“And some people even put their purses inside the toilets. So, it’s hilarious.”

Oh yes. Laughing my socks off I am.

Wasn’t there something like this on Eurotrash a while ago? Its not unique…

Some of the more antagonistic comments are probably from the sort of people who thought that Springsteens Born In The USA was a patriotic sing-a-long anthem…

snafu, just in case you hadn’t noticed, you can get those any day of the year 🙂

Maybe you can, but never noticed until the kids spotted them and they seemed to be (probably) better than other options health-wise (can’t stand them myself). We cycled there, fyi.

Brandy will be fine, Jim!
(It kept Nelson from decomposing al those years ago).

I bet Linc’s brandy has less body, though…;o)

At least 2 powered a/c manufacturers produced a training glider by removing the engine and replacing it with self loading ballast 😀 (Aeronca and Piper)

Just training gliders…?

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The Douglas XCG-17, a converted DC3.

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The Chase XCG-20 which went on to become the Fairchild C-123 Provider.

The earliest Seafires were Spitfires, with hooks and eventually folding wings, and there were even ‘hooked’ Spitfires (without the folding wings) that mainly served in training roles.

If there is any doubt you might ask yourself was the Sea Harrier a Harrier? There was a lot more visual difference between the GR1 and the SHar FRS1, even more with the GR3; and when you get to the later Harriers then they have little but a passing similarity between the GR1/GR3 and GR5 onwards, much like the later Spitfire/Seafires..

I vaguely listened to Julian Fellowes commenting on the success of Downton Abbey as something he wasn’t expecting because it was expected to be of interest to a small section of the viewing public.
Targeting is something practised in all walks of life but it can be seen quite easily in television programming – look at what happened when ITV felt there was no profit to be made by having a section for kids in the afternoon and see what section of society benefited, or the dueling between BBC1 and ITV on Saturday evenings as they both try to attract an audience of trendy and hip viewers eager not to miss the hype.

I have no worries with the BBC so to speak but i too also wonder why they felt they had to move.

Wasn’t it something involving the movement of stuff out of London, demanded by the government?
The old BBC Centre was unsuitable for the newfangled gubbin’s that is used these days so I think they were having to move anyway, and I suppose the land up there was much cheaper than the equivalent around London so they just knocked down an old whippet factory and employed a bunch of Poles to build them a new headquarters. Obviously the newly imported staff relocated from the South is going to cause a short term dilution of the Mancunian accent, but eventually they will be assimilated and one day the evening news will be read by a man wearing t’traditional flat cap…;o)

Snafu – I was not recommending those dramas, merely pointing out that ITV has made and still makes high quality programmes. If you don’t like period drama, however you define it, then there will be as much not to watch on the BBC.

Not much at all, other than cookery shows, game shows, fly on the wall documentary’s, programme’s that show us how to do up our houses if we have lots of money and the like.
I end up listening to the radio, reading, walking the wife and kids, that sort of thing. But I feel there is something in that list you provided: much of the content was of a targeted sort, lets say upper middle class and the aspiring lower orders. The rest of us – if we weren’t listening to the radio, reading, etc – are forced to look elsewhere for our televised entertainment. The (for want of a better term) nostalgia channels are fine if you enjoy old editions of QI, etc, and the documentary channels will entertain you if you want to view sharks or Nazis. I am assured that there are even sports channels for those who enjoy that sort of thing.
Some might end up down the pub, but I shall end up losing at Monopoly to the kids. Again.