Ask yourself whether or not you like him

Yeah, he does look a little stiff in front of the camera.

Tony Lynas looked like someone had spat huge gubbies in his hair!

I’m on the fence in regards to Mark Carmody. He was great on the radio, but hasn’t quite made the transition to television. I can kind of cope with his banter and enthusiasm, but I really dislike how he holds his head so that we see the underside of his chin all the time!

Tony Lynas, that is.
He was dead boring on tv, but when he walked amongst us mortals was a magnet for salacious gossip.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Tony the Pony?

I enjoy watching Mark Carmody present ABC weather. He has more personality than the paper cut outs on the commercials. Always wait to hear what the ‘flower of the day is’. Met him a few times. A friendly and polite bloke. Has been involved in community projects such as the Pumpkin Festival and the sensory garden at Malkara special school. I don’t think the other local weather presenters are interested in much except getting their face on TV.

No I detest Marks behaviour. I have seen it at toastmaster classes. These exercises which should not be brought into the the public arena are painful to watch. For me it means that after watching the weather on the ABC for many years I now have to go elsewhere. Mark is the worst (or maybe was) announcer, Tim Bailey the second worst any others quite watchable. A curse on him I hope his chooks grow into emus and kick his dunny down.

Philbert I believe he’s a local through and through.

The fire of a thousand nuns??

The mind boggles.

Carmody might be a clown, but at least he doesn’t wheeze through his nose like former Canberra weather man Mike ‘Hairy Man’ Larkham. Now that shit me to tears. He’s in Melbourne these days, nose wheezing his way through the weather every day.

I can’t complain about him. He’s a bit of something different and has grown on us at home.

Meanwhile, can someone tell me what he did prior to the weather gig? I get the impression, as a newish Canberran, that he’s been a local personality somehow in the past?

I hate him with a intense passion which burns like the fire of a thousand nuns.
If he was a fill-in until they got someone different, I probably wouldn’t mind quite so much, but he’s a terrible choice for anything long-term.

I think he should chuck the flower at her, every night.

On bended knee.

He’s good value. And Virginia just has to learn that she doesn’t need to banter with him every night – no need for constant rejoinders. Just let him laugh, V.
Nice partnership – the cool, haughty Virginia and Mark the awkward, gauche but endearing Bungendore-esque hick.
The Mark & Alex gardening show was great – they were in stitches most of the time. Not translatable across to the earnest news unfortunately!
Keep up the good work, Carmody, even though you make me squirm with embarrassment for you from time to time!
Nicely judged and nuanced by the ABC News managers, by the way. It’s evident on-screen that they’ve been working on the dynamics between our nightly Odd Couple.

Mark used to play footsies with the woman on the gardening show. She was soon booted.

I really don’t mind who reads the weather, as long as I can understand what’s being said.

Fortunately, there are graphics on screen to fill in the missing bits. So, between the graphics and Carmody’s occasionally incomprehensible speech delivery, I usually come away knowing what to expect in the next day’s weather.

Ha, he’s ok, I went to school with his daughter.

Tim Bailey is a fake. Used to see a lot of him at Thredbo, and he was a sour little man, with a huge ego. Very contrived when he’s doing his weather schtick.

Tim Bailey? (the Ten guy). Check his breathing next time you see him. He almost gasps for breath sometimes. Takes a breath after every few words. I know he talks fast but even so. Maybe it’s a respiratory condition. Sometimes it’s like watching somebody with advanced emphysema do the weather.

I can’t stand him. But he’s enthusiastic and tries to put in a bit of interest. One rellie loves him, one walks out when he appears on screen.
WHatever else, he’s vastly better than the Ten bloke. He makes me think, to howls from the sisterhood, that reading the weather is women’s work.

He’s grown on me. He was better on radio doing gardening though.

I reckon ABC have him on a 5 year contract and have nothing else to do with him.

I’m sorry to say that he kind of annoys me as well. I don’t mind a bit of colour being injected into the news, but he really comes off as trying too hard. Don’t get me wrong – he’s probably a lovely guy and no doubt has the best of intentions, but to me he’s a significant distraction from the information he’s trying to convey, and to my mind that’s not a quality you want in a news/weather reader.

In my household we were very much ‘WTF?’ when we first saw Mark Carmody, but he’s definitely grown on us. Sure, he’s a dork, but he happily embraces his dorkishness. He does make the weather somewhat entertaining, whilst still getting the message across, IMHO.

I think Virginia does like him. Possibly like she’d like a scruffy puppy, but that’s still a sort of like. She often seems genuinely amused (and surprised) at what he says.

I recall watching ABC news years ago when it was still very old-school BBC in style, and the salient meteorological features were indicated on the map using a pointer. When the newsreader threw to the weather, the guy presented the whole thing using an umbrella as the pointer. Both he and the newsreader carried on as if there was nothing unusual, staying straight-faced throughout the whole thing. Nice bit of understated weather man humor.

Problem with Mark is he’s just such a freakin’ try-hard. After all, if he had personality, he wouldn’t be a weather presenter.

And yeah, what is it with female newsreaders in general and wardrobe dysfunction? Virginia has her good and bad days but the WIN chick is a fashion disaster on a nightly basis. I didn’t think her attire couldn’t get any worse. Then she wafts on the other night in a frock made largely of chiffon. Eeeeeek!

Yes I am not overly impressed with the new weather guy. I don’t have time for banter just give me the facts! And my wife is also not impressed with Virginia’s outfits.

can’t stand the git, me. why do weather persons seem to want to talk about the weather as if, a) it is the weather’s fault, and b) as if there is some archetypal weather that everyone wants and so gushes when they have that day to report.

i, for one, rather like cool gloomy days and don’t go much in for the bright hot hot days. why do i feel disparaged by weather gits?

Ugh! I’ve been waiting for him to come up. I loathe him. He’s like some hick weather person you’d find on a regional TV station about twenty years ago.

And he scripts his terrible parting quips and still manages to fluff them nearly every night!

I think Virginia hates him. She doesn’t seem to be able to come up with much by way of reply except for that terrible girlie laugh which totally screws with her ice queen image.

Where on earth did they find him……

I think he’s great! And Virginia doesn’t seem to be dripping venom when she says “Thanks, Mark”. Remember the previous bloke, and her icy “Thanks. John”. ouch! Why on earth don’t they like him? He’s a hoot.