Bbc 'celebrity' Mocks British Fishermen

[Khandro]

Your licence fee goes towards paying him 1.75 million pounds per year. Do you think he is good value for money?

https://order-order.com/2018/03/21/1-75m-a-year-snob-lineker-mocks-slimey-fisherman/

[fiction-factory]

I think some people's views of Lineker as a presenter and footballer have been clouded very much by the fact that they don't share his views on certain issues, mainly Brexit and asylum seekers.
He does appear smug at times but he is a good presenter and he was certainly a top player

[Mamyalynne]

Talbot, your point is well taken and fair - less so the daft link from the OP.

Slam someone for something they've said or done not spin it in a comic.

[Khandro]

jahulaye//No mention of British fishermen at all.//

But the guy with Farage is a fisherman and skipper of the boat!

[Gromit]

Can’t help but think Farages fishy stunt backfired. It has given great material to the parluamentary sketch writers, such as this....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/21/hms-brexit-sticks-it-to-the-man-by-tossing-two-dead-fish-overboard

[Jahulaye]

“But the guy with Farage is a fisherman and skipper of the boat!”

Coincidental. The whole joke was was mentioning slippery and slimey leading you to believe it was the fish he was talking about then he suddenly twists it and catches you out when you find out he’s talking about the guys in a delicious play on words.

The man next to him is either a friend or follower of farage and could’ve been a footballer, butcher, baker or candlestick maker and was just coincidental material for the joke imo.

[-Talbot-]

No better goal scorer than Lineker in his day.
As for the presenting ... I know enough about football to make my own match assessments, get me someone cheaper.

[fiction-factory]

I don't think Lineker thought as much about it as some are now reading into it. It was just an opportunity to make a joke at Farage's expense. Maybe he should have stopped and researched it but that's not the way off the cuff humour and twitter type things work.
I remember a cake being delivered to a BBC cricket commentator and he made a joke about how messy it looked - only to be told it had been sent in by a blind listener. I bet we've all done something similar

[Jahulaye]

“I remember a cake being delivered to a BBC cricket commentator and he made a joke about how messy it looked - only to be told it had been sent in by a blind listener. ”

Oh god, I hope that the blind listener was okay and got a full apology and free tickets for a year.

He should have known better as I’d be thinking it may have been baked by someone elderly, less able or maybe some school children.

However this is farage Who knows and has become accustomed to being the publics verbal punchbag and he loves it.

[Togo]

//Oh god, I hope that the blind listener was okay and got a full apology and free tickets for a year. //

Yeah. To watch the cricket.

[fiction-factory]

>No better goal scorer than Lineker in his day.
As for the presenting ... I know enough about football to make my own match assessments, get me someone cheaper.
Agree on the first point. On the second point, I think he's pretty good but I agree that i watch the show regardless. I doubt halfing all salaries would make much difference to the licence fee, but it'd be a step I wouldn't mind being tried. Jamie Carragher might be a cheaper option

[Jahulaye]

“Yeah. To watch the cricket”

Wow, do you not know anyone visually impaired?

Do you go to sports events or festivals?

They can still hear and feel the atmosphere and I have seen visually impaired people at festivals, lords, oval and at football matches.

You need to get out more or readjust your situational awareness.

[jno]

Yes, Lord’s do a special audio commentary for blind and partly-sighted spectators at cricket matches

https://www.lords.org/news/2013/june/lords-one-tune-radio-launched/

[Togo]

//and free tickets for a year.//

The special facilities are there all year then? Wish I'd known that before.

[Togo]

Lineker is still a git by the way.

[DTCwordfan]

He loves to fish/angle for compliments.....

[Jahulaye]

"The special facilities are there all year then? Wish I'd known that before.”

For the visually impaired? Yes, but email or phone before hand or when you purchase tickets and they’ll help you regarding stewards to help you etc..

[naomi24]

I don't know anything about football but what a big headed bag of wind that man is.

[emmie]

he is no value for money, i would keep him off the box if i could, he is creepy to be honest.

[waterboatman]

He's a disgrace and should be given the order of the boot, as soon as he's issued a profound apology.

[fiction-factory]

An apology to the skipper of the boat maybe. And possibly Farage although I think he would see the joke and would have done the same if in reverse. But as Lineker doesn't seem to have mocked British fishermen s far as I can see I doubt an apology is needed