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BBC staff revolt after spending cuts announced
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7352167/BBC-staff-revolt-after-spending-cuts-announced.html ^ | 03/02/10 | Urmee Khan

Posted on 03/02/2010 7:11:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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1 posted on 03/02/2010 7:11:38 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...

P!


2 posted on 03/02/2010 7:12:13 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"Where is the licence fee payer in these discussions?"

Paying the licence fee. But not, you know, by their own free will. So you unionized parasites can get stuffed.

3 posted on 03/02/2010 7:13:44 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

What you said.


4 posted on 03/02/2010 7:15:51 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hope they don’t cut the “Top Gear” staff and funding. One of the most non-PC things on television, and truckloads of cool cars you can’t get in the States.


5 posted on 03/02/2010 7:15:56 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Awwwwwww. Poor Auntie Beeb. (NOT!)


6 posted on 03/02/2010 7:16:42 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: kosciusko51

I went off Top Gear when they did a segment on the American South. It infuriated the hell out of me.


7 posted on 03/02/2010 7:18:04 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They have over 300 executives making BIG MONEY!!


8 posted on 03/02/2010 7:20:33 AM PST by GeronL (Political Philosophy: I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The BBC going on strike is like the gay Castro district in San Francisco going on strike...no sane, decent person will miss it.


9 posted on 03/02/2010 7:20:36 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I have to admit, that and the Vietnam special were pretty annoying, but then again, they make fun of everyone, including themselves.

As for the American South episode, the wife and I are quite convinced that a bunch of it was staged, otherwise Clarkson and company would have not made it back to the UK.

10 posted on 03/02/2010 7:21:40 AM PST by kosciusko51
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As for the American South episode, the wife and I are quite convinced that a bunch of it was staged, otherwise Clarkson and company would have not made it back to the UK.
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LOL! Good point! ;-)


11 posted on 03/02/2010 7:24:25 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: kosciusko51

I suppose a lot of beer holding was going on eh?


12 posted on 03/02/2010 7:25:51 AM PST by rahbert
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Mick Hucknall to the BBC-— “Money’s Too Tight To Mention”


13 posted on 03/02/2010 7:26:46 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: kosciusko51

I hope they don’t cut the “Top Gear” staff and funding. One of the most non-PC things on television.

Absolutely! Jeremy Clarkson is fantastic! If this show goes away I hope that someone over here will offer him a job.


14 posted on 03/02/2010 7:29:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rahbert
Top Gear in America

Watch from 40 to 50 minutes into it.

15 posted on 03/02/2010 7:30:53 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: agere_contra

Do they still charge a license fee? I had thought that would become impractical with the advent of modern technology. It is not as easy for one of their Television Detector Vans to find you as it was back in the day when you had a big ol’ box of vaccuum tubs chucking out spurrious RF all over the place.


16 posted on 03/02/2010 7:37:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

tubs = tubes


17 posted on 03/02/2010 7:38:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The BBC should be exiled to Sealand.
18 posted on 03/02/2010 7:41:05 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

TV Detection Vans !!!!!!!!!

Totalitarianism at work.

UK has it first.

Calling George Orwell.

Oh, I forgot, he’s dead.

You killed him.

Starvation, believe it or not.

Don’t believe it? Google it.

Long live Catalonia and George Orwell, a free man fighting for freedom of the human race ....


19 posted on 03/02/2010 7:44:44 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia should be required reading for all mind-numbed “Liberal Arts” faculty and students. And everyone else, for that matter. A true picture of how Socialists/Communists really operate.


20 posted on 03/02/2010 8:27:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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