BigWeekends.com

[Ron Manager]

Our shirt-back sponsors got a bit of a slagging on Watchdog tonight....no mention of their connection with us thankfully.

 

[HUTTON]

wat was said about them?

 

[Ron Manager]

Spoke to a few people who'd arranged Hen Weekends through them and turned up to find slum hotels (when expecting 3 Star), promised club tickets not been purchased and other general incompetence...the usual Watchdog fodder.

 

[HUTTON]

allways the same with watchdog

 

[C'mon you Blues]

crap programme for whingers.

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (C'mon you Blues @ Nov. 29 2005,20:59)]crap programme for whingers.

Perhaps one day you'll be cheated out of something you've paid for either by dishonesty or incompetence. Maybe you'd be glad of someone to help - or maybe even warn you to prevent it happening.

Over the years Watchdog has been behind many changes in safety measures and standards, extensive recalls of unsafe goods and has also been responsible for the redesign of many household products. One example is holes being put in pen tops so that if children swallow them they are less likely to choke. Bunk beds, irons, kettles, microwaves, toasters and oven doors were also made safer as a result of Watchdog reports. It was also a Watchdog campaign that led to electrical appliances being sold with fitted plugs.

Bloody whingers, just 'cos someone in their family is killed by a defective product !!

 

[C'mon you Blues]

typical of you Mick. Whu am i not surprised

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

Quote[/b] (Mick @ Nov. 30 2005,00:25)]

Quote[/b] (C'mon you Blues @ Nov. 29 2005,20:59)]crap programme for whingers.

Perhaps one day you'll be cheated out of something you've paid for either by dishonesty or incompetence. Maybe you'd be glad of someone to help - or maybe even warn you to prevent it happening.

Over the years Watchdog has been behind many changes in safety measures and standards, extensive recalls of unsafe goods and has also been responsible for the redesign of many household products. One example is holes being put in pen tops so that if children swallow them they are less likely to choke. Bunk beds, irons, kettles, microwaves, toasters and oven doors were also made safer as a result of Watchdog reports. It was also a Watchdog campaign that led to electrical appliances being sold with fitted plugs.

Bloody whingers, just 'cos someone in their family is killed by a defective product !!

Well said that man.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ Nov. 29 2005,20:17)]Spoke to a few people who'd arranged Hen Weekends through them and turned up to find slum hotels (when expecting 3 Star), promised club tickets not been purchased and other general incompetence...the usual Watchdog fodder.

Did they use the phrase 'Potential Deathtrap' in the article?

 

[McNasty]

Mick, as always , the voice of reason.

PS Did you enjoy the Beer Festival , Mick ?

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (mcnasty @ Nov. 30 2005,09:15)]Mick, as always , the voice of reason.

PS Did you enjoy the Beer Festival , Mick ?

... as always. Flag on the wall enhanced the decor !

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (C'mon you Blues @ Nov. 30 2005,07:37)]typical of you Mick. Whu am i not surprised

Clearly some deep-seated subliminal influence in your typos

 

[Uncle Leo]

Quote[/b] (Mick @ Nov. 30 2005,00:25)]Perhaps one day you'll be cheated out of something you've paid for either by dishonesty or incompetence. Maybe you'd be glad of someone to help - or maybe even warn you to prevent it happening.

Over the years Watchdog has been behind many changes in safety measures and standards, extensive recalls of unsafe goods and has also been responsible for the redesign of many household products. One example is holes being put in pen tops so that if children swallow them they are less likely to choke. Bunk beds, irons, kettles, microwaves, toasters and oven doors were also made safer as a result of Watchdog reports. It was also a Watchdog campaign that led to electrical appliances being sold with fitted plugs.

Bloody whingers, just 'cos someone in their family is killed by a defective product !!

Very true, the show has done a lot of good over the years.

But the temptation to give Nicky Campbell a dry slap remains overwhelming.

 

[canveyshrimper]

As is the temptation to give Julia Bradbury something else.

 

[Hooly]

Quote[/b] (C'mon you Blues @ Nov. 29 2005,20:59)]crap programme for whingers

Surprised that we've never seen Dame wiggy of Whingeshire it then!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Nov. 30 2005,12:30)]But the temptation to give Nicky Campbell a dry slap remains overwhelming.

Ah, but he was quality on FiveLive this morning.  Shami Chakrabati from Liberty was going on about the alleged use of British airspace, and airports for refuelling, for CIA planes containing terror suspects on "extraordinary rendition" - i.e. where they're shipped overseas so that they're not tortured on US soil for their information (nice, you've got to love the CIA if that's true...)

Campbell asked her where the evidence had come from of these flights, and Chakrabati replied that it had been an investigative piece done by some Grauniad journos.

Quick as a flash, Campbell retorted: "Guardian reporters?!  What do you expect?!"... which totally threw Chakrabati.... "Err, well, um, well obviously we're not sure if the reports are accurate..."

A quality intervention, there.

Nicky can serve up a bit of a curate's egg of a performance, but the stuff I don't like is heavily outweighed by the stuff I like.

Which is a lot more than you can say for Alan Green, for example.  Now there's someone whose fat purpose-built for radio face is in dire need of a very big dry slap indeed...

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Nov. 30 2005,12:33)]As is the temptation to give Julia Bradbury something else.

Interestingly, she's available as an after dinner speaker through this website. Weird pricing... Carol Smilie or Philip Schofield anywhere between 2 - 5 times the price of John Simpson...?! Are they nuts?!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Nov. 30 2005,14:17)]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Nov. 30 2005,12:33)]As is the temptation to give Julia Bradbury something else.

Interestingly, she's available as an after dinner speaker through this website.  Weird pricing... Carol Smilie or Philip Schofield anywhere between 2 - 5 times the price of John Simpson...?!  Are they nuts?!

I certainly would not pay to see or hear Phillip Schofield. At least Carol Smillie is easy on the eye.

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Having used BigWeekends.com for the forest game, i can say that they could improve things, but on the whole it was not all bad, i think what people have to remember that it is really rather chap for what you are getting.

 

[Upminster Blue]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Nov. 30 2005,14:17)]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Nov. 30 2005,12:33)]As is the temptation to give Julia Bradbury something else.

Interestingly, she's available as an after dinner speaker through this website.  Weird pricing... Carol Smilie or Philip Schofield anywhere between 2 - 5 times the price of John Simpson...?!  Are they nuts?!

Doesn't seem to be much logic to the pricing (or should that be people's taste). Gary Lineker at over £25k

. In comparison, Kirstie Allsopp and Sarah Beeney look like veritable bargains (cue abuse

).