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well I consider it to be racial abuse

I shouldn't think that, legally, somebody calling the Welsh "arrogant" constitutes a charge of racial abuse lol

It also depends upon the context and wording of the original post.

GR are not rushing to remove it are they? could be classed as racial abuse

Allan is correct, Lee's post did refer to "arrogant Welsh" and it also included an unacceptable word. I read it and decided to ignore the comments as I felt they were probably posted to try to cause a problem.

Maybe it would be fair to Lee to let him or her comment rather than post a reply based on somebody else's post which, they admit, may not be the exact quote.

Welsh arrogant Lee? you couldn't be further from the truth

- having said that though I was called arrogant by a member of this thread, but then he doesn't know what he's talking about

:-D Bob - I would feel the same if I had to watch it!

I love the fact that Downton is on the box on sunday nights, it gives me an excuse to go to the pub.

Neither can I, Brian, but as they don't pollute the atmosphere, cause death or 'accidental' fires, scare war veterans and animals, I will put up with them, and defend people's rights to watch the soaps when they're due on, and delay the football matches - that aren't 'live' at 7pm anyway :-D :-D

When I am King I will outlaw football and soaps.
Sorry, can't stand either.

Around 1.5 million people in the UK enjoyed / cowered behind the sofa watching a French language program about an invasion of the dead following the failure of a dam which drowned them all. None of the actors got a £ 20 M signing on fee.

Next Friday it is pitched against Match of the Day FA Cup and a sitcom "2.5 Men". Wonder how MOTD will do?

that is interesting IGP But I doubt those in charge will take any notice. Still we can always hope :-) :-)

Clearly the British viewing public are not interested in watching sport on mainstream TV.

I have just checked the viewing figures for the w/e 18th October and out of a total of 180 top 30 programs (i.e the top 5 channels plus the 30 for all the others combined) sport appeared a mere handful of times..

The highest position was for one of the Rugby matches, with just 3.8 m viewers, the same number as for Paul O'Grady's Love of Dogs program.....!

Ann in Glos at 13.20. Thank you I could not have put it better.+ yours and Maggies other posts.

Rollo
I have often appreciated your knowledge, however on this occasion I felt it was somewhat tactless and unkind to suggest sightseeing as an alternative to television, when you cannot know what circumstances may affect a persons ability to travel.
I do not structure my life around anything other than trying to live as long as possible to enjoy my family- especially a late arrival granddaughter. I have various interests to keep me going and since anything to do with travel/sightseeing is one of them, I will thank you for the Gloucestershire places you listed as I am an Armchair Traveller.

Regrettably the rugby cup business is not over yet for us in New Zealand. There will be the welcome home and parades in various cities and talking about the game all the time on TV news. In fact the news for the last month or so has consisted almost entirely of the RWC. At least there has been no other bad news, at least as far as I know. Perhaps there has been all sorts of murder and mahyem and the Govt sneaking in all sorts of bills and we have not been told about it as it was not as important as the rugby. Maybe in another month we will be back to 'normal'.

If the TV terrestrial companies could show all major tournaments on their channels 2, 3 or whatever, we'd all be happy. Or would we? There'd probably be some people upset that their preferred series/programmes are given the push.

Although we don't follow the evening soaps, I do like a lunch time one and get quite miffed when Wimbledon takes precedence.

Oh yes Erroll, that is a good idea, I'll contact them :-D :-D

Maybe the various sporting bodies should consult the television companies so that they can "arrange" their games, matches and championships around Eastenders, Emmerdale Farm, Crossroads etc etc

.....or when sport is on both BBC1, BBC2 AND ITV :-(

Not everyone wants to watch re-runs of (old) 'current' comedy shows, repeat after repeat, or ancient Midsommer Murders or Rosemary & Thyme :-P

And to the housebound and lonely the soaps are something that gives their lives some structure. I do watch the soaps as the early evening ones are at a time I sit and relax and I do like the fact that they are on same time etc. I am not going to apologise for my choice of TV viewing either. each to his/her own. I have no problems with sport being on at all, my OH watches it on 'his' TV and enjoys it. what is annoying is the cancelling of TV programmes for the sport when there are other TV channels that it could be on.