We know where you live

By Simon Walters and Glen Owen for The Mail on Sunday

Source: Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-bid.html

The boss of Britain’s broadcasting regulator was at the centre of an explosive row with media mogul James Murdoch last night.
The dispute erupted after outgoing Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards claimed he had been threatened during his eight years in the £393,000-a-year post.
He alleged that one media mogul had shouted at him in his office: ‘We know who you are, we know who your friends are and we know where you live.’
The comments, made at a leaving party at Ofcom’s London HQ on Monday, drew gasps of astonishment from guests. Mr Richards did not identify the person but guests said they believed he was referring to Rupert Murdoch’s son James.
Ofcom last night confirmed that Mr Richards made the ‘we know where you live’ claim.
A spokesman refused to say if Mr Richards was referring to James Murdoch. However, given several opportunities to deny that it was him, the spokesman declined to comment.
Reports of clashes between the pair have been in wide circulation among senior media and political figures for several years. They were in a long-running power struggle triggered by an attempted £8 billion bid to take full control of BSkyB, where James Murdoch was chairman, by his father Rupert’s News Corp, BSkyB’s parent organisation.
Ofcom opposed the takeover – despite support for James Murdoch from David Cameron and Tory Culture Secretary and friend Jeremy Hunt. But the Murdochs had to abandon the plan as a result of the phone hacking scandal involving the News of the World, part of News International, also owned by News Corp and where James Murdoch was chairman.
Humiliatingly, he was forced to quit as chairman of BSkyB after Mr Richards questioned whether the company was ‘fit and proper’ to broadcast in the UK.

Note: OFCOM is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.

Unfortunately the Mail online group is still persona non grata here. They were banned after doing a piece on a highly placed dignitary, including a video of the infamous birthday party.

ps not so unfortunate really - the Mail is execrable. :-&

Execrable?

Jack, I had to look up that word and I'm an educated man.

Still, not a bad story, I think Khun OFCOM is more respectable and believable than his opposition.

jackspratt wrote: the Mail is execrable. :-&

Jack.....dear boy, this is very poor form . Why didn't you use the word detestable so people up north could understand what you're talking about. Unlike Widdle most of them don't have dictionaries and many who do, can't read anyway.

The Poms kicked old Rups and the thug James in the arse big time but I think they're stronger than ever in Oz? They have got their boy in the Lodge. Rups, however, is still kicking own goals on twitter in Oz. Jack might say Rups is making execrable tweets.

I post this link in to help us catch up with jack. Even jack probably doesn't know at least half a dozen of these:

http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment ... 20language

But first I'll link it to the Murdochs: they're not into self-tonsorialism (4) but are probably happy with quomodocunquizing (12). Some might say they are abydocomists (30).

From the link: "Forty of the things that make English absolutely wonderful

1. Eleven per cent of the entire English language is just the letter E.
Girl umbrella

An umbrella can be a very handy ombrifuge. Photo: Getty

2. Psithurism is the sound of the wind rustling through leaves.

3. An ombrifuge is anything or anywhere that provides shelter from the rain.

4. The proper name for cutting your own hair is self-tonsorialism.

5. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the proper name for an ice-cream headache.

6. ‘Nice’ originally meant ‘ignorant’ or ‘simple’.

7. Posing a question and then immediately answering it yourself is called sermocination.

8. A joke-fellow is someone who you share a joke with.

9. To bumfiddle means to spoil a piece of paper or invalidate a document by scribbling or drawing on it.

10. To metagrobolise someone is to utterly confuse them.

11. The opposite of déjà-vu is jamais-vu — the unnerving feeling that something very familiar is actually completely new.

12. To quomodocunquize means ‘to make money by whatever means possible.’

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13. If you were to write down the name of every English number in order (one, two, three, four…) you wouldn’t use a single letter B until you reached one billion.

14. Shaking hands with someone in an agreement is called famgrapsing.

15. There was no word for the colour orange in English until the 16th century.

16. Dermatoglyphics is the study of fingerprints and skin patterns. It’s also the longest English words comprised entirely of different letters.

17. Swear words were nicknamed ‘tongue-worms’ in the 1600s.

18. If the weather has ‘flenched’ then it’s failed to improve even though it looked like it would.

19. Shivviness is an old Yorkshire word for the uncomfortable feeling of wearing new underwear.

20. To outbabble someone is to talk over them and drown them out.

21. In Victorian English, ‘follow-me-lads’ were loose curls of hair hanging over a woman’s shoulders, or loose ribbons on the back of a dress.

22. The most common adjective in the English language is good. The most common noun is time.

23. A paraphenalia was originally all of a woman’s possessions that did not automatically become her husband’s property after marriage.

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24. To exulcerate someone literally means to annoy or irritate them as much as an ulcer would.

25. Anything described as jaculiferous is covered in prickles.

26. “The countryside” is an anagram of “no city dust here”.

27. The deliberate use of old fashioned language in modern writing is called gadzookery.

28. To cample is to angrily answer back to someone who has just reprimanded you.

29. A shrug of the shoulders can also be called a hunkle.

30. An abydocomist is a liar who boasts about the lies they have told.

31. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defined music as “the science of harmonical sounds”.

32. Cultrivore is the proper name for a sword-swallower.

33. A cabotin is a bad actor. Cabotinage is bad acting.

34. Shakespeare used the word armgaunt in ‘Antony & Cleopatra’. No one knows for sure what he wanted it to mean.

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35. Hogwash is literally kitchen scraps used to feed pigs. The first writer to use it to mean ‘nonsense’ was Mark Twain.

36. Quantophrenia is an overreliance on statistics to prove a point.

37. The word noon originally referred to 3pm.

38. The Scots word hansper means ‘the pain or stiffness in the legs felt after a long walk’.

39. In Tudor English, a gandermooner was a man who flirted with other women while his wife recovered from childbirth.

40. As well as being a unit of weight, an ounce is a duration of 7½ seconds."