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An idiot abroad is amazing, although the friend I was watching it with thought it had to he put on - "he must be a really clever comedian with a persona, right?" But yeah, if you can watch it. Haven't laughed so much in ages.
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Sep 24, 2010 09:34
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BizarroAzrael posted:If the Queen doesn't say "Lorra lorra Blinda Data socha lorry couple Surprise Surprise! Knight to see you, to see you, knighta Chock! Lolly bit a beef if you cou' be knighta, wot coind wod you be?" when she does it i'll be disappointed.
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Jun 11, 2011 15:05
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Zorba the Greek posted:You like Babylon 5? Babylon 5, barring most of the first series and half of the 5th series, is some of the greatest Sci-Fi ever made.
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Jun 19, 2011 21:06
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The first 7 episodes are shockingly bad, the script is clumsy, the CGI is horrible, it's permeated with a very dated 90s style, the aliens are bland and the opening narration is the worst thing ever recorded. Season 1 is awful, 2 is good, 3 and 4 are excellent, 5 is ok. If you like 2 at all, watch 3 and 4, they are really worth it. But yeah, not really UK TV...
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Jun 19, 2011 23:44
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God, David Starkey is a horrible person and a real-life troll on Any Questions. Its compulsive viewing, but for all the wrong reasons.
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Mar 1, 2012 23:59
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Daktar posted:Anyone watching the new Two Greedy Italians? It's absolutely fantastic, they've made it even more food pornier than the first series. Those shots of their orange rice cake ought to be banned under obscenity laws. I'm most definitely making that orzotto this week too. I literally only know about this show because I know the Queen loves a lollly bit oh beef.
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Apr 23, 2012 18:08
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Ben Soosneb posted:I think at the end of the last RHLSTP podcast that he's doing more of them. Yay. Really?! Thats fantastic! I'll freely admit that out of my main comedy podcast stable (prominently featuring the bugle, answer me this and adam and joe), AIOTM is probably my favourite - so stupid, so many injokes, but really funny.
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Jul 4, 2012 01:29
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loving hell the Arctic Monkeys guy is SO FLAT arrrrghgghhhhghhghghh
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Jul 28, 2012 00:06
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That's Mali for you...
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Feb 7, 2013 23:30
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A reminder that a comedian who hosted "gently caress Off" rallies before forming his own party just won 25% of the vote in Italian elections. Now, his points seem eminently sensible in a political system way more hosed up than ours, and I don't think we're going to end up with GrilloPlanes, but surely we can, as usual, credit brooker with insane foresight.
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Feb 26, 2013 16:12
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WastedJoker posted:So, I'm a big fan of cookery shows and I've been watching series 8 of Great British Menu which has a brief related to Comic Relief and adding humour to dishes. Probably because witty is a good way of saying "here's why this plate of food is actually funny, without immideately appearing to be".
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Mar 18, 2013 22:25
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Everyone should watch Spartacus - it's just finished, and it is/was FANTASTIC telly. Best action choreography ever, fantastically evil plotting and scheming, Gannicus's cock raging on, enormous men on fire beating centurions with a hammer that is also on fire, and it actually makes you care for all the characters too. Can't recommend it enough.
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Apr 17, 2013 19:28
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marktheando posted:I couldn't make it past episode two, I thought it was awful. The first 3 or so episodes are, depending on your viewpoint, somewhere between mediocre and awful, and the second episode is probably the worst of the entire series. It really gets going when Spartacus enters the pit. In fact, I should have said - force yourself through the first few episodes (or maybe watch the prequel first if you don't mind spoiling the very predictable end of the first season) and you will be rewarded with some of the best tv ever, no exaggeration.
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Apr 17, 2013 19:53
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reality_groove posted:Aside: I'm not glad at all. Does he talk about homeopathy or his unfair mortgage-based lottery win distribution ideas in the Guardian?
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Feb 24, 2014 14:19
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thehustler posted:Collings doesn't do homeopathy does he? http://mrjoeblogs.blogspot.de/2007/02/joe-blogs-interview-95-andrew-collins.html?m=1 "What do people commonly say about your site? If they are doctors, they say I am wrong about the efficacy of homeopathy. But I don't care what they think." Sorry. But really, both are running jokes from the Richard Herring/Andrew Collins podcast and AIOTM.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:25
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I managed about five minutes of it last night. I can't risk damaging my telly whenever his face appears, so it won't be on again. 
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Feb 25, 2014 23:23
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I still think that the anrti-AV ads were the worst political adverts I have ever seen:  Partially because they were laughably manipulative, partly because they were just so loving stupid. The yes campaign should have put up alternates: "he needs bulletproof vests, not an infant cardiac unit!" Edit: images not coming up on my device - here are the links: http://imgur.com/LLHYiXc http://imgur.com/l7hBOBG Stumiester fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Jun 11, 2014 01:10
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gorki posted:Just a heads up that they're doing Brian Blessed on Who Do You Think You Are? tonight at 9. I'm looking forward to finding out which old time professions besides town crier involved bellowing This was awesome. Very sad, but lovely. It was interesting how he became less and less "brian blessed" as he went along.
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Aug 15, 2014 07:58
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BizarroAzrael posted:Victoria Coren tweeted that it was indeed. On the subject of HIGNFY, have a look at the extended version with the subtitles on. I got, at the very end of the show just before it stopped, a subtitle of "It has its demons that suck the lifeblood from the city", just under hat trick productions. Is this normal, or am I actually going insane? 
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Oct 28, 2014 17:27
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Black Mirror reminded me very strongly of surface detail by Ian M Banks: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail. It's about cultures which decide that the religious belief in heaven and hell are useful societal/moral controls, but want to be sure they actually exist, so create artificial hells that they put backed up brain states (essentially the same as cookies) into after you die. It very strongly rams home the principle that you are your brain state/consciousness, and putting your brain state into a state of torture for an unimaginable length of time is a truly and completely horrific thing. I couldn't help myself from thinking that it was a small hop and a skip from cookies to that. To give an example from the book, here's the protagonists watching a tour of visitors from the Real essentially having a prison visit to keep them obedient: "The eight Pavuleans exiting the giant beetle were also distinguished from the damned around them by being whole, carrying no scars or obvious injuries, seeping wounds or signs of disease. They looked well fed too, though even from this distance Prin could see a sort of hungry desperation in their movements and their facial expressions, a petrifying sense of probably being about to escape this landscape of pain and terror, but with the realisation dawning on at least some of them that perhaps they had been lied to. Perhaps this was not the end of a brief warning tour of Hell, designed to keep them on the straight and narrow back in the Real, but rather a taste of what was about to become their settled and already inescapable fate; a cruel trick that would be just the first of innumerable cruel tricks. Perhaps they were not getting out at all; perhaps they were here to stay, and to suffer. From what Prin knew, for at least one of their number this would be brutally true; such groups were inevitably traumatised in the course of what they were forced to witness during these tours and – utterly unable to establish any rapport with the rapaciously forbidding and utterly disdainful demons who escorted them – quickly drew together, bonding like a tiny herd, finding a rough but real companionship amongst their equally horror-struck companions no matter how various their personalities, situations and histories might have been back in the Real. To then have one of your number cut out of your little group, somebody you knew and felt some camaraderie towards, made the experience all the more vivid. It was just about possible to experience one of these horrific excursions and convince yourself that the unfortunates you saw suffering were quite different from you just because of the extremity of their degradation (they appeared sub-Pavulean; little more – perhaps no more – than animals) but to watch one of your group having all of his or her worst fears confirmed, consigned to everlasting torment just at the point when they thought they were about to be allowed to resume their life in the Real, made the lesson the tour was meant to teach stick much more thoroughly in the mind."
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Dec 17, 2014 14:00
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I remember absolutely loving the Red Dwarf books as a teenager, but no idea how they'd hold up now
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May 2, 2015 17:39
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Trin Tragula posted:The first two are pretty drat good, then what happens next are nothing so much as a demonstration of why Rob and Doug started writing things together. I think I only read the first 2, so thats good. I loved the addictive game elements - actually pretty decent straight up Sci-Fi if I recall. Especially weird as I didn't really watch the TV show...
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May 2, 2015 21:00
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I eagerly await Pompey Shores. Wait, no I don't because it would be horrendous I'd watch Pompey Shores if it was about Pompey Magnus being awesome taking over the mediterranean in the Roman Republic. In fact, can someone please do that? Ideally the folks behind Spartacus. Rather enjoying Masterchef the Professionals - particularly enjoyed Stuart, the grumpy chef from Wednesday night who cooked boring but delicious food slowly and aggressively, refusing to smile even when praised by the judges. Tragic he didn't get through. Edit: While looking for a video that demonstrated Stuart, I came upon this article. This seems to be an article which is simply describing point by point whats on TV, I assume for those who want to relive the experience? Stumiester fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 01:26
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Wheat Loaf posted:I watched Three Girls from the BBC. Three girls was absolutely amazing. Best drama I've seen in years.
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May 20, 2017 11:19
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He’s a Linehan-lite (I believe at one point he publicly admitted to being a “GC Feminist”/TERF) but he has understood that he shouldn’t talk about it any more. In retrospect, doing an interview with Jesse considering Jesse’s family was probably a bad idea for them, but its good that he was called out.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:22
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Weird specific question this, but we’ve been watching Motherland on iPlayer - was turned off because of the potential Glinner influence but Sharon Horgan as a writer and recommendations from friends convinced me to try it and it’s very funny. However, its presented in a crazy way: iplayer has Series 1:1-6, Series 2:1-6, Series 3:1-5. However, there are actually two more episodes than this. One was the pilot, released before episode 1, which is on Netflix but not on iPlayer for some reason. Then, there is the Christmas special. It was, apparently, shown between Seasons 2 and 3, but there is no evidence of it on any streaming service or indeed anywhere online other than the trailer for it & a broadcast date. Why the hell is this very short series being treated in such a weird way? And does anyone know where to see the Christmas special?
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May 25, 2021 21:38
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Taear posted:https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/motherland is always the best place to find that info. Thanks for this, hadn’t seen this site before. Unfortunately, it seems to confirm that the Christmas special has been stripped from every service. I understand there might be problems, but I’ve certainly never come across this situation when there is absolutely no mention of something released 6 months ago. How odd!
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May 26, 2021 00:53
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Akuma posted:I've been following Ava Vidal's ongoing, well documented issues with John Gordillo and aside from being what seems like an actual paedophilic psychopath he seems pretty well known despite me never having heard of him. Is he that well known? His Wikipedia page is suspiciously one-sided about the current stuff... Could you summarise the history of the drama? The whole thing seems to be a big mess where the mother is accusing the stepdad of sexual abuse & the stepdad is accusing the mother of physical abuse, and either way it ended up with the daughter committing suicide after possibly working in prostitution for some time? I do recognise Ava Vidal from tv, but have no idea who John Gordillo is.
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