Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. I'm not sure obscure and eccentric English traditions are quite as dependent upon your support as you seem to think, George.
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  2. 👍Well done! (From Silsden...)
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  3. Books have not been around "for thousands of years." Why start off with a huge stupid lie in the first 30 seconds of your broadcast?
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  4. Nuthin' new here: of the UK's people, the English stand well behind the Irish, the Welsh, and the Scots in their ability to speak English. This shouldn't surprise anybody. They also tend to come in fourth in their command of French, German, whatever... Hell, it's only the fact that the Jamaicans tend to migrate into England for the most part that gives the "English" enough mathematics to make change accurately.
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  5. The Xerox word processor of 1984 had advanced from 18-inch to ten-inch floppies.
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  6. I think Mad Magaine's "I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk" was about this time, 1967 or so. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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  7. An idea impossible for all news media anywhere to swallow: that no news medium anywhere is a phenomenon worthy of coverage by itself. Good, bad, or indifferent, something some journalist does may be worth reporting -- but no, not by themself. Auntie Beeb? No, Dearie, to to yourself. At least not until you can frame it as a report on what Parliement did about you...
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