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Whenever forum favourite ginofish posts on TVF these, which isn't often (about once a month), everything he says makes sense, there are capital letters, full stops, punctuation marks in the right spots, and he can even have a valid point.

How times have changed.

My thread on midlands weather favourite Beverly Avis Dakin has been deleted. I am devestated.

Also why does nobody have any of the classic William Hanson stuff?

Because the supreme commander ordered all copies destroyed

Pete wrote:My thread on midlands weather favourite Beverly Avis Dakin has been deleted. I am devestated.

Also why does nobody have any of the classic William Hanson stuff?

Happier times...

Moz wrote:

SomeRandomStuff wrote:I would have World News Today coming from Studio E as well, and Duh Nyooz Chanul (which should definitely take second fiddle to an International news channel viewed by hundreds of millions of people) should be kicked out of Studio E from 5-10:30pm.

What utter utter cr*p.

The BBC is British for Britain, paid for by Britain. Commercial activities are a stain on the editorial independence of the News division that has made it the best, most trusted news broadcaster on the planet.

If Johnny Foreigner wants to look over our shoulder and read the newspaper that we paid for, then let it, but they should never, ever, let non-licence fee payers get the upper hand.

Here was me thinking there was only one dope from Wales who annoyed me on that site. That unmerciful twonk is quickly making that thread unreadable.

iSon wrote:

Pete wrote:My thread on midlands weather favourite Beverly Avis Dakin has been deleted. I am devestated.

Also why does nobody have any of the classic William Hanson stuff?

Happier times...

The Google cache makes it all seem ok! http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=uk

noelfirl wrote:Here was me thinking there was only one dope from Wales who annoyed me on that site. That unmerciful twonk is quickly making that thread unreadable.

There are many dopes in Wales....

Is EVERY Blockbusters-related thread going to descend periodically into Barcode telling us how and when the regions treated the programme in the early 90s?

Because, y'know... it's getting boring.

So, the London Tonight thread (which had been moderately interesting given its new home in the ITN green screen studio, and the piss poor editorial shift its taken, the following rota waffle was shoehorned in by someone called Sierra Oscar.

Excel is correct. Tue-Fri 5:30am (Technically starting late Mon-Thu night) are supposed to be Faye or Charlene. So then Mon-Thu London late news is done by either Faye or Charlene if need be as I know other sometimes do Thu but Fridays late is not usually done by the overnight presenter.

Sat-Mon 5:30am can be any of the freelancers- most often Rachel these days but also Sangeeta has just started presenting again and also Ali used to be fairly regular. Still though, the presenters are much more frequent than pre-2009.

This is correctly flagged as something better served up in the ITV News Rota thread, only to be met by this:

Macalolo wrote:So what if rotas are brought up? I'd rather have that then have no discussion at all.

This prompted me to reply.

Gavin Scott wrote:I think its that rather cavalier "so what?" attitude that makes the members who don't want to wade though rota chatter so frustrated.

What you personally prefer is really neither here nor there when a rule was set so as not to annoy the majority - but at least we can now understand why it doesn't work.

And this has been responded to.

Martin Phillp wrote:For you maybe, but there are other members who are interested in rota chat. The splitting of the BBC, ITV and Sky threads has helped so that the main threads are for presentation discussion.

But then again, we had that tape and chair nonsense recently too.

I mean - what's the fucking point of that place? You give them threads for rotas and not only do they ignore it, but they ARGUE the toss about thread-creep serving "interested members".

And he says the tape discussion was nonsense? Prick.

As is usual - if I continue to make a point based on the rules of the board my post will magically disappear and it will be another victory for the rota drones.

Yawn.

We should start making badly mocked-up images of the BBC News Channel for anything which involves the rota cretins or bad mocks in general.

Credit where it's due, Mr Hicks has intervened and directed the chat to its appropriate place.

One cannot ask for more than that, and I'm most gratified.