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Annoying people on Antiques Roadshow.


pattricia

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I would enjoy this show if it were not for the annoying people who lean forward to hear the price of a valuation.They are usually standing in a queue behind the expert and person wanting the valuation.They all lean at the same time,and go OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh, when the price is given.Also some people when they find out what their article is worth say " Well of course, I would never sell it" (Liars)

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I hate the smug ones who sit there knowing full well what their item is worth because they only had it valued last week. It's funny when the valuer on the show gives them a price and it's not what they were hoping to hear. They then have to put on a fake surprised expression to save face.

 

On the other hand I love to see the old dears living on a shoestring wheeling out their old bits and bobs to find they are worth a fortune. They are the folks who make it worth watching.

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my godmother went on once (about 4 years ago) with some hideous (but turned out to be quite valuable) paintings.

She queued up and saw the expert, who valued the paintings then asked if they could repeat the valuation for the cameras...she had to do her "oh, my! are they really?!" face twice for the cameras...of course the onlookers didnt hear the original valuation but know it must be something juicy as the cameras have been brought in, hence the leaning in for the verdict!

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The worst offenders, in my view, are the people who constantly, almost compulsively, make affirmative utterances as the expert reels off historical factoids, possibly rotating the actual word like one of those action men with string coming out of their backs:

 

"It's 200 years old"

"Yes"

"It was made in upper Saxony by a beel-weaver called Trevor the Otter"

"mm-mmm"

"It seems to have been altered..."

"Yes"

"...in the early nineteenth century, by..."

"mm-mmm"

"an extraordinarily talented shrimp. And if you see..."

"Yes"

"...here..."

"mm-mmm"

"...then..."

"Yes"

"...OK, look, love, if you already knew all of this, then why on earth did you bother coming on the show?"

"mm-mmm"

"Look, just..."

"Yes"

"STOP SAYING YES!!"

"mm-mmm"

"Look, just...it's worth about 200 quid, OK?"

"Yes"

"**** off"

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