Be Excellent To Each Other

You don't read the website then?

Oh, very much this. The BBC is one of our finest cultural institutions, and respected worldwide. Flawed, yes, as most things are, but without it I think we would much poorer culturally. I don't listen to R1 or 1 Xtra, or watch BBC3, for example, but glad they exist. Its existence also encourages ITV, Sky et al to up their game.

And a world media completely dominated by either corporations or channels backed by authoritarian administrations is a horrible thought.

This website? Whuh?

BBC website.

Oh - not really. No-where near often enough to miss it if it were gone.

And much of the output of Radio 4. I'd pay the licence fee just for the radio, personally - which isn't going to happen, but the sheer breadth of output it covers is astonishing.

Wolf Hall was good, but I don't think anywhere near as well written or directed as Orange Is The New Black, House Of Cards, etc.

The BBC period dramas Excel at the beautiful sets, costumes and sturdy story lines, but don't match for pure drama. The end of the final episode was awesome, but it was one moment that stood out in the whole six episodes.

Also, lest we forget 'Cremwhale'. Gngh.

The best bit of that is "By Chris Young, T&A reporter"

Had a root canal a few months back, which i'm sure I mentioned. I had 5 canals, which is extremely unusual and it took ages to do.
Been having issues recently with pain in that area, and they were sure it was the tooth next to it as it couldn't be the tooth that had the nerves removed. After various second opinions and replacing an old filling on the tooth next door they gave up and opened up the root canal tooth again.
Turns out it had 6 canals, which is supposedly impossible!

Hopefully it's all sorted now...

It is chucklesome to see people commenting on the bbc news website on the license fee story to say that they shouldn't pay the fee as they never watch bbc, without a hint of irony.

I'm against having a household levy. The license fee isn't a tax, technically, but if it were a levy it would be the only hypothecated tax/spend that we have which isn't a good step in my view. Its also regressive. They should fix a net income budget and collect it through general taxation, as a council tax supplement (varied by banding) to give at least some element of variation to means to pay.

And also because tax efficiency consultants can't find a way around a flat levy *whistles innocently*

I thought it was, to allow it to be a criminal offence not to pay it?

The BBC Charter Review thinks so, too:

I cant help you avoid council tax either.

Anyway, hypothecated taxes are the most unpaid because people refuse to pay x for service y as they don't want service y. There's a reason we don't pay a Trident Levy.

I'm fairly sure that means its like a tax, but not actually a tax.

Fair enough. I figure you'd know

That is pretty spectacular.

Although, having read this properly, it appears the eternal flames signify the Hillsborough disaster, and have been replaced with coffee cups. It's still an overreaction, but I was struggling to see the relation to Hillsborough before and just thought Liverpool fans were being thin-skinned humourless fucks.

Guilt, innit?

Leonard Nimoy has died

Just what I need to lighten my mood at the end of a shitty week.

Sheldon needs to make progress on his clone.

I'm still just convinced that there are a mere handful of Liverpudlians who react to any slight, perceived or actual, Hillsborough or general Liverpool with incandescent frothing rage, where as 99.9% of people who either don't notice it or do notice and think 'twats' and get on with their lives.

Its a noisy handful though.

Also, reading the link (as you said, you read it properly and I didn't recall it) it has been changed. No reference to the eternal flame last night when I read it. Seems the BBC didn't even realise the connection when they posted the first report.

I... Oh my.

Hahaha!

One for TheVision

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2 ... level-257/

Pac man themed restaurant / bowling ally / arcade

That looks awesome!

That looks like my dreams.

Remember Pimp My Sandwich, I mean, Ride? Huff Post wrote about some of the cars and what happened before, during and after the show. I'm not surprised in the slightest that some of it is TV smoke and mirrors and despite the negative tone of the piece it sounds like the people whose rides were pimped had a unique story to tell and probably wouldn't change it for the world.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6663840

There's a link in the story anyway, but here's a link to one of the Reddit AMA that one previous Pimp My Ride 'contestant' did which is pretty cool: http://www.reddit.com/comments/13lx09/a ... _ride_ama/

It all sounds to me as though it was

A child car seat that rotates a quarter turn is the shit! How much of a difference it makes!

Huh. It is raining at the front of the house and snowing at the rear

Pimped Your Ride!

The Shadow Line. Absolutely brilliant.

Drove through a blizzard to get in this morning. Stupid snow

That was quite a while back, though.

Brain scan day tomorrow.

Here's hoping they find one!

will your forehead fit in the machine? (old school!!) (Good luck!)

All the evidence points to the contrary, but I wish them all the luck in the world.

Maybe I can convince them to use an electron microscope.

I thought your urologist was still using it.

They would have to section, freeze and vacuumate your head, then.

Ugh. Not again.

Why do I never hear about these things until it's too late? And why don't I get invited to the pub afterwards?


Source.

I hope he's talking about dinosaurs.

Go on stage and tell him that Beyoncé should have given the talk.

She has some pretty interesting opinions on ichthyosaurs, apparently.

How do you wake up Jesse J?

Poke her face

Am I missing the joke? Isn't that Lady Gaga?