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From: Ace on 3 Aug 2010 04:52 On 3 Aug 2010 08:26:40 GMT, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: >Krusty wrote: > >> The day BBC1 start showing a few hours of a different type of sport >> every Saturday rather than just football, rugby & cricket is the day >> I'll be convinced they're not driven by ratings. > >I'd love the BBC to show football, rugby and cricket, but they don't as >they don't have the money to prise it out of Sky's hands. I'm thankful for small mercies. The lack of Test cricket is, I agree, a sad state of affairs, but getting rid of football and all the bollocks that surrounds it can only be a good thing.
From: Ace on 3 Aug 2010 04:55 On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:18:38 GMT, Kevin Gleeson <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:35:57 +0200, Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:54:04 GMT, Kevin Gleeson >><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: >>>Yep. For gods sake I could own 12 TVs. I can only watch one at a time. >>>I do not want to pay for 12 licences. >> >>Well duh. The licence is per household, not per receiver. Just like in >>France, Switzerland, Germany etc. >> >>In Switzerland, in fact, you need a licence just to own a radio. >>Included in the TV one, but can be seperated out if you don't have a >>TV too. > >Well duh, I didn't know you had only to licence one receiver. But I >still find it weird. It's only you that thinks you license the receiver. As has been explained, you don't - you have a licence for the address. And it also covers off-site use, like a portable TV running in your car and, unless this has been changed, and it wouldn't surprise me if it had, it also allows residents who are temporarily living away from home, like students in digs, to remain covered on their parents' license. >And how do they tell you actually have one. They make that assumption, you have to be able to demonstrate that you haven't. Every TV sale is logged with the relevant authority. This is peculiar to the UK IME - in the other countries I live in it's up to you to tell them about it.
From: darsy on 3 Aug 2010 04:56 On Aug 3, 9:46 am, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > darsy wrote: > > On Aug 3, 9:38 am, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > > > > He's on just after Gardeners' World, yes? > > > Alys Fowler was in a swimsuit on the last episode - a strange brew of > > fwarr and "I feel slightly ill". > > I didn't see it but yes, I can see what you mean. no-one likes to imagine a ginger anywhere close to naked. > And I did of course mean Gardeners Question Time. ah. Speaking of R4, did you hear "Just a Minute" last night? Nicholas Parsons is beyond senile now. Giles Brandreth interrupted himself, and Nicholas got very confused and awarded the continuation to Paul Merton, much to Paul Merton's confusion. This confusion then prompted Jenny Eclair to interrupt on the grounds of "deviation", which eventually ended up with Nicholas awarding the continuation to Graham Norton. Very funny, but also tragic. -- d.
From: Krusty on 3 Aug 2010 05:02 CT wrote: > Krusty wrote: > > > The day BBC1 start showing a few hours of a different type of sport > > every Saturday rather than just football, rugby & cricket is the day > > I'll be convinced they're not driven by ratings. > > I'd love the BBC to show football, rugby and cricket, but they don't > as they don't have the money to prise it out of Sky's hands. > > They show very little football (the odd FA cup game and MotD later in > the evening) Really? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5161070.stm At least four football programmes every Saturday for the next two months, plus several on Sundays & Wednesday. Not much rugby, but still a few games in the listings in August, then the four nations. -- Krusty Raptor 1000 MV 750 Senna Tiger 955i Tiger 885 Fantic Hiro 250
From: CT on 3 Aug 2010 05:03
darsy wrote: > Speaking of R4, did you hear "Just a Minute" last night? Nicholas > Parsons is beyond senile now. Listen to R4? Just how old do you think I am?! -- Chris |