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From: CT on 2 Aug 2010 11:30 Champ wrote: > On 2 Aug 2010 14:45:53 GMT, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > > > Champ aside, who wouldn't like pastry? Life would hardly be worth > > living without pies... > > ...and you're living proof of that. Indeed. I like pies. I shall definitely be heading to the Crusty Pie Co.[1] stand at the GBBF at some point on Thursday evening. Some might even make the whole journey home... [1] http://www.crustypie.co.uk/ -- Chris
From: steve auvache on 2 Aug 2010 11:33 On 2 Aug 2010 14:43:41 GMT, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: >steve auvache wrote: > >> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:27:53 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >> >> >> > Given that the BBC has, and still does, produce some of the best TV >> > in the world, it's a charging model I'm happy to support. >> >> >> Yes, ok, we all know Our BBC is outstanding but there is a knock on >> effect which you lot tend to forget, it brings the commercial >> stations screaming and kicking along with them. The very fact they >> have a commercial competitor with product as good as the Beeb forces >> them to raise their game. Which means we get quality and then some >> and all for the same payment. > >Absolute bollocks. > >What happens is commercial TV churns out hour after hour of populist >shite[1] and the BBC do the same in search of ratings, so can spend >less money on programming and more on "talent" and executives. You are confusing The BBC with Saturday evening TV broadcasting. Forget that shite, the license fee is worth it for the talk radio alone. > >What should happen is that the BBC largely ignores what the commercial >sector does, and produces good quality programming that wouldn't be a >twinkle in the eye of the commercial stations. The BBC is very aware there is a private sector and always strives to set it's minimum standards far in excess of their highest achievements. Of course aim and attainment are not always the same thing and sadly it does not always succeed, as the Weekly Thread on The Clarkson Show in these parts amply demonstrates. -- steve auvache
From: steve auvache on 2 Aug 2010 11:49 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:00:51 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >I'm finding it very hard to be in the liberal position here y'know <chuckle> The problem with it is; although, you can understand fully the arguments and desires of the commercial sector to be allowed a slice of a very large cake, we know only to well that right from the start we won't be getting much of the jam in the middle and if ever they get involved in the cooking process the very cake they lust after sharing will be nothing but artificial additives and E numbers. We are right to resist. -- steve auvache
From: ogden on 2 Aug 2010 12:00 CT wrote: > Champ wrote: > > On 2 Aug 2010 14:45:53 GMT, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Champ aside, who wouldn't like pastry? Life would hardly be worth > > > living without pies... > > > > ...and you're living proof of that. > > Indeed. I like pies. > > I shall definitely be heading to the Crusty Pie Co.[1] stand at the > GBBF at some point on Thursday evening. Some might even make the whole > journey home... I'll be trying to learn from past mistakes and not buying half a ton of scratchings. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | ktm duke ii
From: ogden on 2 Aug 2010 12:55
Krusty wrote: > ogden wrote: > > > Krusty wrote: > > > ogden wrote: > > > > > > > Krusty wrote: > > > > > ogden wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > And if the government stabbed you in the face with a pastry > > > > > > fork and said everyone with a face had to pay 15 quid a year > > > > > > for it, I bet you'd be livid. > > > > > > > > > > I'd rather be stabbed in the face with a pastry fork[1] than > > > > > watch much of the shite churned out on BBC these days. > > > > > > > > So what? Their mandate is to provide programming for the entire > > > > spectrum of licence fee payers, not just yokels in Swindon. > > > > > > Which is obviously impossible, so they just show stuff that can > > > compete in the ratings instead. > > > > Yeah, I watched Synth Britannia last night and it was so blatantly > > competing in the ratings with Ant & Dec. And as for that documentary > > about camping, if that wasn't their answer to Hollyoaks I don't know > > what is. > > 'Compete' != 'show the same type of show'. Where did I say that it did? -- ogden | gsxr1000 | ktm duke ii |