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SEX BURRITO posted:I thought he had died years ago, on stage, but apparently I'm thinking of someone else.
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SEX BURRITO posted:I thought he had died years ago, on stage, but apparently I'm thinking of someone else. Tommy Cooper? SEX BURRITO posted:I actually saw some of Ant and Dec this weekend as my parents love their Saturday night show. I was amazed at how retro it was. They even did that hidden camera thing where they surprise people at home, Noel Edmonds style. Then there were big musical numbers which reminded me of something from the 80s. They also said that Northern Ireland isn't part of Britain, which caused a lot of knuckle draggers on Twitter to poo poo themselves, even though it isn't. (It's part of the UK, though I'm not sure if Ant & Dec were going for this level of political pedantry)
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SEX BURRITO posted:I thought he had died years ago, on stage, but apparently I'm thinking of someone else. You're thinking of Tommy Cooper there, squire
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Mar 12, 2018 15:02
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Who was also a bipolar as hell Welshman.
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Mar 12, 2018 17:46
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One of the streets near the one I lived in a few years ago was celebrating a bicentennial or similar, and one of the stalls was the Tommy Cooper Appreciation Society, selling fez hats. After a few minutes passing I decided to go look at it properly, but it had disappeared. Just like that. I like to think they did it on purpose. Watched the first 3 episodes of 'The State' about British people joining ISIS from last year yesterday after seeing a tweet about someone on Amazon getting it confused with the MTV sketch show from the 90s of the same name. Good stuff, right up my alley and a shame there's only one more to go.
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Total Meatlove posted:Ant and Dec are the tent poles for ITV throughout the entire year. Bradley Walsh has a primetime game show, acts, and had the best selling debut album for 2017 or some other nuts statistic. I meant all those guys from that generation of entertainers, not guys who do the same thing today. Should have been clearer, sorry.
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Does Go 8 Bit get better after the first series? The cycle of non gaming celebrities is quite horrible to watch. I don't really give a gently caress about people playing temple run  On top of that, while i appreciate it might be due to licencing, the constant stream of old games like asteroids just isn't entertaining to watch. Edit: the Not-Violet-Berlin woman is kinda annoying too :/ Kin fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 19:52
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I couldn't even finish the first episode of Go 8 Bit personally, just seemed awful.
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So not worth going back after the first series then?
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Mar 12, 2018 20:23
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Another great appearance from Mandy in This Country
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Rondette posted:Another great appearance from Mandy in This Country Nosy.old.cockwomble. It makes so much sense that Kurtan gets all his clothes from TK Maxx. He’s so early 00s.
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Mar 12, 2018 21:02
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I didn't hate This Country but it was by far the weakest of the season, if not the whole series.
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Mar 12, 2018 21:10
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I only really watch Go 8 Bit out of habit now. Really the games thing seems to be just an excuse to have people getting competitive over silly things. Now and then there's a good one like Arkham Asylum. Dara's usually funny at least. There's a sense of just making things up as they go along every so often and those are usually the best bits. Probably a case of just watch the ones with people you like. I wouldn't exactly recommend it but its good trashy telly to have on in the background sometimes.
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EL BROMANCE posted:After a few minutes passing I decided to go look at it properly, but it had disappeared. Just like that. I like to think they did it on purpose. Like you did that on purpose, you mean? 
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SalTheBard posted:I didn't hate This Country but it was by far the weakest of the season, if not the whole series. I just watched them all from episode 1 to this one and it didn't feel weak. Are you sure it's not just because you've built it up in your head now? I enjoyed it a lot but I'd really like to know how old they are. Their references make them seem like they're my age (32).
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New episode of This Country was great, don't see it being weaker than usual at all. "The vicar's lost his head! It was a matter of time!"
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Taear posted:I enjoyed it a lot but I'd really like to know how old they are. Their references make them seem like they're my age (32). Daisy Cooper is 31. Not sure about her brother, he looks young, but it might just be the awful haircut. Gyro Zeppeli posted:New episode of This Country was great, don't see it being weaker than usual at all. I laughed out loud at "getting rid of his dirty water".
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I'm a bit confused about how old they're meant to be in the series, I think they're meant to be early 20s but they do look too old for that. Kerry mentioned Kurtan's first girlfriend doing SATs and cycling proficiency ten years ago, which puts her (and presumably him) at about 21
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Paperhouse posted:I'm a bit confused about how old they're meant to be in the series, I think they're meant to be early 20s but they do look too old for that. Kerry mentioned Kurtan's first girlfriend doing SATs and cycling proficiency ten years ago, which puts her (and presumably him) at about 21 Why are they making references to Noel's House Party though? It feels like the idea is arrested development - they're 30 but stuck at 18.
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I always presumed a few years out of school, so 21 sits well with me. References are probably older as the show is aimed at people a bit older than them.
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Mar 13, 2018 15:09
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I'm going with early/mid twenties too. Just pretend they throw out the older references because they raided the poo poo out of charity shops.
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And with the rural areas being behind, Noels House Party only ended in 2014 there.
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EL BROMANCE posted:And with the rural areas being behind, Noels House Party only ended in 2014 there. I feel like the statistics that come up on the screen would suggest they're meant to be early 20s, "Young People" who haven't got any hope. But the way the show works makes it feel more like they're in their 30s and their life has stopped because rural areas (especially in the south west) are hosed.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm going with early/mid twenties too. Just pretend they throw out the older references because they raided the poo poo out of charity shops. I guessed late 20s, and the dated references were down to them living in such an isolated community. In the last episode we saw how hard it was to even leave the village, and other than Facebook they don't use much in the way of modern technology, so it's easy to see how they'd get left behind.
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Plus, yeah, there's definitely supposed to be a degree of arrested development where they still behave like teenagers even though they're not. Also, an amazing article about Daisy and Charlie Cooper, the creators of the show, who also play Kurtan and Kerry. It's amazing how little they had to change when they actually wrote it. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Plus, yeah, there's definitely supposed to be a degree of arrested development where they still behave like teenagers even though they're not. Thanks for sharing that, it was a good read. They wrote this second series in 5 months. That's some turnaround.
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Aww that’s a nice story and makes me like them even more. It’s great to see actors who were successful without going to Oxbridge or having a dad at the BBC.
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SEX BURRITO posted:Ken Dodd is alive? Always mix him up with the guy who died on stage. SEX BURRITO posted:I thought he had died years ago, on stage, but apparently I'm thinking of someone else. I went back to August to see if anyone mentioned The State at all (nope, boo) and I had to laugh as I noticed a post from sex burrito mistaking Tommy Cooper and Ken Dodd back then as well.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I went back to August to see if anyone mentioned The State at all (nope, boo) and I had to laugh as I noticed a post from sex burrito mistaking Tommy Cooper and Ken Dodd back then as well. That’s hilarious. I’m really bad at mixing people up and always having frustrating conversations where I insist Kate Winslet was totally the woman in the English Patient. Big RIP to Hawking. Too sad.
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Yeah that sucked and hearing that effected me more. Then my dad followed it up with a Bullseye joke.
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they fuckin cancelled robot wars again what the gently caress
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Escobarbarian posted:they fuckin cancelled robot wars again Just came here to say it. I thought it was doing really well, I just don't get it 
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I mean it was pretty clear they wanted it gone when they scheduled it against Blue Planet.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I mean it was pretty clear they wanted it gone when they scheduled it against Blue Planet. Surely when it's broadcast doesn't make that much of a difference now? Even olds record stuff and don't watch it live.
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RIP robots  On the other hand Mastermind had rounds on Peep Show and the X-Men movies and I did significantly better on one than the other e: I loving said Windsor for the place Jeremy bought special bread for Elena when obviously it's loving Hastings, Windsor is where Superhans runs to when he gets really into running, I wish I was dead eating only apples fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Escobarbarian posted:they fuckin cancelled robot wars again Good.
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I will not miss the robots, but I respect your right to do so.
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Pissflaps posted:Good. Does it feel bad to be wrong about literally everything?
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