OT: Torchwood + Land Rover ?

..... and the current Range Rover doesn't look like a Range Rover with bits bolted on! ;-)

Richard

As an ex-employee of the Bent Bucket Corporation, you need to know that there are 2 main types of employees -- a) those who lovingly craft programmes, and b) journalists.

The former will give due consideration to what will present the appropriate ethos to their production. I've not yet seen 'Torchwood', but I expect I'll find a vehicle which conveys an amalgamation of practicality, versatility and 'future-ness'.

Journalists, on the other hand, exist purely to scoop others, and not be scooped themselves. Therefore they jump onto any bandwagon in order to show not only that they too are across the mainstream, but they have to find a new and exclusive twist to prove that they are actually AHEAD of the pack.

So don't worry -- I doubt that the Beeb is instutionally biased against

I experienced this at first hand when a colleague from the newsroom asked me to come up with a possible farmer contact to give a local twist to a story in the Daily Mail. When I said that, as the spouse of a farmer, I could spin a contrary tale, the reporter nearly wet himself with glee -- could I come up with an ALTERNATIVE contact instead, who would be able to prove the Daily Mail was wrong!

I call it the 'Rottweiler Syndrome' -- have you ever noticed that it only takes one Rottweiler to (tragically) savage a child for there to be 4 similar stories over the next fortnight. Then it all goes quiet. No, the Rottweilers haven't suddenly discovered how to be pussycats -- it's just that it's not fasionable to go looking for Rottweiler stories.

GRAEME ALDOUS Yorkshire

There's a wave of killer stingrays sweeping the world at the moment, murdering at random! Oh where will it all end!

On or around Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:32:05 +0100, beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

It only needs some nice big shiney chrome wheels and it'd look like a drug-dealer's wagon.

All of which puts journalists in a rather bad light, to say the least. I know they are "just doing their job"[1], but that doesn't sit well with constant cries of "in the public interest" when they've overstepped the mark, or get it hopelessly wrong.

Still, that's the modern world I suppose - personaly I stopped taking journaslists seriously when the The Times ceased making a clear distinction between the factual content of a report, and the opinion - it might not have been the most interesting read, but it was the news.

Richard [1] somewhat debatable, as if they don't present all points of view equally then what is the point of their job, other than to entertain - which isn't journalism!

|| I call it the 'Rottweiler Syndrome' -- have you ever noticed that it || only takes one Rottweiler to (tragically) savage a child for there to || be 4 similar stories over the next fortnight. Then it all goes || quiet. No, the Rottweilers haven't suddenly discovered how to be || pussycats -- it's just that it's not fasionable to go looking for || Rottweiler stories.

Don't forget that anything that clusters together (like a spate of Rottweiler stories, a "hot spot" of leukaemia cases near a pylon or whatever) is demonstrating the randomness of the distribution. People seem to expect random events to occur at evenly spaced intervals, but if you walked into a room where there were hundreds of rice grains spaced out evenly every 3" on the floor, you would not assume they had just fallen there. A cupful of rice that had been thrown would leave little piles of rice, spaces of empty floorboards, and everything in between.

ROFL a local supermarket was selling chav special spinner wheel trims like Savage trims but 10 to the n times as tacky, so the scally mobiles were sporting them for a short while till the uberchavs with proper alloys took the p*ss not seen any for a while seems even chavs have standards

Derek

Oh dear. Even the name is crap, it's just an anagram of Doctor Who.

isn't that the point?

On or around Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:15:42 +0100, "Neil Brownlee" enlightened us thusly:

apparently they used it as code while they were planning the re-launch of Dr OHO.