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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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I'm not sure if I'm being pathetic but I think my hair actually stood on end whilst watching 'Whistle And I'll Come To You'. Good choice for a christmas eve, would go well with watching 'The Shout' I think. Now to catch up on the rest of the christmas stuff like the ronnie corbett documentary. Merry Christmas dudes.
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Dec 25, 2010 00:03
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Merry Christmas UK goons Here is your mystery present http://tinyurl.com/32d8ukb
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Dec 25, 2010 15:26
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Lol Lee Mack is goddamn retarded Also, surprisingly, Daniel Radcliffe knows a lot of things!
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Dec 25, 2010 15:49
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Urgh, this is another steaming pile of liquid crap poured on an all already solid steaming pile of a crappy loving day. Due to being stuck living in perhaps the worst loving area of the UK, not only is the internet connection here limited to a shoddy ADSL connection (that's so bad i can barely watch iplayer), but the digital TV signal is so loving horrid that i can't even pick up channel 4 today. I'm stuck with just BBC 1, 2, 3 and QV bloody C. 
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Dec 25, 2010 16:22
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Charlotte Church seems to have forgotten how to sing.
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Dec 25, 2010 18:48
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For a street that almost destroyed by a tram crash 2 weeks ago, most of the cast of corrie don't seem that bothered about it.
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Dec 25, 2010 20:49
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Taear posted:Has anyone been watching the Little Crackers on Sky? They're on Sky Anytime if you've got a Sky+ HD box and they're pretty drat good. Victoria Wood's was the grittiest northernest one and I really loved David Baddiel's, Julian Barrats, Chris O'Dowds and Bill Bailey's. I honestly couldn't make head nor tail of Julian Barratt's one. That's the only one I've seen.
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Dec 25, 2010 20:52
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I don't think Bill Bailey quite got the design briefing for his, what did it have to do with his childhood? Even in Barratt's (which was plenty surreal) it concentrated on him as a (more than likely at least half fictional) teenager. Bill Bailey's was just him in a parking lot, as a man. poo poo felt weird man. I also skipped Catherine Tate's. The rest were all quite good though.
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Dec 25, 2010 21:14
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gently caress me alive this Royle Family is bad, gently caress.
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Dec 25, 2010 22:28
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Psybro posted:gently caress me alive this Royle Family is bad, gently caress. Which is why I'm watching the greatest Christmas movie of all time on Film4.
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Dec 25, 2010 22:31
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They're showing Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?
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Dec 25, 2010 22:33
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Kuno posted:I don't think Bill Bailey quite got the design briefing for his, what did it have to do with his childhood? Even in Barratt's (which was plenty surreal) it concentrated on him as a (more than likely at least half fictional) teenager. Bill Bailey's was just him in a parking lot, as a man. poo poo felt weird man. I don't think they have to be to do with your childhood. It just seems that most people took it that way. I'll agree that I really wasn't sure what the gently caress was going on with the end of Julian Barratt's though. Why did satan just wander off? Taear fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 25, 2010 |
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Dec 25, 2010 22:35
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Flatscan posted:Which is why I'm watching the greatest Christmas movie of all time on Film4. Why are they showing the second one tomorrow and then jumping straight to the fourth on Monday?
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Dec 25, 2010 22:42
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cloudchamber posted:Why are they showing the second one tomorrow and then jumping straight to the fourth on Monday? Not a clue. Maybe they couldn't get the broadcast rights for the third one.
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Dec 25, 2010 22:52
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Are the third and fourth ones even set at Christmas?
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Dec 25, 2010 22:56
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thebardyspoon posted:Are the third and fourth ones even set at Christmas? No, only the first two are connected by having a christmas setting. The last two are connected by the fact that they were thrown together from pre-existing scripts.
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Dec 25, 2010 23:01
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Dec 25, 2010 23:19
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I think Come Fly With Me would be better if Lucas & Walliams had hired a cast rather than playing all the parts themselves. Plus I'm quite sure that blacking up and acting out stereotypes really isn't the done thing nowadays.
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Dec 25, 2010 23:25
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All of the legitimately unbelievable, ripe and hilarious stories that genuinely come out of real airports every single day and all they can think of is one "DOESN'T THAT ETHNIC MINORITY TALK FUNNY!!!" joke after another. Plus Matt Lucas' swipe at the intelligence of Disney fans is rich, considering Little Britain's demographic. Adrianics fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Dec 25, 2010 |
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Dec 25, 2010 23:37
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Adrianics posted:Come Fly With Me is a literal abomination. "Dog is dead"
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Dec 26, 2010 00:30
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I will admit that did raise a smile from me, and was pretty .gif-worthy.
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Dec 26, 2010 00:34
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I thought Come Fly with Me was quite funny. Some bits had me in stitches (mostly the ethnic minorities, does that make me a bad person?) (Yes, it does.) Eastenders was disappointing,no baby deaths or anything.
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Dec 26, 2010 00:35
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Up until the thread mentioned little Britain, I honestly thought 'come fly with me' was a 'come dine with me' spin off.
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Dec 26, 2010 00:58
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Kin posted:"Dog is dead" That was funny and the Lucas Japanese bit did get a guilty laugh out of me. I also like Walliams as the husband in the Disney bit. The rest of it was bad but actually not as bad or as racist as Little Britain's recent output.
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Dec 26, 2010 00:59
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Urgh, the telly that I saw during the family get together evening all looked universally terrible. Doesn't help that S4C was on half the time, but I don't think it made that much difference. I'm off to watch last week's Friday Night Lights on my laptop.
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Dec 26, 2010 01:00
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Psybro posted:That was funny and the Lucas Japanese bit did get a guilty laugh out of me. I also like Walliams as the husband in the Disney bit. The rest of it was bad but actually not as bad or as racist as Little Britain's recent output. I haven't seen Little Britain in years but are you saying it's now more racist than the lazy thieving blackface lady or the part where they were literally pulling slanty eyes and singing ching chong?
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Dec 26, 2010 16:44
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Tempo 119 posted:I haven't seen Little Britain in years but are you saying it's now more racist than the lazy thieving blackface lady or the part where they were literally pulling slanty eyes and singing ching chong? At least that racist. The third series had a character literally called Ting Tong Macadangdang who turns out to be a ladyboy.
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Dec 26, 2010 16:50
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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). Here's a related article by Johann Hari ranting about Little Britain, with much of the same reasoning.
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Dec 26, 2010 18:15
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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). To be fair, they know their demographic very well. Yes, all you need to do is black up or apply some (horrifying) slanty eyed makeup and you're golden.
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Dec 26, 2010 18:19
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It's a shame because the concept of Martin Clunes being huge in Japan is hilarious.
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Dec 26, 2010 18:23
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It's also a shame because I've always quite liked Walliams and Lucas in their outside appearances, in all of their other work they seem like genuinely funny, talented and decent guys but when they do stuff together (outside of Rock Profile, which was awesome) they just come across as a couple of horrible, spiteful racists. I know that they're pandering to a bountiful demographic, but that's a pretty feeble justification. Did anyone watch The One Ronnie, by the way?
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Dec 26, 2010 18:27
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Adrianics posted:Did anyone watch The One Ronnie, by the way? Me and the wife groaned our way through it. On the one hand I kept thinking how absolutely terrible and pedestrian it was, but on the other it instantly transported me back to Christmas Dinner as a kid with the Two Ronnies Christmas special on, followed by the same Morcambe and Wise special, the one with Angela Rippon that you've watched a 100 times already. If you haven't seen it, I'd say watch it for Nostalgias sake, not comedy.
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Adrianics posted:Did anyone watch The One Ronnie, by the way? The blackberry sketch was pretty funny, it has the most  title though
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Dec 26, 2010 18:43
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I was sure i read that Die Hard 2 was on tonight. Anyone know what channel?
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Dec 26, 2010 22:37
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Kin posted:I was sure i read that Die Hard 2 was on tonight. Anyone know what channel? It's on Film4.
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Dec 26, 2010 22:39
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Dec 26, 2010 22:40
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cloudchamber posted:It's on Film4. 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. I thought we were long past the lovely times of having crap TV reception, especially with the nationwide switchover to digital next year.
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Dec 26, 2010 22:54
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All the digital switchover means is that the TV in my room is down to having lovely reception on all but eight of the channels instead of all but four.
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