Thank you BBC news you ungrateful sods

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BBC news on earlier today, no warning no nothing - bham the results of the F1.

Oh but for every football game, a nice little "if you don't want to know the results look away now".

I recall a similar complaint was recorded on PoV at sometime last season, BBC response was "we don't warn people for sports we don't host, and most fans would know anyway". Of course, that doesn't stretch to other sports such as Cricket, Football, Rugby which they may show a highlights for.

Last GP my selfish flatmate blurted it out just as I was watching it, this week the BBC. I refuse to pay sky so shouldn't be penalised for it.

/rant over

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HustleRussell said:

So BBC are ungrateful for some reason and your flat mate is somehow selfish for making conversation- but you won't pay for Sky which would solve the problem. You are expecting others to protect you from the sports results. Sounds like the problem is with you.

so you think I should have to worry about the bbc not using a bit of courtesy, they used to warn when they showed f1.

You seem to be a pleasant chap.

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rsbmw said:

You're trying to avoid the result of a sports event, so you watch the news? Seems like a recipe for success.

Yes, that's exactly what I was doing. Love a bit of Russian roulette

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t400ble said:

Just avoid the news
How hard can it be?

Just how stupid are some of you lot in here? Avoiding the news in a 24x7 news society? Switch the radio off, switch the TV off, Switch the Internet off, switch the phone off. Great, sit down, tt flat mate blurts it out?

At least radio 4 gives some level of warning, BBC news just goes and starts "and XXX won the grand prix, we find out more later in the sport section".

This never used to be a problem.

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williamp said:

t400ble said:

Just avoid the news
How hard can it be?

The sport should not be presented as part of the news, but seperate to it: an add-on, like the weather is. We should be able to hear the news, then when they say "sport" we can turn off.

But we dont get that. We get "and in sport, so and so wins the grand prix" as an intro to the news.

Often we don't even get that. A lot of the time its just "XX won the YY grand prix", still, at least I'm not alone in being stupid it appears.

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Please keep east enders out of this, its tops.

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768 said:

Derek Smith said:

768 said:

No one is.

PH XKR said:

BBC news on earlier today, no warning no nothing - bham the results of the F1.

Oh but for every football game, a nice little "if you don't want to know the results look away now".

I recall a similar complaint was recorded on PoV at sometime last season, BBC response was "we don't warn people for sports we don't host, and most fans would know anyway". Of course, that doesn't stretch to other sports such as Cricket, Football, Rugby which they may show a highlights for.

Last GP my selfish flatmate blurted it out just as I was watching it, this week the BBC. I refuse to pay sky so shouldn't be penalised for it.

/rant over

The OP doesn't seem too supportive of the BBC giving out news on the news.

Either the OP has an issue with the immediate spoiling of certain sports results, or they have an issue with news on the news.

I know which I think it is.

I do have an issue with the general dumbing down and move to an American style of spacko reporting but that is for another thread.

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oyster said:

OP I very often manage to avoid GP results for several days before getting to watch them. My record is just over 3 weeks and 2 races worth of results.

Switch off the radio!

and miss the brilliant Sarah cox in the morning?

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Smollet said:

If your life is such that something as minor as that which affects the OP then they must have a rather splendid existence. Otoh perhaps their life is so crap that something as minor as hearing a result early upsets them.

Good point. I'm going to take Thi approach and for any future trip to the cinema I will just go for the last few minutes to avoid the pointless build up.

You utter ambiwlans

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lucido grigio said:

Still have no idea what happened in Bahrain.

It's easy if you try.

Brilliant win for Vettel, Hamilton took a good 2nd after a fluff on the safety car and Botas finished a solid 3rd.

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Eric Mc said:

Why did you say that?

Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 18th April 08:24

Because irony, a thread about spoiling the results by the BBC which received such idiotic replies from members that I would have thought would share a level of compassion. One would naturally, safely assume that by the time it was posted the results would be widely known.

When I mention my friend deliberately telling me the result, that is somehow my fault and yet now I do the same somehow that is my fault. You can't have it both ways.

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^^^probably why I need anger management to be honest