The Royals

orraloon

Covfefe man didn't tweet that.... d'ya think his soshul meejah acct peeps were in control?

blazing_saddles

So, Trump has found someone who is both eloquent and sympathetic to compose his social spouting.
A bit like employing a top proctologist after you have been allowing Tarzan's sidekick to treat your hemorrhoids for 4 years.

rick_chasey

This is a mad mad country

https://twitter.com/richardavsmith/status/1380490383105400832?s=21

pangolin

rick_chasey said:

This is a mad mad country

https://twitter.com/richardavsmith/status/1380490383105400832?s=21

That smash cut made me laugh out loud, thanks

rick_chasey

The more I think about it the more I’m baffled they had to cancel all the TV and make radio onto play ballards or nothing at all.

It’s mad. Something you expect when a communist leader dies, not some glorified celebrity.

mrb123

rick_chasey said:

The more I think about it the more I’m baffled they had to cancel all the TV and make radio onto play ballards or nothing at all.

It’s mad. Something you expect when a communist leader dies, not some glorified celebrity.

Even after 6 Music resumed the normal shows, Gideon Coe on his evening show was playing a load of maudlin music as if we all should be in a state of mourning. Madness I tell ye...

mrb123

BBC News - Prince Philip: Family visits Buckingham Palace at 1am to lay flowers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56699776
FFS, get those kids to bed.

rick_chasey

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

orraloon

rick_chasey said:

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ballards, bollards, ballads or boxxox? Whatevs, tug your forelock peeps, respect the system. Alt comienza la revolución.

surrey_commuter

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

rick_chasey

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

briantrumpet

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

Definitely a good time to be tuned into France Musique Classique Plus. Can't be doing with communal outpourings of grief for famous people.

kingstongraham

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

shirley_basso

Just went to lay flowers with the rugrats for a day out. Very very quiet (20 or so media + a few police and 30 public milling around).

Only 20-30 bunches there if that - clearly being taken away at regular intervals to stop it becoming a carpet of flowers.

rick_chasey

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

Well quite - i thought it was just for an hour or so on live tv. I didn’t think it would ruin an entire day of programming (which you then can’t watch/ listen later).

I thought they only did that stuff in dictatorships.

dabber

https://bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints

ddraver

rick_chasey said:

Dorset_Boy said:

rjsterry said:

rick_chasey said:

lol who watches live tv or listens to live radio when it isn't sport?

Jeez, are you 33, going on 14?

Rick once again displays a complete and utter lack of understanding of the way people outside his little bubble live and lead their lives.
But of course, he always knows best.

RIP Philip. A long life of dedication.

https://twitter.com/markholt4/status/1380489633797177350?s=21

Oh relax. Hyperbole is a well known rhetorical technique.

Not sure we need the entirety of the bbc to bin off programming for half a day for this, I have to say.

the biggest crime here is that a nominally 'Dance Music' focussed station missed the opportunity for a comedy record scratch...

rjsterry

rick_chasey said:

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

Well quite - i thought it was just for an hour or so on live tv. I didn’t think it would ruin an entire day of programming (which you then can’t watch/ listen later).

I thought they only did that stuff in dictatorships.

Possibly you are mistaken. Seems pretty normal for the death of the spouse of a serving head of state.

rick_chasey

rjsterry said:

rick_chasey said:

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

Well quite - i thought it was just for an hour or so on live tv. I didn’t think it would ruin an entire day of programming (which you then can’t watch/ listen later).

I thought they only did that stuff in dictatorships.

Possibly you are mistaken. Seems pretty normal for the death of the spouse of a serving head of state.

I was in Holland when Beatrix’s husband died. It was top of the news billing and they changed NOS 1 (bbc equivalent) scheduling for one hour long documentary.

Another appeared on Sunday morning. That was it. And it was a state funeral which presumably went out live.

A day of ‘mourning’ is nuts - this is the biggest impact the guy has ever had!

rjsterry

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

rick_chasey said:

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

Well quite - i thought it was just for an hour or so on live tv. I didn’t think it would ruin an entire day of programming (which you then can’t watch/ listen later).

I thought they only did that stuff in dictatorships.

Possibly you are mistaken. Seems pretty normal for the death of the spouse of a serving head of state.

I was in Holland when Beatrix’s husband died. It was top of the news billing and they changed NOS 1 (bbc equivalent) scheduling for one hour long documentary.

Another appeared on Sunday morning. That was it. And it was a state funeral which presumably went out live.

A day of ‘mourning’ is nuts - this is the biggest impact the guy has ever had!

To you, maybe.

rick_chasey

Well if he actually had any power they should abolish the lot.

That’s the deal.

tailwindhome

People complaining the Channel 4 went back to normal programming.

Baffling.

rjsterry

Sure. Others feel differently. While he may not have had a direct impact on you or me, you don't need to be a fervent royalist to recognise that he contributed rather more to this country than many. Yes, the wall to wall coverage is a bit suffocating, but I don't think it is intended that anyone sits through hour after hour of it, and there are alternatives if you really can't bear it.

shirley_basso

rick_chasey said:

Well if he actually had any power they should abolish the lot.

That’s the deal.

Impact =/= power

capt_slog

I listen to classic fm most of the time. that went to all sad tunes, just as Rick said, like we were in a a communist country.

kingstongraham

I see someone made the mistake of asking how him and liz met.

orraloon

Liz? Who Liz? D'ye mean Brenda?

Dorset_Boy

rjsterry said:

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

rick_chasey said:

kingstongraham said:

rick_chasey said:

surrey_commuter said:

rick_chasey said:

Ok I had no idea how bad this stopping all the radio and tv is.

Why are they still only playing ballards on the radio?

Ffs this is mad

Is this BBC or all channels?

All bbc outlets

I thought live radio and tv was for losers?

Well quite - i thought it was just for an hour or so on live tv. I didn’t think it would ruin an entire day of programming (which you then can’t watch/ listen later).

I thought they only did that stuff in dictatorships.

Possibly you are mistaken. Seems pretty normal for the death of the spouse of a serving head of state.

I was in Holland when Beatrix’s husband died. It was top of the news billing and they changed NOS 1 (bbc equivalent) scheduling for one hour long documentary.

Another appeared on Sunday morning. That was it. And it was a state funeral which presumably went out live.

A day of ‘mourning’ is nuts - this is the biggest impact the guy has ever had!

To you, maybe.

Clearly Rick has never heard of things like the DoE scheme.....

or maybe it's just more hyerbolic trolling by him.

DeVlaeminck

Sad for the Queen.

When she's gone it'd be a good opportunity to modernise the monarchy - by which I mean replace them with actors so we can still have people conducting functions of a head of state, riding in carriages, travelling abroad and meeting people in traditional dress etc - but we do away with the objectionable hereditary element of it.

That seems to me a win win.

pblakeney

You ain't seen nothing yet.
Wall to wall for a week plus when Queenie shuffles off.