Well, you're going to have me rant back about your ranting about my rant, then, young rantmeister. I have not impugned anyone's intelligence for being incapable of speaking their native tongue correctly - other than 'halfwits' at the BBC. Do you work for the BBC as a presenter? If not, you're exempt. The Beeb is the UK's national broadcaster. It's undertaken to involve people with strong regional accents, which is fine, since it reflects our nation more truly than the fraffly-fraffly brigade used to do, but it is in no way supposed to let sloppy, lazy, and just plain inaccurate language past its monitors.
If the BBC isn't going to bother to have its employees speak the country's native language correctly and intelligbly, then we may as well give up and let people make it up as they go along.
I don't care if someone speaks with an accent, even those strong enough to crack nuts at fifty paces. What I object to is being too lazy to use the correct word, employ the right punctuation, or at least try to say the word the right way. There is a reason for standard pronunciation and spelling, and it's very simple: it makes for clear communication. But if i wanta rite or speek just eny old way i want just becos its eazy for me to do it that way and not botha if any one can unnerstan me then for sum peepel thats alrite cos it dunt mater cos its not like we is gettin a gud job no wat i meen