Comments on: Daily Dose.

Daily Dose.

gman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:41:11 -0800

Concise, bite-size summaries of the wisdom of the BBC's pure and godly Platitude of the Day presenters. With original text and speech.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:26:59 -0800

Demi-amusing. But then if I made a website about TFTD, it'd just be videos of me drinking tea in my pyjamas and intermittently muttering the word 'cunt' at a radio, so what do I know.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:24 -0800

For those seeking context, Thought For The Day is a daily (surprise!) musing/rant/bromide from a semi-public figure, on BBC Radio 4, for about 3 minutes, usually a religious one. It can be pretty good, but is more often than not fairly platidinous, as this website would call it. BBC Website.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:30:42 -0800

Note, this is something you'd have to listen to this regularly to understand.

By: gman

gman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:32:39 -0800

Sorry. I figured the 'Listen' and 'Read' links at the bottom of each post would help people understand.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:38:04 -0800

In relation to the recent On the Hour thread, they used to do an excellent piss take of it. The one where the vicar discovered ecstacy always has me in hysterics. "I felt somewhat displaced until a youg man took me into the lavatory and sold me a tab of E, henceforth I bopped 'til daybreak in single minded pursuit of the groove. Jesus didn't dance but his beat goes on".

By: explosion

explosion — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:46:30 -0800

I feel as though I'm missing something. They're neither amusing in a sincere way, nor so over-the-top banal that I can appreciate them in a sort of satirical manner. It's almost clear that I'm just missing something, but I read 4 or 5 of them, and clicked "back" feeling like someone linked me to the text equivalent of the Thomas Kinkade painting of the day. Banal, but not hilariously so.

By: gman

gman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:59:24 -0800

Alright, fair enough. I ain't gonna win the competition, but I enjoyed some of them.

By: game warden to the events rhino

game warden to the events rhino — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:43:56 -0800

I cannot believe I missed that On The Hour thread while it was still current. My username owes everything to On The Hour. I feel as pathetic as that jam festival woman.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:49:20 -0800

"Did Jesus play for Tottenham Hotspurs, daddy?" And you know, in a way, he did.

By: ninebelow

ninebelow — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:48:01 -0800

Rabbi Lionel Blair.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:18:10 -0800

Happy Dave wrote: For those seeking context, Thought For The Day is a daily (surprise!) musing/rant/bromide from a semi-public figure, on BBC Radio 4, for about 3 minutes, usually a religious one. Nope, it's always religious, and the BBC explicitly refuses to invite speakers to provide a TFTD from a non-religious/secular/atheist/whatever perspective. In 2002, the National Secular Society and the British Humanists complained about that. So the BBC gave Richard bloody Dawkins a two minute slot to speak on current affairs from an atheist viewpoint. Once. They're also pretty narrow when it comes to the religions allowed on - it's overwhelmingly Christian, Muslim and Jewish.

By: mippy

mippy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:25:07 -0800

In 2002, the National Secular Society and the British Humanists complained about that. So the BBC gave Richard bloody Dawkins a two minute slot to speak on current affairs from an atheist viewpoint. Once. That'll be why, then. The Radio 2 version tended to be more diverse - they often had Sikh and Buddhist correspondents. It tends to be more 'spiritual' than, IIRC, the doctrinal quality of TFTD, and as an agnostic I found it interesting to listen to.