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Rondette: Nov 4, 2009; Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.; Grimey Drawer

Personally I find the latest Disneyland advert (Can't seem to find it online) with its 'Fathers! Take your daughter to Disneyland or she won't love you' message to be far more insidious and unpleasant than that McDonalds ad.

edit-Oh wait here it is- (with an American voice-over)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zy_0F8nKNY

# ? Feb 4, 2013 13:56

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:02

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Lovechop posted:

Exactly. And if you pay an extra 20p for their smokey BBQ sauce

I always get my BBQ sauce free :smug:

# ? Feb 4, 2013 13:58

Lovechop: Feb 1, 2005; cheers mate

Rarity posted:

I always get my BBQ sauce free

I hope you're not confusing Ron Don's standard variety BBQ sauce with the Smokey BBQ. It's a common misconception that they're the same, when in fact that extra 20p makes all the difference in the world. Chalk and cheese here.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 14:09

justcola: May 22, 2004; La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Started watching Africa last night, unsure why I put it off as I always like Attenborough documentaries. Been having a quick look around at some of his older stuff as I was in the mood for the naturalist to be amongst nature and found this doc, it's pretty interesting. I've heard of Cargo Cult's before, though this is the first documentary I've seen on them and it has a slight Apocalypse Now atmosphere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00y20ky/The_People_of_Paradise_Cargo_Cult/

# ? Feb 4, 2013 15:50

McDragon: Sep 11, 2007

The advert that really gets to me at the moment is that one for Centreparcs I think? It's along the lines of "if you don't take your children to Centreparcs you don't love them enough". It's just super-annoying.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 16:18

Flatscan: Mar 27, 2001; Outlaw Journalist

First episode of the new series of Being Human was pretty cool. It was definitely Annie dragging things down last series, glad she's gone.

"My unfinished business must be something else then. Just hope it doesn't involve blowing up any babies... too soon?"
"A little bit."

# ? Feb 4, 2013 16:21

lets go swimming: Sep 6, 2012; EAT THE CHEESE, NICHOLSON!

justcola posted:

Started watching Africa last night, unsure why I put it off as I always like Attenborough documentaries. Been having a quick look around at some of his older stuff as I was in the mood for the naturalist to be amongst nature and found this doc, it's pretty interesting. I've heard of Cargo Cult's before, though this is the first documentary I've seen on them and it has a slight Apocalypse Now atmosphere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00y20ky/The_People_of_Paradise_Cargo_Cult/

I wait a bit so I can watch a bunch of episodes at once in a natural history binge.

Speaking of old Attenborough (but not as old as the programme you linked), BBC Two is reairing Life on Earth at 4:15 every weekday.

lets go swimming fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Feb 4, 2013

# ? Feb 4, 2013 16:25

Loonytoad Quack: Aug 24, 2004; High on Shatner's Bassoon

edit: wrong thread :/

Loonytoad Quack fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Feb 4, 2013

# ? Feb 4, 2013 16:59

Hoops: Aug 19, 2005; A Black Mark For Retarded Posting

Lovechop posted:

Exactly. And if you pay an extra 20p for their smokey BBQ sauce (usually only available if you're splashing out on the fancypants Chicken Selects) even the poorest quality intestines will taste delicious. I remember when there was that rumour going around about there being cow's eyes blended up in the milkshakes. What a great secret ingredient that would be.

McDonald's don't use "face meats", which is lips, cheeks etc. The fact that they made that explicit though does make you wonder what they do use that they haven't come out and clarified.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 17:45

Lovechop: Feb 1, 2005; cheers mate

No face meats at all? Oh well, there's always Lidl.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 17:55

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Cheek's good eating, so they're missing out there.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:01

Paperhouse: Dec 31, 2008; I think
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Hoops posted:

McDonald's don't use "face meats", which is lips, cheeks etc. The fact that they made that explicit though does make you wonder what they do use that they haven't come out and clarified.

there's a video where Jamie Oliver is showing kids what goes into chicken nuggets, he basically chops a chicken carcass into smaller chunks then blends it into a paste, adds blended chicken skin and a load of flavouring and stabilisers and what have you and that's about it :allears:

may not be the exact McDonald's process mind you

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:05

Aphex-: Jan 29, 2006; Dinosaur Gum

And then the kids proceed to not give a gently caress because who cares it tastes good!

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:08

Prism Mirror Lens: Oct 9, 2012; ~*"The most intelligent and meaning-rich film he could think of was Shaun of the Dead, I don't think either brain is going to absorb anything you post."*~

McDragon posted:

The advert that really gets to me at the moment is that one for Centreparcs I think? It's along the lines of "if you don't take your children to Centreparcs you don't love them enough". It's just super-annoying.

No way, the worst one is definitely "If you're prone to feelings of intense jealousy, look away now :smuggo:

" for cruises. Or possibly the one I half-saw when fast-forwarding, where a ~FREEDOM EAGLE~ flies out and land on an army man's shoulder while he's sitting at a monitor directing a missile or whatever.

Really enjoyed Carpet Remnant World the other night, despite hearing some not great things about it. Then again he just has a very soothing voice, he could talk about accountancy for two hours and I'd still be perfectly happy

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:11

The Big Taff Man: Nov 22, 2005; Official Manchester United Posting Partner 2015/16; Fan of Britches

Face Meats?

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:20

Sad King Billy: Jan 27, 2006; Thats three of ours innit...to one of yours. You know mate I really think we ought to even up the average!

Hoops posted:

McDonald's don't use "face meats", which is lips, cheeks etc. The fact that they made that explicit though does make you wonder what they do use that they haven't come out and clarified.

I was told that meal worms went into the burgers, good source of protein.
Not even the lettuce was free of contamination, a customer found a newt in their Big Mac once.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:29

Lovechop: Feb 1, 2005; cheers mate

Sad King Billy posted:

I was told that meal worms went into the burgers, good source of protein.
Not even the lettuce was free of contamination, a customer found a newt in their Big Mac once.

Jesus, a free newt? Happy Meal toys were poo poo when I was a kid, but if I knew I could get small animals I'd have been all for them.

There's a really poncy restaurant down the road from me that once gave me a massive caterpillar (still alive) in my salad. Eating there costs about 10x the price of an extra value meal, and the caterpillar wasn't even that good. gently caress 'em.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 18:46

Run Dodo Run: Oct 7, 2006

Taff posted:

Face Meats?

I was genuinely quite gutted when I found out that wasn't natural.

Then again, at that age I wanted to grow up to be a truck so I guess I was just that kind of child.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 20:07

Irisi: Feb 18, 2009

Flatscan posted:

First episode of the new series of Being Human was pretty cool. It was definitely Annie dragging things down last series, glad she's gone.

"My unfinished business must be something else then. Just hope it doesn't involve blowing up any babies... too soon?"
"A little bit."

The three have a nice dynamic together; I like how the new ghostie girl is a lot more bolshy than Annie (she was rather insipid). Also, I adore Michael Socha, bless his little heart and his enormous eyebrows.

Plus, Phil Davis as...something very horrible is jolly good. He has such a marvellous line in playing nasty, nasty people.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 20:13

LampkinsMateSteve: Jan 1, 2005; I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?

Paperhouse posted:

there's a video where Jamie Oliver is showing kids what goes into chicken nuggets, he basically chops a chicken carcass into smaller chunks then blends it into a paste, adds blended chicken skin and a load of flavouring and stabilisers and what have you and that's about it

may not be the exact McDonald's process mind you

# ? Feb 4, 2013 20:21

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".

Run Dodo Run posted:

I was genuinely quite gutted when I found out that wasn't natural.

Then again, at that age I wanted to grow up to be a truck so I guess I was just that kind of child.

It's never too late to fulfil your dreams.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 20:32

sex pervert: Mar 22, 2011

Every winter I seem to get sucked into watching British soaps. Such complete and utter dross and shite acting. But so addictive. It's like putting your brain to bed with a hot water bottle. It was a bit unsettling to watch Richard Madeley necking with ET on Corrie for a while though.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 21:44

Paperhouse: Dec 31, 2008; I think
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:

Is it related to this?

http://gizmodo.com/5654066/chicken-nuggets-are-made-from-this-pink-chicken-goop

I'd imagine so, what he has at the end of the video looks similar to that. You can watch the bit I'm talking about here

I'd still eat chicken nuggets though to be honest. In my mind this isn't that much worse than tripe or offal or whatever and it's certainly more appealing looking when presented on a plate

# ? Feb 4, 2013 22:11

Ponce de Le0n: Jul 6, 2008; Father jailed for beating 3 kids after they wouldn't say who farted in his car

Ha so a crazy lady with a hunch about Richard the third just basically shat over all the series of time team. Found a roman nail? yeah well done i guess, we got a lost monarch on our first try, literally the first hole dug. Tony robinson must be gutted.

# ? Feb 4, 2013 23:50

Irisi: Feb 18, 2009

Leon with a Zero posted:

Ha so a crazy lady with a hunch about Richard the third just basically shat over all the series of time team. Found a roman nail? yeah well done i guess, we got a lost monarch on our first try, literally the first hole dug. Tony robinson must be gutted.

I think it's marvellous that the team found the remains Richard III, and amazing that they were able to DNA match him to a cheerful and unassuming-looking bloke from Canada (If that were me I'd be demanding business cards stating Irisi: Last of the Plantagenets and rocking up to Buckingham Palace on a black horse demanding my birthright)

But that lady who raised the money sure was special, wasn't she? She kept wandering off in tears and hyperventilating over the fact he might have had a twisted back, or he wasn't handsome enough...it was a bit odd. For some reason she reminded me of the Harry Potter fangirls who obsess over Snape and think they're married to him on the astral plane. Very odd.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 00:10

Run Dodo Run: Oct 7, 2006

Metrication posted:

It's never too late to fulfil your dreams.

You could call it trans-machine, which sounds like if Kraftwerk got a tumblr account.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 00:20

Mr Beens: Dec 2, 2006

MrHat posted:

But then DVR is then even easier than On Demand or live watching.
Tell the Sky+ or Tivio that you always want to watch Spooks and then you'll be able to catch up no matter if you forget to watch it for a a month or longer.

Some of the newer freeview boxes have DVR functionality that can handle things like season passes so even if you don't have Sky or Virgin you can still do that.

There are loads of freeview boxes with PVR functionality. Pretty much any new one will have series link.
http://www.freeview.co.uk/Freeview-Plus/Freeview-Plus-Products/Freeview-HD

# ? Feb 5, 2013 00:20

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

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Really enjoyed Carpet Remnant World the other night, despite hearing some not great things about it. Then again he just has a very soothing voice, he could talk about accountancy for two hours and I'd still be perfectly happy

I enjoyed it a lot too. Does anybody know who was performing the version of In A Sentimental Mood he read out his hate mail to?

# ? Feb 5, 2013 00:28

Dr Scoofles: Dec 6, 2004

Irisi posted:

I think it's marvellous that the team found the remains Richard III, and amazing that they were able to DNA match him to a cheerful and unassuming-looking bloke from Canada (If that were me I'd be demanding business cards stating Irisi: Last of the Plantagenets and rocking up to Buckingham Palace on a black horse demanding my birthright)

But that lady who raised the money sure was special, wasn't she? She kept wandering off in tears and hyperventilating over the fact he might have had a twisted back, or he wasn't handsome enough...it was a bit odd. For some reason she reminded me of the Harry Potter fangirls who obsess over Snape and think they're married to him on the astral plane. Very odd.

Yeah, I really got the feeling she was in love with some abstract idea of who Richard III was and as a result had these bizarre breakdowns every time her weird illusion was challenged. She also made everybody she met extremely uncomfortable, for example trying to rope the bone specialist into draping royal colours on an anonymous box of bones or her flat out denial that Richard could have been a tyrant because he had a nice face. Very odd indeed.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 10:44

Szmitten: Apr 26, 2008

I didn't watch, but it appears the lady is part of the Richard III Society who's sole purpose is to improve the public perception of Richard III.

Keeps some people off the streets I guess?

# ? Feb 5, 2013 12:44

Ponce de Le0n: Jul 6, 2008; Father jailed for beating 3 kids after they wouldn't say who farted in his car

Dr Scoofles posted:

Yeah, I really got the feeling she was in love with some abstract idea of who Richard III was and as a result had these bizarre breakdowns every time her weird illusion was challenged. She also made everybody she met extremely uncomfortable, for example trying to rope the bone specialist into draping royal colours on an anonymous box of bones or her flat out denial that Richard could have been a tyrant because he had a nice face. Very odd indeed.

I just assumed she reacted like any obsessive internet fandom would that's a bit too into what they like, finding out that the irrelevant ridiculous thing they so desperately defended might be a sham. Yeah that bit where she was like "we'll get the bone expert to do it!!" and the osteologist turned round and basically said "you don't know who that is... why are you wanting to cover them in flags!?" it was so bizarre and then she did it anyway?

# ? Feb 5, 2013 14:14

Cerv: Sep 14, 2004; This is a silly post with little news value.

quote:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bbc-themed-outlets-the-star-attraction-in-1bn-development-of-white-city-tv-site-8481420.html

BBC Television Centre at White City is to be turned into a �1 billion themed �village� celebrating the programmes that were made there.

Developers plan to draw on the history of the Grade II listed building and use the BBC�s huge store of archive material to create an interactive �visitor experience�.

They are in talks with the corporation about themed outlets that it hopes will help make this part of Shepherd�s Bush a major tourist draw for the first time since it was used for exhibitions 100 years ago that gave it the name White City. Early ideas include the Hairy Bikers Restaurant and the Great Bake-Off Bakery .

The 53-year-old complex, which has produced shows including Blue Peter, Dr Who and Strictly Come Dancing, will also become home to thousands of residents and dozens of businesses from the creative industries under a masterplan revealed today.

The sprawling Shepherd�s Bush site was sold by the BBC to developers Stanhope and its partners � Japanese property giant Mitsui Fudosan and Canadian fund manager Alberta Investment Management Corporation � for �200 million last July.

The White City site is home to the familiar circular building known as the �doughnut� and used as a backdrop to countless broadcasts as well as a warren of studios, productions facilities, offices and the BBC canteen.

Outline details of the scheme, which will be known as Television Centre, are on display today at an exhibition in the main reception.

The redevelopment plan � by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris � will open up the centre to the public for the first time after six decades as a heavily protected secure site. The forecourt in front of the inner ring, which, at over an acre is the size of Leicester Square, will become �a real buzzy space� lined by caf�s and restaurants, an arts cinema and the entrance to the BBC visitor experience.

The inner ring itself will be turned into a 50-room boutique hotel with serviced apartments.

Most of the buildings around the listed central �doughnut� including the staff car park and drama block and the staff canteen, will be demolished to make way for 1,000 new flats and townhouses.

The 250,000 sq ft office block, provisionally known as �Television Factory� will seek media companies as tenants. The developers plan to complete the project by 2020.

The BBC are due to hand over the complex in Wood Lane in April 2015 but will continue to have presence there. Around 1,400 staff at BBC Worldwide will occupy a building known as Stage 6 opposite White City Tube station bringing the corporation�s commercial arm under one roof.

The BBC will also lease Studios 1,2 and 3, where some of its flagship programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Mock The Week will continue to be made.

David Camp, chief executive of Stanhope, said: �We will be introducing a vibrant and exciting mix of new retail, leisure, office and residential uses while keeping and enhancing the original BBC buildings and retaining key operational BBC studio and office facilities on site.�

How will this be different from any other bakery? Will anyone care in 5 years time?
And just how bloody expensive will a flat opposite Westfield be?

# ? Feb 5, 2013 14:16

Lovely Joe Stalin: Jun 12, 2007; Our Lovely Wang

I love the idea that the BBC have sold studios so that they can lease them because they still need them.

I once ate about three plates of sausage and chips while spending one dreary afternoon in the BBC canteen waiting to be an invited member of a studio audience. All in all it was a miserable experience, not least because the recording happened during the climax (for the England team) of Euro '96.

The food was nice though.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 14:29

Jonnty: Aug 2, 2007; The enemy has become a flaming star!

Rapey Joe Stalin posted:

I love the idea that the BBC have sold studios so that they can lease them because they still need them.

It's not that uncommon - think of it as a loan with the studios as collateral. But it does seem to lack a bit of foresight.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 14:42

eleven extra elephants: Feb 16, 2007; Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!

Was watching the second episode of that Mad Fat Diary thing last night, did anybody else notice the impossibly small person? :psyduck:

# ? Feb 5, 2013 18:50

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Couple of bits of tech news:

After six months, Youview takeup is around 230,000. 120k via Talktalk, 90k via BT and 10-20k retail.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/feb/05/youview-230000-subscribers-july-launch

Post-Flash 4oD is now available in the appstore for Android.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 20:26

Revenant Threshold: Jan 1, 2008

Anyone been watching Dancing on the Edge? The setup is such that i've spent the two episodes so far half enjoying the music and half waiting for the other shoe to drop. Enjoyable so far, though.

# ? Feb 5, 2013 23:32