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Finally a good use for my license fee! (Aside from David Attenborough documentaries, they’ve always been worth it)

by jonplackett 7y ago

petepete 7y ago
And a fair chunk of both BBC 4 and BBC Radio 4.
- halfer53 7y ago
  Lol
jen729w 7y ago
Licence fee. 🇬🇧
- uryga 7y ago
  offtopic, but how'd you get an emoji in a HN comment?? (maybe it doesn't get stripped bc the flag is encoded as [U][K], two "letterlike symbols" but still it's the first time i've seen one!)
  - bb123 7y ago
    I guess it is probably because most people are using desktops/laptops to browse HN. I feel like Emoji use on QWERTY keyboards is harder/less common. It is possible though: 🇺🇳
    - uryga 7y ago
      i was referring to the fact that last time i checked, HN stripped emoji. hold on let me check: edit: yeah, my cat got removed :/ I guess they're distinguished by unicode block: the regional indicator letters are "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement", and emoji are "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs". still not sure why remove them though
      - bb123 7y ago
        Can you see my UN flag? I also posted one of their easter island faces but that got stripped.
        buckminster 7y ago
        But I had to zoom right in to see which flag it was. So it fails as a flag.
        uryga 7y ago
        actually no, i can't! it just shows "U N" in a bold blue capital letters, which explains some of the confusion i guess. (Android 7.0)
    - reaperducer 7y ago
      On a Mac, if you have the input menu enabled in the menu bar, selecting "Show Emoji & Symbols" will pop open a palette allowing you to put all kinds of things into pretty much any text input. System Preferences → Keyboard → Show input menu in menu bar
    - ToastyMallows 7y ago
      On Windows you can hit Win+; to pull up an emoji keyboard!
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    Quite a lot of emoji are allowed on HN. I once saw someone make a post enumerating them all.
rvz 7y ago
> Finally a good use for my license fee! While I agree that no news corporation should ever be censored and should be accessible to all including the "dark-web", the level of clickbait / fake-news level content on the BBC website is getting ridiculous in some areas and contradicts with their duty to be fair, impartial and balanced as the only UK state broadcaster privileged with a royal charter. Apart from the actual World News section, the front page + newsbeat section is completely littered with frivolous cringe-worthy content and memes that isn't worth paying attention to, neither is purchasing the TV license for.
- black_puppydog 7y ago
  They seem to have made it their task to report in depth on every single violent crime in the country. Being from Germany and having never lived in the UK, this is weird to me. For a crime to end up on tagesschau.de (the German equivalent to bbc.co.uk/news ) it needs to be of... well... national interest. This just seems like yellow press, honestly. Or is there something I'm missing? edit: also their "reporting" on anything climate related is amazing. It's no wonder that extinction rebellion, a movement originating in the UK, has as the first demand to "tell the truth". At first I was confused because climate change in my media consumption was a regularly occurring topic. But then I checked the bbc website. See [1] for a screenshot. This is at a time, mind you, when the whole of Europe was shattering temperature records left and right, and Greenland was melting. And they choose to report on a thumb wrestling tournament. [1]: http://muchmuch.coffee:8989/blobs/get/&Jwu6gu4Ub33VBWbmz6YbTXM85jPmXtBPL8/F0Uhiy9M=.sha256 http://muchmuch.coffee:8989/blobs/get/&Jwu6gu4Ub33VBWbmz6YbT...
  - amigiac 7y ago
    They say the BBC bend to the wishes of the current government, they seem in recent years to be bending towards the Daily Mail, using fear-mongering to attract clicks and viewers, ignoring climate change protests to not put off car owners. Joining in with the newspapers by smearing anyone who speaks against the Tory party.
    - goatinaboat 7y ago
Mobius01 7y ago
I’m very grateful for all paying the license fees. Through the BBCs language education programs I was able to learn English and it changed the course of my life. So thank you!

Finally a good use for my license fee! (Aside from David Attenborough documentaries, they’ve always been worth it)

petepete 7y ago

And a fair chunk of both BBC 4 and BBC Radio 4.

halfer53 7y ago
Lol

jen729w 7y ago

Licence fee. 🇬🇧

uryga 7y ago
offtopic, but how'd you get an emoji in a HN comment?? (maybe it doesn't get stripped bc the flag is encoded as [U][K], two "letterlike symbols" but still it's the first time i've seen one!)
- bb123 7y ago
  I guess it is probably because most people are using desktops/laptops to browse HN. I feel like Emoji use on QWERTY keyboards is harder/less common. It is possible though: 🇺🇳
  - uryga 7y ago
    i was referring to the fact that last time i checked, HN stripped emoji. hold on let me check: edit: yeah, my cat got removed :/ I guess they're distinguished by unicode block: the regional indicator letters are "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement", and emoji are "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs". still not sure why remove them though
    - bb123 7y ago
      Can you see my UN flag? I also posted one of their easter island faces but that got stripped.
      - buckminster 7y ago
        But I had to zoom right in to see which flag it was. So it fails as a flag.
      - uryga 7y ago
        actually no, i can't! it just shows "U N" in a bold blue capital letters, which explains some of the confusion i guess. (Android 7.0)
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    On a Mac, if you have the input menu enabled in the menu bar, selecting "Show Emoji & Symbols" will pop open a palette allowing you to put all kinds of things into pretty much any text input. System Preferences → Keyboard → Show input menu in menu bar
  - ToastyMallows 7y ago
    On Windows you can hit Win+; to pull up an emoji keyboard!
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  Quite a lot of emoji are allowed on HN. I once saw someone make a post enumerating them all.

rvz 7y ago

> Finally a good use for my license fee! While I agree that no news corporation should ever be censored and should be accessible to all including the "dark-web", the level of clickbait / fake-news level content on the BBC website is getting ridiculous in some areas and contradicts with their duty to be fair, impartial and balanced as the only UK state broadcaster privileged with a royal charter. Apart from the actual World News section, the front page + newsbeat section is completely littered with frivolous cringe-worthy content and memes that isn't worth paying attention to, neither is purchasing the TV license for.

black_puppydog 7y ago
They seem to have made it their task to report in depth on every single violent crime in the country. Being from Germany and having never lived in the UK, this is weird to me. For a crime to end up on tagesschau.de (the German equivalent to bbc.co.uk/news ) it needs to be of... well... national interest. This just seems like yellow press, honestly. Or is there something I'm missing? edit: also their "reporting" on anything climate related is amazing. It's no wonder that extinction rebellion, a movement originating in the UK, has as the first demand to "tell the truth". At first I was confused because climate change in my media consumption was a regularly occurring topic. But then I checked the bbc website. See [1] for a screenshot. This is at a time, mind you, when the whole of Europe was shattering temperature records left and right, and Greenland was melting. And they choose to report on a thumb wrestling tournament. [1]: http://muchmuch.coffee:8989/blobs/get/&Jwu6gu4Ub33VBWbmz6YbTXM85jPmXtBPL8/F0Uhiy9M=.sha256 http://muchmuch.coffee:8989/blobs/get/&Jwu6gu4Ub33VBWbmz6YbT...
- amigiac 7y ago
  They say the BBC bend to the wishes of the current government, they seem in recent years to be bending towards the Daily Mail, using fear-mongering to attract clicks and viewers, ignoring climate change protests to not put off car owners. Joining in with the newspapers by smearing anyone who speaks against the Tory party.
  - goatinaboat 7y ago

Mobius01 7y ago

I’m very grateful for all paying the license fees. Through the BBCs language education programs I was able to learn English and it changed the course of my life. So thank you!