Random Irritations

Anti-Beebers complaining that half of BBC TV programmes are repeats. Well whaddya know…cut BBC budgets and dump over 75 free licences cost onto them and wonder why there is less money for new TV. That aside…for very many the BBC is much, much more than six TV channels (if you include BBC News and BBC Parliament). But hey. If you think it’s a woke leftie organisation then you’ll be minded to ignore that and just have a moan.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Anti-Beebers complaining that half of BBC TV programmes are repeats. Well whaddya know…cut BBC budgets and dump over 75 free licences cost onto them and wonder why there is less money for new TV. That aside…for very many the BBC is much, much more than six TV channels (if you include BBC News and BBC Parliament). But hey. If you think it’s a woke leftie organisation then you’ll be minded to ignore that and just have a moan.
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Pseudo political?

You ignore that the BBC is a public broadcaster financed by the tax payer.

Yet it manages to pay radio DJs three times that of the PM and a sports presenter 10 times that of the PM and 45 times the average UK wage.

It should be held accountable in a different manner to a normal company.
 
To be fair, using the PM's salary as a barometer doesn't work very well. PM's for the last umpteen years, going back a long time, have not taken any salary increases offered as it looks bad politically. They also know that once they leave No. 10 the money can really roll in so they play the long game. In terms of BBC wages, they have to pay market rates and even then I believe they are well below those on ITV for example. I'm not pro BBC by the way, I'd ditch the licence fee, but I'm not sure this is issue to beat them up on, there are plenty of others :D
 
RichA said:
We use, "and now over to Laura Kuenssberg," as a prompt to turn off the TV and go to bed. As a result, I've been in bed every night by about 10.15pm for the last 3 years, which has been priceless.
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Ha ha. I have to say she is largely the reason why we watch ITV news at 10. If Robert Peston is on that that is our cue to turn off but the honesty of Tom Bradby, newsreader, is refreshing.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Anti-Beebers complaining that half of BBC TV programmes are repeats. Well whaddya know…cut BBC budgets and dump over 75 free licences cost onto them and wonder why there is less money for new TV. That aside…for very many the BBC is much, much more than six TV channels (if you include BBC News and BBC Parliament). But hey. If you think it’s a woke leftie organisation then you’ll be minded to ignore that and just have a moan.
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Stirring the pot again. You'll get replies that will stray into the political, and then the mods will come in and tell everyone off for doing that.

Why do you do it?

BTW - what you wrote is a load of nonsense.
 
rudebhoy said:
Non-paying timewasters on ebay. Sold an item for a reasonable price after a 7 day auction. 4 days later, despite a few prompts from ebay and myself, not a peep from the buyer.

Have reported it, although it appears that ebay don't take any effective action against non-payers.
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This really annoys me too. Especially when I timed an auction to coincide with an event (e.g. sold an old football shirt to coincide with that team playing in the FA Cup final). Loads of bids, relist it a week later and interest is gone. You should be able to sell it to the second highest bidder in that scenario, or buyer should have to refund difference between purchase price and relisted sales price.
 
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Triple whammy 24 hours.

Tested positive for Corona as I’ve just come back home to Sweden to see friends and family over Christmas.

Our sellers are asking for just shy of 20k more for the house as prices on houses have gone up since they accepted our first offer back in April.

My flight back to UK after Christmas have suddenly been cancelled with BA without notifying me. Discovered it by chance as I checked the app. Cannot rebook nor ask for a refund, probably due to some bug in their system. And cannot get through to customer support.

Waiting for work to call and sack me any minute just as a cherry on top of things.

Merry f-ing Xmas.
 
sunshine said:
This really annoys me too. Especially when I timed an auction to coincide with an event (e.g. sold an old football shirt to coincide with that team playing in the FA Cup final). Loads of bids, relist it a week later and interest is gone. You should be able to sell it to the second highest bidder in that scenario, or buyer should have to refund difference between purchase price and relisted sales price.
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When that happened to me I was asked by eBay if I wanted to do exactly that - "Second chance offer" or something similar. I've also bought something before as the 2nd highest bidder after the winner didn't pay.
Maybe it's something you have to activate before you list??
 
I had a gig booked tonight, originally booked for my band but as our drummer had to fly to Spain today, I ended up taking it as a solo gig. I've practised hard over the last three or four weeks as I was a bit nervous about playing solo for the first time that I can remember. Find out at 11:30 today that it's cancelled as all the other bands have pulled out. What an anti-climax.
 
Orikoru said:
I had a gig booked tonight, originally booked for my band but as our drummer had to fly to Spain today, I ended up taking it as a solo gig. I've practised hard over the last three or four weeks as I was a bit nervous about playing solo for the first time that I can remember. Find out at 11:30 today that it's cancelled as all the other bands have pulled out. What an anti-climax.
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Eh up Olly! Hidden talent that isnt golf?!
 
Orikoru said:
I had a gig booked tonight, originally booked for my band but as our drummer had to fly to Spain today, I ended up taking it as a solo gig. I've practised hard over the last three or four weeks as I was a bit nervous about playing solo for the first time that I can remember. Find out at 11:30 today that it's cancelled as all the other bands have pulled out. What an anti-climax.
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Perhaps you should do a Forum podcast so as not to waste that finely honed talent !
 
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