The BSkyB argument thread

[Mr Pee]

My view is that Sir Simon Rattle is one of the great conductors of the age. We do not see enough of him; certainly not in an hour-long discussion. In my view this was/is worth mentioning. To use FF's term, "really worth mentioning". Does R3 still have interviews of this length? Private Passions, I suppose, but that has musical extracts.

I might add that I have no interest in arguments or squabbles.

Yes, me too. I will admit to being a bit puzzled by FF's post. The Mahler symphonies are certainly worth mentioning, as is the interview with Sir Simon- I missed that too, I must try and catch a repeat at some point. Thanks for drawing it to my attention.

[MrGongGong]

On the other hand - Sky viewers - be sensible () : please limit your comments to programmes really worth mentioning. This is the Radio 3 Forum not for people who spend their lives watching Sky Arts and using this forum as a promotional tool .............

I'm shocked to think that anyone would consider doing this

[Flosshilde]

Mr Pee, just recently I have used the 'ignore' facility on a couple of people who have been irritating me. At first, it was just a flounce, but I found that it works really well!

You get the thread, but without the text of moron's post showing! Try it!!!

That's clever, BO - you manage to ignore yoiur own posts! (actually, putting you on ignore is rather a good idea, as I've never seen a post from you that isn't a juvenile 'insult')




You, & a few others, don't quite get the point that you have a thread where you can alert each other to BSB programmes (on the talking about music forum) & you got very disgruntled when I (& others) commented unfavourably on both the programming & ownership, & this part of the thread was separated from it. So it seems a little perverse (& provocative?) for you to start posting on here instead or the original thread.

[Mr Pee]

& if you missed those, there will be another 10 along soon (or is it the same 10, on an endless loop?)

So it seems a little perverse (& provocative?) for you to start posting on here instead or the original thread.

You would know all about provocation, it seems.

[Beef Oven]

Just to clarify one point : I started this thread (and gave it the title) by hiving off some BSKyB 'comments' from another thread (see OP) and to allow some disagreements here if people wanted to indulge (argument = squabble). It is not the thread for discussing or drawing attention to Sky programmes. That's perfectly allowable and such threads should not be sabotaged by anti-Murdoch comments.

On the other hand - Sky viewers - be sensible () : please limit your comments to programmes really worth mentioning. This is the Radio 3 Forum not for people who spend their lives watching Sky Arts and using this forum as a promotional tool .............

Anyone get a final warning for clear intentions to annoy? Of course not, that smacks of consistency!

[MrGongGong]

Surely if one tells someone that they are ignoring them then they aren't
i'm sure there are lots of people who really DO ignore others (much in the same way that I avoid listening to Elgar's Dream of..........)

but some like to use it in what one might call a "passive aggressive" way ......... (not mentioning anyone in particular )

[french frank]

Yes, me too. I will admit to being a bit puzzled by FF's post.

And I posted with in an effort to clarify...

If you post your Sky programme recommendations on a thread (this one) where people are bickering about Murdoch, don't be surprised if you get unhelpful responses.

If there is a programme you think worth flagging up, start a new thread, title it informatively, and I will remove disruptive posts (if I see them or if you tell me about them) to this thread.

If your main interest is Sky, if you want to be continually posting about Sky, and you have nothing whatever to say about Radio 3 programmes, go and find a Sky forum to post on.

[MrGongGong]

If your main interest is Sky, if you want to be continually posting about Sky, and you have nothing whatever to say about Radio 3 programmes, go and find a Sky forum to post on.

Steady on French he is going to need to ride that bike later and it doesn't help if you boot him up the arse while he is trying to get back on



(given that this is an "argument" thread)

[french frank]

Steady on French he is going to need to ride that bike later and it doesn't help if you boot him up the arse while he is trying to get back on

(given that this is an "argument" thread)

Yes, it is an argument thread and it's in the Diversions Forum - which means it can't be read by non-members and thus lower the forum's reputation for serious, intelligent debate ...

[MrGongGong]

Yes, it is an argument thread and it's in the Diversions Forum - which means it can't be read by non-members and thus lower the forum's reputation for serious, intelligent debate ...

Best place for it ............... IMV

[Flosshilde]

Yes, me too. I will admit to being a bit puzzled by FF's post. The Mahler symphonies are certainly worth mentioning, as is the interview with Sir Simon-

But not on this thread, which is the point that ff (& I) was making, in very simple language, but which you stil don't seem to understand. Next time perhaps it should be written like a Rupert Bear strip - with each sylable separated by a hyphen.

[VodkaDilc]

So it seems a little perverse (& provocative?) for you to start posting on here instead or the original thread.

I made the original posting about Simon Rattle. It was in the interval of a programme I had discovered by accident and which I knew others would enjoy. So I hurriedly looked for somewhere to post it. I saw BSkyB as a title and thought it might be a suitable place. I was wrong. I was not being deliberately perverse and certainly not provocative. I do not follow the petty arguments on these boards, so I was unaware of a 'divided post'.

It seems to me that the petty bickering is ruining these boards as a place for sharing views on points of interest to those who listen to R3 (which must include television broadcasts surely).

[MrGongGong]

But not on this thread, which is the point that ff (& I) was making, in very simple language, but which you stil don't seem to understand. Next time perhaps it should be written like a Rupert Bear strip - with each sylable separated by a hyphen.

Is that the approved form of essay layout at UN ?

[VodkaDilc]

But not on this thread, which is the point that ff (& I) was making, in very simple language, but which you stil don't seem to understand. Next time perhaps it should be written like a Rupert Bear strip - with each sylable separated by a hyphen.

Rupert Bear? As in:

Flossie's in an awful mood.
When she is, she's very rude.

Sorry, I don't normally get involved in bickering but that was asking for it. Now I'll retire to my garden.

[Flosshilde]

I do not follow the petty arguments on these boards,

No? Take a look at page 4 & 5 of this thread