Rick_B

It's not as if he was ever loyal to the BBC. Given the prestigious Radio One Breakfast Show, when he started TFI Friday for Channel Four he demanded Friday off. Radio One refused so he walked out leaving them with a three hour show with no host. He then took his team of on air presenters, who worked for his Ginger Productions company not the BBC, to Virgin Radio and produced the same breakfast show in direct competition with Radio One.

From now on all Lion bars will have to have a warning printed on the packaging "CAUTION flammable, do not ignite".

Realistically that's probably what's got to happen, the BBC I suspect doesn't have the resources to increase the pay of women to that of men. In any case Chris Evans £2.2 million - for what?

Or play snooker.

Dunno, maybe they finally grew up.

You are corrected on your theory.

You may, doubtless quite innocently, have overestimated the extent of my hedonistic past somewhat. FYI I have never had a "penchant" for entertaining prostitutes and only ever took very small amounts of cocaine on just a few occasions. Not my thing at all.

They have to assign you a doctor though, so they have. I've never met him, but that doesn't matter because they have ticked the box. In fairness to the locum he was OK, but it's not the same as having someone who knows you.

It wasn't like that at my GP practice, I could usually get to see my GP within a couple of days. He got pissed off with all the bureaucracy and government inspections though and took early retirement, then his partner got a job abroad. Now it's part of a big practice and if I'm very lucky I might be able to see a locum who knows nothing about me within the next week or so.

The ginger thing is a bit of an ongoing joke.

Good, beats telling other punters to fuck off and drink bleach every time eh?

Is there a Pakistan on Gallifrey?

We don't yet know the full details. You are allowed use reasonable force to restrain somebody, what you are not allowed to do is beat the living shit out of them.

A good job you're a doctor then.

I wondered what had happened to Cliff Thorburn.

I knew a Quaker couple, nice people who did a load of stuff for charity. A bit bonkers though.

If you buy into the premise that The Doctor is thousands of years old and has changed appearance and in many ways personality twelve times already why not a female Doctor? It could bring an interesting twist to the role, in any case they have been hinting at it for some time so it's hardly a surprise. As far as we know the last companion Bill, who as it happens was gay and black, presumably just to piss off certain CC punters, is gone but with Doctor Who nothing is certain. We still haven't had a ginger Doctor yet though.

He's still alive, although he needs a wheelchair these days and looks in a bad way. The famous black teeth are gone though, he had implants.

That unfortunately is the reality. I don't believe that the parents are in any way freeloading, they are just desperate not to accept that nothing can be done to save their child.

My post was not about integration, it was about the fact that contrary to what is often said you can visit Mosques and Hindu Temples.

Well time will tell.

Well all Catholic priests are celibate, so it couldn't happen.

That is simply not true, many Mosques have been encouraging non-Muslims to visit and yes you can visit a Hindu Temple. For example: http://www.bhaktivedantamanor.co.uk/home/?page_id=10

Don't forget that a Mars a day helps you work, rest and become fat.

That's open to debate even among Hindus and there are many diverse opinions, even as to whether or not Hinduism is a religion as such. George Harrison was famously involved with the Radha Krishna Temple movement and also Transcendental Meditation. I don't recall him ever saying that he had become a Hindu though.