Hand Waving on TV

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People on TV who wave their hands about when speaking.
Why does everyone on TV feel the need to wave their damn hands about when they speak?
Is it because they are puppets and an out of sight assistant is pulling their strings?
No – they are told to do it (especially politicians) by body language “experts” who seem to think it emphasises the point the talking heads are trying to make, and it gives them a change from their usual deflection tactics when refusing to answer questions – “You know, er, so, the thing is” etc.
It is a relatively recent thing but it sends me barking mad STOP DOING IT FOR FUCKS SAKE – WE ARE NOT CABBAGES AND DO NOT NEED VISUAL AIDS TO ACCOMPANY YOUR LIES!
Feel better now.

Nominated by: Vernon Fox

79 thoughts on “Hand Waving on TV”

      • Not entirely sure how that would work. Lots of rubbing I presume. I’d urge caution on that front. Fire was discovered that way and I’d hate to see a chap end up looking like an exploded cigar.

    • Sir Fiddler – you are a monster – Lucy Martin holds the world swimming in a circle record! 😃👍

      • Foxy dont be so insensitive!
        She survived the USS Indianapolis.
        “You ever looked into a sharks eyes Chief?
        Those black eyes like dolls eyes?
        Then they roll over..

        Quint. Jaws.

  2. Brilliant pic of the late great Max Bygraves, Admin. I saw footage of him doing stand up once. He was a bit pissed I think. A brilliant comedian who could have made it as such had there not been so much to be made singing about toothbrushes and Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea.

    Irritating hand waving on TV was a speciality of Blair. He may even have invented it. What an absolute mega cunt. Very worthwhile cunting VF.

    • Saw an episode of Only Connect last night. There was a picture of Max Bygraves. Not one of the 6 contestants had even heard of him.

    • Max was an entertainer. Like Tommy Cooper, Max Wall and Billy Dainty.

      Now its all woke cunts who couldn’t keep an audience laughing if their lives depended on it.

      • Not fit to clean their boots, Norman. I always liked Al Jolson. What a fucking great singer. Of course now you get prosecuted for even mentioning him.

      • “Lammmmmy, Oh Lammmmmy-I’d walk a million miles
        Fer wan of Yer smiles
        Oh laaammmmmy

        Lammmmmy, oh Lammmmmmy-I’d swim a million lakes
        Fer yer Jaffa Cakes
        Oh Laaammmmmy.”

        Cunt.

  3. Good nom Foxy!
    Unfortunately I dont agree.
    I like animated talkers, like theyre doing martial arts or auditioning for the Happy Mondays, shows passion.
    I like those over enthusiastic sign language birds too.
    Rave on!!🤑✋✋🖐️🤟👌✌️👈

  4. They’ve all turned Italian*. Not content with genuinely believing they invented food, Italianos gesticulate every sentence, with an added bit of gurning to show the passion about what they’re blithering. Fucking annoying.

    Good nomination, Sir Vern.

    * I mean real Italians, the Latino halfwits, not the Romanians or Albanians who pretend they’re I-ties.

    • Romania and Albania should be nuked. After all the cunts from there that are now here are sent back there, of course.

  5. Always thought Prince Charles was a bit of a crank.
    Always used his hands and made that weird buzzing noise when he spoke.

    Him and the Sloaney were made for each other, I think. Both cunts three cans short of a six pack/

    • I’ve always half-expected Charlie-boy to claim that he was abducted by aliens and interfered with.
      It would explain a lot, especially the constipated voice.

  6. Magnus Pike, was one of the worst offenders.

    He was very endearing as a slightly eccentric professor, but OMG he didn’t half wave his arms around

    • Dirty cunt.
      Having never heard of her, I clinked on Sir Fidlers link.
      My first thought was “poor cow”.
      My second was similar to yours😀😂

  8. Caught some of Autumn Watch last night and couldn’t help notice that Megan McCubbin was guilty of hand gesturing all the time. Almost put me off my dirty thoughts about her, though not as much as when they zoomed in onto her step Dad Chris Packham

    • I saw that Michaela Strachan in the Hacienda club in 1989. She was doing that daft TV show with that Pete Waterman cunt.

      I’d have given her one like a shot in those days.

  9. Quite fancy Lucy Martin as well. Stand a better chance, only one hand to stop my advances!

  10. At one of the press conferences with Drakeford his signing guy did a wanker sign, I am sure it doesn’t actually mean wanker but it was funny and Drakeford is indeed a wanker.

    Wee Jimmy annoys me with her micro mechanical head movements, and her stupid Scottish accent, if she is going to appear on TV she should learn to speak proper fucking English 😂

  11. It’s reached pandemic proportions. Worst – birds with six inch nails.
    Waving, rolling eyes, covering cheeks, weeping, grinning and gurning – all actions liberally punctuated with absolutely! (or, as one said recently, absolutely, absolutely!)
    Bad offender – Dr Tori Herridge
    Loads of others – too many to list.
    Oven.

  12. To Admin,

    I must protest at all the nasty comments about Lucy Martin, the girl is harmless.

  13. I suppose it depends what they use their hands for. If Liza Nandy was patting those lovely big knockers and fondling them, fair enough, but Anal-Ease Dodds picking her nose or scratching her arse……

  14. Remember this testiculating cunt? He was famous for his imaginary ball-cupping gesticulation and he often talked a lot of balls too (the definition of “testiculation” being, roughly, “waving hands around whilst talking balls”).

    I seem to recall exactly this having been the subject of a sketch or three on Spitting Image, but dating from before the Internet was a commonplace and the fact that nobody gave/gives a fuck – hence the paucity of YouTube uploads. Here he is however, still at it 20 years on, addressing some cunts at his alma mater:

    https://youtu.be/y7Xumg5IDQk

    A prime, if rather stale, exemplar of the type.

      • iirc, indeed he was Norm. Apparently, he’s still breathing. DeadPool, anyone?

        Testiculation notwithstanding, the old fraud would even now run rings round Boris, Treeson &c.

    • This gesticulating wildly while talking is a phase,
      Like rubics cubes, hula hoops,
      Covid, and leg warmers.
      But itll get worse before it stops,
      Like theyre fuckin breakdancing soon,
      Cant wait to see big Di Abbott doing the ‘caterpillar’ on Sky news
      Or Boris doing the ‘robot’ .

  15. Made a nom on this ‘twitchy’ behaviour ages ago but mods didn’t post it.

    It’s the jerky head movements that fuck me off. News presenters do it, politicians/manipulaters are the worst offenders. It’s a lame attempt at influencing and all it does is make me think you’ve either got Tourettes or are possessed.

  16. This lying cunt…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBc_eBY6bvY

    …provides a veritable full-English breakfast of hand gestures. The heat was on and he deftly out-manoeuvred the inquisition with his hand flapping.

    I almost thought the cunt was taking the piss with an attempted impersonation of Yoffy from Fingerbobs.

    “Yoffy lifts a finger and a mouse is there. Puts his hands together and a seagull takes the air Yoffy lifts a finger and a scampi darts about Yoffy lifts another and a tortoise head peeps out These hands were made for making and making they shall DO!”

    These hands were made for being a cunt and being a cunt they did rather well.

  17. Those cunts who sign for the deaf on television drive me up the wall. I once switched on to watch a film on Channel 4 about one o’clock in the morning, and there’s this little twat in the corner of the screen waving his hands about and pulling silly faces. How are you supposed to concentrate? I turned it off.

    • Bertie@
      Hope your in fine fettle?
      Ive a new pitch for a ISAC game for admin,
      ‘NAME THAT CUNT’
      One cunter gets the nod to choose a cunt and gives 3 clues
      Then we all take a guess.
      I did suggest ‘its a Knockout’
      But got told to fuck off.

      • Good idea Mis. Anything that increases the appeal of IsAC is a good thing.
        We could have an IsAC Christmas charades game. Perhaps people could suggest how we can mime the word ‘cunt’ ?
        I can’t imagine what finger actions could possibly suggest this.
        😀

        (Perhaps Lord Fiddler could be IsaC Father Christmas, with MNC as his Little Helper. All we want is a fairy for the Christmas Tree! – DA)

      • Fairies seem to be in short supply DA. We don’t seem to have any posting at the moment.😀

        (Actually we might have to fall into line and advertise for a non-binary, non-gender-specific non-white working class, migrant-without-documentation soy liberal. Do we know of any? DA)

      • Admin@
        You should advertise the position, now Kravs gone.

        Hateful gay wanted for dastardly deeds!!

        Hold auditions!

      • I’m envisaging Fiddler in an ill fitting Father Christmas suit, sat in his grotto with half a bottle of Bushmills a cloud of backy smoke and a stream of foul language, only to brighten up to tell Gemma Arterton there is a stick of candy in his pocket for her.

  19. Rob bell is an arch cunt for gesticulatng, calls himelf an Engineer/adventurer? i have no idea what he has ‘Engineered’ or where he’s been ‘Adventuring’ because he’s always on the fucking telly reading from a fucking script and waving his hands about like a demented fucking magnus pyke on crack, fuck off rob you’re a boring cunt!

  20. That top scientist, professor virologist, epidemiologist and Doctor Bill Gates is always waving his fuckin hands about the bullshitting cunt he’s fuck all else

  21. Andrew Marr used to be a big gesticulator. I wish his stroke slowed more than his arms down, the self-impressed cunt.

    • Stavros@
      Left you a message on the smartphone nom.
      Its scientific on evolutionary benefits of western eyes over Chinese eyes,
      And how you can beat Bruce Lee in a fight.

      Im fuckin wasted on here,
      Should be on tv.

      • Haha I agree. If the TV doesn’t work out you could always write a book.

        “The Northern Cunts Miserable ways to Success”

        *Amazon Look Inside..
        Chapter 1: How you can beat Bruce Lee in a fight.

        😄

  23. The only hand waving I want to see is dinghy invaders, as they slowly sink from view.
    Just the thought of it has cheered me up no end.
    Get To Fuck.

    • Evening Jack,
      I’ll sail behind in a boat flying a coast guard flag.
      Imagine their faces when they realise im chumming the water.

      • You could fire a couple of Kamikaze Midgets at ’em, torpedo style.
        Their big heads would turn them into mere flotsam, jetsam and pulp.
        Evening MNC.

  24. The ONLY way to watch a Blair video is to mute the sound and watch the waving hands. Should have joined a Balinese traditional ladies’ dance troupe, the lying gay cunt.

    • “gay” as in the cheerful sense of the word, presumably? I’m sure you of all people would never use it to describe a homosexual. 😂

      • Of course! Though we can never know for sure what happened in that public toilet. I’m glad to see my concern for the language is not lost on my reader.

  25. Remembdr Tone?
    Tony?
    Anthony Charles Lynton Miranda Blair?
    He modified that old joke about How do you know when a politician is lying.
    When he started manually demonstrating the size of his dick, or maybe it was the width of Cherie’s mouth, you absolutely knew that his pink budgie smugglers were self immolating.

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