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Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Hahaha what the gently caress is this on channel 4? Someone channeling the queen mother and talking about the menu at the wedding.

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aga.
Sep 1, 2008

No one could give less of a poo poo. It's even too boring for the rioters. I'm just annoyed that all these bank holidays hit when it makes no difference to me at all.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

That Derren Brown thing was interesting but the end was a damp squib, especially seeing it took 6 months of work.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

A5H posted:

Hahaha what the gently caress is this on channel 4? Someone channeling the queen mother and talking about the menu at the wedding.

that would be the thing I have seen on Twitter as "This thing on Channel 4 now is really good* (*a loving audio-visual abortion)"? I'm almost half-curious to see what it is now

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

aga. posted:

No one could give less of a poo poo. It's even too boring for the rioters. I'm just annoyed that all these bank holidays hit when it makes no difference to me at all.

The rioters know that the police will have a government mandate to kick the poo poo out of them. It's not worth the hassle to be accused of domestic terrorism or some such.

Ganty
Jan 8, 2005
Because we want to! Because we want to!

Brown Moses posted:

That Derren Brown thing was interesting but the end was a damp squib, especially seeing it took 6 months of work.

I completely agree. There were what, 12 people there? Terrible.

Flatscan
Mar 27, 2001

Outlaw Journalist

aga. posted:

No one could give less of a poo poo. It's even too boring for the rioters. I'm just annoyed that all these bank holidays hit when it makes no difference to me at all.

Same here. Lovely weather, loads of bank holidays and I'm stuck indoors with my face glued to a monitor because I have a deadline coming up. Fucksticks.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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Metrication posted:

It will also be called veep.

It's interesting they've picked someone so high up as the main character, I always thought that advantage of The Thick of It was that they mainly use people who are either behind the scenes or not well known public figures.

I prefer the term practically useless figureheads.

Where is series 4 :argh:

Gram-O-Phone
Mar 9, 2007

Oh, play that thing!

incoherent posted:

I prefer the term practically useless figureheads.

Where is series 4 :argh:

In an interview a month or so back, Armando Iannucci said they'd only just started the writing process (they were waiting until everything settled down after the election and presumably getting a handle on the coalition so they could write something relevant and topical) so I doubt we'll see series 4 much before the Autumn, probably not until 2012.

But on the other hand, come on Armando, pull your finger out! There's people here who need their fix of governmental ineptitude and poetic swearing.

hookerbot 5000
Dec 21, 2009
Not sure if it's been posted but the BAFTA TV awards nominations are up http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/26/bafta-tv-awards-2011-nominations

Matt Smith versus Benedict Cumberbatch, that's a tough choice

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.


BBC1 24
BBC2 14
BBC3 1
BBC4 10
bbc.co.uk 1
Channel 4 16
E4 6
More 4 3
E4.com 1
ITV1 8
Sky1 3
Sky 3D 1
Sky Atlantic 1
Sky News 1
Aardman Digital 1
iTunes App Store 1


Public service broadcasting = better. Fact.

Idioteque Dance
Jun 19, 2004

Dinosaur Gum
Did this video get posted yet? It probably did but let's make sure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdNBrzAQjo&feature=player_embedded

Russell Brand gets grilled by Paxo and handles every question amazingly well. In fact it's hard not to respect the guy way more than I used to.

cloudchamber
Aug 6, 2010

You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine
Welcome to six months ago.

Padje
Sep 10, 2003

I don't much care for the attitude of filthy money-lenders

A5H posted:

Hahaha what the gently caress is this on channel 4? Someone channeling the queen mother and talking about the menu at the wedding.

I watched about 20 minutes. It was hit and miss. It's not funny to see Mario and Brian from Big Brother embarrass themselves when they probably know it's a joke and do it anyway, because that's their job. On the other hand, seeing that twat Andrew Stone get his arse bothered was great. He knew as he was turning around that it was the wrong thing, because he is so so clever.

And the psychic channeling the Queen Mum, explaining how much she likes prawn cocktail!

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Found something better to do on royal wedding day, it's the last day of county cricket matches. I can go and sit around there with a pint and a book and occasionally applaud.

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.
gently caress SKY News, nothing like casually switching from interviewing a possibly doomed family in a city under siege in Libya then suddenly interruping with the breaking news about some knobs planning to knob about at the knobbing Royal Wedding.

I had to just turn over after that.

Sion
Oct 16, 2004

"I'm the boss of space. That's plenty."
There's something a little Orwellian about the reaction of just shrugging and changing the channel when something that abhorrent is presented before you.

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Sion posted:

There's something a little Orwellian about the reaction of just shrugging and changing the channel when something that abhorrent is presented before you.

You misunderstand, I had to change the channel otherwise I'd ruin my TV screen by tossing a remote at the inhumanity of SKY News.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Brace yourselves.

I estimate we've got at least a month of news following this wedding/honeymoon/etc that is going to be classed by certain outlets as more important than wars/famine/etc

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SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.
Thank gently caress I can survive mostly on 4oD and iPlayer.

Paperhouse
Dec 31, 2008

I think
your hair
looks much
better
pushed
over to
one side
this is the kind of person who cares about the royal wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWKlUi2avo

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

Paperhouse posted:

this is the kind of person who cares about the royal wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWKlUi2avo

Those are the eyes of a man already dead.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Hundreds of thousands of people flock to London to witness man die of dehydration.

Metrication
Dec 12, 2010

Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

Paperhouse posted:

this is the kind of person who cares about the royal wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWKlUi2avo

quote:

HEY !!! WAKE UP !!!

GO HOME !!! YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME, YOUR MONEY, FOR THIS WEDDING NONSENSE !!! THE ROYALS WANTS THIS WEDDING TO HAPPEN FOR COMMERCIAL, POLITICAL, AND POPULARITY AND TO BOOST THE ROYALS IN THE WORLD WHICH IS GOING DOWN THE SEWER !!

SOON THE ROYALS WILL DISAPPEAR FROM OUR SOCIETIES !!!

ROYALS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN AND ALL A PAIN IN THE BEHIND.

ROYALS AND ILLUMINATI ARE DEPOPULATING THIS WORLD FOR DECADES !!! SO YOU STILL LOVE THE ROYALS FOR THIS???

Old Grasshopper
Apr 7, 2011

"Patience, young grasshopper."

Paperhouse posted:

this is the kind of person who cares about the royal wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWKlUi2avo

He sounds like he's on helium.

I'll be honest, all this Royal Wedding poo poo? I couldn't give a drat. We get a holiday from it, they get married, stop talking about it in every loving advert break!

tentish klown
Apr 3, 2011

Paperhouse posted:

this is the kind of person who cares about the royal wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWKlUi2avo

Supernutter

Kin
Nov 4, 2003

Sometimes, in a city this dirty, you need a real hero.

Lurchibles posted:

stop talking about it in every loving advert break!

The one that gets me is the one that's trying to sell tellies by stating that "everyone is going to be watching the wedding".

It's such a preposterous statement that i think it would put more people off buying their TV's and it just irks me every time i hear it because unlike most ads that simply allude to something being true it's just a lovely lie.

A better (and somewhat more bearable to watch) ad would be one that focuses on historical events. Or better yet, one that shows a mock up of what the moon landing would have looked like were it shot in HD, before bringing up the wedding. I'm not saying that the wedding is exactly a historical event on the scale of the moon landing, but at least the advert would have a point and,, with the other historical events given as examples, we'd at least have something interesting to think about while the ad is on. :colbert:

Kin fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Apr 26, 2011

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



The only thing about the wedding is that is spawned this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug

Which apparently some people thought was real footage

N3RDSTER
Mar 27, 2010
Channel 4 News using a side-scrolling Sonic game to represent modern gaming in the story about PSN being down :psyduck:.

wickles
Oct 12, 2009

"In England we have a saying for a situation such as this, which is that it's difficult difficult lemon difficult."
Real footage :nws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhLifRJrIpY
With Kate Fiddleton

wickles fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 26, 2011

Kin
Nov 4, 2003

Sometimes, in a city this dirty, you need a real hero.

N3RDSTER posted:

Channel 4 News using a side-scrolling Sonic game to represent modern gaming in the story about PSN being down :psyduck:.

Was it Sonic 4?

SEX BURRITO
Jun 30, 2007

Not much fun

N3RDSTER posted:

Channel 4 News using a side-scrolling Sonic game to represent modern gaming in the story about PSN being down :psyduck:.

The bit with the presenter at the end was bizarre and Brasseye worthy.

C4 news is getting pretty crap. I thought i'd flicked onto ITV when the royal wedding stuff was on.

Old Grasshopper
Apr 7, 2011

"Patience, young grasshopper."

Ratjaculation posted:

The only thing about the wedding is that is spawned this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug

Which apparently some people thought was real footage

Some guys in the US thought it was real, which is fair enough because you might think British people can be lively and fun. I think they have yet to realise that we're all empty soul-less grey shells of people.

Kin posted:

A better (and somewhat more bearable to watch) ad would be one that focuses on historical events. Or better yet, one that shows a mock up of what the moon landing would have looked like were it shot is HD before bringing up the wedding. I'm not saying that the wedding is exactly a historical event on the scale of the moon landing, but at least the advert would have a point and with the other historical events given as examples we'd at least have something interesting to think about while the ad is on.

Maybe like that montage BBC or whoever did showing everyone watching historical events on the news on TV? That was actually vaguely interesting... Something like that might convince me buying a new TV is a good idea.

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.

wickles posted:

Real footage :nws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhLifRJrIpY
With Kate Fiddleton

Royalty themed porn. We've truly hit our evolutionary peak.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

SeanBeansShako posted:

Royalty themed porn. We've truly hit our evolutionary peak.

on the plus side, the Charles lookalike actually resembles who he's supposed to, right down to the gormless grin. And hopefully neither he nor the Queen get it on in the rest of the film

Bape Culture
Sep 13, 2006

Secret millionaire definitely played up the badness of boro. :(
Also if you're worth 41 million quid you should probably give away more than £100k. He spent more than that on a car.

Old Grasshopper
Apr 7, 2011

"Patience, young grasshopper."

A5H posted:

Secret millionaire definitely played up the badness of boro. :(
Also if you're worth 41 million quid you should probably give away more than £100k. He spent more than that on a car.

£100k is still quite a lot though. I wouldn't complain at that :D But I get what you're saying, it's not really a very high % of the millionaires wealth.

InspectorCarbonara
Jul 2, 2010

Evening, patrolmaaan.

SeanBeansShako posted:

Royalty themed porn. We've truly hit our evolutionary peak.

Might as well shut the internet down now. I don't see where we can go from there.

Flatscan
Mar 27, 2001

Outlaw Journalist

Pyrovile posted:

Might as well shut the internet down now. I don't see where we can go from there.

Midget Prince Harry being gang-banged by Klingons. Make it so!

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N3RDSTER
Mar 27, 2010

A5H posted:

Secret millionaire definitely played up the badness of boro. :(
Also if you're worth 41 million quid you should probably give away more than £100k. He spent more than that on a car.

Woah, I didn't bother to watch/record Secret Millionaire 'cos I thought the formula was a bit tired, but I didn't know it was in Boro this week. Gonna have to catch up on 4OD. Do you know what area they were in?

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