Time To Shut Down The BBC

[flatandy]

I think you mean "Tottenham are sexpest scum, aren't they?"

[Repat Van]

Aug 22, 2024 22:52:41 GMT mids said:

The BBC really are lefty sexpest scum, aren't they?

Men.

[mids]

Queer. I haven't heard of any peeeedoism at Spectator TV. Queer. Odd, even.

[mids]

Anyway, the BBC. Riddled. Ridd-ulled.

[perrykneeham]

Riddled and fiddled.

[perrykneeham]

Also, diddled.

"Jenas, who is married and has four children, earned £190,000 - £194,999 at the BBC for his work on the FA Cup, Match of the Day and the World Cup."

Again, who decides that this bloke is worth £200k for yapping about football? Still, he'll be needing a good deal more than that now. Alimony etc.

[mids]

Surely it's well past time to close down the far left PBC? What is it with the far left and their paedo-adjacency?


"The BBC used chauffeurs convicted of paedophilia to transport celebrities and high-profile guests over almost 30 years, The Telegraph can reveal.

Niven Sinclair was paid millions of pounds to run a chauffeur service for the broadcaster from the late 1970s until at least 2006, despite being a paedophile – with convictions that included raping a child at gunpoint.

His firm was responsible for transporting celebrities including Jimmy Savile as well as guests including Ted Heath, the prime minister at the time, to and from BBC studios.

One of the drivers employed by Sinclair was David Smith, another convicted paedophile who went on to abuse at least two children at the BBC’s studios.

Now, one of Smith’s victims has spoken for the first time and reveals he is considering legal action against the broadcaster.

Alex Cooke, who has waived his right to anonymity, said that he believed the corporation should be “held to account”. "
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/23/bbc-used-paedophile-drivers-30-years/

[unclejunior]

….. I’m sure lessons will be learnt etc
Until the next episode ….ad infinitum

[Repat Van]

Men.

[flatandy]

Time to shut down the BBC.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7l6kzppyxo

The article itself is trite and obvious: things cost more.

But within the article is the bizarre supposition that to feed a family of four on fish and chips you need to order 4 portions of fish and chips. Have these people ever been to a chippy? In what world do you need 4 portions of chips?

Mostly, though, it's this line.

This all means a family of four won't get much change out of a £50 note once they've forked out for their tea and added some mushy peas and cans of pop.

What kind of BBC writer writes an article in normal English about economics, and then puts in a crappy folksy "are I working class" comment on "pop". It's Just dreadful, discordant writing and feels like a horribly conscious attempt to appear like a commoner.

[mids]

"Tea" from a writer who's never been outside the M25 except to fly abroad. Maybe Glastonbury and the Edinburgh festival.

[voice]

It's hideously right wing and needs shutting down

[flatandy]

Mids is right. As is Voice.

Tea is, for almost every normal British person, a beverage not a meal. It's only people performing as Peasant Scum who talk about dinner as "tea".

[voice]

I still call it tea despite not having lived in the north for quite some time, dinner for me is mid day meal. It's just how it was and probably still is, where I grew up. Though as mids said, that piece was almost certainly written by someone who's only knowledge of the north is Coronation Street or Emmadale.

[perrykneeham]

I've never eaten dinner in my life.  Tea is both a drink and a very light meal that gets you through until supper.

[Repat Van]

Aug 26, 2024 16:45:47 GMT flatandy said:

Mids is right. As is Voice.

Tea is, for almost every normal British person, a beverage not a meal. It's only people performing as Peasant Scum who talk about dinner as "tea".

My mate from Blackpool always refers to dinner as “tea” as does his whole family.

I just assumed it was a working class Northern thing.

[Repat Van]

Aug 26, 2024 16:34:55 GMT mids said:

"Tea" from a writer who's never been outside the M25 except to fly abroad. Maybe Glastonbury and the Edinburgh festival.

How do you know where the writer is from?

[mids]

"Tea"

[flatandy]

It's not actually a working class northern thing. It was, probably 50 years ago. Now anyone who does it does so as an affectation of working-class-northernery. Voice, for instance, is a posh upwardly mobile Canadian but still likes to pretend he's a horny handed son of Yorkshire so talks about his evening meal as "tea"

[voice]

Nothing effected, just life long use of the same language. Though when speaking to Canadians I do, mostly, call it lunch and dinner.
Same as I still say happy Christmas rather than the preferred north American merry Christmas.