The Ranting Room

Oh yes, dont get me started on news agendas.. in fact the BBC in general..

Th race for the Whitehouse, I do find interesting and like to be kept informed, but as Chris says, has nothing else happened in the world of late? In Israel, the first suicide bomber struck in over a year, the other day. The Israeli army bulldozed a mosque in Jerusalem, roadside bombs are going off every day in Iraq and Afghanistan is no picnic either, but you generally have to go looking for this news. It's not widely repoprted any more in the UK, certainly not on prime time news. The emphasis has shifted to stories about individuals and their brave fight against some health authority, in order to get hold of a drug for their life threatening condition. Whilist I dont want to play down the seriousness of their plight, it's not really news. It's a regional item at best.

Warning: Rant incoming...

The BBC has dumbed down to the level of ITV, promoting shows with twirling news readers in ball gowns on ice, replacing documenataries, quality drama, music and comedy. Moron TV for a nation of fat ignorant morons, who like nothing better than a diet of KFC, Holby City and anything with that complete tw&t Graham Norton. I cant believe also that Lenny Henry has made it back on to BBC TV. Who let that happen?? Is that lobotomised studio audience paid to laugh at his inane, insipid observations on life? You'd have to pay me a load of cash to laugh at that idiot, and even then I'd have to have a potato sack over my head to avoid being recognised by friends or family.

Last night Horizon, which used to be the flagship BBC documentary. was all about drugs and how ghastly they are for us. I hate this moral drum banging, and I hate the way they round up a load of idiots off the streets and ask them to take part in a test to prove how binge drinking has ed their brains up. Why dont they just ask them; 'Do you lke the BBC?' If they answer yes, then we can assume their mechanisms have gone completely. If it transpires they think Graham Norton or Lilly Savage is funny, then we may as well kiss our collective arses goodnight.

Chris, I completely agree.  My father has also been besmirching the news coverage about the US General Elections.

However, I'm also fed up with the news about that poor lass who died at Swindon's Great Western Hospital, which happened 4 years ago and only seems to have reached National news when the trial began, whilst it's been all over my local news for almost a month now, so it's almost old news to me.

OK, I understand that the upcoming US election is pretty ing important, seeing as how the winner gets to be de facto leader of the western world (which makes most reality TV prizes look pretty ing lame) but it seems like there's nothing else in the UK news at the moment. It seemed to take up about 40 minutes of the last hour on BBC News 24 and they're still only deciding who the ing candidates are! I mean, is Europe closed for maintenance? Has the far east gone on holiday? Has nothing of interest happened in New Zealand? People who couldn't name the leaders of Germany, France and Italy can currently tell you the ing inside leg measurements of the main candidates in the presidential race and what they had for ing breakfast. Quite frankly, when they finally do announce the winner of the election (which will apparently be sometime shortly after the Beijing olympics) the whole world will be completely past caring.

^ Ah, yes I should explain about that..

..my meeting was cancelled, this morning. Some of us have better things to do with our time, than sit around slurping Cappacinos, ing around with Powerpoint slideshows, sharing information that everyone knows anyway. Then of course, there's the inevitable ing telecon link to the Swiss office, which takes ages to set up, and doesn't work, either because some ****wit doesn't know how to do it, or a bloody cable has been taken from the meeting room..and then the ing beamner doesn't work, so you end up spending the first hour just ing about!!

So anyway, like I said. No meeting, so no need to rant..

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Heavyfreight wrote: I hate it when threads get hijacked by another topic

^ Yes it is, and I haven't even heard Kraftwerk!

Geck0 wrote: Blacksword wrote: Rick Wakemen made numerous appearences on the pop quiz 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Here he is on a Christmas special, together with commedian Bill Bailey playing intro's for the panel to guess. You'll never hear Mike Oldfield played like this.. Rick 'n' Bill Genius! I wish they'd got Rick to do some Genesis, or even some Yes, now that would have been fantastic!

I'm in an alarmingly good mood this evening Jared, and dont wish to unleash my venom on the masses. However, I have a meeting at about 11:00am tomorrow and am likely to be in foul mood afterwards. In fact I'm likely to want to drown people!! So meet me back here then and there shall be Armageddon!!

^^ahem...I think I might start on a major rant about the lack of ranting going on in some of these insipid, limp wristed posts....

Rick Wakemen made numerous appearences on the pop quiz 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Here he is on a Christmas special, together with commedian Bill Bailey playing intro's for the panel to guess. You'll never hear Mike Oldfield played like this..

Rick 'n' Bill

Edited by Blacksword - February 04 2008 at 16:19