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Today's HTVRYL:quote:Charlie Brooker explores the gulf between real life and television. From the moon landings to Blake's 7 to CSI: Miami, has TV warped our relationship with technology? Should be good.
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Mar 1, 2011 18:10
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 ADAM AND JOE are back at 6 Music From April For realsies this time
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Mar 1, 2011 18:22
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reality_groove posted:
YAY! This is the best news.
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Mar 1, 2011 18:26
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reality_groove posted:
gently caress YES
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Mar 1, 2011 19:03
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For 12 weeks!!..
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Mar 1, 2011 19:19
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I'm setting myself up to be publicly humiliated here but I've never really got what's so great about Adam & Joe, with the caveat that I have only heard like 1½ of their shows in total. I love Collings and Herrin, and they keep going on and on about hwo great Adam & joe are. And so does everyone else. I just thought it was a couple of midly amusing hours of two grown men acting like they're children. I don't mean that as necessarily a bad thing but the affected naivete with which they address each other and set up jokes didn't do anything for me. Feel free to boo me
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Mar 1, 2011 20:06
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Beeswax posted:Collings and Herrin, and they keep going on and on about hwo great Adam & joe are They say it not to alienate A&Js audience. They have always been seat warmers for A&J and they know it, they know they are merely tolerated by A&J fans and would be cast aside and forgotten as soon as they came back. Also, Collins and Herring are not loving funny.
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Mar 1, 2011 20:21
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Beeswax posted:I'm setting myself up to be publicly humiliated here but I've never really got what's so great about Adam & Joe, with the caveat that I have only heard like 1½ of their shows in total. I love Collings and Herrin, and they keep going on and on about hwo great Adam & joe are. And so does everyone else. I just thought it was a couple of midly amusing hours of two grown men acting like they're children. I don't mean that as necessarily a bad thing but the affected naivete with which they address each other and set up jokes didn't do anything for me. booboo
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Mar 1, 2011 20:34
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Beeswax posted:I'm setting myself up to be publicly humiliated here but I've never really got what's so great about Adam & Joe, with the caveat that I have only heard like 1½ of their shows in total. I love Collings and Herrin, and they keep going on and on about hwo great Adam & joe are. And so does everyone else. I just thought it was a couple of midly amusing hours of two grown men acting like they're children. I don't mean that as necessarily a bad thing but the affected naivete with which they address each other and set up jokes didn't do anything for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmIGr-add88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cd2TLIbhMg marktheando fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 1, 2011 |
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Mar 1, 2011 20:56
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Beeswax posted:I'm setting myself up to be publicly humiliated here but I've never really got what's so great about Adam & Joe, with the caveat that I have only heard like 1½ of their shows in total. I love Collings and Herrin, and they keep going on and on about hwo great Adam & joe are. And so does everyone else. I just thought it was a couple of midly amusing hours of two grown men acting like they're children. I don't mean that as necessarily a bad thing but the affected naivete with which they address each other and set up jokes didn't do anything for me. Don't worry, I feel the same way about Stewart Lee, goons seem to love him but I don't find him nearly as funny as other comics.
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Mar 1, 2011 20:57
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The more I listen to Adam and Joe the more I think Joe is really what makes it. I really like Adam Buxton, but he goes over the top shouty sometimes and talks too much about his kids. Most of my laugh out loud moments come from Joe's delivery. I gave up listening to his Big Mix Tape show because it was just endless stories about what his kids had done the day before. Love Stewart Lee though, I just think he's on an entirely different level from literally everyone else. I'm not saying he's necessarily the funniest *stand-up* in the world (was introduced to Louis CK the other day and he's great, although quite a lot of the time his swearing detracted rather than adds to his comedy), but he's the only one in the world who does his style and I think it's unbelievable. I liked him before I was a goon though, so I get a pass from the hive-mind. Also don't rate Charlie Brooker at all.
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Mar 1, 2011 21:08
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I enjoy all four of them, as entertainment to me is entertainment unless utterly crude or insulting.
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Mar 1, 2011 21:12
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I'd recommend Doug Stanhope if you like Louis CK, he's like Bill Hicks, but drunker and without the crazy theories. He also excels at describing really vulgar scenarios.
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Mar 1, 2011 21:55
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This local cineworld boss seems like a right self important prick. Also Heston's first idea is retarded 
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Mar 1, 2011 22:26
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Charlie Brooker is back on BBC2 in 5 minutes.
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Mar 1, 2011 22:52
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The Coldplay over Zogs analysis sent me over the edge. fake edit: A trailer for the Bigtrax what the gently caress !?
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Mar 1, 2011 23:12
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Charlie Brooker was spectacular, as always.
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Mar 1, 2011 23:31
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I never knew Blake 7 ended so depressingly before. And god I love Ode To Joy.
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Mar 1, 2011 23:35
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I used to love Automan as a kid  Thanks Charlie for pointing out how homo-erotic it was.
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Mar 1, 2011 23:43
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SeanBeansShako posted:I never knew Blake 7 ended so depressingly before. If you can get past the cheapness of the sets Blake's 7 is a really excellent series. I have no idea why some exec somewhere didn't immediately commission a remake for when Galactica came to a close. I guess terrorists aren't really very popular protagonists these days (even though they are terrorists fighting against evil)
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Mar 1, 2011 23:54
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Brown Moses posted:Charlie Brooker is back on BBC2 in 5 minutes. Unless you live in Scotland, in which case some documentary interview thing was aired instead -_-
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Mar 2, 2011 00:07
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Daedo posted:Unless you live in Scotland, in which case some documentary interview thing was aired instead -_- Channel 865 (on Virgin at least) is your friend then. It shows BBC2 England, none of that silly Scottish fiddling with the proper order of programmes.
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Mar 2, 2011 00:17
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Is the Promise worth watching?
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Mar 2, 2011 00:37
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Two matters; Why why why can't I watch new Charlie brooker on iplayer? And the news of the return of Dr Sexy and Nurse Totty has made my year.
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Mar 2, 2011 01:30
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Beast posted:Two matters; It's up now. It includes the words "duck bum-a-phone" and is quite wonderful.
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Mar 2, 2011 01:48
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Just finished State of Play on goon recommendation, what a fantastic series.
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Mar 2, 2011 01:58
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3000 FT CHRIST-BOT DECIMATES BASINGSTOKE There's a news story I wish was true
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Mar 2, 2011 06:29
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delicious beef posted:Is the Promise worth watching? Several people I know say it's really great.
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Mar 2, 2011 10:07
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A5H posted:This local cineworld boss seems like a right self important prick. The only person I liked was the concessions worker who pointed out that some customers have trouble between the notions of sweet and salted. Also I hated the whole thing. Heston's a food wizard, not a social crusader, and I think he's aware of this as he sheepishly tries to sell his own brand of food he doesn't seem to like to people he loathes for money from Channel 4. His experiment with stale popcorn in the dark vs fresh popcorn in the light was laughable, with 2 variables, making it not the same experiment at all. People would probably probably prefer the 'stale' popcorn either way as it 'tastes right'. I've seen food programmes where they get members of the general public to eat low grade and then high grade sausages. The majority prefer the skanky ones, with the wisdom being that that is what they know a sausage to be, so if Heston was worried his own popcorn would get trounced, at least he could've fallen back on that. Instead he made out everyone was a big idiot. "What makes popcorn so...popular?" Not tasty. Popular. Padje fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Mar 2, 2011 |
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Mar 2, 2011 12:59
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Tsaedje posted:If you can get past the cheapness of the sets Blake's 7 is a really excellent series. I have no idea why some exec somewhere didn't immediately commission a remake for when Galactica came to a close. I guess terrorists aren't really very popular protagonists these days (even though they are terrorists fighting against evil)
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Mar 2, 2011 13:27
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DaWolfey posted:
Dead to me...
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Mar 2, 2011 14:27
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Tee hee, I just saw Tamwar and that sinister guy from Eastenders hanging out in Marks and Spencer. I gave them a salute and they just looked at me/gave me halfhearted ones back.
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Mar 2, 2011 15:40
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Irisi posted:Channel 865 (on Virgin at least) is your friend then. It shows BBC2 England, none of that silly Scottish fiddling with the proper order of programmes. Would it surprise you to know that certain parts of Falkirk still don't have virgin/blueyonder/telewest/cable. gently caress, i hate this place.
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Mar 2, 2011 16:18
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delicious beef posted:Is the Promise worth watching? yes Kin posted:Would it surprise you to know that certain parts of Falkirk still don't have virgin/blueyonder/telewest/cable. is that bad? I live in the midlands and we have never been able to get cable, I presumed that it was just something some areas aren't able to have/cable providers don't care about
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Mar 2, 2011 16:37
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Padje posted:The only person I liked was the concessions worker who pointed out that some customers have trouble between the notions of sweet and salted. Me and my mates were expressing identical sentiments to each other when watching this. The whole thing was just such a massive waste of everyone's time - his, the cinema's, and we who watched the program. There is absolutely no point in trying to sell people food that they don't even want, at a far smaller profit than what they were selling originally. That first bit with the food tailored to the film was just loving ridiculous. Fish market scene so he creates a terrible smell in the room and gives them disgusting food. Orgy scene so he gives them a sauce that looks like cum. Seriously?
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Mar 2, 2011 16:53
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The Perfect Element posted:That first bit with the food tailored to the film was just loving ridiculous. Fish market scene so he creates a terrible smell in the room and gives them disgusting food. Orgy scene so he gives them a sauce that looks like cum. Seriously? What film were they watching?
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Mar 2, 2011 17:00
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le chat posted:is that bad? I live in the midlands and we have never been able to get cable, I presumed that it was just something some areas aren't able to have/cable providers don't care about Lack of choice is never a good thing. Right now i'm stuck in an area that is only served by BT (presumably they're maintinaing some kind of monopoly control over the area somehow). This means that BT have absolutely no incentive to upgrade the infrastucture and as such the connection here seems like it's stuck in 2005 with no apparent schedule on increasing it at all. So yes, it's bad, very bad. Things i presently cannot do: Watch youtube live (i have to leave the page open for a while in order for it to download the video); Watch iplayer competently (it will stutter on low resolution); Play anything on xbox live/PSN/steam without some kind of lag; Use skype; Use zune video or whatever other streaming movie services there are; Play any of my steam games without waiting a day for them to download; ...and so on and so forth. Oh and bugger me if i ever want to be efficient and do some of those things at the same time.
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Mar 2, 2011 17:09
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Kin posted:Lack of choice is never a good thing. Right now i'm stuck in an area that is only served by BT (presumably they're maintinaing some kind of monopoly control over the area somehow). It's most likely a similar situation to my area, with a load of nimbys blocking the planning permission needed to dig up the roads in order to run fibre.
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Mar 2, 2011 17:31
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Everyone needs to watch Bob's Burgers on 4od btw. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3379901&pagenumber=1
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Mar 2, 2011 18:36
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Kin posted:Lack of choice is never a good thing. Right now i'm stuck in an area that is only served by BT (presumably they're maintinaing some kind of monopoly control over the area somehow). This means that BT have absolutely no incentive to upgrade the infrastucture and as such the connection here seems like it's stuck in 2005 with no apparent schedule on increasing it at all. Oh yeah, we are in the same situation. Not being able to have cable is the norm for me so I forget it's not the same coutrywide(and that there is any way to change it) . But the situation with my current connection is not as bad as yours. We are barely able to get 2mb here but at least it's somewhat consistent. No idea what the situation is with BT in the area though, Sky is our only option for subscription TV aswell which is another issue. I occasionally check samknows hoping yo see BT is going to try and modernise the areas infrastructure only to see some vague future plans. le chat fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 2, 2011 |
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Mar 2, 2011 18:48
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