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From: darsy on 3 Aug 2010 05:37 On Aug 3, 10:27 am, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:31:34 -0700 (PDT), darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >Actually, speaking of that lot, I was mildly surprised to learn that > >Australia was, just behind Saudi Arabia, the least populous member > >state of the G20. I knew it wasn't a densely populated country, but I > >was still amazed there are so few of them[1]. Comforting, really. > > Oh sure. there are only about 3 times more people in the entire country than live in Greater London alone! > When "Neighbours" was at its peak of popularity in the UK, there was > the weird statistic that more people watched neighbours here than > *lived* in Australia. that'd have been the latter 1/2 of the '80s during the Jason & Kylie period?. I can believe it - the student's union TV rooms at QUB were *rammed* every lunchtime with people watching it. <fX: checks, well, looks up wikipedia> yeah, the Jason & Kylie wedding episode saw 20 million viewers in the UK, which would probably have been greater than the population of Australia at the time. On a fairly different Australia related note, I'm an currently addicted to Peter Temple novels - some of the best crime writing I've ever read. The main problem is that I've read all but 2 or 3 of them now; I just wish he'd churn them out faster. -- d.
From: prawn on 3 Aug 2010 05:38 Krusty <dontwantany(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: > Well obviously that's what they want you to believe. The BBC have never > stated how many vans they have (assuming they have any), or how they > work. The reason they won't say is because they rely on 'the public's It's technically possible using Radio Frequency Interference. Certainly on CRT TV sets though I'm not sure about plasma or LED sets. When there's a database of houses sans TV licenses to hand why would they bother, though? -- Leviticus 11:10
From: darsy on 3 Aug 2010 05:40 On Aug 3, 10:03 am, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > 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?! You're about 50, aren't you? I started listening to R4 in my late 20s. I do draw the line at listening to R2, which is what A. mostly listens to, with the exception of the rare Saturday mornings when Mark Lamarr and Jo Brand used to stand in for "Jonathan Ross and his Parasite Friends" (Lamarr's phrase). -- d.
From: Ace on 3 Aug 2010 05:41 On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:34:20 +0100, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >It has also been addressed in the House of Commons if you want to search >Hansard but my recollection is that over 35% of *all* women prosecuted for >an offence were charged with TV licencing evasion. Fill yer boots on that >statistic. "95% of all statistics are made up on the spot." Posting the above as 'proof' is laughable.
From: ogden on 3 Aug 2010 05:42
Champ wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:31:34 -0700 (PDT), darsy <darsyx(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >Actually, speaking of that lot, I was mildly surprised to learn that > >Australia was, just behind Saudi Arabia, the least populous member > >state of the G20. I knew it wasn't a densely populated country, but I > >was still amazed there are so few of them[1]. Comforting, really. > > Oh sure. > > When "Neighbours" was at its peak of popularity in the UK, there was > the weird statistic that more people watched neighbours here than > *lived* in Australia. That's not living, that's existing. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | ktm duke ii |