380 Responses to Start the Week Thread 17 August 2020

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  1. Guest Who says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    Interesting name; should go far.

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    • JimS says:
      August 18, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Better to stand on top of the lift than under it?

      (Aren’t the ‘gubbins’ on top anyway?)

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  2. digg says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Judging by the squeals of anguish coming from Public Health England, BBC and Channel 4 over replacing PHE (5000 staff) with a new task force dedicated to real and pressing global health issues instead of how much sugar is in cocopops, it would appear that Hancock, probably steered by Cummings got it just about right as the BBC would say.

    Maybe this could be used as a test bed for dealing with another bloated National Institution (35,402 staff), I think we all probably know who that is don’t we?

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    • Sluff says:
      August 18, 2020 at 8:06 pm

      I doubt if they will save the budget. What is the betting it is little more than a re-branding exercise? The same incompetent arrangements but with a glossy new wrapper.

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  3. Chalkywhite says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    I liken the BBC to a dim habitual criminal. It’s been caught out on numerous occasions, but when it’s released on parole, it just can’t help itself. It reverts to its old ways.

    Who are its audience? In general not young people or twitter/facebook users. However it can’t stop itself. It keeps pumping out stuff aimed at that sector of society, who don’t patricularly give a toss, or even watch it, whilst ignoring/insulting its core paying audience. It’s a vicious downward spiral but that doesn’t seem to register. How many times? Wake up and smell the coffee: THEY ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS. Your actual paying customers are not stupid and will only take so much, any support they have for you is being eroded on a daily basis.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      August 18, 2020 at 8:05 pm

      Chalky
      I see it as a case of ‘ over management ‘ – so many trying to ‘outwoke ‘ each other that they just become excruciatingly unwatchable .
      I gave up but read of it here daily .
      For any programme of quality to get through their woke sieve can only be a miracle now.

      Also – the strategy of going after “yoof “ is thankfully fatal to the future of the BBC because yoof left it years ago .
      Anyone who had accesd to netflix or prime will see that so much BBC stuff lacks on so many fronts . HBO produces programmes with following the BBC could only dream of .

      As for Radio – the future is streaming and current affairs will be on the internet .

      Speaking of the internet – twitter is busily taking down parody accounts – the equivalent of the nazis burning books ..,,,, perhaps twitter will die as well ad the BBC

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    • JimS says:
      August 18, 2020 at 8:56 pm

      The BBC’s ‘customers’, or rather ‘target audience’ are themselves and their pals in Channel 4 and The Guardian.

      That’s the beauty of the ‘funding model’! That’s why they lurv all those awards shows too.

      The contempt for the plebs gets ever stronger, even on radio. For instance Radio 4’s Feedback programme now mostly consists of the BBC telling us why we should like what they are doing/going to do and forcing some mugs to listen to something that they would never have listened to in a month of Sundays – who cares what the listener thinks!

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  4. digg says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    The BBC carry an interview with a “Headteacher” who is dismissive about the Government handling of the exam fiasco.

    The interview taking place in what appears to be his beautifully manicured garden in the sun, no doubt with a Pimms handy, certainly not in his office at school. Judging by his garden he has not been entirely wasting his “extended” break from school duties….

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  5. digg says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Colourfully dressed C4 presenter Jon Snow on right now interviewing an Iranian filmmaker about his new film which “exposes’ the UK’s role in a coup in Iran many, many years ago reputedly to protect BP’s oil interests.

    The filmmaker actually came out with the line, “I want people in my adopted home (meaning the UK) to admit and come clean to Iran”

    Apart from the fact that Iran is now the foulest nation on the planet in terms of human rights and aggression why the hell did he “adopt” a Country he obviously hates and wishes to denigrate like this?

    Our Commie Jon however treats him like the second coming.

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  6. JimS says:
    August 18, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    Apparently MOTs expiring after 31 July aren’t being extended by six months.

    Does anyone have the BBC’s/Der Starmer’s government ‘shambles’ hot line phone numbers so that I can complain?

    (‘I is not black’, alphabettyspaghetti or female, so they might not be ‘bovered’).

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  7. Fedup2 says:
    August 18, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    And with that sad bad news about MOT extensions we pass to the new thread . 6 months until the garage gets my annual contribution ….

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  8. Thoughtful says:
    August 18, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    I won’t post it, but I see David Vance on his Twitter Feed appears less than enamoured over the ‘leadership’ shown by Boris the Bottler.

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