*Bob*

The slightest of affronts is a disgrace. The smallest of achievements is genius. It's a world of hyperbole. It's all a load bo1locks.

Personally I think the world has gone mad. Trance (circa 1995) has conquered America, leading to the bizarre sight of supposedly cool rappers fronting up backing tracks reminiscent of the Vengaboys.

Good thinking. It could go Dum-Da DOO,da um-chakkachakka BAM Ba-DA, Ba-DA.. Dubstep stylee

It goes DUURRRR... wo-wo-wo.. Um-chakkachakkaBAM DUUUURRR

But even if ("if") that were the case, it's still a win-win on the awareness front. The sponsorship element is fine, but the yearly reminder to give your nadgers the once-over is more important. There are lots of genuine reasons to thumb your nose at a particular charity or other (say, Comic Relief because of Lenny Henry) but this one seems to be a perfect balance of being both well useful and completely harmless.

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > music for a hundred tv ads like, TOTALLY It's totally suited to flashy, in-your-face, impacts-with-visuals functional purposes. It's totally unsuited to dancing and having a good time.

You get the crest of the wave, then you get the commercial backwash.

Genuinely exciting musical evolution or po-faced flash-in-the-pan that takes itself far too seriously? Any thoughts, East Dulwich?

I expect they were hoping to smash the machine from within, Jez. It must be annoying to have your one hit song misappropriated by a slew of non-groovy corporations, but I expect the MCPS and PRS reimbursement will be something of comfort to them during the dark years to come.

A saw a Hitler 'tache last year - which won my respect. For the record, of course I 'buy into' Movember. Can there really be any reasonable reasons for not doing so?!

Yeah, I don't 'buy into' that whole cancer charity thing, either. You can't fool me with your moneyraising awareness lifesaving nonsense. Pulling a shopping trolley out of the local canal though.. now you're talking.

Are there any other examples of giant media organisations around the world that this newly-modernised BBC could aspire to be more like? CBS? News International? Disney?

I'm a 'Quies' man, myself. Great 'plug. The only thing about wearing earplugs is that you kind-of get addicted to them - and if you run-out you're liable to get woken-up by the sound of a mouse farting two doors down.

Ultimately, Christopher's chances of sustaining a career as a respected solo artist may be adversely affected by him shaking like a shitting dog when on stage.

Great news all around. Paedo-obsessed Britain, who's spent the last few weeks whispering, nudging, googling, pointing and twittering now know who the real villain is.. Why The Beeb, of course.

Surely it's not enough that the entire BBC reduced to rubble, offices razed to the ground and every employee thrown off a cliff into a snake pit? No, we should consider dismantling the very cosmos itself; reducing it back to molecular level - in the hope that it rebuilds itself in a better way. For all our futures.

Airport Express. ?75 - bosh. Works really well.

I'm beaming my music direct to my brain in 3D - using a holographic matrix flux capacitor. Do I win?

it's very very very very very very very very slow dismally slow deathly slow

Bag of Easi-Fill? It's quite Easi to use. Much better than DIY affairs and a bit more forgiving in untrained hands.

I don't have enough money to give Kirstie Allsop a run for her money. Great shows though. If I simply must have the basics of thrift, make do and mend outlined to me, I'd definitely like it done by somebody sitting on top of a stack of cash and delivered in plummy tones.

We use ours upturned on a highly polished floor and - with the aid of a broom each - re-enact the best moments from our favourite curling matches.

It's the same every year, no better, no worse! At the end of summer, as the last shred of solar warmth pisses off for another six months and Christmas is but a shadow at the end of a line in the sand, you scamper to the gogglebox at the prospect of a few cheap laughs, some massaged human-interest stories and a preposterously over-lit set. Enjoyment levels peak around judges houses and the first few live shows, then it's the slow, steady descent into banality and self-loathing as you see it through to the bitter end. At the close, you want to kill everyone and everything at ITV. Looking forward to 2013 though.

Jimmy Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Less tired, today, I wonder whether I should have > said something to her. A simple 'thanks for keeping me entertained during my journey home' would have sufficed.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If I were rash enough to invest the wife's money > in a new TV, what would you suggest? A giant Panasonic plasma.