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Fozzie_bear
13 Dec '06 15:41:52
I reckon that in the absence of any outstanding candidate this year the voting public plumped for the posh blonde bird with big tits.
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wobbler147
13 Dec '06 15:41:59
I would
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NewYork
13 Dec '06 15:42:22
Is it a highly sought-after award?
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Fozzie_bear
13 Dec '06 15:43:09
NewYork wrote:
Is it a highly sought-after award?


As far as the BBC is concerned.... yes.
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wobbler147
13 Dec '06 15:44:22
waste of licence fee....blah blah blah etc.
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Pirotic [mod]
13 Dec '06 15:44:39
Joe Calzaghe should have won it in terms of math (ability * popularity of sport).
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malteaserhead
13 Dec '06 15:49:16
but doesn't Calzaghe have a personality?
Didn't Joe also rant about only losers winning it?

I looked at the list of winners in the last 20 years (bored? and how!) and only 2 seem to have anything greater than the personality of a clothes horse.



Edited by malteaserhead at 15:49:50 13-12-2006
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PES_Fanboy
13 Dec '06 15:52:04
Pirotic wrote:
Joe Calzaghe should have won it in terms of math (ability * popularity of sport).


Unfortunately he didn't meet the BBC criterion: We Show The Sport In Question.

So he's fucked.

But I agree.

Sub-question: Exactly how hard is it to get 'great' at an elitist sport when you're a member of the idle rich, with funds / land / stables not at a premium anyway?
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Pinchy
13 Dec '06 15:52:57
Calzaghe should have won it on the basis of sporting achievement. If its based on weepy "aren't they a jolly decent person" vote then Darren Clarke should have won it. As it is based on middle england trying to vote for the queen the posh bird involved in the minority toff sport won it.
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Inquisitor [mod]
13 Dec '06 15:55:14
Don't really see the point of it myself. A better title might be 'greatest sporting achievement of the year'. A sports personality could just be a pundit or whatever, the title is misleading.

Just a waste of money really though, unless they manage to scrape back more in call costs than the show costs, dunno if the BBC get money for calls though, doubt they do.
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RevanEleven
13 Dec '06 16:04:17
it was a typical BBC thing to do, their just so pompus they had to give the award to the poshest people, i didnt think zara phillips even had a personality. cant belive they didnt give it to ricky hatton, hes a genuine nice down to earth bloke not some posh twat born with a silver spoon in her gob.
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malteaserhead
13 Dec '06 16:18:25
PES_Fanboy wrote:
Sub-question: Exactly how hard is it to get 'great' at an elitist sport when you're a member of the idle rich, with funds / land / stables not at a premium anyway?


+ millions

/ps did ya get sp:da?
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laur
13 Dec '06 17:04:43
Personality: A famous person, epecially in entertainment or sports: an official opening by a famous personality.
From the dictionary.
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samk
13 Dec '06 17:05:33
Sub-question: is any type of horse riding even a sport? Isn't it the horse that does all the work running and jumping around, and the rider just hangs on? :)
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Detail
13 Dec '06 17:58:56
samk wrote:
Sub-question: is any type of horse riding even a sport? Isn't it the horse that does all the work running and jumping around, and the rider just hangs on? :)

BBC thought so - evidently. ;)
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malteaserhead
13 Dec '06 18:27:05
laur wrote:
Personality: A famous person, epecially in entertainment or sports: an official opening by a famous personality.
From the dictionary.


mine says a bit more:

- the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"

- The dynamically organized totality of personal traits which distinguish one person from others.

anyway Zara conformed to neither yours nor my definitions :)
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