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How old are your kids? 5 and under?"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR -
And why not?Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostMy kids loved it
Trouble is, what are the BBC making for grown-ups to enjoy?
All their big-budget productions are kid's stuff (Dr Who etc.) or tiresome period dramas. All their major feature documentaries are dumbed-down beyond belief (e.g. Horizon).
I think the problem is largely that the BBC now employs 'children' who have been raised on a diet of pap in their production departments.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostAnd why not?
Trouble is, what are the BBC making for grown-ups to enjoy?
All their big-budget productions are kid's stuff (Dr Who etc.) or tiresome period dramas. All their major feature documentaries are dumbed-down beyond belief (e.g. Horizon).
I think the problem is largely that the BBC now employs 'children' who have been raised on a diet of pap in their production departments.
and terrified of not being pc or of showing bias
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Strictly Come Dancing?Originally posted by bogeyman View PostAnd why not?
Trouble is, what are the BBC making for grown-ups to enjoy?
All their big-budget productions are kid's stuff (Dr Who etc.) or tiresome period dramas. All their major feature documentaries are dumbed-down beyond belief (e.g. Horizon).
I think the problem is largely that the BBC now employs 'children' who have been raised on a diet of pap in their production departments.
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With the outfits some of those birds wear, some of us doOriginally posted by BrilloPad View PostStrictly Come Dancing?
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It was truly awful. The only redeeming feature was my pointing out to Mrs OG every 30 seconds: 'And they wouldn't have had <insert anachronistic feature> in early post-Roman Britain'.Comment
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Yes! My wife hates that tooOriginally posted by Old Greg View PostIt was truly awful. The only redeeming feature was my pointing out to Mrs OG every 30 seconds: 'And they wouldn't have had <insert anachronistic feature> in early post-Roman Britain'.
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Which is, of course, the point of life.Originally posted by Diver View PostYes! My wife hates that too

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