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Boy Oh Boy Judders, with your recent skewed outpourings you will be elected to the Lounge Committee.... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Ken,
Lord Reith passed away some time ago. You really ought to ditch the 405 lines set and get one of those satellite thingies.
My Mum still wants the Internet closed.
 
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Don't start me...

..too late, you've started me.

BBC Cornwall is the very essence of why Cornwall is in the state it's in. Nobody stays at BBC Cornwall long enough to actually understand the Cornish, our identity, our culture or even what we want to read on the god dam BBC Cornwall website.

All through the winter we are subjected to the London prescription of local football news, even if that means that we have to read how St Ives got on against Mosehole on Sunday morning! Meanwhile, further down the listings you will read about some second class game called rugby which, it turns out, was either watched live or played by 20000 people over the weekend (in a Duchy of half a million, the better part of whom are elderly!).

Then, at the end of the rugby season, we get the annual 'Sharks seen off Cornwall Shocker!" headline. Of course there are sharks of Cornwall you numpty grockelling emmets, there always are in the spring! It's no more news than the idea of there being cod in the North Sea [twenty years ago], if you could stay around our forgotten backwater for more than a year then you would know this.

I could go on but it's 0900 and I should start doing some work.
 
With the Beeb being all London poofs, the Government being all Scots lawyers, and God being a Yorkshireman - I suppose you are bound to feel a bit left out. You'll just have to settle for making pasties whilst singing about Trelawney.

Happiness is pastie shaped. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Why should Cornwall be different from the rest of us?

We are in Dorset (Poole) and the BBC don't recognise us, we are sometimes South West and sometimes South East, we used to be Central Southern but they rationalised us to save money. Our local TV coverage area extends to Banbury which I reckon is 'Midlands' and the local weather person as like as not speaks some strange unintellible tongue from north of Hadrian's Wall (but that is probably only just out of our TV area).

Vote for an Independent Dorset NOW! Let the revolution begin.
 
Tell me about it! I used to live at the northern tip of Gloucestershire and got the local news from Southampton, which also covered Brighton. If I retuned, I could get Birmingham which also covered Stoke on Trent.
 
Cornish bigots

Its the 'Cornwall for the Cornish', them and us attitude such as displayed here in all its wonderful bigotry that keeps it where it is.
I live there, I work there, I sail a boat designed and built there. It is a great place for ALL. Would you like a bit of ethnic cleansing in the county then?
Christ is this really 2007?
 
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'Sharks seen off Cornwall Shocker!" headline. Of course there are sharks of Cornwall you numpty grockelling emmets

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If "Sharks' of Cornwall" isn't a bus company, it would be a good name for one! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I know, it's nuts isn't it. On the BBC website is was buried in the Sports section under the 'Other Sports' tab.

And of course in the US it was buried behind a load of baseball and basketball news.
 
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