Those morons on BBC Breakfast News.

[T & P]

I often get this notion it will be a good idea to watch the news while eating breakfast to keep myself abreast of the current goings on in the world.

I am then confronted by a twee Bill Turnbull making quips about some story out of Femail.

About three years ago I made the decision to stop watching the breakfast news (or any other news for that matter) altogether, and watch SpongeBob Squarepants or Scooby Doo instead on the children's channels. I can honestly say it has improved the quality of my working day and my general mood to some remarkable degree.

 

[Sirena]

as an aside, I was chatting to that Jeremy Bowen some years ago when I was flogging agit prop in framing shop ( he was getting a war spoils oil painting of Saddam framed up - well cool ) and asking what happend with his breakfast gig- effectively he couldnt hack it any more, was desperate to get back into the fray.

I remember Bowen presenting BBC Breakfast and, though I can't remember any specific examples, I remember finding him clumsy and rather stupid and always asking the wrong questions...

 

[not-bono-ever]

I dont think it was his forte to be honest

 

[Sirena]

I dont think it was his forte to be honest

I'd just presumed he'd been sacked.....

 

[not-bono-ever]

he had PTSD after earlier stuff in lebanon and took the Brekfast job when his kid was born- thence he couldnt help himslef but get involved again

 

[skyscraper101]

Just like a BBC version of the Hurt Locker.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[redsquirrel]

Photoshop danny la rouge

The hand is clearly placed purposely to hide the joins

 

[fucthest8]

Best. Bump. Ever.

 

[DaveCinzano]

View attachment 105281

I FUCKING KNEW IT

 

[DaveCinzano]

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“New from QVC: The ExtendaOwl™ - for all your space-constricted strigine needs”

 

[Idris2002]

Reminds me of an editor I worked with a while ago on a kids' natural history book. 'Humans have the same number of hairs on their bodies as chimpanzees' was a line she questioned. 'Please correct this mistake,' she said. 'But it's true - humans have the same number of hairs as chimps,' I replied. 'Well I certainly don't!' she wrote back.

I hope you wrote back thusly: "yes, but you're not human".

 

[bimble]

That picture confirms what i've always suspected, that my cat is part owl.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Photoshop danny la rouge

The hand is clearly placed purposely to hide the johnson

CFY

 

[iona]

... strigine ...

Ooh, new word!

 

[danny la rouge]

Ooh, new word!

Great song by the Sonics (or the Cramps) by that name.

 

[ska invita]

seems apt

 

[danny la rouge]

The BBC obviously tries very, very hard to find such vacuous people to dribble banal idiocy with such assurance and certainty.

Here's Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin. Have a good look at them:

I turned on this morning to catch the last of the election results. But was treated to this pair. Here's what they actually said. This is a true and accurate report.

The one on the left said: "Owls don't have legs, do they?" The one on the right replied: "Not in my world".

What can I say?

Pixels.

 

[_Russ_]

This thread made me Google Liz Bonin.