Trav Le Bleu

I think that what a lot of people are missing is this... The BBC isn't just a couple of channels of TV, it's... 10 TV channels, including the only Scottish Gaelic channel. 10 National radio stations, free to air without stopping every few minutes for commercials trying to make you feel inferior. BBC World Service - an international station, highly regard worldwide (probably less so now). 40 local radio stations in England, including the Channel Islands, providing information about local events, news and sport and championing the local community. Again, no adverts. 2 radio channels each in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, one in English, one in the native Gaelic of the region. Extensive online facilities, including things such a Bitesize, weather reports, and cooking recipes. What could replace that? Commercialisation would result in lowest common denomination TV and radio.

They put a fur hat on his head and a Spartak Moscow shirt on his torso whilst drinking from a bottle of Smirnoff at a Tchaikovsky symphony concert?

State TV (shudders)

So what's to stop someone like Kim Jung-un suing the Beeb?

Surprised! by Henri Rousseau. This was on display in New Walk Museum several years ago. You can't see it from this image, but the brush work gives the picture real energy and it looks wet, like it's genuinely a window and on the other side it's raining. A great painting actually owned by Leicester Museums is this The Foolish Virgins; too late ye cannot enter now, by Frank Bernard Dicksee. Based on Jesus' parable of the ten virgins, these are the five who didn't prepare ahead, had to go back for oil in their lamps and so missed out. I just love the depth of darkness. You can only clearly see in detail one figure as the furthest virgins are swallowed into the night, thereby showing the necessity of keeping their lamps alight.

So essentially a story like this hasn't made national headlines? Though I imagine @spacemunky is too busy weeping over County match highlights and @Jattdogg, well, we don't want to know...

No. Like Greville Janner, Jeffrey Archer, Edwina Currie, John Profumo.

Indeed. You see lazy journalism all the time, where journalists plagiarise and mash together unchecked sources.

So... If you're sued by a court judgement in a foreign country, how is that enforced? Is it enforceable? If it was, surely any corrupt country (sic) could sue an organisation in another country that would destabilise it. Could the BBC just not recognise the litigation?

Tim Davie is a conservative is probably why.

He wants to sue everyone for $1bn. While he has a point (I hate saying that), the problem with it is proving deliberate manipulation of the truth (which could be laid at the door of the third party production company), rather than the BBC being lax in their fact checking, having found something presented to them which fit their narrative or, indeed, seemed entirely believable. (When we saw this at first, did we go, "wait a minute! Trump would NEVER say something like that!"?) Another thing the BBC could do is threaten to counter-sue for the times Trump has claimed the BBC were lying when they (probably ) weren't.

Story from Canada Man gets life in prison for 'monstrous' killing of Sri Lankan family - BBC News https://share.google/jaeHsrvPrO2FNtzae Has there been much coverage of this over there @Jattdogg @spacemunky?

Naming NFL stadium for Trump would be 'beautiful', White House says - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dr8g0r742o.amp Is this why he was being booed? Could you imagine a British Prime Minister suggesting a football stadium being named after them? Of course, this is from BBC News, so might not actually be true .

So it was you advocating murder at Carrow Rd?

Trump = Big Boss?

Don't like the guy, but for context, he's swearing in other people. Like someone presiding over a marriage, not expected to say their own name, it's a "repeat after me" thing. Wonder if there might be a job for me at the BBC?

Descartes: I think, therefore I am. Modern day Jo: I believe, therefore I am right. Credo, ergo recte sum.

Nah, that's Fleet Foxes playing at Fleetwood Town

Do our supporters hate the Arts and Crafts Movement that much?!

Dang!

That's hilarious Reminds me of the line at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. "We have top men working on it right now." "Who?" "Top... men!"

Carbis Bay?

TBF, I've done this, assuming it actually went through the letterbox. You pressed the wrong button - the PDA just didn't work - you just plain forgot it needed a photo (not always a requirement) - or, my favourite, the PDA tells you no photo required, you put it through the letterbox box, press enter... and it goes to the camera screen

We all remember his worldies, but I was interested to see how many of those goals were inside or around the six yard box. He was up with the attack, something I've not seen from our central midfielders for a while ( not consistently).

Callum Davidson, Trevor Benjamin, Peter Canero were just some of the names I saw.