Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

[Big Physical Acey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64052197

Thoughts on this? It's quite clearly a different thing

[CritchSmile]

I'd defend him if he was funny but since he's not funny I think it's shocking hypocrisy. Shocked to my core

[Socko]

Lycett is great tbh. The sun probably thinking it was some big gotcha that would take him down a peg or two when he's been open about it in the past, an embarrassing rag. You know you're generally onto a good thing when the scummy tabloids start accusing you of hypocrisy. His reply is good.

[Shteve]

Don't know the guy but I get the feeling he's probably not that funny.

He'll have got what he wanted out the stunt mind because I'd never heard of him and now his name is getting banded about so it'll be job done in that regard.

[CritchSmile]

Lycett is great at…?

[pondlife]

... looking like John Newman?

[Zizou]

Gary Neville paying minimum wage at his hotels as well after preaching to everyone

if you are going to be talking about these things you really should make sure your untouchable as it just distracts from the issue and gets the gammons all smug.

[Socko]

The hypocrisy angle is just a desperate lunge from clueless arseholes 90% of the time. It's such an easy out to find some flimsy excuse to throw the word hypocrite around instead of facing uncomfortable truths.

[Shteve]

Gary Neville paying minimum wage at his hotels as well after preaching to everyone  

if you are going to be talking about these things you really should make sure your untouchable as it just distracts from the issue and gets the gammons all smug.

Who actually is untouchable though? A lot of people like to put themselves on a pedestal but there will always be something along the line that you will get stung on.

[Shteve]

The hypocrisy angle is just a desperate lunge from clueless arseholes 90% of the time. It's such an easy out to find some flimsy excuse to throw the word hypocrite around instead of facing uncomfortable truths.

I take it you're still talking about Lycett here, if he's criticising people for taking up roles in Qatar for the world cup when he himself has done gigs over there then that is actually hypocritical, what's he bothered about that he didn't get millions for it?

[Del-icious]

In fairness he was paid by a uk promoter and it was a few hundred quid for a shite gig - it's not a great look but your views can change a lot in 7 years and beckham was paid by Qatar to promote the country.

I don't think he's been as open about it as he could've been though because he didn't mention it at all on that David beckham special thing he done which seems a bit sly

[Socko]

It was more a general point and applies to loads of things but yeah, if Lycett had tried to cover it up or whatever then fair dos but he's seemingly been pretty open about the fact he did a gig in Qatar once. I'm not denying it's hypocritical I just don't think it matters much.

[Sarkozabal]

Is the accusation here that having done work in Qatar in the past is the same as signing up to be a PR shill for the Qatari government? How thick do you have to be to think he's even got a case to answer?

[Groot]

It was more a general point and applies to loads of things but yeah, if Lycett had tried to cover it up or whatever then fair dos but he's seemingly been pretty open about the fact he did a gig in Qatar once. I'm not denying it's hypocritical I just don't think it matters much.

It's in his autobiography and he's mentioned it in a number of other interviews apparently so doesn't quite seem the gotcha that the Sun are claiming

[Zizou]

Who actually is untouchable though? A lot of people like to put themselves on a pedestal but there will always be something along the line that you will get stung on.

No ones untouchable but don't go on a big rant on a national broadcaster about wages when you are paying your staff fuck all surely

[2MatoFish]

Is the accusation here that having done work in Qatar in the past is the same as signing up to be a PR shill for the Qatari government? How thick do you have to be to think he's even got a case to answer?

Thick enough to read the Sun

[Shuto Makino]

Don't know the guy but I get the feeling he's probably not that funny.

He'll have got what he wanted out the stunt mind because I'd never heard of him and now his name is getting banded about so it'll be job done in that regard.

I take it you're still talking about Lycett here, if he's criticising people for taking up roles in Qatar for the world cup when he himself has done gigs over there then that is actually hypocritical, what's he bothered about that he didn't get millions for it?

In the space of 1 hour, Shteve goes from never having heard of him to having a fully developed opinion. Honestly sometimes envy people with this little going on upstairs.

[Shteve]

There will no be much going on upstairs in your house mak eh? Wee bit eh revision.

[Big Physical Acey]

There will no be much going on upstairs in your house mak eh? Wee bit eh revision.

[CritchSmile]

There will no be much going on upstairs in your house mak eh? Wee bit eh revision.

sacré bleu!