BBC forced to apologise for comment made during Open coverage

Specialun · 21-07-2015 02:56PM #1

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 · 21-07-2015 02:58PM

People looking to be offended will usually get offended.

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

Sunnyisland · 21-07-2015 03:02PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:04PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:04PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:04PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:05PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:05PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:07PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:07PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:08PM

Menas wrote: »

People looking to be offended will usually get offended.

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

osarusan · 21-07-2015 03:08PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:09PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:09PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:11PM

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

Mr Freeze · 21-07-2015 03:13PM

I think we'd all like a bigger kitchen.

K4t · 21-07-2015 03:14PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:15PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:16PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:17PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:17PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:18PM

I'm absolutely shocked.

Peter Alliss is 84??

razorblunt · 21-07-2015 03:25PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:31PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:33PM

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 · 21-07-2015 03:38PM

razorblunt wrote: »

...the spectacle of sport...

It was a Golf tournament, ffs.

leakyboots · 21-07-2015 04:11PM

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 · 21-07-2015 04:17PM

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

darkpagandeath · 21-07-2015 04:18PM

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 · 21-07-2015 04:21PM

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 · 21-07-2015 04:24PM

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.

BBC forced to apologise for comment made during Open coverage

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