Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Well I Never

According to the Telegraph today:

BBC executives eat together, drink together and 'have affairs with each other'  **

 On other pages:   Pope admits to being Catholic
                               Queen has Balcony
                               Ursus arctos horribilis prefers to defecate in sylvan setting

 **And that's only the men.

15 comments:

  1. And Scotsmen wear skirts! The horror, the horror!

    (Thank you, BS, for a post outside of the recently-donned blog robes of team probity -- else I should never be able to comment again!)

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    1. It's a kilt!!
      If something is worn underneath then it's a skirt.

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    2. Does that hold for girls too?

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    3. There are those who want know whether the myth is really true.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/victius/6408481745/

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    4. @Kendl: Aye, lad, I ken tha'! I hae me ain.

      @Anon 18:35, Myth? Depends who you ask. As for me, it's the only known reason for a man to wear a thong.

      ("Depends"?)

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  2. It's universal. Workplace romances, bosses desking their secretaries, etc.

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  3. Any vacancies at your place?

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  4. 'Desking a secretary'. Is that a technical term?

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    1. Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'Hot Desking'...

      Mog

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    2. Is that a technical term

      Yes it is.
      I refuse to comment on whether that term has been acquired through direct experience or not...

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  5. Before The Times went behind the pay-wall, I had the honour of causing a headline to be changed in their online page. It originally went "Woman first to give birth in Whatwasitsname Hospital". I e-mailed them asking -could it have been a man?- and in a few hours the headline was changed to something less XXII century. Very satisfactory. You can e-mail italian online newspapaers till you're blue in the keyboard without their turning a hair.

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    1. That's because they're all owned by Berlusconi

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    2. One would like to think so, wouldn't one. But no, they aren't.

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    3. Why is this news now? I just read that, in Greg Dyke's book "Inside Story". Published 2004. Here is the quote from page 208:

      "Like all big organisations the BBC was inbred, which made changing its culture even more difficult. BBC people tended to live their lives with other BBC people. They were their friends, their lovers, their husbands and wives. Even when they got divorced it was often to go off with or marry someone else from the BBC."

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  6. BBC executives only eat with each other? It was not always so. Greg Dyke says, when he was Director General, he "insisted on eating in the canteen with the staff instead of formal lunches or dinners" because he "wanted to talk directly to the people who worked for the BBC, not just the local bosses". He got sandwiches or salad from the canteen and talked to the people he met in the queue.

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