Moonshane Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 for me there's celebrities (Cheryl Cole etc) and who cares about them.and then there's renowned experts and really skilled people, some 'famous' some not. also, you tend to find that the latter are rarely in the news. for me the latter earn their fame and don't really want it (for fame's sake anyway), the others generally don't earn it and yet want it! (and unfortunately given the low intelligence levels / interest in anything other than soaps and gossip of a lot of the general public they tend to get it). no celebrity fan here either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncjunk Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Ahhh you are all grumpy the lot of you..John NoakesThe goodiesStephen FryKylie (sorry, this one may ruin my point)All celebs who are damn entertaining, hard working and worth keeping IMHO but Mrs Price can be strapped to a dummy tank on Salisbury plain, and all like her...including footballers wifes famous for being married to some over payed ****, and I am sure you will find an improvement in the hit rate for the tanks...and anyone who works on the comedy hour on radio 4 is genius...old Humph Lyttelton (god rest his soul) is another example of what a good celeb should be.So cheer up you moaning old buggers or I´ll take your false teeth away...to quote a certain song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haitch Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Olly,Having just returned from 3 weeks at my humble pied-a-terre in the Limousin (without tv) I can understand, and envy, your lack of celebrity knowledge.I guess you'd probably not realise if you had celebrities through your door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychobilly Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 They weren't uncut diamonds they were just dirty stones.... (alledgedly...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColB Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 My other hobby is West African percussion and I spent last week in a field in Scotland with a couple of hundred fellow drummers. To pass a rainy hour me and some friends played that game where you name a famous person and the next person has to name someone whose first name begins with the first letter of the previous surname. I had never heard of half of the people they came up with, mainly actors and what have you, and they weren't exactly well up on famous scientists, but I was quite shocked that only one of them, out of 6, had heard of Carl Sagan.Sign of the times I guess,Col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talitha Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Olly, just tell them you prefer celestial stars to terrestrial ones. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickH Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Wheeee, I'm delighted to see you in a moment of less than scientific equilibrium, Nick! That I agree with every syllable goes without saying...OllyPS, two more celebrities of whom I have never heard. They are beginning to outnumber the ones of whom I have heard. (Not difficult.)I have found a kindred spirit in France! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark7331 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Anyway I'm famous myself. I won the Matlock Fifty in 1988.I'm thinking Naked Bike Ride. Cheek?Hmm. I was about to ask for Olly's autograph but perhaps not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollypenrice Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 AAh, Humphrey Littleton! Now if celebs were like him it would be another matter entirely...A hundred drummers sounds like - maybe more drummers than is strictly necessary???Olly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickH Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 AAh, Humphrey Littleton! Now if celebs were like him it would be another matter entirely...A hundred drummers sounds like - maybe more drummers than is strictly necessary???OllyComedy genius and jazz legend... compare and contrast to K PriceN Campbelletc etcThink we can all agree, that "celebs" (for want of a better word) fall into two very distinct categories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haitch Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Hmm. I was about to ask for Olly's autograph but perhaps not! So long as you don't ask for his astrograph! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncjunk Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Technically Olly could be argued to be a minor celebrity based on his excellent astro photos and holiday destination, which has appeared in national newspapers...carefull olly your moving to the dark side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheThing Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I've heard that ITV2 are planning 'What Olly did next...' in the autumn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan46 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I am not opposed to celebrity as such but I'm not a fan of the cult of celebrity. I have on occasion read biographies, history etc and found the lives of the famous to be fascinating but I do find it distasteful the way some peoples lives are served up to us as though it matters. I am not interested in "reality tv" other than serious documentary or gossip mags like hello or ok. But each to there own I suppose, I have heard about a group of people who spend fortunes on equipment, just to stand in the freezing cold on a dark night and look at the sky as they say "theres nowt so queer as folk" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uranium235 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Besides..... if anyone truly worthy of fame turned up (eg: Brian May, who also really knows his astro onions), you wouldnt really reveal that as it would feel like name dropping... which is a bit tacky, so im glad you didnt lower yourself there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I have done some gigs with some Big "underground" bands in my time, and with the odd exception most of these "Celebs" were no different from anyone else, its not there fault there popular..but thats underground..Nothing like mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesyes Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 nothing wrong with the celebs that achieved and then became famous. It's the ones that want to be famous at any cost and then they're looking for something to do that would make them famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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