The grumpy thread

[pogweasel]

Whilst the BBC is not immune to producing drivel / employing twats like the racist dom littlewood, it is on the whole fantastic and worth every penny of the license fee in my opinion. Imagine if all telly was like ITV (or Fox, for the benefit of Twatfink). Our brains would have leaked out of our ears and we'd have crawled back into the sea by now.

[barrett]

TV is fucking shit, full stop. I hate it. Anything good I'll watch on Iplayer or 4OD and avoid the actual act of sitting in front of the telly as much as I can. I watched TV the other night, first time in months. There was an advert ADVERTISING TV ADVERTISEMENTS. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

 

That being said, the BBC has done some fantastic stuff in recent years, even if it is mostly canny purchasing of foreign shows - The Killing is a prime example, although they need to buck up and get the third season of Spiral off the French.

Radio stuff is great on the beeb too, anyone who missed the radio 4 adaptations of the complete George Smiley Le Carre novels needs to get on that right away!

 

also, if you don't like it, don't pay for it! It's not like you get lined up against a wall and shot for not paying your LF, someone comes round yer house after a year of non-payment and politely asks you to set up a direct debit.

[M'coli]

M'c... You want to have a listen to Rock FM. Not the Preston-based ILR, although that's bad enough, but the one we have here in Paphos (rockfm985.com) which is all the English-language radio there is. Something like 6 hours of programming that even approaches being worth a listen, and that's all at weekends. The rest... defies description. Let me just say, the original Ford radio in my Granada wasn't designed to pick up FM, and there's nothing here on AM -- and I'm glad!

It sounds awful. When I lived in Andover (it was soooo last century!) I did a lot of temp jobs, labouring and warehouses - we were forced to listen to Ocean FM, and by the end of the day I would have been tempted to walk out under a bus if asked to stay on for another hour... 24 hour constant soppy lovesongs, the next track in the same key and same tempo and same sentiment and virtualy the same lyric as the last one.

[dollywobbler]

Aye. Beeb is good - not perfect, but then what this side of a beige Triumph Acclaim with mismatched wheeltrims and a wonky rear bumper is?

 

Here's my Top 5 Beeb things.

1) David Attenborough's wildlife stuff

2) Bringing Dr Alice Roberts into my world

3) Elbow live at Abbey Road

4) Joolz Holland's live shows (yes, he's an annoying twat, but it's the only decent music show on telly)

5) Commercial free TV and radio

 

There's lots more, like i-Player, though it's amazing how little we've downloaded lately (good comedy seems to have vanished lately)

 

I don't actually pay a TV licence as we don't have a telly. I guess that's payback for Chris Moyles, Sara Cox, Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright and the One Show.

[Richard]

The One Show is a strange one. Some of their field reports are really good, then it cuts back to the studio and it's like ITV with stupid pills. The guests are often visibly astounded at the inanity of it all.

[eddyramrod]

After all the Beeb-knocking, I have to admit that one of the few things I miss about living in Yuk is a BBC TV programme.... QI. Over here we can get BBC Entertainment, which largely consists of Weakest Link, Eastenders and Holby. No danger of living up to its name then... However, it's recently started showing Two Pints, yay! But why begin in Series 6? (At least I think that's where we are, Janet has had the baby but Jonny is still alive...) At last a slight chance of some actual entertainment!

[M'coli]

the radio 4 adaptations of the complete George Smiley Le Carre novels needs to get on that right away!

This bit should go in the grin thread - I am addicted to The Complete Smiley! They are fantastic.

 

I remember a news item about London producing enough rubbish to fill an olympic-size swimming pool 3 times or so a day - which is nothing compared to ITV, who manage to produce enough rubbish to fill two telly channels every day.

[Station]

I remember a news item about London producing enough rubbish to fill an olympic-size swimming pool 3 times or so a day - which is nothing compared to ITV, who manage to produce enough rubbish to fill two telly channels every day.

 

ITV used to be good, but constant repeats of old programmes, repeated numerous times through the day, and then repeated within a couple of weeks, and then adverts every 10 minutes, equals rubbish channel. Apart from old 70's stuff, everything else is unbearably bad. Some channels exist just for revenue from advertising, and ITV is one of them, they make no effort whatsoever.

[eddyramrod]

constant repeats of old programmes, repeated numerous times through the day, and then repeated within a couple of weeks, and then adverts every 10 minutes, equals rubbish channel.

they make no effort whatsoever.

 

Yep, that pretty much describes what we get here. If you don't want the ads, watch TCM, which shows about 14 old movies. I don't mean a fresh 14 every day, I mean they really do have only 14 movies. At least you can see Kelly's Heroes uninterrupted....

[CreepingJesus]

Smiley face lights on back of Volvo coupe. Just. Piss. Me. Off. Fuck you Volvo.

[face]

+3 on the BBC.

 

If anyone's in any doubt as to whether it's worth watching then just check the incredibly fucking cretinous mongs ITV seem to emply as presenters. I have honestly never believed for one minute the BBC are a bunch of Socialist Party/left wing/New Labia-ites either.

Commercial radio is dog shit too.

 

Thank you. Finally someone agrees with me about ITV. I hate it, and the huge amount of unecessary emphasism they put on everything negative, it's like the autocue has all the bad words underlined so they can make it seem a whole lot worse.

And they make a dogs dinner out of most Drama series' they do too, the BBC cannot be beaten on that front.

 

I'm 100% with you on the ITV thing - fucking dreadful. What the hell is 'Daybreak' trying to achieve for piss sake? Adrian Chiles is on something like £6M over 4 years - staggering. I simply cannot have the TV on while his chimp like features (and ability) are on air. I had the deeply upsetting experience of catching around 30 seconds of his layed back, chilled and trendy 'Sunday Night Show' or whatever it's called. It almost made me want to kill people

I love football, yet cannot stand to watch the coverage they spew up - the commentary is so bad I switch to mute and have BBC Radio 5 commentary on the iPod playing.

They throw money away at any old bollcoks, then moan because advertising revenues are plummetting - something to do with the cat shit they serve up 24X7 no doubt.

And as for Loose Women etc

[Cavcraft]

Adrian Childs for all his faults is precisely eleven billion times better than those revolting, pointless airheads that went before him. Especially that Fina Phillips bint. Well, I assume he's better than them because I always watch the BBC in the morning.

 

ITV football is pants, not just because of their presenters but also the flaming adverts all the time.

[scaryoldcortina]

Why don't you.....just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

 

works for me

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

[retrogeezer]

I always find there are tons of repeats of shit you don't want to watch like 'corrie' but if you miss something like I did last week (Monroe) and someone says it was good, I tried to find a repeat showing of it?? No where to be seen across all 4 ITV channels.

[trigger]

The Escorts at the garage at the moment for it's mot work, It needs a new o/s/r arch, n/s/r arch repair and a new battery tray weided in, Garage wants £140 to supply and fit them, and that's before it's gone in for it's mot.

[trigger]

He's a man in a cow shed with little overheads which makes him cheap but he's very good at what he does, £140 sounds like a lot of money but I'm a skinflint who had spending money!

 

I'll have to make good and paint them, he's just welding in the new metal btw.

[Angrydicky]

Sounds like it's time to learn how to weld, Trigger

[RoadworkUK]

Heart FM.

 

When I'm stuck in the showroom I'm forced to listen to it all day long.

 

I don't know if it's the same across the country, but their playlist has barely changed in the last six months, maybe longer. Now, I love "Sex On Fire" by Kings Of Leon as much as the next bloke, it's a great track. But do you have to play it three times between 9 and 5? Or "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Classic soft rock track it may be, and last year it enjoyed a brief resurgence when the cast of Glee covered it last year, but that was LAST YEAR! Why are you still playing it three times a day?!

 

It's like the whole station only owns one compilation CD and leaves it on random play all day. And then the "DJ's" (Including Toby Fucking Anstis!!!1!1) say hilarious things like; "Coming up we have a great track by Journey" as if they're genuinely excited about it.

 

It's as if our tuner is haunted. It's been retuned to various better stations yet still ends up back on Heart, somehow. WHO IS DOING THIS?

 

I'm looking at you, Nikki in parts...

 

 

 

Don't know if it's the same across the country,

[trigger]

I think your right Dicky!.

 

I hate Heart with a passion, utter shite, they should replace the Heart part of their jungle to Shit, "This is SHIT" is much more apt.

[dollywobbler]

You hate spending money Trig? After you've just splurged loads on a Mondeo STD?

 

Escort still looks like cheap motoring to me. I need to find a welder like yours around here before the 2CV falls apart.

[trigger]

I'm having a new combi boiler and bathroom fitted this week which will cost £5000 so i was having a bit of a stress earlier Dolly!, I'm good now though, the way I'm looking at it now is as long as it doesn't fail the MOT (It hasn't before) then with the cost of repairs, mot and original purchase price I'm looking at £500 all in, Not bad for a low mileage car these days i think.

[dollywobbler]

Don't mention boilers! Still without one here. Open fire is taking the chill away.

[Lankytim]

We had a bit of a radio crisis today- the new girl re-tuned it to R1 just as pop-master started. That radio has been on R2 for the last 10 years or so and she thinks she can just walk up to it and turn over without talking to anyone else about it! "URRGH, BUT I H8 R2 THO!" Tough shit, go and listen to kids radio on your own time, not mine. Very annoying. What makes it even more annoying is she went on break about 2 mins after.

 

Unfortunately some more younguns turned up and decided that R1 made a nice change and wouldn't let me tune it back. Bastards.

[RoadworkUK]

...should replace the Heart part of their jungle to Shit, "This is SHIT" is much more apt.

 

Funilly enough that's what we sing over the top.

[alf892]

+10 on Heart FM. I reckon it is the same everywhere pumped out from a computer in a basment somewhere. Even when the 'celeb' DJs come on they cut in local place names..........and it sticks out a mile as they haven't got a clue how to even say some of the place names.

 

Then there is the travel news........local???

 

Then there is the girlie girl and twunt boy breakfast presenters trying so hard to give the impression of sexual chemistry.........this gets up my nose so far it makes my brain itch.

 

Hopefully the heart empire will collapse before too long

[RoadworkUK]

We had a bit of a radio crisis today- the new girl re-tuned it to R1 just as pop-master started. ...

 

Don't worry. The first contestant chose "Songs from Elvis films" for her bonus questions, so I wasn't in for a chance. She got 24 points and won, but only named one song by the Comunards for the three in ten.

 

Second guy got 9 points, I would have got 21. Coz I am skillz.

[Angrydicky]

Yep Heart Essex is very shite, they seem to be addicted to bloody Olly Murs and Lady Gaga as well, playing their songs on repeat. And those fcuking double glazing adverts.....grr. Now I bring in metal CD's to work so I don't have to listen to that trash anymore.

[eddyramrod]

Ahhhhhhhh Popmaster! I used to be the only man in my cab who could get a full house... Oh bugger, I was working solo.

[oldford]

Open fires are great, have you tried making toast on a radiator? I think that my central heating has been on for around 30 minutes since 2009. I should post more in this thread, it's what my avatar was made for.