Farmer Wink

smcapstick

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Kirkby Lonsdale
Just listening to Radio 2, today's guest being 'Farmer Wink' - apparently famed for his interviews on Radio Lincolnshire.

Being broadcast on mass media, this chap is an ambassador for the farming community at large.

General impressions?

I am less than impressed.
 

Woolgatherer

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Location
Angus
I heard it too, I think he's only there because he's "local colour" on the regional radio. Bit of a pointless exercise, the whole article was meant to be first impressions from someone who'd never been to London but he said he used to deliver potatoes there! Hardly a first impression if he could cope with driving through! Nice to hear the regional dialects but I thought maybe in this case it came across wrong, he sounded like a caricature of what City people expect a yokel to sound like.
 

Sussex Martin

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Location
Burham Kent
I heard it too, I think he's only there because he's "local colour" on the regional radio. Bit of a pointless exercise, the whole article was meant to be first impressions from someone who'd never been to London but he said he used to deliver potatoes there! Hardly a first impression if he could cope with driving through! Nice to hear the regional dialects but I thought maybe in this case it came across wrong, he sounded like a caricature of what City people expect a yokel to sound like.


Anyone from North of Watford speaks funny anyway so us from the South East that speak the Queens English think you're all bloody yokels anyway;).
I couldn't believe the first time I went to Newcastle about 30 years ago that they had tarmac roads and electricity after hearing how grim it was up North :).
 

kneedeep

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Location
S W Lancashire


Anyone from North of Watford speaks funny anyway so us from the South East that speak the Queens English think you're all bloody yokels anyway;).
I couldn't believe the first time I went to Newcastle about 30 years ago that they had tarmac roads and electricity after hearing how grim it was up North :).
Gis your address and I'll send you some whippet pie
If parcelforce won't deliver
I'll send it by carrier ferret, good training for the upcoming homing season;)

Got an invite to a day at Lords next week
Do I need my passport?
Suppose I'll have to take my penknife, used sryinge and couple of cartridges out of my overalls before they'll let me in, if it's a posh do.:rolleyes:
If our England captain really is a farmer like the press dept. make him out to be then there's not a lot of hope , southern softies poncing about in your shiny gear whinging about "working harder"
I think I might be having words,
just hope they'll understand me;)
 
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llamedos

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Robert Carlton form near Horncastle worked on same farm for last 48 yrs
never been to london before except on a spud wagon, apparently has a regular spot on Radio lincs, and it was a passing comment at the lincs show the other week got him his visit to the city today.
 
Farmer wink what a wanchor he makes people think that everyone from Lincolnshire talks total rubbish like him !! I've never heard anyone from any part of lincs talk as much sh!t as him using phrases & so called sayings that is supposed to be spoken by us true Yellowbellies all the time .
 

rob1

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Location
wiltshire
Only heard the last few seconds of it but what I would like to know is why the hell does anyone listen to jer whine in the first place, he has swallowed his own hype cant stand the tosser
 

grumpy

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Location
Fife
Jake Freestone is a well travelled, forward thinking, high tech farm manager. Wink isn't.
oh thats a great help it means nothing to us folks oop north,i have ascertained it was on radio2 so surely some one can provide a link to the broadcast then we can all judge.whats the point of starting a topic when 80% of folks on here have no clue what it is about. @llamedos
 

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