The quality of writing on the BBC News website

[dissolute ocelot]

They've changed this now. To "forthcoming sci-fi epic Dune".

Pandering to fanboys. It clearly is a remake by any dictionary definition.

[Dex Sawash]

With Timothree Remake

[Cold Meat Platter]

Pandering to fanboys. It clearly is a remake by any dictionary definition.

From Wikipedia:

"A film remake uses an earlier movie as its main source material, rather than returning to the earlier movie's source material. For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of Ocean's 11, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman. In 1998, Gus Van Sant produced an almost shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho."

[popcorn]

From Wikipedia:

"A film remake uses an earlier movie as its main source material, rather than returning to the earlier movie's source material. For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of Ocean's 11, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman. In 1998, Gus Van Sant produced an almost shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho."

That definition makes sense but that is so badly written. It uses the terms film and movie interchangeably (I know they're the same but pick one ffs)  and the Batman example is confusing (it could be taken as an example of a remake).

[touchingcloth]

Call it what you like - Dune's a big pile of shit.

[idunnosomename]

He is the Kwizatz Haderach
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar


that is the extent of my knowledge of Dune

[Dex Sawash]

He is the Kwizatz Haderach
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar right up the shitter

that is the extent of my knowledge of Dune

Funny you never learnt the best bit

[Menu]

That definition makes sense but that is so badly written. It uses the terms film and movie interchangeably (I know they're the same but pick one ffs)  and the Batman example is confusing (it could be taken as an example of a remake).

The word 'movie' is so childish anyway.

[Cerys]

He is the Kwizatz Haderach
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar


that is the extent of my knowledge of Dune

It's been too long since I last listened to that album.  This must be remedied.

[DistressedArea]

Call it what you like - Dune's a big pile of shit.

Actually, I think it's a big pile of sand. Not sure.

[Cerys]

'The shit must flow....'

[Norton Canes]

"During the show, Jordan repeated an iconic five word mantra: 'Happy place, happy place, Turf Moor', during his toughest moments."

[touchingcloth]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55254082

A community in northern Minnesota is in shock after a random act of kindness led to more than 900 cars paying for each other's meals at a drive-through.

[Twonty Gostelow]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55254082

Inspired use of Getty Images, and good to see BBC 'News' latching on to something that happened 7 days ago.

[touchingcloth]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55057717

[COVID] wasn't designated a pandemic until March. On 30 January, there had been 7,736 cases in China, with 170 deaths, and fewer than 100 cases in 118 other countries.

[BlodwynPig]

*less*

[poo]

The BBC was definitely good at one point, wasn't it?

[MrMrs]

no

[Fambo Number Mive]

BBC News Online is talking about Dionne Warwick "winning twitter"

Yes, today we would like to talk about an 80-year-old singer who is responsible for some of the most iconic soul songs of all time.

And she's also really good at Twitter.

Now look, when it comes to people in their eighties on Twitter, expectations are low.

Remember the dad who thought it was the same as Google and wrote things like "cold toes" and "what does email cost"?

But it's been hard to miss Dionne's contribution to Twitter in 2020 - perhaps partly because everything else on there has been so bleak.

So while other people have been tweeting about coronavirus, injustice and James Corden pretending to be gay in a Netflix film, Dionne has been tweeting at Chance The Rapper to ask him to explain his name, at The Weekend to justify his spelling, to ask whether she should give Animal Crossing a try and to support LGBTQ+ rights - among many other things...Of course, there might be people who aren't quite sure who Dionne Warwick is - other than a really good Twitter account.

And that's OK, because most of her really famous songs were released in the 1960s, which was literally in a different century.

But even so, songs like Walk On By, Anyone Who Had A Heart and Say A Little Prayer are so well known that you've probably heard them at least once in your life...

[BlodwynPig]

BBC News Online is talking about Dionne Warwick "winning twitter"

*walks to shuttered back room, retrieves shotgun from cabinet and wanders into the long woods.*

[idunnosomename]

Well i missed it

[touchingcloth]

Remember the dad who thought it was the same as Google and wrote things like "cold toes" and "what does email cost"?

I don't recall to that.

[idunnosomename]

who was the dad who asked what email cost

[touchingcloth]

If he had an Amatrad Emailer he'd be absolutely within his rights to ask what email cost.

Cold toes.

[imitationleather]

An aunt I was very close to got an Amstrad Emailer shortly before she died.

I'm actually really fucked off it features in the background of my final memories of her.

[buttgammon]

Funny how they'll expect us to know what someone's elderly father thought about email but assume zero knowledge in other areas (phrases like 'London, which is the capital of England' on the regional news for London etc).

[touchingcloth]

An aunt I was very close to got an Amstrad Emailer shortly before she died.

I'm actually really fucked off it features in the background of my final memories of her.

Why were you so close to her? Was she a conjoined aunt?

[imitationleather]

Nah, I used to live with her when there were issues with my parents.

[NoSleep]

The E-Mailer was purpose built to rip off old ladies. They were relatively cheap and people would have bought them as gifts for granny to "keep her up with the times", people not realising that they were sold at a loss with the intent of recovery of the loss by the exorbitant charges via the user's phone bill, just for having the thing connected to the phone line.

[Buelligan]

Is it too late to say how much I hate The Cunt Alan Sugar?


_{Appalling Cunt}