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Leyburn posted:If you want my advice, if you can avoid paying it, then do so. I avoid it at the moment because I'm a poor as heck student who doesn't watch live TV much at all, but as soon as I actually have an income I'll be more than happy to pay it
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Leyburn posted:If you want my advice, if you can avoid paying it, then do so. I like this advice
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Dec 3, 2011 02:41
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Captain Mediocre posted:This. Its not often I'm driven to pay more than I can get away with but love of the BBC should be reason enough for anyone. My love of BBC is almost cancelled out by my hatred of the TV licensing people. I don't think there's a ruder, less pleasant company to deal with, even if you legit don't have a TV.
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Dec 3, 2011 16:08
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I filled in one online form saying I had no TV and only watch iplayer and 4OD and they've left me alone since. Over a year now without a single demanding letter.
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Dec 3, 2011 16:19
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Spalec posted:My love of BBC is almost cancelled out by my hatred of the TV licensing people. I don't think there's a ruder, less pleasant company to deal with, even if you legit don't have a TV. Agreed. I love the BBC and am happy to pay the "I don't have to watch ITV" tax (strangely, not wanting to fund the BBC is one of the things that I've noticed that both Graun-reading left-wingers and Telegraph-reading right-wingers seem to agree on), but I really dislike how the TV licensing people are only capable of communicating in threats. Edit: Also is anyone else watching Strictly? I think Chelsea is looking like the most likely winner. The way that girl can move her body from the waist down is just unreal sometimes. ChuckDHead fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Dec 3, 2011 |
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Dec 3, 2011 19:38
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I think nearly all of the remaining contestants on Strictly are really very strong, with Harry, Holly, Jason and Chelsee being another rung above Robbie and Alex. I sometimes wonder if Holly and Jason (Holly moreso) have the fanbase compared to the UK stars to get the votes in.
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Dec 3, 2011 21:23
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I just caught up with Life's Too Short. I watched all four episodes and didn't laugh once. Big disappointment, because I was looking forward to it.  I don't think I saw a single thing that hasn't been done in The Office/Extras. The smug, deluded tit of a central character, the useless agent/accountant, the celebrities acting out caricatures of themselves, the humiliation of trying to work your way up through show business and of being a seldom recognised/forgotten minor celebrity. The only thing I hadn't really seen from the other two shows was Warwick's slapstick dwarf stuff: getting locked in a room, falling out of his big car, not being able to reach things that are high up. Kind of worrying, that. I'd have to agree with whoever it was earlier who pointed out that there just isn't enough to the central character. It seems like Warwick is just being a David Brent but without the subtleties that made me feel sympathetic in the end towards the latter.
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Dec 3, 2011 22:21
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Does anyone know if/when last weeks episode of Him and Her is going to be re-uploaded? Or why it was taken down in the first place?
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Dec 3, 2011 22:26
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Testro posted:I think nearly all of the remaining contestants on Strictly are really very strong, with Harry, Holly, Jason and Chelsee being another rung above Robbie and Alex. Jason presumably has legions of women in their late-20s-to-late-30s who remember fancying him as teenagers. Holly doesn't quite have that advantage, but she was on Neighbours for years, and that has to count for something. You're right though, it's going to be a pretty tough last few weeks in terms of really picking the strongest competitor. Much as I really do like the four that you listed as the top tier, I still think it's probably Chelsee who impresses me most, though it's really going to depend whether she gets to do more of the lightning-fast dances that she clearly specialises in. It's funny, because a few weeks back, I never would have picked her as my favourite to win. At the start she didn't seem to have the sheer enthusiasm for it that everyone else (particularly Russell Grant, who was clearly having the time of his life) did in the interviews and training segments, but you could see on her face tonight that she was loving it. She might not always be the most eloquent contestant in interviews, but it's not a debate, it's a dance-off.
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Dec 4, 2011 00:27
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Don't write to say that you don't have television transmission capabilities. I did that 7 years ago thinking I was being a conscientious citizen. 7 years later and those bloody letters are still following me around like a bad smell. They never did come to check either.
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ChuckDHead posted:Edit: Also is anyone else watching Strictly? I think Chelsea is looking like the most likely winner. The way that girl can move her body from the waist down is just unreal sometimes.  Also what the hell is going on with the It Takes 2 set? It looks like an explosion in a sequin factory.
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Sion posted:
I like how even the lines they draw on the analysis screen thing are glittery.
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John_Anon_Smith posted:Don't write to say that you don't have television transmission capabilities. I did that 7 years ago thinking I was being a conscientious citizen. 7 years later and those bloody letters are still following me around like a bad smell. They never did come to check either. I think if you made use of any television transmission capabilities you had you'd get interest from more people than just TV Licensing.
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Dec 4, 2011 14:35
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Loving how the BBC has basically said 'Sorry for making everyone chronically and near suicidally depressed with news coverage for the last year. To make up for it we're going to do surreal and rolling commentary on panda's'
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Dec 4, 2011 15:11
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Everyone remember, Black Mirror tonight! 9pm, channel 4
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Dec 4, 2011 16:32
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http://twitter.com/!/DuchessBeaumont Looks like this is some sort of Black Mirror tie-in thing. Also... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40Oe3Czk2k&feature=related
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Dec 4, 2011 18:38
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Him And Her still not updated on the iPlayer, what the gently caress BBC?
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Dec 4, 2011 20:17
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Things that don't appear on iplayer sharpish or that disappear after a while rarely turn up. Radio is really bad for it. They say "it's being looked into" until the 7 days are up and then just ignore it.
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Dec 4, 2011 20:22
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They didn't put up a couple of this last series of Would I Lie To You as well, was pretty poo poo because I'd remember they were on when they were half over then go "ah well I'll just catch it later".
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Dec 4, 2011 20:26
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I just got really into Never Mind the Buzzcocks. What's a good starting-off point? I'm watching the first-ever episode now, and while it's (naturally) slow, it still has Phill. Should I skip over to when Bill Bailey started being a captain?
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Dec 4, 2011 21:19
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Black Mirror starts with a rather interesting Ident of Idents. OK, C4 you have my attention.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:03
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Hahahaha, the Youtube comments are awesome.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:21
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I was okay with this Black Mirror thing until Julian Nicholson from the Thick of It popped up, and now I can't help thnking just how much more magnificent the programme would be with Malcolm Tucker bawling vitriolic rage about the pigfucking Prime Minister.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:22
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Charlie Brooker should know more about technology than this. If you kidnap a prime ministers daughter use tor 
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A5H posted:Charlie Brooker should know more about technology than this. If you kidnap a prime ministers daughter use tor They did, that's why they couldn't just lookup the IP address.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:26
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Irisi posted:Julian Nicholson and Ben too! Really enjoying this so far. edit: if its Tor then this method of discovering the location isn't going to work
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Flatscan posted:They did, that's why they couldn't just lookup the IP address. No, this would 100% not work irl.
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I wonder which political party it's supposed to be. Brooker was on 6 radio through the week and said that the PM in it is supposed to be very similar to a certain real PM. He doesn't seem to be anywhere near slimy enough to be a Cameron parody. In fact he just seems like a rather generic British PM.
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DaWolfey posted:and Ben too! Wouldn't be surprised if that's the joke on that one rather than remote upload. Edit: "loving Hell!" indeed, the first loving hell, not the one where he's kicking the oval office. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Dec 4, 2011 |
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Dec 4, 2011 22:29
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This reporter is going to get shot isnt she
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ibroxmassive posted:This reporter is going to get shot isnt she Right in the Knee and the Phone
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It's really fantastic so far, really looking forward to the next two now.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:40
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A5H posted:Charlie Brooker should know more about technology than this. If you kidnap a prime ministers daughter use tor Just nitpicking though, it's not wildly Hackers-esque implausible at all and I'm enjoying it.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:42
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This is incredibly dark. I mean, there's deepest black cynicism about the press, the public and the government and then there's this.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:44
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The Dutchess is dead. There was nothing about "a tone" nor blocking the recording.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:46
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Well this is dark.
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Dec 4, 2011 22:49
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So this is what it'd be like if Chris Morris decided to turn his hand to drama.
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I can't actually watch this any more. It's just too grim.
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Misfits better be really funny after this.
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