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  1. StewGreen says:
    August 8, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    Tonight’s TV
    BBC2
    9pm Romesh repeat
    10pm The Times’ TV highlighting
    a double episode of a drama about black transwomen and drag shows

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 9, 2021 at 4:59 pm

      No lesbians died of aids?

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    • Sick of it all says:
      August 9, 2021 at 5:00 pm

      I attempted ten minutes of it for posterity. It wasn’t fabulous or pioneering, even entertaining, but a parade of predictable and stereotypical, by-the-numbers gay tropes without a hint of irony, sophistication or a raw edge. I rather think it all a waste of time and taxpayers money.

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  2. StewGreen says:
    August 8, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    “OMG what will trans people have to watch before that programme starts ?”
    I hear you say

    Well 9:10pm BBC starts to repeat the doco about trans from the 1980s

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 8, 2021 at 9:11 pm

      I wonder if the prog mentions a couple of big things
      #1 The subject of the doc, Julia Grant, who died in 2019, was an outspoken critic of child transition”

      #2 The operation was botched and her without the ability to have any kind of sex
      and her partner Amir left her.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 9, 2021 at 4:58 pm

      NHS … clap harder …

      A 23-year-old woman who is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic says she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51676020

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  3. MarkyMark says:
    August 9, 2021 at 4:48 pm

    Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard. It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming.

    Between last September and this March, it will become the final resting place for 1,000 fibreglass turbine blades.

    These blades, which have reached the end of their 25-year working lives, come from three wind farms in the north-western US state. Each will be cut into three, then the pieces will be stacked and buried.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51325101

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  4. MarkyMark says:
    August 9, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    Lawyers will argue children cannot give informed consent to treatment delaying puberty or helping them to transition.

    The Tavistock said it always took a cautious approach to treatment.

    Gender identity charity Mermaids said that people face a long wait for access to such services, that they can save lives and that very few people regret their decision.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51676020

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  5. MarkyMark says:
    August 9, 2021 at 5:01 pm

    “Such composite materials (Wind farms) might be light and strong, but they are also extremely hard to recycle.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51325101

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  6. MarkyMark says:
    August 9, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    “In this episode of 5 Minutes On, Marianna shares her conversation with Sebastian, the son of former nurse and conspiracy theory influencer Kate Shemirani. And she gives us a glimpse of the realities of reporting from the frontline of online disinformation.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09qmmkk?xtor=CS8-1000-%5BPromo_Box%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BPS_SOUNDS~N~p09qmmkk~P_5MinutesOnAntiVaxLies%5D

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    Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),

    As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.

    Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.

    ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’

    CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.

    CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.

    CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.

    CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.

    CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.

    CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.

    CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …

    CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

    CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19 

    Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.

    Cheers,
    Mark
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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