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Times the BBC has enraged me this month

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rachelhere · 06/11/2025 09:20

  1. Covertly filming those policemen in London. I bet the people who live and work in the charing cross area were delighted that there were suddenly 11 fewer policemen in that station because the bbc had got them all the sack! Thanks bbc! 2. Their brave hard hitting expose of vape shops and dodgy barbers, 10/15 years after everyone else knew about them! 3. Fawning over some div from the prison service this morning defending their rank incompetence over releasing prisoners early. Apparently they need special software to work out 40% of the sentence. They have to do it manually with 'pen and paper', the poor dears! Er, don't you mean a calculator? If you dont know how to use a calculator you could type it into google, 'what is 40% of this amount of time?' Not only that, there's a whole department of people apparently whose sole job is working this out and they still manage to get it wrong, dozens if not hundreds of times a year! Bbc presenters totally on his side as he tried to make out it wasn't their fault!
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TofuEater · 06/11/2025 11:55

rachelhere · 06/11/2025 11:22

What's racist today? Today, criticising the BBC apparently makes you a huge fan of racist abuse! 🤣

You are literally defending racists in the police force. Racists who are paid to protect the whole community, not just white people

rachelhere · 06/11/2025 12:08

LITERALLY doing that 🤣

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bostonchamps · 06/11/2025 13:02

If you're not defending them, what are you doing then?

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 06/11/2025 13:07

You think that the racist misogynistic police officers shouldn't have been filmed so that they could stay in their jobs?

pointythings · 06/11/2025 13:11

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 06/11/2025 13:07

You think that the racist misogynistic police officers shouldn't have been filmed so that they could stay in their jobs?

Yep. Because that's what we need. More bad coppers.

CoffeeCantata · 06/11/2025 15:57

IsMNRoff · 06/11/2025 09:29

sucker for punishment then.

if BBC angers you so terribly, don’t pay for their service

They infuriate me but I want R3 and sometimes R4 and we all need the news and World Service. All the other crap can jump in the lake.

Who else is going to play classical music with the in-depth approach of R3?

rachelhere · 06/11/2025 18:01

Actually CoffeeCantata, you don't need to pay the licence fee for the radio x

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lazyarse123 · 06/11/2025 18:13

randomchap · 06/11/2025 09:38

Maybe if those policemen didn't want to be sacked then they shouldn't have behaved so badly.

Would you prefer them not to do investigative journalism?

Haven't read the full thread yet but I absolutely agree with this.
Who wants "protecting" by misogynistic, racist twats? I'd rather take my chances thanks.
I do take exception to them saying that newsreader was wrong to say pregnant women and not pregnant people. It's a biological fact how can it be wrong.
They do get a lot wrong but occasionally they get it right.

WalkDontWalk · 06/11/2025 18:18

Times @rachelhere has bored me this month….

Instructions · 06/11/2025 18:24

Today with the news that they have upheld a complaint against their newsreader for having the wrong facial expression and using the descriptor pregnant women they have pissed me off quite a lot

WildLimePoet · 06/11/2025 18:26

The BBC is an embarrassment and should be defunded asap.

The calibre of news reporting is low and biased. And the leeches running it are robbing the taxpayer.

Theyreeatingthedogs · 06/11/2025 18:44

rachelhere · 06/11/2025 11:22

What's racist today? Today, criticising the BBC apparently makes you a huge fan of racist abuse! 🤣

Nope! Attacking BBC for exposing RACIST, VIOLENT and MISOGYNISTIC public employees makes you look like a racist.

pointythings · 06/11/2025 19:23

WildLimePoet · 06/11/2025 18:26

The BBC is an embarrassment and should be defunded asap.

The calibre of news reporting is low and biased. And the leeches running it are robbing the taxpayer.

You another big fan of racism and misogyny in our police force then?

WildLimePoet · 07/11/2025 06:32

pointythings · 06/11/2025 19:23

You another big fan of racism and misogyny in our police force then?

Why, are you? It’s ok, don’t worry, who are we to judge.

ThatBlackCat · 07/11/2025 06:44

Isitmeyourecookingfor · 06/11/2025 11:47

No you are beig racist because you think a hate crime isn't a real crime

It depends on the definition of 'hate crime', doesn't it. If calling a male a male is a 'hate crime', then we are all well and truly fucked; and 'hate crime' is meaningless.

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