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[tamthebam]

Presenter John Kay has been off air recently but apparently he's on holiday.

Which is the worst timing since I booked a flight for 12th September 2001.. (true story)

[diegomarahenry]

3 minutes ago, BTFD said:

The fact that the BBC's second-highest paid presenter is on the radio is bizarre in itself. She could be magic, but it's 2023 - the audience must be shrinking every year.

There was a while when Swift and Sheeran they were inescapable, and the two Ed Sheeran songs I've heard were some of the worst hit singles al all time. I'll say nothing about how shit Taylor Swift is as there's a vicious group of Swifties on here who'll track us down and sing mediocre songs about how much we've hurt them.

I wish fans of Sheerin or Swift no ill will, nor think they are wrong for listening to them. They are just not for me. Not listening to commercial music radio or daytime BBC radio for over 10 years helps

I have seen both interviewed and have opted not to seek out any of their music. 

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

Presenter John Kay has been off air recently but apparently he's on holiday.

Which is the worst timing since I booked a flight for 12th September 2001.. (true story)

Imagine you got back from holiday to discover that, in your absence, your bosses sent out an email that they'd suspended an unnamed member of staff due to allegations that needed to be investigated.

For years, you'd be confusing new starts with your desperate cries of, "for the last time, Deborah, I am not a beast!"

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, johnnydun said:

Frank Gilfeather.

Frank once mildly berated me on Twitter for having the audacity of not knowing he’d written a book about Ross County or some shite. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said:

Peter Sloss is notable by his absence.

To be fair, just looking at Sloss was a give away.

[Tony Ferrino]

1 hour ago, tamthebam said:

Presenter John Kay has been off air recently but apparently he's on holiday.

Which is the worst timing since I booked a flight for 12th September 2001.. (true story)

No way. We all feel privileged to be the first people you’ve told that to.

[Salvo Montalbano]

6 hours ago, BTFD said:

The fact that the BBC's second-highest paid presenter is on the radio is bizarre in itself. She could be magic, but it's 2023 - the audience must be shrinking every year.

There was a while when Swift and Sheeran they were inescapable, and the two Ed Sheeran songs I've heard were some of the worst hit singles al all time. I'll say nothing about how shit Taylor Swift is as there's a vicious group of Swifties on here who'll track us down and sing mediocre songs about how much we've hurt them.

I think Radio 2, in particular the Breakfast Show, Ken Bruce when he was on, and the Drive Time show all get higher listening figures than most tv shows get viewing figures tbf. 7 or 8 million for the Breakfast Show and that's down slightly from previous years. Loads of folk in cars listening in, loads of shops and factories, building sites and the rest all have radio on all day. 

Agree about Sheeran but Taylor Swift has a few decent songs. And although while I wouldn't climb over her to get to you (no offence!), there's something quite odd about how she looks.

[Derry Alli]

I preferred the Twitter topic when it was fun and not a nonce witch hunt.

[throbber]

4 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:

I preferred the Twitter topic when it was fun and not a nonce witch hunt.

I think someone should start a generic sex scandal thread.

[Rugster]

8 hours ago, Boo Khaki said:

Who cares. What I'm taking from this is that if enough of us contact the BBC with wild and lurid claims about Michael McIntrye, we can probably get the arsehole suspended for a while at least.

Better off doing it to Kenny McIntyre. Might get Sportsound back to what it was. 

[Moomintroll]

7 hours ago, tamthebam said:

Presenter John Kay has been off air recently but apparently he's on holiday.

Which is the worst timing since I booked a flight for 12th September 2001.. (true story)

Cant help but think that booking a flight for the day before would have far worse, if you were very specific.

[Billy Jean King]

7 hours ago, BTFD said:

The fact that the BBC's second-highest paid presenter is on the radio is bizarre in itself. She could be magic, but it's 2023 - the audience must be shrinking every year.

There was a while when Swift and Sheeran they were inescapable, and the two Ed Sheeran songs I've heard were some of the worst hit singles al all time. I'll say nothing about how shit Taylor Swift is as there's a vicious group of Swifties on here who'll track us down and sing mediocre songs about how much we've hurt them.

She won't be the second highest paid though. This is a similar situation to the deid club. The list published is those employees on direct bbc contacts. There will be dozens like some mentioned (McIntyre etc) paid through other channels which for some reason they don't publish. 

[Hauzen]

Taylor Swift & Def Leppard on YouTube 

[Zetterlund]

With modern pop music like Swift and Sheeran, I get the impression when it's time to release a new single the producers just hit a few buttons to generate a song and ask them to come in to the studio for 2 hours to record a vocal track.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

8 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

To be fair, just looking at Sloss was a give away.

The unfunny 'comedian'?

[Melanius Mullarkey]

1 minute ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

The unfunny 'comedian'?

Nah the weather boy.

However, my mortgage is on Creepy McIvor off the BBC Scotland news.

[101]

9 hours ago, scottsdad said:

 is making all of these allegations? 

Fancy being dragged through the courts for a poor pun, wouldn't be for me like.

[scottsdad]

2 minutes ago, 101 said:

Fancy being dragged through the courts for a poor pun, wouldn't be for me like.

Could have been a typo... 

[101]

3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Could have been a typo m'lud

FTFY.

[carpetmonster]