BBC forced to apologise for comment made during Open coverage

Specialun

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/bbc-apologises-for-peter-alliss-s-sexist-comment-1.2292110

I was watching and heard the comment but i didnt really care...is this the easily offended high horse brigade...

Menas

People looking to be offended will usually get offended.

“She is probably thinking - ‘if this goes in I get a new kitchen’

Sunnyisland

I would be of the mind that that is just harmless banter and nothing wrong with it being said in that context,but I would have thought she was saying I want a bigger house feck the kitchen .

darkpagandeath

SJW's Unite, Form of Needless outrage. Can we have the person up on the telly crying about how bad they are ? Jesus and it was not even a competitor.

BMJD

this guy sounds like he should have his own show

Alliss had also provoked controversy on Saturday night when cameras showed third-round leader Paul Dunne being hugged by his mother as he came off the course.
“Ah, that must be mum. Perhaps he likes older women. I don’t know but I hope I got the right one,” he said.

lertsnim

I heard it myself and knew the outrage bandwagon would be rolling in soon after and within seconds there they were moaning on Twitter. Has it occurred that she might actually want a new kitchen. Morons

Mint Sauce

Peter Alliss’ has been making comments like that, having banter about the players, and injecting humour into his commentary for years. I swear people nearly only watch TV sometimes only to find fault.

It was a nothing comment, one of many he made based on his observations during the weekend. Move on.

NachoBusiness

There'll be no one left at the BBC at this rate.

Don't think John Inverdale has commentated on Wimbledon since he made this comment in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygljkcm2_8

Mint Sauce

BMJD wrote: »

this guy sounds like he should have his own show

See my last post, this was one of the comments I was trying to remember, but couldn't quite do.

recylingbin

His comment about some toff marrying an ugly bird because she reminded him of a caddy he used to have was the funniest thing I heard on TV for years.
Pete's a legend.

Sheldons Brain

Menas wrote: »

People looking to be offended will usually get offended.

That's offensive to people who looking to be offended.

osarusan

lertsnim wrote: »

Has it occurred that she might actually want a new kitchen.

Zach Johnson has earned more than 37 million dollars.

Whatever else you make of the comment or reaction to it, I doubt they needed the cash.

Mint Sauce

NachoBusiness wrote: »

There'll be no one left at the BBC at this rate.

Don't think John Inverdale has commentated on Wimbledon since he made this comment in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygljkcm2_8

He still does, just doesn't front or present anymore.

lertsnim

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Don't think John Inverdale has commentated on Wimbledon since he made this comment in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygljkcm2_8

Eh? John Inverdale commentated on Wimbledon this year for the BBC and hosts the ITV coverage of the French Open, often seen on screen with Marion Bartoli.

topper75

I wouldn't give these humour hoovers the time of day. They are out to ruin everything ultimately.

Mr Freeze

I think we'd all like a bigger kitchen.

K4t

BMJD wrote: »

this guy sounds like he should have his own show

Alliss had also provoked controversy on Saturday night when cameras showed third-round leader Paul Dunne being hugged by his mother as he came off the course.
“Ah, that must be mum. Perhaps he likes older women. I don’t know but I hope I got the right one,” he said.

That is funny, but his kitchen comment, while not overtly sexist, is a lazy generalisation.

recylingbin

osarusan wrote: »

Zach Johnson has earned more than 37 million dollars.

Whatever else you make of the comment or reaction to it, I doubt they needed the cash.

Now they can have one made of platinum and unicorn horns.

RayM

I dread becoming a middle-aged man, for fear that I'll suddenly start seeing that kind of lazy, tiresome shit as the epitome of humour.

NachoBusiness

Mint Sauce wrote: »

He still does, just doesn't front or present anymore.

Yeah, that's what I meant really, hadn't seen him present since.

Here's another tennis commentator that got in trouble for a 'sexist' remark recently enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35Dyk9fze4

Guy:Incognito

realies wrote: »

I would be of the mind that that is just harmless banter and nothing wrong with it being said in that context,but I would have thought she was saying I want a bigger house feck the kitchen .

Are you implying she does nothing but swan around the house her husband bought her all day? I'll expect a full page apology for these horrendous comments in tomorrows independent. Also, tell every woman you meet for the next week you're sorry for men holding women back for centuries.

keano_afc

I'm absolutely shocked.

Peter Alliss is 84??

razorblunt

I honetsly think people are now watching these events, not for the spectacle of sport but to catch something that "caused offence".

FFS would you be well.

I heard sailors got offended too after Alliss' comment that Harrington "walks like a man who's just come back from a round the world sailing trip and has landed on shore for the first time.

OneOfThem

The fvckers that apologise annoy me more than the fvckers that complain tbh. If every time some gob****es started bitching and crying over finding something offensive an official statement was released along the lines of "dear gob****es, stop being ****ers, no one cares" there would be a drastic reduction in this nonsense. If every time a greedy kid cries you hand it sweeties, you just end up with a fat greedy kid that cries whenever it wants sweeties.

Boring username

Do you know what I'd really love. If just for once, ONCE an organisation wouldn't trot out the mandatory 'We're sorry to have caused offence' apology, and instead declared:

'No. We fcuking well are not apologising for a harmless joke. Maybe you should get a sense of humour you boring, whining, pathetic long streak of misery.



P.s. Your kids are probably thick too."

Pherekydes

razorblunt wrote: »

...the spectacle of sport...

It was a Golf tournament, ffs.

leakyboots

Heard it at the time and thought 'some people will be all over this like a rash now straight away'. Anyone who has even a passing interest in golf knows Alliss, what he's like and his humour.

Harry Palmr

One can only hope these utter joyless fvcktwits die screaming alone.

darkpagandeath

leakyboots wrote: »

Heard it at the time and thought 'some people will be all over this like a rash now straight away'. Anyone who has even a passing interest in golf knows Alliss, what he's like and his humour.

Aye but that won't be the mob all over twitter fb for example taking outrage.

blastman

I'd post the Steve Hughes clip again, but the people who need to watch it apparently aren't reading this thread.

"You're offended, so what? Nothing actually happens."

Justice4Adolf

I notice that in all this nobodies asked Kim Barclay what her views on domestic upgrades is. With particular reference to kitchen refurbishment. Or her immediate plans therein.

valoren

A sexist Comment

“She is probably thinking - ‘if this goes in I get a new kitchen’, because you see that's where she belongs, in the kitchen"

A wisecrack

“She is probably thinking - ‘if this goes in I get a new kitchen’"

valoren

This is my favourite Alliss commentary.....

During a lull in the action...


"I got aroused watching Carol Vorderman on Countdown the other day....*long pause*......seven letters.......not bad!"

The Plank

Anyone else notice the comment he made upon seeing four women dressed in bathrobes watching from a balcony.

Something like this: 'They're probably just in from the spa, now there's a scary thought for you!'

brooke 2

Specialun wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/bbc-apologises-for-peter-alliss-s-sexist-comment-1.2292110

I was watching and heard the comment but i didnt really care...is this the easily offended high horse brigade...

Thought Peter Aliss died years ago!

Mint Sauce

The Plank wrote: »

Anyone else notice the comment he made upon seeing four women dressed in bathrobes watching from a balcony.

Something like this: 'They're probably just in from the spa, now there's a scary thought for you!'

Or the assumption/comment made about the 3 or 4 young lads wearing baseball caps and track tops.

The people enjoying their drinks from the members balcony, but not necessarily the golf.

Or the comment about Dunne and his mother/girl friend.

Am sure there was many more, but that was just in the few hours I watched, but make one comment about a wife and the kitchen, and people call the sexist card.

cloudatlas

Could have been worse.

“She is probably thinking - ‘if this goes in I get a new kitchen where I can make sandwiches all day long".

His one about Carol Vorderman years back was mildly amusing.

"So I was watching Carol Vorderman on Countdown and I got aroused...7 letters wasn't a bad score I thought..."

He is excellent at filling in time with amiable patter.

Mint Sauce

Deleted User wrote: »

His one about Carol Vorderman years back was mildly amusing.

"So I was watching Carol Vorderman on Countdown and I got aroused...7 letters wasn't a bad score I thought..."

He is excellent at filling in time with amiable patter.

Was that on 'An Audence With Peter Aliss' the other night. Thought that was quite brilliant.

Cienciano

RayM wrote: »

I dread becoming a middle-aged man, for fear that I'll suddenly start seeing that kind of lazy, tiresome shit as the epitome of humour.

A golf tournament goes on for 4 days, most of the TV coverage is the leaderboard on screen and panning around the course waiting for someone to take a shot. They need some sort of shíte to fill in the dead air.

Cold War Kid

I lolled. He's in his 80s, feck it.

goose2005

“She is probably thinking - ‘if this goes in I get a new kitchen’

She also though that in the hotel room the previous night

RayM

Cienciano wrote: »

A golf tournament goes on for 4 days, most of the TV coverage is the leaderboard on screen and panning around the course waiting for someone to take a shot. They need some sort of shíte to fill in the dead air.

Reminds me of snooker commentary, during a lengthy bit of tense safety play, when Dennis Taylor says something not-hugely-amusing and the entire Crucible reacts like he's Lenny Bruce.

Richard Hillman

She's a full time mother with 3 young kids. Why wouldnt she be exited about the potential of a new kitchen?

RayM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She's a full time mother with 3 young kids. Why wouldnt she be exited about the potential of a new kitchen?

Oh Icarus, fly not so near the sun, lest thy waxen wings doth melt.

anncoates

RayM wrote: »

I dread becoming a middle-aged man, for fear that I'll suddenly start seeing that kind of lazy, tiresome shit as the epitome of humour.

Just do what I do: only reveal your crass, boorish inner self to trusted peers while maintaining a PC veneer.

Pherekydes

Richard Hillman wrote: »

She's a full time mother with 3 young kids. Why wouldnt she be exited about the potential of a new kitchen?

I don't understand. Was she going to divorce him if he didn't win?

Buona Fortuna

I think he should have his own show with Phil the Greek - it would be a hoot.

NachoBusiness

Some character alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDnWdaepjY