Grand Designs in Brixton, Channel 4

[leanderman]

And, horror of horrors, pain etched on their faces, they have had to sell their existing house to create the new one.

 

[Badgers]

Why are you watching? Do you like being annoyed?

 

[quimcunx]

 

[leanderman]

Coz it's nearby. But I gave up programme at 22.33mins. Will route my run there tomorrow to see

 

[Badgers]

Coz it's nearby. But I gave up programme at 22.33mins. Will route my run there tomorrow to see

Good on ya

 

[Greebo]

Watched it on repeat. Absolutely hated the house they built. Even the place they sold in Norfolk must have felt a bit too maximalist for that woman.

 

[teuchter]

I didn't notice them using the word 'plebs'.

 

[billythefish]

It's a fridge.

 

[Greebo]

It's a fridge.

I'm not having that - a plain white fridge would look far more appealing than that.

 

[leanderman]

Checked it out this morning: It's not quite as horrible as I had hoped.

However, there is something bullying about the way it dominates the vicinity.

I presume the 'slip' offset top floor is to gain vital school catchment inches.

 

[Winot]

I presume the 'slip' offset top floor is to gain vital school catchment inches.

Perhaps they'll rent it out...

 

[lefteri]

I think the slip offset floor is the real bullying culprit here - you can see the ground floor didn't want to be part of the trouble, it was subject to pier pressure

 

[Crispy]

 

[Kanda]

surely it was tier pressure...

 

[DaveCinzano]

The tiers of a clown.

 

[catriona]

I watched the prog and have cycled past the house. I like that they built their own home and made it how they wanted it. It took energy and skill, as well as the money which was not an obscene amount.
The Ritzy recently showed a documentary about some really excessive housebuilding: www.picturehouses.co.uk/film/queen_of_versailles

 

[teuchter]

The Ritzy recently showed a documentary about some really excessive housebuilding: www.picturehouses.co.uk/film/queen_of_versailles

Quite a judgemental synopsis on the picturehouse website there

 

[editor]

I like that they built their own home and made it how they wanted it.

If only everyone else had that opportunity, eh?

 

[ringo]

If only everyone else had that opportunity, eh?

Thats just sour grapes. So do we now encourage people to better themsleves and be successful but then pillory them if they make some money? I have no idea if they earned/inherited/won/stole their cash, but it seems pointless to hate themn for having the wedge to do it.

 

[editor]

Thats just sour grapes. So do we now encourage people to better themsleves and be successful but then pillory them if they make some money? I have no idea if they earned/inherited/won/stole their cash, but it seems pointless to hate themn for having the wedge to do it.

How is wishing that everyone had the opportunity to build the house of their dreams "sour grapes"?

 

[ringo]

Surely you can see your post was a tad curmudgeonly? Certainly came across that way, but if not don't worry about it

 

[leanderman]

Surely you can see your post was a tad curmudgeonly? Certainly came across that way, but if not don't worry about it

fact they did not have children would have boosted their spending power, notes this father of three

 

[teuchter]

\notes this father of three

If only everyone else had that opportunity, eh?

etc

 

[editor]

If only everyone else had that opportunity, eh?

etc

What, to go on TV and talk about your kids?

 

[teuchter]

What, to go on TV and talk about your kids?

I though this was about the fact that they had the opportunity to build their own house, rather than that they had the opportunity to talk about it on TV. Is the going on TV bit objectionable?

 

[editor]

I though this was about the fact that they had the opportunity to build their own house, rather than that they had the opportunity to talk about it on TV. Is the going on TV bit objectionable?

Awfully sorry, but I'm afraid I won't be clapping along to another of your deadly dull whinge-alongs.

 

[leanderman]

Going on TV reveals a degree of vanity, as does the construction.

 

[leanderman]

If only everyone else had that opportunity, eh?

etc

not sure what you mean but number of children and wealth hardly seem positively correlated

although there may be a recent trend for rich people to have bigger families.

especially the obnoxious types such as Toby Young and Boris Johnson (at least four each)

 

[nagapie]

Boris Johnson has kids, urgh!

 

[Greebo]

Boris Johnson has kids, urgh!

Not only that, at least 2 other women were sufficiently lacking in taste to shag him - pass the mind bleach!