People who watch 4:3 programs in widescreen

[wendigo100]

There is something wrong with them. FFS the first clue is in the squat people in every program!

All pubs seem to do it. I put it right in my local, but within two days it was back on widescreen, with a dozen people watching unfeasibly fat footballers running around.

[DimPrawn]

Programmes
Programme

[Dundeegeorge]

DP in 'pedant gets it wrong' shock......

pro·gram (prō'grăm', -grəm) pronunciation
n.

1.
1. A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
2. The presentation itself: a program of piano pieces.
2. A scheduled radio or television show.
3. An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule: a program of physical therapy for a convalescent.
4. A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need: “Working parents rely on the center's after-school latchkey program” (New York Times).
5.
1. A course of academic study; a curriculum.
2. A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.
3. A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.
6. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.
7. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.

tr.v., -grammed or -gramed, -gram·ming or -gram·ing, -grams or -grams.

1. To include or schedule in a program: program a new musical composition.
2. To design a program for; schedule the activities of.
3. To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions.
4. To train to perform automatically in a desired way, as if programming a machine: programmed the children to use perfect table manners.
5. To prepare an instructional sequence for (material to be taught) in programmed instruction.

[Late Latin programma, public notice, from Greek programma, programmat-, from prographein, to write publicly : pro-, forth; see pro–2 + graphein, to write.]
programmability pro·gram'ma·bil'i·ty n.

[DimPrawn]

Wrong!

Program is basterdised American English.

Do keep up.

I suppose you think it's all Gray and Colorless language anyway

[Dundeegeorge]

Ho ho ho

Bastardised.

It's all gray and colorless.

Can't spell and your grammar's shocking. You're not a teacher by any chance?

[Jesus]

There is something wrong with them. FFS the first clue is in the squat people in every program!

All pubs seem to do it. I put it right in my local, but within two days it was back on widescreen, with a dozen people watching unfeasibly fat footballers running around.

Long time since shag ALERT

[CaribbeanPirate]

All pubs seem to do it. I put it right in my local, but within two days it was back on widescreen, with a dozen people watching unfeasibly fat footballers running around.

Maybe they think that there would be more chance of scoring if the goals were wider?

[wendigo100]

Maybe they think that there would be more chance of scoring if the goals were wider?

Maybe, but the truth is - they don't understand the difference.

There's also an element of "I've got a widescreen tele so it would be stupid not to have it on widescreen mode".

[VectraMan]

I was in a motorway services recently where they had two big plasma WS TVs showing BBC News 24. One had the picture in zoom mode so that the tops and bottoms were cut off and the picture was stretched vertically, and one was set to 4:3 letterbox output so on a WS TV it was squashed vertically with black bars top and bottom.

I work in multimedia software so I have an excuse to be anal about this stuff.

[Alf W]

I lived in Wales for a while so all the people look normal to me like that.