I'll apologize oh pompous one, I have now found your nonsensical reply...still find that the BBC benefits me or many others in any way so we'll leave it there, anyway old boy the sun is out so Cornwall's nudist beaches must be calling you, you have a nice day!!

Thank you for accepting that I replied and the confirmation that, as I suspected, you are too wrapped up in yourself to comprehend it.

It’s raining. I am busy playing bowls and don’t tend to go on any beaches here in the summer. Too full of tourists.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

This is the crux of the matter though. Will anyone mount a defence for them because people like their hamburgers?

Changing the basis of the funding in that way makes perfect sense provided the way it is set up cannot be tampered with politically by future governments, without passing primary legislation.

So long as the BBC’s independence is set in stone I don’t care how they are funded or if their peripheral activities curtailed.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

The BBC should compete with other service providers on a level playing field and seek investment and generate income as others do. There is no justification whatsoever for the current setup.

A Mcsexualassaultcase with a large order of racism please.

I am going to say this bluntly, but I was under the impression that McDonalds are not famed for hiring the brightest and best at their branches?

I certainly don't condone it, quite the opposite in fact, but is 'uncovering' stories of inappropriate behaviour and language at an employer which is pretty ubiquitously known as a last chance saloon for the nigh unemployable really news?

Doesn't seem to be anything beyond the expected here, generally thick people saying and doing generally thick things. Doesn't make it OK of course not, ideally we'd work in a world without these happenings but we don't, we live in a world where some people have to work at McDonalds. If ever there was an incentive to make a bit more of yourself so you don't 'end up working at McDonalds' this earth shattering news would only slightly improve the narrative around this sentiment.

There's a war in Europe, record breaking temperatures and a sex scandal involving a high profile public figure currently in action, amongst other things, but the state of staffing at McDonalds steals the show.

Edited by Nicholas91 (18 Jul 2023 9.18am)

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!