Raleigh Chopper
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You forgot to add Citizen Khan and Micheal McIntyre.
Both totally side splitting comedy.
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You forgot to add Citizen Khan and Micheal McIntyre.
Both totally side splitting comedy.
Springwatch is on at the mo.......worth the licence fee on it’s own 
Pretty pink fairy
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- Jan 30, 2008
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John Byrnes Mullet
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World Service is brilliant.
But the BBC in this country need a total restructure from the bottom to the top.
But the BBC in this country need a total restructure from the bottom to the top.
- Jan 30, 2008
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Only one type of BBC that I like
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DF
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DF
- Apr 5, 2014
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I love the BBC. They get things wrong now and then, but throughout history they have given tremendous service to this country, home and abroad. Perhaps my love for them is a little too fawning.
You love far right ideology, throughout the years it has done tremendous damage to this country, home and abroad. Perhaps your love for this is also a little too fawning.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Thank you for that. Really appreciate and value what the BBC does, and HAPPY To Pay For it.
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
The fact that you are defending it would by default indicate the it’s going to be a right wing w*nk mag.
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Justice
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Zoe Ball £1.36m salary 
Sid in the Sharknado
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Has some cock I have on ignore started a thread of old bollocks?
Who would have known?
I think you need some sort of next level ignore function, so you don't even see that they've posted anything.
Failing that, maybe try putting a bag with eye holes cut out of it over your monitor?
Seagull
Yes I eat anything
This is brilliant. I have a phrase book for Vanuatu/Solomon/Papua pidgin which appears to be quite different. Humans are adaptable
crodonilson
He/Him
Surely anything that expands the BBC's reach and means more people can engage with it should be a cause for celebration?
On the subject matter in the article I hope the young lady makes a swift and speedy recovery and continues her good work striving for the equality her community deserves.
On the subject matter in the article I hope the young lady makes a swift and speedy recovery and continues her good work striving for the equality her community deserves.
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
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Very happy to sing the praises of BBC World News America which is head and shoulders above any of the American news broadcasters.
Although it is not funded by the license fee, instead they use subscriptions from cable TV and advertising revenue. It's actually quite weird seeing adverts on a BBC channel
Although it is not funded by the license fee, instead they use subscriptions from cable TV and advertising revenue. It's actually quite weird seeing adverts on a BBC channel
ConfusedGloryHunter
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- Jul 6, 2011
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If you don't like what is being done with your licence by the BBC, just wait until you see what the government is doing with your taxes!
Big Black Cock?
I would happily pay the licence fee to be able to watch the iPlayer abroad without having to faff around with a VPN!
I’m sure there is a way they could set it up and reading posts on ex-pat groups, I’m sure there are a lot of people who would buy into it.
I’m sure there is a way they could set it up and reading posts on ex-pat groups, I’m sure there are a lot of people who would buy into it.
The BBC has it's faults. They are far outweighed by it's benefits. And it is superb value for money. Superb.
As an aside, it's encouraging to see attempts to resurrect Bear Pit style threads on the BB is being met with a resounding "SHUT UP".
I have no doubt the BBC will ride out the current right wing attempt to shut down it's un-biased news, prestige entertainment and educational programming.
As an aside, it's encouraging to see attempts to resurrect Bear Pit style threads on the BB is being met with a resounding "SHUT UP".
I have no doubt the BBC will ride out the current right wing attempt to shut down it's un-biased news, prestige entertainment and educational programming.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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"Paid for the by licence fee" is a relatively simplistic and inaccurate phrase these days. I partly blame the BBC for that because it fails to actively communicate where it's income comes from.
The reality is that whatever the service cost above it was very well covered by it's commercial activity abroad. All of the profits going back into the BBC to subsidise the licence fee.
The reality is that whatever the service cost above it was very well covered by it's commercial activity abroad. All of the profits going back into the BBC to subsidise the licence fee.
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
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This is brilliant. I have a phrase book for Vanuatu/Solomon/Papua pidgin which appears to be quite different. Humans are adaptable
I only know Nigerian pidgin from personal experience, but from what I can gather, pidgin English across the Anglophone West African countries differs. Listening to Palm Wine music from Sierre Leone I can hear a difference, but it all seems quite similar on the surface. I suspect most of it translates across countries as English is the Lingua Franca for Anglophone countries with multiple tribal languages. But pidgin is really the street form of that Lingua Franca, so much of it will move and change pretty fast I suspect. Just like our street slang here.
What surprised me in Nigeria is how Jamaican patois didn't seem to translate too easily. Yet to me, a complete outsider, I can hear quite a few similarities. I bet in London, patois and pidgin mixes quite readily though.