General News Thread

(06-01-2021 16:53 )Chrisst Wrote:  The BBC is to broadcast programmes in support of the education of children at home.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/th...r-BB1cwedG

Many of us were raised on programmes for schools on but broadcasters swept them away years ago in favour of endless re-runs of Homes Under The Hammer.

It could be brilliant: in depth demonstrations of simultaneous equations, how to cut a dovetail joint, the terms of the Treaty Of Vienna... I'd suggest the Click team should be at the helm.

But it might not be so good:



Just looks like some re-runs of more old stuff. What do I pay my licence for exactly?

Why do I have the thought (depressing in many respects) that these programmes - despite being aimed at children - will be a relief from the utter vacuous nonsense pumped out across the platform - for all of us!?? 2021 has to be the year that the issue of the BBC continuing as the protected, subsidised monolithic non entity it is, is finally addressed, and sees the beginning of the end! Nobody has even tried to hold it to account for whether it has had to make the same sacrifices that other self funded businesses have over the last 10 months of covid, with furloughs etc!! I would suggest it hasn't as I have just paid my fee for another year! Many of us wonder why we pay a licence fee still (over and above it being the law I mean)

(06-01-2021 17:41 )hornball Wrote:  Nobody has even tried to hold it to account for whether it has had to make the same sacrifices that other self funded businesses have over the last 10 months of covid, with furloughs etc!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52474911

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53263793

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/j...programmes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51225087

A positive story for a change:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky....g-12178083

^Update they all got food poisoning & died

JCB's have designed and built a pothole repairing vehicle which can repair the holes in under 8 minutes.

The machine has been having trials in Stoke for a few months.

^ Some of the pot holes in my area are more like mini craters and have been like it for quite a long time, so this is good news ....but....

Anyone else following the news around Gamestop stock ?

Anything that gives the hedge fund fuckers on wall street a bloody nose brings a smile to my face

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55817918

^ A video reviewing the Gamestop stock news, I love this story

https://youtu.be/9ToOGrUQ7ME

The 84% shorted was in April of last year.

Keep that in mind.

The hedgefunds had already made their money, and then some. But they wanted EVEN more.

By the time this year, GME was shorted at somewhere between 120% - 140%. More shorts then there even exists stocks of GME to sell.

The Hedgefunds got way way too greedy, and people took notice that by buying said stock. Hedgefunds would be forced to pay an extreme premium for shorting GME that far.

Anne Sacoolas, the Amerian who fleed the country after being suspected of being involved in a fatal crash which resulted in the death of the teenager near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire says that she and her husband were working for an intelligence agency.