The BBC Thread

[whelk]

37 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

The licence fee is worth it for David Attenborough alone. When compared to so much of the dross out there it is still good value. The BBC is more of a part of the fabric of the UK than flags on lampposts. It is firmly embedded in the growth of modern day Britain. It’s a shame that the so called patriots don’t value it. Too busy getting their gammon fix on GB News I suppose.

Attenborough is on Netflix

[whelk]

35 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

Thats twice now, excellent work, it especially highlights your overall inability to look at situations as anything other than completely binary.

🤣

BBC gave Katy Hopkins her prominence.

[sadoldgit]

59 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

Thats twice now, excellent work, it especially highlights your overall inability to look at situations as anything other than completely binary.

🤣

It’s a point of view. I have already said that change is needed so I don’t see how that is ‘binary?’

[Turkish]

embarrassing 

[Patrick Bateman]

7 hours ago, The Kraken said:

I love what the Beeb has done and indeed some of what it still does (Monday quiz night last night was particularly difficult, mind).

But, in this day and age of streaming and multiple subscriptions, a mandatory license fee to fund the BBC is really something of a disgrace. It’s such an outdated model and will become abused more and more. It’s a shame, but I do think that the payment model simply has to change.

This. Those who like the "unique way the BBC is funded" are dinosaurs.

[AlexLaw76]

BBC had the golden goose when the concept of a Netflix style service was showing its leg. They had an enormous catalogue of content and could have removed the shackles of the license fee and dominated parts of this industry.

They have well and truly missed the boat, and any additional/optional charges they try to introduce will largely fail, mainly due to the shit content compared to other services. 

[benjii]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

BBC had the golden goose when the concept of a Netflix style service was showing its leg. They had an enormous catalogue of content and could have removed the shackles of the license fee and dominated parts of this industry.

They have well and truly missed the boat, and any additional/optional charges they try to introduce will largely fail, mainly due to the shit content compared to other services. 

It's not really up to the BBC to unilaterally do that. It would have needed political buy in as well to remove its public service obligations.

The BBC makes significant commercial profits from licensing content but these are often wiped out by its public service commitments.

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, benjii said:

It's not really up to the BBC to unilaterally do that. It would have needed political buy in as well to remove its public service obligations.

The BBC makes significant commercial profits from licensing content but these are often wiped out by its public service commitments.

And making Mrs Brown's boys.

[benjii]

56 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

And making Mrs Brown's boys.

They don't make it.

I expect they have made plenty of money off it, though. 

[sadoldgit]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

They don't make it.

I expect they have made plenty of money off it, though. 

That is a strange one. I can only think that they are trying to be all things to all people and are trying to cater for those still stuck in the 1970’s.

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

That is a strange one. I can only think that they are trying to be all things to all people and are trying to cater for those still stuck in the 1970’s.

The only thing stuck in the 70’s related to the bbc is the way it’s funded. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

19 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

It’s a point of view. I have already said that change is needed so I don’t see how that is ‘binary?’

Change 😂😂😂. What change are you proposing, paying 4 weekly instead of monthly. I’m betting any change you want, involves compulsory payment, and people still facing the prospect of prison if they don’t pony up. You can bet your life it won’t involve the option of not watching/not paying…

Edited Wednesday at 12:33 by Lord Duckhunter

[east-stand-nic]

3 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

That is a strange one. I can only think that they are trying to be all things to all people and are trying to cater for those still stuck in the 1970’s.

Once again you make yourself look rather silly. People stuck in the 70s? Would that be people who like Monty python and Fawlty towers?

[sadoldgit]

This should be interesting.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-s-bbc-lawsuit-puts-him-on-the-stand-where-he-must-tell-the-truth/ar-AA1StSFz?cvid=0a52709d84d24cfba130b4b88e8f4765&ocid=hpmsn

[tdmickey3]

17 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

Once again you make yourself look rather silly. People stuck in the 70s? Would that be people who like Monty python and Fawlty towers?

[sadoldgit]

17 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

Once again you make yourself look rather silly. People stuck in the 70s? Would that be people who like Monty python and Fawlty towers?

Oh dear.

Get a grown up to explain to you why there is a difference between having an attitude that hasn’t changed in 50 years and still being firmly rooted in the past, and actually evolving.

I’ll give you an example. Men used to call women “birds” back in the 60’s and 70’s. The only people who still call them “birds” in 2025 are those who have that same mentality and haven’t  moved on with the times.

The only person making themselves look silly is you nic.
 

 

[Turkish]

Talking of being stuck in the 70s anyone else buzzing for mince pies on their morning coffee break today?

[sadoldgit]

Liz Truss as a “voice of authority?” 
😂

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/donald-trumps-10bn-claim-against-bbc-mentions-liz-truss-as-voice-of-authority-401423/#

[east-stand-nic]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Oh dear.

Get a grown up to explain to you why there is a difference between having an attitude that hasn’t changed in 50 years and still being firmly rooted in the past, and actually evolving.

I’ll give you an example. Men used to call women “birds” back in the 60’s and 70’s. The only people who still call them “birds” in 2025 are those who have that same mentality and haven’t  moved on with the times.

The only person making themselves look silly is you nic.
 

 

So if someone likes Mrs browns boys they are stuck in 70s yes?

However, someone who still likes Monty Python and Fawlty Towers has evolved?

Can you honestly not see how fucking idiotic you are?

Edited yesterday at 10:26 by east-stand-nic

[AlexLaw76]

No serious person likes Mrs Browns Boys....no way

[whelk]

SPOTY still a decent watch although not overly bothered who wins still some reminders of the year’s sport.

[sadoldgit]

13 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

So if someone likes Mrs browns boys they are stuck in 70s yes?

However, someone who still likes Monty Python and Fawlty Towers has evolved?

Can you honestly not see how fucking idiotic you are?

You really need to have a look in the mirror mate. Those programmes were made half a century ago. Mrs. Brown’s Boys is being made now, 50 years on.

What you really do not understand is the huge difference in the quality of the writing and intelligence of the level of humour in both Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers and Mrs. Brown’s Boys. Both of the former were pushing the boundaries of comedy. The latter is trading on the dregs of the worst of the past.

You haven’t just shot yourself in the foot, you have made yourself look even more clueless than before, which is some feat.

 

🤪

 

[skintsaint]

[east-stand-nic]

6 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

You really need to have a look in the mirror mate. Those programmes were made half a century ago. Mrs. Brown’s Boys is being made now, 50 years on.

What you really do not understand is the huge difference in the quality of the writing and intelligence of the level of humour in both Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers and Mrs. Brown’s Boys. Both of the former were pushing the boundaries of comedy. The latter is trading on the dregs of the worst of the past.

You haven’t just shot yourself in the foot, you have made yourself look even more clueless than before, which is some feat.

 

🤪

 

Nope. Once again I have outed you as an opinionated double standards swine. You are OK to sit and enjoy TV made 50 years ago, but if anyone dare to like something lade recently that you think is bad, it makes them stuck in the 70's where as you are not. Hilarious stuff. So I assume you will refuse to watch Monty python reruns? Idiot. 

When it was written is irrelevant, your words were if anyone likes it, they are stuck in the 70's. The same era as TV shows you stated you liked 😁so, but definition you are also stuck in the 70's. The end. 

Edited 9 hours ago by east-stand-nic

[egg]

27 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

Nope. Once again I have outed you as an opinionated double standards swine. You are OK to sit and enjoy TV made 50 years ago, but if anyone dare to like something lade recently that you think is bad, it makes them stuck in the 70's where as you are not. Hilarious stuff. So I assume you will refuse to watch Monty python reruns? Idiot. 

When it was written is irrelevant, your words were if anyone likes it, they are stuck in the 70's. The same era as TV shows you stated you liked 😁so, but definition you are also stuck in the 70's. The end. 

Feck me, the drivel you post. There's a world of difference between appreciating a classic programme from the 70's and liking a shit programme that's still made but is stuck in a time warp. 

[benjii]

6 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Fleece Navidad - top pun.

[egg]

7 minutes ago, benjii said:

Fleece Navidad - top pun.

The pun and amandaland are the only good things on that list. 

[badgerx16]

7 hours ago, skintsaint said:

That's one less channel to watch.

[east-stand-nic]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Feck me, the drivel you post. There's a world of difference between appreciating a classic programme from the 70's and liking a shit programme that's still made but is stuck in a time warp. 

No, there isn't in this context. You really do need to try harder to understand. 

[tdmickey3]

3 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

No, there isn't in this context. You really do need to try harder to understand. 

[egg]

6 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

No, there isn't in this context. You really do need to try harder to understand. 

There's always a context to discussion mate, but it's rarely the same as the context swimming around in your head. 

[sadoldgit]

When I was a kid and there was only two then three channels they always used to put on great Christmas specials and keep the big films back for Christmas week. Pre video recorders there was always a big debate about what to watch. They don’t seem to bother too much now.

[whelk]

I miss the joy of having a two week Radio Times and TV Times for scanning

[whelk]

1 hour ago, egg said:

There's always a context to discussion mate, but it's rarely the same as the context swimming around in your head. 

Whilst there has always been spats between posters rather than discuss, Nic takes it to a new level of never discussing or responding to any counter points. Not sure what he gets from here TBH

[The Kraken]

57 minutes ago, whelk said:

I miss the joy of having a two week Radio Times and TV Times for scanning

Yep. As a kid I I used to make my own bespoke tv schedule based on the top films and programmes that would be on. 

Tbf Christmas Day itself has always been pretty dreadful. But can definitely remember Boxing Day being great, usually a Bind film or two to choose from plus a “latest” release,

[sadoldgit]

3 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

No, there isn't in this context. You really do need to try harder to understand. 

I am never sure if you are on a wind up, are being deliberately obtuse or just don’t understand the points people make. Whatever is going on with you, it is a waste of time and effort.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

13 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

I am never sure if you are on a wind up, are being deliberately obtuse or just don’t understand the points people make. Whatever is going on with you, it is a waste of time and effort.

"Would a Mr Pot, please go to the foyer? Mr Kettle waiting. That's a Mr Pot to the foyer. 🙂

[Weston Super Saint]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

I miss the joy of having a two week Radio Times and TV Times for scanning

I still get one every year - tradition innit.

[trousers]

Yay! Mrs Brown's Boys. Superb.

[Winnersaint]

2 hours ago, The Kraken said:

Bind film

Just wondering if that's some kind of BDSM movie?😂

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, The Kraken said:

Yep. As a kid I I used to make my own bespoke tv schedule based on the top films and programmes that would be on. 

Tbf Christmas Day itself has always been pretty dreadful. But can definitely remember Boxing Day being great, usually a Bind film or two to choose from plus a “latest” release,

didnt it used to be the queens speech, followed by christmas Top of the Pops then a Bond film? Used to love that