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Whenever it goes silent I keep expecting a voice to pipe up with 'Heeeey Jude'. Right Rio, it's your problem now.
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netally posted:Whenever it goes silent I keep expecting a voice to pipe up with 'Heeeey Jude'. I think we're safe now from any Mac-attacks.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:34
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How could you all watch that garbage? I turned off at Winston Churchill reciting that loving Tempest thing again. Turned back later, to make sure I wasn't being a grump, and it was Only Fools and Horses.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:40
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I'm quietley impressed we managed this whole business without loving it up. In this day and age, its nice that things work every now and again.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:40
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TinTower posted:London's perpetual meme-in-chief, Boris Johnson, strikes gold and does a funny. Borris 4 king! Posted originally in the meme/macro thread in PYF.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:44
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Mr. Squishy posted:How could you all watch that garbage? I turned off at Winston Churchill reciting that loving Tempest thing again. Turned back later, to make sure I wasn't being a grump, and it was Only Fools and Horses. A friend posted this on FB quote:This is the best tweet in history, translating the UK to the USA. Mic Wright
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Aug 12, 2012 23:47
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Rondette posted:I think we're safe now from any Mac-attacks. its never too late for some Mac.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:48
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Oh God. It's so much worse than I ever imagined!
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Aug 12, 2012 23:51
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No it's Take That for us. sans Robbie. I bet he's annoyed.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:51
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Take That loving own.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:54
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Glad I'm not getting a train through Stratford.Bugger me, they still ain't done.
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Aug 12, 2012 23:56
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Given what Gary Barlows been through this week that was a hell of a performance. With the lyrics to that song especially
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Taff posted:Given what Gary Barlows been through this week that was a hell of a performance. With the lyrics to that song especially Yeah I had forgotten about that, fair play to the guy. And then, THE WHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yep yep. edit- Is that the Edge on stage too?? Rondette fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Aug 13, 2012 |
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Aug 13, 2012 00:02
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So I missed the really embarassing stuff? Dammit. What song did Madness Play?
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SeanBeansShako posted:So I missed the really embarassing stuff? 'Our House' Where was William? Mrs.Windsor and his brother were there...?
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Rondette posted:'Our House' Called it.
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SeanBeansShako posted:So I missed the really embarassing stuff? Our House. That was poor. I started off hating the opening ceremony but ended up getting really into it and by the end my cynical facade had dropped and I was properly psyched up for the games. I've enjoyed the events and really got into the spirit of things. That closing ceremony killed my buzz. At work I get regular banal e-mails from the HR department, encouraging me to join in the wacky fun of various corporate events. If the people who send those e-mails were given a budget and a stadium, I imagine they'd have produced something like that. Before the games I had all kinds of horrible images about what the ceremony would be like. The opening ceremony proved me wrong. The closing ceremony brought the nightmare visions back.
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There were bits I really liked, but the bad bits were offensively so. Jessie J has a decent enough voice but her songs are obnoxious and with the covers she tried too hard to "own" them and do weird poo poo with them, and you don't do that when you are standing in for a legend. Eric Idle dressed as the White Ranger was fun. Kaiser Chiefs doing Pinball Wizard was odd given the Who were at the end, but that was fine I thought. Was never a huge Oasis guy, but what was supposed to be wrong with the Beady Eye version of Wonderwall? Quite liked it. I never swear in front of my parents. I told Russel Brand to gently caress off. One Direction. What is there to say? It was like they wanted to make it explicit they were miming. The theme is British music and there was no metal? No Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath or Motorhead? Come on now. Liked the big band version of Park Life, but it was a bit disappointing that Blur weren't actually there. Total bait-and-switch with Bowie, when instead we got supermodels, the sort of pointless people these games should have been making the general populace realize they don't actually need.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Liked the big band version of Park Life, but it was a bit disappointing that Blur weren't actually there. Blur were actually playing in Hyde Park tonight.
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Only caught the last 45 minutes of the ceremony (too busy watching Refused, hell yeah!), but that looked like everything I feared the Olympics would be. The Queen bit looked good though I guess. I was wondering where May was for the opening. Although, and this happened in the games themselves, it really gets on my tits when people get Queen wrong. We Will Rock You goes STAMP-STAMP-CLAP, not CLAP-CLAP-NOTHING!
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Aug 13, 2012 01:37
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Closing ceremony sucked, yeah. I bet that Paul McCartney and Brian May would be in the opening ceremony, was genuinely surprised only one of them showed up. And then, of course, closing ceremony, loving Brian May appears playing a solo as if everyone in Britain hasn't seen it 50 million times at every single televised event. I thought the whole thing was pretty arrogant, to be honest. 2 hours of British music, with English lyrics, to a global audience. China and Argentina and Russian viewers do not get a poo poo about Annie Lennox and the Liam Gallagher. If the idea was for the world to be impressed by our glittering musical history I don't think it hit the mark. A lot of western Europe think Britain has had a lot of good bands, definitely, but this is supposed to be an international event. Half the songs were from the last 5 years too. Imagine if Beijing had played 2 hours of chinese pop hits in their closing ceremony, no-one gives a poo poo about a different culture's commercial music. Basically a Superbowl half-time show that went on six acts too long. Kept waiting for it to either end or get good and got pretty disappointed by the end.
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Aug 13, 2012 01:40
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Should have left it at Eric Idle. They had a fat lady singing and everything!
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Aug 13, 2012 07:47
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Aug 13, 2012 08:22
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Easy way for Brazil to top it. Contact Sega, get Samba De Amigo as the mascot and base opening ceremony around it.
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Blur were actually playing in Hyde Park tonight. Where they played just enough of the opening ceremony to worry us that it was crap (the Only Fools and Horses bit was clear enough) and we might be stuck there listening to it for an hour, then came in when Park Life was meant to start. I have never been more relieved at a concert.
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Giedroyc posted:Easy way for Brazil to top it. Contact Sega, get Samba De Amigo as the mascot and base opening ceremony around it. They could have Samba De Janeiro as the only song for the entire opening and closing ceremonies and it would be so much better than the cavalcade of terrible they had for London 2012.
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Did anyone see this?quote:Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch has said that 'all the posh-bashing that goes on' made him consider leaving Britain to go to the US. He added that he was often 'castigated as a moaning, rich, public-school bastard'. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h-hnKVIhFsXB1j3sn2b6osvVu6oA?docId=N0442421344866708530A The guardian has a poll on it (LOL)
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Metrication posted:Did anyone see this? The poll results did make me smile. But yeah what a moaning posh bastard.
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Series 3 of the Great British Bake Off starts in 5 minutes time. Seem to recall this thread got a wee bit overexcited about it's delicious cakey-bakey shenanigans this time last year. (Mary Berry! Sue Perkins! Psycho Holly! A squirrel with the biggest nuts I've ever seen!) Looking forward to this season. Hope BBC don't bugger it up like what they did to Masterchef.
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I can see why he might be annoyed. He's not exactly posh from what I've read about him. He got a scholarship to a public school and doesn't have land or titles. He just seems to have posh mannerisms due to his scholarship opportunity. It depends on your definition of posh. But he isn't aristocracy by any stretch of the imagination. It would piss me off if someone called me a posho too, when I'm no where near one.
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Just started watching through The Thick of It based on my experience with In the Loop. loving fantastic show.
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Check out the latest episode of Time Shift on the iPlayer, really interesting one about the History of the BBFC Censors. Heads up though, nudity and cheesy violence with the related films.
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Irisi posted:Series 3 of the Great British Bake Off starts in 5 minutes time. I've said this before, but I wish they bucked the trend of eliminations in reality shows. It's just too nasty for a show that otherwise tries to bottle a village fate. Halve the contestants, weed out the people who aren't great at baking, and put some more bread court in the space tears and hugs would go. It's especially bad this season as I worry that some set of freak accidents will mean Kathryn gets the boot and she kills the cast and crew. Do you know which episode this is from?
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Mr. Squishy posted:I've said this before, but I wish they bucked the trend of eliminations in reality shows. It's just too nasty for a show that otherwise tries to bottle a village fate. Halve the contestants, weed out the people who aren't great at baking, and put some more bread court in the space tears and hugs would go. It's especially bad this season as I worry that some set of freak accidents will mean Kathryn gets the boot and she kills the cast and crew. Why can't we have a great Mechanic-off? 20 contestants battle eachother to see who can build/repair various vehicles and vehicle parts the best. Each week the vehicles get more varied and interesting until a champion is crowned. I'd rather watch and learn about building/repairing cars than some shite cake-off.
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Aug 14, 2012 21:19
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Mr. Squishy posted:I've said this before, but I wish they bucked the trend of eliminations in reality shows. It's just too nasty for a show that otherwise tries to bottle a village fate. Halve the contestants, weed out the people who aren't great at baking, and put some more bread court in the space tears and hugs would go. It's especially bad this season as I worry that some set of freak accidents will mean Kathryn gets the boot and she kills the cast and crew. Season 3 Episode 2. I also made a Tucker avatar if anyone wants it.  and this 
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Xachariah posted:I can see why he might be annoyed. He's not exactly posh from what I've read about him. He got a scholarship to a public school and doesn't have land or titles. He just seems to have posh mannerisms due to his scholarship opportunity. Benedict Cumberbatch is loving awesome not just because of Sherlock, but also because him and two other people were kidnapped and almost killed but he talked his way out of it and the kidnappers let them all go.
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Cerv posted:scrapheap challenge basically? Yeah, but less "fixed". You don't really get the chance to learn the ins and outs of basic mechanical stuff on scrapheap because they're doing some pretty advanced poo poo with the junk they just "found lying around". Seeing a bunch of people go to town on engines or whatever other parts of cars would need fixing would probably be of actual benefit to a lot of people. edit: and a hell of a lot more interesting than how to bake a cake. Kin fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Aug 14, 2012 |
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Kin posted:I'd rather watch and learn about building/repairing cars than some shite cake-off. We could have both  . That'd keep both the mechanically minded and the cake-inclined happy! "Great British Bake Off" and then "Great British Make Stuff"!I think the Bake-Off is a lovely programme as it is. I think the removal of 1 contestant per week gives it just a little hint of nastiness. If you removed that it might be too sugary and twee to be palatable. This week was awfully jolly. That Blackbirds-Inna-Pie cake was just ridiculously good, and the old camp dude doing his little disco-shimmy for the education of Mel was hilarious. Hope he stays on for a few weeks.
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Kin posted:Seeing a bunch of people go to town on engines or whatever other parts of cars would need fixing would probably be of actual benefit to a lot of people.
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