why the bbc is going down the pan

[bi0boy]

Not only did he carry the man's rucksack, he gave the injured man his own slightly lighter rucksack in exchange:

"I helped Josh by carrying his rucksack which, to be fair to him, was heavy with the amount of provisions he was carrying for his own trip.

"I gave him my lighter sack."

Luckily we have the BBC news website to bring us this important news.

 

[Sprocket.]

Listening to R5 Live yesterday I was shocked to hear a BBC correspondent break the news that, Michelle O'Neill, the new leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland comes from a 'Republican background'!

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Listening to R5 Live yesterday I was shocked to hear a BBC correspondent break the news that, Michelle O'Neill, the new leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland comes from a 'Republican background'!

Well if you must listen to R5...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Well if you must listen to R5...

One does not so much listen to Radio 5 as permit it to shit in one's ears

/Wilde

 

[Sprocket.]

Well if you must listen to R5...

One does not so much listen to Radio 5 as permit it to shit in one's ears

/Wilde

My defence rests on the fact that; A, it was not my choice and B, diving out of a moving vehicle was the only option!
But, I forever must shoulder the shame of announcing my audial intrusion.

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[Plumdaff]

1/ Inherit Wealth

 

[ViolentPanda]

1/ Inherit Wealth

2/ Don't spunk it all on drugs, drink and debauchery.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

2/ Don't spunk it all on drugs, drink and debauchery.

Dont have plans to live anywhere near near London if you are on a sub £50K wage and single

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

The Moral Maze on R4 last week. In which they had a white presenter and an all white panel discussing Trump's Muslim ban executive order, which affected PoC from seven countries with majority non-white, muslim populations. smh

 

[two sheds]

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which would the panel choose as priority for funding in Wales - the BBC or starving puppies, kittens and babies?

 

[gosub]

BBC slaps down new Today programme editor over pledge to open Thought for the Day to humanists

Only ever been to one Humanist ceremony (best mates funeral and we were lucky enough to have Humanist Society's Head of Ceremonies) - was the only funeral that felt like it hit the spot -I've been to Church funerals that have actually made me angry

 

[krtek a houby]

Listening to R5 Live yesterday I was shocked to hear a BBC correspondent break the news that, Michelle O'Neill, the new leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland comes from a 'Republican background'!

In fairness, I've met folk who think unionists and republicans are the same thing or that Sinn Fein is a terrorist organisation!

 

[ViolentPanda]

BBC slaps down new Today programme editor over pledge to open Thought for the Day to humanists

Only ever been to one Humanist ceremony (best mates funeral and we were lucky enough to have Humanist Society's Head of Ceremonies) - was the only funeral that felt like it hit the spot -I've been to Church funerals that have actually made me angry

My wife's funeral last year was conducted by a Humanist celebrant, and it seemed to "hit the spot" with everyone, even Greebo's churchy parents and relatives. None of that "sitting at the feet of Jehovah", "gone to a better place" bullshitting nonsense, just a celebration of who the deceased was, and what they meant to people.

 

[gosub]

My wife's funeral last year was conducted by a Humanist celebrant, and it seemed to "hit the spot" with everyone, even Greebo's churchy parents and relatives. None of that "sitting at the feet of Jehovah", "gone to a better place" bullshitting nonsense, just a celebration of who the deceased was, and what they meant to people.

I'm not militantly anit-religion, each to their own, and I've heard some profound things in that slot. But they are more than missing a trick if they bar Humanists from speaking.

 

[mojo pixy]

BBC slaps down new Today programme editor over pledge to open Thought for the Day to humanists

Only ever been to one Humanist ceremony (best mates funeral and we were lucky enough to have Humanist Society's Head of Ceremonies) - was the only funeral that felt like it hit the spot -I've been to Church funerals that have actually made me angry

My gradad's funeral was a humanist one. No gods, no heavens, no amens, just memories of a life fully lived and honest tributes with some songs he liked. But afterwards the humanist celebrant did leave time at the end for people who wanted, to say a quiet prayer, before the coffin got rolled away. Fucking liberal scum.

(I didn't call her that at the time, obvs .. ETA though that grandad would've been proud of me if I had)

 

[teqniq]

BBC slaps down new Today programme editor over pledge to open Thought for the Day to humanists

Only ever been to one Humanist ceremony (best mates funeral and we were lucky enough to have Humanist Society's Head of Ceremonies) - was the only funeral that felt like it hit the spot -I've been to Church funerals that have actually made me angry

Jamie Angus, the outgoing editor of Today, is known to be a stern opponent of altering its format, telling the Guardian in 2014 that the slot is "one of the hidden pillars" underpinning Britain's religiously tolerant society.

If we are so 'religiously tolerant' What is the threat? Useless tossers.

 

[mojo pixy]

I'll believe in tolerance when they have a speaker from the OTO come on to talk inspirationally about Love under Will.

 

[19sixtysix]

BBC news online has strange geographic categories that leave new Zealand in Asia. It strikes me as a sign how bad the journalism has got.

 

[Brainaddict]

A piece on BBC World Service right now on 'is it okay to punch a Nazi?' In predictable fashion they take the 'balanced' view e.g. if anti-fa are ready to dox Nazis why should they complained when they get doxed.

So far so predictable. But the guy leading the piece can't stop pronouncing anti-fa as anTEEFa. What happened to the good old days when you could trust the beeb to without fail get the pronunciation right in their misguided political balancing acts?

 

[bi0boy]

So far so predictable. But the guy leading the piece can't stop pronouncing anti-fa as anTEEFa. What happened to the good old days when you could trust the beeb to without fail get the pronunciation right in their misguided political balancing acts?

It's been that far down the pan for years: why the bbc is going down the pan - post1123240

 

[Brainaddict]

But anTEEFa for gods sake. Even the far right arsehole they got on to moan about how they ought to be allowed to do interviews on the street without getting punched managed to pronounce it right.

 

[DotCommunist]

so they are going to outsource license fee collecting to Crapita. Fucks sake.

 

[Artaxerxes]

so they are going to outsource license fee collecting to Crapita. Fucks sake.

No that's good, just think how ineptly they will enforce it!

 

[SpookyFrank]

so they are going to outsource license fee collecting to Crapita. Fucks sake.

Was outsourced to them ages ago. And the results were the usual cocktail of nastiness and incompetence we've come to expect from Capita, Serco, G4S et al.

 

[stavros]

Was outsourced to them ages ago. And the results were the usual cocktail of nastiness and incompetence we've come to expect from Capita, Serco, G4S et al.

It's a model mirrored across the public sector; outsource services on contracts so big that only certain companies can bid for the work, all of whom have fucked up numerous times on similar contracts previously.

 

[hash tag]

Isn't it about time someone replaced Dimbleby in Question Time, it is long overdue.

 

[stavros]

Isn't it about time someone replaced Dimbleby in Question Time, it is long overdue.

I've only just started listening to it, but Jonathan does arguably a better job on Any Questions.