DOGs, Credits and Programme Info - BBC1 5pm today - Points of View

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:07:21 +0000, Light of Aria wrote:

all seek to King Canute style insulate

Oh dear, King Cnut being defamed once again with the fallacious notion
that he was so arrogant that he could halt the waves, when in fact his
demonstration was performed to show just the opposite.

From http://www.viking.NO/e/people/e-knud.htm

QUOTE

"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For
there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea
obey".

So spoke King Canute the Great, the legend says, seated on his throne
on the seashore, waves lapping round his feet. Canute had learned that
his flattering courtiers claimed he was "So great, he could command the
tides of the sea to go back". Now Canute was not only a religious man,
but also a clever politician. He knew his limitations - even if his
courtiers did not - so he had his throne carried to the seashore and sat
on it as the tide came in, commanding the waves to advance no further.
When they didn't, *he had made his point* that, though the deeds of
kings might appear 'great' in the minds of men, they were as nothing in
the face of God's power.

UNQUOTE

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:01 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

I'll know that the marketing ******s have finally won when they drape
the coffin at the actor's real funeral with an advert for a
programme.

Like the way the BBC sent out an e-mail following the death of Humphrey
Lyttelton to promote sales of recordings of his programs?

QUOTE

BBC Shop All your BBC favourites

Dear Member,

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue chairman and jazz legend Humphrey
Lyttelton has died aged 86. The tribute programme Humphrey
Lyttleton: A Celebration, will be broadcast on Wednesday 30 April at
9.00am and repeated at 9.30pm, on BBC Radio 4. Celebrate his life by
visiting our I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue department at BBC Shop

To ensure that your BBC Shop e-mails get to your inbox, please add
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To place your order by phone, please call: 0844 848 9799 (UK) or +44 (0)
1795 414 989 (outside UK).

For customer services please email or call 0844 848
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Friday, 08.30am - 6pm - calls will be charged at national rate.

UNQUOTE

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J G Miller Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:01 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

I'll know that the marketing ******s have finally won when they
drape the coffin at the actor's real funeral with an advert for a
programme.

Like the way the BBC sent out an e-mail following the death of
Humphrey Lyttelton to promote sales of recordings of his programs?

QUOTE

BBC Shop All your BBC favourites

Dear Member,

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue chairman and jazz legend Humphrey
Lyttelton has died aged 86. The tribute programme Humphrey
Lyttleton: A Celebration, will be broadcast on Wednesday 30 April at
9.00am and repeated at 9.30pm, on BBC Radio 4. Celebrate his life by
visiting our I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue department at BBC Shop

To ensure that your BBC Shop e-mails get to your inbox, please add
to your e-mail address book or safe list.

To place your order by phone, please call: 0844 848 9799 (UK) or +44
(0) 1795 414 989 (outside UK).

For customer services please email or call 0844 848
9799 (UK) or +44 (0)1795 414 989 (outside UK). Lines are open Monday
- Friday, 08.30am - 6pm - calls will be charged at national rate.

UNQUOTE

Very tastefully and respectfully done, eh?

Good Grief!!
I'm suprised they didn't just mention his death as a PS at the bottom of the
email...


--
Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)

"Light of Aria" wrote in message
...
I'm what you would call hyper-sensitive - or with heightened perception.
Most people would be on average. A small group will also be below average
in perception abilities.

'Perception abilities' include the ability to discrimate between what
matters and what doesn't.

In any case, you flatter youself, dear boy. You are what my generation calls
'neurotic'. In your words above you have attempted to rationalise your
disability into a talent.

That's the diagnosis. Now, the treatment. Get a life.

Bill

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


I'll know that the marketing ******s have finally won when they drape
the coffin at the actor's real funeral with an advert for a
programme.

Like the way the BBC sent out an e-mail following the death of Humphrey
Lyttelton to promote sales of recordings of his programs?

QUOTE

BBC Shop All your BBC favourites

Dear Member,

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue chairman and jazz legend Humphrey
Lyttelton has died aged 86. The tribute programme Humphrey
Lyttleton: A Celebration, will be broadcast on Wednesday 30 April at
9.00am and repeated at 9.30pm, on BBC Radio 4. Celebrate his life by
visiting our I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue department at BBC Shop

How amazingly tacky of them.

In article ,
Edster wrote:

Something I saw on channel 4 a while ago was a url for a website where
people could watch the closing credits in peace.

Not sure if it's the same program you saw, but E4's "Dead Set" had simply
"deadsetcredits.com" at the end of the first four episodes. The full cast
only rolled at the end of the final episode.

And they turned off the logo during it too! Someone found the switch!
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Mike Brown: mjb[at]pootle.demon.co.uk | http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/

In article ,
Light of Aria wrote:

labeled BBC Switch.

BBC SWITCH OFF.

I saw a trailer for BBC Switch once ... I'm not sure whether it was the
stuttering sound and graphics, blocky breaking up of pictures, rapid
sequence cut/cut/cut so that your eye didn't have time to lock onto anything
meaningful, or the "subliminal" single-frame flashes of the word "switch"
that had the effect.

But it worked. I switched. Off. I guess that was the intended result? I
concluded from the advertisement that the programme, programmes, brand,
zone, channel, or whatever the hell "switch" is was a load of "making the
missable even more missable" cack.

In these wonderous meeja courses, someone should consider teaching that
celebrating all the ways to destroy a digital, analog and optical picture,
and sound, all at once, is not actually trendy.
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Mike Brown: mjb[at]pootle.demon.co.uk | http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/

"Edster" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote:



"Light of Aria" wrote in message
...
I'm what you would call hyper-sensitive - or with heightened perception.
Most people would be on average. A small group will also be below
average
in perception abilities.

'Perception abilities' include the ability to discrimate between what
matters and what doesn't.

In any case, you flatter youself, dear boy. You are what my generation
calls
'neurotic'. In your words above you have attempted to rationalise your
disability into a talent.

That's the diagnosis. Now, the treatment. Get a life.

Bill


Why do you see people who still watch TV for entertainment purposes
rather than just have it on in the background as people who need to
"get a life"?

And where did I say anything about people who watch TV for entertainment? My
comments were entirely concerned with Mr Aria's ludicrous assertion that his
objections to DOGS are the result of his perceptual abilities being superior
to everyone else's. It was a personal attack, not a general comment.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...

"Light of Aria" wrote in message
...
I'm what you would call hyper-sensitive - or with heightened perception.
Most people would be on average. A small group will also be below average
in perception abilities.

'Perception abilities' include the ability to discrimate between what
matters and what doesn't.

In any case, you flatter youself, dear boy. You are what my generation
calls 'neurotic'. In your words above you have attempted to rationalise
your disability into a talent.

That's the diagnosis. Now, the treatment. Get a life.

Bill




Plenty of life in me, old man.

I've heard that line before. (Digital Gimp, BBC News, etc.)

Now what will you be doing between 17:00 and 23:00 tonight? I know where
I'll be and it won't involve sitting around with my thumb up my arse in
front of "the idiot's lantern".

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...

"Edster" wrote in message
...
"Bill Wright" wrote:



"Light of Aria" wrote in message
...
I'm what you would call hyper-sensitive - or with heightened
perception.
Most people would be on average. A small group will also be below
average
in perception abilities.

'Perception abilities' include the ability to discrimate between what
matters and what doesn't.

In any case, you flatter youself, dear boy. You are what my generation
calls
'neurotic'. In your words above you have attempted to rationalise your
disability into a talent.

That's the diagnosis. Now, the treatment. Get a life.

Bill


Why do you see people who still watch TV for entertainment purposes
rather than just have it on in the background as people who need to
"get a life"?

And where did I say anything about people who watch TV for entertainment?
My comments were entirely concerned with Mr Aria's ludicrous assertion
that his objections to DOGS are the result of his perceptual abilities
being superior to everyone else's. It was a personal attack, not a general
comment.

Bill




Did IQ's just drop?

I did not say what you misquote.

I said individuals have varying perception abilities.

I did not say that hyper-sensitivity was superior. In much the same way that
a receiver can be hampered if it receives too much signal (or noise),
receiving too much visual input would put one at a major disadvantage to
another individual with dulled sensitivity.

Perception and Interpretation are two separate factors.

I don't think a TV viewer should have to run some exercise in content
filtering and information de-processing.

And as you are suggesting, as I suggest, that information de-processing then
has to occur, is it logical to suggest that the entire population processes
the information in the same way or do you think that there will be variance
within the population of how the information is received and interpreted?