http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 14:58:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-107054 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:39:42 +0000 writinginbsl 107054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>very funny</p> <p>very late stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106740 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:40:12 +0000 charlies_hat 106740@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mine is used for Bragazing Live at next doors washing line </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106725 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:25:19 +0000 Sinnick 106725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I use mine nowadays for watching tits.<br /> Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Penduline Tits ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106715 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:53:26 +0000 dvo4fun 106715@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The people I really feel sorry for are those who went with the weekly Build-your-own-telescope 'partwork' magazine option </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106713 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:32:37 +0000 Golgo13 106713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106710 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:08:26 +0000 Ostsee 106710@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yup. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106708 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:14:17 +0000 kga6 106708@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You don't know how right you are... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106703 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:00:31 +0000 Username 106703@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>* * * * * </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106696 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:33:06 +0000 waylandsmithy 106696@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hahaha! Had me at the headline! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=37814#post-106694 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:29:56 +0000 Andrew 106694@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Following the second series of BBC2's Stargazing Live, lofts across Britain reported a surge in fathers rooting around for the telescope they'd bought following the first series of BBC2's Stargazing Live.</p> <p>Just one month after charismatic scientist Professor Brain Cox and TV funnyman Dara O Briain first inspired millions to purchase astronomical equipment with which to peer at the majestic wonder of the night sky, most of their new apparatus was confined to the loft, with owners complaining that cloud cover or light pollution rendered astronomy impossible, or that almost all of the night sky was actually pretty boring, or that it was just too bloody cold in Manchester to stand around outside at night and they didn't know how anybody at Jodrell Bank did it. But those same telescopes were out of the loft after series two, for almost a fortnight this time, before everyone realised why they'd put them up there in the first place.</p> <p>Activists have criticised the BBC for "regressive programming", saying that this policy of a brief, annual fixation with the heavens would hit the poorest families hardest. "Think about it," a spokesperson said, "a rich family with a large house can absorb the cost of a telescope and put it in a cupboard. A poor family in a council flat would have put that same telescope on eBay, and been forced to purchase a new one at full price when their brief dalliance with cosmology was rekindled the following year."</p> <p>The BBC has refused to comment on what it calls "these bloody stupid allegations". </p>