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[retro_geek]

So the bbc have stopped thier blue peter badge scheme...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4857676.stm

Is it just me, or is this whole fuss over these badges just a bit over the top?

I mean, it's not as though there are going to be any more badges circulating than there would be anyway, is it?

And with the papers full of shock-horror headline about how kids today are too fat/lazy/stupid/uncultured, surely anything thats gets them to visit more museums/zoos/etc,etc can only be a good thing?

And while on the subject of blue peter, has anyone else seen the new (and Blue peter themed) Will Young video? (more information can be found here: http://popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=1). Obviously it's a work of complete genious, but am i the only person who finds it all nostalgic and "awwww"-inducing, rather than hilairiously funny?

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[butterfly-toast.livejournal.com]

1. People are gaining entry into events where they haven't earnt them.

2. Some are making fakes that are passing for real badges.

I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

[butterfly-toast.livejournal.com]

And yes, I watched a preview of it on a programme, it's really quite clever :)

[retro-geek.livejournal.com]

1. Im sure half of the drawings/poems/modles/etc that have "earned" people badges were, at least in part, the product of the parents of the kid!
2. Fakes are a different matter alltogether. Besides, Im sure there were probably fakes around before this current "scandal".

[butterfly-toast.livejournal.com]

Some bloke put one up that he made, but it was so obviously fake...crooked and the ship looked like it was sinking.

It made £60 in the end, I think. Not bad :/

'And here's one I made earlier...' :D

[retro-geek.livejournal.com]

Lol! But who would pay £60 for an obviously fake badge? from what i heard, some of the real ones were going for considerably less than that. Straaaaaaaaange people...

[butterfly-toast.livejournal.com]

I guess it's just the novelty of a crappy badge than someone thought would be a laugh and actually made a profit from.

Oh the unacknowledged winners of this world :)