Weekend Thread 21 December 2019

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Pity the Far Left Biased BBC as the bubble come to terms with their loss of EU jollies as we leave in 41 days … happy days …

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  1. StewGreen says:
    December 22, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    Bercow was the winner
    .. Darren’s now opened a new one Best Person of 2019

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  2. Dover Sentry says:
    December 22, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    I have a feeling of inner peace and contentment with regard to next year.

    The worst of the fight is over and the good guys won.

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  3. SpinningReith says:
    December 22, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    Out of duty to this site I thought I’d watch A Christmas Carol (BBC 1 9:00pm).
    The introduction featured a street urchin peeing on Marley’s tombstone – Dickens missed that mise-en-scène.
    Diversity appeared at 9:04. Bob Cratchit’s wife is ‘of colour’.
    Their daughter is a redhead, so the genetics are spot on.
    My wife likes Strictly, otherwise I’d tell them where to shove their licence.

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    • BRISSLES says:
      December 22, 2019 at 10:11 pm

      SR .. when I saw this advertised I decided to give it a wide berth, as any drama now – particularly historical and on the BBC, will be diversity driven regardless of historical fact. I’m sure if the Crown was a BBC production we’d have the Queen portrayed by 3 actresses of Afro Caribbean descent ! Well, if they can bugger about with Jane Austen and Dickens then anything is fair game.

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    • Charlie Farley says:
      December 22, 2019 at 10:36 pm

      Perhaps a campaign for ending the TV licence is called for …hit them where it hurts ….
      And as for rewarding the likes of Bercow and the rest of the bastards it’s just crazy …bring back the rotting hulk prison ships from the good old Victorian age and throw them in there…see I am all heart seeing as it’s almost Christmas, better include that Stormzy slime as well

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  4. Dover Sentry says:
    December 22, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    Good post, Pug.

    I see parallels with Trump’s win and that of Boris. Trump won the ‘rust belt’ vote which traditionally voted for the Democrats. The Democrats had drifted far to the Left and there was no longer any voter connection.

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    • Beltane says:
      December 22, 2019 at 11:06 pm

      Speaking of failing miserably, Matthew Parris headlined his valued prose in the December 7 Spectator: ‘The Tory push north will end in failure’. Of course it will Matthew, we all know your political expertise is beyond price.
      Now then, why not share a consoling glass of Sanatogen with your partner?

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  5. taffman says:
    December 22, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    “How much should bosses be paid?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50577858
    How much should the boss of Al Beeb be paid?

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  6. taffman says:
    December 22, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    Now that Al Beeb failed to get rid of Bo Jo their sights turn back on Trump………….
    “Nord Stream 2: Germany and Russia decry US sanctions”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50879435

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  7. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    Tony coming out with the classics still.

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    • taffman says:
      December 22, 2019 at 11:23 pm

      \\BBC director-general rejects claims of election bias and says: ‘People trust us’ //
      We don’t trust them .
      They are not listening, they never listen .
      Lessons to be learned ?

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  8. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2019 at 10:56 pm

    Greta signed off on this?

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  9. JimS says:
    December 22, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    Radio 4’s Feedback has been in the habit of allowing its various ‘guests’ to voice their little advert and call for comments, David Blunkett being a recent speaker.

    However for at least the last three weeks the programme has finally found its ‘voice’ and yes, its female, black and non-RP! (Did we expect anything else?)

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  10. Dover Sentry says:
    December 22, 2019 at 11:17 pm

    BBC Online News:

    “”Graham Norton reflects on 20 years of chat shows””

    “”Harriet Harman and Hilary Clinton are among the few politicians Norton has welcomed as guests””

    “”But while right-wing politicians may be noticeably absent, Norton points out: “When Boris [Johnson] was mayor [of London] I think we asked him to be on quite a lot, but he never wanted to do it.”

    “”While Norton’s later attempt to crack America failed, he remained resolutely popular in the UK.””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45821850

    BBC creating news with it’s own vastly overpaid star. He who said he would return to Ireland if Brexit won.

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  11. Foscari says:
    December 22, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    Something strange happened this evening. I put on the TV to
    watch the 10 PM news and London programme on the BBC.
    But somehow I got a TV station from Southern Asia. I
    am pretty sure it was from somewhere near the Indian sub continent,
    because nearly all the presenters and reporters were ladies
    from somewhere near the region!
    Then I realised it was the BBC because two of the main
    features on the news were virtue signalling about racism
    and women film directors not getting award gongs.
    What happened at WHL in Tottenham was a disgrace about
    three supporters out of a 60,000 crowd were making obscene
    racist chants. That is THREE too many. And it was absolutely
    no excuse that the Chelsea player they were abusing had helped
    to get a Spurs hero ,the South Korean Son sent off by making
    out that he was in agony rolling around on the ground. The
    German who feigned injury should get an academy award for
    his acting. That would please the BBC diversity department.

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  12. Fred Stubber says:
    December 23, 2019 at 4:37 am

    BBC midnight news, 22nd Dec
    After the lead item, which blamed the Australian bush fires on global warming and vilified the politicians who dispute this connection, there was an item about a black female who had died. I didn’t get her name and googling failed to find it, so she can’t have been very famous and why she was the second item or even on the news at all I don’t know. The third item was about Pres Trump’s overturning of the forthcoming ban an tungsten lighting. The ‘expert’ they wheeled on simply estimated the number of 60W bulbs in use in the US, calculated how much power would be saved if they were all 10W LEDs, and translated that into a large number of power stations. He didn’t mention that Trump’s overturning the ban would not mean that zero LEDs would be used. In fact, given the availability of both, far more LEDs are coming into use than tungstens, because people are aware of the power saving. There are also a few applications where LEDs are inappropriate, because their colour spectrum is not continuous. So it was bollocks.
    Fred

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    • JimS says:
      December 23, 2019 at 6:41 am

      My impression has been that electricity is so cheap in North America that they don’t bother to turn lights off anyway. Besides that is nothing compared to the energy used to cool the house and heat the pool!

      You are right, make a cheaper/better lamp and people will buy it. There are some applications where tungsten lamps have been used as part of the load. My Anglepoise table lamp only works properly with a 60W tungsten lamp, compact fluorecent lamps were far too heavy but some of the newer LEDs are almost light enough, (pun not intended).

      In places like cold stores it can be hard to get non-tungsten lamps to work properly.

      I think the bush fires in Australia are as a result of all the hot air that their politicians have been spouting lately.

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  13. digg says:
    December 23, 2019 at 6:43 am

    I see all the full-time reporters have gone away for Christmas and left the News in the hands of the placement students.

    Trump impeachment inquiry sung by a Christmas choir

    President Donald Trump became the third president in American history to be impeached, exactly one week before Christmas. He now faces a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office.

    The Washington International Chorus performs the 12 Days of Christmas carol, with specially adapted lyrics by BBC News, to explain how the impeachment inquiry unfolded.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-50831653/trump-impeachment-inquiry-sung-by-a-christmas-choir

    “Specially adapted lyrics by BBC News?”

    Not “News” BBC, opinion and spin and just about as juvenile and as any “News” organisation can get in my opinion.

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  14. Old Goat says:
    December 23, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Happy Christmas to all from a very jaune France, where the BBC is irrelevant!

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  15. Old Goat says:
    December 23, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Happy Christmas to all from a very jaune France, where the BBC is irrelevant!

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