Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Three hurrays for our Global Moderator !!! 

[Tony Willis]

When you are decorating the downstairs loo and waiting for the paper to soak it is quite entertaining(or really sad) to look at all the grammatical errors.There are probably several in this but no matter.

[Maggi Young]

Tony, MORE decorating? What a palace you must live in  ? 

[Tony Willis]

Maggie its just to keep warm and in favour, as the garden has turned into my own private swamp there is not much I can do out there.

[Gerry Webster]

Now if there is anything in life I would really like it's a personalised seat cushion   I've read some 'twaddle' in my life but the above takes some bettering!

Well David, I could probably live without this, but I'm really keen on the  "rusticated garden ornaments"  (personalised of course) though I'm worried as to how they would fit with my "elegant sitting/lounge area". Gardens are so difficult to get right.

[Maggi Young]

Fair enough, Tony, a man's gotta do.... and so on.  I have managed to hike the temperature in here up to 17 degrees, so no need to resort to heavy indoor labour meantime.... though, at this very moment, a Fire Engine has arrived outside, lights flashing.... Ian must have tweaked the setttings on the ruddy fire alarm again... what that lad won't do to save money 


Ah, no need for panic... call out is to one of the houses across the road.... making toast again I expect..... fire brigade comes to them very quickly, must be direct connection because of Sheltered housing status of those houses.

Gerry,
when the weather is good ( very good) , I am willing to come visit and sit about in your garden for the price of a bed and a biscuit or two... you won't get a better rusticated garden ornament than me, honest injun!

David, having just got the BD personalised shoes for his birthday, I really cannot comment in an unbiased fashion about the twaddle!

[Anthony Darby]

I take it this person has had their bottom smacked and is now on the naughty step?

[Maggi Young]

I take it this person has had their bottom smacked and is now on the naughty step?

Anthony, I try not to resort to  physical violence    The naughty step  can be a little crowded sometimes - you can probably come off it now 

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks to Moderator for the above removal. Best way to cope with the text above is to ridicule it.

I'm heartened to learn that UK newspapers have bad grammar and the like. Thought it was only ours that really are the PITS in this respect, and likewise in some of what should be our better quality magazines, such as "The Listener." Call themselves journalists! Most seem barely to have coped with basic English at all nowadays.

[Gerry Webster]

Lesley - 'The Listener'? Surely this cannot be the literate & cultivated BBC journal from  way back living on in the Southern Hemisphere?

[Anthony Darby]

We have just received a council publication, in colour, which has an article on recycling and our three bin system. Apparently non-recyclable waste must go in the "gray" bin!!!!!

[Maggi Young]

Lesley - 'The Listener'? Surely this cannot be the literate & cultivated BBC journal from  way back living on in the Southern Hemisphere?

Oh, I DO hope so.... it'd be about the only literate & cultivated part of the modern BBC.......apart from the Beechgrove Potting Shed on BBC Radio Scotland on Sundays at 12.05pm, of course


You should hear the absolute drivel and filth that is peedled on a programme that runs at the same time as the Potting Shed (The band is "split".... our programme is broadcast on FM while the truly awful sports-based  ( i.e. football) programme goes out on digital and medium wave.) There is a version on Saturdays which we have had the misfortune to catch parts of when driving home from a show and this version of Sunday, marketed as their "Sunday Supplement"  contains the most sorry claptrap imaginable. How do I know this, I hear you ask, since I am busy answering the phones for the Potting Shed? Well, it is seemingly beyongd the BBC to pay for two phone lines, or for a device which offers a "for the Potting Shed press 1, for Off the Ball press 2" option, so I answer the phones for the other programme too.... I can tell it is full of filth , racism, bigotry, and general crassness because of the things from the programme quoted to me by the callers.... some are, (bless 'em, there're on a hiding to nothing) phoning to complain, but the majority are ringing to chime in with their lewd stories and bigoted remembrances......I tell you, it has to be heard to be believed... and this continuing in the wake of the Ross/Brand scandal..... mind you, the pair of numpties presenting the programme are REALLY cheap in comparison to the famous two, so I can only think that someone in the BEEB hierarchy is happy that he's getting a great deal for his dumbing down campaign! 

[David Nicholson]

If we are on random subjects and television in general can I add the following that drive me nuts.

Newsreaders who now need to stand up whilst reading the news.
Editors of News Bulletins who think my mind is so addled that I am unable to understand an item without pictures. I can understand, for example, a story about stormy weather without the need to see the same library pictures of storm waves breaking over The Cobb at Lyme Regis that I have seen umpteen times before.
Programmes about Z list celebrities.
Programmes with Z list celebrities in them, especially those including dancing and supposed jungles in Oz
Programmes with the dregs of humanity locked up in houses.
Programmes with Z list celebrities locked up in houses.
Programmes with actors and actresses getting emotional about each other's achievements (or non-achievements!)
Programmes made by Russel Brand, Jonathon Ross and that odd Irish dwarf whose name I can never remember.
The fact that I have to pay the BBC whether or not I watch, or listen to the drivel available.
That virtually every member of the BBC staff, and his lad, appeared to be in that big country over the pond at the time they had an election and what's the betting that very few of the USA equivalents will make it over here when Broon decides to call it a day.


.... and I could go on all night.


It is not for nothing that my kids frequently call me Victor Meldrew.
 

[annew]

Hey - we've now sneakily got ourselves TWO 'Moan, moan moan'  topics! 

[Giles]

...but I was disappointed to see the ban on 'blatant advertising' just when I was about to offer my services as.......