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During her life, Margie Geddes refused to speak to Betjeman's biographers about their friendship which was always thought to have been plutonic.

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Bloody illiterate twerp. The BBC news site editor, not Betjeman.

Please elucidate for the plebs

Bruv;1401755 wrote: Please elucidate for the plebs


plutonic

An igneous rock that cooled and hardened below the earth's surface.





platonic

Not sexual in nature; platonic love: They are good friends, but the relationship is strictly platonic.

I wonder what Plato would say about this.

SnoozeAgain;1401757 wrote: I wonder what Plato would say about this.


He's dead, Plato.

And Margie Geddes.

And, come to that, John Betjeman.

One day maybe the bloody news editor at the BBC website will be too and we can finally have proper proofreading.

Socrates on the other hand isn't dead, Socrates was a fictional character in Greek literature. He was, you might say, Platonic.

"During her life, Margie Geddes refused to speak to Betjeman's biographers about their friendship which was always thought to have been platonic."

Perhaps you get a wind up version, everybody else gets a good un

Bruv;1401761 wrote: "During her life, Margie Geddes refused to speak to Betjeman's biographers about their friendship which was always thought to have been platonic."

Perhaps you get a wind up version, everybody else gets a good un
The toerags have corrected their copy. What I showed is what it said when I showed it.

spot;1401762 wrote: The toerags have corrected their copy. What I showed is what it said when I showed it.


Poor BBC can't win, correct an error and they are toerags

Bruv;1401766 wrote: Poor BBC can't win, correct an error and they are toerags


What am I meant to do? Check back every hour and then delete my thread if they edit their mistake?

No............ just give praise where praise is due.

Bruv;1401770 wrote: No............ just give praise where praise is due.


They are inept tossers who would be unfit to edit a monthly church flier for a congregation of deaf dumb and blind arcade game fetishists.

spot;1401778 wrote: They are inept tossers who would be unfit to edit a monthly church flier for a congregation of deaf dumb and blind arcade game fetishists.
Vote with your feet, show your disdain by never visiting the site again.....................that will show them.

Bruv;1401823 wrote: Vote with your feet, show your disdain by never visiting the site again.....................that will show them.


Good lord no. As a subject of Her Majesty I, along with many others, currently own the BBC. How that spendthrift loadsamoney Thatcher was kept from cashing it in through privatizing it I'll never know but it's about the only bit of family silver left on my shelf, of course I'm going to support it.

spot;1401824 wrote: as a subject of her majesty i, along with many others, currently own the bbc...................................................... Of course i'm going to support it.


rotfl

Here we go again. Someone try to explain what on earth this gobbledegook means, I can extract absolutely no information from it whatever...10% of drivers have received parking fines over the last 12 months, with those hit paying out £340 - about £96 per offending driver.

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