Those morons on BBC Breakfast News.

[danny la rouge]

btw, can we get back to moaning about stupidity on the BBC?

 

[Voley]

If you can stand Bill Bryson, you might find this amusing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ng-to-dumb-down-the-american-way-1186816.html

I think I've read a variation of that article before. Except in the one I read he quoted a survey that asked women whether they put their tights on over or under their knickers. 40% (or something) ticked 'Don't Know' much to his amusement.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I also very much liked his science book. I think everyone should read it. Not proper science geeks, perhaps. But people who think science isn't for them.

Someone got that for me because I'm interested in science - so let's get him a science book!. I hate him, he's the master of stating the obvious and looking backwards with rose-tinted glasses, there's a large crossover between people who like him and people who distribute those "Count yourself lucky" emails.

BBC Breakfast hasn't been the same since Jeremy Bowen and Sophie Raworth. The chemistry is really forced sometimes.

 

[baldrick]

I think I've read a variation of that article before. Except in the one I read he quoted a survey that asked women whether they put their tights on over or under their knickers. 40% (or something) ticked 'Don't Know' much to his amusement.

there's a very funny article from the same series about accidents in the home, culled from some worthy government report on statistics. i cried with laughter at that one.

sorry dlr

 

[DotCommunist]

Bryson is a dick. So is garrison kiellor. Americans.

 

[danny la rouge]

I think I've read a variation of that article before. Except in the one I read he quoted a survey that asked women whether they put their tights on over or under their knickers. 40% (or something) ticked 'Don't Know' much to his amusement.

See, I can understand that. I do YouGov polls. Sometimes you want to answer something that isn't there, and your only option is "don't know". I'm not a tight wearer myself, but perhaps it depends on ones outfit, or something like that.

 

[danny la rouge]

Bryson is a dick. So is garrison kiellor. Americans.

There's your answer. People who like sci fi comic books don't like Bill Bryson.

 

[DotCommunist]

*bumbling anglophile anecdote about hilarious confusion in a british hardware shop wrt screws*

*his wifes reaction*

whimsy

 

[danny la rouge]

whimsy

While The Hobbit is...?

 

[Firky]

If you can stand Bill Bryson, you might find this amusing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ng-to-dumb-down-the-american-way-1186816.html

Read articles like that before. I don't know if to be amused of saddened.

It isn't just restricted to America, however.

Anyway, Bryson looks like a geography teacher before anyone could teach.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Annoying twat.

 

[baldrick]

these responses are exactly what i meant when i said this

i find him very funny. but i have on occasion said to people "have you read that bill bryson book" or similar and i get "ugh, bill bryson" in response

 

[Gingerman]

Oh for the days when some bloke just read out the news,no fucking small talk,no banter,no trying to be funny

 

[not-bono-ever]

Someone got that for me because I'm interested in science - so let's get him a science book!. I hate him, he's the master of stating the obvious and looking backwards with rose-tinted glasses, there's a large crossover between people who like him and people who distribute those "Count yourself lucky" emails.

BBC Breakfast hasn't been the same since Jeremy Bowen and Sophie Raworth. The chemistry is really forced sometimes.

JB is s top SE London Chap & a proper reporter to boot, unlike the other fuckpigs who "present" the Brekfast show. He still rides around the manor in a beat up old toyota landcruiser that looks likes it been confiscated from the Taliban.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Catriona Shearer on the BBC Scottish news in the morning is well sweeeeeet.

 

[quimcunx]

One might conclude from this thread that BBC Breakfast's viewers would be better served if the presenters were replace by Bill Bryson. However, in my experience, enjoying his writing does not translate to enjoying his television appearances in which I have found him monotone and lacklustre.

I think I've read a variation of that article before. Except in the one I read he quoted a survey that asked women whether they put their tights on over or under their knickers. 40% (or something) ticked 'Don't Know' much to his amusement.

That article is from 1998 so you have probably read it before.

 

[danny la rouge]

Catriona Shearer on the BBC Scottish news in the morning is well sweeeeeet.

That's another thing. The Today programme doesn't have "news and weather where you are". This is the best bit. You don't get Catriona giving inaccurate opinions on owls.

 

[temper_tantrum]

Bryson is a dick. So is garrison kiellor. Americans.

I'm glad to find someone else who dislikes Garrison Keillor. If his books were a colour, they'd be beige.


Edit: and if breakfast tv had a colour, it would be plasticky-hospital-ward-vomit-pink/puce.

 

[_angel_]

They outdid themselves attempting to interview Morten Harket this morning. "So you were from Norway"
Morten was quite funny refusing to cooperate in the interview. It was a masterclass in how not to do it.

 

[nino_savatte]

She's the Bill Turnbull of the female world.

She's also a scab. Fucking detest Carol Kirkwood.

 

[nino_savatte]

BURN YOUR TELEVISION

 

[xenon]

Serious question - why don't you just listen to the Today programme?

Evan Davis and Robert Paston, Pasten, whatever, irritate me. So much so, I sometimes have to turn over to Nick Ferari on LBC. Or there's Nicky Campbell and whatsname on 5 live but TBH it's all pretty horrific. It's the morning afterall...

When I was on the dole, before I had internet the only day time TV I watched was Quincy and the quiz's. Everything else was too rage inducing.

 

[purenarcotic]

They outdid themselves attempting to interview Morten Harket this morning. "So you were from Norway"
Morten was quite funny refusing to cooperate in the interview. It was a masterclass in how not to do it.

Hah, I saw that this morning. It was genius, the presenters looked so awkward.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

That's another thing. The Today programme doesn't have "news and weather where you are". This is the best bit. You don't get Catriona giving inaccurate opinions on owls.

Who cares about her opinion on owls?

 

[EastEnder]

Who cares about her opinion on owls?

Owls.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Hooters

 

[spartacus mills]

Photo-shopped!

 

[frogwoman]

the today programme is basically a middle class version of gmtv.

 

[DotCommunist]

Evan Davis and Robert Paston, Pasten, whatever, irritate me. So much so, I sometimes have to turn over to Nick Ferari on LBC. Or there's Nicky Campbell and whatsname on 5 live but TBH it's all pretty horrific. It's the morning afterall...

When I was on the dole, before I had internet the only day time TV I watched was Quincy and the quiz's. Everything else was too rage inducing.

I miss 15 to 1 and its quality prices like ancient mycean pottery an it was a proper quiz, none of these chaser/weakest link gimmeckery. 3 lives, hard questions. sort it out

 

[xenon]

I miss 15 to 1 and its quality prices like ancient mycean pottery an it was a proper quiz, none of these chaser/weakest link gimmeckery. 3 lives, hard questions. sort it out

Word.

And I even got some of them right. I was shit at Count Down TBF though. Then to recover and make yourself feel superior you could watch 100% on Channel 5. Then of course you're into the home run. Pretending not to watch Neighbours / Home & Away, on to Simpsons and or the Star Trek / Voyager and you've done it.