Manx Radio

[finlo]

10 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

Is that a joke ?

Probably not, the DOI do fuck up everything they touch after all.

[dilligaf]

9 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

3 hours ago, KERED said:

From MR, this evening:

MHK backs new plan for silt disposal

A lack of annual maintenance would have prevented the build up of Peel harbour.

Is that a joke ?

I was referring to the last line of text.

I thought maybe that was taken from the MR page with the error.

Or maybe it was Kered's error.

[finlo]

8 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

I was referring to the last line of text.

I thought maybe that was taken from the MR page with the error.

Or maybe it was Kered's error.

That's as it was read out on the news, I was thinking WTF! myself at the time.

[dilligaf]

[dilligaf]

I did not hear the news just read the web page and the audio on that does not say that.

Must have been a slip up by the news reader.

[Max Power]

57 minutes ago, Mr Helmut Fromage said:

Or the buffoon who sent 40 motorcycles and a fast car with coppers in on a collision course - there's some right beauties out there.....

Isn't there another thread where this has been discussed, or are you just going to spout your uninformed comments where ever I post? 

[Ham_N_Eggs]

8 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

That's not what that said earlier today. It did indeed say "A lack of annual maintenance would have prevented the build up of Peel harbour".

[dilligaf]

Ok, cheers. 

[TheTeapot]

35 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

Is that a joke ?

It's just manx radio being shit.

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

4 minutes ago, Max Power said:

Isn't there another thread where this has been discussed, or are you just going to spout your uninformed comments where ever I post? 

Yes there are other threads however - at no point can I be misinformed unless you have seen the report.

[Uhtred]

2 hours ago, finlo said:

They wouldn't be museum pieces in Peel!

Naughty!

[finlo]

8 minutes ago, Uhtred said:

Naughty!

But nice, and not to wide of the mark!

[woolley]

3 hours ago, Uhtred said:

Blimey - I just read that as Slit museum and wondered what the hell that would be!

Profitable. Probably.

[KERED]

2 hours ago, Ham_N_Eggs said:

That's not what that said earlier today. It did indeed say "A lack of annual maintenance would have prevented the build up of Peel harbour".

Yes,thanks, Hammy. That was how  it was originally, both on air,and on the web page. They have since corrected it on the web page. However, she still read the incorrect version on the 11pm news. (this is because it is pre-recorded, so it wasn't corrected)

[woolley]

If you are reading something on air then surely, if you are conscious, you would realise that a sentence you are reading is incorrect, as in the example about Peel Harbour above. Obviously, a lack of maintenance would NOT have improved matters. So you wouldn't just read it out parrot fashion. You would intervene like a sentient being and correct it. Unless they are all so bored that they don't even pay attention to what they are putting out. In the past I've seen government press releases with spelling and errors of meaning that are later published on air and in the newspapers with exactly the same errors. Nobody cares.