Pet Hates........or FFS

[Macca]

I like the idea -in principle - of a gold standard broadcaster, publically funded so they don't need to chase ratings. In practice 90% of their output is an embarrassment to all those involved. And I don't mean it all has to be high-brow programme hardly anyone is interested in. That has its place. I never listen to R3 or R4 but I'm glad they exist. There is just too much of the opposite extreme; BBC1 is like a children's channel now, both in content and the way it is presented. BBC2 is going the same way. In fact if you put some of the educational children's programmes from the 1970s up against their current offerings for adults they would look high brow in comparison.

[Puffin]

I always wonder why the breakfast show presenters (BBC1 and ITV) wear suits, shirts and ties. Do they really need to wear suits be taken seriously? Or is it because they talk so much Bollox that wearing a suit makes anything they say come over as intelligent and reasoned comment? I couldn't care less if they were wearing shell suits, come to that I wouldn't care if I never saw another breakfast show again.....however Mrs Puffin feels the need to be "educated" every morning....oh and it has to be ITV!!!.....Shoot Me Now!!!!

[Macca]

Never seen breakfast TV but I'm quite surprised to learn that the presenters don't wear shell suits.

I did watch a daytime news show on ITV once, it was indistinguishable from an episode of 'Brass Eye.'

[Pierre De Grenoble]

I like the idea -in principle - of a gold standard broadcaster, publically funded so they don't need to chase ratings. In practice 90% of their output is an embarrassment to all those involved. And I don't mean it all has to be high-brow programme hardly anyone is interested in. That has its place. I never listen to R3 or R4 but I'm glad they exist. There is just too much of the opposite extreme; BBC1 is like a children's channel now, both in content and the way it is presented. BBC2 is going the same way. In fact if you put some of the educational children's programmes from the 1970s up against their current offerings for adults they would look high brow in comparison.

If you ever chose to watch some of the 1st black & white episodes of Dr. Who you'll find they are full off 5/6 syllable vocab. I was 8/9 when I first shit myself over the Daleks but I understood every word. Far too much dumbing down these decades....

[Macca]

If you ever chose to watch some of the 1st black & white episodes of Dr. Who you'll find they are full off 5/6 syllable vocab. I was 8/9 when I first shit myself over the Daleks but I understood every word. Far too much dumbing down these decades....

I have seen them and agree. Today the adult material is akin to the children's material back then, and the children's material now, from what I have seen when at my brother's, is awful pap-combined-with-dubious-social-engineering. Thankfully the children seem to have lost interest by the time the opening credits finish

[Joe]

People who do not talk precisely and clearly, most especially when they are 'media personalities'.

This has been bothering me increasingly for decades, and is now de rigour on R4 in which the 'intelligencia and literati' are discussing something, and we are to listen to be educated.

I think you'll find it's 'de rigueur'.

I call it 'slalem speech' because it is parallel to he way in which some skiers do not go fully round the course, but cut off some of it by going over the posts.

I think you'll find it's 'slalom'.

I dunno; kids today, what do they teach them at school, back when I were a lad [cont'd p.94].

[Marco]

I think you'll find it's 'de riguer'.

Lol - if you're going to correct someone, then make sure you're right! In actuality, it's 'de rigueur', or at least that's the word any French person would use

Marco [resident linguist].

[struth]

think its de rigueur actually

[Marco]

Beat you to it!

Marco.

[Marco]

This sort of mindless drivel, and the vacuous cretins predisposed to watching it: https://www.hayu.com/discover/latest

Marco.