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Kid Moe posted:I have a bit of a crush on Sarah Millican. That is all I'm not usually one to namedrop, but she's a friend of a mutal friend of my sister and myself. This became slightly awkward when watching HIGNFY tonight with my father who claimed he "can't stand that geordie bird". We had to explain that he probably shouldn't share that sentiment around the friend when he comes to visit. My dad then went on the complain about her for another half hour. Said mutual friend also had a flatmate who went out with Josie Long. He was apparently lucky to do so.
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Flatscan posted:Why? Is she particularly dirty or something? Oh no, he's just apparently not the best pick of men. Also this was some years ago, when she was less.... svelte. I'm doing all sorts of badmouthing here. I should say something nice I guess. I watched Sherlock recently, it was loving awesome.
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| # ¿ Dec 5, 2010 00:50 |
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Graviton v2 posted:Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. BBC3 has been on a bit of a Pixar kick lately, showing a bunch of their films and shorts, and culminating in an hour long look at the 25 best bits of the company's history tonight at 9. Should prove fairly interesting, and a shockingly good way to use BBC3. I'm actually looking forward to something that channel is showing for the first time in years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9cdm Then again I am a huge Pixar fanboy, so it's possibly the sort of thing that appeals to me and not many others.
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2011 15:52 |
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I quite like HIMYM, it actually does skew the standard formula and go away from being a standard sitcom at a lot of times. It had a bit of a shaky start but there are some great comedic moments (Usually from Neil Patrick Harris). Oddly enough the premise of the show is what makes for its annoying moments.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 11:25 |
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oxford_town posted:When I got to sixth form, though, going in late and watching Frasier at 8:30 in bed was the way to go I used to go home for lunch at college (5 minute walk, just round the corner), eat a bowl of super noodles and watch 1 and a half episodes of Cheers. Maybe channel 4 could put that show on endless repeat instead of Friends.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 23:43 |
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Did anyone watch Hugh's big fish fight last night? I thought that trawlers were finding Cod hard to find with all that's been said on the subject, I didn't know they were having to throw away so much perfectly good (now dead) fish due to idiotic rulings. Not to mention the meagre 12kg per day quota for smaller fishing boats. Hopefully this series does for fish what the Chicken out campaign did for the public view of chicken. Preferably with less crying middle aged men.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 14:50 |
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Akuma posted:I did enjoy Hugh making that minister look like an idiot, even if it wasn't really fair (he doesn't need to know different types of fish by sight to do his job.) I get the feeling that was more of a tongue in cheek attempt to add some levity to the programme, than anything else. He even says at the end of the segment something along the lines of not knowing his Hake from his Haddock, but having his political sights set right. The fact that trawlers are allowed to eat fish they catch but are over quota for gave me an idea for a cruise trawler, serving up fish it can't bring back to a hundred hungry guests. It's a nice idea that could only ever work on paper.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 15:10 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Sounds like a pretty cool idea and better than just pointless throwing dead fish back which is distressing as hell. I liked my idea until I realised people probably don't like eating on a boat in a force 9 gale.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 15:38 |
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Fatkraken posted:What is the alternative? The fishermen on the trawlers themselves had an answer for this. Give a quota of days to fish, not a quota of fish. That way there's a maximum amount they can catch and a huge decrease in the discard. It's not a perfect solution, but it sure beats the current system or your stupid idea of "no one gets to eat any more fish ever"
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 22:46 |
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I have now seen Jonathan Ross eating Heston Blumenthal's chocolate starfish. Thanks Channel 4.
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2011 22:02 |
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The random cuts to the audience were rather terrible, they'd have an uproar of laughter then show a few people smiling and staring at one another in a state of confusion. Doesn't really sell the premise. The show itself has me thinking like many others have said; some great bits dotted around some really quite annoying or just unfunny pandering. More table talks and less stupid skits. I hope it finds it's feet very soon, but I'll be watching the next few weeks regardless.
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| # ¿ Jan 20, 2011 23:53 |
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Did anyone catch BBC's new gameshow Don't Scare the Hare earlier today? I saw the first 3 minutes and couldn't believe it wasn't a satire. Terrible contestants with lovely banter, and barely relevant soundbytes of music being played every 30 seconds ("We're an American football team, current national champions" [We are the Champions plays, sepia tinted view of the team]) I really find it hard to get shocked by lazy telly, but this seemed to tick all the boxes. I don't even know how the rest of the show went.
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| # ¿ Apr 30, 2011 22:05 |
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Penn & Teller's Fool Us was pretty good this week, a good mix of excellent illusions, even those that didn't fool were very enjoyable viewing. No clue how the trick with the Frenchmen's box worked and I normally have at least a rudimentary idea on how most tricks could be done.
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| # ¿ Jul 16, 2011 22:16 |
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Paperhouse posted:if there was no switch then the guy would have just taken them in the pliers straight from his mouth over to Penn and Teller and shown it was the right card, which I thought they were going to do. When he hosed about in his pocket and the card goes out of sight for a second, there's no reason to do that unless it's a switch This is exactly my thought too. Why would he place the entirety of his meathook in front of the card on the tongs? It can only mean a switch, if no switch happens there and he genuinely has the correct card already there then it devalues the trick. It makes zero sense to do this way unless they're A) Actually swapping it out and somehow getting away with it or B) being obvious for the sake of misdirection. I have to wonder if Penn and Teller get pissed off at people trying certain ways to fool them. They're so polite about every act, but you can tell they don't care for some of them. The quick change act as an example. It seemed like something better suited for Britain's Got Talent and I really hope less of that sort of thing makes an appearance on the show.
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| # ¿ Jul 24, 2011 23:37 |
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goatface posted:But how else will you know what poo poo channel you're watching? And which show. And which channel... again. Penn and Teller was good tonight. I actually enjoyed the Martin/Paul Daniels bit which was unexpected.
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| # ¿ Aug 28, 2011 21:05 |
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Junkenstein posted:Lee Mack completely loving ruined this week's Q.I. Wouldn't be the first time. If I remember right he was on the last series and sucked terribly. Jimmy Carr fits on there quite well so I quite like when they bring him back, he's fairly quick witted and can use his one liners in a decent situation.
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| # ¿ Sep 13, 2011 19:43 |
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Leyburn posted:Here's the thing. Although it was obviously crap, I enjoyed Back to Earth and actually laughed quite a bit at it. I thought those few bits on the ship and not on Earth were pretty spot on. If they keep it to the characters and don't stray too far then it could well be ok.
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| # ¿ Nov 29, 2011 21:38 |
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Unkempt posted:They cancelled Raiders and replaced it with tennis, which meant no tennis on 2 so they put on a bunch of random crap instead. I have no idea why and it pissed me off as I haven't seen Raiders since I got my shiny new HD telly. This was from a week back, but Raiders will now be on in 15 minutes. Looking forward to seeing it in HD! Unless they balls it up again
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| # ¿ Jul 7, 2012 17:17 |
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Anyone else watching this in 3D? It's the same poo poo, just you get to judge if anyone is slightly pudgy.
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| # ¿ Jul 27, 2012 22:19 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Had one in Southampton, no idea if it's still there, that bowling alley had LaserQuest as well if I remember right, was pretty ace when I was 13 or whatever. They shut it down to expand the Laserquest. I remember the games all used the same monitors as my Amiga 500, and one of the physical challenges was to swing a ditch on a rope and press a button. In reality the ditch was so narrow even 8 year old me could step across. They do still have a Wimpy burger in there, at least as of last time I visited.
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| # ¿ Aug 5, 2012 19:34 |
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 Found this in the Comic strip megathread in BSS. Thought it might be received well here.
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2012 11:36 |
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James has hosed up now. He went too far.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2012 19:54 |
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I turned over to this by accident. It's looking like it'll be a beautiful trainwreck. Oddly enough, the guy doesn't seem completely up himself and seems to know he'll be in poo poo if he doesn't get financial backing down the line. One of his first expenses was £7000 to clear out 200 dead pigeons.
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| # ¿ Oct 17, 2012 20:21 |
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Holy poo poo this building. HOLY poo poo THIS BUILDING I don't think I've ever been so jealous of someone else's home.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Noble actually builds things from a collection of unrelated things, I never really get the impression that Fielding is coming up with anything, he's just trying to find a way to get there. Julian Barratt and Rich Fulcher actually seem to be better at that sort of thing than him, but also less dependent on it. I saw this tour and it seems that the Batman biscuit is something he wrote up and does the whole tour. For good reason too, I was actually in tears laughing. Did he also do the "tangents tearing spacetime" callback in the encore?
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| # ¿ Dec 5, 2012 21:03 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Yeah he did that, assuming he did it that same way it was pretty meta, someone started the music too early and it seemed pretty real, leading into encore Ross talking to Act 1 Ross again. Maybe it was real and he used it, but he's good at "rehearsed mistakes" like how he always teases returning to some thread he left hanging. The way it happened for me was question time with Ross eventually ended up with a stupid question ("what's the set behind you?"), with which the punchline was fulfilled.
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2012 21:18 |
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Don't think it's been mentioned so far but Charlie Brooker confirmed 2012 Wipe will be happening on New years day 10pm.
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| # ¿ Dec 9, 2012 22:59 |
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You're joking! The pope!
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Irisi posted:Certainly gave me the horrors. Working in Eastleigh made the political circus in this episode very familiar indeed.
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