What did you think of The One Show? Guest: Peter Fonda
Screen icon Peter Fonda joined Adrian and Christine on the sofa.
In the wake of Michael Jackson's death, Paul Gambaccini investigated the price of fame. Leave your tributes to Michael Jackson here.
Gyles Brandreth took a nostalgic look at the history of the typewriter.
Dom Littlewood looked at the deluge of street signs in Ashford, Kent.
Should British men wear shorts? Adrian and Christine went to find out. Send in your photo here.
And Aubrey Manning travelled to East Riding inYorkshire to investigate coastal erosion.
Watch this week's One Show Web Show! Adrian and Christine respond to what's been happening on the website.
This week's topics include:
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Ah!! we are going ooop north, Newcastle yesterday, East Riding Yorkshire today, hokeykokeyalax you get your wish at last.
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We know that the One Show team like their foods. Recently I have started juicing all sorts of veg and fruits. Get the combination right and they taste great, but do they do me more good than just eating an apple?
Also Michael Moseley like to investigate supper foods, how about wheat grass? It taste orrible but does it do us any good?
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oh no, Peter Fonda is wearing his shades indoors and Adrian just put his boot on the table(yuk) and the show is just a minute old....
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I always thought Adrian Childs was a Prat - I was wrong! Having seen him in shorts this evening, I now know that he is a PLONKER
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How dare the bbc show Adrian's Knees before the watershed!
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While no one minds men wearing shorts, especially if their legs are as good as Adrian's, the thing we should all object to is the wearing of shorts WITH SOCKS AND SHOES! The correct attire is sandals, and please please please would all British men realise that they look total prats in their uniform of socks and shoes, especially black socks Adrian
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Adrian Childs!! Get those socks off. You cannot wear socks with shorts, and secondly , for the office, get them ironed!! You look dreadful!
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Was Peter Fonda hiding the bags under his sun-specs, or was the studio roof folded back?
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I think you look ok in shorts,Adrian.
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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH my eyes are Bleeding no more men in shorts please!
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Saw the tail end of the Open Space article. I work with blind and partially sighted people and these areas are virtually impossible to navigate. Colour and contrast is poor, there are no kerb edges, bollards and street furniture are poorly contrasted and the direction of traffic is random. These combine to make Open Spaces 'no go' areas for visually impaired people. Please look here http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/sharedstreets/fileadmin/sharedsurfaces/user/documents/Shared_Surfaces_Campaign_Report_01.pdf and ask your Council to stop these developments.
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Road Signs - Dom's video on too many road signs is just ridiculous. I'm a Civil Engineer and design roads and traffic signs for a living. The standards are set by the DfT as to what is allowed on the road in terms of signing, as well as what signs should be there as mandatory. The reason these standards are in place is because drivers not paying attention, or drivers' poor observation towards the dangers of the road are not up to scratch without the use of these signs. They provide vital information to all drivers, pedestrians, cyclists - all road users. And with the influx of foreign people coming into the country who are not used to such road, it is even more imperative we equip are roads with the neccessary safety procedures to avoid accidents as best as possible.
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mikebikemike - I completely agree.
Open spaces will not have kerbs or correct paving. The tactile paving we provide at crossing areas for visually impaired people is vital to their lives.
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As the resident of a small seaside town can I see a lot of shorts.
This is my view -
What are these giant parsnips doing walking round the Town ?
Poking out of baggy shorts that are almost falling down:
Pale as drowned cadavers, varicose and blotched:
Ugly and misshapen as if Frankenstein had botched
More attempts to make some men, then thrown his rejects in the sea.
Now they wade ashore each day to upset you and me.
In contrast there are bodies in other parts of Town
Shrivelled like ancient kippers and David Dickinson brown:
Scantily attired: bedecked in trinkets cheap as chips :
Blond streaked hair: botoxed flesh: and red, red, red, red lips.
Flaunted as if fifty years had not flown fleeting by.
Mummified relics of lives now past. Uneasy on the eye.
I know it's not Monté Carlo, our little seaside Town .
But wouldn't it be nice if it could only take the crown -
Not as the best dressed - but the most dressed holiday resort,
Where only the young and lovely wear shorts that are too short.
You see, its not bodies I object to just those... well - in decline.
No, I've nothing against bodies just the ones that look like mine.
So let us post a by-law in letters big and bold -
BY ORDER:
COVER UP YOUR FLESH WHEN IT'S WHITE, OR FAT, OR OLD
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If you want to see where men look good in shorts go to Bermuda.The original "Bermuda shorts" are traditioan smart trousers but finishing at knee lenght.They are worn with a traditional style light weight jacket in a variety of colours ,long socks,and smart shoes. They look great and are worn to work all the time.As Bermmuda is a colony they would have been inspired by British dress---why not steal the idea back?!
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Love the show. Wanted to tell Adrian that he looks great in shorts. Love the legs. Bodies are beautiful. Lets have less critisism and more love and positivity. What happened to 'live and let live'?
Tried to get this in during the show but took too long to become a member.
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Re shorts - a ridiculous piece of clothing. Hated them more than anything during my childhood. Never had a pair on me since the age of 9 or 10. Any kind of short trousers looks ridiculous (I even don't like females wearing shorts - short skirts are infinitely preferable). And as for men who wear them as underwear - are they from another planet - ridiculous, bulky AND uncomfortable. All trousers should reach the feet. Nuff said.
Anyway, re wearing them to work - since when did anyone feel much too hot because they're wearing trousers? You feel heat in the torso - a light polo/t-shirt will do the job nicely. That argument is just nonsense.
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Suggestions please as to what Chiles resembled in his shorts and socks. Diamondoldted, loved the poetry, but do not pick on the humble parsnip!
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sky viewer, there is an item of clothing more revolting than shorts, and that is the lycra budgie smuggler worn by cyclists and overweight holiday-makers! AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
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As has been pointed out socks with shorts isn't a good look.
Whilst on matters satorial, I thought Chrstine looked great in that dress. In fact if they hadn't drawn attention to Adrian and his shorts, I probably wouldn't have noticed ;)
Gyles failed to pick up on the reason that the 'QWERTY' keyboard was designed that way - it was developed to prevent the frequency of the keys jamming (actually to enable fast typing and not to prevent it as is often asserted).
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The one show never fails to entertain and tonight it was really great to see Peter Fonda. Way back in 1969 when the film Easy Rider was released I was 15 years old and vowed one day to have a chopped Harley. Many years later I am a time served motorcycle mechanic/engineer and have built from scratch my own Harley custom named Lady Eleanor after the Lindisfarne song, but that's another story. It's people like Peter making films that inspire other folks to be creative. Peter still looks like a laid back guy, was the repro Harley used at the end of the show shipped in from the states as Easy Riders magazine used to own a machine just like that.
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Re 19: jaded oldie
I had no idea what you meant by this term so after some googling research I have found it - seems itself to be normal swimwear, but yes - your point is valid - I think overweight people (male and female) need to stand in fromt of their mirror before going out as they do with bits of them hanging out of their tops etc (and let's face it, with the explosion in obesity this situation can only get worse!).
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Also re 14 & 18:
Diamondoldted's poetry - is this a new rival to our friend, King Frugal!
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jadedoldie, post 19, I've not heard that one before, ( lycra budgie smuggler ) lol lol, it takes time for these jokes to find their way up North, I thought Adrian looked O/K in his shorts, but then, I like my men sturdy, although the socks let him down, and was that a scab on his right knee?
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viewers who liked the born to be wild clip with Peter Fonda at the end of the show may like to take a look at this retrospective view found at this link
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-walt-babyboomers-blurb,0,1036393.blurb
enjoy
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Adrian Chiles is a nice bloke, however seeing him in shorts - albeit that he didn't compound the felony by wearing sandals with his (dark) socks - caused me to think that the Government should introduce legislation which prevents men from wearing shorts in television studios, or even anywhere outdoors.
Although my legs aren't old, skinny or chubby, I don't wear shorts outdoors (in the UK) as I'm basically too British, or to be more precise, Scottish. As Billy Connolly says, the natural skin colour of Scots is blue; it takes us a week of sunbathing just to turn white.
However, Christine Bleakley should wear shorts whenever she blooming well pleases. Indeed, to ban Christine from wearing shorts, particularly on TV, would be a gross infringement of human rights.
As for Adrian impersonating Carl Fogarty by roaring off on a Raleigh Chopper, when are the company going to make a model for adults?
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Love the show as always.Adrian does not take himself to seriously ,and the shorts were brilliant !Now as my other half said if only the lovely Christine would wear shorts?enjoyed Peter Fonda, although should have removed the shades ?enjoyed the poetry from
Diamondoldted brilliant and so true !.
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I enjoyed the studio banter, but the films weren't up to scratch. "History of the typewriter" was moderately interesting but ruined by attempts to be comical around the subject. "Too many street signs" was a twenty second statement padded out to 5 minutes ... yawn! "Yorkshire erosion" was interesting.
Why didn't Peter Fonda remove his sunglasses? It made his face expressionless. He was 'naff', not 'cool'.
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Wow!
What wisdom was purveyed
In todays One Show
From 69 year old studio guest
Born famous
Actor
Peter Fonda
And Professor of Pop
Paul Gambaccini
The fame game:
Were all in it
To some degree
The price of it is high
Yet many of us seek it
Would even give our life for it
Why?
Fame
A potent commodity
With incredulity
We watch the latest achiever
And firm fame believer
Blaze the same old trail as all the others
Previously
From the depths to the heights
And back to the depths
In no time at all
Just in a short space
To be replaced by
The next in line
To hit the papers
Fame, as Paul so rightly observed
Is cruel, fickle, fatal
So its quite absurd
Infantile
Of us to seek it so badly
With open arms
Outstretched for it
Yet its as plain as the nose on your face
To see the heavy price
Of super-stardomny
But it doesnt dint our ardency
For its apparent seductive charms
If you want to be famous
Remember there are only 10 top places
In the charts
And most aimers
Will end up
Disillusioned
And disappointed"
What a waste
Of time and energy
That is
Yes, John Updike
Had it about right
When he proclaimed:
Celebrity
Is a mask that eats into the face
I. e.
As soon as you become somebody
To be watched and listened to
Instead of just anybody
Like you and me
Input ceases
And you go blind and deaf
In your over-animation
You can either see
Or be seen
Who really wants to occupy
The glassy goldfish bowl of the media
Continually
With no privacy
Losing identity
Gaining insecurity
Becoming a caricature of yourself
Sacrificing your physical and mental health
For fabulous wealth
Needing daily to put on an act
In order to pay super tax?
The famous
If they are not careful, prayerful
Become arrogant, self obsessed
Suspicious
Of the many new offers of friendship
That may come their way
Paranoia grips them
Even their Christian faith
Is compromised
As they are slowly crucified
By their own worshipping fans
Who have become human piranhas
To the very celeb star they love so much
Peter Fondas advice:
Dont chase fame
And if you nevertheless
Still fail to heed this good advice
Please be advised
That youll need to somehow to learn to do the impossible
And keep up that early youthful megadrive
You once had
Right through to when you die
Judy Garland
Elvis Presley .
And
Poor Michel Jackson
At the height of his fame
He would have liked to have retreated back to neverland
Something he cannot achieve
Even at his funeral
Oh and a final blessing:
If you sing
And in your old age are still around to do it
Learn to do it sitting down
Peter Lewis Inveterate blogger and fame-seeker
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when peter fonda, jack nicholson and dennis hopper was filming easy rider they were all stoned throughout the making of the movie
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Typewriters : Unless I misheard, Giles Brandriff (have I got that right ?)misquoted when he referred to "The quick SLY fox...". It should, of course, be "The quick BROWN fox...", the point being that the sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet.
While working in the professional theatre in the 60s one of my "resting" jobs was with a firm of "law stationers", where we typed imitation parchment documents on huge manual typewriters with extra long rollers. Typex was never used. We could correct with special grey erasers, except on wills, which had to be 100% perfect from the word go. Try to type several thousand words on expensive hand-made paper without allowing your fingers to stray on to the wrong key once!
Shorts : Adrian's fault was his choice of socks. My golf club is very strict about the wearing of shorts. They have to be "tailored" and socks must be either of the type that reach the knee and turn over, or white "athlete" style. Failure to conform will result in expulsion from the course or the bar !
Beebrock
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Oh dear, poor Peter Fonda
Would not be cool on a Honda
On that which he likes
With others on bikes
They rode into the sunset yonder
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Somewhere along the line, no matter what wisdom we spout, we are all destructive in our obsessions. If we do not destroy ourselves we destroy our victims and call it good fellowship.
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I remember Peter's father in Once Upon A Time In The West. With him was Jason Robards who worked with Norman Wisdom, also Woody Strode who acted with Honor Blackman, Eric Sykes and Sean Connery. Gabriele Ferzetti, another star of this film, once played Diana Rigg's father in a James Bond movie.
Al Mulock, who opened The Good,The Bad and The Ugly, also was in the beginning of this film. Dollars regulars, like Aldo Sambrell and Benito Stefanelli,popped up in this production.
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Just a General note, I have been watching the show for a long time - nearly every day, but is it just me or is it getting worse? Some of the beginings of the show have been awful of late - Tom JOnes, Henry Winkler, Patrick Stewart, Lionel Richie - cheesy sketches which just lower the tone of the show. Wouldn't mind if they just weren't so obvious. I remember last year there were some great ones - especially when you had Liza Minelli on and that lady from sex in the city - and James Bond was brilliant.
As far as the films go - some are really good, I love the wildlife stuff from Mike Dilger, and that woman with the long name. Dan Snow is great too, my wife really likes him. Whatever happened to that Bird Watcher? David .... whatever his name was? He was very good, and natural.
Love the historical films too - more please, and less of the films about nothing. That film about fame on Peter Fondas show was rubbish. U seem to be constantly making films about nothing.
Anyway, please try and improve as we do all like the show in my family, but it has been getting worse.
From Newcastle....
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Post 22, sky viewer, my post was not solely aimed at obese people [I am in no position to comment,lol] but the growing number of people, mainly men because of their particular body design flaws, who think it acceptable to flaunt their more private parts in public. We live in a town which has a vast number of cyclists visiting, due to one of the premier cycle routes in the country being centred here, and I have learned more about male anatomy in the past 10 years of my life than I have ever wished to know! Surely budgie smugglers [lycra shorts] are not considered suitable wear for a restaurant or pub upcountry, so why wear them here?
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We are avid fans of the one show---Could your 'nature reporters ' do an item on the 'red kites ' that circle around the east berks & south bucks area?---apparently, they nest in & around Stokenchurch or so I'm told.
Would be nice to see them close-up!!
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