The BBC

If it's subtext you're looking for, I can help you.

What would you say is your favourite book?

I mean, public money goes towards subsidising toys and luxuries pretty much all of the time? Why are you so eager to jump on it when it's, specifically, women?

What would you say is your favourite book?

tell me about your fav book marcello

I don't actually need an answer to that question; I have, after all, known you on ilx for ten years

marcello, just make up a book and attribute it to me so you can get to the terribly ~damning~ riposte you've thought up.

Do you know the reason why you didn't just tell me what your favourite book was?

If the affluent mother is married to a controlling bastard...

My Favourite book was "The Bridge" by Ian Banks.

I thangyew.

oops, missed an important i in the name there.

Yep, that's a good one.

Suzy xp: the affluent mother should throw the controlling bastard out of the house but as with Lawson/Saatchi it's still happening the other way, much too often.

Back to Steve Voice again..

ugh awful man. What is it with rich UK or UK-based guys who go around like medieval feudal lieges, expecting everyone else (including wife/partner and children) to be serfs?

My favourite book is Animal Farm, the animals on the farm have a revolution and drive out the farmer and the other humans, but then the pigs who are the most intelligent become like the humans and the other animals even worse off than before makes u think

xpost was tempted to say it wsa the drugs, but..

If you read Chas Saatchi's Standard column (which I note he continues to write and get published) before he moved on (or was moved on) to talking about weird photomontages, he was obsessing about crack, heroin and the Dignitas Clinic, so much so I'm surprised he doesn't have a loyalty card.

lex, lex, lex

i don't want have to ask the mods to intervene in order to prevent your relentless ad-hom attacks. i'll ask you nicely to stop.

ps i have not been arguing itt, one doesnt argue with a group tantrum tbh

darragh your non sequitur arguments are so fucking basic, as are your ~arch~ ripostes

― lex pretend, Friday, 12 July 2013 10:39 (2 days ago)

this isnt ad hominem

i watched this programme

what's gonna happen to dr who?

ah it's the snide non-engagement across a couple of threads nakh, it's pure bullying, it's right back to the bad old days if we don't nip it in the bud imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omb_4O5DkQ

one doesnt argue with a group tantrum tbh

^ WOUNDING ^

winding

whodini

csm missed a trick not answering "taipei" imo

i actually agreed with marcello until i read him trying to make a case for it.

I do get the 'point', but the alternative is...

It's "Child Allowance" not "Child Benefit"

anyways...

ah man, old ILX is BACK :D

Mark's right: henceforth will refer to the payments by their correct name; using 'child benefit' just internalises the RW/Tory rhetoric/framing. But I will be caning the fuck out of 'bedroom tax'.

oh yeah go4it

8.5 million of us now rent our homes - as fewer of us can afford to buy. This generation has been called generation rent.

In this film we meet the new army of private landlords who are riding this rental boom, who own one in every five properties.

Some landlords like Jim Haliburton AKA 'The HMO Daddy' have found there is serious money to be made. His property empire stretches across the West Midlands and he houses around 800 tenants. His property portfolio is worth £26 million.

The actor, who made his name in US crime drama The Wire, will present two hour-long shows with the working title Idris Elba: King Of Speed.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton will challenge nine pairs of gardeners to grow their own fruit and veg on an Oxfordshire allotment before their work is judged in a country show-style competition.

There will also be a three-part series about cats and historian Andrew Roberts will examine the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

No motd2 tonight wtf

Bank holiday, biggest game of the weekend being played tomorrow.

a three-part series about cats

Can't believe the Beeb is denying us details of who will present this. Hoping for Paul F Tompkins as Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

The actor, who made his name in US crime drama The Wire, will present two hour-long shows with the working title Idris Elba: King Of Speed.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton will challenge nine pairs of gardeners to grow their own fruit and veg on an Oxfordshire allotment before their work is judged in a country show-style competition.

There will also be a three-part series about cats and historian Andrew Roberts will examine the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 21:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bbc is over

These series would be infinitely more interesting if they just shuffled the presenters around.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton

irl giggles ongoing

Cats will examine the life of Napoleon Bonapsrte

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769

the last line:

Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job - showing the predators that they can easily become prey.

an opinion piece as the lead on the news website? or is it an opinion piece?

that is just creepy

accidentally saw part of a documentary about Myra Hindley the other night and there was a clip of the BBC's Michael Buerk starting the report of her death with "Probably the most hated woman in Britain" and i thought really? on the BBC??

Buerk's a bugger for that sort of guff, ever heard the moral maze?

occasionally, but this looked like it was from the ten o'clock news ffs

Britain on the Fiddle.
1/3. New series. The world of benefits cheats, who effectively steal millions of pounds in taxpayers' money every year. Reporter Richard Bilton goes on the frontline with investigators chasing a woman who won £95,000 on a game show but carried on claiming her `allowance'.

There seems to be a strategy in the BBC now to attempt to appease/appeal to the Tory/Daily Mail/UKIP lot.

dunno if any of you are young enough to still have dreams, but perhaps you know someone who really wants to be a journalist for the bbc.

if so: http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes/jts

this is how i got in - and now i am saving to do a totally different career but it definitely got the whole news thing out of my system.

seriously though it's a really good opportunity for your little brother or sister or whatever.

never too late: There is no age limit and the scheme welcomes career-changers who have ambitions to work in broadcast news but have been pursuing a career in other industries.

Would never work for that bunch of self-protecting creeps.