Starting at the bottom

Many people would suggest that Nigel Farage is a real pain in the backside.

The BBC appears to agree with them.

Leaning or lending?

With the Autumn Statement due later today, the BBC has me wondering whether the Chancellor is planning on lending a bit of cash to Teresa or whether he expects her to cough up a little extra.

It's a gift

Jon C suggests that the BBC should take the advice of one of Harry Enfield's characters.

You don't wanna do it like that.

Harder than ever

The Large Hadron Collider has been out of the news for a couple of years while it's been shut down and upgraded.

But now it's back with double its previous capacity.

And with it, the same old headlines from BBC News which, clearly, hasn't matched the upgrade to its spell-check system.

BBC bucks trend

Are you, like Greg L, concerned that more and more Americanisms are creeping into the BBC's output?

For those of you who are hard of hearing...

Who knows? It may well be a sterling article.

Taking the long view

Somebody at BBC News needs to reconsider their mathematical skills.

Most schoolchildren will tell you that 100 kilometres per hour is about 60 miles per hour. A cursory glance at a car speedometer would also reveal that fact.

From that, it's easy to work out that 10 km is about 6 miles.

Even if that's beyond you, just type '10000m in miles' into Google search and you'll get the answer.

See? Just over 6 miles.

Not surprisingly, the BBC's accuracy is miles out.

Cereal entrepreneurs

These guys on Dragons' Den need to either change the name of their high fibre breakfast product from Spoon, sack their photographer, or else keep a very wary eye on the design aspects of their packaging and advertising campaigns.

Or the market may well fall out of their bottoms.

Nick R's in a twist

Looks like the BBC's Political Editor, Nick Robinson, became rather over excited at the prospect of more women joining the Cabinet yesterday.

Grim forecast

You know how worried you were when you agreed to let your child go to Glastonbury?

Let the BBC Weather subtitles team put your mind at rest.

Because?

Well, because it's Glastonbury.

Electification

It was interesting to see the use of a new buzzword on the BBC the other day.

Electification?

The promise by the government to upgrade the rail network in an attempt to secure votes.

Ain't no sunshine

Holly S had to hit Pause the other morning to convince herself she wasn't seeing double.

I hope the extra h meant extra hot.

Hahve a nihce day.

Shoot the messenger

The ever-reliable late-night team on BBC News strikes again.

Thanks to Dennis A, Jon C, Greg L and everyone else who brought this soon-to-be classic to my attention.

Blimey. If that's incredible value, I'd like to see - or preferably sample - a massaging service that's expensive.

Incidentally, I've just found a link to what's reported to be the world's most expensive massage service. For the sake of those who are perhaps a little sensitive about such things, it's not a direct link. But you'll find it soon enough if you go looking.

It's a place where the line between massage and other, er, more specialised services grows decidedly thin.

Anyway, getting back to Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp must have seen him coming.

It told me I could have it for 69p.

Bucketloads

I know the recent weather in the UK has been driving everyone mad.

But look on the bright side; we might have this to face soon.

Horse chestnut

You can always rely on BBC News to report with accuracy and responsibility.

It's Chinese New Year and Dennis A reveals that the TV channel decided to extend a welcome to us all.

Celebrate?

I bet they're having a ball.

Messing with the Taliban

Our regular observer of all things military, Greg L, sent in this one from BBC News.

One which, I think, will have been missed by most people.

You'd think the channel would've written the word often enough by now to get it right.

Rather than the fighter, it's the Taliban that's been wounded.

Killing time

Doesn't anyone at the BBC check anything anymore?

If you were feeling that way inclined, you might have welcomed this opportunity extended by a headline on the BBC News website yesterday morning.

It was changed pretty quickly.

Probably as soon as GCHQ rang up.

Katz out of the bag

In only his second week in one of the top jobs at the BBC, Newsnight Editor Ian Katz thought he was sharing his opinions with one of his Twitter friends in a direct message. That's a private message. You know the type. The ones that start with a single letter d.

Katz is a former Deputy Editor at The Guardian newspaper, so you'll already appreciate where this is heading.

Sure enough, he omitted the d, thereby alerting the whole of his 20,000 or so followers, and the rest of the world for that matter, to his private thoughts about his programme and, in particular, about one of its interviewees: Rachel Reeves, the Labour MP for Leeds West and the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

In just four lines he manages to say in one tweet everything you need to know about him.

Ms Reeves's reply was much more succinct, very funny and summed up her thoughts about him perfectly.

Eleven-plus

Despite being the most exciting team game in existence, Rugby League is a minority sport here in the UK. Therefore, we fans should appreciate any coverage it receives.

So I'm thankful for the relatively tiny amount of information offered by the BBC.

But its website shows that it pays little more than lip service if truth be told.

What makes me say that?

Count the players.

Unlike the BBC's favourite son, football, RL is a 13-a-side game.