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Akuma posted:What an incredibly well-reasoned and constructed retort. Thank you.
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Captain Mediocre posted:Yeah seriously its time for some of you to find an outlet for your thieving gypsy stories elsewhere it clearly doesn't really belong in this thread.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:23
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What is point Bellamy's People?
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petition to move this thread to d&d for five minutes so dos4gw can get auto-banned again. also, why is there nothing on tv tonight?
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Feb 19, 2012 21:35
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You're not going to watch Homestead? I am, because I'm very susceptible to advertising.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:39
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Mr. Squishy posted:You're not going to watch Homestead? I am, because I'm very susceptible to advertising. first page of google results are no help. what's this?
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Feb 19, 2012 21:40
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Cerv posted:first page of google results are no help. what's this? Guessing he means Homeland (channel 4 at 9pm)
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Feb 19, 2012 21:43
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oh that. ads made it look like 24 so i'll probably pass.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:45
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It's good and not much like 24 at all, much more realistic and serious. Though I haven't watched the whole first series. Claire Danes and Damien Lewis and Mandy Patinkin are excellent in it. Though it's pretty hard to buy its outlandish 'the CIA are the good guys' premise.
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Feb 19, 2012 21:51
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Idioteque Dance posted:Is that the fake call-in show with Paul Whitehouse and Rhys Thomas? In which case Iīm glad to have discovered it the right way: by tuning into radio 4 in the car and taking those couple of minutes to figure out if itīs a satire/pisstake or if itīs actually what society has come down to. Better than Bellamyīs People, which I believe had the same main fictional character. That's the one. I've been meaning to give Bellamy's People a go, was it no good?
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Cerv posted:oh that. ads made it look like 24 so i'll probably pass. Nah, it's nothing like 24. It's actually pretty intelligent, and not poo poo. One of the best new series in a long while.
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The Perfect Element posted:Guessing he means Homeland (channel 4 at 9pm) Bingo. An American remake of an Isreali drama of a soldier who was kept captive for far too long to be trustworthy. Eminently possible that it'll stink, but it's basically every third advertisement on channel 4 so I'll give it a go. edit: Odds are looking up.
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This has been going around Twitter, an open letter to the producers of Gypsy Weddings: http://pipopotamus.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-letter-to-chanel-4.html I keep seeing trailers for a show on Bio called 'A Gypsy's life for me' or something similar. Is that any better? It seems slightly less sensationalist, but I don't expect much from the channel that brought us another programme about the Chawners.
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Feb 19, 2012 22:27
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Cerv posted:petition to move this thread to d&d for five minutes so dos4gw can get auto-banned again. I'm not sure if that's directed at me, but I'm not him. I'm just me!  Going back to lurking now.
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m0isty posted:I'm not sure if that's directed at me It's directed at dos4gw, I'm not sure exactly how you are confused about this
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Feb 19, 2012 22:34
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marktheando posted:Though it's pretty hard to buy its outlandish 'the CIA are the good guys' premise. This isn't the premise at all. It's much more complex and morally grey than that.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's directed at dos4gw, I'm not sure exactly how you are confused about this Oh, ok. Sorry! Someone earlier quoted me then rather cryptically linked to some of his posts, seemingly as part of his reply.
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Feb 19, 2012 22:47
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PriorMarcus posted:This isn't the premise at all. It's much more complex and morally grey than that. Like I said I haven't watched the whole series and it's true that there is some grey, but they are generally portrayed as being on the defensive against them drat terrists. When you consider the poo poo the real CIA has got up to, the agents in Homeland are saints in comparison. Still a very good show, well worth watching though.
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Feb 19, 2012 22:48
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marktheando posted:Like I said I haven't watched the whole series and it's true that there is some grey, but they are generally portrayed as being on the defensive against them drat terrists. When you consider the poo poo the real CIA has got up to, the agents in Homeland are saints in comparison. Tits, I forgot it was on, hopefully it will be on 4oD
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Feb 19, 2012 23:09
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marktheando posted:Like I said I haven't watched the whole series and it's true that there is some grey, but they are generally portrayed as being on the defensive against them drat terrists. When you consider the poo poo the real CIA has got up to, the agents in Homeland are saints in comparison. You need to watch the rest. Major spoilers: The whole thing is the CIA's fault because they blew up a school full of kids with an off-the-books drone strike.
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Feb 19, 2012 23:12
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Homeland is brilliant. There are plotholes there if you want to look for them, but it's a really enjoyable show. Really gets going around episode 6 or so.
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Feb 19, 2012 23:13
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Being Human was the best episode of the series so far, but still weak compared to previous series. There was even a hint of actual character for the housemates this week, except of course for Annie.
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Feb 19, 2012 23:32
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Captain Mediocre posted:That's the one. I've been meaning to give Bellamy's People a go, was it no good? I really enjoyed Homeland too. You can tell it shares some staff with 24 with its atmosphere and high-up conspiracy plots but is generally lot less silly. I enjoyed the second half of the series a lot more too, after it got its devious hooks in me.
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Feb 19, 2012 23:41
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I enjoyed Homeland a lot, feeling like a scrub for not having heard of it before. Channel 4 advertised a "Make Bradford British" in which the Big Brother format fixes tensions in a multicultural society, with a sub-story where they make British citizens take the government's nationalism test, which could be more fun. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Feb 19, 2012 |
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Idioteque Dance posted:I really enjoyed Homeland too. You can tell it shares some staff with 24 with its atmosphere and high-up conspiracy plots but is generally lot less silly. I enjoyed the second half of the series a lot more too, after it got its devious hooks in me. Yeah, it turns after they go to the cabin.
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This new Room 101 is terrible. It used to be a sort of desert island discs for things people hated, now it's just a gimmicky comedy panel show with a bit of riffing then Frank arbitrarily picks one.
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DaWolfey posted:This new Room 101 is terrible. What happened to Frank Skinner? He used to be funny, then went away and now he's just a boring old man.
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Feb 20, 2012 01:38
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Frank Skinner used to be funny?
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Flipswitch posted:Frank Skinner used to be funny? Funny looking maybe 
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Ouch! Bit of an offshoot here though gents as it's been bugging the poo poo out of me: In one of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipes there is a section with a little robot which yells out "bullshit detected!". I've been trying to track it down to no avail, does any Goon by the offhand remember if it was Screenwipe or Newswipe? Even an episode potentially as I've been trying to track it down.
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m0isty posted:Oh, ok. Sorry! Someone earlier quoted me then rather cryptically linked to some of his posts, seemingly as part of his reply. Oh yeah, dos4gw occasionally pops into the D&D thread and drops his poo poo filled posts in there and has already been probated twice for it so I just wanted to familiarise everyone with his past post crimes, nothing to do with you, soz. e:not that your post wasn't racist, you should read that pdf linked at the top of the page le chat fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 20, 2012 |
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le chat posted:Oh yeah, dos4gw occasionally pops into the D&D thread and drops his poo poo filled posts in there and has already been probated twice for it so I just wanted to familiarise everyone with his past post crimes, nothing to do with you, soz. Fuckin gippos came and stole me account and made shitposts with 'em m8.
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Feb 20, 2012 03:33
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Flipswitch posted:Ouch! Bit of an offshoot here though gents as it's been bugging the poo poo out of me: Do you mean Truth Bot?
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DaWolfey posted:This new Room 101 is terrible. In the last episode I actually felt Frank Skinner lose interest in the whole thing half way through, if the person being paid to host the programme can't be bothered pretending to like it there's not much hope really.
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I'm actually enjoying the two new character in Being Human much more than Mitchell and George. I always thought Mitchell was far to angsty, and George was a bit too soft for my liking. So far I've actually enjoyed this series a lot more than previous series', although I'm sure that puts me in the minority.
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gwaaargh posted:Do you mean Truth Bot?
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Feb 20, 2012 13:06
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DaWolfey posted:This new Room 101 is terrible. Everything is a loving panel show nowadays. The other day I saw some lovely programme called The Mad Bad Ad show. It was full of terrible comedians watching the Smash adverts from the 1970s and making smartarse comments. I can just imagine the pitch for that one "People LOVE old adverts, and they love panel shows! Mark Dolan is very much available, genius!" The worst one ever was the David Walliams thing, even the trailers couldn't decide what the gently caress it was supposed to be about. Fake edit: An advert just came on for a panel show with Alexander Armstrong. Agh.
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Feb 20, 2012 13:44
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netally posted:Fake edit: An advert just came on for a panel show with Alexander Armstrong. Agh. He should be the permanent HIGNFY host, I reckon.
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