Up on the roof of the stand to his right, a bloke with a pair of pliers and some electrical tape, shouted into a mobile phone at the other man looking up at him from the pitch below.
In an address to an International Women's Day breakfast in which he compared himself to former American president Richard Nixon, Abbott said his wife quipped having three daughters helped turn an "unreconstructed bloke into a feminist".
Russell Brand has urged people in England to vote Labour, saying Ed Miliband has convinced him that "this bloke will listen to us", days after the party leader visited him for an interview.
A greater contrast with the hangars of Mipim can hardly be imagined: no lavish buffet, just a kettle and some instant coffee; no PowerPoint slides but a dungareed bloke scribbling on a flipchart.
And this bloke said, 'What are you looking so miserable about with all your money?'" Spall mimes a double take.
For those who know little about Turner's life, it's a jolt to accept that the creator of paintings of genius was a faulty bloke with an intermittently uncivil tongue, a tendency to grunt and a contradictory attitude towards women.
"This bloke had come and knocked him down in the doorway and pinched his things off him.
Responding to a query about diversity quotas at Sky, Millichip quipped: "You're hard-pressed to find a straight white bloke at Sky Vision".
But he was a happy-go-lucky bloke.
I could find no registrations in the names of other big Take a Break campaigns – there really should be a political party called Mastectomy Pride, if not one led by a 64-year-old bloke – but I haven't run all the way through the magazine's impressive network of Facebook pages.
For students of a Suffolk tongue there's an old duck talking about how to make jam, and for prospective cockneys there is a bloke telling how he'd fallen down the old apples and pears and landed on his boat race.
