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A peanut who can speak several languages and earns a way lot more than you do by being a peanut. Makes me wonder who really is the peanut.

Nice Caps thanks.

Sam is looking cute but i don't like her hair as it's very teenagerish

Modecko, I let your comments go in the Mel Doyle forum, but this time I'm not going to.

Who the hell do you think you are buddy ? So O'Keefe knows how to speak a few languages - woopdeefuckendoo, he's still an idiot as far as I'm concerned. O'Keefe has a Law Degree....just like thousands of other Australians. Means he knows something about the legal system....and probably not much of anything else (definitely not comedy).

And how on earth do you know how much money bluedog earns ? Do you work for the ATO and have his/her 2009 tax return right in front of you ?

"Makes you wonder who really is the peanut".....indeed. Pot, kettle, black. Need some sandpaper to scrub back that chip you carry around on your shoulder ?

What the fuck do you know LoshioTTT, you are making a judgement without knowing the person? So I guess you are saying that it's perfectly alright to slag any celebrity here just because you personally don't like them, and based purely on their media appearances.

I get sick and tired of peanuts slagging off celebrities here and elsewhere as though they are some expert on the matter having met thousands of them and able to make the personal judgement from their armchairs to anonymously slag them off.

If you don't like the celeb then why go to their thread just to make some disparaging remark. So you think O'Keefe is a peanut, well whoopty fucking do, just keep it to yourself instead of cluttering up boards with inane peanut brained comments, better still don't comment on the threads of the celebrities you don't like.

wow i think people in this thread need to chill out. This isn't a "only good things to say about celebrities" forum. Just as people are allowed to dote over their favourite celebs, others are allowed to comment about things they dont like

Chill out dude this is a forum, people use it to express opinions and have discussions, just because you dont agree doesnt mean u need to jump off the deep end and get personal.

BTW we have every right to judge celebrities, ur right they do make alot of money and they make it off us, so we should be allowed to be critical occasionally.

I have no obs with constructive and factual criticism, and many of the presenters and journos out there deserve constructive criticism, but calling a celeb or presenter a peanut or ugly or bringing in their politics because of your own ideology is not constructive criticism at all.

If we all start doing that then this board would rapidly degenerate into a slangfest. This board used to have a policy of not slagging celebs and really if you don't like someone why visit their thread just to put shit on them. Yeah if a presenter or celeb stuffs up, has the dress sense of a Victorian era wowser, is a bad journo or bad actor then criticism is deserved, but calling them a peanut is not criticism, it's just personal brainless slagging with no real informative purpose.

There are several personalities here that I don't hold in high regard for a variety of reason yet other members here do. See how long this board will remain civil as it now is if I and everyone goes around slagging everyone they don't like. Those that do like the personality will defend them and a slangfest ensues. Why not hold your personal dislike of a personalty to yourself , engage in constructive criticism if you believe they are not up to scratch and praise those who deserve it. Much nicer that way and makes for better place for all to visit.

Sam on Youtube, sans peanut.

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There are certainly a lot of "peanuts" on television (and elsewhere) and I certainly don't think sighting their academic ability and pay-balance makes them exempt. However, by the fact that the women are often judged in a different way to the men makes me think peoples motives may be a little disingenuous. It is easy to latch on to a few of their admitted foibles and not put into perspective whether the 'said' celebrity is actually capable of doing their job adequately or not. Conversely, women that we find physically attractive become exempt from the same kinds of criticism.

I suggest any concerns over the media industry may run deeper than some so-called 'peanut' on a largely ineffectual morning current-affairs programme.

Okay, my two cents worth...

The way I see it (being somebody who's made more then a few celebrity cracks myself) is, that if you put yourself out there & choose to have a public life where the measure of your career is proportionate to other peoples opinion of you, both praise & criticism come with the territory. Yin with the yang & all that.

I think the majority of them would know that & are a bit thicker skinned then we give them credit to be & they wouldn't care what comments some people may say on boards like this.

I don't believe celebrities should be considered to be above criticism any more than the rest of us. They are, after all, only celebrities. They're not restoring peoples eyesight, they're not separating conjoined twins, they're not pulling people out of burning buildings or catching dangerous criminals & getting them off the streets, etc. And even people who do do all of those things aren't above criticism.

The main difference being we & they do is that they do it publicly (& they do get paid very well for it). I've been treading the boards as a Thespian for quite some years now &, on occasion, have seen some pretty unnecessarily insulting & completely irrelevant barbs in the local press by some critic with an axe to grind or baring some petty chip on his/her shoulders. You just take it as part of the business & get on with it. In fact, you have to be able to do that, I know a lot of people who burnt out because they couldn't.

Additionally, if any member of the public who goes to see a show I did, thought it (or I) was shit, has a blog & decides to say how much he hated it (or me) in his blog, that's his prerogative. At the same token, if he works at as a sales assistant in a department store & I (& his other customers) thought his service was poor, we've got just as much right to tell people in whatever environments our voice is heard.

You've even got shows on the tellybox like TMZ on GO! which exists solely to poke fun & ridicule celebrities. I reckon they laugh at those shows just as much as the rest of us, they laugh when they're having a go at someone else & enjoy the attention when they're having one at them...

But, having said all that, I think criticism about a celebrity says more about the celebrity & less about the attitude of the poster when it's done with a bit of humour.

There is one other interesting point in all this... By reading all the text posts, for many, this whole thread doesn't seem to be so much about a newsreader, but rather about a large pair of breasts. Enough to surmise that this thread probably wouldn't be so popular is Sammy had average size breasts. Is valuing someone for their breasts all that much better than calling someone else a peanut?