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Old 10-05-2011, 14:05
Jepson
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You do have a peculiar way of understanding things.

I haven't found one post that says the technique was anything but poor!
Well, it seems as if it's you who has a peculiar way of understanding things because I never said anything that implies there was.

Please point out a post to me were someone was ridiculing those who are so adamant that the beeb should have used an episode of Doctor Who as a reminder to all on how to do correct CPR.
Certainly:

You have to be ******* kidding me. Make a pubic service announcement about how to do CPR?

People are absolutely ridiculous. IT'S A TV SHOW! GET A LIFE!!!
There are many others.

The so called ridiculing posts you did highlight, mine included, were simply laughing at themselves.

I think perspective is clearly lacking on this thread.
You seem to be terribly confused; to the point that it's not clear what you are trying to say.

Are you on the side of those who think the BBC should not have shown inept CPR without even making a comment about it or are you on the side of those who think it's just a TV programme and shouldn't even have been discussed?

Or did you change your mind half way through?

At the time of posting you have made twice as may post in this thread as anyone else so I presume you have a strong view one way or another but from the post quoted here it's not clear what your position is.

Bugger, I started again, soz everyone but that post p'd me off!
Evidently. It's just a shame that you could not have made a more coherent explanation as to why because you appear to be vacillating between agreement and disagreement from line to line.
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Old 10-05-2011, 14:28
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You have to be ******* kidding me. Make a pubic service announcement about how to do CPR?

People are absolutely ridiculous. IT'S A TV SHOW! GET A LIFE!!!
That's the point Gene people do have lives..Hopefully vey long healthy ones...Yes its a fictional tv show and theres nothing better than losing oneself in the fantasy make believe world of doctor who...But I would rather have had the doctor save Rory in a totally impossible fictional way rather than the completely wrong non-fictional way as was portrayed...
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Old 10-05-2011, 14:33
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Of course they should be ridiculed! It is RIDICULOUS to ask for a PSA after an episode of Doctor Who. You can just imagine it for every season:

If you or your family have been terrorised by nazi-robots bent on destroying the Earth please call this number or visit our website for more information.

(Okay that was slight hyperbole)

I don't believe that the BBC has an obligation to teach people anything in any entertainment programme they show. If it is a factual/magazine programme then yes the facts/ other things they present should be correct, for an entertainment programme where it takes up 30 seconds of a 45 minute then no there is no need for a complete factual portrayal and for people to be complaining about this is ridiculous.

If Amy had simply slapped him on the back and he came back to life then fair enough, this was fine.
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Old 10-05-2011, 14:42
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I don't believe that the BBC has an obligation to teach people anything in any entertainment programme they show.
Neither do I and only one person has suggested the BBC should link to info about CPR, which is a far cry from the "Public Service Announcement" you are exaggerating they demand.

CPR scenes in programmes are always clichéd and a bit pants. This one was made worse by their lazy portray, which would have been so easy to get right.
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Old 10-05-2011, 14:53
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What we have here is a classic example of a very strange internet phenomenon. Namely that when people are not interested in a subject or do not think it important they will go to extraordinary lengths to ridicule those who do think it's interesting or important and to stifle discussion.
Yeah - My contribuition was extraordinary

Of course, there is the other "strange internet phenomenon" of the kind of person who "can't leave things alone, walk out of a thread without having the last word"

[walks out of thread, doesn't care if he has the last word and really hopes this thread isn't the sign of things to come in this Forum]

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Old 10-05-2011, 15:21
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Have you considered the possibility that Rory specifically wanted Amy to perform CPR because he knew that the Doctor would spot that he's "not quite right" - not entirely human, for example?

Did you spot that Amy's CPR didn't actually work - Amy stopped trying and Rory didn't "revive" until several seconds later?

Did you spot that after the siren vanished, the Doctor tried scanning with his screwdriver and Rory immediately threw a wobbler? He wasn't using the screwdriver to deactivate the sickbed because when Rory choked, he told Amy to "Turn it back on." - she was operating the controls manually the whole time.
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Old 10-05-2011, 15:23
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Blimey!

I've just read through this thread with ever increasing incredulity.

Do people really think that if someone were faced with a person needing CPR they would think "Oh, yes, I know how to do it - I'll do what Amy did in that realistic programme, Doctor Who. It worked for Rory."

Do they think a child if faced with such a situation would immediately start giving CPR? Or do they think said child would go and find an adult?

I very much doubt if even one person would think themselves capable of performing CPR because they had seen Amy do it.

Having said all that, I do wish they had got it right, as we would then have been spared threads like this.

Has no one anything better to think about? (My excuse is I'm putting off cleaning the kitchen cupboards, which anything is better than )

Actually, please don't bother answering my questions as I won't be around to read the answers.
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Old 10-05-2011, 16:19
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Neither do I and only one person has suggested the BBC should link to info about CPR, which is a far cry from the "Public Service Announcement" you are exaggerating they demand.

CPR scenes in programmes are always clichéd and a bit pants. This one was made worse by their lazy portray, which would have been so easy to get right.
And if we look to page three and the post that I was replying to...

They make such PSA's when other programme occurrences warrant it.
So MOOOOOO to YOOOOOOOU
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Old 10-05-2011, 16:27
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Perhaps the Beeb ought to just put a disclaimer before all drama shows;

Please do not take anything literally in the following programme. It's not real. If you're interested in anything that happens in this episode, please go on a course about it. It's not our job to spoonfeed your education.

Y'know, just in case people haven't realised.
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