tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2832790311954338704..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: The Sorrows of the SofaBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-19844705057056017422008-08-30T12:16:00.000+00:002008-08-30T12:16:00.000+00:00No doubt you have a point Vernon. Intellectual Bre...No doubt you have a point Vernon. Intellectual Breakfast TV is definitely the sort of thing you can imagine might all too easily go wrong. Still, if at first you don't succeed..and etc. The application may be flawed. Does that flaw the idea? <BR/><BR/>Perhaps less lounging, perhaps they can sit a bit more uprightly. There'd need to be structure and focus. It should be related to topical, newsy Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68785123685734019402008-08-29T06:40:00.000+00:002008-08-29T06:40:00.000+00:00They tried that thing with intellectuals on sofas ...They tried that thing with intellectuals on sofas back in the 90s... it was called the 'Brains Trust' or some such rubbish. A revival of a much beloved radio/TV programme from the 40s and 50s apparently. Dire, dire, dire...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-18521806328066525302008-08-29T00:32:00.000+00:002008-08-29T00:32:00.000+00:00But shouldn't it be an obvious point that we are n...But shouldn't it be an obvious point that we are not all intellectuals? Most people I suspect would not particularly appreciate a TV version of Radio 4. If they would, why don't more radio listeners listen to Radio 4 than they do?<BR/><BR/>That said, I agree there should be a TV version of Radio 4 for cerebral types. And who knows how many borderline thinkers might be gravitated upstairs by the Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-17488061684076103952008-08-27T12:59:00.000+00:002008-08-27T12:59:00.000+00:00I'm surprised you don't get a real bike and get ou...I'm surprised you don't get a real bike and get out. perhaps you're not slim enough for public displays of exercise.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-7948255529431697112008-08-27T12:25:00.000+00:002008-08-27T12:25:00.000+00:00I'm surprised you don't just listen to the radio, ...I'm surprised you don't just listen to the radio, or your iPod while you exercise. But I guess you're a news junkie, being in the biz and all. Moi, I seem to start my day with this laptop and coffee. Our poor newspaper is getting as thin as you these days and will doubtless soon disappear altogether.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55387524461907956822008-08-27T11:51:00.000+00:002008-08-27T11:51:00.000+00:00Thankfully I'll not be around in 52 years to see t...Thankfully I'll not be around in 52 years to see the crowds, but I would be surprised if the 'secret of breakfast television' has been unearthed by then because I don't believe there is an audience (big enough) for it in Albion - not at breakfast, or lunch, or any other time. That GMTV show is the default setting for acres of pap that follows it during the day, from Loose Women to Richard and mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23477792448269895612008-08-27T11:32:00.000+00:002008-08-27T11:32:00.000+00:00The show, however, would only be a stepping stone ...The show, however, would only be a stepping stone to your eventual role as a relatively benign fascist dictator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-21630489810952050282008-08-27T11:23:00.000+00:002008-08-27T11:23:00.000+00:00Your own TV-programme? Absolutely! Something like ...Your own TV-programme? Absolutely! <BR/><BR/>Something like a remake of the 1934 comedy-mystery <I>The Thin Man</I>, with William Powell, Myrna Loy and Maureen O'Sullivan, now featuring Bryan Appleyard, a tall, thin, former professional hack who looks like the popular idea of a dietary experiment and whose main asset is his elusive and not entirely unsympathetic personality...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-82484887618935949462008-08-27T10:43:00.000+00:002008-08-27T10:43:00.000+00:00For a moment I thought you were on about your diet...For a moment I thought you were on about your diet again - in 2060 there'll be millions and millions of gargantuan Brits stuck to their sofas crying into their tubs of Haagen-Dazs and wishing they had taken a leaf out of Appleyard's book (the philosophy/diet book, that is: Ecce Homo - Why am I so Thin?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-89029796839594513722008-08-27T08:53:00.000+00:002008-08-27T08:53:00.000+00:00It is surely only a matter of time before your thi...It is surely only a matter of time before your thinness and Madeley-like reverse chronology ensures you your own TV programme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com