The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Thropplenoggin]

The buffoons on Breakfast are no longer merely content to scrape the bottom of the barrel and serve it up to the weary listener, they now insist on having some sort of meta-trailer, trailing the programme in media res with 'Coming up...'.

Thropplenoggin wept!

'Damn them, damn them all to hell!'

[mercia]

Thropplenoggin wept!

'Damn them, damn them all to hell!'

you probably knew you weren't going to enjoy the programme even before you switched on
do you have masochistic tendencies ?

[Thropplenoggin]

you knew you weren't going to enjoy the programme even before you switched on
do you have masochistic tendencies ?

No pain, no gain?

[mercia]

No pain, no gain?

fair enough
so what have you gained ?

[Thropplenoggin]

fair enough
so what have you gained ?

Knowledge. And knowledge is power. I now know that they trail their own programme during the programme. With 'Coming up', they have crossed the Rubicon. I shall henceforth snub the programme on a quotidian basis.

[Nick Armstrong]

I shall henceforth snub the programme on a quotidian basis.

Good phrase that

Doesn't it mean you have to inform them each day that you are doing so? Is a 'snub' a 'snub' if the 'snubbee' doesn't know about it?

[french frank]

you probably knew you weren't going to enjoy the programme even before you switched on
do you have masochistic tendencies ?

When you're told 'Since you don't listen, you have no right to express an opinion', you listen (as Throppers has said) from time to time to validate your view.

It allows you to turn and fight rather than leave the field to the triumphant opposition. Them or us? But when nothing changes, there's no further need to listen.

[mercia]

'Since you don't listen, you have no right to express an opinion'

I don't recall ever having said that to thropplenoggin, though I admit to having occasional lapses of memory

[Thropplenoggin]

When you're told 'Since you don't listen, you have no right to express an opinion', you listen (as Throppers has said) from time to time to validate your view.

It allows you to turn and fight rather than leave the field to the triumphant opposition. Them or us? But when nothing changes, there's no further need to listen.

[Thropplenoggin]

Good phrase that

Doesn't it mean you have to inform them each day that you are doing so? Is a 'snub' a 'snub' if the 'snubbee' doesn't know about it?

I have taken it as tacit that SMP et al are glued to this thread. Perhaps they see it as a provocation, and adjust the playlist and presentation accordingly, upping the waltzes and rodeo music, Tweet count and trailers.

[mercia]

I decided several years ago that I didn't like BBCTV's Eastenders

I must say it wouldn't occur to me to occasionally watch it to make sure I still didn't like it

[french frank]

I decided several years ago that I didn't like BBCTV's Eastenders

I must say it wouldn't occur to me to occasionally watch it to make sure I still didn't like it

But EastEnders is what you expect to see on BBC One (?) - it's what BBC One (?) is for. It's on twice a week (?) for half an hour (?), not at peak viewing time. Easier to decide not to bother. But Breakfast is on (I generouslyy exclude weekends) five mornings a week, for two and a half hours, at peak listening time for radio, and it's targeted at people who don't listen because they think Radio 3 is 'too daunting' but might be tempted to listen if it's made more suitable for under tens. And then there's Essential Classics, three hours every weekday morning, aimed at retaining that same Breakfast audience as far as possible and pulling Radio 4 listeners over to Radio 3 at 9am rather than letting them be tempted over to Classic FM.

Five and a half hours of peak listening devoted to other people isn't the same as the small amount of EastEnders. Which is why there are complaints from those excluded from Radio 3's morning programmes because they are just not good enough.

[Nick Armstrong]

waltzes and rodeo music, Tweet count and trailers

Says it all, Throppers, says it all

[mercia]

might be tempted to listen if it's made more suitable for under tens

that's rather insulting to all the adults who currently enjoy the Breakfast programme, isn't it ?

I shall now consider myself "excluded" from BBC One because Eastenders (+ The Now Show + Holby City etc. etc.) are "just not good enough"
.............. or is it simply that I don't happen to like them, while apparently millions do

[arancie33]

that's fairly insulting to all the adults who currently enjoy the Breakfast programme, isn't it ?

You mean there are some?