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I watch BBC4 repeats all the time, most of the time not remembering the content first time round anyway, so I’m quite happy watching repeats. It has always amused me, though, in that, years ago people moaned when anything was repeated on BBC/ITV. To be fair, I suppose, back then, there wasn’t the choice available that we have now. When was ‘When the Boat Comes In’ repeated? I ‘d love to see it, having missed most of it first time round. As for racing, if it was no longer on terrestrial tv I’m not sure that I could afford to pay to watch it and we would struggle to get new people interested, and I find that terribly sad.
As for racing, if it was no longer on terrestrial tv I’m not sure that I could afford to pay to watch it and we would struggle to get new people interested, and I find that terribly sad.
Indeed. See cricket for further details.
Mike
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When was ‘When the Boat Comes In’ repeated? I ‘d love to see it, having missed most of it first time round
About a year ago. It’s available on Youtube, though the listings seem very jumbled so can’t be sure all 50-odd episodes are there
Another of the boons of Virginmedia – and I concur with Clivexx’s observations on the broadband service – is being able to watch Youtube on it i.e. on your TV
A Fire Stick is £40
Fire TV with 4K capability for Ultra HD is £70
I was once offered a Firestick for £7 on a Prime Day but I didn’t invest.
You can get Kodi boxes for under £30 these days. The Kodi software originated on the XBox but it quickly became the go to program for hacking the guts out of media players and accessing free content that you would normally have to pay for. The Now TV boxes used to be able to be hacked and were a very cheap way to watch live content from SKY TV etc. They have been tightened up now I believe.
I tried a Kodi box but found that many of the streams were dead links and that the general experience was not as seamless as they promised. I returned my Kodi box and noted that the seller was very vague when I asked about the legality situation.
I can usually access live Racing through the Internet for free but for those who want to try a Firestick my mate recommends a second hand one, which won’t cost much and there are guides to setting it up. Picture quality won’t be 4K but how many sources broadcast in that format anyway?
My Daughter doesn’t have a TV Licence by the way. She only uses her TV as a monitor for her PS4 and doesn’t watch any Live TV. The Licencing people have accepted that fact and concurred that she doesn’t require a Licence.
My neighbour in the 1970’s never had a Licence at all. He told my Mother that the TV seemed to work perfectly well without it
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Chromecast was/is similar to Fire but was always, almost universally, considered inferior.
I have a Chromebook rather than a Laptop and can cast any internet content to my TV at the click of an icon.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
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I don’t think Clive is being racist here. There is certainly language / accent barriers from Call Centres based in other countries whether it be India or another country. I know from personal experience I struggle with them and I’m sure they struggle with my Yorkshire accent. Not that some Call Centres in the UK are also horrendous and there can be accent barriers here too.Yes the poster is a ****** idiot.
Their call center was/is rerouted to Liverpool during the day and is just fine The Indian branch is total crap not just on accent but efficiency too.
I can give at least three pretty horrific examples including one where they didn’t respond or assist when my email account was hacked. That was serious because it led to attempted fraudulent transactions over many months
The rough end of the Clivexxxx tongue, poor sod
My limited experience of Far-Eastern call centres is one of communication problems and limited help too: it most certainly isn’t ‘racist’ (for fk sake
) to acknowledge a factWhat should annoy folk is that these far-flung employees are used at all by Western big-biz: cheap labour, poor working conditions, dubious employment rights
Globalization: doncha just love it
My neighbour in the 1970’s never had a Licence at all. He told my Mother that the TV seemed to work perfectly well without it
We once had a visit when I was a kid. My mum was just going out as the detector van pulled up. She told the man where the licence was as my dad wouldn’t have had a clue. The man came to the door and said “I’ve come to check you have a valid TV licence, it’s on top of the TV” to which my dad responded “Bloody hell these detector vans are good nowadays aren’t they”
I heard a recurrent rumour that those sci-fi Commer vans driven by earnest-looking chaps in smart uniforms couldn’t actually detect TVs and were a spoof designed to scare people in to buying a licence; and knock-on-the-door checks were random, based on little more than a gander to see if there was an aerial on the roof for an address that wasn’t registered as having a licence
It freaks me out somewhat that I no longer have a piece of paper that tells me that I have paid my tv licence; ditto car tax. I KNOW I pay by direct debit, but still have the odd panic attack that I haven’t paid….I must admit to finding Indian call centres frustrating because my hearing isn’t as good as it was which means I can’t understand what they’re saying a lot of the time, but I do try to be pleasant because they’re only doing their job and they’re probably paid a pittance.
“What should annoy folk is that these far-flung employees are used at all by Western big-biz: cheap labour, poor working conditions, dubious employment rights”
And that’s the way Rees-Mogg, Boris, May and all their Tory cronies would like to see it in the UK, Drone. We are halfway there with temp jobs and zero hours contracts massaging the unemployment figures. Meanwhile, all the services that provide the vital safety net to society, from local councils to the NHS, are being starved of cash.
Oh, the irony! We have come almost full circle from the conditions accurately portrayed in ‘When The Boat Comes In’ when those who had fought for King and country just a few years before were left on the scrapheap.
After 50 odd years of the working class gaining some of its due rights and a reasonable amount of social ownership of the means of production, T****her and her neoliberal followers have destroyed this country where two world wars could not. In no small way via the mogadon-like propaganda of the right wing capitalist press and soap operas socialising folk into what to think, feel and aspire to, turning them from activists to sheep.
In the words of Eddy Morton: “Baaaa, Baaaaaa”.
Bit much, calling someone a racist for mentioning an indian call centre Gladiateur!!
I hate Indian call centres too, it’s very frustrating. Does that make me a racist too?
I think you need to revaluate what racism is. Because Moehat’s post is so far from racist, that it’s unreal. I’m baffled how you see racism there, I’ve read the post over and over too.
Golden Miller wrote:
the mogadon-like propaganda of the right wing capitalist press and soap operas socialising folk into what to think, feel and aspire to, turning them from activists to sheep.
The ‘soma’ of Huxley’s Brave New World manifests itself in our old, decaying world as alcohol, junk food, rampant consumerism and cheap holidays in the sun; the ‘feelies’ as soap operas, reality tv and social media
Today’s press – of all political leanings – resembles Orwell’s ‘doublethink’
Keep the proles confused but keep them happy by filling them with fleetingly-enjoyable crap
Good stuff GM: Dave Spart eat yer heart out
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