So today we all have to take the ones we love to a packed restaurant, eat from a set menu at greatly inflated prices and try to fulfill a commercial edict to demonstrate our love through expenditure and creativeness or at least discover a passing knowledge of the romantic poets so we can rip them…
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Kitten Arbitration
We were always worried about Milo’s reaction to a 10 week old kitten. Whilst beautiful, friendly and playful, Milo does have trust issues and can be really quite nervous. So he has quite a few people on his “things I have bitten” list as well as a dog and many other cats. For the last…
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Formula 1/2
Today the BBC announced that they will be sharing coverage of Formula 1 with Sky from next year, each party showing half the races live. The BBC will show highlights of the races it doesn’t show live. They will however continue to show live coverage of all races online. I know I’m never really in…
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Richard Hammond’s Journey to…hell
The new Richard Hammond show “Richard Hammond’s Journey To…” has two USPs (Unique Selling Points). 1. CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) – special effects to pre-digital consumers 2. Richard Hammod – a carefully choreographed ‘tongue in cheek, affable’ presenter with bad hair So to justify using a presenter from Top Gear, whose cheeky, nice boy persona…
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BBC, F1, Market Forces
Can anyone tell me how I can use my power as a consumer to register my dissatisfaction at the BBC selling off half their F1 coverage to Sky? With any other company I could stop purchasing products from them. Since we are legally obliged to buy a TV license how does the BBC measure consumer…
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