Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!
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It's interesting that the average view to post ratio on active threads is between 6 and 8 to 1. The view ratio of this thread is 25 to 1, so it's certainly got peoples attention.
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It's interesting that the average view to post ratio on active threads is between 6 and 8 to 1. The view ratio of this thread is 25 to 1, so it's certainly got peoples attention.
Write your comments here...don't fancy calculatiing the proportion of Motorhomers to Caravanners posting do you
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You too Landsdorf" Ivory towers" Mffia on your trail.Well not till Monday Anyway at the earliest.
Write your comments here... Probably right Stano. I fear I shall be paraded in the car park at E.G. and my 98 individual site badges confiscated in disgrace. Banished from the kingdom and all that.
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What an absolute load of utter rubbish the program was My non caravan mates have ripped me to threads about the program and they now think i socalise with the nerds on the program The chairman needs to resign NOW for allowing this to be shown its an outrage
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Just watched this farce on catch up !!!!!! How on earth can OUR club justify endorsing such rubbish, it really does encourage the p*ss takers to believe they are right in thinking all caravanners are total idiots. PLEASE get the BBC to issue a comment at
the start of episode two to confirm that this was a late April fool joke, and was meant to be screened on April 1st.0 -
You too Landsdorf" Ivory towers" Mffia on your trail.Well not till Monday Anyway at the earliest.
Write your comments here... Probably right Stano. I fear I shall be paraded in the car park at E.G. and my 98 individual site badges confiscated in disgrace. Banished from the kingdom and all that.
If they dress you in orange overalls.....
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I do wonder if this thread will be on this forum next week, or will the system "benefit" from yet another system upgrade after which only this thread will mysteriously disappear.
Lets see !!!!
K
A cynic might say that's a bit far-fetched.
Not me, of course.
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To me for entertainment value it was priceless, I laughed so much. Hubby was like the majority on here 'how could they portray the Caravan Club like this' and talking about resigning after being a member for 42 years. The programme reminded me so much of
a similar series in the mid 90's by BBC Wales called 'The Rally'.I expect the contestants were picked on the British National Rally. Yes they do get the white gloves out, inspect your cupboards if you are daft enough to enter. Fancy dress, decorated car etc. can be fun especially for the children attending. Regional Nationals
like the Welsh National have similar competitions.I have set next weeks final to record as we will going away next Thursday (to a rally, but not with C.C.) just in case we might not have set up in time.
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Suely if the COTY program was meant as a vehicle for promoting the caravan club and the leisure pursuit of caravanning itself wouldn't it have been better served producing a program with a family with young kids or even a celebrity caravan or motorhomer
and following their holiday i.e. their days out, part of the country they visited maybe even something similar to the program about walks around britain that seem to be very popular on tv at the moment just based around travelling to these parts of the country
setting up their van, planning their walks or trips etc and showing off some of the lovely places we caravanners and motorhomers get to enjoy..lets face it basing a program around a competition was only going to result in someone, no matter how good the caravanners were having a prang or failing to do a task properly and therefore highlighting failure.
I think the puplic perception of caravanners is bad enough without giving them more ammunition to use against us.
Also not sure if anyone saw the Saturday morning show and their little feature on the COTY show?
as if things weren't bad enough we had gaby Roslin going on about all over body wipes and a camping coffee grinder / perculator for use when we go caravanning before her co- presenter Matt Barbet came out on a mobility scooter towing a balsa wood caravan
for one!!While poor Matt Allwright ( a recent purchaser of a motorhome) tried to talk sensibly about the virtues of caravanning & motorhome holidays
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We watched this programe and was very dissapointed. We get a lot of family and friends poking fun of our caravan hollidays. and after watching this they will have a feild day. I am surprised at the cc putting on such a silly programe wont be watching the next one.
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Totally bemused by the negative comments, you all seem to have had a sense of humour bypass! The competition is just 'tongue in cheek' . They picked a few 'characters' to take part otherwise it would have been boring.....I thought the setup/awning erection
was priceless with the associated arguments.....so true! Actually a couple of the caravaners reversing around that tree did a fantastic job of it! Really looking forward to the next show!0 -
Just stayed at Ferry Meadows and they said that was where the programme was filmed so thought we would watch. Apart from Top Gear never seen such rubbish - embarrassed to watch it. Can't believe CC agreed to have anything to do with it. Another huge waste
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So these people are the best out of all the caravan members, are they? Hilariously inept.
I was worried when we bought a caravan and joined the caravan club, would we make ourselves look stupid? Would we mess up so badly that we'd never go back?
Well, from what I've seen on sites and on this programme I feel like a seasoned veteran of 30 years and a professional caravanner.
Oh, and we were never invited to take part in any caravan club competition, so the claim that these six couples were the best of every member is a tad economical with the truth.
This programme made me squirm, if this is the best the caravan club could find to represent us, we're an even bigger laughing stock than we already were!
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So glad I am retired now, as I would not have been able to face my work mates after this program, they couldn't work out why I spent my weekends in a tin tent and p**s in a bucket anyway, so would not like to guess what I would have been bombarded with after this program, I think we would all agree that there are some 'unusual' people on sites and it makes entertainment sometimes, but if these are the best 6, apart from the Welsh guy who did his bit to show what most of us are like, then we don't stand much chance of defending ourselves from the likes of JC.
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Totally bemused by the negative comments, you all seem to have had a sense of humour bypass! The competition is just 'tongue in cheek' . They picked a few 'characters' to take part otherwise it would have been boring.....I thought the setup/awning erection
was priceless with the associated arguments.....so true! Actually a couple of the caravaners reversing around that tree did a fantastic job of it! Really looking forward to the next show!Write your comments here...Humourous!!!! Your joking!!
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What a fool the so call top man of the cc was, attempting to take his outfit onto such uneven ground causing what to genuine caravanners was obviously going to cause damage. We have been caravanning for 50 years and happy to say we have never seen the
likes of what that programme produced.0 -
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Oh, and we were never invited to take part in any caravan club competition, so the claim that these six couples were the best of every member is a tad economical with the truth. ....
You were. Rowena put a post up here to apply ... someone (lynnruby on pg 76) recently quoted it
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What a fool the so call top man of the cc was, attempting to take his outfit onto such uneven ground causing what to genuine caravanners was obviously going to cause damage. We have been caravanning for 50 years and happy to say we have never seen the likes of what that programme produced.
Wonder what the comments would have been like if Andy Harris had damaged his motorhome first.
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From today's Observer review
We knew, of course, we were meant to find it all sweetly and eccentrically British, in just the way foreigners find us so winsome and charming (or so we kid ourselves). And there were sweet and human aspects, but also much, much bickering and legally
defensible grounds for divorce or, quite possibly, a bijou gun rampage. And if these were, handpicked from a million members, the very crème, it’s little wonder caravans generally are accorded as warm a welcome on back roads in high summer as a turd
in a punchbowl. Who will win? Tenterhooks isn’t the word.0 -
Well what we thought was that for comedy entertainment value the programme gets a 10/10
but from the CC point of view it hasn't done
the club any favours at all.we are also members of Motorhome Fun which is the largest Motorhome based club in the UK and after that fiasco on the TVs I think we will be gaining a lot more members.Just to clarify and show that I'm not bias we have been members
of the CC for 22yrs.Brian & Jo
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The penny has just dropped.It's Ivory Towers way of making us feel good about ourselves. None of us could be as incompetent as the majority of these people, it will however encourage people with no caravan or motorhome experience to join the club "Brilliant""certainly
a promotion for the person who thought of that.Maybe even promotion to"CEO"0 -
Brian and Jo, have you ever wondered what none Funsters think of members of Motorhome Fun?
Write your comments here...I'm a member of both, and although I have never wondered, it's always good to get feedback. Perhaps as this is off topic Apenshaw good share the view on another thread?
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The comments on this and other forums are funnier than the actual tv programme which was cringeworthy in the extreme.
To be fair it's possible that the Caravan Club, led by the Chairman, hoped to show caravanners and motorhomers who are club members in a good light as harmless tidy minded couples who posses excellent driving and towing skills and who good naturedly vie
with each other to be the very best of the best.Unfortunately the competition, which seemed to be taken quite seriously by the participants and judges, was unintentionally very funny and not in a good way.
The contestants ( victims in my view) were somehow transported back to the 1950s, before touring became a leisure activity and was seen by hardy clique ridden rally goers in khaki shorts and army boots as an opportunity to display some one upmanship, by
competing to see who could best manoeuver their outfit, who made the best cakes, who had the best bone china tea set and who could wang a welly the furthest.No sane person, rally enthusiast or not, would consider risking an outfit that may have cost over £20,000 in that way these days. Caravan ownership for most of us now is a means to an end, to use as a very nice comfortable mobile hotel room for when we are
doing something interesting away from the caravan.It's nice to give the caravan a quick once over with the Fenwicks now and again, but tape measure precision, white glove inspections and colour co-ordinated pants lockers are surely a throwback to the 'good old days' of National Service when discipline and
respect ruled every aspect of our lives?The only thing missing to complete the 1950s style agony is the fancy dress, but I strongly suspect that we've got that to come next week
The CC missed a golden opportunity to show young families with children enjoying what we all know can be a great way for families to spend time together either on fully pimped up seaside fun parks, quiet certified locations in farmland or, dare I say it,
on club rallies at weekends which can be a childrens paradise because they all become friends and can play safely and relatively unsupervised for a change.After watching this programme I'm very happy to say that I'm delighted to be a member......... of the Camping and Caravanning Club!
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It was perfect fodder for the BBC entertainment section, anyone who takes part in a TV programme will be edited for the delight of the audience and viewing figures. I will happily be part of the viewing figures this coming week and then forget about it.
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Brian and Jo, have you ever wondered what none Funsters think of members of Motorhome Fun?
Write your comments here...me-ow
Brian & Jo
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Brian and Jo, have you ever wondered what none Funsters think of members of Motorhome Fun?
Write your comments here...why would you make a comment like that.My post was not nasty in any way,so why would you say that.
Brian& Jo
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