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z_chromozone

Original Poster:

1,436 posts

279 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Why are the government trying so hard to allow us to all borrow so much money. How large a hole are they trying to dig.

"Let's get lending back to 2007 levels", says the secretary. Eh?

And, WTF is it with asking an estate agent and a developer to comment on the state of the global economy.

I think the world is going mad.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

285 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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BBC...

Broadcasting Bullsh!t to the Country...

Simpo Two

92,888 posts

295 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.

SS HSV

9,646 posts

288 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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mybrainhurts said:
BBC...

Broadcasting Bullsh!t to the Country...
laugh Paid by the government no doubt.

elster

17,517 posts

240 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Simpo Two said:
I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.
This is because he is an eco warrior too.

Balmoral Green

42,561 posts

278 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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mybrainhurts said:
BBC...

Broadcasting Bullsh!t to the Country...
All day long, on R4, they have been saying that the rate of inflation has gone up by 5.2%.

No, the rate of inflation has gone up to 5.2%, not by 5.2%. The cretins can't even use the English language correctly.

Simpo Two

92,888 posts

295 months

Tuesday 14th October 2008
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Balmoral Green said:
mybrainhurts said:
BBC...

Broadcasting Bullsh!t to the Country...
All day long, on R4, they have been saying that the rate of inflation has gone up by 5.2%.

No, the rate of inflation has gone up to 5.2%, not by 5.2%. The cretins can't even use the English language correctly.
I guess they mean 'cost of living has gone up by'.

And another thing - mis-spelled subtitles, some even without capital letters!



Now, where's my entry form for 'Grumpy Old Men'?

MrVelox

2,974 posts

217 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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Simpo Two said:
I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.
That's nearly as surprising as seeing Clarkson on Top Gear.

Fatboy

8,269 posts

302 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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Balmoral Green said:
mybrainhurts said:
BBC...

Broadcasting Bullsh!t to the Country...
All day long, on R4, they have been saying that the rate of inflation has gone up by 5.2%.

No, the rate of inflation has gone up to 5.2%, not by 5.2%. The cretins can't even use the English language correctly.
Seeing as a lot of pundits seem to think inflation is way more than 5.2% (even their online calculator showed the stuff I buy is rising at over 6%), the BBC's slip may actually be more accurate. smile

cardigankid

8,879 posts

242 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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I grant you they had to prop the banks up though how they did it was perverse. And what has happened would have happened with or without Brown. Though I have to accept that he has at last done something which is broadly correct.

However, the mistake he had previously made, in concert with others cleverer than himself, was to try to run an economy on a pyramid of private and public debt, and what the silly wker has been convinced of is that if he can get lending levels up he can get back to the prosperity and purblind optimism of two years ago and win the next election. However, increasing the level of lending is only part of the story.

A large proportion of people are up to their eyeballs in debt and have no desire or ability to get in further. House prices are falling and have to fall until they meet inflation coming the other way. The balloon is burst. You can't blow it back up again. Could someone explain that to the stupid dickwit.

Baby Huey

4,881 posts

229 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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Simpo Two said:
I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.
They aren't obliged to be impartial about foreign elections shirley?

Here is why they can focus on Obama, it will be a significant moment in history if a black man wins the American elections, it won't be news if some white man wins.

Edited by Baby Huey on Wednesday 15th October 07:51

Dracoro

9,033 posts

275 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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z_chromozone said:
Why are the government trying so hard to allow us to all borrow so much money. How large a hole are they trying to dig.

"Let's get lending back to 2007 levels", says the secretary. Eh?
Quite, precisely what got us into the trouble we're in today!

Dunk76

4,350 posts

244 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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Baby Huey said:
Simpo Two said:
I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.
They aren't obliged to be impartial about foreign elections shirley?
They're obliged to be impartial about everything.

A fact which seems to have escaped them over the last week as they put fall over themselves to put Brown on a plinth bigger than Churchill's, whilst simultaneously getting orgasmically sweaty about the opportunity to tell the country about the Tories being the (and I quote) 'the banker's party'...

It's almost pantomime these days


MrVelox

2,974 posts

217 months

Wednesday 15th October 2008
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Dunk76 said:
Baby Huey said:
Simpo Two said:
I noted that in a trailer for the US elections, they only showed Obama.
They aren't obliged to be impartial about foreign elections shirley?
They're obliged to be impartial about everything.

A fact which seems to have escaped them over the last week as they put fall over themselves to put Brown on a plinth bigger than Churchill's, whilst simultaneously getting orgasmically sweaty about the opportunity to tell the country about the Tories being the (and I quote) 'the banker's party'...

It's almost pantomime these days

It's depressing. I have tended to watch the BBC news over here as, unlike virtually all American media, it's relatively unbiased.

Or at least it was frown