The Have Your Say on Have Your Say thread - again.

The way to tackle alcohol "abuse" is to make life so interesting that nobody wants to get competely out of it.
That means redistributing opportunity, wealth and power to everybody.

Gerard Mulholland, Paris, France

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YEAH!

Um, ILX is intersting, and no-one here is the drunk, is it?

36 recommendations wouldn't even get him sugbanned, this is not a story imho

This blog is often quite snippy, the HYS comments speak for themselves, but this one is gold:

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2009/04/03/the-truth-hurts-and-dosent-get-printed/

We’ve gotta stand up, we’ve gotta be strong
We’ve gotta hold our nerve until the job is done
And they’ve made a killing,
They don’t care about the blood that they’re spilling

9/11, 9/11, what went down with building 7?
Ever since that fateful day
our civil rights have disappeared
A global fascist state draws near
and our freedom slips away
And they don’t give a stuff
They’ve made that clear enough
So now it’s up to us to bring ‘em down

keith, bournemouth

And they don’t give a stuff
They’ve made that clear enough
So now it’s up to us to bring ‘em down
keith, bournemouth

Because that last line erhymes also...

maybe it's like a countrified "and now it's up to us.......to bring em down" followed by banjo solo

I like how it manages to throw in some conspiracy theory with the "building 7" line, that really spices it up.

I like Barbour but wait a minute
The neighborhood supports so put some money in it
Corporations owe
Dey gotta give up the dough
To da town farm
or else we gotta shut 'em down

ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere is kind of lol but i'm mostly sad to see from a few posts back that they're shilling for fucking media lens now.

I think I would prefer a blog that collates the best HYS comments, without any of the sub-Charlie Brooker commentary appended.

I hope there's really an Immortal Technique track with the line "they don't give a stuff"

I think I would prefer a blog that collates the best HYS comments, without any of the sub-Charlie Brooker commentary appended.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 3 April 2009 10:47 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That is HYS.

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2009/04/30/when-youve-wanked-nineteen-eighty-four-dry/

Isenhorn

This poem is one of the most exploited and is used whether or not it is actually suitable to the topic at hand. How about an updated version:

First they came from India
And I did not speak out
Because we owed it to the Indians

Then they came from Pakistan
And I did not speak out
Because we had alredy let the Indians in

Then they came from Somalia
And I did not speak out
Even though I wanted to

Then they came from Poland
And I did not speak out
Because I was called a racist

Then they came from everywhere
And event though I tried to speak
Nobody listened

i like the sentiment of that poem

assuming the sentiment is, "eventually no one will listen to racists"

CAN YOU HELP?
Have Your Say on Video
Would you like the opportunity to share your opinions on video?

FUCK OFF AUNTIE

mind you, be good to get visual ID on "Topsy Turvy" for reprogrammed Alan Duncan termination purposes

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2009/04/22/bob-jackson-dementor/

^^^Neil S totally on point upthread, was lolling hard at this but scrolling down really kills the fun

Would you like the opportunity to share your opinions on video?

Nah, this will be classic. Well, it'll be hilarious until the novelty wears off at least.

Without wishing to descend into HYS ranting, what is is with the BBC wanting everyone to "share their opinions"? I go to the BBC because it's the nearest thing to an authoritative news source we have, and I don't give a flying fuck what Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells has to say about "issues", and even if I did I certainly wouldn't want to hear their views via the BBC.

This country, going to the dogs I tell you, I blame the 60s.

The over 60s, you mean

chortle

(xxpost) I think there's something in the BBC Charter that says that they have to allow people a way of putting across their opinions about BBC output?

That's fair enough, but should it then follow that people should be able to put their opinions across about anything, all the time? And should this "content" be included on their website and in news bulletins on TV?

It would turn the BBC in to some kind of "message board"!

Kill the elitist!!!!

they have a 606 msg board so i don't know why they don't have that for News instead of hopeless HYS model

(xxxpost) I think that asking people to send in videos is going a bit too far - it's almost like they're planning to make a cheap no-presenter "Points of View" style programme. And it also troubles me as it's part of a wider problem with the decline of television - TV companies making programmes that are just a string of "rude" two year old YouTube clips (ie, not rude at all). Really, television needs to be shaken out of it's stupor and TV executives need to realise that to suvive they need to give the public something that they can't get from an online video site or a Facebook page.

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http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o-tron/

Probably fleeting lulz but whattayagonnado... just to reiterate, don't bother reading the comments

Nelson, the Speak You're Branes blogger, on the lunacy of HYS, internet comments, the BBC and Question Time

Yes, we accept it is a stark and disturbing question.

However I do think it (homosexuality) is too much " in your face" these days ,ably assisted by the BBC - you just have to look at some of their presenters.But I suppose diversity brownie points are the route to promotion

prettygrumpy
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if everybody was homosexual the race would die out. have you ever thought of that?

oh, that's right- you WANT that to happen to meet your greenpeace eco-terrorist emission targets that have been PROVEN to be based on lies by research from......uh east anglians?

sez Guardian

Premoderated posts included one from Chris, Guildford, posted at 8.59am, which attracted 51 recommendations of support. He wrote: "Totally agree. Ought to be imposed in the UK too, asap. Bring back some respectable family values. Why do we have to suffer 'gay pride' festivals? Would I be allowed to organise a 'straight pride' festival? No, thought as much!! If homosexuality is natural, as we are forced to believe, how can they sustain the species? I suggest all gays are put on a remote island somewhere and left for a generation - after which, theoretically there should be none left!"

Another, from Aaron in Freetown, said: "Bravo to the Ugandans for this wise decision, a bright step in eliminating this menace from your society. We hope other African nations will also follow your bold step."

bloody students

i love it every time the pope says "homos are evil, there are going to be no people left cos they cant reproduce", just for the lols.

if they were students they would have had their funtime experiments already.

This debate is now closed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/12/controversial_debate.html"">'The editors of the BBC Africa Have Your Say programme thought long and hard about using this question'

From: Pornographic Videos Flood Youtube

I seriously doubt that kids are going to be traumatised by having witnessed adult humans in the act of mating...
Heather, Glasgow, Scotland

Nice one Heather. Bet sex with you is an efficient experience.

The only solution is stricter government controls on the content of the internet, and harsher punishments for those who violate those controls. Everyone involved in this hacking attack should receive no less than 25 years in prison, and should have to register as sex offenders.
Richard C. Mongler, London, UK

Lol. Mongler.

finally...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/02/changes_to_have_your_say.html

Some elements of the current service - including recommendation - will not be carried over to the new system, but we hope the switchover will address the most frequent complaint we get about Have Your Say: that comments take too long to appear.

What now for Ulysses S Drivel?

JUST REMEMBER THIS BBC, WE are the license payers! WE pay YOUR wages. You are OUR servants AND YOU'D DO WELL TO REMEMBER THAT!

Sorry dave - no chance. The BBC is entrenched institutionalised left wing liberalism and is the communications arm of all that that represents.

David Nilsson wrote:
The only discussion there should be is whether the rattan cane, the birch or the cat o' nine tails should be the State's means of chastisement.
May 5, 2010 12:51 AM BST on community.timesonline.co.uk
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