BBC Ineptitude (again)

Listening to the radio, I heard the presenter talk about meeting ’emissions’ should Heathrow be expanded.

Surely they mean ‘pollution’?

Why soft-soap us. We’re all adults.

Just what kind of ’emissions’ are they referring to? Nocturnal emissions?

That’s a lot of s@&nk on if you’re on the ‘red-eye’!

After dozing off mid-flight, and with nowhere to rinse the jizz off, en-route, maybe that’s why they put a blanket on your lap in first-class and spill a Chardonnay on your lap in economy.

And why does radio 5 say ‘at this hour’? Don’t they know the time?

What if you’ve just got off the red-eye, all jet-lagged and disorientated?

Can’t be that difficult to drop-in a few time updates along the way.

Ease off on the coffee dude.

I’m just going to move this to the right forum for you.

Surely they mean ‘pollution’?
Why soft-soap us. We’re all adults.
Just what kind of ’emissions’ are they referring to? Nocturnal emissions?

Well its more complex than that… Says a former emissions testing professional. The quantity it emits may mean its good or bad.

Hard to follow exactly what you’re on about, but emissions is standard parlance for regulated process by-products. Not every “emission” is by default a pollutant.

Knee jerk posting ineptitude? 😉

Can’t tell if this is a rant or some sort of free form poetry.

What if you’ve just got off the red-eye, all jet-lagged and disorientated?

I think we have our explanation. Off to bed with you!

Or some form of sleep deprived post flight fantasy.

Get a dictionary for xmas mate.

Can’t be that difficult to drop-in a few time updates along the way.

08:48

hth.

16:49

I’m either in the future or the Philippines

@greatbeardedone may the whole emissions v pollution ineptitude (again) be the worse challenge you face today.

That’s a lot of s@&nk on if you’re on the ‘red-eye’!

A s@&nk on the red eye…….?

WT actual F??

SKUNKS ON A ************* PLANE!

Possible sequel there.

just for cfh

CO2 is not a pollutant but it is an emission. Pollutants are just a subset of emissions. A diesel car emits less CO2 than a petrol car, but more pollutants, so to just talk about pollutants in this context is not covering all the things you might be interested in.

21:25

Anything’s a pollutant if there’s too much of it or it’s where it’s not supposed to be.

I agree simply calling it emmisions is sugarcoating it psychologically.

Thanks for the contributions, chaps!

Mattyfez summed it up very well.

‘Emissions’ is too vague a term.

What kind of emission? …a noxious scent, a moist secretion etc.

It helps to qualify the kind of emission.

They can easily reel out the Ftse and Nasdaq to 5 decimal places, but theyve become vague on environmental matters.

For example..Were the Beeb referring to involuntary emissions?

“Good morning passengers. This is your captain. We are approaching Heathrow at an altitude of 8,000 feet and…dammnit, I’ve just come…”

Pollution has become a taboo term.

This is all irrelevant, emission/pollution targets are set by the EU. By the time any third runway is built we’ll no longer be tied to those targets so the government can set them at whatever target they know can be easily met. So we’ll always be within targets.

In any decision where public health and the environment need to be balanced against corporate profit the British government will always side with profit.

Pollution has become a taboo term

Did we not come into this on the back of the BBC talking about the environmental cost of Heathrow?

My beef wasn’t so much with the actual pollution aspect (can’t think of a single blood relation that’s had cancer)…
But with the way that the BBC selectively chooses terminology according to arbitrary perceptions of political/ economic sensitivity.

They can get down to the nitty-gritty about certain topics.

About ’emissions’, I’d expect them to be more descriptive…colour, taste, smell, hazardous?

I’ve got a strong forensics ‘bent’ to my nature. Details, details…

Though I’m disappointed that more people didn’t pick up on the ‘nocturnal’ (wet-dream/spunk/semen) emissions reference. Comedy gold!!’

“Good morning passengers. This is your captain. We are approaching Heathrow at an altitude of 8,000 feet and…dammnit, I’ve just come…”

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And no mention of aviation fuel duty…

You want BBC inneptitude? Twice last week on radio 4 the presenter said the wrong time, scaring the sloppy brown stuff out of me. saying “Its coming up to twenty to nine” at 7:40 is not acceptible!

Yeah, I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt to squeeze in some more time checks.
Most people listen to 5live while they’re getting ready for work, etc.

Equally, you could return home from some far flung corner of the globe, jet-lagged and caked, CAKED in emissions.
So you decide to reset your watch to uk time, but all you get from the radio is “and the news at this hour…”
What if you arrive back as the clocks are being shunted betwixt GMT and BST?
Honestly!

WTF?