BBC Icons

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BBC Icons.

What a stupid concept. In what way can Pablo Picasso be compared with Ernest Shackleton, Bowie with Ali? And why aren’t there categories for author or soldier?
However, this nomination arises not from the pointlessness, but from the typical BBC right-on approach to the selections. For example, is Alan Turing there ahead of Einstein because he is a more significant scientist (certainly arguable) or because he was gay and played by Cucumberpatch in a film? Is Mandela really a greater leader than Churchill? He was a compassionate and inspirational figure whilst a prisoner, but hardly a great president when his time to do some leading came (and his wife was an arch-cunt).

I’ve no problem with Luther-King or Bowie in their fields and Shackleton was obviously a top bloke.

There was some wailing and gnashing of teeth because there were no women in the final. Clare Balding made the (mostly) valid point that the 20th Century world was a mans’ one, then undermined herself by suggesting that in future we may be hailing such icons as Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama.

Aside from all that, for myself, if I had to pick one, it would be Ali. Not because he was a draft-dodger or Moslem convert, but simply because he was, for many years, the most famous man in the world. He would probably still be recognised by more people in the world than any of the others.

Nominated by Harry Axwound

67 thoughts on “BBC Icons”

  1. Because of Hollywood’s fear of being branded racist I noticed on Netflix and Amazon they have gone full out with Black actors depicting them in historical events where they never played a part. For example their is a film called Overlord where there’s a black parachute regiment jumping over France during the allied landings .It’s become absurd .

  2. Wim Wenders
    Roger Penrose
    H M Queen Elizabeth II
    Blixa Bargeld
    E H Carr
    Billie Holliday
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    Enoch Powell
    Alton Ellis
    Che Guevara
    Willard Quine
    Richard Feynman
    Percy Thrower
    Azealia Banks

    • Some good ones there. Feynman easily beats Turing, and Atatürk any politician I can think of. Except possibly Powell, locally.

      • Glad you approve- having second thoughts about Azealia Banks…. Have I seen you at CM?
        Good morning!

      • Second thoughts about Azealia Banks? Rather her than Che Guevara.

        Have a nice weekend 🙂

      • Morning RTC! Ernesto, the old fraud, was actually the only true icon in that list, so he has to stay. And Ms Banks cannot live by lips alone, hence my wavering.
        Looks like cunty weather this weekend, geçmiş olsun.

      • Fair do’s CS…. suppose I rather missed the point of the whole bollocks exercise in my rush to condemn Che.

        Still prefer Azealia’s lips though…

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