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why the bbc is going down the pan

secret menu is surely just asking the cook if he can make you something interesting. Or asking if he can make you a burger to order.

I think its been around since before social media. See: The MegaMac.
 
seems strange but i cant find a bbc report on the supposed 2000+ dead following Boko Haram attack in Northern Nigeria...its been 48hrs since the guardian reported it
 
Use of the phrase "The" Prophet" on BBC News and on the Daily Politics. - I'd put money on that I'd didn't miss the the memo about the existence of God being proved, and its philosophical outlook determined.

In which case Muhammed(RIP) is one of countless people, with varying success, who have claimed to be the spokesman of God. Not least to avoid confusion; and the avoidance of upsetting those who bet on different/no horses in the race; say which one, or at the very least whack an "alleged" in the middle.

Its not even particularly helpful to Islam in the UK either, turning the founder of one of the world's leading religions into "He-who-must-not-be-named". Even worse for JK Rowling, who has enough to contend with, from the Scots Nats.
 
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savoloysam said:
Getting sick to fucking death of BBC local news actually just rehashing the national news. That's not fucking local you morons. Look the word "local" up in the dictionary you thick cunts :oops:
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Especially when the link is tenuous. Up here in Leeds a few years ago we got lots of extra coverage of the Soham murder trial because Huntley had some link to North Lincolnshire, which is just on the edge of the regional news area. That was after loads about it on the national news. Tedious.
 
savoloysam said:
Getting sick to fucking death of BBC local news actually just rehashing the national news. That's not fucking local you morons. Look the word "local" up in the dictionary you thick cunts :oops:
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It means within five miles of the BBC Southampton studio , if you live in the BBC South region
 
Dogsauce said:
Especially when the link is tenuous. Up here in Leeds a few years ago we got lots of extra coverage of the Soham murder trial because Huntley had some link to North Lincolnshire, which is just on the edge of the regional news area. That was after loads about it on the national news. Tedious.
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They do the same with East Mids with The McCann nonsense. Every single time some national news source reports yet another dead link.

Thing is though they always always manage to find a link the main BBC national news story, no matter how little local relevance it actaully has. They even did it with the Charlie Hebdo story.
 
gosub said:
... Even worse for JK Rowling, who has enough to contend with, from the Scots Nats.
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What horrors is J.K. Rowling being subject to? I was vaguely nodding in agreement till I got to that little tangent.

Come to think of it, maybe I'm not in agreement. Just realised that, much as I might like news items to say "alleged prophet", they would also have to be careful with other - ahem- job descriptions. There was a small fire today in Bloggstown in the Alleged St. Somebody's School, and so on. That would be loads of fun, though. Smith today got an OBE for long-time service to some Alleged Saint's Ambulance Service etc. :D

So, yes, a more careful use of names or status markers would be very entertaining, but they certainly would have to do it in an even-handed way. Was it Confucius who said the first thing to do is the "rectification of names"? Somebody did.
 
Why are so many British explorers privately educated?

Yet among the latest contenders to cross the Atlantic is another public schoolboy, Tom Rainey, last year's winner of a Young Brits award by "outfitters to the gentry" Jack Wills... Mr Rainey, who works in the oil industry, was able to put down a £20,000 deposit for the boat.

"I wrote hundreds of letters for sponsorship but they never really transpired," he says. "But we have family or friends connections with all our sponsors.

"It is 100% who you know and everyone who has donated has been extremely friendly and generous."
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ok fair enough it's definitely all about the connections

He believes public schools produce a disproportionately large number of adventure sportsmen because they encourage outdoor activities.

"I think that's the difference. I did kayaking and Combined Cadet Force at school and all that stuff taught me how to enjoy being outdoors."
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oh actually it's just because the plebs prefer xbox
 
perhaps because no right-thinking person would want to walk to the north pole dragging a sled for 2,000 miles, when the same thing can be achieved more easily and in greater comfort by walking from white city tube under the westway and taking, iirc, the first on the right.
 
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perhaps because no right-thinking person would want to walk to the north pole dragging a sled for 2,000 miles, when the same thing can be achieved more easily and in greater comfort by walking from white city tube under the westway and taking, iirc, the first on the right.
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christ can you not go one day without banging on about white city fucking tube? you're like a broken record!
 
Nick Robinson in a bunty style account of how Cameron is meeting Obama and- Obama calls him 'bro'! the speshul relationship is preserved!
 
Celyn said:
What horrors is J.K. Rowling being subject to? I was vaguely nodding in agreement till I got to that little tangent.

Come to think of it, maybe I'm not in agreement. Just realised that, much as I might like news items to say "alleged prophet", they would also have to be careful with other - ahem- job descriptions. There was a small fire today in Bloggstown in the Alleged St. Somebody's School, and so on. That would be loads of fun, though. Smith today got an OBE for long-time service to some Alleged Saint's Ambulance Service etc. :D

So, yes, a more careful use of names or status markers would be very entertaining, but they certainly would have to do it in an even-handed way. Was it Confucius who said the first thing to do is the "rectification of names"? Somebody did.
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RE: JKR, giving a million to NO went down like cold sick to some NATS, but in terms of actual trouble, I think it got as traumatic as some people saying nasty things about her on twitter:eek:. Thought it helped with building the segway between two people you're not supposed to mention. I could have used the Christians who see her books as promoting paganism, I suppose, but I thought I'd widen it past theology. Must be tough, being a multimillionaire writer of kids twaddle.
 
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I'm willing to be proven wrong but 'billion dollar chicken shop'...wtf is going to be an hour long advert for the colonel
 
copliker said:
"Comedian and writer Colm O'Regan casts his comic lens upon the complexities of capitalism."

First rule of comedy - you have to be funny. You sir, are not funny.

A history of capitalism - and Marx

You can guess all the lines.
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Wow that was bad - not surprising to see Ha-Joon chang and John lanchester pop up. The first because this O' Regan is ripping off his lightweight book Economics:a users guide for his tiny script and the 2nd because he doesn't really get marx (see the classical misunderstanding of the so-called immiseration theory) and because he's a writer on financial capital, not capital as such (a self-made expert at that, that's what private school and oxbridge allows you to do - Ha-Joon Chnag also oxbridge btw).
 
I want to watch the "news" not a feature piece on some actor who is arranging for his dogs to be returned from Australia to the US. I can watch the Aussie border force repeats on 5* at 3am if I want that shit.
 
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