Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
There has been a trajectory of becoming more toothless. A Tory implant at the top, programmes cancelled and talent loss with many veiled references to regaining their integrity in their departing letters.
They struggle to tackle Tory ministers with heavyweight interviews.
Today, they used a different tactic very effectively that is counter to the direction of travel and despite the ongoing efforts at media control.
The BBC is a large organisation, it can become a toothless patsy without every individual being one. If there is much less critical content than before, it can have become more toothless despite more isolated efforts to the contrary.0 -
Good analysis and I agree about the matrons take home pay complaint. I was wondering the same regarding what had driven her numbers but did not doing any of the workings you did.Pross said:
Thought that was pretty good, it was something that seemed to start with Trump and a bit worrying that we now have to do it with out own politicians. I've always wondered why there isn't more of that when you have two sides using the same numbers to try to claim different points.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
I think they should also fact check the one nurse they had on just before that who claimed her take home pay now is £100 more than it was on a 2007 pay slip she found despite having being promoted to matron in that time. Assuming all other things are equal e.g. no increase in payments into a pension, changes to hours etc. I find that incredibly difficult to believe. This calculator suggests that just the step up from Band 7 to Band 8a (which I believe is the start of the matron grade) would lead to an increase in take-home pay of over £300 per month without any other pay increases over the previous 15 years https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nhs-pay-calculator/ . The top of Band 7 from November 2007 was apparently £37,326 against the £47,672 used in that calculator. I appreciate things like tax and NI may have changed over time but I'm really struggling to see how she came up with that number. Just the increase on Band 7 over that time should have increased take-home by more than £500.
I suspect she is in that awkward place of being OK off due to high salary but has nevertheless seen a real slump in available income so not the best example of poverty line nurses. But still a legitimate greivance clouded by a difficult to reconcile claim.0 -
Yeah, for me it fell into the camp of doing your legitimate grievances no good by saying something that seemed to be so obviously unlikely to be true.morstar said:
Good analysis and I agree about the matrons take home pay complaint. I was wondering the same regarding what had driven her numbers but did not doing any of the workings you did.Pross said:
Thought that was pretty good, it was something that seemed to start with Trump and a bit worrying that we now have to do it with out own politicians. I've always wondered why there isn't more of that when you have two sides using the same numbers to try to claim different points.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
I think they should also fact check the one nurse they had on just before that who claimed her take home pay now is £100 more than it was on a 2007 pay slip she found despite having being promoted to matron in that time. Assuming all other things are equal e.g. no increase in payments into a pension, changes to hours etc. I find that incredibly difficult to believe. This calculator suggests that just the step up from Band 7 to Band 8a (which I believe is the start of the matron grade) would lead to an increase in take-home pay of over £300 per month without any other pay increases over the previous 15 years https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nhs-pay-calculator/ . The top of Band 7 from November 2007 was apparently £37,326 against the £47,672 used in that calculator. I appreciate things like tax and NI may have changed over time but I'm really struggling to see how she came up with that number. Just the increase on Band 7 over that time should have increased take-home by more than £500.
I suspect she is in that awkward place of being OK off due to high salary but has nevertheless seen a real slump in available income so not the best example of poverty line nurses. But still a legitimate greivance clouded by a difficult to reconcile claim.0 -
A bit of a mixture between confusion and reading error. I didn't see how you can be a "patsy" and "find new ways to tackle the government pressure".morstar said:
Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
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Reading "Naga" as slang for "no". My mistake. Then realising that it is the u-turn that cheers you.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
No worries. A lesson to try and be more clear in my posting.pblakeney said:
A bit of a mixture between confusion and reading error. I didn't see how you can be a "patsy" and "find new ways to tackle the government pressure".morstar said:
Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
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Reading "Naga" as slang for "no". My mistake. Then realising that it is the u-turn that cheers you.1 -
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morstar said:
No worries. A lesson to try and be more clear in my posting.pblakeney said:
A bit of a mixture between confusion and reading error. I didn't see how you can be a "patsy" and "find new ways to tackle the government pressure".morstar said:
Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
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Reading "Naga" as slang for "no". My mistake. Then realising that it is the u-turn that cheers you.
Must admit I had to read it twice. I once I worked out what you were saying, it made sense, and I agree with you. If that makes sense.
They all need to take a page out of Krishnan Guru-Murthy's book (though maybe not including getting caught on the mic with the fruitier opinion of Steve Baker).0 -
Wot?briantrumpet said:morstar said:
No worries. A lesson to try and be more clear in my posting.pblakeney said:
A bit of a mixture between confusion and reading error. I didn't see how you can be a "patsy" and "find new ways to tackle the government pressure".morstar said:
Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
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Reading "Naga" as slang for "no". My mistake. Then realising that it is the u-turn that cheers you.
Must admit I had to read it twice. I once I worked out what you were saying, it made sense, and I agree with you. If that makes sense.
They all need to take a page out of Krishnan Guru-Murthy's book (though maybe not including getting caught on the mic with the fruitier opinion of Steve Baker).seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
Wot?briantrumpet said:morstar said:
No worries. A lesson to try and be more clear in my posting.pblakeney said:
A bit of a mixture between confusion and reading error. I didn't see how you can be a "patsy" and "find new ways to tackle the government pressure".morstar said:
Are they at odds?pblakeney said:
Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.morstar said:So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.
Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.
Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.
Clarification is required.
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Reading "Naga" as slang for "no". My mistake. Then realising that it is the u-turn that cheers you.
Must admit I had to read it twice. I once I worked out what you were saying, it made sense, and I agree with you. If that makes sense.
They all need to take a page out of Krishnan Guru-Murthy's book (though maybe not including getting caught on the mic with the fruitier opinion of Steve Baker).
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That ^ has got to be one of the most irritating pop songs ever written.
I am going to have to exorcise that from my head with...
Beethoven's moonlight sonata?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
That ^ has got to be one of the most irritating pop songs ever written.
I am going to have to exorcise that from my head with...
Beethoven's moonlight sonata?
Nah, he wrote Moonlight Serenade, I think.0 -
Serenade?! You been on the pop again BT?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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pinno said:
Serenade?! You been on the pop again BT?
I thought that the "Nah" would negate the need for an emoji 😜
BTW, Miller originally called Moonlight Serenade 'When I Lay Me Down To Weep". Curiously, it didn't become famous till he changed the title.0 -
...my brain sent me off on a tangent: I was thinking 'The Crucible', 'Death of a salesman..., 'Moonlight serenade'?!briantrumpet said:pinno said:Serenade?! You been on the pop again BT?
I thought that the "Nah" would negate the need for an emoji 😜
BTW, Miller originally called Moonlight Serenade 'When I Lay Me Down To Weep". Curiously, it didn't become famous till he changed the title.
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That's wonderfulbriantrumpet said:0 -
Not trivial for me but for everyone else; promoted 2nd year in a row and my little business (or practice or franchise or whatever you lot want to call it), I started from nothing in January has, in 2022 anyway, been successful. Smashed all my targets and has actually made material money.
Really proud of myself because a) I've been working to this moment my entire career b) I really put my neck on the line to start this from nothing - it was my idea and I did have to convince some sceptics before doing it and c) it's just me on my own so the success has actually been down to me.2 -
I like the idea of material money, feels like it will last longer than the paper or whatever it is these days version.2
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Not at all trivial... having a friend who at a moment's notice was happy to drive me and two strangers to Bristol Airport from Exeter when *two* Falcon buses failed to turn up, and the helpline couldn't find where the next bus was.
So much for public transport, eh?0 -
Couldn't you have used electric bikes?briantrumpet said:Not at all trivial... having a friend who at a moment's notice was happy to drive me and two strangers to Bristol Airport from Exeter when *two* Falcon buses failed to turn up, and the helpline couldn't find where the next bus was.
So much for public transport, eh?3 -
Or lived somewhere less yokelly?2
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I don't follow it, I don't know anything really about it, I'm rarely aware it's happening before it ends, but it really cheers me up when people on the social media timelines, who are enthusiastic about cricket, are happy about something that has happened“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Your conversion to the Tory side of The Force is progressing well, Young Jedirick_chasey said:Not trivial for me but for everyone else; promoted 2nd year in a row and my little business (or practice or franchise or whatever you lot want to call it), I started from nothing in January has, in 2022 anyway, been successful. Smashed all my targets and has actually made material money.
Really proud of myself because a) I've been working to this moment my entire career b) I really put my neck on the line to start this from nothing - it was my idea and I did have to convince some sceptics before doing it and c) it's just me on my own so the success has actually been down to me.
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