Comments on: Crying

By: Far-Q

Far-Q — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:32:04 +0000

“I’d have more respect for the protesters if they campaigned on something important, like the high rates of council tax”

The human race is doomed.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:07:28 +0000

Goddamn it, making us slightly aware of the famine and deprevation in other countries - evil BBC! We want lovely news of our boys shootin’ the buggers, or at least something about the famine and deprevation being the bloody fault of the Third World! It’s nothing to do with us!

Etc. etc., ad nauseum.

This kind of reminds me of a tax bore who criticised an anti-arms demo in Brighton that ended with a minor skirmish with police. Upon hearing that the arms company owners were unconcerned that their weapons were being used in an illegal war and were killing civilians, she said “I’d have more respect for the protestors if they campaigned on something important, like the high rates of council tax”.

== sigh ==

By: James not from Sussex

James not from Sussex — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:42:30 +0000

Annoyed that metric measurements are used rather than Imperial. “People do not understand when the BBC uses metric measurements, so why does it continue to be used? If the temperature is said to be 27, what is that?”

I predict his widow will be making a complaint to the local NHS trust that the doctor described his cause of death as Cardiac Arrest rather than a Proper British Heart Attack.

By: Far-Q

Far-Q — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:18:54 +0000

@Cat
Beat me to it. Damn.

By: Far-Q

Far-Q — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:16:29 +0000

“People do not understand when the BBC uses metric measurements, so why does it continue to be used? If the temperature is said to be 27, what is that?”

1) I understand when the BBC uses Metric, because I’m not an imbecile.
2a) If you can’t tell the difference between 27C and 27F then you’re an eediot of the highest levels.
2b) If you can’t tell the difference between either of those and 27K you’re probably dead.

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:08:40 +0000

People don’t understand when the temperature is said to be twenty-seven?

No, I bet it’s just that one commenter. Hopefully s/he will dress for sub-zero temperatures while the rest of us are in shorts and T-shirts, and collapse from overheating, shaking an angry fist at the sky and muttering “bloody BBC and their facsist-EU metric measurements!”

By: Em

Em — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:36:19 +0000

::seconds Phil::

I don’t know anyone who actually cried, but plenty who were disappointed.

::wonders if firefox is ‘beardy’ or ‘corporate arsekisser’, these days::

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:34:52 +0000

I don’t understand. Why do you even need to use tab? What’s wrong with

just using the space bar or
pressing en
ter?

By: Mr Cat

Mr Cat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:31:15 +0000

BBC COMPLAINTS THREADS (RETIRED COLONELS)
Felt that there is insufficient time given to this SYB subject. “I was crying with laughter at the end of the final quote I was so disappointed that there were not more.”

On the tabbing front - its not fixed. When you have two threads with comments boxes open and use the tab key it tabs to the first line in the next box and not to the next line in the current box (does that make sense).

Its only annoying because it reminds us of how stupid we are.

By: arsebanana

arsebanana — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:31:10 +0000

I would like to complain about the programme I have just watched on ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com. Some of the boxes were in a shade of grey that is like the other boxes on my set so I get confused about which ones to jab at with my clicker in my increasingly desperate search for animal porn.
PS its a digital Gucci suitcase with several gigabytes of something and it quietly whispers “give Steve Jobs all your money, you ponce”. Tabbing works fine now thanks.