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Listed below are comments made by tom oo between Wednesday, 24th September 2008 and Thursday, 25th June 2009.

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Brits in pieces 12:28pm on 25 Jun 2009 I think we need to ask the question, why do we even care?
Tennis is simply not a mass participation sport in the UK. Your average person in the street has never swung a tennis racquet in anger. It is not your average persons sport in our country. It is a sport reserved mainly for the upper classes, the wealthy elite who have the money and facilities available to them. No wonder were rubbish at it none of us play it!
So why do so many of us care? Its simple its because the BBC relentlessly forces it down our throats, and into our conscience for 3 or 4 weeks every year! If it wasnt for this massive BBC hype each year then your average person on the street really wouldnt give a monkeys about a couple of toffs hitting a fuzzy ball back and forth. If it wasnt for the Beeb then wed never have heard of this current crop of losers, and they wouldnt be receiving these ridiculous handouts of £10k just to run around a patch of grass for an hour and a half, once a year. If it weren't for the BBC, the general public simply wouldnt care. Ironic, isnt it!
So come on BBC, lets see some sense and stop this ridiculous over-the-top coverage of a sport that none of us even get the opportunity to play. Lets broaden our horizons and have a bit of variety. There are plenty of other sports out there that were good at, that your average person off the street can compete in, and with real world class British sportsmen and women who we can get behind. Let's say goodbye once and for all to this endless, futile worship of tennis!
Cars speeding through parliament 4:44pm on 24 Nov 2008 Has mikewarsaw (#2) considered that he himself may be one of "those less well read persons who will believe anything..."?

His whole statement that the CO2 threat is a myth is plain false and should not be listened to. Yes of course the large proportion of the 'greenhouse effect' is natural, and when left to its own devices the Earth's climate is a naturally balanced system. Without the natural 'greenhouse effect' we would not be here and the world would be a very harsh place.
But that extra bit that we are contributing through our own emmissions of CO2 is tipping that fine balance and sending the whole system irretrievably inro climate change.
I speak as a graduate in meteorology.
A change in the Weather 12:00pm on 24 Sep 2008 Definitely an improvement, well done!
I'm particularly pleased with the better access to the North Atlantic charts, as these are undoubtedly the most useful feature for anyone planning more than a day or 2 ahead.
And at last I won't have to listen to ignorant work colleagues moaning all day long that "the BBC got it wrong again", because that single 'showers' symbol for the whole day didn't result in 12 hours of solid rain!

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