Comments on: Goodbye to Blair http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13124 raincoaster Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:58:50 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13124 I don't understand why they're making such a ridiculous fuss over digital/analog tv in the first place. This should really only be an issue for the people who make their living delivering the TV to the viewers. It shouldn't matter to anyone in the real world what method the video takes to get to your screens. This is a bullshit issue, frankly. I'm old enough to remember the expression "Pay tv" and we all laughed, thinking nobody would EVER pay for television. Then they told us it wouldn't have commercials, and we laughed again because we knew they were lying. Fortunately, there are some mavericks out there with aerials, and at least the CBC will never abandon it. We've got too damn much land to lay cable everywhere! I don’t understand why they’re making such a ridiculous fuss over digital/analog tv in the first place. This should really only be an issue for the people who make their living delivering the TV to the viewers. It shouldn’t matter to anyone in the real world what method the video takes to get to your screens. This is a bullshit issue, frankly.

I’m old enough to remember the expression “Pay tv” and we all laughed, thinking nobody would EVER pay for television. Then they told us it wouldn’t have commercials, and we laughed again because we knew they were lying.

Fortunately, there are some mavericks out there with aerials, and at least the CBC will never abandon it. We’ve got too damn much land to lay cable everywhere!

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]]> By: Steven_L http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13123 Steven_L Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:45:23 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13123 'Why is it that people tend to assume, because one has gained fame, that one is an expert on anything one cares to comment on?' (raincoaster) It's all part of the 'dumbing down Britain' process that the media and government seem to have embarked on. I mean, has anyone seen the God-awful premium rate quiz show on ITV that comes on in the small hours for a start? Come on, we're not that stupid yet, are we? Then there was the other week I watched a film on ITV2. Afterwards they announced that 'I would be pleased to know' they were going to repeat it the next night? Come on for God's sake! I might not be Oxbridge material but I can get the gist of a Hannibal Lecter film in one sitting. Why the hell would I be pleased to know the are putting the same damn movie on 2 nights running? I don't know what they are playing at to be honest raincoaster. Perhaps they thought they were losing too much market share of thick-headed people to Murdochs channels. Maybe advertisers pay more for commercials during programs that are guaranteed to be watched by gullible morons. Maybe the ads people have a system of calculating the 'value per head' something like: Number of viewers/average IQ of viewer x number of viewers = slot's value ratio No, I think the main reason is they want everyone to switch to digital TV, and the media are so hooked on conning us all the time it's theonly way they can think of to achieve it. They want to bore us to death with terrestrial TV, whilst constantly trying to persuade us that digital has dozens of channels that all have better programs on, they use selective trailers to do this. Once you get digital TV of course you find that is not the case. It's umpteen channels of low budget bollocks like 'Peaches Geldof goes to bloody Morocco to climb a mountain and discover Islam', 'reality' TV, premium rate quiz shows aimed at the mentally challenged, repeats of old sitcoms, even repeats of old current affairs programs and the same damn movie every night for a week. ‘Why is it that people tend to assume, because one has gained fame, that one is an expert on anything one cares to comment on?’ (raincoaster)

It’s all part of the ‘dumbing down Britain’ process that the media and government seem to have embarked on.

I mean, has anyone seen the God-awful premium rate quiz show on ITV that comes on in the small hours for a start? Come on, we’re not that stupid yet, are we?

Then there was the other week I watched a film on ITV2. Afterwards they announced that ‘I would be pleased to know’ they were going to repeat it the next night? Come on for God’s sake! I might not be Oxbridge material but I can get the gist of a Hannibal Lecter film in one sitting. Why the hell would I be pleased to know the are putting the same damn movie on 2 nights running?

I don’t know what they are playing at to be honest raincoaster. Perhaps they thought they were losing too much market share of thick-headed people to Murdochs channels. Maybe advertisers pay more for commercials during programs that are guaranteed to be watched by gullible morons. Maybe the ads people have a system of calculating the ‘value per head’ something like:

Number of viewers/average IQ of viewer x number of viewers = slot’s value ratio

No, I think the main reason is they want everyone to switch to digital TV, and the media are so hooked on conning us all the time it’s theonly way they can think of to achieve it. They want to bore us to death with terrestrial TV, whilst constantly trying to persuade us that digital has dozens of channels that all have better programs on, they use selective trailers to do this.

Once you get digital TV of course you find that is not the case. It’s umpteen channels of low budget bollocks like ‘Peaches Geldof goes to bloody Morocco to climb a mountain and discover Islam’, ‘reality’ TV, premium rate quiz shows aimed at the mentally challenged, repeats of old sitcoms, even repeats of old current affairs programs and the same damn movie every night for a week.

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]]> By: Saltation http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13122 Saltation Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:02:38 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13122 NOT A REAL COMMENT: i posted in response to a journalist's response to boris's response to people's response to a couple of words in this post. (wheee.) clearly this is world-shaking and someone just reminded me i should have put in a trackback. oops. and now i can't see any way to do it other than by a comment. so: hi. i referenced this and Boris's follow-up reply: <i>>'I meant no insult to the people of Papua New Guinea who I'm sure lead lives of blameless bourgeois domesticity in common with the rest of us.'</i> , in this post: <a href="http://go-blog-go.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_go-blog-go_archive.html#115835427470470410" rel="nofollow">It's fascinating to watch [journalists'] Needs create Errors</a> <i>>... Boris was (a) genuinely pointing out he'd been typing about something QUITE different and had not intended to insult PNGians by referring to a less-than-PC aspect of their history , and (b) very elegantly ripping the living shit out of the wittering parasites who live those lives of (shoutingly displayed) "blameless bourgeois domesticity" which are overwhelmingly the lives of those pseudo-leftwing webels struggling for attention and status in the meeja who had seized upon him as the subject du jour.</i> Go Boris, go! NOT A REAL COMMENT:
i posted in response to a journalist’s response to boris’s response to people’s response to a couple of words in this post. (wheee.)
clearly this is world-shaking and someone just reminded me i should have put in a trackback. oops. and now i can’t see any way to do it other than by a comment.
so: hi. i referenced this and Boris’s follow-up reply:
>’I meant no insult to the people of Papua New Guinea who I’m sure lead lives of blameless bourgeois domesticity in common with the rest of us.’

, in this post:

It’s fascinating to watch [journalists'] Needs create Errors

>… Boris was
(a)
genuinely pointing out he’d been typing about something QUITE different and had not intended to insult PNGians by referring to a less-than-PC aspect of their history
, and
(b)
very elegantly ripping the living shit out of the wittering parasites who live those lives of (shoutingly displayed) “blameless bourgeois domesticity” which are overwhelmingly the lives of those pseudo-leftwing webels struggling for attention and status in the meeja who had seized upon him as the subject du jour.

Go Boris, go!

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13121 jaq Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:53:12 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13121 Oh dear there's a slip I won't live down in a hurry, I meant ''literary skills' Oh dear there’s a slip I won’t live down in a hurry, I meant ”literary skills’

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13120 jaq Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:50:39 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13120 Oh yes, so true raincoaster. For some reason Peaches Geldof springs to mind (and I've been reliably informed that Celia Walden should too - mind you I reckon Celia could get a column in any mans times). I wonder how both would get on if 4' tall with a face like a dogs backside?! For some strange reason I don't think their 'lirerary skills' would be appreciated. The transition from grubby gin-soaked hack to automatic celbrity status intrigues me. Like they're the demi-Gods of social knowledge. Vintners knowledge more like :-\ Oh yes, so true raincoaster. For some reason Peaches Geldof springs to mind (and I’ve been reliably informed that Celia Walden should too – mind you I reckon Celia could get a column in any mans times). I wonder how both would get on if 4′ tall with a face like a dogs backside?! For some strange reason I don’t think their ‘lirerary skills’ would be appreciated.

The transition from grubby gin-soaked hack to automatic celbrity status intrigues me. Like they’re the demi-Gods of social knowledge. Vintners knowledge more like :-\

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]]> By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13119 raincoaster Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:15:52 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13119 Why is it that people tend to assume, because one has gained fame, that one is an expert on anything one cares to comment on? I mean, even in the US Britney Spears is understood to be nothing more than an occasionally hot pop tart. In the UK she'd have a book deal and a column in the bloody Times. Why is it that people tend to assume, because one has gained fame, that one is an expert on anything one cares to comment on? I mean, even in the US Britney Spears is understood to be nothing more than an occasionally hot pop tart. In the UK she’d have a book deal and a column in the bloody Times.

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13118 jaq Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:57:20 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13118 HIGNFY Boris episodes are now online: Part 1 of his first appearance on HIGNFY <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2s6q5VUEo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2s6q5VUEo</a> Just type Boris Johnson into the search engine on youtube to get all the other parts. HIGNFY Boris episodes are now online:

Part 1 of his first appearance on HIGNFY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2s6q5VUEo

Just type Boris Johnson into the search engine on youtube to get all the other parts.

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13117 jaq Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:18:17 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13117 Yeah Steven, another woman who blames societies ills on single mothers - like we CHOSE to be on our own - I wonder how often SHE bakes?? I see the Pope regrets any upset but won't back down. Very diplomatic I thought. Yeah Steven, another woman who blames societies ills on single mothers – like we CHOSE to be on our own – I wonder how often SHE bakes??

I see the Pope regrets any upset but won’t back down. Very diplomatic I thought.

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]]> By: Steven_L http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13116 Steven_L Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:23:04 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13116 'Melanie Philips really gets my goat she really does, pompous stupid mare.' (Jaq) I bought her 'Londonistan' book, I was in London at the time and it freaked me out. By chapter 4 the Israel / Lebanon thing had kicked off and I stopped reading. It ended up getting lost. So from what you're saying she doesn't like single mothers huh? I know she sure as hell don't like Muslims and that's coming from an Islamosceptic like me. ‘Melanie Philips really gets my goat she really does, pompous stupid mare.’ (Jaq)

I bought her ‘Londonistan’ book, I was in London at the time and it freaked me out. By chapter 4 the Israel / Lebanon thing had kicked off and I stopped reading. It ended up getting lost.

So from what you’re saying she doesn’t like single mothers huh? I know she sure as hell don’t like Muslims and that’s coming from an Islamosceptic like me.

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/09/07/goodbye-to-blair/comment-page-5/#comment-13115 jaq Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:37:20 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=293#comment-13115 And why is it assumed that having a man around ensures an adult presence?? OK i'll shush now :-/ And why is it assumed that having a man around ensures an adult presence??

OK i’ll shush now :-/

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