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Post by dreampolice on May 12, 2024 13:17:08 GMT
Here we go again......
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Post by zou on May 12, 2024 13:55:59 GMT
Boycotted. But I've been doing that for about ten years now... Only 10 years? Noob!  To be fair I do actually mean boycotting, not just avoiding. |
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Post by davem399 on May 12, 2024 14:23:59 GMT
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Post by Chester PB on May 12, 2024 17:17:44 GMT
I last watched it the year that Sandy Shaw won it. My excuse is that I was much younger, at home alone, knew no better and had no discernment, and there was nothing better (!) to watch. Even then I don't believe I managed to watch it all, and have probably been damaged for life by what I did watch. Programmes like this should come with a health warning, or an annoying voice over at the end 'if you have been affected by events like this...".
I hate to think how many Radio 3 'lunchtime concerts' could have been recorded for a similar expenditure by the BBC (a programme recently abandoned, presumably due to cost). |
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Post by JohnY on May 12, 2024 17:28:07 GMT
What does Euro vision down market 'entertainment' have to do with the members of a very discerning group of photographers?
Am I a pseudo intellectual snob? If so, then I am not ashamed to be so.
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Post by MJB on May 12, 2024 17:36:13 GMT
Why the feck does a radio station that costs over £50 million to run and attracts just 1.7 million listeners be deemed more important than a TV show that costs the BBC just £16 million and attracts 7.4 million viewers (not counting the listeners Radio 2)?
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Post by Chester PB on May 12, 2024 17:39:26 GMT
What does Euro vision down market 'entertainment' have to do with the members of a very discerning group of photographers? Am I a pseudo intellectual snob? If so, then I am not ashamed to be so. Wear you 'pseudo intellectual' title as a badge of honour, without shame. We are small, but discerning, group of people. |
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Post by MJB on May 12, 2024 17:50:32 GMT
Thankfully small, definitely pseudo.
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Post by JohnY on May 12, 2024 17:56:42 GMT
Why the feck does a radio station that costs over £50 million to run and attracts just 1.7 million listeners be deemed more important than a TV show that costs the BBC just £16 million and attracts 7.4 million viewers (not counting the listeners Radio 2)? R3 broadcasts 24x7x 365 hours per year except in leap years when you get a 24 hour bonus. The annual embarrassment of ... You get the picture. Does your £50M include the Proms and the BBC orchestras and BBC singers? Pretty good value I would think.
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Post by MJB on May 12, 2024 18:06:03 GMT
Why the feck does a radio station that costs over £50 million to run and attracts just 1.7 million listeners be deemed more important than a TV show that costs the BBC just £16 million and attracts 7.4 million viewers (not counting the listeners Radio 2)? R3 broadcasts 24x7x 365 hours per year except in leap years when you get a 24 hour bonus. The annual embarrassment of ... You get the picture. Does your £50M include the Proms and the BBC orchestras and BBC singers? Pretty good value I would think.
But I don't, and never have listened to, Radio 3, so applying pseudo intellectual logic it's a waste of money. Then again I've never suggested scrapping Radio 3, like you pseudos want to do to stuff that you don't watch or listen to. |
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Post by MJB on May 12, 2024 18:19:04 GMT
Oh and the Proms has dedicated funding from the licence fee, and makes a loss every year. Fantastic value.
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Post by dreampolice on May 12, 2024 18:21:17 GMT
Sometimes I feel that I am not worthy.
Imagine what a dreadful world it would be if the broadcasters/musicians catered only for the tastes of one.
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Post by MJB on May 12, 2024 18:35:04 GMT
Sometimes I feel that I am not worthy. Imagine what a dreadful world it would be if the broadcasters/musicians catered only for the tastes of one. Don't forget that I saw you using a camera in Oxford that wasn't a 'proper' camera. |
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Post by dreampolice on May 12, 2024 18:38:57 GMT
Shhh. Don't let them know. I could be burned at the stake.
Is that because it was a phone (shock, horror) or because my camera stored things on a card rather than plates?
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Post by zou on May 12, 2024 21:39:19 GMT
Shhh. Don't let them know. I could be burned at the stake. Is that because it was a phone (shock, horror) or because my camera stored things on a card rather than plates? It was the colour images what gave you away. |
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