The Lemon Fool

didds wrote:

MrFoolish wrote:
Not until they start forking out for the licence fee, no.

Well on that basis there should have been very limited stuff for people over the age of 75 for some years presumably?

That is probably the case. What do the over 75s get from the BBC? The Antiques Roadshow and dramas where everyone mumbles which they can't hear.

MrFoolish wrote:

didds wrote:

MrFoolish wrote:
Not until they start forking out for the licence fee, no.

Well on that basis there should have been very limited stuff for people over the age of 75 for some years presumably?

That is probably the case. What do the over 75s get from the BBC? The Antiques Roadshow and dramas where everyone mumbles which they can't hear.

Paul McCartney and Diana Ross at Glastonbury?

Adrian

pje16 wrote:Not always, I couldn't see the puppets strings on Thunderbirds when I was a kid

As I am of a slightly earlier generation - one that regards the furniture on Antiques Roadshow as contemporary - I certainly could see the strings on Annette Mills' Muffin the Mule.

stewamax wrote:

pje16 wrote:Not always, I couldn't see the puppets strings on Thunderbirds when I was a kid

As I am of a slightly earlier generation - one that regards the furniture on Antiques Roadshow as contemporary - I certainly could see the strings on Annette Mills' Muffin the Mule.

I had a Muffin the Mule.

XFool wrote:I had a Muffin the Mule.

Each to his own deviation

pje16 wrote:

XFool wrote:I had a Muffin the Mule.

Each to his own deviation

That'll be the standard of the thread title.