It's the smaller of the two I like.
06.03.2026 23:09
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It's the smaller of the two I like.
Remember the cop who laughed when Ruby said 'This one's for Abraham!' then tossed a molotov cocktail into a Visitor shuttle and blew it up in V?
He's just popped us as a priest running a network of safehouses for illegal immigrants in Cagney & Lacey.
So £60 a year wouldn't fund the iPlayer, but £180 a year is expected to fund the entire damn BBC? Make it make sense, Lee. 😜
Say 50% of UK households (circa 14m, somewhat fewer than subscribe to Netflix) were to subscribe - that's £840m a year in additional revenue.
I think asking people to pay for the services they actually make use of is much fairer than simply increasing the cost overall for everyone to fund the BBC's ambitions. A lower licence fee could be retained to provide core funding for essential services such as news and current affairs.
The only BBC service I make use of is the iPlayer, and I'd happily pay £5 a month for it.
Well the current funding model is entirely unsustainable, so something will have to change.
Also, limited advertising before and after, but never during programs. Surely those measures would alleviate the funding bottleneck it's found itself trapped in these last few years.
Personally, I'd put the BBC iPlayer behind a damn paywall for £4.99 a month, and make more of the Beeb's high end, expensive output exclusive to it to drive demand.
That content could then be rolled out on BBC One or BBC Two a few months later, similar to how a lot of ITV's output debuts on ITVX.
Does anyone else think the BBC should adopt a hybrid model that incorporates limited advertising revenue and subscription services for some of their more niche content while retaining the licence fee at a reduced rate to fund essential core services like news, current affairs, and local radio?
Oh, I like that grey velvet easy chair.
Can I help you get that other leg up?
Find someone who looks at you the way Jay-Den Kraag looks at Darem Reymi. #StarfleetAcademy
Your reaction...
How I feel when someone blocks me.
Well, it was to be expected. A glorious morning can often lead to a grim afternoon, and a gloomy evening.
Add some Worcestershire sauce and some seasonings and that would probably be reasonably palatable. But would that wreck the macros?! 🫣
It was the UK's 2nd best-selling new car in January, and the 5th best-selling in February.
I wouldn't be surprised if March (traditionally the UK's busiest month for new car sales) is the month it drives the naysayers into apoplectic shock and incandescent rage by hitting #1.
Saw my first 26-plate car this morning. It was, somewhat inevitably, a Jaecoo 7.
Mine starts up at the most random times with absolutely no rhyme or reason. Always as a very high pitched, very audible whistle, like one of those hearing test tones.
Oh, for Christ's sake. Make your minds up ya shower o' fuckin' numpties!
He's such a refined little gentleman!
I love how referring to an American X/Twitter troll as 'an absolute tit' always seems to leave them rather befuddled, perhaps even discombobulated, bordering on flummoxed. 🤭
Senior moments. That's nature's revenge for you feeling your oats earlier.
This is the image that brought him to everyone's attention. He's really quite something.
In Scotland, we get John McKay on STV News. In Brazil, they get Túlio Amâncio, or as I've taken to calling him, "Hot 'tache Guy". 😍
I am having impure thoughts. 🤭
