willo

my issues were examples of why they should perhaps not be funded by a license fee, as the BBC is a public corporation & thus supposed to be owned by the British public i was highlighting what i consider the way they squander the monies forced from the public & come back every year asking for more. if a private company were to manage revenue the same they would go bust. I am confused as i don't see 2 issues, kindest regards willo. ---------- Post added 03-12-2012 at 07:09 ---------- apologies, you are correct. the license fee is for the usage of a television receiver & thus a tax on the ownership of a TV set. sorry, i let my BBC rantings get in the way of common sense [should listen to my Mrs more-lol] Kindest regards Willo:) ---------- Post added 03-12-2012 at 07:10 ---------- apologies, you are correct. the license fee is for the usage of a television receiver & thus a tax on the ownership of a TV set. sorry, i let my BBC rantings get in the way of common sense [should listen to my Mrs more-lol] Kindest regards Willo

In my humble opinion, The license fee is wrong. Take for example look north, they have 2 people reading the news,they have a person talking about sport & they have a weather person, have the BBC not heard of multitasking? then there's things like the heavy flooding last week, why do they always have some person up to the privates wading about in floodwater accompanied by film crew-lighting crew- sound crew-etc-etc? then there's the heavy snow! not long ago they had some woman seeing if she could get from one end of Yorkshire to the other in the extreme weather that had crippled the country,for no apparent reason other than they thought it might be interesting news! why?. Also there have been times when the BBC have paid so called celebs vast sums of money in so called golden handcuff deals to stop them defecting to rival channels [selina scott-natasha Kaplinsky- jonathan ross] why? BBC Radio, I haven't listened to radio 1 since the 1970s when it was 12 hours of the top 40 making recording artists & djs rich so why should i be paying for a multitude of channels that i don't use ? I believe the BBC is a dinosaur of a corporation that does not earn the right to be force subsided by anyone owning a TV & should be made pay per view, thus perhaps the available channels could concentrate on the programs that people actually watch,after all aren't we told that competition is healthy? as regards commercial breaks,with the advent of PVRS i don't see a problem! On a final note, as the BBC is a non commercial channel,why do they have people on day in day out talking about their latest record-book-or what pantomime they are in blah-blah & why when we are rescheduled to watch England/Scotland/Ireland play blatishcronia [or whatever] at football or cricket [or whatever the BBC seems to think we all like] are the advertising hoardings not blanked out,after all its not commercial TV [is it:confused:]

no there was the Amberly, it said biscotheque on the door & Dennis the DJ from the broughton was the DJ in there [1972]

methinks you are confusing the Beatles with the monkees!

Ive a mate here in Scarborough whose an electrician & used to do the stage setup at the futurist theater here in its heyday [70s-80s] & he reckons without exception Lizzie were the best live band he ever saw.

that's the link for instruction guide, yep you gotta missed call.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cordless-phones.uk.com%2Fuserguide%2Fphilips-cd1452b-twin-black.pdf&ei=6mXpT4TTJIST8gPYlbnUDQ&usg=AFQjCNG2gIRrHWVwEnQip9uQH58iUt00Jg&sig2=YHUQiQtXGxYNzlHh-cqGTQ

p.s, i was better lookin--lol.

yep tis me, how ya doin Dougie, my first job in life after school & the only job in my life where every one i met & worked with was sound as a pound. spoke to alka recently, he said he still sees you in't village, have one in the maggies for me. so you're a bus driver now! bit different from driving a shearer & blowing things up with dynamite downt pit-lol. Scargill & thatcher didn't just kill an industry between em the killed a way of life. ttfn.

hi there was Geoff nix's apprentice, him & his mate Jeff steel, on nights on't pit top, after a few bevvies int Station pub, top lads.

hi beccy, i used to work with frank & his mate Dave Lowe, think it was on 9s, i was their apprentice for a while around the early 70s. top bloke ,happy days. kindest regards willo.

it was stolen a few years ago.

our lass likes the soaps on tv, myself like every bloke i know sits with a book & pretends not to be watching. the thing is, I'd like to know why before these shows start do at least 2 commentators tell you whats going to happen to who-where-what character? the one show is the same, you're told just prior to the start who's on, then they start the show with the- he's really famous-been in loadsa films & rock bands-dated loadsa models- is good to his mum-blah blah, i know i should get out more as they say! but i find this rather annoying.

yooooo, dougie me ole mate, yep its me! i remember lots o' things we got up to you old hooligan you- hehe. i've been asking alka for years about you, he said he aint seen you in the village so i guess you'd moved away, yep i'm a scarbor'o lad now but been looking on here for afew years & reminiscing. you ever see pete allen or zeb about? i heard roy & brian baker had moved to spain, saw trev cobb here in scarbro' a few years back when you had those bad floods in sheff' he did'nt know where any one was these days either-lol. i guess when we leave brinny its a bit like moving up north on eastenders- we disappear, i remember us in me dads car & i remember racing you on our lambrettas, you looking like you was gonna win & me cheatin' & nearly knocking us both off the things & you not best pleased chasing me down't street like cassius clay, good job i could run in them days-lol' will send you a P.M. with my phone number, really great to see you on here mate.TTFN.

Hi Willo My neighbour Sadie is Arthur Spencer's sister, she was the youngest and is now the only one living, she is 82 years old. If you want to get in touch with her to ask her anything, I'll ask if she would like to exchange emails, okay? hi joto,arthur was a proper nice bloke, i remember being on 10s in the early 70s & we got talking about music & he got us all singing a raucous rendition of chuck berrys my ding a ling! which the colliery manager [who was'nt noted for his sense of humour] & visitors did'nt seem to like much-lol.