[the truth]

cant read a clock? yet has a 1st class degree?
anyone believe him?
or is he taking the jade goody path to attention seeking?
once things for sure that pantomime tonight got him air time and twitter fans who shared in his pain and inability to do the simplest things
you been well coached joey

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by the truth

cant read a clock? yet has a 1st class degree?
anyone believe him?
or is he taking the jade goody path to attention seeking?
once things for sure that pantomime tonight got him air time and twitter fans who shared in his pain and inability to do the simplest things
you been well coached joey

It is quite possible.
My daughter has had difficulty with telling the time when she was younger .
She also has her degree and her masters..so she is far from stupid.
We bought her the big teaching watch when she as little, but she was clueless.
Just some people don't see it or get it.

[joeysteele]

Oddly enough I don't mind him on 'I'm a Celebrity', he is up for the trials and is a laugh at times too.

[the truth]

hmmm I don't believe him, lets see how it plays out

[Vanessa]

Yeah, i like him. He's up for a laugh.

[BigSister]

i dont think anyone can play that dumb that long through. I feel like hes not playing a game with thetime

[the truth]

Originally Posted by BigSister

i dont think anyone can play that dumb that long through. I feel like hes not playing a game with thetime

well if its real and he got a first class degree but cant read a clock, it doesn't say much about our higher education system.......reminds me of the Cambridge graduate on the apprentice who couldn't calculate the change from a tenner

[Kizzy]

I think the degree thing is a fib, he's only 21 isn't he? He hasn't been studying while on towie
He's been great so far on IAC.

[smeagol]

cant read a clock lol whats to read.
i like to play dumb its good at putting people at ease but reading a clock is going to far lol

[Mystic Mock]

I've got to be honest I'm not brilliant at looking at the time on a Clock, but what even got me was that he didn't know what the little hand was for which proved to me that he was faking it.

[King Gizzard]

Thought this said Josy for a minute

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by smeagol

cant read a clock lol whats to read.
i like to play dumb its good at putting people at ease but reading a clock is going to far lol

oh, the dumb thing with you, was an act.
players only love you when they are playing.

he is from Essex and everyone knows they cant act! in Essex.

I like him, in the trials with Mathew, showed he is a nice guy.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I think the degree thing is a fib, he's only 21 isn't he? He hasn't been studying while on towie
He's been great so far on IAC.

im sure he is 23.

[nina73]

He,s playing it clever got himself more airtime and got closer to the model wat,s her name ...now that's not dumb is it....

[Cherie]

I thought I would hate him, but I don't.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I thought I would hate him, but I don't.

I actually like him more than I did before he went in but it is annoying when he acts dumb like that, he's clearly playing up to his image, i don't believe that he can't read the time and I don 't believe he thinks "confrontate" is a real word either

[Jack_]

To be fair, there's people I know that can't read an analogue clock, it seems to be an increasingly common thing nowadays...that people don't learn to tell the time using an actual clock because digital ones are available that do it for you

Having said that, there are also people I know that struggle to understand digital clock hours, so they forget what hour 20:00 is, or 16:00 etc

Learning to tell the time was one of the first things I was ever taught though so I've never understood it but the problem is definitely real. Small perhaps, but still real

[Niamh.]

Do they not teach you to read the time in school though? I remember my son doing it in school a couple of years back

[GiRTh]

No way Joey Essex has a first class honours degree but thinks Jesus' mother is called Yaysus or whatever the hell it was he said on celebrity juice.. If he's as thick as he tries to come cross then surely he'd have trouble dressing himself. He's definitely lying about something, either the degree or his level of dumbness.

[Jack_]

Probably yes, but in all honesty I actually can't remember learning it at school. I just know that my parents taught me before I even went to school

I don't think it would really make much difference though, much how some kids don't pay attention to learning other things, this could be the same thing

[Jack_]

Also yes it's quite likely he's playing on his stupidity because that's his character and what he's famous for (a bit like Charlotte playing up to the 'wet the bed' role on BB which I remember arguing with someone about), he'll have been told by his agent to carry on the persona

I was just making a separate point that this issue in particular might not necessarily be an act, because it's a very real problem

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Probably yes, but in all honesty I actually can't remember learning it at school. I just know that my parents taught me before I even went to school

I don't think it would really make much difference though, much how some kids don't pay attention to learning other things, this could be the same thing

hhhmmm I don't know, I don't buy it at all, not just that, stuff he's said on Celebrity Juice as well (as Girth just pointed out) saying he thought a square had six sides and thinking Wales bordered Russia (or something stupid like that) I do think it's part of the TOWIE persona he's playing, so I do think he's probably a sweet guy underneath it somewhere but he's not being 100% himself when he's always got to pretend to be that bit more stupid for the sake of his TV show character

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Thought this said Josy for a minute

I was coming in here to say exactly that

[GiRTh]

Youtube video

RIchard and Judy created the world. FFS

So for his degree, did he only study his subject? Did all other knowledge pass him by? This is nonsense.

[Jords]

Hes stupid/acts stupid which is annoying, but hes pretty funny and down-to-earth. Early favourite but maybe cus of airtime.