It's official!

[den_the_cat]

He had the gall to turn up at the BGG with a large film crew in tow (complete with the ONLY diesel generator anywhere on the site), and then proceeded to take the p*** by filming a procession of naturists, and some of the "flakier" people there!

I refer you to the 'cranks and nutters' post - you can only be green if you're also into nudity, dancing 'round maypoles and colonic irrigation. Not of course that there's anything wrong with nudity and maypole dancing (colonig irrigation I'm less sure about) but for most of the media 'green' and 'normal' do not overlap.

[red]

I knew what you meant by chocolate teapot but was with stonehead - I'd never heard of ethical man before today. You post threw me this morning, I had no idea what you were talking about.

same here. now I have googled him and read an article and that will no doubt be logged and thanks to this thread it will appear that he is more popular than before free publicity eh......

[Boots]

Is this him?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 736228.stm

...Sounds much like Andy, and many of us here...

...What's the problem again? I dunno if I can bag a bloke whose having a go. Isn't that all any of us are doing? Just having a go? Or have I got the wrong bloke? I don't get it...

[the.fee.fairy]

i have to say...i just e-mailed them complaining about the way they've treated the project and BGG...mainly about the way they've treated BGG to be honest. I wasn't naked (although...in the background of EM when he's talking to the nudists, theres some legs in a long red skirt...they're mine they are, i remember seeing the prat in the suit and wondering what he was up to...in a suit...in the sun...).

[Martin]

I think the basic premise behind his series is excellent - get "Mr Straight" to go green! Unfortunately I've found most of what he's done far too tongue in cheek," let's get a laugh out of it" attitude. I heartily agree with FF about his behaviour at the BGG - his reporting was, at best, cheap tabloid trash, more worthy of the Daily Sport than an otherwise excellent programme like Newsnight!

[the.fee.fairy]

Boots - i have no problem with the fact that he's having a go. Its the fact that he does everything to take the P***.he comes across (to me) as a city-type (you know, the mobile phone clipped to the ear, cheap suits and shoes, obviously more important than you or i...) who think he's being amusing, and that its all an adventure, living an 'alternative' lifestyle..

[Boots]

Ah, that's a shame... the concept could be quite good for encouraging green thinking and introducing new ways of doing things among the suits. If thinking green suddenly got trendy we could make a real difference, but many a good idea has been trashed by a lousy presentation...

Why doesn't Andy invite him to stay for a week... that might show the real difference if folks are being misled.

Heck - how come we haven't invited him here? Can't we invite him to share his discoveries with us? Maybe he is just responding to the challenge with a real limited outlook or past experience. Ethics can be pretty malleable with some folks. Let's get him on here and see where he really stands...

hee hee hee hee *leans back and adjusts the akubra*