Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!
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I thought it was a great program, very tounge in cheek.
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Clearly someone is removing posts they don't agree with. Grow a pair and let us mere members know WTF your playing at......If your complicit be prepared to justify yourselves. ?....you cannot censor all social media.....this is only going to get worse....just
remember your not as big as Tesco or Vw.....bigger names have disappeared from the world than the CC who ignore what's staring them in the face.Tj
And posts as rude as this will get the thread closed down
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so the chairman of the CC rips the rear of his van off then he has the cheek to put white gloves on and check for dust what a plonker .and the guy with his mum who realy wanted to be caravaner of the year .......but couldnt reverse god help us
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I feel let down. I have caravanned (and more recently motorhomed) for 25+ years, I extol the life. I tell peolpe opf what they're missing - yet no-one who is not in the know "gets it".Their belief of caravanning was perfectly typified on Wednesday when adenoidal "experts" were expolited totally by the media to portray the pre-conceived belief.Where are the children, the bikes, kites, the smell of bacon and eggs? How can the fun of relaxing in your outfit be advertised by a race to put up the perfect awning followed by a cup of tea. Surely this task is only done
with.a stubby in your hand?Mr Chairman - I peeked between my fingers as you damaged your van yet actually gloated - a review suggests you now have £750 worth of Wedgewood. At that point I actually left the room. Please don't brag in public, very unbecoming.There was though a fantastic highlight, two magnificent ladies successfully reversing - Well Done.I hope I have mis-judged this programe, I seriously hope I am wrong, but I fear the damage may have already been done.Write your comments here...I agree wholeheartedly with you. My partner nad myself felt that they were taking the preverbial **** out of caravanners. They showed them as incompetant folk who never mind years of experience look like they had never towed
before.It was embarrassing. Yes the great part was where the two ladies who have never towed before reversed their outfits really well and showed up the "experienced" menfolk.As for the Chairman chappie who tried to do the hill climb in his new looking caravan
surely common sense would have told him there was not enough distance between the bottom of his van and the ground, and just by looking you would know not to attempt the climb,He must have more money than sense unless the TV Company will pay the repair.Stupid
comes to mind. I have towed as a lone female member for over 27 years and even I would know not to attempt a climb on rough ground like that.Makes us all look like the laughing stock of holidaymakers, in a race for a cup of tea.Awnings always present a problem
but knowing you were entering a competition you would prepare before hand to make the job easier, or am I thinking down the wrong track.....Thick, thick as **** COMES TO MIND. RANT OVER... let's see what next week turns up, remind me to find a cushion to hide
behind....... SG2
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Just to add the comments of one more dissatisfied CC member.
I totally agree with all the previous comments about how appalling this programme was.
I remember commenting, when the request went out on this forum for contestants, that CC had better have strong editorial control if the programme was not to turn into a joke at our expense. Clearly no notice was taken and we have ended up with a farce reinforcing
the stereotype that caravanners are odd and potentially dangerous. Who goes off roading towing a caravan?As someone else has already said, if the programme had been billed as being about caravanning it might have been OK (ish) but to label it 'caravanner of the year' created expectations of excellence that were totally unachievable given the contestants and
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Please tell me the progamme was an April 1st spoof. If that was "the elite" caravanners from all the thousnads of competent members
OMG!!!!!!!! rarely seen such a bunch of numties and that includes the chairman does he not understand how an articulated vehicle operates on uneven ground (I would recommend a club manoevering course) you couldn't have done
a better "Jeremy Clarkson" hatchet job on the clubif you tried shame on you
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Absolutely dire. Does not promote caravanning/motorhoming. Don't blame the BBC. They may have duped the CC into participating. Who in the CC thinks this does our hobby any good? The Chairman obviously. PR/Marketing need to be culled. I could go on but
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I am sorry to say the thing was a farce. The competitors were not the best or typical but a set who seemed to be chosen just to provide entertainment. The tests were a joke and we have no idea how they were marked.
If you are going to have a caravanner of the year it needs to beprofesdionaly run and a bettr selection of contestants based on real ability used. It also seemed to me to be impossible to use both caravans and motorhomes and they needed a contest each.
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Just watched the show and really enjoyed it. It's great to see the club chairman enjoying the fun and being human. It is just tv fun. Anyone thinking this is "bringing the cc into disripute" really need to get a sense of humour transplant.. i.e. Get one. The show showed how varied a crowd we have as "caravanners" and I'm proud to be part of, most of that crowd.. Can't wait for the final....Spoiler......IT'S JUST FOR FUN!
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If the finalists are the best in the club what does it say for the rest of us. All members not in the finals must be less competentant than the contestants, so I now have to consider whether I should 'pack up' now as I am obviously totally incompetant
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Not sure who raised but you are right CC have closed their Facebook page. Do they not realise this only makes it worse. Someone in the CC has cocked up (and I think we all know who) so just accept it, and do the honourable thing. Do you think he will have
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Think of it this way, the only contact that G Chamberlain and the exec committee has with members of the club is in their dealings with the outdated regional and district rally committees. He will never come in contact with normal CC members. He would therefore think that this type of programme is what the CC is all about.
No doubt, with this programme, he has inadvertantly pleased the tiny rallying community, but has really offended the vast majority of normal caravanners.
K
K, I've not bothered to read all the way through this post, and am certainly not a supporter of CC Management, however it just so happens that GC does mix with we lowly members of the CC. He was pitched up on the pitch next to our on the Much Wenlock site a couple of years ago.
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Think of it this way, the only contact that G Chamberlain and the exec committee has with members of the club is in their dealings with the outdated regional and district rally committees. He will never come in contact with normal CC members.
He would therefore think that this type of programme is what the CC is all about.No doubt, with this programme, he has inadvertantly pleased the tiny rallying community, but has really offended the vast majority of normal caravanners.
K
K, I've not bothered to read all the way through this post, and am certainly not a supporter of CC Management, however it just so happens that GC does mix with we lowly members of the CC. He was pitched up on the pitch next to our on the Much Wenlock site
a couple of years ago.Did he conform to the 3.5 inch awning regulation, and was it a wedgewood or Spode weekend
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Don't know as we were off site all day and he'd left after his week there the next day.
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As a matter of interest has there been any response to the comments on here from HO? If so which page is it on, as I'm certainly not going to read thro' all the 55 other pages.
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Those within the BBC who make these popular types of farcicle programmes have no interest in facts, truth or accuracy. The pawns who made up the contestants were clearly chosen for their ineptitude. Had the contest been genuine it would have been a true
test of caravanning skills at various levels performed by those who had got to the final on merit. Unfortunately this would have been very dull and boring for the general proletariate to have to watch and the BBC could never produce something like that; could
they. The CC have been duped into going along with our trusted public broadcaster and have been left with serious quatities of egg on their faces. I have been very critical of the Chairman elswhere in this thread. However, unscrupulous directing and manipulitive
editing can often produce a totaly warped interpretation of the truth. Perhaps we are judging too harshly. Despite all that, this was a big mistake.0 -
Just watched the show and really enjoyed it. It's great to see the club chairman enjoying the fun and being human. It is just tv fun. Anyone thinking this is "bringing the cc into disripute" really need to get a sense of humour transplant.. i.e. Get one.
The show showed how varied a crowd we have as "caravanners" and I'm proud to be part of, most of that crowd.. Can't wait for the final....Spoiler......IT'S JUST FOR FUN!Write your comments here...glad that you enjoyed it but you seem to be in the minority. Don't think that the rest of us have no sense of humour..be honest it was not exactly representative of most of us..I hope!
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I watched the program with anticipation and instead found myself laughing as if it were a deliberate comedy. I was amazed that he chairman was silly enough to try that slope given the length of his Caravan. As for the contestant who spent over an hour putting
up his awning because it wasn't a job to share!! Also why did they choose that tree for the reversing when they thought it too difficult? At least the ladies taking on the hay bale reversing showed the men that it isn't as difficult as the men think, when
the men bother to give sensible directions. I hope this farce isn't repeated, or at least the club runs heats to eliminate the no-hopers.0 -
As an aside, I cant help thinking the powers that be will be looking for the slightest excuse to close this thread.
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The reason I had a moan and blame the BBC was due to many years ago I completed the Caravan practical handling course.The BBC were present and as a single woman on my own they asked to interview me "live" .I was miked up and asked several silly questions
and then one very specific one not connected with heavy traffic butabout how I felt about towing on my own.. I gave my answers and highlighted I tried to choose times when least traffic wou;ld be affected and preferred to tow at night, but I paid my taxes
and felt entitled to use the roads as I wished..The programme was due on air two days later at 1-00pm.I couldn't wait to see it, but to my horror , they had set up a theme about caravanners causing blockage to the roadways and affecting the distribution of
our goods and services by holding up lorries and causing traffic jams.. They used my answers to the questions given to me to answer a selection of preset questions designed for their programme topic and were not related to anything they asked me, and did
not show me being asked the question and then my response.This made me decide never to give a live question interview to a TV company again.If going live your responses should not be changed, altered or adapted for a preset theme on a recorded show..I am
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I have been out the last 6 hours and can't be bothered to read where I left off, but many of the posts are bordering on personal abuse. If you want this thread to close then carry on, I've seen others closed for far less.
Agree with you Dave, but the truth often hurts
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Very Sad! Not a good, or true representation of the Caravan Club....... In fact, Shambolic.
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