as a little spot of joy in the midst of this seething cauldron of bile
I present,

Mr Adam Hart-Davis, pop-scientist, historian and TV bod -genuinely one of the nicest people ever to set shoe on sod, and certainly one of the kindest and most interesting people I've ever met.

I was lucky enough to spend a couple of weeks with him a few years back, and he is just a lovely, lovely chap - tolerant, open-minded and generous to a fault - he'd give you the shirt off his back.

that's all, really!

Oh - and Fearne Cotton is a bell-end.
(jennymnemonic, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 14:16, 11 replies)

Yay.
I love his shows. They're interestingly fun. Or enjoyably educational? Silly and sound! =D
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 14:55, closed)

Dare I say it?
i think hes actually quite sexy
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 15:43, closed)

Hooray for this.
I enjoy his shows but was always worried that he's secretly an utter cockend. Thank you for putting my mind at ease.
(Big D, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 17:31, closed)

Well, sorry to piss on your chips but
since he started to advertise Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs he has moved from my 'good-guys' list to my 'cunts' list. Sorry. Say hello to Jonny.
( lion-cake Bad lion-cake, bad., Sun 7 Feb 2010, 18:56, closed)

She most certainly is!
God bless that man and his funky bicycles!
(burkyman, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 20:03, closed)

I disagree
My mother used to work for the Institute Of Physics. During one conference in which a certain TV presenter was present, every room in the hotel received a call from said TV presenter. If the recipient of the call was a lady, she was propositioned with a.... proposition.

The man is not as honourable as he seems.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 3:13, closed)

^^ this^^
I have a couple of friends who work for the IOP who have independently said pretty much the same thing...

And if I'm going to vent about science comminucators, can I just add that Kathy Sykes, the The Daily Mail Professor for the Public Misunderstanding of Science is the biggest waste of a professorial chair since George Bush was appointed head of the Peace Studies Department at the University of Kabul...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 9:01, closed)

^^ this ^^
with big brass knobs on. I think "Daily Mail Science Correspondent" is a fantastic oxymoron, especially when you consider that the Mail allows ignorant fucktards like Melanie "if-you're-not-heterosexual-British-and-christian-then-you're-soooo-going-to-hell" Phillips to make comments on important scientific questions, about which they appear to have formed their opinions from studying the readers' letters pages of The Sun.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 9:36, closed)

Are you in the science communication field?
There's a number of science communicators with dubious reputations...
( TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:10, closed)

when he had his Local Heroes tv show many years ago
I emailed him to say how much I enjoed it and got a nice reply back
( Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:04, closed)

I dislike him
Not for his body of work, which is fairly respectable - solely for the advert he did for somethingorother, which involved him riding a vacuum cleaner (I think) down Cheddar Gorge. I was almost an hour late getting home because of that, which, by my way of thinking, makes him almost as bad as the Hamburglar.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 23:23, closed)