Delboy at the opera.

[Northender]

You.... PLONKER, Rodney !

If your name's Rodney, how come people call you Dave?

[Anna]

If you want to laugh at Delboy, i find that far funnier than the apparently famous 'falling throught the bar' gag. Yet this is the mentality that R3 is actually aiming to attract!

It would be useful if you posted an example of how R3 is aiming to attract Fools & Horses fans. (Incidentally, I can still watch repeats of the programme and laugh, ditto Fawlty Towers)

[old khayyam]

I've always thought that 'OF&H' appeals only to the very people it parodies. People who think it represents them.

My main point was about the opera episode where Delboy, as cultured as any cockney barrow boy, only wakes up when he hears a catchy melody familiar to the masses. Is this not the mentality which dominates R3 output these days?

However, seeing my main point was missed and the 'talents' of such witless buffoons provide an easy distraction, i am given to wonder how anyone dares take the cultural high ground regarding R3's programming.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well speaking as a witless buffoon i thought this was another thread about a certain presenter and his melodramas ....

[Northender]

I've always thought that 'OF&H' appeals only to the very people it parodies. People who think it represents them.

My main point was about the opera episode where Delboy, as cultured as any cockney barrow boy, only wakes up when he hears a catchy melody familiar to the masses. Is this not the mentality which dominates R3 output these days?

However, seeing my main point was missed and the 'talents' of such witless buffoons provide an easy distraction, i am given to wonder how anyone dares take the cultural high ground regarding R3's programming.

I do hope you've got a plentiful supply of tin helmets in stock.

[Serial_Apologist]

However, seeing my main point was missed and the 'talents' of such witless buffoons provide an easy distraction, i am given to wonder how anyone dares take the cultural high ground regarding R3's programming.

Isn't it a matter of embracing a broadening spectrum? Like Mr GG does when he sees equal value in a track by The Clash and Bach's B Minor Mass? Each having it own criteria for evaluation?

[Nick Armstrong]

I do hope you've got a plentiful supply of tin helmets in stock.

I think the arrow-slits through which Mr Khayyam views the world from his surprisingly tall ivory tower should provide adequate protection

Nonetheless I do agree with his

main point .. about the opera episode where Delboy, as cultured as any cockney barrow boy, only wakes up when he hears a catchy melody familiar to the masses. Is this not the mentality which dominates R3 output these days?

The remainder of that post I think is misconceived.

[Northender]

Sometimes - usually after reading some of the more profound utterances on the Forum - I feel a proper Trotters Independent Trader.

[teamsaint]

Isn't it a matter of embracing a broadening spectrum? Like Mr GG does when he sees equal value in a track by The Clash and Bach's B Minor Mass? Each having it own criteria for evaluation?

One of the very greatest pleasures in music is introducing someone to something that is new to them, and which they come to enjoy.(no doubt the same is true of comedy !)

We have a great little team at work, and we are always swapping music recommendations. Its mostly rock, but I am working on slipping some DSCH/Beethoven or whatever under the radar...and at least I get a polite response.
EG..."I was working away quite nicely to this until it all kicked off at 3 mins 30 secs !"
(Guess the work !)
don't know why I said all that other than to say , really, its all just music, as SA suggests.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

EG..."I was working away quite nicely to this until it all kicked off at 3 mins 30 secs !"
(Guess the work !)

Cage: 4'33"?

[ahinton]

Reminds me of the joke about the driver of a Rolls-Royce who pulls in to a filling station.

"Nice motor", the attendant says, "must of cost you a few bob".

"Nah. It's a company car" the driver replies.

"Blimey", says the attendant, "what company do you work for?"

"I work for Cunard" says the customer.

"Well I work ******* hard as well", replies the attendant, "but I don't get a company car!"

...and it's amazing how Rolls-Royce drivers manage to find posh filling stations that actually have attendants, n'est-ce pas?...

[ahinton]

well speaking as a witless buffoon i thought this was another thread about a certain presenter and his melodramas ....

Well, speaking as another, I thought that it was about Messiaen's first wife until I started to read the content...

[teamsaint]

Cage: 4'33"?

Right century at least !

[old khayyam]

Ok - i dont want to talk about OnlyFools&Horses. Regarding "ivory towers" etc, i rather thought this whole website was formed in order to decry the depths to which R3 has sunk, upon which we look down.

The cultural moron that is Delboy provides a perfect example of the kind of person R3 is attempting to please, with particular regard to Essential Classics. I rather thought this would be something upon which we would easily agree.

[MrGongGong]

, its all just music, as SA suggests.

It's never "just" music