Post by Ant on Nov 1, 2008 16:40:51 GMT
First of all, apologies for any subsequent bad language in this post
Right, I'm fed up to the back teeth of the stuck-up, overly politically correct public, a media that hypes everything up to ridiculous degrees, and hypocritical fucking idiot TV "personalities".
I'm sure you've all heard a bit about all the trouble surrounding phone calls to Andrew Sachs and the suspension of Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand that surrounded it. Basically for anyone who doesn't know, on a radio show they left messages on Sachs' answering machine about Brand having slept with Sachs' grand daughter, and they also used some terms and language that could be considered offensive. The show was pre-recorded, yet was still aired, on the 18th of October.
Now, I don't condone what either of them did at all and I certainly don't condone the BBC airing it even though Sachs himself said that he'd rather they waited until he was able to come in and record the show with him (he was meant to be in on the day of the original recording but wasn't able to).
But some of the mindless hypocritical crap that people from all corners are spouting on the issue is just ridiculous.
Firstly, the BBC only received two complaints after the Radio show. Two. And those were both to do with the language, not the scenario. And yet, by the 27th of October, around 1500 complaints had been made. Hang on, now I know some people may be too busy on the day of a radio show to fire off a letter or email straight away, but usually most complaints on broadcasting are filed within a few days. But 9 days afterwards? Some people must be pretty lazy.
News stories started appearing. From 1500 complaints on the 27th, the total somehow rises to 10,000 by the end of the 28th. Now hang on, are we to believe that all of these people were listening to the radio show and have only ten days later decided to express their anger? Or maybe, they're just being bandwagon-jumping snot-nosed, nothing-better-to-do cretins and have decided to complain after reading the newspapers.
Given another few days, complaints were over 30,000. I think I can safely rule out people genuinely offended here and just assume that they're all fuckwits with nothing better to do than complain about something that's not affected them in the slightest.
By this point of course, Brand and Ross had already been suspended, the head of the radio show had resigned, apologies had been issued all over, Brand had resigned from his show and Ross had pulled out of presenting the comedy awards, and still jobsworth knobends have nothing better to do than complain about it.
It doesn't stop there though. You get people who have absolutely nothing to do with it poking their big noses in, like Gordon Brown and David Cameron. You guys: You have jobs, go fucking do them, and let the BBC sort out their own problems.
But what's really riled me is that snivelling, whiney-voiced c**t Louis-Fucking-Walsh from that awful TV talent show. He said, and I quote:
"I'm glad they've been put in their place... It's about time. Jonathan Ross does and says what he wants and gets away with it."
Hang the hell on here - you've made a television career, along with fellow big-headed c**t Simon Cowell, about being as bloody rude and offensive to people as you like and destroying their dreams, and you have the gall to complain when Jonathon Ross does it?
The only remotely reasonable one in this whole saga is Noel Gallagher, who shares my sentiments about it: "It's so typical of the English in general - 10,000 people get outraged, but only five days after it has happened." I completely agree with him.
So, that's me done. Anyone else like to add their input?
Right, I'm fed up to the back teeth of the stuck-up, overly politically correct public, a media that hypes everything up to ridiculous degrees, and hypocritical fucking idiot TV "personalities".
I'm sure you've all heard a bit about all the trouble surrounding phone calls to Andrew Sachs and the suspension of Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand that surrounded it. Basically for anyone who doesn't know, on a radio show they left messages on Sachs' answering machine about Brand having slept with Sachs' grand daughter, and they also used some terms and language that could be considered offensive. The show was pre-recorded, yet was still aired, on the 18th of October.
Now, I don't condone what either of them did at all and I certainly don't condone the BBC airing it even though Sachs himself said that he'd rather they waited until he was able to come in and record the show with him (he was meant to be in on the day of the original recording but wasn't able to).
But some of the mindless hypocritical crap that people from all corners are spouting on the issue is just ridiculous.
Firstly, the BBC only received two complaints after the Radio show. Two. And those were both to do with the language, not the scenario. And yet, by the 27th of October, around 1500 complaints had been made. Hang on, now I know some people may be too busy on the day of a radio show to fire off a letter or email straight away, but usually most complaints on broadcasting are filed within a few days. But 9 days afterwards? Some people must be pretty lazy.
News stories started appearing. From 1500 complaints on the 27th, the total somehow rises to 10,000 by the end of the 28th. Now hang on, are we to believe that all of these people were listening to the radio show and have only ten days later decided to express their anger? Or maybe, they're just being bandwagon-jumping snot-nosed, nothing-better-to-do cretins and have decided to complain after reading the newspapers.
Given another few days, complaints were over 30,000. I think I can safely rule out people genuinely offended here and just assume that they're all fuckwits with nothing better to do than complain about something that's not affected them in the slightest.
By this point of course, Brand and Ross had already been suspended, the head of the radio show had resigned, apologies had been issued all over, Brand had resigned from his show and Ross had pulled out of presenting the comedy awards, and still jobsworth knobends have nothing better to do than complain about it.
It doesn't stop there though. You get people who have absolutely nothing to do with it poking their big noses in, like Gordon Brown and David Cameron. You guys: You have jobs, go fucking do them, and let the BBC sort out their own problems.
But what's really riled me is that snivelling, whiney-voiced c**t Louis-Fucking-Walsh from that awful TV talent show. He said, and I quote:
"I'm glad they've been put in their place... It's about time. Jonathan Ross does and says what he wants and gets away with it."
Hang the hell on here - you've made a television career, along with fellow big-headed c**t Simon Cowell, about being as bloody rude and offensive to people as you like and destroying their dreams, and you have the gall to complain when Jonathon Ross does it?
The only remotely reasonable one in this whole saga is Noel Gallagher, who shares my sentiments about it: "It's so typical of the English in general - 10,000 people get outraged, but only five days after it has happened." I completely agree with him.
So, that's me done. Anyone else like to add their input?