This Farming Life

Neither do I, i dont have any problem at all with who they are or what they do i am just saying i think they are only on the program because of who they are! I hope i am completely wrong and looks like quite a few people on here do but i think the BBC is bending over to pressure and have BAME/LGBT and multi gender presenters because of who they are not what they have to offer!



You can scream the sexist/racist/discriminating card all you like but i think the BBC is getting worse and worse for having people on shows to tick equality boxes.
OK .

So you have no problem with these women , and they can do as they wish as long as they don't put them on your telly?
 

Scholsey

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Location
Herefordshire
OK .

So you have no problem with these women , and they can do as they wish as long as they don't put them on your telly?

As long as they are on the tv because of what they are doing is interesting like all the others featured in this series that is fine but IMHO, (which i am perfectly entitled to) they are on here because of who they are and not because of what they are doing. Have you got the rope ready from the lamp post yet?
 
As long as they are on the tv because of what they are doing is interesting like all the others featured in this series that is fine but IMHO, (which i am perfectly entitled to) they are on here because of who they are and not because of what they are doing. Have you got the rope ready from the lamp post yet?
Live and let live. Anything I don't like on the telly I don't watch. I don't find their farming as interesting either, but plenty of other folk will find it the best part, so we're all gonna be different.

Still wouldn't say they shouldn't be there though .
 

le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
But that just isn't true, previous series have had crofting good lifers; there was the well spoken chap who was taking meat boxes to his previous city colleagues in London, there were the couple of crofters in the last series...
Takes all sorts in life, and it's a good job we are all different.
The first series is being repeated on Really , sky 142 and freeview 17 on Tuesday evenings
 

thewalrus

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
As long as they are on the tv because of what they are doing is interesting like all the others featured in this series that is fine but IMHO, (which i am perfectly entitled to) they are on here because of who they are and not because of what they are doing. Have you got the rope ready from the lamp post yet?

Yet you can’t justify your opinion
 

Bongodog

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Good,luck to the Crofters if thats the lifestyle they wish for, hope they've earned plenty in their former life though to finance their present one. The bit that amazes me is that they offer courses on a wide variety of subjects, animal management, how to run a croft, tree planting etc, yet appear to be novices themselves. If I paid £200 for a weekend course, I'd expect a little more experience from the tutors
 

ricky_rascal

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Location
N. Yorks
Good,luck to the Crofters if thats the lifestyle they wish for, hope they've earned plenty in their former life though to finance their present one. The bit that amazes me is that they offer courses on a wide variety of subjects, animal management, how to run a croft, tree planting etc, yet appear to be novices themselves. If I paid £200 for a weekend course, I'd expect a little more experience from the tutors

Are they the hosts or the tutors though?

I suspect previous careers may be funding the croft going on new quad, new pickup and so on - but that is really not my business other than it gives the impression there is money at this livestock lark :rolleyes: Good luck to them though.
 

Half Pipe

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Good,luck to the Crofters if thats the lifestyle they wish for, hope they've earned plenty in their former life though to finance their present one. The bit that amazes me is that they offer courses on a wide variety of subjects, animal management, how to run a croft, tree planting etc, yet appear to be novices themselves. If I paid £200 for a weekend course, I'd expect a little more experience from the tutors
Bit I seen, they were just providing the venue, there was a 3rd person running the course
 

thewalrus

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
I have multiple times, that the BBC are including BAME/LGBT/different gender presenters as a box ticking exercise not out of merit.

I wish I never mentioned it now as snowflakes like you jump on it and make people who talk about it out to be homophobic / discriminating dinosaurs.

I think you’ve time and time made yourself out to be a fool. Proven by the fact You’ve not been able to enter into debate with resorting to name calling! People try and throw insults when they’ve no one left to turn!
 

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I hope next series in is England[/QU
It's a shame the Beeb have stopped making the yearly lambing series presented by
Kate Humble, that was good.

Ok Kate is good, but what I liked about this programme was the lack of a preening over excited presenter enhancing their CV
Just farmers telling their story with an understated narrator filling in the background
 
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