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Old 04-02-2016, 00:07   #31
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We've come a long way from Holme Moss, when the most exciting show was the train doing London to Brighton in four minutes ... musical interludes were cool, too ... and the test card.
BBC4* just had 2 hour Christmas Special. A two hour reindeer pulled sleigh ride across the frozen wilderness of the Arctic. If I could spell soporific that's how I would describe it.

* That's me in trouble again, another bloody acronym!
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Old 04-02-2016, 00:51   #32
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Aye Eric them wurt days, we couldn't ged owt by aerial, ours was by wire from radio rentals, an a bloke was supposed to monitor it from a shed up on Rileys Hill, trouble were, the sod would switch id of tu get a last pint at Woodnook, when they put the relay station up in Haslingden we could get a picture from there, went to Relay and towd em to take their brackets and wires off our house, they refused, so got the ladder owt an a crowbar an ripped the lot of and chucked intut middle o road, then rang them and towd em to shift it. All the neighbours had tuned into Haslingden so we didn't need them any more.
My grandad ... the one who served in the East Lancs; I think I sent his pic ... bought a TV for my gran who was dying of cancer, in her own home of course. She really wanted to see TV. Unfortunately she died a week before Holme Moss started transmitting.

Our living room was packed for the '53 FA Cup final. Still can't figure why it's called the "Matthews Final" when Stan Mortensen had a hat trick.

Funny how nostalgia creeps up on one, now and again.
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Old 04-02-2016, 00:54   #33
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How strange I've just been watching the crusades & then shipwreck for two hours on the same channel not a reindeer in sight.
Or is, 2 hour Christmas Special, code for something wacky?
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Old 04-02-2016, 08:04   #34
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* That's me in trouble again, another bloody acronym!
Oh for goodness sake.
Get over yourself. There are some acronyms that cannot be confused with anything else......when did you last see British Broadcasting Company 4 written out in full?
You would have to be from another planet not to know what this acronym meant.
It is those acronyms that could have multiple(and sometimes unsavoury) meanings which are unacceptable.
You know this, but you have had a couple of posts deleted(nothing to do with me,by the way)and now keep harping on the fact by pointing out you have used an acronym.
How very juvenile.
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Old 04-02-2016, 08:47   #35
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It is those acronyms that could have multiple(and sometimes unsavoury) meanings which are unacceptable.
You know this, but you have had a couple of posts deleted(nothing to do with me,by the way)and now keep harping on the fact by pointing out you have used an acronym.
How very juvenile.
Aging is inevitable, maturity a choice Margaret.
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Old 04-02-2016, 09:19   #36
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You would have to be from another planet not to know what this acronym meant.
It is those acronyms that could have multiple(and sometimes unsavoury) meanings which are unacceptable.
Well world wide web.Black Asian Babes.za have an entirely different meaning for BBC Margaret.
Oops the world has gone full circle, we are back to sticking keyboards.
ewww!

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Old 04-02-2016, 10:35   #37
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Aging is inevitable, maturity a choice Margaret.
So your choice is obvious then(as demonstrated by the 'sticking keyboard' comment)
As for the last post, it is of little relevance to those who frequent THIS forum, what BBC means to them. It does not affect them.
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Old 04-02-2016, 12:54   #38
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Well done taken you less than 24 hours to get back to the dthep I've grown to loath, whatever your reason for putting yourself in a position of idiocy by forcing your acronyms upon us, I hope you get what you deserve.
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Old 04-02-2016, 14:40   #39
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It is those acronyms that could have multiple(and sometimes unsavoury) meanings which are unacceptable.
Does that mean that we can no longer refer to the FA Cup?
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Old 04-02-2016, 16:02   #40
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Eric, I think you could ask Mick that one.
For me The FA bit denotes Football Association, but for it others it may mean something entirely different. I think that if you used FA without following this with 'cup' then you would get censured, but this acronym is in common usage and most people(you included) know exactly what this means....There is no ambiguity. The problems arise when other meanings are ascribed to acronyms..... Especially those that can be seen to be rude, lewd or otherwise derogatory and insulting.
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Old 04-02-2016, 16:18   #41
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Eric, I think you could ask Mick that one.
For me The FA bit denotes Football Association, but for it others it may mean something entirely different. I think that if you used FA without following this with 'cup' then you would get censured, but this acronym is in common usage and most people(you included) know exactly what this means....There is no ambiguity. The problems arise when other meanings are ascribed to acronyms..... Especially those that can be seen to be rude, lewd or otherwise derogatory and insulting.
You mean that if I say "the FA Cup is no longer what it used to be; it is now FA" I risk censure.
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Old 04-02-2016, 17:43   #42
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possibly, unless you clarified the FA bit as being flipping awful.
But I reckon you are being a bit pedantic.
The rules are there to be interpreted by the moderators, not by me.....we are expected to accept the decision of the moderator, we are not supposed to question the decisions made by the moderator......in the main the moderators only intervene when they have to.
I think that they believe we can( to some degree) self moderate.
Life is full of rules.
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Better to be half right than two thirds wrong, eh Ding?
Noted then disregarded, if you're happy with that then jog on. Oh, and don't forget your shovel either.

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Old 04-02-2016, 19:52   #44
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Anyway, even if the FA cup is televised, the licence fee is still daylight robbery(just to get back on thread).
If Auntie Beeb can't make a do then she should stop sending these so called celebs to India to see what retirement is like there.......and she definitely should not be paying to bring these folk back.
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Old 04-02-2016, 20:06   #45
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Noted then disregarded, if you're happy with that then jog on. Oh, and don't forget your shovel either.

Great smilie/emoticon Ding, I assume it's you excavating your nasal cavity and beyond, explains a lot.
Just remember what Ignatz Semmelweis's studies teach us.
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