On Mar 9, 4:17*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Tudor Hughes wrote:
* * I see Tomas Schaffernaker is back. *His latest effort (R4, 5.58
pm) was the usual compendium of chaos, jumping all over the place like
a demented grasshopper and the normal incompetent delivery with pauses
all in the wrong places. Some of it was seriously misleading.
* * *For the BBC the weather forecast is just a nuisance, to be
compressed beyond usefulness and to be got out of the way a quickly as
possible so as to make way for really important stuff such as trailers
and listeners' emails. *An additional feature this week has been that
the forecaster has had to provide a local forecast for someone who has
emailed in saying they are getting married/going to a rugby match/
holding a tortoise-polishing competition etc etc. *Hey, what fun!
It's quite clear from the forecaster's delivery what he or she thinks
of this nonsense and it eats into the time available for the proper
forecast.
* * * This is weather forecasts as entertainment, something that in
the past would be associated with a down-market TV channel. *Radio 4
ought to be ashamed of itself.
* * * The Met Office doesn't give a toss; at least there is no
evidence known to me that they do - they are simply no longer required
to.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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It's all part of the world downfall. The grumpy old man syndrome that is
really telling people that actually we are right and that things are
worse - but only if you still have any form of intellect. I mean I
wanted to buy a last minute birthday card for a friend so popped into a
local Asda. It seemed that 50% of the cards were fart jokes and
explaining how funny different types of fart were. Hilarious not! No
wonder so many people are just celebrity knowledgeable demonic morons
these days.
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Try buying a birthday card for a rather ladylike niece, then.
Difficult. My other niece, her sister, is less fastidious and
amusingly sweary. But she's a Registered Mental Health Nurse and
needs her earthiness.

Uncle T (Tudor Hughes).