The disgraceful BBC

[Pontius Navigator]

'Racism"

You can make racism illegal but you can't stop casual racism. In today's paper (red top) about an Apprentice contestant. A 19yr old female told another to "shut up Gandhi" .

Mrs PN said that is just ignorance but I say it is learnt ignorance. You are not going to legislate it out.

[Capetonian]

I would have thought that being called Gandhi would be a compliment, although maybe not to someone of Pakistani descent. Quite honestly, who gives a toss about these vile bitchy back-stabbing slappers being exploited as a result of their own vanity and choice.

I watched the programme only because it featured South Africa. The contestants, all of them, made me want to vomit.

Holding racist views cannot be an offence. Practising racism is rather different.

[Pontius Navigator]

I have noticed that 'women of colour' seem to pervade our screens. By that I don't mean to be racist but simply observe that females particularly of Indian origin seen to be disproportionately represented in news broadcasts and in politics.

I think it curious that there are far fewer prominent people of African origin with the Labour front bench being the acceptance.

Dare I say it, but is it because the Indians are more attractive and better spoken?

[Wodrick]

I think that it is also the Asians, particularly the women, although some men, are diligent at school, come out with better grades, get better degrees, so it is natural that they proliferate.
Not just TV but the professions too, more and more of them.

2d

[Capetonian]

"Dare I say it, but is it because the Indians are more attractive and better spoken?"

Dare I add to that, that it is because Indians (and others from the sub-continent) are more intelligent and better educated, since they place value on education and each generation is more highly educated than the preceding one. That is why they are successful and prominent.

Africans .... don't get me started.

[Pontius Navigator]

Cape, I admit to watching out of curiosity but also this time as we went there a few years ago. I organised two tours before we went. One was to a game park not far from Cape town and we saw 4 of the big 5 albeit the lions had been orphaned and were in a large secure paddock (we were in the paddock too). Also had a four hour tour that included Lions Head and the vineyards. The guide was the wife as the husband wasn't available. She was a Scot who had emigrated when she was young child. After four hours we stopped for lunch and bought her lunch too. The tour continued for another four hours. It didn't cost R2,500 each.

Both tours were well under R1,000 and were just us and the guide.

[Pontius Navigator]

Wodrick and Cape, and therein lies our problem 'dare we say it'.

BTW, in my last job we had one Leroy of slave ancestry. Shall we say he was of similar appearance to Usain Bolt, delightful chap. Country origin and culture has more influence than race.

[barkingmad]

Out of curiosity I’ve searched through the online BBC News app and can find no reference to Speaker Bercow conniving with the new (previously unknown) EU president.

Both Bercow and the Beeb have been under criticism for months due to their lack of impartiality re Brexit so this appears to confirm our worst fears.

[Ibbie]

Another NOT "In Our Time" mispresentation from that stuck up git Melvin Bragg on Radio4 this morning with more of his hi-brow mates as guests, having a conversation that would be more suited to a private dinner for them. Some guests even having to be prompted by Bragg as to what to bring up.

17th century today........In Our Time I think not.

[barkingmad]

Ibbie, I admire your persistence in actually listening to all or part of the Melvyn Tharg show!

By the time his trailered summary of the day’s show has aired I realise I’m functioning at a much lower cerebral level, can’t understand what he’s droning on about and as I rapidly lose the will to live I activate the OFF switch or retune asap.

This also occurs with Radio4, formerly my fav station, when the inevitable horde of Remoaners are given disproportionate air time to tell me I’m ignorant, racist and of low intelligence and how they know better!

[barkingmad]

Thought it couldn’t get any worse!

Beeb Radio4 today ‘Start the Week’ intro sounded like the Melvyn Tharg gibberish content but being spoken by Andrew Marr who seems to be taking over this “intellectual” slot.

[k3k3]

Sky News this morning, now presented by Kay Burley, spent ten minutes discussing next years wedding of one of Prince Andrew's daughters, so much more important than Syria, Japan, Brexit etc.

[OFSO]

Today's BBC headline:

"Satellites to monitor whales from space."

I hope the whales have a good reentry system with large 'chutes. Don't fancy tons of charred blubber crashing on my head.

[Boac]

I have heard that there is a huge Humpback expected to pass close to the earth in 2021

[Slasher]

I hope the whales have a good reentry system with large 'chutes. Don't fancy tons of charred blubber crashing on my head.

Nor bowls if petunias.

[k3k3]

Oh no, not again...

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

A small piece of fairy cake is what we need....

[OFSO]

Am I imagining it or did I read a few months ago that physicists in some university have managed to synthesise a complete replica of our universe which is now stored on some multi-terabyte hard drive ? No fairy cake needed, either. When they start selling replicas on USB drives I want one to move into. Wouldn't need the whole universe either. Just a small cluster near the Rim would do.

[Boac]

Make sure you have a large enough monitor....

[barkingmad]

How do they manage to screw things up so often?

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-b ... 331AQCKAE=

Cockup theory or deliberate tampering?