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They're certainly not holding back with IB are they! And this following the bleep-age on yesterday's. Ofcom might not be too happy. But personally I think they should go back to being a bit more risqué with features - more enjoyable.

Really liking the show so far, still a bit odd hearing it in this time slot but I'm liking the structure, it all feels nice and smooth, especially without the the 15 min Newsbeat. Welcome return for OWO. Just wish they'd shut up about 1D for more than 5 minutes!!

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They're certainly not holding back with IB are they! And this following the bleep-age on yesterday's. Ofcom might not be too happy. But personally I think they should go back to being a bit more risqué with features - more enjoyable.

I agree - it sounds like they want to have as much fun over the next 3 years as possible. Very reminiscent of the Scott Mills Gold days!

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I sort of yet the impression he had previously been told to tone it down, after the last ofcom incident, and he did that but now the bosses have moved him his sort of saying "tough i will do my show how i want"

Sorry if for any spelling mistakes, I'm dyspraxic.

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I sort of yet the impression he had previously been told to tone it down, after the last ofcom incident, and he did that but now the bosses have moved him his sort of saying "tough i will do my show how i want"

It's just a different audience - they're mostly people at work. Apart from the Easter week.

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Have enjoyed the show today, got the podcast from yesterday to listen to while at the stables instead of listening to Greg. Scott is far more important!

IB was good, actually watched it too since ima off work this week. TOTDS sitting hiding in the corner haha

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No. Am on a forum which, mercifully, contains a bbc r1 section. despite recent posts, am gonna give james some more listens after all. he seems to have something totally new called "blunder log", and i wanna check this out. :) o, and must send james a good luck tweet. Didn't even do that actually. Most remiss.

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Listened today for the first time at the new time and loved it. It sounds different but I like it. Loving the return of Innuendo Bingo as well, I've missed it. I will miss Scott in the afternoons, but I'll get used to it. And Greg was good as well today, did well I thought.

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Probably one of these from yesterday:

@Harkinson: "@scott_mills @gregjames @bbcr1 Can't we have Scott back? This is appalling.."

@Harkinson: "@celebritain Told you @gregjames was rubbish. He tries too hard to be funny and fails.."

Don't really know if I've been blocked or not but I can't "follow" him anymore. :(

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Why would you Follow someone you constantly criticise? REALLY don't understand that mentality "Oh I can't stand this guy, shouldn't be on Twitter, ain't got a good word to say about him *click follow* "?

Viv, it probably won't let you follow anyone because you spam follows with that FollowBus/FollowTrain/FollowDaLeader stuff and the ratio of people you're following in such a short space of time to people following you is probably awful due to that. That's the kind of thing those spammers do.

EDIT: oh look, 2000 you're following, 863 following you, that's like 2.3:1.

Every account can follow 2,000 users total. Once you’ve followed 2,000 users, there are limits to the number of additional users you can follow. This number is different for each account and is based on your ratio of followers to following; this ratio is not published. Follow limits cannot be lifted by Twitter and everyone is subject to follow limits, even high profile and API accounts.

In addition to this account-based limit, every Twitter account is technically unable to follow more than 1,000 users per day.

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