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17 minutes ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

Anyway I have no problem with Earps winning but personally, I don't think anybody who participates in a team sport unless the do something extra extra ordinary, I personally voted for KJT.

Another thing, its criminal that yet again Djokovic hasn't won overseas personality, same with Serena Williams, I mean Haaland, he scored a lot of goals in a team that created a lot of chances for him.

I've just realised that Djokovic has won it but my point stands with Williams.


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13 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

I thought shows got cancelled due to poor ratings? poor ratings because the public don't like them? how does tv work then?

Hope this helps: www.explainthatstuff.com/television.html

On the topic of BBCSPotY, I treat it the same as all the other similar awards progs in that I don't watch it. I pay my licence fee to listen and watch ad-free (well ad-free apart from BBC's own ads)  to all the other stuff that interests me  (MotD, Two Doors Down, Vigil, Killing Eve, The Repair Shop, the Challenge  Cup games, BBC Sounds R4X and various podcasts, Jazz Record Requests, Counterpoint, Brain of Britain, Mastermind, 606 etc etc etc).  Happy to let BBCSPotY strut its stuff. 

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2 minutes ago, JohnM said:

Hope this helps: www.explainthatstuff.com/television.html

On the topic of BBCSPotY, I treat it the same as all the other similar awards progs in that I don't watch it. I pay my licence fee to listen and watch ad-free (well ad-free apart from BBC's own ads)  to all the other stuff that interests me  (MotD, Two Doors Down, Vigil, Killing Eve, The Repair Shop, the Challenge  Cup games, BBC Sounds R4X and various podcasts, JAzz Record Requests, Counterpoint, Brain of Britain, Mastermind, 606 etc etc etc).  Happy to let BBCSPotY strut its stuff. 

But besides all that, what has the BBC ever done for us.

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Nothing else on at that time so I did watch it, mainly for the in memoriam section. The best bit was the Unsung Hero chap making a big ol' speech that made the show over run and nobody dare interrupt.

I changed channel at 9pm to watch Hairy Bikers instead.

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3 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

Andy Murray?

Everything I've seen about Andy Murray's "personality" seems to be pretty decent. As someone else mentions, his English jokes are quite amusing, I recall watching him on Mock the Week after he won Wimbledon earlier that week I believe it was and the comedians just took the mick out of him for the reasons why you don't think he has a personality. 

Overall he took it in very good spirits. 

Just because you don't know about a sportsperson's "personality" doesn't mean it isn't out there for people who consume different types of media to find out about. 

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Andy Murray has a voice boring enough to extricate a group of priests out of Ireland's most extensive lingerie department. But he's actually a very funny and intelligent guy.

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2 hours ago, hindle xiii said:

Nothing else on at that time so I did watch it, mainly for the in memoriam section. The best bit was the Unsung Hero chap making a big ol' speech that made the show over run and nobody dare interrupt.

I changed channel at 9pm to watch Hairy Bikers instead.

Fatima Whitbread also took her opportunity to make a heartfelt speech, but the banter boneheads were too busy saying "she looks like a bloke hur hur hur" to listen to the concerns she addressed in such a wonderfully articulate manner.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2 hours ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

But besides all that, what has the BBC ever done for us.

Exactly. The BBC is expected to, and does, cater for all licence players. Just because I don't like Premier League Dwile Funking doesn't give me the right to deny others the coverage.

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5 minutes ago, JohnM said:

Exactly. The BBC is expected to, and does, cater for all licence players. Just because I don't like Premier League Dwile Funking doesn't give me the right to deny others the coverage.

And who complains loudest when the Mail/Express/Etc. tells them that the BBC has done something appalling (which turns out to be nothing of the sort)?

Yes, it's the social media Spartans who always tell us that they shouldn't have to pay the licence fee because they never  ever ever ever watch or listen to anything from the "Woke Broadcasting Corporation".

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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21 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Andy Murray has a voice boring enough to extricate a group of priests out of Ireland's most extensive lingerie department. But he's actually a very funny and intelligent guy.

Oh that episode was on the other night !

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On 20/12/2023 at 21:25, Futtocks said:

Andy Murray has a voice boring enough to extricate a group of priests out of Ireland's most extensive lingerie department. But he's actually a very funny and intelligent guy.

I like his sense of humour.

Partly because a lot of it goes straight over the heads of the people who ask the questions.

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On 20/12/2023 at 17:59, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

And when Mansell won in 1986 he didn't win the World Championship, Greg Rusedski was US Open Runner up when he won in 1997 and there were many more winners who didn't win in their respective sports.

Worst winner ever......Ryan Giggs.......all because of a giant online gamble apparently . Not for anything He achieved that year .

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On 20/12/2023 at 08:49, Futtocks said:

Much rage online from people who love to use the word "woke" a lot without ever wondering what it means.

Good.

I voted for KJT without really expecting her to win, but third place is nice.

I have mates who go on about this woke gang destroying everything, yet i tell them they are the ones whose faces turn red with rage and start bawling if rainbow laces, Big Bird, RNLI, police cars, a female dr who, PG Tips, vegans, a black person in adverts, etc etc are mentioned. I have said to them “I don’t know if you’re anti-woke or are just jealous/envious.

When some of them mention snowflakes i have started calling them blizzards because moan about everything. 

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I have been looking after the grandkids today which meant i spent the afternoon watching “The Victorian Farm - Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn.

I never tire of it, it is an excellent watch and the three of them really get stuck in.
But one of my daughters who has no interest in those type of programmes is positive that Ruth Goodman is the drummer Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo. 
 

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5 hours ago, Josef K said:

I have been looking after the grandkids today which meant i spent the afternoon watching “The Victorian Farm - Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn.

I never tire of it, it is an excellent watch and the three of them really get stuck in.
But one of my daughters who has no interest in those type of programmes is positive that Ruth Goodman is the drummer Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo. 
 

Totally agree! I love all of the series they have done together and even have them all on dvd. I bought the boxset of the farm series during the first lockdown and also have 'Full Steam Ahead' about railways and 'Secrets of the Castle' where they join a project in France to build a castle using medieval techniques. Fascinating series! You have great taste in history documentaries! 👍

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Every Christmas Eve - thanks to YouTube - I watch the Michael Miles animated short The Happy Prince.  I must have first seen it as an 11 year old at Christmas 1974 the year it was made.

A wonderful adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story.  I still feel the same devastation as I did as a kid when the Swallow dies.

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11 hours ago, Josef K said:

I have been looking after the grandkids today which meant i spent the afternoon watching “The Victorian Farm - Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn.

I never tire of it, it is an excellent watch and the three of them really get stuck in.
But one of my daughters who has no interest in those type of programmes is positive that Ruth Goodman is the drummer Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo. 
 

My wife put me on to these. I prefer the Edwardian farm as I grew up not far from where it was filmed and have been many times to the open air museum.

 

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Ken Burn’s The Civil War on Sky documentaries. If you haven’t seen it well worth a watch and if you have it’s worth watching again. 

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On 24/12/2023 at 07:56, Adelaide Tiger said:

Every Christmas Eve - thanks to YouTube - I watch the Michael Miles animated short The Happy Prince.  I must have first seen it as an 11 year old at Christmas 1974 the year it was made.

A wonderful adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story.  I still feel the same devastation as I did as a kid when the Swallow dies.

I'm going to check that out also thanks to YouTube I found a great animated short of Scoorge from 1971.

 

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5 hours ago, bobbruce said:

Ken Burn’s The Civil War on Sky documentaries. If you haven’t seen it well worth a watch and if you have it’s worth watching again. 

Have you listened to these? All in it's about 24hrs but really interesting and works well alongside ken burns stuff. 

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

by Open Yale Courses - David Blight

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A British Empire Medal in the New Year's Honours for Noel Cronin, the man who created and runs Talking Pictures TV.

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Missus watching the Last Leg and then Grahem Norten....what a pile of .

Just seen the Jazz act Ezra Collective...I have faith X.

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