The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #170901   Message #4134122
Posted By: GUEST,ottery
28-Jan-22 - 01:27 AM
Thread Name: Robert Burns documentary recommendations
Subject: RE: Robert Burns documentary recommendations
Look, to be honest I overreacted a bit in my previous post, because being told 'just search on iPlayer' came over as deeply condescending to me.(Ex-librarian, digitally literate, now in a web-focused job). Like being told 'oh, just Google it'.

These days, when people ask for recommendations, they aren't generally asking for instructions in how to use search boxes. They're asking for people's personal opinions based on something they've actually seen or experienced.

I don't have a TV Licence. It's a luxury which I can't afford.

This reply comes over as more snappy than I wanted it to, but I hope that for people who read it, when they see other threads asking for recs, they won't just add a post where they attempt to prove that they know how to use a search engine.

I'm sorry that it's probably ungrateful, considering that I'm the thread starter, but I bet I'm not the first person to be given a different kind of knowing from the one they hoped for: not nabod (Welsh: to be familiar with something), but gwybod (knowing a fact, knowing information).