Particularly around any quiz situation he was involved in. Patronising isnāt even the word. āI thought that was an easy one but there you goā, Those type of comments,
But that wankerish and arrogant side made for good interviewing too I think.
The time he rang the woman on the postal quiz who had lost her daughter the day before summed him up. He was very considerate in such a difficult situation, asked her the question, added āgood itās an easy oneā - why there was any need to say that I donāt know.
But his arrogance allowed him to deal with that, apart from the āeasyā comment,
Sheās A Cracker, would normally be regarded as a compliment but in the US (some parts anyway) a ācrackerā is a derogatory term for whites often used by blacks.
āIt has been suggested that white slave foremen in the antebellum South were called ācrackersā owing to their practice of ācracking the whipā to drive and punish slavesā
Eamon Casey and my grandmother were 1st cousinsā:grimacing:, something I learned the day the scandal broke in 1992, well I probably knew in my younger days but had forgotten.
Incredible woman. Her decision to look away while the Russian anthem played saw her suffer for decades under the new regime. Thankfully things improved later in her life. Fascinating story
