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Pedants' corner

BBC, I am deeply disappointed...

8 replies

sleepychunky · 11/02/2008 11:38

I have never posted here before as I needed something of urgent importance to all fellow pedants. The BBC on Friday night kindly gave me that something.

The Choir programme (sorry, I can't remember its full title but it's about the music teacher in a school trying to get boys to sing) had a particular part in which the boys were trying to encourage their (very unmusical, girls-do-singing-not-boys) PE teacher to join the choir. They had written a song which they sang to him and the BBC kindly provided the subtitles so we could understand what was being sung. Said PE teacher was bald and the song involved the following line (approximately - I can't remember the exact words)

You're so good at sport
You're shiny head glows like a beacon.

And just to clarify, these weren't the subtitles you get when you press 888 on Teletext, but actually part of the programme with the words becoming yellow as the song progressed, rather like karaoke machines.

Is this a valid reason for refusing to pay the licence fee next year?

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LadyOfWaffle · 11/02/2008 11:40

You should boycott the BBC, ban it.

CeylonSapphire · 11/02/2008 11:40

Ooooh - I saw this, but we didn't get subtitles up for that song!

(By the by - great excitement at the weekend when we spotted the choirmaster in Moss Bros in Covent Garden!)

cupsoftea · 11/02/2008 11:41

sounds the same

Tigerschick · 11/02/2008 11:42

Argh! One of my pet hates!
I have got the second half of that programme on tape so will have a look at it later. Tho, know in my luck, I won't be able to see the subtitles properly because the BBC have started putting a lot of their programmes in wide screen and we have a normal tv so we miss about 3cm off either side of the picture!

jura · 11/02/2008 11:42

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Tigerschick · 11/02/2008 11:44

Cupsoftea - it doesn't always sound the same. Maybe I'm odd but I pronounce 'your' and 'you're' differently from eachother.

snowleopard · 11/02/2008 11:44

Cups! Out of pedants' corner with you!

That is just awful sleepychunky. A very stern letter is in order!

However I can't keep up with the bbc with their endless "the girl is three-years-old" disastrous hyphen cluelessness.

cupsoftea · 11/02/2008 11:48

will run for the door!!

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