'Creepy stalking author' probably isn't a unique story angle, whereas 'creepy stalking Countdown winner and author' is, I would assume, unique. #journolifeGraeme Cole wrote:The BBC story does better, referring to him as an "author" in the headline, and mentioning Countdown once.Thomas Carey wrote:Pisses me off that they have to mention he's a countdown champ every few paragraphs, but otherwise I'm glad.
However, newspapers have this thing where stories have to have an "angle". You'd think "creepy stalking author tracks down and violently assaults someone who gave his book a bad review" would be enough of a story, but not for the Daily Wail, who refer to Countdown eight times in the one article. Countdown is completely irrelevant to the story, but hey, at least they've got their angle.
Perhaps they're trying to beat the number of times he called himself a Countdown champion in that video of his?
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I get that you want to protect Countdown but ridiculous to be offended or surprised at it being worked into a story.
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Exactly. It's his main claim to fame. If the Queen punched someone in the face for insulting her dog, they're not going to just call her a dog lady and ignore the fact that she's the fucking Queen.Matt Morrison wrote:I get that you want to protect Countdown but ridiculous to be offended or surprised at it being worked into a story.
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It's the author bit that makes it.Jennifer Steadman wrote: 'Creepy stalking author' probably isn't a unique story angle, whereas 'creepy stalking Countdown winner and author' is, I would assume, unique. #journolife
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I can understand it being mentioned, just not belaboured in the way the Mail have done.Gavin Chipper wrote:Exactly. It's his main claim to fame. If the Queen punched someone in the face for insulting her dog, they're not going to just call her a dog lady and ignore the fact that she's the fucking Queen.Matt Morrison wrote:I get that you want to protect Countdown but ridiculous to be offended or surprised at it being worked into a story.
Your analogy isn't quite the same thing. Everyone knows your hypothetical punching dog lady as the Queen. However, if you told Joe Public this story and said Richard Brittain was the perpetrator, and Joe Public asked "who's Richard Brittain?" and you said "you know, the winner of series 55 of Countdown back in 2006", Joe Public is probably not going to reply "Oh, him!"
The fact that he won Countdown is a curiosity, and perhaps helps distinguish him from other, innocent, people with the same name, but there's no need for the article to bang on about it like it's the most noteworthy thing about the story.
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What's this about Callum about please?Keith Bennett wrote:"Callum's set the bar pretty high tbf, so who knows"
But at least nobody was hurt in the making of the Immoral Octochamp's records. There's misguided, and then there's pure evil.
Still, better hadn't say too much given the type of character RB might spend the next few years making friends with....
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Anyone?Dave Preece wrote:What's this about Callum about please?Keith Bennett wrote:"Callum's set the bar pretty high tbf, so who knows"
But at least nobody was hurt in the making of the Immoral Octochamp's records. There's misguided, and then there's pure evil.
Still, better hadn't say too much given the type of character RB might spend the next few years making friends with....
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Wondering that too....Dave Preece wrote:Anyone?Dave Preece wrote:What's this about Callum about please?Keith Bennett wrote:"Callum's set the bar pretty high tbf, so who knows"
But at least nobody was hurt in the making of the Immoral Octochamp's records. There's misguided, and then there's pure evil.
Still, better hadn't say too much given the type of character RB might spend the next few years making friends with....
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Dave Preece wrote:Anyone?Dave Preece wrote:What's this about Callum about please?Keith Bennett wrote:"Callum's set the bar pretty high tbf, so who knows"
But at least nobody was hurt in the making of the Immoral Octochamp's records. There's misguided, and then there's pure evil.
Still, better hadn't say too much given the type of character RB might spend the next few years making friends with....
Callum was cheating on apterous for a few months around 2013-2014. This got found out and everyone was like:Philip Wilson wrote: Wondering that too....
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Oh right! Quite ironic then that Abdiz – or what ever his name was – cheated him to his only defeat?
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Well maybe it's not quite the same thing, but it's the most notable thing about him other than what the story's about. I don't really see the problem and why people care. If anything, calling him an author is worse because it implies he might be some sort of professional rather than just some guy who wrote a book.Graeme Cole wrote:I can understand it being mentioned, just not belaboured in the way the Mail have done.Gavin Chipper wrote:Exactly. It's his main claim to fame. If the Queen punched someone in the face for insulting her dog, they're not going to just call her a dog lady and ignore the fact that she's the fucking Queen.Matt Morrison wrote:I get that you want to protect Countdown but ridiculous to be offended or surprised at it being worked into a story.
Your analogy isn't quite the same thing. Everyone knows your hypothetical punching dog lady as the Queen. However, if you told Joe Public this story and said Richard Brittain was the perpetrator, and Joe Public asked "who's Richard Brittain?" and you said "you know, the winner of series 55 of Countdown back in 2006", Joe Public is probably not going to reply "Oh, him!"
The fact that he won Countdown is a curiosity, and perhaps helps distinguish him from other, innocent, people with the same name, but there's no need for the article to bang on about it like it's the most noteworthy thing about the story.
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Ah right, thanks.Graeme Cole wrote:Callum was cheating on apterous for a few months around 2013-2014. This got found out and everyone was like:Dave Preece wrote:
What's this about Callum about please?
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Other Countdowners in the news are available.
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I reckon you cease to become a countdowner when you're more famous for something else. Especially something TV-based anyway.
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And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!
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It was just freak chance that anyone actually read it.JimBentley wrote:And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!
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I wondered why he'd only been arrested now, when the autobiography came out a year ago. This is the best explanation yet.Gavin Chipper wrote:It was just freak chance that anyone actually read it.JimBentley wrote:And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!
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It was a "European arrest warrant" and he was arrested at Heathrow, so I think it was him going to Heathrow that caused it.Graeme Cole wrote:I wondered why he'd only been arrested now, when the autobiography came out a year ago. This is the best explanation yet.Gavin Chipper wrote:It was just freak chance that anyone actually read it.JimBentley wrote:And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!
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I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
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This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are basically spot on.Gavin Chipper wrote:I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
He does have a brother but I don't think this is him?
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What do you know about his brother? Have you met him?Jon O'Neill wrote:This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are basically spot on.Gavin Chipper wrote:I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
He does have a brother but I don't think this is him?
Edit - I'm guessing Charlie has met him, so I'll "tag" him in.
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Appearance: check.Jon O'Neill wrote:This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are basically spot on.Gavin Chipper wrote:I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
Glasses: check.
Voice: check.
Delusional fantasist: check.Question Time Guy wrote:The assumption that we are trading our membership of the single market for ability to control our borders and gaining our sovereignty is a strange one, because I think there's a strong positive case for leaving the single market, in that we are leaving a world of regulation and entering a world of markets which seem to be creating trade deals with far greater success.
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Is he out yet, or would this count as an educational trip for the purposes of extra remission?Graeme Cole wrote:Appearance: check.Jon O'Neill wrote:This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are basically spot on.Gavin Chipper wrote:I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
Glasses: check.
Voice: check.
Delusional fantasist: check.Question Time Guy wrote:The assumption that we are trading our membership of the single market for ability to control our borders and gaining our sovereignty is a strange one, because I think there's a strong positive case for leaving the single market, in that we are leaving a world of regulation and entering a world of markets which seem to be creating trade deals with far greater success.
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Missing from 5:30pm on Thursday until the early hours of Friday? That's a night out isn't it, rather than a missing person hunt?Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:39 pm Dan McColm in the news today........
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How random. I've been 'missing' in someone else's bed for longer than that.sean d wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:33 amMissing from 5:30pm on Thursday until the early hours of Friday? That's a night out isn't it, rather than a missing person hunt?Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:39 pm Dan McColm in the news today........
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That was you? Explains a lot. At least cuddle me next time.
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According to Ricky Tomlinson, Richard Whitely was a 'spook '.
It's on the BBC website
It's on the BBC website
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Link?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:33 pm According to Ricky Tomlinson, Richard Whitely was a 'spook '.
It's on the BBC website
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I am on my phone not good with links.
However there is a website called Google which is quite useful.
Type Richard Whitely in the news section and it is the first story
I also pointed you in the direction of the BBC news website.
However there is a website called Google which is quite useful.
Type Richard Whitely in the news section and it is the first story
I also pointed you in the direction of the BBC news website.
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It wasn't high on Google when I looked or prominent on the BBC.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:07 pm I am on my phone not good with links.
However there is a website called Google which is quite useful.
Type Richard Whitely in the news section and it is the first story
I also pointed you in the direction of the BBC news website.
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Here is a Mirror article on it anyway.
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Thanks for doing that.
I think it's a non story really, with no substantiation.
I think it's a non story really, with no substantiation.
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(Personally think this warrants its own topic)
Telegraph article: https://www.facebook.com/TelegraphEnter ... 8516229908
I agree... think it's a non-story.
Telegraph article: https://www.facebook.com/TelegraphEnter ... 8516229908
I agree... think it's a non-story.
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This was the lead story on two of the "red top" papers today...
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A few Countdowners in the news this week:
A report on Phyl Styles, who was recently part of the Series Championship-winning Verbivores team on BBC2 quiz show Only Connect http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/north-norfo ... -1-4968435
Countdown calendar puzzle-setter and former series champions Stewart Holden has taken over quizmaster duties at a Northern Ireland pub (guessing it was a very slow news week in Lisburn!) http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/whats-on/ ... -1-7901855
Story about Richard Brittain on the OK website http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1040 ... ices-devil
A report on Phyl Styles, who was recently part of the Series Championship-winning Verbivores team on BBC2 quiz show Only Connect http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/north-norfo ... -1-4968435
Countdown calendar puzzle-setter and former series champions Stewart Holden has taken over quizmaster duties at a Northern Ireland pub (guessing it was a very slow news week in Lisburn!) http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/whats-on/ ... -1-7901855
Story about Richard Brittain on the OK website http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1040 ... ices-devil
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The pub quiz he is taking over is one of the best in the greater Belfast/Lisburn area. You need to turn up about an hour beforehand to have any hope of a seat. Class pub too.
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Series 76 quarter finalist and former Apterite James Slater standing for the Labour Party at the Camden Council elections....... http://camdennewjournal.com/article/cou ... -mhadsteap
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I see Vorders is rehashing an old story again http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/countdown/ ... owed-back/
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Not exactly in 'the' news but on "Have I Got News For You" Mark Nyman just got a mention. It was in relation to Scrabble rather than Countdown.
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Tragic news regarding series 75 contestant James Thomson http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... icide.html
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Very sad news.
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It is an absolute tragic story. Stories like that should encourage people to just ask anyone they know, whether it be a family or a friend, it is so important to just ask people simple things like that. As someone who is suffering from anxiety and being agrophobic, I have experienced similar things, but not suicide, yet some find it incredibly hard to even confide in their parents, so if someone says they are anxious, don't dismiss it as "we all are", talk to them and offer advice, send them some websites to some great charities (No Panic is a great one I have used), that conversation could be a genuine conversation which could tell you the real way that person is feeling. RIP James.
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Very sad news. RIP James
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Aye, that's bad. The Venn diagram between Countdowners/Apterites and such struggles contains massive overlap, and is something we should perhaps think about.
I'll say this, though. Having until very recently worked in 16-19 welfare, as the person struggling young people would come to, I have had a lot of first-hand, face-to-face experience with the impact that it has on a child or young adult when they come to you and the first thing they want to know is "will you tell my parents?", and you say "no". It is often a huge relief for them. Often (but certainly not always) because it is the parents they want to talk about, but also because they don't really want anyone to know. There are myriad reasons why they would want this kept from parents, and while any good parent will want to know, it is often so hugely vital that they don't have the right.
It changes if you think someone is a legitimate threat unto themselves or others, but the article makes no mention of such a threat being perceived by anyone.
The story here is framed around parents wanting to know why they weren't informed, and of course they will want to know that. What news to take, especially if you didn't know anything about it beforehand. But the law has its reasons here and the beneficial side goes unreported.
I'll say this, though. Having until very recently worked in 16-19 welfare, as the person struggling young people would come to, I have had a lot of first-hand, face-to-face experience with the impact that it has on a child or young adult when they come to you and the first thing they want to know is "will you tell my parents?", and you say "no". It is often a huge relief for them. Often (but certainly not always) because it is the parents they want to talk about, but also because they don't really want anyone to know. There are myriad reasons why they would want this kept from parents, and while any good parent will want to know, it is often so hugely vital that they don't have the right.
It changes if you think someone is a legitimate threat unto themselves or others, but the article makes no mention of such a threat being perceived by anyone.
The story here is framed around parents wanting to know why they weren't informed, and of course they will want to know that. What news to take, especially if you didn't know anything about it beforehand. But the law has its reasons here and the beneficial side goes unreported.
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Thirded. This hits worryingly close to home for me, with the guy being in pretty much the exact life position that I'm in
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Fourthed. To some extent, the fact this is a very real problem being faced - and all-too-often dismissed - by many. I believe suicide is the biggest killer of men under 40. If any of Mark's patients (for want of a better word) were on this forum, they would not want to write about their struggles on here, as it is public-facing and about 90% of us use real names. Such things are often overlooked.Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:23 amThirded. This hits worryingly close to home for me, with the guy being in pretty much the exact life position that I'm inRIP James
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Having suffered on and off for years I can say that 'outsiders' can have no way of what's going on inside your head it's like drowning in treacle when everyone else thinks you are wading in water and you don't have the gumption to let people know. In my lowest days I wanted to die but was too much of a coward to carry it out.i have told people what my triggers are so I can do my best to prevent further slides into deep depression. But it has taken me the best part of 40 years to for the most part, contain it. I'm all for DNA testing on babies if it can pinpoint those that are most likely to suffer. Because in a lot of cases it's not always triggered by obvious triggers like grief and loneliness
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Possibly someone with the same name, but someone called Damian Eadie gets mentioned in this BBC article.
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A popular series 68 octochamp became the mayor of Leeds in January.
She's changed her look slightly since she appeared on the show. New haircut or something probably.
She's changed her look slightly since she appeared on the show. New haircut or something probably.
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Andy Platt wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 8:28 am A popular series 68 octochamp became the mayor of Leeds in January.
She's changed her look slightly since she appeared on the show. New haircut or something probably.
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Elliott has now made it into the Daily Fail, cannot copy the link across.....
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I was just watching BBC news and an anti-Trump protestor called Leo Murray was just interviewed. I am almost certain it was this guy: http://wiki.apterous.org/Leo_Murray
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