Room 101

[Gray]

Sorry for jumping in Gray, I think we share a common dislike for this so called 'talent'.

No problem, you spoke perfectly for me and plenty of people - people poorer than him, unable to access the sorts of things he can pay for privately.
The adverse effects of his wishes will not effect the likes of him.

 

[Revolutions]

I’m English and I don’t really understand the hate. Plenty of people have opinions & share them incessantly on social media.

If I hated everyone who spews out stuff I disagree with, I wouldn’t really have much time or energy for the good stuff in life. Like posting on forums and talking about listening and to records 😁

 

[Friesiansam]

See the previous post for your answer.
If you were English you might understand....especially if your licence fee contributed to his salary.

Gary Lineker is employed and paid by BBC Studios, the BBC's commercial arm, his salary does not come from the license fee. Not that I'm a fan of his, I have a life-long, intense dislike for football.

 

[Gray]

Gary Lineker is employed and paid by BBC Studios, the BBC's commercial arm, his salary does not come from the license fee. Not that I'm a fan of his, I have a life-long, intense dislike for football.

Are you sure about that?
I know Graham Norton has that sort of arrangement.
But when the BBC reluctantly had to reveal 'talent' pay, Claudia W. was highest paid woman and Lineker was highest paid bloke.

I'd certainly like it to be the case that he didn't get a penny from the licence fee.

 

[Friesiansam]

Are you sure about that?
I know Graham Norton has that sort of arrangement.
But when the BBC reluctantly had to reveal 'talent' pay, Claudia W. was highest paid woman and Lineker was highest paid bloke.

I'd certainly like it to be the case that he didn't get a penny from the licence fee.

It is what I had heard but, a bit of research seems to indicate I was wrong.

 

[Dave_]

Because he's a greatly overpaid and overrated football pundit who happens to work for an unbiased television network.

He'd get more money working for Sky/BT TNT

He chooses to work for the BBC because he believes in the their remit.

He should keep his biased and small-minded political opinions to himself, he gets paid over £1million a year to comment on football, nothing else.

This notion that if you work in x industry you should stick to that and you're not aloud social commentary or to express political views is such ***(profanity deleted by moderation)!

Firstly, it's not like he's doing it on MoTD, he's using his personal SM accounts.

Secondly, we still live in a democracy, with free speech, and are entitled criticise the government, even if the current lot would rather we didn't.

It's also utterly ironic that it's usually the knuckle dragging, flag shagging, free speech warriors that want him "cancelled" the most!

There is a growing general dislike for this opinionated idiot in the UK.

Is there?

 

[Dave_]

Are you sure about that?
I know Graham Norton has that sort of arrangement.
But when the BBC reluctantly had to reveal 'talent' pay, Claudia W. was highest paid woman and Lineker was highest paid bloke.

I'd certainly like it to be the case that he didn't get a penny from the licence fee.

He's a freelancer.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

As it's his political views I suspect we are heading towards, I have to remind you all about forum rules in that area.

 

[jjbomber]

Pharmacists.

After 7 years at university it still takes them 35 minutes to put some tablets in a box and stick a label on it.

 

[Gray]

He's a freelancer.

He gets money from the BBC Dave.
Which means 'knuckle draggers' are contributing to his obscene salary.

He's been given new guidelines by the organisation you say he values - but he's already breached them.
My biggest problem is with those that are influenced by his opinions.

 

[Gray]

Pharmacists.

After 7 years at university it still takes them 35 minutes to put some tablets in a box and stick a label on it.

I'm picking up a prescription in about an hour ☹️

 

[jjbomber]

I'm picking up a prescription in about an hour ☹️

I picked one up this morning. Hence my rant!

 

[Friesiansam]

I picked one up this morning. Hence my rant!

At our surgery, collecting a prescription there, straight after a consultation, usually takes only around 10 minutes but, after "improvements" to their systems, if you submit a repeat request online, the lead time has gone up from 3 days, to a week...

 

[Gray]

At our surgery, collecting a prescription there, straight after a consultation, usually takes only around 10 minutes but, after "improvements" to their systems, if you submit a repeat request online, the lead time has gone up from 3 days, to a week...

You can't get to see a doctor at mine - but put in a request, as I did, for something they last prescribed 5 years ago - and they send the request through to the chemist, together with a 3 month course of antibiotics that I requested.

It's easier for them to ask the chemist to give me what I ask for online, than to see me at the surgery.
They've got no idea if I even need the stuff - or indeed whether somebody else has requested it using my computer.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

At our surgery, collecting a prescription there, straight after a consultation, usually takes only around 10 minutes but, after "improvements" to their systems, if you submit a repeat request online, the lead time has gone up from 3 days, to a week...

Classic example of someone using technology to make their life easier, not yours.

 

[Dave_]

He gets money from the BBC Dave.
Which means 'knuckle draggers' are contributing to his obscene salary.

He's been given new guidelines by the organisation you say he values - but he's already breached them.

Like Shapps, Gullis and all those social media accounts with St. George/Union flags beside their names telling Lineker to stick to football, you haven't read those guidelines have you?

My biggest problem is with those that are influenced by his opinions.

Translation: You want to live in a fascistic echo chamber where only prescribed thought is allowed!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

No more politics please. This thread is a useful place for the general rant (so I really don't want to lock it), but you all know politics is not permitted.

 

[Friesiansam]

At the top of the page today: " We hope you have a joyous holiday season!"

Call it what it is, Christmas, people from other religions all know what it is.

BTW, I speak as an atheist, I don't believe in Christmas.

 

[Al ears]

At the top of the page today: " We hope you have a joyous holiday season!"

Call it what it is, Christmas, people from other religions all know what it is.

BTW, I speak as an atheist, I don't believe in Christmas.

Whatever religion you may or may not believe in I don't think it has any place on a hifi forum even if it does have irrelevant subforums.

 

[Gray]

Whatever religion you may or may not believe in I don't think it has any place on a hifi forum even if it does have irrelevant subforums.

I thought it was quite nice to see the message wishing us well - doesn't really matter that it's a hi-fi forum, we're here to read it.
But the PC aspect always puts a damper on things.

 

[Al ears]

I thought it was quite nice to see the message wishing us well - doesn't really matter that it's a hi-fi forum, we're here to read it.
But the PC aspect always puts a damper on things.

I was referring to religion in general rather than the message itself.

 

[WayneKerr]

I was referring to religion in general rather than the message itself.

I think we have a fair few over exuberant fervent preachers on here 🙂

 

[Al ears]

I think we have a fair few over exuberant fervent preachers on here 🙂

No fervent preachers just opinionated individuals hopefully... 🙂

 

[Stuart83]

I thought it was quite nice to see the message wishing us well - doesn't really matter that it's a hi-fi forum, we're here to read it.
But the PC aspect always puts a damper on things.

Well said

 

[JDl]

What are your pet hates? It could be anything from a taste, smell, lane hoggers on motorways... anything that really gets your back up.

I hate with a passion is text speak. When you have a face-to-face conversation with someone. For example:

You say to someone I lost a winning lottery ticket, and instead of them responding "oh my God, that's awful", they go OMG. This really turns a mild mannered individual like me into a raging bull.

One of Mrs. Ps,hate is the word "flavoursome" when referring to food or drink.

Garlic. I used to work at a Marquee firm in Essex near Boreham. One the blokes there, insisted on eating garlic for breakfast. I can assure you, that being stuck in the cab of a Ford Cargo lorry for two or more hours with him on the way to erect a Marquee, was not fun by any means.