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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Chico Hamilton III on December 07, 2015, 12:40:22 PM

Title: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on December 07, 2015, 12:40:22 PM
Not sure if this has been posted somewhere already? I'm going to withhold my licence fee out of disgust...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/read-bbcs-apology-sir-doug-10559911

Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: old man villa fan on December 07, 2015, 12:51:21 PM
Not sure if this has been posted somewhere already? I'm going to withhold my licence fee out of disgust...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/read-bbcs-apology-sir-doug-10559911

Sounds b******* to me. If it can't recognise words with a different number of syllables for a start, it's not much use.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: LeeB on December 07, 2015, 12:55:19 PM
As Tommy Docherty would probably have said "He issued a Fatwa, and ended up with Fat Ron"
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: joe_c on December 07, 2015, 12:56:27 PM
I posted a photo that someone took of the offending item but I forget which thread. This is one of the joys of live subtitles. On a piece about the Spassky v Fischer match last week, the One Show told of how the American challenger unexpectedly moved his porn, blowing the game wide open.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on December 07, 2015, 12:58:46 PM
The Great Santa
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: joe_c on December 07, 2015, 12:59:34 PM
From the Randy Lerner thread

At least he wouldn't be seen accessorising in a politically inflammatory style like his predecessor:

https://instagram.com/p/-Xf4gCtQGa/
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on December 07, 2015, 01:00:22 PM
Ahh, feel free to delete this thread
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Proposition Joe on December 07, 2015, 01:01:55 PM
I bet we'd win a lot more home matches if we had the Hezbollah in the crowd.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on December 07, 2015, 01:06:36 PM
I bet we'd win a lot more home matches if we had the Hezbollah in the crowd.

Wouldn't want to stand near the ref when he blows up for half time.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 07, 2015, 02:38:20 PM
I think it was the BBC 2 years ago who, with their text subtitles, declared the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Whores instead of Year pf the Horse.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: DaveD on December 07, 2015, 02:48:56 PM
Not sure if this has been posted somewhere already? I'm going to withhold my licence fee out of disgust...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/read-bbcs-apology-sir-doug-10559911

Sounds b******* to me. If it can't recognise words with a different number of syllables for a start, it's not much use.

Doesn't work like that. I've spent the last 2.5 years working on Voice Analytics. It recognises the phonetic components rather than words, and then matches them against its dictionary (which is customer specific) , and uses probability to come up with the most likely match. Will also differ depending on the accent of the person talking.

Hezbollah is probably used a lot more at the BBC than "his Villa scarf".
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Richard E on December 07, 2015, 03:44:18 PM
I think the only fair solution to this is that the other 19 clubs in the Premier League each have 10 points deducted.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: supertom on December 07, 2015, 03:52:22 PM
I think the only fair solution to this is that the other 19 clubs in the Premier League each have 10 points deducted.
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I think the only fair solution to this is that the other 19 clubs in the Premier League each have 10 points deducted.


Lets call it 20 points so we have a chance of staying up.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: TopDeck113 on December 07, 2015, 06:02:28 PM
That's tickled me.

When I first moved to the North West the best part of a quarter of century ago, I was working in the Lancashire town of Haslingden.  Whenever the primitive word-processing package we had at work came across the town name whilst doing a spell check it always stopped and suggested the correct alternative was "Whaling gun".  It must have done it hundreds of times to me alone, but for some reason it always amused me.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 07, 2015, 07:04:35 PM
This is just another example in the long line of how poorly the club is being run at the moment................................................
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Richard E on December 08, 2015, 08:33:53 AM
This is just another example in the long line of how poorly the club is being run at the moment................................................

No, you can't say that. You have to say "...how poorly this once great club is being run at the moment..."
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Doug
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on December 10, 2015, 07:24:24 AM
I have penned a tear stained letter to the BBC to complain about this.

I blame Yentob.

I never did like Barbara Streisand.
Title: Re: BBC apologises to Hezbollah
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on December 12, 2015, 08:48:53 PM
Not sure if this has been posted somewhere already? I'm going to withhold my licence fee out of disgust...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/read-bbcs-apology-sir-doug-10559911




Disgusting ! Me too !
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