Pretty much everything and everyone irritates me before my caffeine fix first thing…. then I’m good to go!
Quentin B Moletrousers said
Sep 26 9:12 PM, 2022
The founding Royal Charter of 1927 and subsequent revisions that established the BBC as the recognised national broadcaster with the powers to raise its funding through a mandatory licence fee required strict impartiality in the coverage of party political matters.
That requirement has never been rescinded, yet it has been obvious for years that many news and current affairs programme presenters and reporters, together with entertainment programme broadcasters - notably so-called comedians invited onto the panels of chat shows and studio discussions as guests - make no secret of their Left wing bias and, in many instances, positive loathing of the Conservative Party and individual politicians.
Indeed, one former BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, even described the institution as being “Massively Left biassed.”
As someone who broadcast on BBC radio as an interviewee and commentator on agriculture and countryside matters many, many times during my career, I think that the organisation has shown itself to be totally unworthy of its privileged funding arrangements and its status as national broadcaster, and should over the next five years be forced to seek its own future financing in the form of subscription or advertising…just like the rest of the industry.
Digger said
Sep 26 9:34 PM, 2022
Quentin B Moletrousers wrote:
The founding Royal Charter of 1927 and subsequent revisions that established the BBC as the recognised national broadcaster with the powers to raise its funding through a mandatory licence fee required strict impartiality in the coverage of party political matters. That requirement has never been rescinded, yet it has been obvious for years that many news and current affairs programme presenters and reporters, together with entertainment programme broadcasters - notably so-called comedians invited onto the panels of chat shows and studio discussions as guests - make no secret of their Left wing bias and, in many instances, positive loathing of the Conservative Party and individual politicians. Indeed, one former BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, even described the institution as being “Massively Left biassed.” As someone who broadcast on BBC radio as an interviewee and commentator on agriculture and countryside matters many, many times during my career, I think that the organisation has shown itself to be totally unworthy of its privileged funding arrangements and its status as national broadcaster, and should over the next five years be forced to seek its own future financing in the form of subscription or advertising…just like the rest of the industry.
Are you saying the BBC is a bag of shite? I heartily concur.
Syl said
Sep 26 11:52 PM, 2022
Quentin B Moletrousers wrote:
The founding Royal Charter of 1927 and subsequent revisions that established the BBC as the recognised national broadcaster with the powers to raise its funding through a mandatory licence fee required strict impartiality in the coverage of party political matters. That requirement has never been rescinded, yet it has been obvious for years that many news and current affairs programme presenters and reporters, together with entertainment programme broadcasters - notably so-called comedians invited onto the panels of chat shows and studio discussions as guests - make no secret of their Left wing bias and, in many instances, positive loathing of the Conservative Party and individual politicians. Indeed, one former BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, even described the institution as being “Massively Left biassed.” As someone who broadcast on BBC radio as an interviewee and commentator on agriculture and countryside matters many, many times during my career, I think that the organisation has shown itself to be totally unworthy of its privileged funding arrangements and its status as national broadcaster, and should over the next five years be forced to seek its own future financing in the form of subscription or advertising…just like the rest of the industry.
Well said Mr M.
Welcome back btw.
Vita said
Sep 27 10:42 AM, 2022
I was in the chemist getting my prescription when this clatty cow wearing her pyjamas came in.
She was absolutely bowfin, stunk the place out.
Quentin B Moletrousers said
Sep 27 1:42 PM, 2022
No, Digger, I don’t think the Beeb is a bag of shite….at least not all of it. I don’t watch sport (for which the BBC is highly regarded by its peers as well as viewers) or comedy and game shows, but given my background I’m a great fan of news, current affairs and documentaries on BBC, independents and Freeview.
My gripe with Auntie is the way in which the still existing requirement of “strict impartiality” in programme content and structure is increasingly ignored, particularly where political issues are concerned. News reporters are generally pretty good at not displaying their own views - absolutely mandatory in my day - but sector editors and correspondents who are permitted a degree of flexibility frequently reveal, if not actually promote, their own party political preferences.
Worst of all, to my mind, is the way in which both BBC production staff and often presenters deliberately structure programmes and interviews in ways which clearly disadvantage organisations and interviewees representing the Right wing of politics, and in particular the Tory government….e.g. just watch how the awful Naga Munchyourbutty will constantly interrupt government ministers, preventing them from completing answers to her frequently slanted questions, while allowing their Labour shadows to ramble on making what are almost minute long uninterrupted party political broadcasts.
Now that sort of coverage is permissible on ITV, Sky and Channels Four and Five….because if viewers don’t like it, they can decline to watch or pay subscriptions. With the BBC, viewers are forced to pay nearly £160 a year in a compulsory poll tax, with harassment by heavies from TV Licensing, prosecution and possible imprisonment and a lifetime criminal record as the penalties for failure to do so.
Syl said
Sep 27 2:00 PM, 2022
I do watch BBC, but if there was an option to delete it from my TV, like whe subscribing to Sky, we have the option of removing Sport or films, so lowering the price....I would happily lose all BBC channels and save my £159 fee.
Digger said
Sep 28 1:14 PM, 2022
Quentin B Moletrousers wrote:
No, Digger, I don’t think the Beeb is a bag of shite….at least not all of it. I don’t watch sport (for which the BBC is highly regarded by its peers as well as viewers) or comedy and game shows, but given my background I’m a great fan of news, current affairs and documentaries on BBC, independents and Freeview.
My gripe with Auntie is the way in which the still existing requirement of “strict impartiality” in programme content and structure is increasingly ignored, particularly where political issues are concerned. News reporters are generally pretty good at not displaying their own views - absolutely mandatory in my day - but sector editors and correspondents who are permitted a degree of flexibility frequently reveal, if not actually promote, their own party political preferences.
Worst of all, to my mind, is the way in which both BBC production staff and often presenters deliberately structure programmes and interviews in ways which clearly disadvantage organisations and interviewees representing the Right wing of politics, and in particular the Tory government….e.g. just watch how the awful Naga Munchyourbutty will constantly interrupt government ministers, preventing them from completing answers to her frequently slanted questions, while allowing their Labour shadows to ramble on making what are almost minute long uninterrupted party political broadcasts.
Now that sort of coverage is permissible on ITV, Sky and Channels Four and Five….because if viewers don’t like it, they can decline to watch or pay subscriptions. With the BBC, viewers are forced to pay nearly £160 a year in a compulsory poll tax, with harassment by heavies from TV Licensing, prosecution and possible imprisonment and a lifetime criminal record as the penalties for failure to do so.
I rarely watch the BBC now. I also think the licence fee should be scrapped.
Syl said
Sep 29 7:13 PM, 2022
The greedy gets charge a blind person £79.50 for the privilege of listening to the TV.
Not sure how they can justify that.
Magica said
Sep 29 8:42 PM, 2022
Syl wrote:
The greedy gets charge a blind person £79.50 for the privilege of listening to the TV.
Not sure how they can justify that.
They cant, it's always been a rip off. Disgusting BBC.
Anonymous said
Sep 30 4:58 PM, 2022
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
The greedy gets charge a blind person £79.50 for the privilege of listening to the TV.
Not sure how they can justify that.
They cant, it's always been a rip off. Disgusting BBC.
Exactly.
The thing that has irritated me today and for years now?
The preposterous blackwashing in UK adverts - to watch them you would think that everyone in the UK was either black or in a mixed race relationship - the overrepresentation is simply ridiculous.
What about white actors?
They have absolutely no chance to get work now.
Or is that being 'racist'?
Phil.
Magica said
Sep 30 6:58 PM, 2022
Anonymous wrote:
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
The greedy gets charge a blind person £79.50 for the privilege of listening to the TV.
Not sure how they can justify that.
They cant, it's always been a rip off. Disgusting BBC.
Exactly.
The thing that has irritated me today and for years now?
The preposterous blackwashing in UK adverts - to watch them you would think that everyone in the UK was either black or in a mixed race relationship - the overrepresentation is simply ridiculous.
What about white actors?
They have absolutely no chance to get work now.
Or is that being 'racist'?
Phil.
Not racist JD, the truth. It's ridiculous now.
Syl said
Oct 4 7:31 PM, 2022
I spent ages trying to pluck up the courage to remove a slimy snail that had somehow got in and was sprawled out on the kitchen floor. After 10 minutes of sweating and trying to work out how to get it on the shovel....discovered .it was a wet rolled up leaf.
Digger said
Oct 4 10:17 PM, 2022
Syl wrote:
I spent ages trying to pluck up the courage to remove a slimy snail that had somehow got in and was sprawled out on the kitchen floor. After 10 minutes of sweating and trying to work out how to get it on the shovel....discovered .it was a wet rolled up leaf.
Get to Specsavers!
Rayne said
Oct 4 10:29 PM, 2022
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
I spent ages trying to pluck up the courage to remove a slimy snail that had somehow got in and was sprawled out on the kitchen floor. After 10 minutes of sweating and trying to work out how to get it on the shovel....discovered .it was a wet rolled up leaf.
Get to Specsavers!
Rayne said
Oct 4 10:41 PM, 2022
I thought I would wrap a few Christmas presents today while nobody was about.
I got 4 rolls of paper from Amazon and had to cut through the outer plastic it was delivered in finally because I couldn't rip it, then found the rolls were all sellotaped from top middle to bottom to each other.
By the time I cut those off and got to the actual paper I was losing interest very quickly!
I did get the job done eventually but it probably took me twice as long than I expected it to.
Syl said
Oct 5 12:35 AM, 2022
Rayne wrote:
I thought I would wrap a few Christmas presents today while nobody was about.
I got 4 rolls of paper from Amazon and had to cut through the outer plastic it was delivered in finally because I couldn't rip it, then found the rolls were all sellotaped from top middle to bottom to each other.
By the time I cut those off and got to the actual paper I was losing interest very quickly!
I did get the job done eventually but it probably took me twice as long than I expected it to.
It's so irritating, you need more instruments than a surgeon to get into some items.
I have given up on one brand of Tuna, impossible to open.
A cleansing milk I bought ( my usual one has been discontinued) is so thick, it's impossible to squeeze out of the bottle.
Anonymous said
Oct 5 12:57 AM, 2022
Vita wrote:
I was in the chemist getting my prescription when this clatty cow wearing her pyjamas came in.
She was absolutely bowfin, stunk the place out.
Why are you being so nasty towards another person that is most probably suffering from a mental health condition?
Vita said
Oct 5 1:47 AM, 2022
Virgin changed their phone network to fibre yesterday but because of the postal strike the change over letter didn't arrive and i just thought the phone was on the blink.
I had to move the phone and now because of where it is, i have had to unplug my DVD player, which means i will have to unplug the lamp in order to watch a DVD from now on.
I suppose i could buy a bigger adaptor.
-- Edited by Vita on Wednesday 5th of October 2022 11:13:20 AM
Vita said
Oct 7 11:25 AM, 2022
I'm waiting on the repair man to fix the dishwasher, it wasn't working and now it has more wrong with it because bawheid came.
Apparently people plead on the phone not to send him, I'll know in future.
Pretty much everything and everyone irritates me before my caffeine fix first thing…. then I’m good to go!
That requirement has never been rescinded, yet it has been obvious for years that many news and current affairs programme presenters and reporters, together with entertainment programme broadcasters - notably so-called comedians invited onto the panels of chat shows and studio discussions as guests - make no secret of their Left wing bias and, in many instances, positive loathing of the Conservative Party and individual politicians.
Indeed, one former BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, even described the institution as being “Massively Left biassed.”
As someone who broadcast on BBC radio as an interviewee and commentator on agriculture and countryside matters many, many times during my career, I think that the organisation has shown itself to be totally unworthy of its privileged funding arrangements and its status as national broadcaster, and should over the next five years be forced to seek its own future financing in the form of subscription or advertising…just like the rest of the industry.
Are you saying the BBC is a bag of shite? I heartily concur.
Well said Mr M.
Welcome back btw.
I was in the chemist getting my prescription when this clatty cow wearing her pyjamas came in.
She was absolutely bowfin, stunk the place out.
My gripe with Auntie is the way in which the still existing requirement of “strict impartiality” in programme content and structure is increasingly ignored, particularly where political issues are concerned. News reporters are generally pretty good at not displaying their own views - absolutely mandatory in my day - but sector editors and correspondents who are permitted a degree of flexibility frequently reveal, if not actually promote, their own party political preferences.
Worst of all, to my mind, is the way in which both BBC production staff and often presenters deliberately structure programmes and interviews in ways which clearly disadvantage organisations and interviewees representing the Right wing of politics, and in particular the Tory government….e.g. just watch how the awful Naga Munchyourbutty will constantly interrupt government ministers, preventing them from completing answers to her frequently slanted questions, while allowing their Labour shadows to ramble on making what are almost minute long uninterrupted party political broadcasts.
Now that sort of coverage is permissible on ITV, Sky and Channels Four and Five….because if viewers don’t like it, they can decline to watch or pay subscriptions. With the BBC, viewers are forced to pay nearly £160 a year in a compulsory poll tax, with harassment by heavies from TV Licensing, prosecution and possible imprisonment and a lifetime criminal record as the penalties for failure to do so.
I rarely watch the BBC now. I also think the licence fee should be scrapped.
Not sure how they can justify that.
They cant, it's always been a rip off. Disgusting BBC.
Exactly.
The thing that has irritated me today and for years now?
The preposterous blackwashing in UK adverts - to watch them you would think that everyone in the UK was either black or in a mixed race relationship - the overrepresentation is simply ridiculous.
What about white actors?
They have absolutely no chance to get work now.
Or is that being 'racist'?
Phil.
Not racist JD, the truth. It's ridiculous now.
I spent ages trying to pluck up the courage to remove a slimy snail that had somehow got in and was sprawled out on the kitchen floor.
After 10 minutes of sweating and trying to work out how to get it on the shovel....discovered .it was a wet rolled up leaf.
Get to Specsavers!
I thought I would wrap a few Christmas presents today while nobody was about.
I got 4 rolls of paper from Amazon and had to cut through the outer plastic it was delivered in finally because I couldn't rip it, then found the rolls were all sellotaped from top middle to bottom to each other.
By the time I cut those off and got to the actual paper I was losing interest very quickly!
I did get the job done eventually but it probably took me twice as long than I expected it to.
It's so irritating, you need more instruments than a surgeon to get into some items.
I have given up on one brand of Tuna, impossible to open.
A cleansing milk I bought ( my usual one has been discontinued) is so thick, it's impossible to squeeze out of the bottle.
Why are you being so nasty towards another person that is most probably suffering from a mental health condition?
Virgin changed their phone network to fibre yesterday but because of the postal strike the change over letter didn't arrive and i just thought the phone was on the blink.
I had to move the phone and now because of where it is, i have had to unplug my DVD player, which means i will have to unplug the lamp in order to watch a DVD from now on.
I suppose i could buy a bigger adaptor.
-- Edited by Vita on Wednesday 5th of October 2022 11:13:20 AM
I'm waiting on the repair man to fix the dishwasher, it wasn't working and now it has more wrong with it because bawheid came.
Apparently people plead on the phone not to send him, I'll know in future.