Black the rippers fire in the booth again.. so sick

Makes it at least worth paying my license fee (and also that not only sounds crisp but the video is 480/25 fps). Good to see the younger lot working for Auntie still representing, especially after Radio 2 played out 2 shows on top of each other for 15 mins!

@DeezNuts 521994 wrote:

Who was this in reply to? Sorry a bit intoxicated.

Your post with the video from 1xtra. “Auntie” is a term that (older?) people use for the BBC (and sometimes the national broadcaster in other English speaking countries that were once part of the British Empire) as such a public broadcaster is supposed to uphold certain standards.

I could tell it was a BBC studio straight away because as well as the obvious mic flags there was other subtle things like the doors being full of health and safety/warning notices everywhere and a impressive Gorgy Timing LED clock on the wall 😉 (Good accurate clocks are important in broadcasting).

@General Lighting 522022 wrote:

Your post with the video from 1xtra. “Auntie” is a term that (older?) people use for the BBC (and sometimes the national broadcaster in other English speaking countries that were once part of the British Empire) as such a public broadcaster is supposed to uphold certain standards.

I could tell it was a BBC studio straight away because as well as the obvious mic flags there was other subtle things like the doors being full of health and safety/warning notices everywhere and a impressive Gorgy Timing LED clock on the wall 😉 (Good accurate clocks are important in broadcasting).

Ahh right yeah I’ve heard people call it Auntie Beeb for some reason, don’t quite understand it but heyho 😛

The original image of the BBC was like a middle aged aunt of the mid 20th century with somewhat more conservative social morals than commercial broadcasters, especially for childrens and youth programming (this was one and the same until the 1980s!)

it was also not uncommon even in the 70s/80s to refer to any older person as “uncle” or “auntie” whether or not they were blood relatives and thus older presenters of childrens programmes were also called Auntie or Uncle. This took a bit of a knock in recent times because of a certain “Uncle Jimmy”..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q

Such an awesome song to walk to lol

Jon champion and Jim beglin talking smack about my goalkeeper on pes13 Kossi Agassa is a bad man…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_sLTwJGA5s

As reccomended by barrettone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEGzEttx0w