Great British Bake Off 2018 - 2nd thread

[southeastdweller]

www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off

Candice! With her lipstick and pouting

Frances seems to have a fairly high profile.

yolo you are not alone I do like Pru's style. It's a bonus highlight of Great British Menu too.

It looks like (though possibly editing) that Rahul finds it very hard to accept praise and encouragement / enthusiasm for what he does. That Skype call where his mother was criticising him seemed normal to him.

How come some poor woman in India is suddenly an abusive parent who's son had to travel across the world to escape her evil clutches? On the basis of what? Her annoying son who despite having zero confidence has managed to apply for a national baking competition?

Jeezy peeps, Can’t someone just be shy or socially awkward without it being down to abuse or being on the spectrum?

It’s also possible to be confident in some areas of life than others.

I think Rahul is quite shy too. I suspect that, underneath, he also might be quite competitive when it come to the actual work.

I thought it was right that Karen and Terry both went this week. I'm hoping to see Kim Joy in the final.

Another way to judge the post-GBBO success of previous constants is by their listing on Amazon. James Morton (runner-up in the first GBBO?) has four books out now. Edd Kimber has three. Nadya has eight. Candace, just one.

ppeat Im Indian descent, albeit probably a good 15 20 years older than Rahul and a woman, so the pressure has probably ramped up more recently with the pressure to make India into a global superpower. I do get what your DIL is saying, education is king in India and children are put under a very different, traditional educational system, but accusing a woman in a developing country, of being abusive on the basis of a very heavily edited TV programme about baking is a bit harsh!

Terry 😢
My heart is a little broken for him. I hope he has good people around him

Candace went on Dancing On Ice and was eliminated first week. I couldn't warm to her at all on either show and her 💄 drove me up the wall!!!

I equally don't understand how people can profess to hate individual contestants. I get it that some may be more attractive/irritating/endearing than others, but hatred? What have any of them really done to any of us to deserve that? Bear in mind also that they have no control over the editing - we've had incidences in the past of contestants appearing to react unpleasantly to something that seems to have just happened, e.g. a close rival getting good feedback, only to find out later that actually they were reacting to something completely unrelated.

Over600 What about Ruby with the lovely eyes? She didn't win but I know she has quite `large article in the Guardian or Observer? colour food issue

Gersemi I agree about using the word hate when referring to a telly programme contestant, but to be fair maybe it's because we overuse the word love!!!! We don't actually MEAN it!!!! (unless we're weird stalkers

Yes biblio

Expecting to be abused (physically or verbally) in almost every situation does lead to very apologetic "flinchy" children, who grow into very apologetic "flinchy" adults, who are eager to please, terrified of making an error, and live on their nerves..

I know, because I'm one of them - I tried very hard as a child to be "good", but could never be quite "good" enough. It's only recently that I have stopped apologising for things beyond my control (eg the weather).

I suspect that there are a lot of us about.

Sorry to hear that, Schaden.

Candice got married last weekend and what was lovely was that the bakers who were with her in the tent all rented a holiday cottage in France for the weekend and did loads of baking together for her and her new hubby. I love that they are all still in touch. I enjoyed that year.

Am loving this lot of contestants, suspect Kim-Joy or Rahul will win....Ruby has also got to be a contender as well. Briony is great bit think nerves couod let her down,

Thank you biblio - wasn't mentioning it for attention, but appreciate the thought.

I think many parents do a lot of harm thinking they are doing good. Others are just bastards.

Posters saying about Rahul being beaten or emotionally abused as a child, and thinking that's why he's so apologetic and always flinching now, you may be right.
I was mentally, physically and emotionally abused (by my parents) as a child. I really like Rahul. A couple of weeks in DH and I were watching and I said to him "Oh I really like Rahul, he's lovely but he seems scared and afraid all the time. He really reminds me of someone but I don't know who"
DH just looked at me and said "You. He reminds you of yourself. You're just like that" He was right

I’m dismayed by the turn this thread has taken. To accuse a woman of abusing her child based on someone in a baking competition being shy and socially challenged is disgraceful.

Hilda

Polly - I don't think anyone has accused anyone - we are just speculating that it is a possibility that someone - not necessarily a parent - might have over-disciplined a sensitive child.

It happens.

But we've probably exhausted the speculation anyway.

To accuse a woman of abusing her child based on someone in a baking competition being shy and socially challenged is disgraceful.

To echo Schadenfreude, I'm certainly not 'accusing' Rahul's mother of anything. Nor, as some posters have suggested, do I think it has anything to do with him or his mother being Indian .