alexscottislegend 1,983 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 15 hours ago, Gonzo79 said: Their main website reads like a feminist/BLM blog most days. A couple of carefully selected news items and then several articles about microaggressions, transphobia and what a millennial recommends having for brunch. Pitiful stuff. Not only that but it is written in really poor English or niche slang that folk like me don't understand. To think that my English teacher recommended the BBC as an example of where you can hear good English spoken. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 45 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Not only that but it is written in really poor English or niche slang that folk like me don't understand. To think that my English teacher recommended the BBC as an example of where you can hear good English spoken. And the amount of errors. I was just reading an article as someone recommended the story about the guy selling fake Covid cures. He, became a She towards the end of the article. Laughable. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,224 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 49 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Not only that but it is written in really poor English or niche slang that folk like me don't understand. To think that my English teacher recommended the BBC as an example of where you can hear good English spoken. Totally agree the standard of speech/vocalising makes me glad some programmes have subtitles available. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 1 minute ago, MacK1950 said: Totally agree the standard of speech/vocalising makes me glad some programmes have subtitles available. I had same problem with Still Game, as i left Glasgow when just a wee boy!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 1,983 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 2 hours ago, ChelseaBoy said: I had same problem with Still Game, as i left Glasgow when just a wee boy!! You can take the boy out of Glasgow but you can never take Glasgow out of the boy! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Apparently a Freedom of Information request has revealed over 500k households cancelled their TV licence in 2019 and that 82k had cancelled in the 5 months to March 2020. That's 550 per day!!! Something that the BBC wants to keep quiet. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 13,349 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Given their agenda driven output, is it any wonder so many Brits are refusing to fund them? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 19 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: Given their agenda driven output, is it any wonder so many Brits are refusing to fund them? Agree, but i wonder why so many don't challenge this TV tax instead of just blindly paying? Yes i get the threats etc, but surely more should be refusing. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 5 hours ago, ChelseaBoy said: Apparently a Freedom of Information request has revealed over 500k households cancelled their TV licence in 2019 and that 82k had cancelled in the 5 months to March 2020. That's 550 per day!!! Something that the BBC wants to keep quiet. Source? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaspard 562 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Due to personal circumstances I've been watching BBC news much more frequently recently than I would do by choice. In the last day few days dear old auntie has not only reported on the most important and topical stories like Trump is a bad man and the government is confusing everyone about Covid, they also devote a considerable amount of air time to educate and indeed, re-educate us on things we may not be fully aware of but should. On Thursday I learned that, if Indians or rather Brits of Indian heritage, eat too much food they get fat, most concerning. However, we were also informed that if they eat less they will lose weight, phew! Fascinating stuff. Friday and Saturday, I've been historically realigned, The Battle of Britain, victory was achieved not by Winston, Dowdling, R J Mitchell or the heroic RAF as I had naively assumed, but by Hazel a 13 YO girl. Apparently her father was an engineer working on Spitfire armament during the 1930's and Hazel was quite good at sums and may have helped him work something out one night. Apparently this unspecified arithmetic intervention ultimately won the battle against the Luftwaffe and saved us all from the horrors of Nazism. Jolly good show Hazel, spiffing. Thanks Auntie B, I'll be binning (recycling of course) my my old Commandos and digging out my sisters Buntys in a belated effort to gain a more accurate perspective of wartime events. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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