The BBC spokesman on the radio said it was Saturday lunchtime.
So I can’t then confirm when it was taken down.
But it’s not necessary anymore to have that much continuous coverage, across all of their services.
When we only had two BBC channels, even then devoting content on both would have seemed like unnecessary duplication. But going as far as having no chat on the radio? It was OTT.
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I’d probably be up in arms about it too if anything I wanted to watch had been on, to be honest.
Wow, I’m terrible.
I’ll bet the beeb are secretly delighted. It proves just how many people actually watch their broadcast outputs rather than catch up TV.
Devote BBC1 to it, fine, but kit needed on both.
As for removing the chat on the radio, I’d do that at the best of times.
If I was asked I would privatise the BBC and scrap the licence fee tomorrow!
Or just fund it from taxation. This middle ground and pretending it’s not state media is just bizarre.
You mean like the license fee for over 70s??
Oh…no wait…
The taxpayer has stopped that leaving the BBC to pick up the bill.
If the tax payer can’t afford to pay for the license fee for the over 70s how can anyone expect them to pay for the whole of the broadcast budget??
Just tried to find my black boots as an alternative for when we return to f2f. Never seen this happen before.
The soles are quite soft. They’ve been kept dry and indoors so I’m not sure what has happened. May be just because they haven’t been used in a few years? Plus I clearly didn’t clean them before I last wore them (I was young!).
Because the taxpayer generally doesn’t have a choice.
It happens due to age. It’s very common and there is nothing you can do about it.
Ah that makes sense, they are about 10yrs old, shame as they hardly had any use!
Assault boots right?
This is ‘normal’
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Slight relief, but I do also feel a bit stupid for not knowing that!
Science centre…
Most elastomers undergo rubber degradation over time and the most common rubber deterioration causes are…
exposure to light,
oxygen (ozone)
and heat. …
Oxidative and thermal ageing of rubber are accelerated by stress and reactive gases, like ozone, resulting in cracking, charring and semi liquifying.
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Any room for quality of rubber to play a part? I’ve most often seen this with issue assault boots, which were of course, the cheapest boots around.
Tbf, I’ve never known a pair of CABs to make it to 10 years in the first place.
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These were UOTC issue and have no name. I’m not sure where they came from. I just rarely wore them as I still had a pair from when I was a cadet that were broken in and didn’t need much effort to get clean and, as required at the time, shiny.
Like those old assault boots had any rubber in. The jelly I make has more structural integrity.
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Of course.
If the rubber is of a low quality its bonding will be starting from a low point anyway.
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three hole lacing, then hooks?