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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be disappointed my lockdown mornings have been ruined?

150 replies

Letitgo123 · 10/03/2021 07:30

So before anybody gets on there free speech high horse or takes this indepth with the whole Meghan Markle debaucle this is not what this is about so please refrain yourselves. I merely am soooo devestated that Piers will no longer be on the go in the mornings to entertain me with his carry-ons. It was the only reason I watched GMB. I am now tuned into boring Breakfast tv. I will never watch GMB again. It really took me away from the monotony of this lockdown and gave me a bit of excitement in my life. AIBU? Probaby but we all need something to keep us going!! I cant be the only one surely?? Free Piers Morgan!!!

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KaptainKaveman · 10/03/2021 10:40

Interestingly, Stalin is still revered by many in Russia.

TheChild · 10/03/2021 10:41

@Bagamoyo1

I can't believe how many people watch this programme. Does no one on MN have a job?
You do know that for the past year a lot of people have been out of work or furloughed, right?

Shock horror, some people have jobs that aren't 9-5, and some of us even work part time Shock

cyclingmad · 10/03/2021 10:42

The fact you find someone bullying another person(s), being sexit and a myriad of other offensive things is entertaining, you are not better than him.

I don't find it entertaining whatsoever. You are part of the problem! Will yo upstand and watch and laugh at your daughter or son being bullied or called names? If your answer is no than why do you find it entertaining watching a grown man who should know better do it?

OhCaptain · 10/03/2021 10:43

I think there’s a very particular type of person who is a fan of Piers.

Not a person I’d ever want to be.

As an aside, you might want to look at your life in general if watching a pompous, privileged arsehole spout hateful nonsense every morning was some sort of highlight for you.

That’s quite sad, actually.

RedGoldAndGreene · 10/03/2021 10:45

He'll be back in one form or another.

GMB are screwed now.

gingganggooleywotsit · 10/03/2021 10:46

you can still watch the show you know OP it's not the Piers Morgan show! The other presenters do a much better job!

Crystalclair · 10/03/2021 10:47

What is frustrating though, is how when someone has an opinion on here, they are put into neat boxes by default:-

Read the Daily Mail? = thick
Vote Conservative? = Rasist
Not fond of Meghan Markle? = Racist.
Like Trump? = sexist
... and so on.

Yet in real life, we like people who we will not always share the exact same views with, or that have certain traits we are not fond of. However, most of us don't put them into one defining box.

I'm so fed up of people on here feeling free to Express their views as if everyone does/should agree, the shooting someone down with an opposing view.

MrsJBaptiste · 10/03/2021 10:56

@Bagamoyo1

I can't believe how many people watch this programme. Does no one on MN have a job?
Well, yes but since I've been stuck WFH for a year I've got more time in the morning even though I log on at 8am rather than getting to the office at 9am.

I do not however, watch GMB - it's BBC Breakfast in this house Brew

gingganggooleywotsit · 10/03/2021 11:02

I stopped watching ages ago due to Piers incessant ranting. May give it a go again on my day off now he's gone. Good riddance I say. He's had his day.

Letitgo123 · 10/03/2021 11:20

Thanks crystalclair for pointing that out. Never said I agreed with everything Piers said or did just that I enjoyed his antics. And I dont mind a read of the Dailymail for a circuit breaker actually! I think everybody has guilty pleasures!! Yip everybodys entitled to there opinions but nobody needs to draw assumptions on a person or to call them out because of this. If your behaviour reflects your personality then enough said.

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Crystalclair · 10/03/2021 11:35

Exactly OP. I like watching Katie Hopkins for example. She fascinates me. Some things she says I agree with, most I don't. Yet I find her so interesting, irritating and funny. I could never be friends with someone like her though.

Also, I love watching films/dramas about psychopaths, wars, murder mysteries etc. Guess what? I'm not a murderer or psychopath. I shouldn't be defined as one just because I like watching that stuff.

turquoisewaters · 10/03/2021 12:07

Either you condemn him for being a misogynistic bully who called a suicidal woman a 'liar', or you don't. Do you

Why the need to corner people in this way? It smacks of fascism, it's not acceptable

ArosGartref · 10/03/2021 12:41

Can't believe I clicked on this

Tianatiers · 10/03/2021 12:46

Horses for courses but I do wonder if the kind of people who liked to watch people like Piers/Katie Hopkins would enjoy it as much if they were persistently slating and bullying them or their loved ones. At school did you enjoy watching classmates being bullied? Or were you the bully? Just interested really. Is this the kind of society you want to live in?

Ohdobequiet · 10/03/2021 13:10

Don’t bite...

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 10/03/2021 13:12

@Crystalclair

Exactly OP. I like watching Katie Hopkins for example. She fascinates me. Some things she says I agree with, most I don't. Yet I find her so interesting, irritating and funny. I could never be friends with someone like her though.

Also, I love watching films/dramas about psychopaths, wars, murder mysteries etc. Guess what? I'm not a murderer or psychopath. I shouldn't be defined as one just because I like watching that stuff.

But Katie Hopkins does indeed hate other women. You enjoy watching/listening to her, along with other psychopaths. We all have different tastes and it doesn't make you a psychopath yourself but it doesn't change the fact that KH hates other women and you and others who click/add to her viewing figures, flame that fire.

I have a friend who is fascinated with paedophile programmes. We're both mums, I don't understand it myself and don't like that sort of programme, but to her it's a programme.

Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgan are ineffective as presenters. If they were any good at all they'd never need propping up for their braying, hectoring and utterly misogynistic manner of presenting. They have nothing else. That's sad; or it would be if I gave a stuff about either of them.

MintyMabel · 10/03/2021 13:27

Yip everybodys entitled to there opinions but nobody needs to draw assumptions on a person or to call them out because of this. If your behaviour reflects your personality then enough said

What other kind of assumption can there be for someone who thinks it is ok for men to bully women? That any good things they do can outweigh the fact that someone does that?

Read the Daily Mail? = thick Vote Conservative? = Rasist Not fond of Meghan Markle? = Racist. Like Trump? = sexist

This kind of narrative is really problematic. Partly because it is untrue, but also because it gives people the impression that their behaviour in any one of those things must automatically be ok. It isn’t racist to decide you don’t like Meghan. But it is racist to base that on “something I can’t quite put my finger on” or “she’s rude, forceful and outspoken” (buying in to the angry black woman stereotype) or “because she did x, y and z” but you were perfectly fine when the pretty, white Princess did it.

I’m not aware of Conservative voters automatically being seen as racist, but from the Trump point of view, it’s not so much that his supporters are all racist, but it is the case that the reason he came to power is because a significant number of incredibly racist people also support him, and he has shown he is ok with that. They support your guy too, shouldn’t that give you some pause if you genuinely believe racism is bad?

He’s another great example of cognitive dissonance. Sure, he tears immigrant kids from their parents, locks them in cages and has no way of tracking them to reunite them, but hey, my 401k did brilliantly this year, I’ll vote for him again.

NormanStangerson · 10/03/2021 13:31

Was OP on the wind up? Only post ever and some carefully choreographed SPAG errors worked in...

MacDuffsMuff · 10/03/2021 13:36

but nobody needs to draw assumptions on a person or to call them out because of this.

Apart from Piers Morgan eh OP? 😂 @Letitgo123

MolyHolyGuacamole · 10/03/2021 13:37

@ZaraW

If Piers Morgan brings excitement to your life then you are beyond help. There's nothing worse than angry, middle aged, right wing males.
Ditto
Washimal · 10/03/2021 13:49

Fuck Piers Morgan, man is a cunt.

I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, but it's unfair to call him a cunt. Cunts are marvellous things, there is nothing marvellous about Piers Morgan.

To answer the OP, yes YABU. Referring to racism, misogyny, bullying and promoting outdated and stigmatising attitudes to Mental Health as "a carry on", "entertaining" and "antics" is colossally ignorant and insensitive. It may be a bit of light-hearted entertainment for you but many people's lives are impacted by those problems in a very real sense. Have some empathy.

Crystalclair · 10/03/2021 14:07

Fucking hell, you lot must only sit and watch Little House on the Prairie and the Discovery channel for your entertainment.

God forbid someone actually likes different things, or has different opinions. Your social circle must be very small.

Quite amusing.

Crystalclair · 10/03/2021 14:09

And as for enjoy watching bullies or in fact being a bully? Another massive leap. Its laughable.

MacDuffsMuff · 10/03/2021 14:58

@Crystalclair

'Quite amusing'. 'It's laughable'. What is?

Sorry, maybe I'm not reading your posts correctly.

Do you mean it's amusing and laughable to watch someone on TV bully others or its amusing and laughable for people to highlight that's actually what's been happening?

Because I know you can't mean that someone on here saying that they disagree with the OP is bullying them, because that's not what bullying means ... right? Some of the replies that the OP has had have been really horrible and unkind, but bullying?

peak2021 · 10/03/2021 15:01

I get that a person on radio or tv can be an integral part of the day. I never listened to the late Terry Wogan when he was on Radio 2 but recall the sadness when he stopped presenting.

However, someone as unpleasant as Piers Morgan, YABU.