Here in Bangkok there is an Arsenal shop and they are ALREADY having their END of SEASON sale.
DW
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3.12.09
The BBC in America and Hard Talk
BBC in America
The BBC has put Matt Frei in charge of BBC News America and I have to wonder why. Probably some kind of trained journalist but is his forte language or journalism? Does Frei have any skills other than his abilty to speak English and German?
I am watching a programme at the moment where already he has made three insensitive remarks about two separate people. I suppose he would defend himself by saying he was asking Hard Talk style questions ... pshaw!
What about Frei's Nazi question, currently being heavily advertised? "Here is a question that really bothers me, am I allowed to like a building designed by a regime like the Nazis" (My wording, might not be perfect).
Hard Talk
Hard Talk used to be very interesting: Tim Sebastian asked awkward questions of a wide variety of people.
Hard Talk has become a travel opportunity as they now go to the USA, South Africa, Hong Kong and to many other places, currently Trinidad and Tobago.
Moreover, they have replaced the word Hard with Rough. Sebastian got it right: well researched, hard, awkward, searching, incisive. Stepehan Sackur and Zeinab Badawi, current presenters, think hard means rough: often ill informed and downright rude rather than hard.
Back to Frei: he began yesterday's report with an introduction that his guest was able to over turn immediately as factually incorrect.
The BBC's standards are slipping everywhere.
DW
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The BBC has put Matt Frei in charge of BBC News America and I have to wonder why. Probably some kind of trained journalist but is his forte language or journalism? Does Frei have any skills other than his abilty to speak English and German?
I am watching a programme at the moment where already he has made three insensitive remarks about two separate people. I suppose he would defend himself by saying he was asking Hard Talk style questions ... pshaw!
What about Frei's Nazi question, currently being heavily advertised? "Here is a question that really bothers me, am I allowed to like a building designed by a regime like the Nazis" (My wording, might not be perfect).
Hard Talk
Hard Talk used to be very interesting: Tim Sebastian asked awkward questions of a wide variety of people.
Hard Talk has become a travel opportunity as they now go to the USA, South Africa, Hong Kong and to many other places, currently Trinidad and Tobago.
Moreover, they have replaced the word Hard with Rough. Sebastian got it right: well researched, hard, awkward, searching, incisive. Stepehan Sackur and Zeinab Badawi, current presenters, think hard means rough: often ill informed and downright rude rather than hard.
Back to Frei: he began yesterday's report with an introduction that his guest was able to over turn immediately as factually incorrect.
The BBC's standards are slipping everywhere.
DW
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1.12.09
Merry Christmas
Ho! Ho! Ho! As they say.
1st December and my Xmas season starts today. All my Xmas music is at home though; from the medieval Thys Yool all the way to Slade!!! What to do??
Merry Xmas everyone.
DW
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1st December and my Xmas season starts today. All my Xmas music is at home though; from the medieval Thys Yool all the way to Slade!!! What to do??
Merry Xmas everyone.
DW
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29.11.09
The 20 Year Rule
I might not necessarily be immune from the following.
You are 20 years late in coming to Bangkok/Thailand when
That grubby, home made head band around your head is the ONLY one in SE Asia
The tee shirt you insist on wearing is half the size it ought to be
You think your short longs/long shorts are trendy
The girl on your arm COULD be your grand daughter, possibly your great grand daughter
You think thongs and stubbies are a chick magnet
You are a man who thinks his pony tail looks as good on him as a pony tail does on a Thai girl/lady
You sit in a hotel lobby staring wide eyed and open mouthed at the young local ladies going about their every day normal business with your lovely wife of many years tolerantly and lovingly sitting next to you
All true!
DW
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You are 20 years late in coming to Bangkok/Thailand when
That grubby, home made head band around your head is the ONLY one in SE Asia
The tee shirt you insist on wearing is half the size it ought to be
You think your short longs/long shorts are trendy
The girl on your arm COULD be your grand daughter, possibly your great grand daughter
You think thongs and stubbies are a chick magnet
You are a man who thinks his pony tail looks as good on him as a pony tail does on a Thai girl/lady
You sit in a hotel lobby staring wide eyed and open mouthed at the young local ladies going about their every day normal business with your lovely wife of many years tolerantly and lovingly sitting next to you
All true!
DW
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