Author Topic: Boroda, u happy about this? (Read 1934 times)

Sox62 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 24, 2003, 01:17:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
The BBC has a navy?

Now that's news!

Very funny!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Good one!

The British Navy flagship turned off the BBC due to what they believed was biased reporting.

Angry Sailers

I guess they're respected by everybody but their OWN COUNTRY'S NAVY.(Caps to avoid more confusion or rapier wit)

bounder · « **Reply #31 on:** June 24, 2003, 02:35:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
You call it a grey horse, I call it a gray horse. Whatever..its still a horse of a different color. And its as bias towards the left as Fox is to the right.

Lol ripsnort, where did all these horses come from?

The BBC is not in any way whatsoever owned by the government. Never has been.
Grey is a colour, Gray is a name.

The government would very much like to own it, but they have been refused on many occasions, even Churchill was rebuffed.

As for the Ark Royal, the BBC was outputting news, not the propaganda dictated by government - how much more independent of government can you get? That the governments own forces reject the coverage as too critical? But I would reject news 24 (a *tiny* part of BBC output) as dumbed down predigested news for the politically illterate, as any roling news channel needs to be.

Left and Right are irrelvant terms here. That whole political spectrum is utterly defunct now.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #32 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:02:49 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
BBC is certainly biased but not as any Murdoch owned news service.

Thank you.

There are many examples of their bias.
http://www.netanyahu.org/bbcbias.html

I could pull up hundreds...they're out there.

scout · « **Reply #33 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:22:16 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I might add, only 1 news service provided information that Pesticides, with the change of one or two ingrediants, can BECOME a WMD..and the fact that an agricultural factory can transform into a weapons factory with the import of addition chemicals.

Or that the Iraqi chemical weapons factories were bought from Germany (and built by german contractors) as pesticide factories.

Afterwards small changes were done to produce WMD.

This according to a french (partly at least) produced documentary.

Was a little surprised no more attention was payed to those pesiticide drums.

Dowding · « **Reply #34 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:45:11 PM »

The irony. Ripsnort quotes a website devoted to the promotion and hero-worship of Benjamin Netanyahu, a man prominent in the most intractable and polarized conflict in the world, for an example of BBC bias.

Talk about scoring an own goal...

GrimCO · « **Reply #35 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:51:38 PM »

I was just citing a single example from both right and left wing oriented news networks. They both suck and are biased.

My point was that if you trust ANY news network to give you completely truthful and unbiased information, you're going to be sadly disappointed.

They always taint the story this way or that to suit their own political interests. Even more sad is how many people take what they hear to be the gospel.

MrLars · « **Reply #36 on:** June 24, 2003, 04:53:20 PM »

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Originally posted by GrimCO
Even more sad is how many people take what they hear to be the gospel.

Sadder still....these people are allowed to breed and indoctrenate their young to their skewed view of how things should be.

Bluedog · « **Reply #37 on:** June 24, 2003, 04:57:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
... I mean, it's owned by Rupert Murdoch. The BBC isn't perfect, but at least isn't owned by the Dirty Digger.

Dirty Digger..............an insult to anyone who actually earned the 'title' by donning an Australian millitary uniform.
For those who don't know, a 'Digger' is an Aussie infantryman, a nickname they gave themselves at Gallipolli in 1915, a refferance to how much time they spent with a shovel as opposed to time with a rifle.
The name stuck, and Aussie infantry have been widely known as 'Diggers' ever since, wearing the name as a badge of honour, in much the same way as the 'Rats of Tobruk'.
Rupert Murdoch certainly never earned the right to be called a Digger, a lot of other things, maybe, but not a Digger.
The 'Dirty Digger' is merely refferance to Murdoch being an Australian.........call him an ******* Aussie or something.

Consider how the Brits would feel if we Aussies reffered to every dodgey pommy conman (and there's plenty of 'em out here) as 'Freaky Fusiliers', or 'bastard Black Watchmen' or some such thing, basically, reffering to disreputable bussinessmen with a name that usually conveys respect for the millitary actions of your veterans.

It may seem trivial to some, but to those of us with relatives who earned the 'Digger' title/nickname, to have them , and thier deeds and accomplishments mentioned in the same breath as a crook like Murdoch is bordering on blasphomy.

Of course, I cant change a nickname given to a bloke by the press , all I am trying to do is explain that to some of us, it's disgusting, I can't begin to imagine how the real Diggers feel about it.

Just my opinion.
Blue

Ripsnort · « **Reply #38 on:** June 24, 2003, 05:17:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
The irony. Ripsnort quotes a website devoted to the promotion and hero-worship of Benjamin Netanyahu, a man prominent in the most intractable and polarized conflict in the world, for an example of BBC bias.

Talk about scoring an own goal...

There were just too many, I grabbed the first one on the list.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #39 on:** June 24, 2003, 05:20:07 PM »

Bluedog, don't take Dowding seriously, he's young, dumb, full of ....well, no one else takes him seriously here

The brits I've met over my lifetime (and had as room mates) are pretty cool, but if you had to look up "Pompous Brit" in the dictionary...well...you know where I'm going, don't you?

-tronski- · « **Reply #40 on:** June 25, 2003, 12:31:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Bluedog
Dirty Digger..............an insult to anyone who actually earned the 'title' by donning an Australian millitary uniform.
For those who don't know, a 'Digger' is an Aussie infantryman, a nickname they gave themselves at Gallipolli in 1915, a refferance to how much time they spent with a shovel as opposed to time with a rifle.
The name stuck, and Aussie infantry have been widely known as 'Diggers' ever since, wearing the name as a badge of honour, in much the same way as the 'Rats of Tobruk'.
Rupert Murdoch certainly never earned the right to be called a Digger, a lot of other things, maybe, but not a Digger.
The 'Dirty Digger' is merely refferance to Murdoch being an Australian.........call him an ******* Aussie or something.

Consider how the Brits would feel if we Aussies reffered to every dodgey pommy conman (and there's plenty of 'em out here) as 'Freaky Fusiliers', or 'bastard Black Watchmen' or some such thing, basically, reffering to disreputable bussinessmen with a name that usually conveys respect for the millitary actions of your veterans.

It may seem trivial to some, but to those of us with relatives who earned the 'Digger' title/nickname, to have them , and thier deeds and accomplishments mentioned in the same breath as a crook like Murdoch is bordering on blasphomy.

Of course, I cant change a nickname given to a bloke by the press , all I am trying to do is explain that to some of us, it's disgusting, I can't begin to imagine how the real Diggers feel about it.

Just my opinion.
Blue

I think your getting the wrong end of the stick....

I understood it meant' a "dirt digger", similar in vein to his sleazy tabloid papers.

I find it hard to believe Dowding was useing it to make a reference to the same diggers your referring to mate.

Tronsky

Dowding · « **Reply #41 on:** June 25, 2003, 03:13:27 AM »

Thanks Tronski. I was actually referring to his journalistic pedigree - I didn't realise it had other connotations Bluedog, and hence I plead ignorance on that one. At least we agree Murdoch is a crook.

Ripsnort, don't pretend to be the objective adjudicator in some popularity contest; I've seen you make a fool of yourself more times than your advanced years can account for. You shoot yourself in the foot with a quote that degrades your argument while insisting there are 'loads more where that came from'...

Bluedog · « **Reply #42 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:59:38 PM »

My apologies in that case Dowding, it seems I missunderstood entirely.

Rude · « **Reply #43 on:** June 25, 2003, 03:24:10 PM »

Why is murdcok a crook....just curious

Torque · « **Reply #44 on:** June 25, 2003, 09:21:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Bluedog, don't take Dowding seriously, he's young, dumb, full of ....well, no one else takes him seriously here The brits I've met over my lifetime (and had as room mates) are pretty cool, but if you had to look up "Pompous Brit" in the dictionary...well...you know where I'm going, don't you?

Not unlike yourself...Kettleman.