[J. BStard.]

andy ridgeway wrote:

i’m actually wondering whether you’re joking

😀

Keep wondering. I also have the simian special power of being able to wiggle my ears.

[J. BStard.]

Fair enough. I can understand people being jealous.

[J. BStard.]

andy ridgeway wrote:

http://static.flickr.com/33/37259532_c3c9da1953_o.jpg

I used to have one of those.

[J. BStard.]

Careful Jon, I don’t want to deal with the fallout. Not after last time.

[J. BStard.]

Until quite recently in evolutionary terms, humans were having sex with chimps.

That’s going to keep me smiling all day.

Also check lifelong.disappointment.com

[J. BStard.]

andy ridgeway wrote:

306 meridien 1.8 petrol, V plate

Well, X plate and 2.0Hdi GLX if we’re being formal about it.

😉

andy ridgeway wrote:

think i’m gonna have to finally jack it in though, it’s falling apart, dunno what to get next?

:S

Focus ST Andy. Give in to your inner wideboy. One of them politely waited behind me the other day while the bloke in front of me pulled over, I pulled in in turn and it absolutely fucking flew past me.

Or a new Civic.

<3 hatchbacks.

[J. BStard.]

306 HDi.

I’ve had it since it had 6000 miles on the clock and I’ll continue to have it forever I reckon. It drives like a posh go kart. I love it loads and loads and loads.

[J. BStard.]

Just listened to it. You probably think house is cheesy, don’t you?

:bigsmile:

[J. BStard.]

I don’t know why but I have the sneaking suspicion that I wouldn’t like these tunes.

[J. BStard.]

dan u wrote:

that is the diametric opposite of what i would have thought! respeck!

Haha. In fact, that’s another reason to pay your license fee. Live sports coverage on BBCi (red button).

/me makes note to watch BBC2 next Tuesday night.

[J. BStard.]

Innit. Let us be your focus group.

:horay:

Dan: I was being forced to watch snooker by Lou at 9 last night.

[J. BStard.]

Course I didn’t watch it.

The trailers said it all:

‘Imagine if failed male boy bands were given one last chance……..AS GIRLS!’

Jesus fucking Christ

/slaps head

[J. BStard.]

But Fixxy, how the fuck did it get past being a mindfart in some gayboys head?

Tell your bosses they fucked up, tell them the Great British Public said so.

[J. BStard.]

I meant to ask who was responsible for that heap of shite. Well done to all of you. You must be very proud.

:horay:

[J. BStard.]

Pisces wrote:

The Thick Of It started on BBC 3 I think.

Nah, BBC4.

[J. BStard.]

Put the crackpipe down Ed.

You are properly into Hollyhockville.

[J. BStard.]

USE wrote:

alright, i have overstated my case. being fecicious. sue me.

what i should have said is that the bbc is under enormous pressure from the government, who basically contol its source of income (by keeping it paid for by lisence fees) and also have sacked a lotof top brass who they found to be providing a dissident veiw which they found objectionable.

some of the people who work in the bbc are genuinely trying to present balanced reporting of political issues, but they are limited by pressures from the top. they all know what happens when the bbeb step out of line.

also newsnight is great, but its hardly primetime. the actual bbc news does seem to present the veiws of westminster and as has been pointed out, very rarely critise the government in a general way, just pick at technicalities. when they do present a decent debate, it is on issues such as the iraq war when it would be obvious to everyone where their allegances lie if they didnt. the british public may be dumb, but theyre not that dumb. so a little tact has to be used in covering up the connections from westminster and the beeb.

So say that to start with, innit, and not just knock out another bit of cliched antibabylon rhetoric.

Also, not risking all out war with the government is not the same as presenting them in a glowing light. The things that have been stated on here would lead the casual observer to believe that we are living in an Orwellian nightmare where we hear nothing but good about the goverment. This is blatantly untrue.

All I’m saying is be realistic.

[J. BStard.]

Looks fairly unbiased to me Ed.

Peugeot moving production from an extremely expensive plant to a cheaper plant (facilitated by our shit employment laws)

Unions saying they’ll picket.

Government saying this is the nature of the free market.

I’m not getting your point at all.

[J. BStard.]

27 super goat wrote:

The UK political content of BBC News is utterly Westminster-centric, how can you deny that? That may be where the power is, but I’m really not interested in hearing about the machinations of politicians, I want to know what is happening on the ground.

Hahaha. Find me the part where I said ‘BBC News isn’t Westminster-cetric’.

You can’t because I didn’t say it.

That isn’t just a problem with the BBC though, is it? All national media are obviously Westminster-centric. That’s where nearly all the decision making is made and that’s where most of them are based. I don’t think that problem is exclusively one to do with the Beeb.

[J. BStard.]

So you’re conceding that they do indeed give the government a hard time, and that they aren’t a source of propaganda?

Safe.

😛

If you want to talk about the state of investigative journalism and political debate, help yourself, I’ll agree. But I was dissing Usey’s daft assertion that Beeb is nothing but a source of propaganda.

[J. BStard.]

How often do you listen to PM Ed? Honestly.

(Ignoring the fact that you just picked and chose between the programmes I listed)

Actually, don’t bother answering because it’s not Westminster-centric. It deals with all of the days news in a magazine format. As you’d know if you listened.

😀

[J. BStard.]

I must have imagined all those interviewers giving the government a hard time since he went, obviously.

Let’s not forget I was responding to a comment claiming that the BBC was a source of government propaganda. I didn’t realise that you subscribed to this view Andy.

🙂

[J. BStard.]

USE wrote:

the bbc sound be renamed the ministry of propeganda considering how impartial the news is.

You’ve obviously living in a parallel universe to the rest of us then. Have you never heard of Newsnight, Today, PM, or Question Time?

:rolleyes:

[J. BStard.]

General Lighting wrote:

i’d grudgingly admit to this but not a whole £150 – halve it and I’d pay it without problems

dump a few of the tired celebs and the middle management cliques and let some new talent in – what appears to be happening is that these cliques are keeping their power and the new entrants to the BBC are being dumped on..

Sure, there are celebs who don’t deserve their pay but you’re forgetting all the other things that the BBC offers; the wicked web services, the kids channels free from consumerism, BBC3, BBC4 (which I find myself watching more and more), even the Essential Mix is good at least twice a year.

£150 is nothing at all when compared to the dross you pay for on Sky.

[J. BStard.]

Pisces wrote:

In which case I’ll happily keep paying my license fee to ensure that the BBC doesn’t go the same way.

ITV is fucking terrible.

Exactly. Radio 4 is worth the money alone.

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