BBC Four

[petergriffin]

One of the benefits of being in a B&B midweek...

What's it like to mix with the poor? Are they still bad?

[VectraMan]

I don't watch standard definition channels.

[scooterscot]

a delightful history of wallpaper ..

I just saw two girls kissing on the street, had to stare.

[SueEllen]

a delightful history of wallpaper

Nice to know I'm not the only person watching it. Though I tend to see it on iPlayer.

[alluvial]

What's it like to mix with the poor? Are they still bad?

The poor are quite often poor because they don't know when to save money and instead waste their hard earned pennies on needless extravagances. Whereas those that make it to the top of the pile know that it isn't necessary to present a false facade of success by flaunting extravagances. Those that become rich do so by knowing that a clean, usually more comfortable B&B at a quarter of the price of the ostentatious, but generally crappy, "businessman's" hotel are going to have a correspondingly greater amount of disposable income at the end of the year.

[alluvial]

Nice to know I'm not the only person watching it. Though I tend to see it on iPlayer.

It was surprisingly good.
The quality of the BBC Four (and Three) programmes are usually top class. I particularly enjoyed last night's "Pain, Pus and Poison" very interesting and had a lot of food for thought.

[alluvial]

Good.

Not a lot of pus though, mostly opioides.

Amazing to think that no one has come up with a better painkiller in the intervening 200 years or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine

I think we have the pus to look forward to.

[alluvial]

Mister Lister I expect

[Old Greg]

Yes.

I think pus is this week.

I will make a note in my diary

[alluvial]

Well pus was okay.
However, The Strange Science of Decay is looking very promising.