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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983010 ]Can anyone understand this piece?[/url]
What a load of tosh - it's about rich people hiding money to avoid tax...
... but the real story [i]has[/i] to be the abysmal writing
My main concern is the Olympic bandwagon jumping nature of now measuring things in Olympic-sized swimming pools. Everyone knows that the official units of measurement in sensationalist articles are football pitches (imperial) or Double-decker buses (metric)
Pah!!
🙂 ^ Or, for geographical area, the size of the Isle of Wight. Or Wales.
The accepted unit of measure of land is Wales - eg; rainforest cut down per year is the size of Wales.
Beaten to it by Stef. 😆
Seeing as the BBC employ people on contracts designed specifically to avoid paying tax, then anything they try to preach on the matter ranks as utter hypocrisy. Typical champagne socialist behaviour you'd expect from them.
The dumbing down has been going on for the last thirty years. Why now have people noticed? Probably because it's got so bad that it hurts to watch or listen. I'm giving up on it until after the London Egg and Spoon races are over.
$ WTF is this currency and how many pools would pound coins fill [security issues aside]
$ WTF is this currency
$21tn (£13.5tn.
What, 21 Trillion dollars?
I was more commenting on why the BBC would express the amount in terms of how many of a foreign currency it would take to fill the swimming pools rather than using our own currency...obviously I know what a dollar is.
Imagine if units of geography became a baseball pitch, California and Alaska
It's not a story, although the link from the main page makes you think it is. it's by
Colm O'Regan
Comedian and writer
But it doesn't say anything about anything, it's painful to read, and it's not remotely funny. If it was printed on paper it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. Unfortunately there have been a few things like that on there recently.
smogmonster - Member
Seeing as the BBC employ people on contracts designed specifically to avoid paying tax, then anything they try to preach on the matter ranks as utter hypocrisy. Typical champagne socialist behaviour you'd expect from them.
Please elaborate on these contracts and how it helps the BBC avoid paying tax (on what btw?).
