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Listed below are comments made by Drumbeater between Thursday, 22nd May 2008 and Thursday, 19th March 2009.

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Caption Competition 1:25pm on 19 Mar 2009 Arthur Scargill was having limited success recruiting in schools.
What are the modern deadly sins? 7:08pm on 26 Feb 2009 My husband the Baggies' fan thinks that supporting Wolves is a deadly sin!
What's your super-food? Blueberries? 7:38pm on 19 Jan 2009 Who needs blueberries? I am currently 48 years old, and I am frequently told I don't look anything like my age. If I could figure out how to send you a photo, I would!
My secret - growing old disgracefully, never using make up, and not bothering about diets. Works everytime!!
Shock and ordinary 1:48pm on 30 Oct 2008 All this hoo-ha about generations, and the licence fee etc. etc. ad nauseam. The point is that two highly paid, and suposedly 'responsible' adults conducted themselves in a manner reminiscent of two 17-18 year old 'lager louts' who were bored on a Friday night and decided to ring a number on a phone and make extremely rude comments.
Yes, Andrew Sachs was due to be on the programme, and yes he cancelled his appearance, but does that mean he is a legitimate target for these two idiots to ring up and leave offensive messages about his grand-daughter on his answerphone? If anyone else did it, the police would be round knocking on their door and possibly charging them with an offence under the telecommunications act.
And why does the fact that 4 out of 5 young people think it was OK make it all right to break the law? That sort of thinking means that you will indeed be living in a society where the lowest common denominator rules.
For heaven's sake, let's make manners, decency and consideration for others part of our society again, before it's too late and we all sink into a pit of rudeness, abusiveness, and rule of might over right.
Well done Jonathan though for actually apologising and sending flowers - he might have made one mistake, but to continue with this 'mistake' 3 or 4 times just shows that he has lost all sense of what is due to other people's feelings.
Oh, and by the way, if you're writing on this blog, can we have a bit more punctuation, gramma and spelling?
Auntie's dilemma 10:58am on 30 Oct 2008 I feel I can see both sides of this story - however, it cannot be denied that the comments made by Brand and Ross were beyond the bounds of good taste, and should never have been made. My main question is - what on earth was the guy who reviewed the show thinking of to let it be aired with that segment still included? Did he actually bother to listen to the show before it was broadcast, or did he just 'skim' through it and decide it was OK?
Ross and Brand should have been sacked immediately on the grounds of gross misconduct (this would have happened in any other business for use of abusive and offensive language), and the reviewer should also face some form of punishment for letting it go out.
Maybe the biggest crime here was that of complacency on the part of the BBC reviewer who didn't bother to check that Brand and Ross were actually behaving themselves during the recording.
In the red 10:31am on 02 Oct 2008 Once again bankers are looking to blame everyone but themselves for the problem! Saying that people have to take responsibility for taking out mortgages they couldn't afford is typical - what they don't mention is that most of these loans were given to people at an initial very low interest rate, which suddenly went up after the 'honeymoon' period (usually about 2 years) - which usually wasn't fully explained to those unfortunates who were being told they COULD afford a house after all - just sign on the dotted line!
A relative who used to work in the Canadian real estate business once told us that the bank which financed their mortgages worked the opposite way round to most - they did a full income/expenditure assessment, and then based the mortgage they offered on the amount you could afford to pay. As a result, they had a very low rate of default!
Isn't it about time the housing and mortgage market was regulated to adopt this eminently sensible approach?
Caption Competition 2:28pm on 03 Jul 2008 'Please Lord, stop it raining before Cliff Richard starts singing again!'
Caption Competition 1:39pm on 22 May 2008 When they said they'd lost their marbles, I didn't think they meant this!

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