Your 2010 Recollections

For me, the Chilean Miners rescue was the most uplifting story of 2010. All that is genuinely good about this species was encapsulated in the stoic perseverance of the miners, the dogged indefatigability of the rescue teams, and the unbridled joy of pretty-much the entire planet, when they eventually reached the surface.

On the sporting front, greeting Only The Best in the Hexham winner's enclosure is right up there, though Spain defeating a desperate Holland team in the World Cup Final, was probably the most satisfying sporting result of the year.
 
The bad of the species was enscapsulated in the uk by two things in past month

1. A "socialist" "comedian" who will do anything to get exposure and make cash. The most striking thing about his cancer jokes and so on, is that you can predict the punchlines an hour before they are delivered. His targets are predictable (jew baiting, naff celebrities) for the hard left. He should have been ignored and its a bad refelction on our media that his deep prejudices have had such an airing. I hope he gets his head kicked in in 2011

2. The pathetci body. BAA. How embarrasing that one of the worlds biggest airports is one of the most incompetent. I am all for private ownership of many facilities but this was a national embarassment and yet again its all a question of trying to shut the barn door after the horse has bolted. An abolsute shambles. None o those responsible should be in their jobs in 2011
 
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A very mixed year!
On the sporting front pressure of work meant that I went to Cheltenham without having watched enough races nor done the homework. That combined with the stress free release of entering Cheltenham Festival mode led to heavy betting and a total of zero winners.:( Coincidentially when my racing fortunes decline then the performance of Spurs improves.This inverse relationship has been a trend for as long as I remember which has given me many good years on the betting profit and loss. Pehaps I best withdraw from betting for a while.

On the business side I was invited in to try and turn round a significant company employing several hundred people. Massively over borrowed and with a large pension deficit the business had been badly run and badly served by its banks. With the aim of keeping the company going and keeping the pension fund substantially whole I secured funding to offer the banks approximately 70% for their £40m debt. The reaction of the main lender was appalling. For several months there was foul mouthed abuse and a pursuit of a policy aimed at bringing about the threat of "I'll f**cking destroy you and the company". In terms of the company, the pension fund and many of the employees they achieved their aim. The banks recovered around £12-13m (less than half of what I'd offered).

Despite the huge disappointment (to say the least) fighting the ignorance of the bank has enhanced my status amongst the original investors in the company and other funding parties from whom I sought assistance. It has also re-ignited my enthusiasm for a challenge and I have recently made a funded offer to acquire another market leader.
Interesting times ahead.
 
Who's that muppet, Clivex? Not Frankie Boyle? I tuned in to see what he was like when not on a panel show - 'Tramadol Nights' - and every second word was a gratuitous 'f' or 'c', with a simpering audience finding just saying those bike shed Third Formeries passed as wit. Ye Compleat Tosse-potte, I'd say.
 
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The sad thing is he's far more of a natural comic than your observational types like McIntyre and Manford who are just poor Peter Kay clones. He really doesn't need to resort to saying the things he has.
 
Highs: Last 150 yards of a race my horse won, watching in total disbelief.
A brother being cleared of having prostrate cancer.

Lows: Not seeing my horse for the last 7 months for b******s legal reasons.
A brother being diagnosed with prostrate cancer.
Death of a life long friend of all our family at 56 for want of a transplant.
Not learning from the lessons of last year and another year has gone by in the blink of an eye.
 
Yes Krizon. Thats him. Hes not worth the time and space tahts been devoted to him but suffice to say that by pandering to his immature student left audience its probably fair to describe him as deeply conservative, safe and boring
 
What's wrong with 'observational' humour, Euro? The best has been based on watching humans make prats of themselves, let's face it. From the Marx Brothers, The Goons, Peter Sellers/Peter Cook, Monty Python, Blackadder... no matter the time or setting, all idiocy of human life is all there!

One of Boyle's "jokes" was "What do you get when you cross AAA with BBB?" (naming two people whose names I've forgotten. "Answer: two c***ts." Cue laughter. Jesus on a matchstick, people presumably paid money to hear that? You could hang around a building site and find things as gross, and also a whole lot funnier. He comes over as sour and bitter, rather than bitingly satirical. Also curiously old-fashioned, like Bernard Manning for the student body. But each to their own. I didn't like The Three Stoodges, Norman Wisdom, or Mr Bean - but millions did, as humour is highly subjective.
 
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Agree Clive.

But, I think every comedian in the mainstream in the UK is awful and embarassing. Peter Kay is a parody of what he was 5 years ago.

I personally don't enjoy humour from comedians - little funny for me when it all is supposed to be funny.
 
I saw that Iranian comedian the other night on the telly [Omid?] and laughed more than I've laughed for years watching a comedian on stage; not having recorded it, I'm even tempted to buy his dvd.
 
But-t-t-t-t-t-t, darling, he is an observational comic himself! Check out the link to 'Princess Diana' - marvellous. And what he is doing is observing the idiocy of human behaviour and feeding it back to the audience, via his own point of view. That's obs-com. I don't mind 5 minutes of Macintyre, but like Lee Evans, he's tiring and ultimately tiresome.

BTW, also check out how Lee's fans detest Boyle, and especially his wanky Tramadol Nights!
 
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