The BBC and its utter obsession with the Olympics.

[stephen300o]

Anyone would doesn't understand why over eleven thousand folks from over two hundred nations competing is a big deal? Well, what can you do..

[Europa1]

They seemed to have moved Breakfast News out to Rio for the fortnight, which I just cannot understand.

[GetCarter]

bingybongy said:

I don't know but they want bloody shooting.
At the start of the women's elimination race last night (arguably one of the most exciting events), I put the box on pause and nipped to have a pee and make a drink.
Started up the action and settled down to watch.
Brilliant they switched to BBC 4 and when I turned to 4 it had finished.
wkers
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FYI: You can use the red button to watch specific disciplines, so you won't miss anything.

...unless you watch BBC1/2/4. - then you are down to their editorial decisions.

[Eric Mc]

bingybongy said:

I don't know but they want bloody shooting.
At the start of the women's elimination race last night (arguably one of the most exciting events), I put the box on pause and nipped to have a pee and make a drink.
Started up the action and settled down to watch.
Brilliant they switched to BBC 4 and when I turned to 4 it had finished.
wkers
E

Is this the telly you are using -

[hidetheelephants]

GetCarter said:

bingybongy said:

I don't know but they want bloody shooting.
At the start of the women's elimination race last night (arguably one of the most exciting events), I put the box on pause and nipped to have a pee and make a drink.
Started up the action and settled down to watch.
Brilliant they switched to BBC 4 and when I turned to 4 it had finished.
wkers
E

FYI: You can use the red button to watch specific disciplines, so you won't miss anything.

...unless you watch BBC1/2/4. - then you are down to their editorial decisions.

Even with the red button the sailing coverage has been utter dreck, although they seem to have broken out the helicopter and camera drones today as the Laser classes are actually being shown in some detail. The commentary is still fairly cack though.

[bingybongy]

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

[GetCarter]

bingybongy said:

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

Rather than calling people wkers, why not use your remote control to watch what you want to watch.

Just a thought.

[bingybongy]

GetCarter said:

bingybongy said:

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

Rather than calling people wkers, why not use your remote control to watch what you want to watch.

Just a thought.

I thought that's what I had done.

[nicanary]

bingybongy said:

GetCarter said:

bingybongy said:

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

Rather than calling people wkers, why not use your remote control to watch what you want to watch.

Just a thought.

I thought that's what I had done.

"Homer, Bart's up on the school roof making a protest. Say something to talk him down."

"Boy! Where's the remote?!"

[GetCarter]

bingybongy said:

GetCarter said:

bingybongy said:

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

Rather than calling people wkers, why not use your remote control to watch what you want to watch.

Just a thought.

I thought that's what I had done.

'fraid not. Keep trying.

...and top tip - stop calling people wkers.

[whoami]

GetCarter said:

bingybongy said:

I'm aware of the red button and my telly isn't the one suggested.
However I watched 20 seconds of the coverage on BBC 1 before pausing not expecting it to swap channel mid race.
Again, wkers the lot of 'em.

Rather than calling people wkers, why not use your remote control to watch what you want to watch.

Just a thought.

It's not always that simple, I'm afraid.

I attempted to watch the cycling earlier via the red button.

What was labelled as cycling looked suspiciously like women's volleyball.

[CaptainSlow]

whoami said:

It's not always that simple, I'm afraid.

I attempted to watch the cycling earlier via the red button.

What was labelled as cycling looked suspiciously like women's volleyball.

Strange, I'm watching women's volleyball which looks like cycling.

[whoami]

CaptainSlow said:

whoami said:

It's not always that simple, I'm afraid.

I attempted to watch the cycling earlier via the red button.

What was labelled as cycling looked suspiciously like women's volleyball.

Strange, I'm watching women's volleyball which looks like cycling.

[Eric Mc]

CaptainSlow said:

Strange, I'm watching women's volleyball which looks like cycling.

How about a new sport - women's beach volleyball, on bikes?

[hidetheelephants]

CaptainSlow said:

whoami said:

It's not always that simple, I'm afraid.

I attempted to watch the cycling earlier via the red button.

What was labelled as cycling looked suspiciously like women's volleyball.

Strange, I'm watching women's volleyball which looks like cycling.

Whichever work experience kid who was left with the job of inserting titles fked it up and transposed them.

[Some Gump]

hidetheelephants said:

Whichever work experience kid who was left with the job of inserting titles fked it up and transposed them.

It's better than the passive aggressive wker from London. I remember that every single iPlayer caption told you the result, like "Watch bradley Wiggins take Gold" etc. wkers.

[henrycrun]

BBC gushing commentary way too patriotic. Ok we got gold. Yippee !

But do we really have to wait 15mins for the medal ceremony to discover which countries took silver and bronze ?

[AJXX1]

Have to say I agree with OP on this. Personally I'm not interested at all, but I do appreciate many people are. That said, I'd like to actually switch over to BBC News and see.... actual news for a change instead of whatever latest mundane Olympic event has taken place.

[hidetheelephants]

AJXX1 said:

Have to say I agree with OP on this. Personally I'm not interested at all, but I do appreciate many people are. That said, I'd like to actually switch over to BBC News and see.... actual news for a change instead of whatever latest mundane Olympic event has taken place.

TV news has been pretty useless for that for years, the advent of 24hr rolling 'news' has soaked up all the money with admin and bullst, leaving little for the journalism. Even Newsnight is pretty poor now, you get more useful news and analysis from the Daily Politics.

[SilverSpur]

henrycrun said:

BBC gushing commentary way too patriotic. Ok we got gold. Yippee !

But do we really have to wait 15mins for the medal ceremony to discover which countries took silver and bronze ?

Here's the thing. We have many other athletes at these games that are not winning medals. Care to name any of them?

BBC is only interested in showing on the main broadcast only the events that team GB are winning medals in. Want to follow someone with less chance of being a 'hero'? You need to search the red button service and if you're lucky you might find them. Oh, and other countries are competing, but again, you only see the best of the best.