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Zorba the Greek posted:Both sides are completely loving disgusting. Sri Lankan government or Tamil Tigers. They both did extremely hosed up things but goddamn I can't believe that poo poo happened without anyone in the international community going in. We loving go into Libya under the pretence of protecting civilians but when poo poo like that happens, we don't get involved? I've been to Sri Lanka a couple of times lately (once before the war had ended) and though talking about it was A Bad Idea, the majority of people seemed to hate the entire war and all the leaders who were pushing it. That said, some perfectly ordinary (and seemingly lovely) people I spoke to turned out to be in favour of genocide (seriously: one guy brought it up out of the blue while we were driving). I don't understand it at all. The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Jun 15, 2011 |
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Jun 15, 2011 11:27
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What's insane about sitting in a bath of flour and water mixture because a bunch of internet nerds judged your use of said flour and water mixture as a spunk substitute was an immoral act?
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Ddraig posted:I genuinely think that Richard Herring has ceased to act insane as part of his act and has actually become insane. My god. I didn't think he'd actually do it... The last couple eps of AIOTM (aiotm) have been superb.
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Jun 15, 2011 13:02
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Catching up on series 1 of Luther. Holy poo poo this is all amazing. The weird relationship he has with crazy parent killer feels a bit forced though. edit: is anyone else having reception issues with the digital changeover? Up until the "second phase" I was able to get all the usual channels perfectly. Now that the changeover has happened, i've all but lost connection to dave and the signal from BBC and channel 4 stations keep intermittantly going down and back up again. Kin fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jun 15, 2011 |
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Jun 15, 2011 16:50
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NaDy posted:I literally don't understand how they could have let the Sri Lankan government to get away with this. How can we justify going into Libya and do nothing for the Sri Lankans? I'm so bloody confused with governments in general, they've all left me so jaded. we can't justify going into Libya, that's the thing. If we really did care about human rights and protecting innocent people or whatever pretense we had for Libya we wouldn't of ignored yemen, syria, palestine and countless others.
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Kin posted:edit: is anyone else having reception issues with the digital changeover? Make sure you do a full rescan of all the channels.
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Jun 15, 2011 17:41
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NaDy posted:I literally don't understand how they could have let the Sri Lankan government to get away with this. How can we justify going into Libya and do nothing for the Sri Lankans? I'm so bloody confused with governments in general, they've all left me so jaded. How much oil does Sri Lanka have? Exactly.
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Flatscan posted:Make sure you do a full rescan of all the channels. Done that multiple times over the last few days now. No difference. Unless there are some teething issues, i've no idea why i'd get marginally worse reception.
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Jun 15, 2011 18:52
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RIpley better not be deid.
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Jun 15, 2011 19:15
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While it isn't a intellectual side splitting laugh a minute kind of thing I find Gary Tank Commander oddly soothing to watch.
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Jun 15, 2011 19:26
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John_Anon_Smith posted:RIpley better not be deid. Not a pretty lady so I expect he's safe.
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Jun 15, 2011 19:29
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Catzilla posted:How much oil does Sri Lanka have? This is true. I know next to nothing about world politics, it's just amazing how the government can kettle civilians into 'no fire zones' then shell the gently caress out of them.
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Catzilla posted:How much oil does Sri Lanka have? Yeah, this is the only reason why imo, they didn't go in.
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Jun 15, 2011 20:40
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Sri Lanka was a profitable conflict: http://www.caat.org.uk/press/archive.php?url=20110615prs
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So we've replaced the heart-felt comedic antics of the Rileys in "Life of Riley" with the heart-felt comedic antics of the Flynns in "In with the Flynns". I mean who hasn't thought "Hey! What that former Hollyoaks, Casualty, Two Pints and more recently White Van Man comedy actor Will Mellor really needs is a prime-time BBC one family situational comedy vehicle to show off his extreme range and ability"? Well somebody at the BBC obviously agrees. I think I'm addicted to the bad telly on Wednesday nights. Although I might have to stop, I've found myself getting a bit involved with Waterloo Road.
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Jun 15, 2011 20:58
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Well, that's the first series of Luther marathoned. I missed the first 15 minutes or so of the new episode, does it synch up with what happened at the end of the last one? I mean it ended with Luthor and the other 2 just standing over the bent coppers body. Did the first 15 minutes pick up immediately after that or did it not really address exactly what happened in the aftermath?
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It picks up a few months later, maybe even....Real time! But yeah it kind of brushes it under the carpet as I remember at the time thinking, loving hell how are they going to get out of that, but it worked out alright for most parties. Besides, it's on iplayer anyway. Sometimes I like to imagine what iplayer would have looked like in the 80s. It would probably be one of the best things.
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Jun 16, 2011 01:18
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I thought it was implied that Alice took responsibility.
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Zorba the Greek posted:Yeah, this is the only reason why imo, they didn't go in. It entirely depends who our allies are, who it is easy to attack. You better believe that if Saudi Arabia started killing shitloads of people we wouldn't do a thing about it. And they have plenty of oil.
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Christ, this thread has become huge. Anyway, anyone here watched BBC's Exile or The Shadow Line? They look good, but all the reviews I'm finding seem to be based on only one episode. Latest UK shows I've watched were Sherlock Holmes (a lot of fun), Luther (ridiculous but entertaining enough and the family enjoyed it) and Downton Abbey (pretty good).
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I haven't seen it but The Shadow Line has been getting rave reviews in this thread
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I'd recommend the Shadow Line, it's a solid thriller with some very good casting choices, and random acts of violence.
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Holy Doughnuts! posted:I thought it was implied that Alice took responsibility. Though Luther was on gardening leave and Ripley was bounced back to uniform.
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Jun 16, 2011 10:53
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I got a little confused last night as I saw Gatehouse going around an office with big hair, but realized it was V for Vendetta after a few minutes.
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Kin posted:Well, that's the first series of Luther marathoned. I missed the first 15 minutes or so of the new episode, does it synch up with what happened at the end of the last one? Why marathon the first season and then not watch all of the first episode of the new season. Couldn't you have just waited an hour and watched it on iplayer? Not having a go or anything, it just seems odd to me.
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Mr Beens posted:Why marathon the first season and then not watch all of the first episode of the new season. Couldn't you have just waited an hour and watched it on iplayer? Because i watched most of the first episode of series 2 as it aired two nights ago and then went back to watch the first series because it was good.  It's not exactly a new concept.
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Kin posted:Because i watched most of the first episode of series 2 as it aired two nights ago and then went back to watch the first series because it was good. I think he meant why not just go back and fill in those 15 minutes after your marathon?
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Cerv posted:Not implied, outright stated. Oh right, must have missed the outright stating bit, I got that Ripley was sent back to the beat for his role in the finale and Luther was nearly removed. Does Andrew Marr still work for the BBC? Or does he just make seemingly dull but actually really quite interesting and well-made documentaries?
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Fatkraken posted:I think he meant why not just go back and fill in those 15 minutes after your marathon? Only at home intermittantly throughout the day? Forums can be accessed from my phone? General message board format? Take your pick.
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Jun 16, 2011 21:23
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So, the Shadow Line, then. Probably the best 7 hours of TV I've seen this year.
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Jun 16, 2011 22:25
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Semprini posted:So, the Shadow Line, then. Probably the best 7 hours of TV I've seen this year. It went a little weird this episode (Pensions? Honey? PENSIONS?) but drat was that a brutal ending. Did I miss the deal with Bede's wife and the turkish dude? Last week I got the impression that he was setting up her euthanasia, but nothing came from that.
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Mock the Week was hilarious again. My box missed out on the last 2 minutes though, what was the name of that female comic? She seemed rather strange 
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Goddamn Shadow Line. I knew that it wasn't going to have the most sparkly unicorns of happy endings, but that was just unremitting. The bad guys won and the good guys (and there I include Bede) lost. Still, wonderful series, and gently caress the haters who don't get that the "hokey" elements are supposed to be deliberately arch.
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Recommending Our War again. It's the best insight into the military situation on the ground in Afghanistan that I've seen - from a British perspective at least.
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Lurchibles posted:Mock the Week was hilarious again. My box missed out on the last 2 minutes though, what was the name of that female comic? She seemed rather strange Diane Morgan. MTW's the only place I've seen her, but she did stand out as funny enough the first time around for me to remember her. or maybe it's just because she's Northern like me. She didn't seem to contribute too much this time though.
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The majority of my TV time the last few weeks has been spent on the Springwatch Photo Gallery on freeview. It's just the same photos looping every 5 minutes with the same four chillout-ish tracks playing in the background but it's absolutely brilliant. I'm going to miss it. Anyone have a tracklist?
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Shadow Line was awesome. Perfect ending. I may have missed a bit from the last episode but how did Jonah end up on the retired copper's boat with him essentially spilling his guts about the entire thing. The last i recall, he had found out that the money was marked and that led back to the chief, then Glickman told him about Gatehouse and then that whole drama with Gatehouse went down in his house. Then the last thing in episode 6 was him sitting on a bench in a park teling his direct boss that he got shot because of the money and how it meant Harvey was working for the coppers. Was there a name mentioned for the guy on the boat that i missed or something, because he basically gets a phone call and then he's on the boat. Are we to assume that because he figured out that much, he was just called and told to go there?
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Salute a baby. I thought the old guy who funded the thing had the boat that Jonah visited last episode so he already knew where he was. I think I need to watch it again to understand how it all fits together. Altogether I thought it really good, hopefully they'll be more drama as good as that in the future.
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