Reply to: Effing Radio 4

[NotAllThere]

I've been in trouble with t'other half in the past for just that point. Her argument seems to be that the other 23 hours of the day on radio 4 are "Mens Hour" - a pure, unadulterated fallacy.

Phallussy

[doodab]

My much missed late father used to say Women's Hour should be retitled "aren't I bloody wonderful?" because it was always the story of some bint's heroic struggle to grow a single potato on her newly trendy allotment.

minge

[RichardCranium]

I've been in trouble with t'other half in the past for just that point. Her argument seems to be that the other 23 hours of the day on radio 4 are "Mens Hour" - a pure, unadulterated phallusy.

FTFY

[Peoplesoft bloke]

My much missed late father used to say Women's Hour should be retitled "aren't I bloody wonderful?" because it was always the story of some bint's heroic struggle to grow a single potato on her newly trendy allotment.

[doodab]

Mind you - I do quite like lentils.

minge

This one could run and run.....

[lje]

A was on Woman's Hour once. They interviewed a few of us after a self defence class at school (this was a loooong time ago). They were trying to get us to say that it was all too violent and that we would be scared of using any of the techniques in reality. Of course (being blood thirsty teanagers who've just been saved from some boring lessons to do this course) we thought it was great and said so. The still managed to edit things so that it sounded like we agreed with their hypothesis.

That was an early lesson in the ethics of the press...

Mind you - I do quite like lentils.

[doodab]

"Women's Hour"? WTF? More like "Feminist lefty whale saving lentel eating hairy lesbian's" hour! When's it "Men's Hour"?

Another thing, why do radio presenters insist on affecting a foreign accent when mentioning some foreign Johnnies name? This only seems to have happened since "Sarkozy" or should I say "Sarkozeeeeee".

minge

[Spacecadet]

The BBC have been obsessive about that for years. Announcers think they're clever pronouncing foreign names authentically. They just do it to show off.

It's a wonder they don't talk about "Paree" and "Roma" and so on, instead of the anglicised names.

They do it with regional names as well
"NewCARstle" said in a posh southern accent
became
"NewCAstle like"* said in a more geordie accent


*"like" added for comic effect

[Paddy]

I usually quite enjoy womans hour

and I'm a bloke

I suppose you would if you were fantasising about them sitting in the hot sweaty studio with long legs and stockings, suspenders…

[OwlHoot]

... Another thing, why do radio presenters insist on affecting a foreign accent when mentioning some foreign Johnnies name? This only seems to have happened since "Sarkozy" or should I say "Sarkozeeeeee".

The BBC have been obsessive about that for years. Announcers think they're clever pronouncing foreign names authentically. They just do it to show off.

It's a wonder they don't talk about "Paree" and "Roma" and so on, instead of the anglicised names.

[Paddy]

Nowt wrong with whales or lentils though.

Yes, its amazing how they support all that brickwork.

[Churchill]

I usually quite enjoy womans hour

and I'm a bloke

Keep telling yourself that mate!

[Spacecadet]

I usually quite enjoy womans hour

and I'm a bloke

[Churchill]

Lentil

Thanks.

Nowt wrong with whales or lentils though.

Yeah, they make a great combination on a plate!

[Menelaus]

Nowt wrong with whales or lentils though.

Wasn't there a Viz t-shirt of this many years ago(?), with decomposing whale in the background and placard-carrying hippy in the foreground saying:

"as you can see, I've been saving this one for some time!"