Carol Vorderman
Don't hate her per se - never having met her, she may be a lovely human being.

But how fucking DARE YOU, a multi-millionairess, tell me to borrow money at a ruinous rate of APR, or consolidate my debt so I now owe a new company even more than I did in the first place.

The adverts were targetted squarely at daytime TV users, so primarily the unemployed, or part-time workers - i.e. those in *precisely* the worst position to pay back usurious rates of interest.

She can't have needed the money that badly - her salary from Countdown was pretty decent, plus her earnings from her maths books. She was just trading on her status as someone 'good with maths' to persuade people to take out loans they couldn't afford.

Grasping bitch.
(Leo Sasquatch hates being the grown-up, Sat 6 Feb 2010, 23:14, 8 replies)

click.
When the global financial crisis began, a lot of commentry predicted that credit would be harder to get. Sadly it doesn't seem to have happened.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 5:51, closed)

Yes it has
plus repayments are generally much higher.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 6:32, closed)

Click for the word "usurious"
I was always uncomfortable with the idea of Vorderperson promoting those loans, but if you want to see some really eye-watering APRs, look up pay day loans on Google. 1700% APR is not unusual.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sun 7 Feb 2010, 14:24, closed)

Totally
Agree.

"Money grabbing cunt" seems to sum her up quite nicely. Plus her degree was a 2.2 - which despite not having a degree myself, is pretty average I believe.

I detest it when blokes see her on the TV and go "Pfwwwoooor" - personally I don't get it, and she got even less attractive after those adverts in which she actively encouraged people to fuck their lives over financially, and all for a few quid.

There was even a campaign to get her to stop it, but she just said (paraphrased), "What I do is my business, fuck off.".

Heartless, money grabbing Cnut!
(dchurch bah, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 15:43, closed)

Wasn't her degree
a 3rd, rather than a 2:2?

And she wasn't really even 'good with maths' on Countdown. It's just arithmetic.

My mate and I used to envisage a proper version of the numbers round:

Contestant: Variable please, Carol
Carol: x
Contestant: Function please.
Carol: Oooh, it's the hyperbolic cosine!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:38, closed)

I stand corrected
"She obtained a Third in all three years of her degree." - from wikipedia.
(dchurch bah, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 16:34, closed)

AIOTM!
^_^
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 15:12, closed)

She's mutton
But she goes shopping in clothes shops for lambs.
( Norbert Lightowler, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:08, closed)