Jokes about him being an oversexed skirtchaser who couldn't keep it in his trousers were especially favoured iirc.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 29 August 2022 10:12 (two years ago) link
He owes the BBC a lot.
― nashwan, Monday, 29 August 2022 10:30 (two years ago) link
Please retweet
I'd like to apologise for earlier tweets (now deleted) responding to Gary Lineker. I should have shown more consideration to a BBC colleague - as per the BBC’s social media guidelines.— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) August 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
Maitlis is a long way from being a Tory. xps
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
if you're gonna tell us she's a Blairite, that isn't a long way
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
she was effectively a Tory campaigner during the Corbyn era, if she's deeply fallen out with them as a career option recently then I don't applaud this. Saying Maitlis isn't Tory is like saying Lineker or G Neville aren't Tories, without explaining what differentiates them from Tories (other they they pretend to be nice) then it's a dubious statement to post.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
She’s a little bit terfy IIRC.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
She's going that way, yes.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
Are these not Starmer-era legal costs?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64248136
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 13 January 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
specifically legal costs arising from paying off people who would've lost because they're demonstrable liars
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
Fucking love this story.
Labour Party lawyers had initially resisted an attempt by one of the anti-Corbyn ex-staffers, whose private messages had been leaked, to say who they thought was responsible.But then, there was a change of tack.In what was described to me by someone with knowledge of the process as a "gamble", in October 2021 Labour's lawyers accused five prominent Corbyn supporters of putting the controversial document into the public domain.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 13 January 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
the staffers have engaged famously assholish Carter Ruck to fight their corner. can’t have been cheap.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 January 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
Someone at the BBC must have agreed as the headline has now changed.
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 13 January 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
wouldn't wanna give the impression BBC News was a political project
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
Lyse Doucet's reporting from Afghanistan has been incredible this week. Winter winds whipping around her as she shows us what life is like in the hills, in the coldest winter there in a decade. Just unbelievable stuff from her and her camera crew.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hyc5
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link
guess i'd never have made a good journalist. wouldn't occur to me to ask a rescue worker in the middle of a shift "how do you feel about what's happened to your country?"
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
Today was even more wretched than usual this morning, lots of hot air about Dahl and "woke" with the utterly horrible Mary Beard saying people should take inspiration from the oratory + debating club skills of the Romans rather than telling evil bigots to go and set fire to themselves. It says it all when the least hateable contribution was from the smug uber-melt, Phillip Pullman.
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
really want to Mary Beard more because of the stick she gets from the usual misogynists etc but 9 times out of 10 she's a bit rubbish
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 February 2023 11:35 (one year ago) link
I can't tell if she's a f/t bigot or just completely incurious about the existence of anyone but people from her own comfortable social circle. I remember someone posting about being in attendance of one of her lectures and she made some hamfisted point about how the Romans used to laugh at disabled people and we don't do that anymore, without making it clear if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link
basically her shtick seems to be hiding behind some (Roman?) notion of sanctity of debate, or some shit like that. Standard morally defunct terf apologism if we are being honest. And she follows all the worst ones on twitter.
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
Mary supports freedom of debate and has been consistent in taking that stance. But let us look at what that actually means in this instance. First of all, it is a debate about whether or not a fundamental identity exists or not (ones, indeed, currently recognised by law), and so it is I think reasonable for everyone to be aware of the consequences of seeking to debate those. I would invite Mary to consider whether she would be quite so cavalier when it comes to homosexuality. There are, after all, a number of religions that still hold that it is essentially against nature. Sure, we can have a debate about the contingency of sexuality and gender, and their development over time, but that's not what we are talking about here: it's about whether certain identities do or should exist at all. Second, there is no point encouraging debate on such fundamental issues if you are not actually going to stand up for your beliefs and values and argue for them. Otherwise, it is simply offering a megaphone, or worse, to those you claim to oppose. If it really should go without saying what those values are, then why not say politely but clearly to those angling to weaponise you in this dispute that you follow people despite their positions on these fundamental identities and that you are not seeking or welcoming their endorsement? Sure, you might lose some followers, but would that really be anything to lose sleep over?
this is from the blog that I summarising very badly about her twitter interactions with terfs
― calzino, Monday, 20 February 2023 12:55 (one year ago) link
ah well forget her then, it's not like her tv shows on her actual job are any good
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 February 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
it’s true! where did she get this reputation??
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 February 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link
maybe she has a level of academic chops, idk. doesn't mean that people who do are all capable of writing good non-academic books about their field, or good tv docs. there are a bunch of really dumb, painfully patronising one-liners in the programmes i've seen her do about Rome
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 February 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
she said some appalling shit a while back defending the oxfam workers who abused women and children in haiti and elsewhere (along the lines of how can anyone be expected keep their morality in places like these) and then posted a tearful selfie while characterising the criticism she received from black feminists as abuse - nothing to do with trans issues but still terfy as fuck behaviour
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 20 February 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
watching Dan Cruikshank's Around the World in 80 Treasures on the iPlayer is very soothing and enjoyable
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
proper old bastards being much better at doing history programs shocker! My son keeps playing a YT video of him going up the steps of big ben and that is probably conclusive proof that his voice does indeed possess soothing AMSR qualities. Not a compliment I'd give to Dan Snow.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
exactly, he's refreshingly non-macho compared to today's Dans
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
I'm so grateful for the ordinary Dans that fill the bbc schedules these days rather than people like Berger and Brownowski - who weren't even hunks, for goodness sake!
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557
how do you spell 'pyrrhic'?
("Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day")
― koogs, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
Ahhhh fuk
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
The problem for the BBC is that the impartiality needle they’ve constructed can’t be threaded: presenters can have opinions on issues that matter to them, but NOT if those issues are controversial and political. So you’re left with being able to voice your opinions about uncontroversial topics that political parties are not discussing. Best BTS member I guess, or what brand of toothpaste works best. It’s risible.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
Hold on I thought the Beeb liked all sides of an argument expressed, e.g. climate change. Speaking of which: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears
― No Hackett Required (Matt #2), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
ffs
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
tories objected to being compared to the third reich. there's an easy way to stop that happening and it's not fining people for rescuing drowning refugees.
― koogs, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I’ve told the BBC I won’t be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.— Ian Wright (@IanWright0) March 10, 2023
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
Striker strike
― No Hackett Required (Matt #2), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
What scab will be presenting it I wonder.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
Damn Ian! Shots fired! I love it!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
Sorry lol xps
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
they introduced sats when I was at high school and all of the teachers refused to invigilate them except two - the malevolent home economics teacher and the evil woodwork teacher who had a hitler moustache. trying to work out who the bbc sport equivalent of these people is and it's probably graham souness.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Shearer obv.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
they could get matt le tissier on to talk about chemtrails over the vitality stadium
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
Here’s Raymond Domenech with the horoscopes
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
Christ they’ll get Baddiel in
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
get led by donky to do it
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
klinsman obv
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Chappers’ll do it obviously
― crisp, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link