audiences are changing. In 20 years time, Boards.ie will have a thread in it about how some floppy-haired, middle aged person - who describes their greatest influences as "Justin Beiber and Twitter" - is worse than Brian Cox.

Of course, by that time, there will be a hell of a lot more people who understand more about physics than most of the young population today will ever dream about knowing.

As Bob Dylan once said, "The times they are a-chagin'!"

Duggy747

At least Moore appeared on GamesMaster and gave me decent tips and tricks for SNES games.

I like Brian's stuff and he shows to have a genuine enthusiasm for what he's explaining. I can see how some people might not like him but some women go nuts for him to the point that I'm not even sure they listen to what he's actually saying beyond "The wondaaahs of the univuurse" :pac:

Captain Farrell

I went to school with him. He's a cracking bloke, a talented musician and a highly intelligent man. He never intended to be on TV, but when approached saw it as a chance to get science into the mainstream.

Knight who says Meh

Why do so many articulate and intelligent people get this reaction?
Richard Dawkin
Brian Cox
Steven Fry
Even Dara o'Brian and David Mitchell.
I dont geddit. They all seem pleasant enough from de telly.