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Baroness Thatcher passed away
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3.) People will jump on the bandwagon when they have no idea who's playing the music.grizzly1911 wrote: »Perhaps he hadn't upset so many people?
Always seemed like a genteel bloke to me.
20000 sales in in one night shows two things. 1.) people are making a point 2.) To swing the chart so easily proves how rubbish it now is.0 -
Perhaps we should all go out and buy Horst Wessel on Hitlers Birthday or some denegrating r n b or rap music on polly toynbees birthday, and see how long it lasts before the bbc slap a ban on AirPlay.0
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Perhaps we should all go out and buy Horst Wessel on Hitlers Birthday or some denegrating r n b or rap music on polly toynbees birthday, and see how long it lasts before the bbc slap a ban on AirPlay.
So you are up from placing Judy Garland on the banned list
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
The Daily Mail are outraged about the 'BBC Witch Song'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307480/Margaret-Thatcher-witch-song-insult-BBC-play-Ding-Dong-The-Witch-Is-Dead.html
You'd think the BBC had written the song themselves and were going to get the weather presenters to sing it and the newsreaders to dance along like they do for Children in Need.0 -
BBC were practically advertising the campain before it had even got going.The Daily Mail are outraged about the 'BBC Witch Song'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307480/Margaret-Thatcher-witch-song-insult-BBC-play-Ding-Dong-The-Witch-Is-Dead.html
You'd think the BBC had written the song themselves and were going to get the weather presenters to sing it and the newsreaders to dance along like they do for Children in Need.0 -
angrypirate wrote: »BBC were practically advertising the campain before it had even got going.
It's just a witless campaign by a small number of people quickly taken up by generation Facebook who know nothing about Margaret Thatcher but know TOWIE and Geordie Shore inside out.
Only about £16k has been spent by these sad individuals but what a reaction. The BBC are doing their usual hand-wringing and confusing reporting the news with being the news.
The Mail are absolutely loving it with their faux outrage.0 -
angrypirate wrote: »BBC were practically advertising the campain before it had even got going.
Think of the boost to the economy with all those digital downloads."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
It's just a witless campaign by a small number of people quickly taken up by generation Facebook who know nothing about Margaret Thatcher but know TOWIE and Geordie Shore inside out.
Only about £16k has been spent by these sad individuals but what a reaction. The BBC are doing their usual hand-wringing and confusing reporting the news with being the news.
The Mail are absolutely loving it with their faux outrage.
A perfect summary of how old media hasn't (and probably never will) work out how the Interweb works but instead find false controversies like 8y/o girls in the school playground.
"Facebook said that she said that we don't like you but I saw her talking to them about You and you didn't like it so we said that she should...."0 -
She never defeated the IRA. Remember the hunger strikers.0
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