THE BRITISH THREAD II

Wobble onto the fatalism Steve. It's better for you. Anger is useless.

Anyway- We are saved. The BBC has just announced that they are going to send their production staff on a rigorous course in integrity.

Of course the licence fee will have to go up to pay for this and you can bet what you have that integrity will be increased not one inch. In fact it is more likely to merely improve its skills as the courses degenerate into piss-ups and general debauchery as they inevitably will. They use cocaine like we use salt according to what I've read.

They have had a taste of the gravy and they are not up for it being taken away. I know myself well enough to know what I would be up to if I was one of that crowd of proven shysters.

The General can spout the unctuous platitudes. That's what he's for.

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spendius wrote:

Good news folks.

At last the great phone-in rip off has been exposed.

I am proud to say that I fought it from its very beginnings in the 80's while everybody sat on their hands and called me names.

The Bloody Rip-off Lottery will be next I hope.

The very idea that we send people to university at great expense to learn how to rip the linings out of the pockets and handbags of the ordinary people who paid for their education is one of the great scandals of the last thirty years. And to bring discredit upon the charitable work of dedicated people is, in my view, on a whole other level to anything Mr Black might have done.

Fancy allowing telephone suppliers to give a kick-back to those who generate phone calls out of thin air and presenting them with television time to do it. It's as if they don't understand human nature.

You're television. What your licence fee pays for.

It's the same bunch which has banned smoking in pubs. They are trying to get you to sit in front of the telly more.

I read of one bloke who spent £200 trying to become a contestant on Millionaire. Like Lord Thompson famously said- "It's a licence to print money." And if that's not illegal it's hard to know what is.

Let's hope they get the steam cleaners in.

Spendy, sometimes there's a glimmer of sense in some of what you write.

But Mr Mencken said it first (I thought it was Mr Barnum)

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

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underestimating or overestimating?

I think the thieving bastards at the fake game show production companies etc have done us all a great favour.

They've popped the BBC's pomposity.

Michael Grade keeps bleating on about broadcasters not lying to the audience. Well they do. Our BBC lies to us. We are paying people to decieve us. Not only pay but forced to pay.

So now we know...you cant trust what you see on telly. The fines levied on the beeb for lying to us...is that money recycled to us? The beeb should be broken up and sold off with all registered license holders re registered as share holders.

Even better there should be a national campaign of license fee non payment.

under the slogan WE WONT PAY YOU TO LIE TO US. think I'll start it.

Spendy task for the day...dream up a better slogan. I'll make you my #2 in the Movement.

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It is over twenty years since I asked Auberon Waugh, of blessed memory, to suggest taking a couple of tanks to the front car park of Broadcasting House and emptying their magazines into the front entrance porch and if the building failed to disintegrate at that for them to return to base and reload.

I did,of course, recommend evacuating the building first.

Steve- How about "We want Lord Reith". Placards depicting Dick Turpin.

Actually- it isn't really the BBC. It is society. Ever since universities started clutching at the "average" for empire building purposes it was obvious that they would end up as courses in how to ambush your fellow man. And they have done.

I have heard of a lady who is taking five years off to go live in Spain from her job with the council supervising the nursing homes within their zone of control. When she comes back, obviously out of date and essentially a beginner, her salary remains at the level it would have been had she not deserted us and taken the expertise one presumes she had, and which we paid for, into redundant mode.

That's one hidden in the bushes eh?

SAVE THE BBC.

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I've knackered my achilles tendons and I'm lurching about like Long John Silver.
It's taking too long to clear up. It's been more than a week now.

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Hey where's Smorgs?

She done a runner again? Shocked

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Muscular embrocation RADIOL M R Embrocation for animals Mac!

No joking either, you will be able to buy it off a Vet, rub it on and it will take the pain out almost immediately, Use two to three nights on the trot and it usually clears it up.

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I'll try anything, but my tendons are well knackered with old scar tissue and are beyond embrocation aid I fear.
Damn nuisance.

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Mathos is obviously an expert on Achilles problems.

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McTag wrote:

Saw this this morning, and I don't know why, it just made me smile:

A group of young Scottish musicians are stranded in Lourdes without their instruments, after they were lost by British Airways.
The volunteers arrived in the French town to discover that their drums, keyboards and microphones had been scattered around the globe, in Texas, Russia and Oman.
The incident is the latest in a series of baggage failures this summer by BA, which at one stage was facing a backlog of 20,000 missing items.
The latest victims are a group of 70 teenagers from the St Margaret's of Scotland youth group, Glasgow.
They are in Lourdes on a week-long trip to assist the archdiocese at its annual pilgrimage, by performing music for the sick.
Last Thursday they flew to Toulouse from Glasgow, via Gatwick, but arrived to find 23 bags of equipment were missing.
Five days later they are still without 11 bags of equipment, and the group is set to return this weekend. Michael Canning, 49, group leader, said it would be a miracle if they received the instruments in time to perform.

Anyone else find this funny? No? Please yourselves.

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British Airways adverts are funnier.

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Hey Spendi speaking of aviation I'm going to put my great big clumping hobnail carbon boot on Europe soon when we fly to Nuremberg and Berlin.
Plant me some trees, will yer?

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Spendy...must say I'm disappointed with your sloganizing.

Bring back Lord Reith

wont hit the hot button for the ipod generation

and

save the BBC

isnt good for The Movement that wants to destroy it.

MCT sorry about the leg old boy. Have you thought about going to an NHS walk in centre? Or as I have always refered to them, Limp - In Centre. Quite appropriate in your case.

Now WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TO THE WEATHER. I'm pissed off with it. Thunder as I type.

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McTag wrote:

Hey Spendi speaking of aviation I'm going to put my great big clumping hobnail carbon boot on Europe soon when we fly to Nuremberg and Berlin.
Plant me some trees, will yer?

Done Mctag.

1200 trees planted this week.

Now...how much are carbon credits this week.

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Steve wrote-

Quote:

wont hit the hot button for the ipod generation

Can't you see that it is hitting "the hot button", or trying to, that is the cause of it all.

And I do want to save the BBC.

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spendius wrote:

Steve wrote-

Quote:
wont hit the hot button for the ipod generation

Can't you see that it is hitting "the hot button", or trying to, that is the cause of it all.

And I do want to save the BBC.

Why? What use is it except the shipping forecast?

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Blondie were great.

The drummer, Clem Burke was fuckin amazing. Very impressive.

Debbie sounded pretty good actually and was jumping about pretty enthusiatically for a 62 year old! (and she still looked beautiful)

Smile

Set list from what I recall was somthing like this'

Call Me
Atomic
Dreaming
Hangin' On the Telephone
Will Anything Happen? (or is it called Will I See You Again?)
Maria
Picture This
Denis
Sunday Girl
The Tide Is High
Rapture
Please Please Me (Beatles cover - v good)
Heart of Glass

....and another that I didn't recognise. Think I've remembered all of them.

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Dolly Parton was miming her set and her tits were pre-recorded too.

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Hey I see Berkshire and the west are flooded.

It will be interesting to compare and contrast how Maidenhead is treated compared with Hull previously.

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dadpad wrote:

McTag wrote:
Hey Spendi speaking of aviation I'm going to put my great big clumping hobnail carbon boot on Europe soon when we fly to Nuremberg and Berlin.
Plant me some trees, will yer?

Done Mctag.

1200 trees planted this week.

Now...how much are carbon credits this week.

Cheers Dadp. Since I haven't spent my life burning expensive leaves and paper and matches and flicking lighters on, I reckon I'm several thousand air-miles to the good compared with lifelong habitual polluters like Spendy.

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