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Kin posted:Cheers. Although, the signal is still as lovely as it was yesterday and i can't even pick the channel up properly :/ that could be why i missed it on the TV guide thingy. You probably need to upgrade your aerial.
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Flatscan posted:You probably need to upgrade your aerial. Possibly. I just think there are loads of things hosed up about here. My mum using the blender in the kitchen downstairs fucks up the reception on some channels, for example. As well as that, the BT hub is in the living room downstairs and i'd say that, at most, it's maybe 20 feet away from my PC yet i only ever get 2 bars of signal strength. So there might be some crazy signal blocking poo poo with the house i'm in. I was thinking about trying out that BTFON thing that's being advertised, but my computer says that it's an unsecured connection so i'm a little wary of switching over to it (despite it getting a better signal strength).
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There's a new Adam & Joe podcast out - they did a pre-record which went out on Xmas day http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/adamandjoe There's a Charlie Brooker Wipe thing on tonight. If you're a Stewart Lee fan get his book (How I Escaped My Certain Fate). It's amazing. 
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wickles posted:If you're a Stewart Lee fan get his book (How I Escaped My Certain Fate). It's amazing. I saw Richard Herring's Christ on a Bike two days later too, which was also highly entertaining. His analysis on the first page of the New Testament had me (and the audience) in loving stitches - probably the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. edit: I got his book signed too as my Secret Santa got it for me not two days prior! Idioteque Dance fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Dec 27, 2010 |
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For 2011 I'm greatly looking for to the new series of the Thick of it (I'm wondering if they will bring back Malcolm in the official opposition) and that new Jewish sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Will be interesting to see what it's like compared to Grandma's house which was so much like my own family that they even had some of the same furniture.
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Charlie Brookers' NewsWipe is on just now, which is lovely (the idea of Debate Hero being a particularly wonderful one), but can anyone please tell me the piece of classical music that was on during the BP oil spill section, when the American is talking with revulsion about Dawn dish soap?. It's driving me a little mad trying to remember it.
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Dec 27, 2010 23:25
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No Tim Keys, tvguide.co.uk lied to me. 
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Irisi posted:but can anyone please tell me the piece of classical music that was on during the BP oil spill section, when the American is talking with revulsion about Dawn dish soap?. It's driving me a little mad trying to remember it. While were asking for music, what was the music playing during Salman Rushdie's weird Ping-pong based interview on the One Show clip. I rather enjoyed that. Charlie can make any masturbation joke funny.
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I'm surprised you guys are asking what the music is though to be honest everything sounds slightly off with a moog, It is Henry Purcells Funeral of Queen Mary. In other words, the classical original version of the Theme of Kubricks A Clockwork Orange. Here it is on YouTube.
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I finally managed to make it all the way through something Brooker while visiting my family; normally my dad wanders in to the room half-way through a clip of some ITV poo poo and asks "what's this rubbish, isn't there something better on?". My mum sat through all of it, but I don't think she really appreciated it.
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My Grandad slept through most of it, but me and my dad appreciated it.
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Shakespearean Beef posted:charlie brooker redeems christmas
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thebardyspoon posted:Finally something worth watching, Whistle and I'll Come to You is just about to start in case anyone both forgot and is reading this.
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Irisi posted:Charlie Brookers' NewsWipe is on just now, which is lovely (the idea of Debate Hero being a particularly wonderful one), but can anyone please tell me the piece of classical music that was on during the BP oil spill section, when the American is talking with revulsion about Dawn dish soap?. It's driving me a little mad trying to remember it. Some of the music on the show was from IBM 1401 a users manual by Johan Johannson. That was a great line about Richard Littlejohn from Brooker. "the kind of person that haunts [Littlejohn's] nightmares and confuses(?) his dreams. Hank Morgan fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Dec 28, 2010 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm surprised you guys are asking what the music is though to be honest everything sounds slightly off with a moog, It is Henry Purcells Funeral of Queen Mary. Thank you very much. I was on the right track as I felt it had something to do with Kubrick. I was thinking it was in Barry Lyndon though. Silly old me.
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Kin posted:Cheers. Although, the signal is still as lovely as it was yesterday and i can't even pick the channel up properly :/ that could be why i missed it on the TV guide thingy. Past few days I have been stuck with ITV3 and SKY 3. They bllamed atrometrics in october when I had no reception for an entire weekend. Must be nice to have such a nebulous scapegoat.
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Popo posted:While were asking for music, what was the music playing during Salman Rushdie's weird Ping-pong based interview on the One Show clip. Hot Butter - Popcorn e: woah, it was on BBC2. Barry Shitpeas is still the best. wickles fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Dec 28, 2010 |
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Just finished watching 2010wipe, and it was one of Brooker's best. Is it just me, or is Grace Dent quite a handsome woman?
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:Just finished watching 2010wipe, and it was one of Brooker's best. Is it just me, or is Grace Dent quite a handsome woman? If by handsome you mean looks like a man, then yes she is handsome.
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Irisi posted:Charlie Brookers' NewsWipe is on just now, which is lovely (the idea of Debate Hero being a particularly wonderful one), but can anyone please tell me the piece of classical music that was on during the BP oil spill section, when the American is talking with revulsion about Dawn dish soap?. It's driving me a little mad trying to remember it. It's the allegretto from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. They always seem to play this piece when Doug Stanhope makes an appearance.
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Idioteque Dance posted:While there were a handful of more tasteful jokes (though that's not a comment on their quality), I was also pretty speechless when I saw the Japanese schoolgirls. There wasn't any subtext, the actual joke was that they had slanty eyes and talked funny (... because they're Japanese, lol). From what I can gather, he hates Little Britain because it's made by people from the same class as most other British comedians, and that it makes fun of people that the left-wing media dedicate their lives to pretending to care about. His point is mainly bolstered by a quote from a random poster on an internet forum. Btw what the gently caress happened to Charlotte Church?
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Dec 28, 2010 19:24
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Booze, fags and bairns.
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This lecturer is terrible did he really just posit "but two objects of the same weight but different surface areas fall at different rates don't they! You've seen snowflakes drifting to earth and a snowball just hitting the ground" then do an experiment with styofoam to prove it and then doesn't go on to say "but of course in a vacuum they would fall at the same rate. It's the air thats doing it, gravity affects both objects the same" because that is a terrible abuse of science and is teaching kids exactly the wrong thing. The dick.
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Hang on, wasn't that Gary Scottish Soldier program on channel 4 at some point?
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This 2010 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart is pretty good. Very "xxxx the stupid version". Except when Miranda is on the screen. Obviously.
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I seem to remember watching Little Britain and amongst the unfunny catchphrase comedy you would very occasionally get a clever and funny line that wasn't picked up on by the canned laughter. Then it would return to catchphrases again.
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DaWolfey posted:This 2010 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart is pretty good. Very "xxxx the stupid version". Yeah. Shame about the lack of Adam Buxton this year. Really loved the re-edit of Brian Cox.
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Adrianics posted:Did anyone watch The One Ronnie, by the way? I did and I loved it. Sure it wasn't all hits but the majority of it was. If only he'd make a series so we could have a decent sketch show on again.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Hang on, wasn't that Gary Scottish Soldier program on channel 4 at some point? Garys War? http://www.channel4.com/programmes/garys-war/4od#2918310 I loved this. It first aired whilst I was in basic and caught it on 4OD later, would love to have seen more of it. e: Fantastic, just through looking this up (wikipedia) seen this had a full series on beeb. I know what im binging through this week. billiam 8817 fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Dec 29, 2010 |
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billiam 8817 posted:Garys War? There is an episode of it on iPlayer right now, which is why I got really confused. It is worth a watch if you like your squaddies silly happy go lucky scots.
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wickles posted:If you're a Stewart Lee fan get his book (How I Escaped My Certain Fate). It's amazing. I got this for Christmas (as well as giving it to my brother), and if you are a fan of Stewart Lee it's really worth getting. A big part of it is 3 annotated transcripts of his last 3 stand up shows, which sounds a bit lazy, but each page is about 20% of the transcribed show, and 80% notes on how jokes are constructed, or more background on what he was talking about in the show. The most suprising thing so far was the role Ricky Gervais played in his recent return to live stand up.
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goatface posted:He's not very good. He's trying to simplify concepts, but then he presents them in a hideously overcomplicated way. Also he can't seem to get two clear, coherent sentences out in a row. Is he really the most charismatic choice for that sort of show? He was awful at presenting to kids.
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ah, this Screenwipe review of the year is amazing. Loved the inception review, and the cat in a bin segment is hilarious.
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pisshead posted:From what I can gather, he hates Little Britain because it's made by people from the same class as most other British comedians, and that it makes fun of people that the left-wing media dedicate their lives to pretending to care about. His point is mainly bolstered by a quote from a random poster on an internet forum. I'm one of the biggest lefties I know, but I just cannot stand Johann Hari. Everything offends him! And my God, he is one of the whiniest, most insufferable pricks to be given media space. I'm pretty sure he's the reason why right wingers hate the left.
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The Barry Shitpeas segments of the Screenwipe End Of Year review made me gurn like crazy.
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Fatkraken posted:ah, this Screenwipe review of the year is amazing. Loved the inception review, and the cat in a bin segment is hilarious. But WHY? WHY would you put a cat in a bin? why? WHY??? IF YOU JUST TELL US WHY WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND. WHY!?
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Brown Moses posted:The most suprising thing so far was the role Ricky Gervais played in his recent return to live stand up. Was it that he was watching the telly and Gervais popped on with one of his shows about how he sent his stupid mate to another country to say stupid ignorant things into a camera; and while he was sitting there (with Ricky constantly giggling like a moron), he had an epiphany that comedy like this was complete and utter poo poo and he had to come back and help save the genre? I might go and pick the book up tomorrow because i've been looking for a good comedy read for a while now.
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