On Saturday, 9 March 2013 16:17:30 UTC, 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.

Dave

Ah Dave, the wind of change.

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:59:42 UTC, 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.

Don't totally agree Tudor as the BBC give serious amounts of time to the weather. its just that after that the content is banal at best.

On Saturday, March 9, 2013 11:47:41 AM UTC, Kate Brown wrote:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Eskimo Will wrote




Not my type, though, whatever.



Given the magazine he was pictured on the front of I'm guessing you wouldn't be his type, either!



--

Kate B


MartinR

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.
Dave- Hide quoted text -

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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).