You Have Been Watching... Charlie Brooker

[ebay sex moomin]

edit- fuck it, waste of time

 

[ebay sex moomin]

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[PacificOcean]

Go back and re-read my post. Then clarify whom it is you think decides what you watch. Then remember that you haven't been prevented from watching it, only that it's timing changed.

Then read this:

Programmers and schedulers decide what and when shows are shown. Not OfCom. The decision to not screen YHBW at a later date will be a combined, internal decision at the broadcaster. They are not a quango.

The people who decide what you can and can't watch are the same people who decide how the shows are scheduled. I.e. everything you watch is decided by them.

Please read the bit I've bolded carefully, to save yourself confusion.

Fair enough.

But I still maintain where does it stop?

There was a murder in Peckham last night, but GOLD still showed an episode of Only Fools And Horses.

Also, someone was killed on a level crossing right near me at Enfield Lock last night but, those insensitive bastards at the Discovery Channel decided that a thing about rail suicides was suitable viewing. I was traumatised.

Of course my remote has a way to change a channel if it's not for me - I discovered that when I got Sky.

Just because it's the summer season and the news channels get bored, why are they now dictating the schedules?

I doubt anyone in Cumbria that would be affected would decide to tune into a "crime special" on Channel 4.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

you are being deliberately obtuse, right?

 

[PacificOcean]

you are being deliberately obtuse, right?

*bangs head on table*

Why can't people get my point?

The world is shit, shit happens on a daily basis to many thousands of people - life, eh? Crap.

I don't see how 12 people dying in Cumbria (which was awful, obviously), when according to the NHS 131 people died of cancer that day, why didn't they pull all the programmes of people smoking that night/week?

 

[sam/phallocrat]

*bangs head on table*

Why can't people get my point?

Because it's a preposterously stupid one. Mind-blowingly thick.

 

[PacificOcean]

Mind-blowingly thick.

I will have that engraved on my tombstone.

I have enough school reports to back that claim up

 

[Maggot]

Fair enough.

But I still maintain where does it stop?

There was a murder in Peckham last night, but GOLD still showed an episode of Only Fools And Horses.

Also, someone was killed on a level crossing right near me at Enfield Lock last night but, those insensitive bastards at the Discovery Channel decided that a thing about rail suicides was suitable viewing. I was traumatised.

Of course my remote has a way to change a channel if it's not for me - I discovered that when I got Sky.

Just because it's the summer season and the news channels get bored, why are they now dictating the schedules?

I doubt anyone in Cumbria that would be affected would decide to tune into a "crime special" on Channel 4.

Oh dear, even after Kyser kindly spelt it out for you in a simple language, you still haven't stopped making ridiculous comparisons.

 

[Orang Utan]

he should write for a hateloid - his penchant for hysterical extrapolation would be appreciated

 

[PacificOcean]

Oh dear, even after Kyser kindly spelt it out for you in a simple language, you still haven't stopped making ridiculous comparisons.

Well, I may be simple, thick or what not, as described by various posters.

But as a "discussion" board, I thought it was a place for debate. You know - differenting viewpoints?

What I said is my view. Don't agree with it? Fine. But all the bile? Fuck me, it's some random Bullitain Board.

 

[Orang Utan]

you're giving as good as you get

 

[sam/phallocrat]

I will have that engraved on my tombstone.

I have enough school reports to back that claim up

I said your point was thick, not you.

Tch.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I just watched it. It wasn't even really about crime, it was mostly about fictional telly detectives.