[Angus]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Quite the opposite for me. That was when I started to go off him and question his intelligence. Most people would find being insulted by a tree to be quite a surreal experience, seeing the funny side of an inanimate object throwing out insults. Not Ben he became tetchy and irritable failing to find any humour in the situation. I was unimpressed by that.

Question, were you guys laughing with him or at him? I dont think Ben would appreciate the latter.

Oh please - don't pretend you ever liked him in the first place, and to deny that the exchange between Ben and the tree was anything but hilarious just makes you appear humourless and pedantic. Watching that exchange, the farthest thought from my mind was whether I was impressed or otherwise by Ben's inability to appreciate the absurdity of the situation.

Why should anyone care whether people laugh with or at him? The point is he makes people laugh, and whether Ben appreciates being laughed at is irrelevant - its up to Ben to entertain us and so far he's doing a great job. No doubt he wouldn't appreciate the obsessive lascivious speculation about his sexuality, and/or the mindless class hatred of some of the idiots on this forum either, but that's all part and parcel of the BB experience.