Thought for the Day - BBC Radio 4

[Pappa]

As many of you know, the Thought for the Day is some broadly religious bollocks they spout on BBC Radio 4 each day. I listened to it this morning and it was bollocks. Basically, you have to learn to listen to and understand God's supreme unchattiness.

Here's today's: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01fjx9f

You can listen to pages and pages of similar bollocks here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00szxv6/clips

[Mysturji]

I intentionally wait until after 07:50 each morning before getting into my car to drive to work because of that bollocks. It makes me want to ram into something.
Fucking twats keep making me late for work.

[trdsf]

I'm trying to recall who it was (might have been David Mitchell) who described Thought for the Day (I think) as being entertaining only insofar as trying to follow the contortions contributors go through to crowbar their religion into whatever unrelated thing they were talking about. "I got a flat tyre while driving up the M1 last week and as I was struggling to change it, I thought, isn't this a bit like Jesus?"

[Clinton Huxley]

Haha. Exactly like that. As I was being nose-raped by Andorran pirates, I thought, this is a bit like jesus

[trdsf]

I don't really worry overmuch about shows like Thought for the Day for a couple reasons -- the main one being I'm a Yank and listen selectively online, pretty much entirely to Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. And, it seems fair enough, in terms of equal time -- they also air The Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity, which are not only openly skeptical, but entertainingly so.

TIMC would NEVER get aired here.

[Clinton Huxley]

Its quite amusing waiting for the moment when they segue into Jeebus.

[mistermack]

I was having a shit the other day, and it made me wonder about Jesus on the cross.

Did the Romans let him have a shit, before they sent him on his way with his cross, or did he have to hold it in?
It's one thing to be nailed up for everyone to see you dying, but it must be really humiliating to shit yourself as well.

Holding it in would be especially hard when they showed you the size of the nails they were using.
Maybe they edited that bit out of the gospels.

[Clinton Huxley]

Reading MMs post, above, reminded me a little of Jesus

[Rum]

What bothers me is why the Beeb assume people only have one thought a day.

[Clinton Huxley]

Surely one is enough.

[Clinton Huxley]

"Eating a baby the other day, I was struck by how much it was like bacon"

[Svartalf]

What bothers me is why the Beeb assume people only have one thought a day.

Most of them don't have that many.

[MrJonno]

I would rather have soppy liberal religion thought for the day than christian fundie evangelism on the air ways. The BBC is required by charter to have some religious airplay and we could have a lot worse

[Mysturji]

I would rather have soppy liberal religion thought for the day than christian fundie evangelism on the air ways. The BBC is required by charter to have some religious airplay and we could have a lot worse

It would be nicer still if - just occasionally - they had a TFTD that didn't involve any imaginary friends, non-sequitors or apologetic bullshit.
Just my 2p