Author Topic: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG  (Read 162690 times)

clarion

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #225 on: 09 December, 2014, 06:24:49 pm »
Don't tell me the result - I'm reading it later!
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #226 on: 14 December, 2014, 12:51:36 pm »
BONG! Photograph taken of sprog.

clarion

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #227 on: 17 December, 2014, 12:41:38 pm »
This is a few days old, and I have no idea how our ace reporters missed it for so long, but:

BONG!....Woman makes facial expression...BONG!
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #228 on: 17 December, 2014, 01:18:28 pm »
I'd managed to forget all about E! Now you've forced up those suppressed memories of subtitling the pre-Oscars reception red carpet.  :hand: Almost as bad as Girls Next Door (which was on Fox, I think).
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clarion

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #229 on: 17 December, 2014, 02:57:11 pm »
Oh come on!  I spared you the Woman Wears A Dress For A Third Time splash.
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #230 on: 18 December, 2014, 09:34:21 pm »
No, I'd rather have that - even 2nd or 4th time, indeed any nth time - than pretty much anything on E! It by no means had a monopoly on crap, but other channels at least a few things that were not total crap.

Well, I suppose that's not news in itself.

BONG!... A lot of TV is crap... BONG!
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Kim

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #231 on: 26 December, 2014, 08:01:34 pm »

LEE

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #232 on: 18 January, 2015, 04:19:11 pm »
BONG!

People leaving the Big Brother house is not news.

It's doubly not news for the BBC news site.

Possibly Channel 5 may want to mention it but the BBC?  Really?
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #233 on: 18 January, 2015, 04:39:05 pm »
Disproportionate? Let's  start a thread on POBI to discuss.
From where I am the private sector have taken a few hits along the way as well. Stakeholder stock market based  pensions if you're lucky, zero hours contracts if you're not.
Swings and roundabouts really.

Sorry but I fail to see how private sector employers exploiting workers with zero hours contracts and miniscule pensions reduces the deficit.   Such shareholder value is only likely to increase the welfare bill with working tax credits etc and thus increase the deficit.   

clarion

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clarion

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #235 on: 08 February, 2015, 09:41:35 am »
BONG!...Woman gets her hair cut
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clarion

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #236 on: 10 February, 2015, 09:04:50 pm »
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #237 on: 11 February, 2015, 12:14:12 am »
Gah, last week I happened to be awake on Monday morning between five and six, and I was listening to Radio 5.

The news came on, then the sport, and apparently it was the last day of the transfer window. And not much had happened.

Which they must have mentioned about another five times in that hour - FFS. Even when I cared about football, transfers was the dullest part of the whole thing, and anyone who gave a fuck would already know what had happened, so repeatedly reporting that nothing much of interest has happened is just taking the piss, especially when the subject is of no interest anyway.

I should have turned over to Farming Today.

LEE

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #238 on: 18 February, 2015, 05:59:30 pm »
BONG !

BBC News Website-

Name-row horse Brian fails police trial

OK, so take a while to digest that headline.  Try to imagine what the BBC's top investigative journalists were trying to convey in that message.

Give up?

(click to show/hide)

Some of my TV license money went towards that.
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #239 on: 20 February, 2015, 10:26:21 pm »
Mordor Central is horrible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-25906120

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #240 on: 21 February, 2015, 12:42:16 pm »
At least Dulles has a tolerably comfy smoking area right next to a bar.  Hartfield-Jackson in Atlanta has an area for airside snoutcasts, but it resembles a meat freezer in temperature and the visiting area of a maximum-security prison in ambience.
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #241 on: 26 February, 2015, 01:08:16 pm »
Does this count?

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A NAILSWORTH man who threatened to give up his job to go to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) has now decided against it.

Kyle Sessions, 22, told the SNJ that he had spoken to his father and other family members, who felt the trip would be dangerous.

He said he “agreed with them” and had now decided to “cease all my efforts”.

Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #242 on: 26 February, 2015, 01:18:14 pm »
Does this count?

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A NAILSWORTH man who threatened to give up his job to go to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) has now decided against it.

Kyle Sessions, 22, told the SNJ that he had spoken to his father and other family members, who felt the trip would be dangerous.

He said he “agreed with them” and had now decided to “cease all my efforts”.

So the pub bullshit champion has been called out by his own dad.
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #243 on: 26 February, 2015, 01:28:32 pm »
Crikey, I missed that one.
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #244 on: 26 February, 2015, 02:52:04 pm »
I thought Jaded was older than that ;D
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #245 on: 26 February, 2015, 03:14:59 pm »
Crikey, I missed that one.

Don't beat yourself up about it.  I'm a renowned, nay noted, not Nailsworth news know-all.

tiermat

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #246 on: 27 February, 2015, 10:29:39 am »
Bong...The dress is actually Blue and Black*, NOT white and gold, though the manufacturer has said it is going to do a white and gold one...Bong

As you were.

*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/white-and-gold-or-blue-and-black-the-dress-has-confused-the-internet-but-science-has-the-answer-10074228.html
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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #247 on: 27 February, 2015, 10:36:52 am »
Bong...The dress is actually Blue and Black*, NOT white and gold, though the manufacturer has said it is going to do a white and gold one...Bong

As you were.

*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/white-and-gold-or-blue-and-black-the-dress-has-confused-the-internet-but-science-has-the-answer-10074228.html

I rather liked David Duchovny's comment:

Quote from: Special Agent Fox Mulder
The dress is Teal.

Also, any fule can see that it's white and gold.
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Kim

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Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #248 on: 27 February, 2015, 01:13:32 pm »
I'm late to the party on that one.  Got distracted by llamas.  But I've seen various pictures all over the interweb with various white balance tweaks, and can only conclude that the dress is fugly.

While we're at it, who can't see these?  http://www.cs.unm.edu/~aaron/creative/colorTest.htm

Re: BONG ..And Here is the Not News..BONG
« Reply #249 on: 27 February, 2015, 01:42:41 pm »
Bong...The dress is actually Blue and Black*, NOT white and gold, though the manufacturer has said it is going to do a white and gold one...Bong

As you were.

*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/white-and-gold-or-blue-and-black-the-dress-has-confused-the-internet-but-science-has-the-answer-10074228.html

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