Comments on: Let’s give up BBC bashing for Lent

By: Don’t dwell on the future of The Times – Murdoch’s plans are far more nefarious « crunkfish.com

Tue, 18 May 2010 20:48:22 +0000

[...] switch to a subscription model) will put all their weight behind this. However, along with Murdoch, The Telegraph and the Daily Mail both like nothing more than to tear into the BBC. Already, the Conservatives [...]

By: MightyBlackout

MightyBlackout — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:05:58 +0000

…am I missing something? (Busy morning at work, so forgive me if I’m being thick) Are people ‘really’ up in arms about this?

Reading the article, I understand that Tony Evans, (head of the Olney Pancake Committee no less) along with the committee themselves decided to allow this to happen, because they didn’t want to tell everyone that the BBC had pulled out. And providing he didn’t win the race, everything would be rosy. “Then” the villagers got their BBC-pitchforks out.

The BBC have “broken the tradition” in the same way that the gas-man “broke into my house” when I let him in to read the meter, surely? New committee, anyone?

I actually expect the annual “H&S won’t let people run in the 200th annual Scissors-race!” type article, but when the article negates itself half way through… it’s time to think about who you should be naming a big twat.

By: KK

KK — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:18:49 +0000

Way back in the 1970s, John Noakes took part in the Up-Helly-A ceremony on Shetland, despite not being a native Shetlander. He was given special dispensation by the people who organised it.

Just as this presenter was to take part in the pancake race.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:49:02 +0000

I suspect these furious residents would be the same people who were incensed a while back over someone painting the front of a shop purple…

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:45:48 +0000

I love how the Telegraph are utterly oblivious to the person just behind the Blue Peter in their picture. Clearly also a man, though how long he has lived in Olney for and whether or not he works for the BBC is unclear.

Never let photographic evidence get in the way of a good BBC bash and all that.

By: Erykah

Erykah — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:42:18 +0000

It could be even more ridiculous – Doctor Who got on Newsnight due to being a bit anti-Thatcher in the 80s!

By: minifig

minifig — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:55:53 +0000

Of course, the Daily Mail themselves were equally incensed, in what also looks like a parody, because there were health and safety people at the race. Damn them and their obsession with ensuring they're not legally responsible for injuring people.