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Tim Peake

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Namechangingchameleon · 24/04/2016 13:42

I'm being totally U and preparing to be flamed but does anyone else find this guy really annoying?

6 months in Space (yawn) and today running the marathon on a treadmill. Bore off.

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Helmetbymidnight · 24/04/2016 21:58

We need more TOWIE/Kardashian/reality show people really.

No one wants to hear about talentless astronauts! He gets attention and he's not even that fit!

lenibose · 24/04/2016 21:58

He did run the actual marathon in 3 hours and 18 minutes. The qualifying time to make the team for the British Olympics this year was 3 hours and 14 minutes. It is safe to say that he wasn't a couch potato on earth.

lenibose · 24/04/2016 22:04

I mean that he has run the marathon on the road not just in space. Sheesh. Man is a pilot. He has been to the ISS. Run marathons. Has to do publicity work because that's part of the deal. And somehow he's boring.

When I first came to the UK I noticed that you guys really don't like people doing well, achieving and it is somehow shameful to be earnestly good at something. I genuinely don't understand why. So many comments saying 'oooff he would have been head boy, good at everything'. Isn't that lovely? That he is a man of accomplishment who has chosen to do something fascinating with his skills rather than become a banker in the City. Having lived here for two decades now I sometimes find this crab like desire to pull down NICE successful people truly bewildering.

Whathaveilost · 24/04/2016 22:06

I completely agree with you Lenin isentropic.
Haters gonna hate!
I've pushed my lads to be the best they can be but you know people will always pull that idea part. I've no idea why.

Whathaveilost · 24/04/2016 22:09

Lenibose your name went wrong on my post!

specialsubject · 24/04/2016 22:18

And whats the point of a full stomach when you all have empty minds?

brilliant. Thank you!

Highsteaks · 24/04/2016 22:20

The qualifying time to make the team for the British Olympics this year was 3 hours and 14 minutes.

I don't think this is correct? It can't be?

I sort of know what the OP means about Tim Peake. Obviously super intelligent, super fit, lovely wife and kids, and to top it off he is really charismatic and comes cross as a nice bloke. He is one of those people

Hamishandthefoxes · 24/04/2016 22:26

Yabu. It's easy to avoid him if you try and learn where the off button is on the to. I have heard anything about him since he went to space and didn't know about the marathon thing so thanks for telling me. I am now following him.

My DB is Tim. I call him tibbles which suits him better.

gingerboy1912 · 24/04/2016 22:26

Yanbu op, I know Tim peake is probably a great guy who's obviously very intelligent etc etc but every time see him on the tv I just want to smack him in the face

lenibose · 25/04/2016 00:22

I was wrong. It was 2 hours and 14 minutes. My apology.

lenibose · 25/04/2016 00:29

But see that's what I find baffling. Great guy. Intelligent. Hasn't made a sex tape to get famous. Or had plastic surgery. Or done dodgy political deals. Only in the UK, seriously, would people hate a guy like that. It's not even that he was born into a wealthy family or anything. No silver spoon in his mouth. Seriously man, I genuinely don't get the hate.

I lived in America for a while. And the one genuinely nice thing about America was that there was a real appreciation of achievement. I found the flag waving patriotism a bit much, but there was no shame in having worked hard to reach your goals.

I find it terrifying that so many, presumably women and parents, think that the achievements of Tim Peake, makes them want to 'punch his face' or they think it makes him smug etc. Surely surely this is exactly the sort of role model one would have? This is the only country I have lived in where being intelligent is somehow something to be sneered at.

trufflesnout · 25/04/2016 02:21

I get what you mean too, OP. But then I'm still sore over the way his trip was handled wrt: "the first Briton in space". I mean FFS. Poor bloody Helen S.

LarryStylison · 25/04/2016 06:09

Tbf, at least Kim Kardashian has something to give to the public. She has her image and her app-games. This Tim guy expects all the publicity for none of the work.

derxa · 25/04/2016 06:25

Another one. Flipping Steven Hawking Bog off Hawking. That American accent is so grating

Narp · 25/04/2016 06:36

thankyou derxa

Hulababy · 25/04/2016 07:04

Lenibose - it was TWO hours 14 min to qualify I think, def not THREE. Ears back my dad did it in 3h 13min and even back then he was no where near Olympic times!

Hulababy · 25/04/2016 07:05

Nicky - he has run it previously, in 1999

magratsflyawayhair · 25/04/2016 07:38

I love Tim Peake. I find science and space fascinating and think that he's a lovely man. Yes Helen went first but he really has the benefit of social media and technology to being the experience home to us. I think we should be proud of him.

lenibose · 25/04/2016 08:38

Yes I clarified that, sorry.
The Helen Sharman thing is unfortunate but not of Tim's doing. He went and met her before going into space. It has to do with questions of funding and undoubtedly also of gender. It doesn't though make TP 'boring'. If one wanted to be attention seeking there are far easier ways to do it eh?

Tallulahoola · 25/04/2016 08:46

YANBU. And how much stuff has he taken with him up there?! It's like for every news story he's packed the appropriate prop. Fully expecting him to have a song and dance routine prepared for Eurovision

Roussette · 25/04/2016 09:11

Agree with Vaara your comment about not fucking off to space for 6 months and the ego trip is beyond hilarious! You remind me of someone I met the other week - she was dead proud of the fact she'd never read a book, ever.

I think he's fantastic! And he's managing to inspire young kids with science! Your OP and subsequent posts are ridiculously daft. I think he is quite inspirational, I really do, he is trying to engage and why shouldn't he?

I track and watch the ISS from my garden every evening when it's going over, it's quite a sight. Best time is late dusk, it looks so close when it isn't, it's so distinctive, and sometimes I get a 6 minute view. But hey... I should be enjoying someone else's company instead, very antisocial of me to be inspired by this.

Vaara · 25/04/2016 09:23

It's like for every news story he's packed the appropriate prop

Didn't take his Prince rubber mask and wig though, did he? Bet he's kicking himself....

AnyFucker · 25/04/2016 09:31

Yep, the whole thing looks just a tad manipulative

and the good ole general public are lapping it up

I wonder what Game of Thrones/space travel-derived silly PA stunt he can pull this week...

YvaineStormhold · 25/04/2016 09:35

Lol at Eurovision props.

Wonder if he'll rip off his spacesuit and have a shorter space suit on underneath?

Hygge · 25/04/2016 09:39

"Wonder if he'll rip off his spacesuit and have a shorter space suit on underneath?"

If that doesn't happen now I'm going to be so disappointed.

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