Making the news today....

[roboted]

BBC Radio 1 will not play the original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics.

The station said young listeners were particularly sensitive to derogatory terms for gender and sexuality.

It will instead play an edited version with different lyrics sung by MacColl.

But the 1987 original will still be played on Radio 2, while 6 Music DJs can choose between the two versions.

???

[Stere]

Money for military AI etc

 

UK military to get biggest spending boost in 30 years

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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The defence secretary says it will make sure the armed forces do not fight "yesterday's battles".

 

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The money will fund space and cyber defence projects such as an artificial intelligence agency, and could create 40,000 new jobs.

 

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A new "space command", which will be capable of launching a first rocket in 2022

 

Space command & rockets? part of operation moonshot maybe?

 

& a job for  fatima after all ?

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, Stere said:

Money for military AI etc

 

It looks like good old fashioned keynsian economics, couple this with the decision to go ahead with HS2, renewable energy etc.and devaluation of the pound post the referendum  the government will spend its way out of depression.

 

Just let's hope UK Ltd. can pick up the baton and run with it without dropping it to China Tech or Trumptown.

[Khriss]

@Stere did see another write up on this by a defence consultant- viewing tbe Armenia Azerbaijani conflict, some of the new aerial tech is now completely invalidating current armour / soldier concepts, serious chance of us pissing away huge monies on pointless kit.  K

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

6 hours ago, roboted said:

BBC Radio 1 will not play the original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics.

The station said young listeners were particularly sensitive to derogatory terms for gender and sexuality.

It will instead play an edited version with different lyrics sung by MacColl.

But the 1987 original will still be played on Radio 2, while 6 Music DJs can choose between the two versions.

???

Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from f*ing around with LoHaG?

 

Morons. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

@Stere did see another write up on this by a defence consultant- viewing tbe Armenia Azerbaijani conflict, some of the new aerial tech is now completely invalidating current armour / soldier concepts, serious chance of us pissing away huge monies on pointless kit.  K

Shocker.....

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from f*ing around with LoHaG?

 

Morons. 

This is such an invented story, they did a revised version in 1992 using the word haggerd instead of faggot. This has been the normal version played on radio for 25 years. 

 

But it’s news now and those looking for outrage have latched on to it. 
 

You’ve been played @kevinjohnsonmbe
 

Edited November 19, 2020 by Mick Dempsey

[Mark J]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from f*ing around with LoHaG?

 

Morons. 

Shane MacGowan has a way with words

Edited November 19, 2020 by Mark J

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

45 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

This is such an invented story, they did a revised version in 1992 using the word haggerd instead of faggot. This has been the normal version played on radio for 25 years. 

 

But it’s news now and those looking for outrage have latched on to it. 
 

You’ve been played @kevinjohnsonmbe
 

Of course it’s been the same for years, I’ve listened to it for years.
 

Even had it played by the Black Fridays who were our wedding band!  

Black Friday Home - High Energy Folk & Celtic Punk Rock - Cornwall

WWW.BLACKFRIDAYBAND.CO.UK

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Black Friday are a high energy folk and celtic punk rock band from Cornwall in the United Kingdom

 

 

Its the same sh1t every year. 
 

Just like the dog in the Dambisters. 
 

Every year the same from the BBC, every year the same ‘outrage’ from Victor Meldrew. 
 

It’s become as ‘traditional’ as turkey & stuffing. ??

[Mark J]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Of course it’s been the same for years, I’ve listened to it for years.
 

Even had it played by the Black Fridays who were our wedding band!  

Black Friday Home - High Energy Folk & Celtic Punk Rock - Cornwall

WWW.BLACKFRIDAYBAND.CO.UK

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Black Friday are a high energy folk and celtic punk rock band from Cornwall in the United Kingdom

 

 

Its the same sh1t every year. 
 

Just like the dog in the Dambisters. 
 

Every year the same from the BBC, every year the same ‘outrage’ from Victor Meldrew. 
 

It’s become as ‘traditional’ as turkey & stuffing. ??

Look like a decent band.