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I think most of the news staff are quarantined after returning from their French villas, an article I read yesterday about the Trump family couldn’t even manage to find a stock photo of Jared Kushner to go in his box on the family tree diagram.
 
platinumsage said:
They've now changed it to Christchurch gunman 'planned third mosque attack' but the previous headline they had on the BBC News website homepage was Christchurch gunman wanted to attack third mosque which I read as a recruitment call. :facepalm:
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To be fair to the BBC they can't be blamed for how you read the headline
 
What a surprise; the state broadcaster diverting even more public money to the outsourced goons charged with harassing the elderly.

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Spoke to my very elderly in-laws about this the other day (don't think they qualify for Pension Credit) who are now expected to pay the Licence fee and they told me:
a) they were very worried about this
b) they'd heard that they might get sent to prison
c) they'd had a letter but didn't understand it (and had now lost it)
d) thought they had to go down to the Post Office (they think there is still such a thing), breaking their self-isolation

Fucksake :mad:
 
brogdale said:
What a surprise; the state broadcaster diverting even more public money to the outsourced goons charged with harassing the elderly.

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Spoke to my very elderly in-laws about this the other day (don't think they qualify for Pension Credit) who are now expected to pay the Licence fee and they told me:
a) they were very worried about this
b) they'd heard that they might get sent to prison
c) they'd had a letter but didn't understand it (and had now lost it)
d) thought they had to go down to the Post Office (they think there is still such a thing), breaking their self-isolation

Fucksake :mad:
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There is still such a thing as the post office
 
Anyway...no Capita goon is going to get my FiL's £ off him today; he's still in bed waiting for his carers to turn up; the neoliberal, outsourced company 'forgot' to move on their paperwork to the relevant team.

FFS :mad:
 
Darren Grimes on a Sunday morning show supposedly to talk about education alongside people who do actually know what they are talking about. Just wtf. The BBC does itself zero favours with this shite. I'm glad I stopped paying for a licence years ago.

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Nine Bob Note said:
Sophie Raeworth has just delivered the devastating news that Keeping Up with the Kardashians is coming to an end :(
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I've never heard of that show, but to corroborate your statement I headed to the BBC News website where I found this. On the front page.

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The headline is gobbledygook to those not in the know, but it's "must see" so people will surely click through to find out what it means.
 
Surprised I didn’t get one of those news alerts things popping up on my phone for such trivial bullshit. They seem to like sending them out every time some minor Royal exhales or something.
 
Nine Bob Note said:
Sophie Raeworth has just delivered the devastating news that Keeping Up with the Kardashians is coming to an end :(
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To be fair, it can be amusing when otherwise serious presenters cite popular culture. The newsreader on R4 this morning spoke with a Queen's English accent about the death of Ronald Bell, a member of Kool & The Gang "whose hits included [pause] 'Jungle Boogie'."
 
As with so many of these, they'll probably have to walk that one back before very long. Highly predictable.
 
Any Questions? this week featured Christopher Snowdon, of a think tank that doesn't reveal its sources of funding, but is known to have been paid by big tobacco and BP in the past. The BBC didn't think to mention this, as always seems to be the case with secretive think tanks.
 
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