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Sion posted:I hate getting out of work when it's dark can I blame the tories for that too? They are actually working on making this worse right now with the proposed move to permanent GMT+1 time.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 02:20 |
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Tempo 119 posted:They are actually working on making this worse right now with the proposed move to permanent GMT+1 time. Please tell me that you're not being serious.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 02:52 |
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Daius posted:Please tell me that you're not being serious. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15490249
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 02:54 |
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Oh whoops, I didn't even have it the right way round! It's for darker mornings, not evenings. Blame the tories for sinking the typical level of British political discourse below fact checking.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 03:18 |
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I've got a Humax Freesat HD digibox thingy wotsit and have recently connected it to the internet with an ethernet cable. iPlayer on a big 50" screen is a wonderful invention even if the UI is a bit poo poo.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 09:54 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:4oD isn't working; drat you internet If you're using one of those pre-made HOSTS files for blocking ads and that, take out the realmedia.channel4.com entry. Trin Tragula posted:Why do people have to keep loving about with things that work? Why can't they just leave well alone? The bit of the iPlayer redesign that's really annoyed me is that they've got rid of the "big but not full screen" window size. Whose clever idea was that?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 13:37 |
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This looks like it could be very interestingquote:BBC to open vast radio archive online
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 13:39 |
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If this lets me get back all the one-off stuff that used to be available on Listen Again that disappeared when iplayer turned up, I shall be very happy indeed.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:06 |
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Flatscan posted:It's not that I'm against this course of action in the slightest, but is there a particular reason why? General misunderstanding of how the people and the economy works; A forced push for austerity, that's at best stagnating the economy and at worst driving us back into recession whilst fooling the population with spin and buzzwords and outright misinformation; Lying in bed with News International who are hell bent on destroying the BBC (forgotten sky already have we?). Take your pick.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:08 |
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Kerbtree posted:If this lets me get back all the one-off stuff that used to be available on Listen Again that disappeared when iplayer turned up, I shall be very happy indeed. I hope it includes all the Adam and Joe and Collins and Herring podcasts as well.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:14 |
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Kin posted:General misunderstanding of how the people and the economy works; A forced push for austerity, that's at best stagnating the economy and at worst driving us back into recession whilst fooling the population with spin and buzzwords and outright misinformation; Lying in bed with News International who are hell bent on destroying the BBC (forgotten sky already have we?). Take your pick. Yes, but how does any of that have anything to do with the recent iPlayer redesign?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:36 |
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Flatscan posted:Yes, but how does any of that have anything to do with the recent iPlayer redesign? The Tories made iPlayer poo poo because David Cameron himself designed it specifically so us, the poor, can't watch what we want without getting pissed off because it doesn't work very well. I don't know.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:57 |
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lol if you need a reason to blame the tories for anything, ever.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 15:36 |
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Flatscan posted:Yes, but how does any of that have anything to do with the recent iPlayer redesign? The BBC couldn't afford a good designer.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 15:48 |
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I remember reading some really interesting blog posts by the guy who redesigned the iPlayer last time round and came in with the thought 'No-one wants to have to use a desktop application for this poo poo'. He seemed pretty insightful.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 16:23 |
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Kin posted:The BBC couldn't afford a good designer. This is true because the new and upcoming BBC website is abysmal and a mess. Even though the current chamfered boxes look isn't amazing, it's much easier to read and for your eyes to sort than the new, Windows 8 inspired web design.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 17:15 |
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Kin posted:The BBC couldn't afford a good designer. Anyone else, Kin, and I'd think they were joking.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 17:23 |
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thehustler posted:Also we had to change all our radio mics at work too. Which was annoying. I felt really bad for a soundman I worked with because he'd bought a load of second hand radio packs only to be told by Ofcom that he couldn't use them for much longer, and he'd missed the rebate window to get some money back for his license. Which is pretty poo poo really (we still used them don't tell the government )
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 18:39 |
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Brown Moses posted:This looks like it could be very interesting I hope this means that at some point I'll be able to listen to BBC radio shows offline. It's annoying I can't download them to the iPlayer like shows.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 18:51 |
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Brown Moses posted:Audiopedia stuff If this means they'll put all of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue online then I will be ecstatic.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:23 |
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Just watched the Making of Lifes too Short and Im so excited for this. Warrick Davies is so happy to make fun of himself.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:37 |
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God I'm sick of the Marks and Sparks Xmas ads already. Who the gently caress are these people?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:44 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:God I'm sick of the Marks and Sparks Xmas ads already. Who the gently caress are these people? A friend of mine put it on Facebook yesterday, I cannot understand how anyone thought it was a good idea.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:47 |
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My local Co-Op has loads of signs hanging from the ceiling with 'Christmas is here', and tons of Christmas offers. What sane person would buy an advent calendar and mince pies on 1st November?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:49 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:My local Co-Op has loads of signs hanging from the ceiling with 'Christmas is here', and tons of Christmas offers. What sane person would buy an advent calendar and mince pies on 1st November? I'd buy mince pies because I loving love mince pies Dunno about the calendars though.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:56 |
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Well in fairness, they'll want to sell the advent calendars in the next 3 weeks or so.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:56 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Well in fairness, they'll want to sell the advent calendars in the next 3 weeks or so. Yeah, but Tesco have had the advent calendars out since the first week of September.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:58 |
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My local co-op have had the mince pies out for at least a month, same with the snowman chocolates.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:02 |
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Brainwrong posted:I've got a Humax Freesat HD digibox thingy wotsit and have recently connected it to the internet with an ethernet cable. Pablo Bluth posted:My local Co-Op has loads of signs hanging from the ceiling with 'Christmas is here', and tons of Christmas offers. What sane person would buy an advent calendar and mince pies on 1st November?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:02 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Well in fairness, they'll want to sell the advent calendars in the next 3 weeks or so. Mostly to me. My family had a weird weakness for advent calendar chocolate. Bars of the stuff can sit in the house for weeks, but put a wee scrap of cheap chocolate behind a cardboard door and we'd knock down our granny to get to it first. I still hate all this early Christmas stuff though. Especially that godawful M&S advert.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:05 |
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The National Trust gets Christmas cards out in their shops in June/July. And a little bit of me dies every day I turn up to work and see them on the shelf. Luckily there's a few months between us closing and Christmas actually taking place for my anti-festive humbug to subside.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:24 |
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goatface posted:My local co-op have had the mince pies out for at least a month, same with the snowman chocolates. The Co-op mince pies are pretty good though. Mind you my position on mince pies is very much like that of Phil Mitchell and crack.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:47 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:God I'm sick of the Marks and Sparks Xmas ads already. Who the gently caress are these people? I'm glad that someone else has no idea who any of the people in the ad are. Also two of them have a strangely messed-up way of pronouncing "star" and it gets to me every time.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 21:58 |
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My birthday is in the middle of November, and the long standing tradition is that nobody gives a poo poo about Christmas until after that. I propose we roll that system out nationwide. Nobody give a poo poo about Christmas until next Friday at the earliest. Aw hell, I just remembered we have the singing Iceland adverts to look forward to.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 22:31 |
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As long as DJ Santa stays away from the Wheels of Steel this year I think I'll cope, just about.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 22:33 |
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The best bit of christmas is the seasonal BBC1/BBC2 program introduction video things (can't think what the proper name is) with all the kids in reindeer costumes and whatever
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 22:34 |
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I bought a chocolate Santa to cheer my flatmate up in September from Lidl.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 22:49 |
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Dr Snofeld posted:My birthday is in the middle of November, and the long standing tradition is that nobody gives a poo poo about Christmas until after that. I propose we roll that system out nationwide. Nobody give a poo poo about Christmas until next Friday at the earliest. All about December 1st, or as I like to call it day 1 in my "christmas movie thon". Traditionally it is Earnest Saves Christmas.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 23:15 |
Mine is the 28th. So I depressingly age at the end of every year pretty much.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 23:19 |
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josh04 posted:I remember reading some really interesting blog posts by the guy who redesigned the iPlayer last time round and came in with the thought 'No-one wants to have to use a desktop application for this poo poo'. He seemed pretty insightful. The technology blogs can be really interesting, it's just infuriating the way they post incredibly smug nonsense as if they were the first people to come up with the concept of an iPad app or whatever. Brainwrong posted:iPlayer on a big 50" screen is a wonderful invention even if the UI is a bit poo poo.
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