Administrators AY Mod Posted May 15, 2019 Administrators Share Posted May 15, 2019 Please advise the BBC News department these stories, in any rational mind, cannot be classed as 'news'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48280412 - he's not a 'hero', he's just a bit of a plonker. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48220487 - STFU and feed the ducks rather than seek your 15 seconds of fame. It was even on our regional news. It's not just a Notts thing but it's an unfortunate coincidence a few days apart. Is it work experience week? 2 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) It's worse than you think mate. The crust thing made the national breakfast news and spawned a long conversation between the wally and the bimbo as to their respective views on crusts.... They even dragged the sports bimbo into the debate. Edited May 15, 2019 by colin penfold Correction 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 In the internet age what passes as "news" is quite mindboggling. It seems to be a result (at least in the US) of the drastic cuts to the size of newsrooms across the country. We have vastly fewer professional journalists and vastly more online opinion editors. Repackaged social media stories bulk up the catalogue of 'human interest' stories. There always were the puff pieces assigned to junior reporters but they now seem to constitute a much larger volume of what is presented as news. And then there are the stories about people who are famous for trying to be famous online. CNN ran a story this week about a "feud" between a pair of Instagram "influencers". Besides their "followers" I can't imagine who would be interested. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 Our regional news seem very keen on arrivals at Portsmouth and Southampton, biggest cruise liner, new aircraft carrier, biggest container ship etc etc. living in Didcot this is highly relevant to my daily life.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators AY Mod Posted May 15, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 minute ago, Jonboy said: Our regional news seem very keen on arrivals at Portsmouth and Southampton, biggest cruise liner, new aircraft carrier, biggest container ship etc etc. living in Didcot this is highly relevant to my daily life.... My wife may sympathise, I'll happily sit on Shipfinder telling her where every boat is going when we're at the coast. I must go and feed the pigeons in the park now. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, AY Mod said: I must go and feed the pigeons in the park now. Bring your loaf of crusts. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave John Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2019 Smile, this chaps predictions seem to have come true ..... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 Hold the front page, its been the joint hottest day of the year so far.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 10 minutes ago, Jonboy said: Our regional news seem very keen on arrivals at Portsmouth and Southampton, biggest cruise liner, new aircraft carrier, biggest container ship etc etc. living in Didcot this is highly relevant to my daily life.... You remind me of a headline news item on BBC Wales in the early 1980s which made me smile. They proudly announced that the day was special because the biggest aircraft ever to land at Swansea airport had arrived earlier that afternoon, and their cameras had been there to witness it. The plane turned out to be a Viscount. Must have been a slow news day. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Bread and circuses? But more juvenile than Juvenal, perhaps. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 I’d be so chuffed if I opened up a loaf and it was all crusts, thats the best part! 4 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) In what universe (apparently ours!!) can you not make a sandwich with two crusts. <Engage Grumpy old man mode> When I was a kid, if I said I wasn't going to eat what was provided for me I'd get a swift clip round the ears, PLUS, an explanation of starving kids in <insert third world nation here> Take their bloody mobiles away from them and tell them they should be grateful they're not cleaning chimneys! <GOM mode off> Additionally, neither constitutes "news", then again, seems everywhere it's news is someone just farts, so long as someone else records it and sends it in! Good Grief Edited May 15, 2019 by Ian Abel 4 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 BBC isn't it? Seems they need to justify having too many news outlets and far too many staff by having loads of no news stories. The website has gone terrible recently. Other news outlets are just as bad. Local newspapers are worse. I'm wondering if it's because of all the students doing Media Studies rather than the journalists learning the trade like they used to do. Rather than looking for proper stories they are scouring the internet for rubbish. That bread story was totally fake. There was one a while ago about someone getting a potato in a bag of crisps. I know that potatoes like that don't go anywhere near crisps as they are processed before cooking. Besides you would notice it before buying if your bag of Walkers had a whole uncooked potato in it. Jason 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 16 minutes ago, big jim said: I’d be so chuffed if I opened up a loaf and it was all crusts, thats the best part! Oh yes. Extra especially tasty sandwich is two crusts, and if it's got a nice big dollop of crunchy peanut butter between em, heaven. Mike. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: There was one a while ago about someone getting a potato in a bag of crisps. I know that potatoes like that don't go anywhere near crisps as they are processed before cooking. Besides you would notice it before buying if your bag of Walkers had a whole uncooked potato in it. Jason Jason/Sirs, I must respectfully disagree with this last statement. AT LEAST, if half the zombies walking around the grocery stores are anywhere near as unengaged as they are here (mid-west US), they barely look up from their phones to check they're in the right STORE, let alone managing to spot some discrepancy between what they were selecting (5 oz pack crisps) and what they put in the cart (25lb bag of cat litter). Spotting a spud in the crisp bag is WAY above their pay grade and intellect level for sure Yours, No longer Astonished in Minnesota... 2 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Oh yes. Extra especially tasty sandwich is two crusts, and if it's got a nice big dollop of crunchy peanut butter between em, heaven. Mike. When I was a boy back in the 1950s in the American children's programmes they were always eating that stuff so I persuaded my mother to buy a jar. The jar was never finished - absolutely 'orrible stuff - the work of the Devil. I thought you might all like to know that! Dave Edited May 15, 2019 by Danemouth Punctuation 4 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 51 minutes ago, jonny777 said: You remind me of a headline news item on BBC Wales in the early 1980s which made me smile. They proudly announced that the day was special because the biggest aircraft ever to land at Swansea airport had arrived earlier that afternoon, and their cameras had been there to witness it. The plane turned out to be a Viscount. Must have been a slow news day. Well, it was bigger than the Dakotas and Dragon Rapides that worked out of there with Dan-Air and Cambrian Airways... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 7 minutes ago, Danemouth said: When I was a boy back in the 1950s in the American children's programmes they were always eating that stuff so I persuaded my mother to buy a jar. The jar was never finished - absolutely 'orrible stuff - the work of the Devil. I thought you might all like to know that! Dave I blame my father for my addiction. During world war 2 he was helping to re-landscape some part of France and came across an American soldier with a humungous tin of the stuff, a trade for dad's cigarette ration ensued and the male part of the family have never looked back! Mike. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 hour ago, jonny777 said: You remind me of a headline news item on BBC Wales in the early 1980s which made me smile. They proudly announced that the day was special because the biggest aircraft ever to land at Swansea airport had arrived earlier that afternoon, and their cameras had been there to witness it. The plane turned out to be a Viscount. Must have been a slow news day. That must have been about the time I walked through a Lockheed Galaxy at the old Speke Airport. I even remember the American Air Force bloke saying that the plane was longer than the length the Wright Brothers plane flew. That impressed me at the time. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Walking through a Galaxy seems to have been a regular event. I walked through one at a Mildenhall Open Day. I also walked underneath a Blackbird at the same event; but when I came back past it about 20 minutes later it had been cordoned off. Maybe someone had panicked when seeing the number of "enthusiasts" taking lots of close-up photos. (Don't you just love thread drift?). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2019 27 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I blame my father for my addiction. During world war 2 he was helping to re-landscape some part of France and came across an American soldier with a humungous tin of the stuff, a trade for dad's cigarette ration ensued and the male part of the family have never looked back! Mike. The American stuff is awful. too much sugar, salt, palm oil. etc. Meridian is IMHO the best. 100% roast peanuts, nowt else. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 8 minutes ago, jonny777 said: Walking through a Galaxy seems to have been a regular event. Eating my way through one certainly is. 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) But where would The News Quiz or Have I Got News for You be without such stories? There must come a time when Brexit & Trump aren't funny anymore. What annoys me is so-called "Celebrity" gossip dressed up as "News". I would rather read about a loaf full of crusts, than which former Big Brother contestant is bonking which former member of long-forgotten Boy Band. PS I love peanut butter.... Edited May 15, 2019 by DLT 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2019 21 minutes ago, DLT said: .PS I love peanut butter.... Is he ex big brother or a boy band member? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 4 minutes ago, big jim said: Is he ex big brother or a boy band member? Then he'd be named something like P-Nut ButtR. 4 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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