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Post by phil70 on Mar 5, 2017 8:56:14 GMT
Adverts !!! don't get me started on adverts ....... actually it's the crap english they use that really pisses me off. One that winds me up everytime it comes on ......... painkiller advert that is "two times more effective" Two times for pity's sake ..... what the Hell happened to twice ? sorry rant over !!! Also appalling pronunciation of quite simple words ....Almond....Privacy ....Clientele and the letter H it's pronounced Aitch not Haitch (that one always gets me) Phil
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I 'ate mispronuciation
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Post by phil70 on Mar 5, 2017 9:02:50 GMT
Fat finger edit
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 9:22:06 GMT
Seems apt that a BBC radio thread is full of grumpy old men (ok, some of you are just in training)! I'm listening to Ed Reardon on r 4 extra, which is apt. Anyway, picky pedant curmudgeon hat on, if you don't have a telly you don't pay owt towards it, you get it for free. I find channel hopping keeps me happy, mostly between r4, 4x,r6,r3. Watch v little telly, better half has narcolepsy and falls asleep to easily. Once you get past 50 it's compulsory to be grumpy. I hate grumpy...oh...hang on....
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Post by JohnV on Mar 5, 2017 9:42:53 GMT
I've read that two times now! Sorry, couldn't resist. Rog GRRRRRRRRR !!!
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 5, 2017 9:53:49 GMT
The BBC has made some excellent documentaries. These days you'd think the licence would be based on what you watch - if 50% of your viewing is non BBC then your fee to the BBC should be 50%. I don't have anything against the BBC but then I'm not over-familiar with it. Was Great Canal Journeys BBC or ITV? Fawlty Towers BBC? The Young Ones BBC? I'm sure the Romans would look at modern Britain and tut-tut as Standards Have Declined, no-one speaks Latin any more.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 5, 2017 11:27:49 GMT
The BBC has made some excellent documentaries. These days you'd think the licence would be based on what you watch - if 50% of your viewing is non BBC then your fee to the BBC should be 50%. I don't have anything against the BBC but then I'm not over-familiar with it. Was Great Canal Journeys BBC or ITV? Fawlty Towers BBC? The Young Ones BBC? I'm sure the Romans would look at modern Britain and tut-tut as Standards Have Declined, no-one speaks Latin any more. except Tellymatchus
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Post by Jim on Mar 5, 2017 12:33:46 GMT
The BBC has made some excellent documentaries. These days you'd think the licence would be based on what you watch - if 50% of your viewing is non BBC then your fee to the BBC should be 50%. I don't have anything against the BBC but then I'm not over-familiar with it. Was Great Canal Journeys BBC or ITV? Fawlty Towers BBC? The Young Ones BBC? I'm sure the Romans would look at modern Britain and tut-tut as Standards Have Declined, no-one speaks Latin any more. except Tellymatchus Afaik that would be Greek to him.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 5, 2017 15:31:45 GMT
Also appalling pronunciation of quite simple words ....Almond....Privacy ....Clientele and the letter H it's pronounced Aitch not Haitch (that one always gets me) Phil You would hate us down here in Ampshire.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 15:45:43 GMT
The home of the amp?
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Post by phil70 on Mar 5, 2017 20:40:41 GMT
We quite like quiz shows and thought we would give "5 Gold Rings" a try. And there was Phillip Schofield talking to a contestant about having a holiday on a ........Longboat grr Phil (I am not a Viking)
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Post by phil70 on Mar 5, 2017 22:29:38 GMT
Also appalling pronunciation of quite simple words ....Almond....Privacy ....Clientele and the letter H it's pronounced Aitch not Haitch (that one always gets me) Phil You would hate us down here in Ampshire. Dropping an aitch is only a venal sin, adding one is a mortal sin, I know about these things as I used to live in 'Arrow Phil
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Post by tonyqj on Mar 9, 2017 15:42:34 GMT
Adverts !!! don't get me started on adverts ....... actually it's the crap english they use that really pisses me off. One that winds me up everytime it comes on ......... painkiller advert that is "two times more effective" Two times for pity's sake ..... what the Hell happened to twice ? sorry rant over !!! How about "Six times less"? It's used all over the place. "His score is currently four times less than the leader."
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Post by tonyqj on Mar 9, 2017 15:44:21 GMT
Also appalling pronunciation of quite simple words ....Almond....Privacy ....Clientele and the letter H it's pronounced Aitch not Haitch (that one always gets me) Phil And why do they insist on putting an 'n' into restaurateur?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 16:16:33 GMT
I was looking for something amusing to say about Clive of India and I found this. As this is the BBC thread: Clive: You know that big nigger who lives down the road? Derek: Him? Yeah. Oh, lovely. Clive: Huge black cunt. I said, I said to him, I said, um, Ephraim, strange name for a black, innit? I said there's a load of cunts down the BBC and they need sorting out. I said, um, this should appeal to your fucking primitive urges cos I said you like cannibalism, don't you? You like eating people alive in a frying pan. I said, go round to the BBC with some of your mates dressed up in your loincloths and that, and, er, paint yourselves up in different colours or whatever you cunts do back in Africa. And so he said, er, oh, it's nice, that and he, he, he said what do we do when we arrive? I said, go beserk, tear the fucking place down. Derek: Yes, spunk all over the fucking centre. Clive: Spunk all over the Director General and kill everyone in the studios, you know, and, um, he was all, you know, he got about forty of these coons gathered together to rush round to the BBC. And I was really looking forward to it. I was looking forward to tuning in to the news that night and seeing the news on the BBC. The BBC had being burn't to the fucking ground. Derek: Yeah. Yeah. Four... forty thousand. Clive: I turned on the Nine O'clock News. There was Kenneth Kendall, calm as a cucumber. No story about anything burning to the fucking ground. And do you know what the *cunt, black, nigger, poof, cunt said when he came back?* Derek: No? Clive: "Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't find it." Derek: No! Clive: "I lost my way", he said. That's sent me on a voyage of discovery. I'm too young to have caught Clive and Derek (and TBH, Peter and Dudley were out of favour on the idiot lantern and radio) I'm gonna have some fun delving into that corner of the comic landscape Cheers Foxy 👍
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