It's going from bad to worse at the Beeb:
Well done!
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Auntie has a dicky ticker
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous grammar
Or to take arms against a sea of illiterates...
Here's evidence that The Beeb uses your licence fee to pay infant-school kids to input data - this sample of their output is from today's BBC News:
That was at 14:42. They must have been kept back after school to do it again - by 16:36 they'd posted a different yet still flawed version:
Oh FFS! He’s standing again! (Version 2, with added YT clip)
This is a re-hash of my post of 7th May 2010. Not much has changed, so for obvious reasons it's a copy/paste job with only minor edits and additions...
For 30 years we've had the same MP, and in all that time we've only ever seen him once, when he was in Hinckley town centre drumming up support for his re-election in 2015. Hardly surprising, really, as he still lives nowhere near his Bosworth constituency, he still lives 140 miles away in Sussex, which is still even further away from Bosworth than Westminster is. He's tried to claim expenses for astrology software and for an intimate relationships course, and was guilty of accepting cash-for-questions. He believes that homeopathy can fix the NHS. He's still never responded directly to any of the questions that I've put to him, preferring to "sub out" the job to somebody else. We had high hopes that he'd be ousted in 2010, and even higher hopes in 2015, but, despite calls for him to stand down he's going to be campaigning for yet another term.
His obsession with using his parliamentary position to campaign for homeopathy is, to me, just plain wrong. He's paid to represent his constituents, not to pursue his own personal agenda.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-homeopathy, I'm not anti-Tory, I don't much mind which party ends up in government and if the Tories had decided to adopt a different candidate here I would have given him/her due consideration for my vote. No, I just want to see the back of this self-serving fool. Actually, seeing ANY part of this fool is unlikely. He's like the absentee landlord, happy to accept the rent-money but never there when you need him to fix the property. It's not what's expected of a public servant, and certainly not what I expect of my representative in Parliament.
We're going to be screwed. Again.
I think he gets through the candidate adoption process using homeopathic methods like this:
Department of Corrections
Most of today's news is fairly grim, but here's a reason to be cheerful:
Of course, that was the easy bit.
A real challenge would be to convince the BBC's dimwitted web writers/editors to use the acronym "NASA", not "Nasa".
Note to Auntie: It's not as if there are no clues on the web. You could even crib it from the NASA logo:
Much depends on what shape balls you have
Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie has confirmed the England players will wear poppies on their shirts for the autumn Test against South Africa at Twickenham on 12 November.
World governing body World Rugby has been "very supportive", according to Ritchie.
"We are commemorating and remembering all people who have died in conflict. This is not a partisan thing or a political statement," Ritchie told BBC Radio 5 live.
"This is something that is just right as an act of remembrance, and it is right to do it on the weekend when we play South Africa."
Wales' rugby team will also wear a commemorative poppy on their shirt in their Test against Argentina on the same day.
The above is from http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37853386
FIFA - not "Fifa", as the BBC (or perhaps that should be the Bbc) insist on reporting - could learn much by pulling its head out of its arse and looking around to see how others deal with such matters.
There's a petition at https://www.change.org/p/fifa-let-england-and-scotland-footballers-wear-their-poppies-with-pride
Did the earth move for you?
It's the 1st of August and the layout of the north of England has gone barmy. The LDNP extended within Cumbria - I can just about understand that. But the YDNP extended into Cumbria and Lancashire? How does that work?
So, now there are even more bits of the LDNP that are not merely unmarked but simply don't appear on my worn-in but not yet worn-out OS OL English Lakes paper set, or my Memory-Map 1:25k Lake District 'puter maps, or even my two excellent AZ Adventure Lake District map-books.
How long before the OS tries to sell us Outdoor Leisure OL "7 and a bit"?
Clearly history taught us nothing:
Warmongering pluckers
