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YOUR COMPLAINT:
 
Complaint Summary: Waste of Licence Fee money.
 
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Re: ALEX JONES TRIP TO UTAH FOR SPORTS RELIEF 2014
 
Nice to see Alex doing her bit for Sport Relief, but can I ask who is paying the bill for the exorbitant cost of flying Ms Jones, her accompanying entourage, and her film crew to Utah? Plus, no doubt, they'll all be put up in luxury hotels for the duration of the visit?
 
Is it coming out of the money raised, or (more likely) coming out of my bloody Licence Fee, as usual. This jaunt, which seems to me like a complete waste of money, when I'm sure a similar challenge could have been found closer to home, is the main reason why I will refuse to donate to this year's Sport Relief. I'll allocate my annual charity budget to causes I choose, and not to those chosen by a Corporation that seems to think it can throw my Licence Fee away on little more than yet another free holiday for one of its overpaid presenters.
 
I'm guessing that the irony of spending a vast amount of money on such a pointless overseas expedition, while such monies could be given direct to the charitable causes is, as always, lost on the BBC.
 
No doubt, as usual, my complaint will never end up being read by anyone who could actually provide me with a reasonable answer to my points, but I've come to expect this from the 'faceless' BBC of late.
 
 
 
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Today I read the Beeb are considering cutting one or more channels completely to save money. BBC3 and BBC4 are being mooted as the ones up for the chop.
 
BBC4 is about the only channel I watch regularly, and just about the only place to find decent music related programmes outside of Sky Arts (which I don't have), and brilliant documentaries like this, which I was about to recommend;
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ipla...d_Before_the_Big_Bang/

jamesg1213
Today I read the Beeb are considering cutting one or more channels completely to save money. BBC3 and BBC4 are being mooted as the ones up for the chop.
 
BBC4 is about the only channel I watch regularly, and just about the only place to find decent music related programmes out side of Sky Arts (which I don't have).

I can't imagine that anyone would miss BBC3.  Strummy might want to know where the BBC3 money went though ! ;)
 
 

I suppose the license fee is better spent for rockets for Top Gear to strap on Mini Coopers down ski jumps.
They certainly are not spending the money for Dr Who special effects.
 

My idea of Sports Relief is when the bloody Olympics/World Cup/World Series/Super Bowl is over.

As an American who doesn't pay a license fee, I'm happy to watch Top Gear strap rockets on Mini Coopers and launch them down ski jumps. I also enjoy Dr. Who. As a matter of fact, I enjoy a large number of shows from over yonder.
 
Hope that helps.

I enjoy many U.K. shows as well.  I hope they reconsider.  

The UK has television now?

craigb
The UK has television now?

Someone tell him who invented it.

paulo

craigb
The UK has television now?

Someone tell him who invented it.

Gosh Paulo, that was a long time ago you know. 
 
it (pron.) Old English hit, neuter nominative and accusative of third person singular pronoun, from Proto-Germanic demonstrative base *khi- (cf. Old Frisian hit, Dutch het, Gothic hita "it"), from PIE *ko- "this" (see he). Used in place of any neuter noun, hence, as gender faded in Middle English, it took on the meaning "thing or animal spoken about before."

Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, 
If the folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 
[Pope, "Moral Essays," 1735]

The h- was lost due to being in an unemphasized position, as in modern speech the h- in "give it to him," "ask her," "is only heard in the careful speech of the partially educated" [Weekley]. It "the sex act" is from 1610s; meaning "sex appeal (especially in a woman)" first attested 1904 in works of Rudyard Kipling, popularized 1927 as title of a book by Elinor Glyn, and by application of It Girl to silent-film star Clara Bow (1905-1965). In children's games, meaning "the one who must tag the others" is attested from 1842.