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It's kind of hilarious that ad uses a coalition being unable to live up to campaign promises as a downside for AV, given what actually happened.
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Whorelord posted:ukmt is a cancer lovely person made you laugh a few years back. Better forgive him for being a lovely person. I suppose, in your eyes, if Farrage gave us a few chuckles back in the 80's he'd be good for PM right?  Lets have Borris the legend, Mayor of London, rule britain from an iron throne because he was funny those couple of times on HIGNFY. Clarkson? He's a lads lad ain't he, look at him, being a bit of a cheeky fucker. He's cracking funny on TV isn't he? He can be the Foreign secretary because he knows how to have a bit of banter about those foreigns doesn't he. Kin fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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So, TV, eh? I'm really disappointed with this season of In The Flesh. It feels like it's more in love with its own mythology than the human drama. Jem's PTSD, the Colum-zom-bine, Amy's denial of her neurodegeneration, it was smashing stuff. Then they went overboard with the zombie-cults and MAGIC AMY. And somewhere between three and four separate plots got resolved when the baying mob suddenly realised "steady on, maybe we've gone a bit far". The Dad got completely ruined as a character this year. I get that he's supposed to be tan unthinking-daily-mail-little-bit-racist kind of guy, but he's comically oblivious of the world around him. His realisation of what he was actually arguing for was neat, but too little and too late. And not a patch on his gut-wrenching confession from last season. They had something very special for a while, but now they've just cocked it.
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They did exactly the same thing with Being Human, the first series was a drama about people who happened to be supernatural. Then it escalated quickly into fantasy action adventure stuff where like you say they had to keep building on the mythology to generate bigger baddies to encounter. I did still really like this season of In The Flesh, and if they make more I'm going to give it a go but I suspect the magic may have died somewhere just before the end of series two.
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Kin posted:lovely person made you laugh a few years back. Better forgive him for being a lovely person. Rik Mayall doesn't compare like that and you bloody know it.
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Noone here is suggesting he be elected to a position of authority because he's funny, they are comiserating the fact that he's dead. He was involved in good comedy and he once supported a misinformed canvassing campaign. Lets sweep this damning controversy under the rug and forgo the modern dead-celebrity-moral-re-evaluation game that I'm sure plenty of others are also sick of these days.
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Did anyone see that doc about British whaling last night? loving amazing, from the in person interviews of actual whalers (we only stopped doing it at an industrial scale in the 60s) to the presenter exploring the ghost-town whaling stations on South Georgia. Shitloads of grizzly archive footage too, definitely not for the faint hearted. I'm guessing the second part is gonna be about the decline of the industry and the moratorium
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I almost can't believe anyone ever gave that much of a gently caress about the AVR in either direction. Also gently caress you all if Rik Mayall had never done the New Statesman young me would never have realised why my parents called the Tories cunts. EDIT:If you type Rik Mayall into Google one of the images is a picture of Gregg Davies, that's pretty funny.
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Oh poo poo, if Man Down gets a 2nd series it is going to be so sad without him loving about  .
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:I almost can't believe anyone ever gave that much of a gently caress about the AVR in either direction. And the Alt vote was the best chance of getting one of the smaller parties in power, so greens, lib dems, UKIP and monster raving loonies were all pretty passionate about it.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Gregg Davies wrote a lovely obit pn Facebook about Rik, who played his dad in that c4 comedy so average I can't remember what it's called. So it's probably that. It was also a fantastically terrible campaign. Even though I disagreed with them, the No campaign was far more coherent. All I saw from the Yes campaign was a bunch of actors and famous people telling me what to vote for. Besides, the Lib-Dems hosed up negotiating for AV as STV would have been far better. I agree with the consensus on In the Flesh, especially as the family turning against Kieran seemed really contrived. It was quite good drama so I'll definitely be watching any future episodes.
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It was a hosed up campaign because it was always designed to be. They started off wanting a vote on STV or Proportional Representation, but after coalition agreement haggling compromised on a vote on AV. The people who haggled them back then used the fact that AV isn't PR or STV - and that the "yes" proponents had previously been opposed to it in favour of the others - as a key part of the "No" campaign.
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I still think that the anrti-AV ads were the worst political adverts I have ever seen:  Partially because they were laughably manipulative, partly because they were just so loving stupid. The yes campaign should have put up alternates: "he needs bulletproof vests, not an infant cardiac unit!" Edit: images not coming up on my device - here are the links: http://imgur.com/LLHYiXc http://imgur.com/l7hBOBG Stumiester fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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...I must've blocked those out of my mind. Their argument was legitimately "We've mismanaged finances to the point where we're broke, please keep the system that got us into power!"?
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The no campaign was a brightly coloured flyer with fear mongering slogans all over it. The yes campaign was a politely worded letter from Stephen Fry inside an envelope with little outward sign of its contents. Apparently people can't be arsed to open envelopes.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The no campaign was a brightly coloured flyer with fear mongering slogans all over it. People are shortsighted idiots who habitually vote against their own best interest who actually think it's too hard to pick up to three candidates and put them in preference order. I mean, if you only have two parents to mindlessly vote the same way as, how do you pick the third? If nothing else, they got the government they loving deserve. Canada looks nice anyway. Anyway, here's Rik Mayall reading George's Marvelous Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvg_y-jgpI
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Jun 12, 2014 00:44
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iplayer is doing user surveys at the moment. There are several text boxes where you can tell them exactly what you think of the new layout. get to it goons.
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BizarroAzrael posted:
That reminded me he voiced Hogs of War, now I'm doubly sad he died
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Fatkraken posted:iplayer is doing user surveys at the moment. Awesome, thanks. Myself and a few friends were eager to tell them we (with coding/backend/admin experience) much prefer this new A-Z index listing method than the old one. I appreciate the heads up on the boxes. 
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SeanBeansShako posted:Oh poo poo, if Man Down gets a 2nd series it is going to be so sad without him loving about He was amazing in that.
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Did anyone watch Going to the Dogs on channel four? It's about dog-fighting, mostly. It's got some pretty harrowing footage, but it's a really interesting film. It's remarkably balanced, and asks serious questions not just about the sport of dog-fighting but about society.
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To me, the funniest thing about Cats does Countdown is the unimpressed mein of the countdown regulars.
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It's kind of impressive when the Dictionary Corner comic gets Suzie in on a joke, rather than trying to make her cringe. Peter Serafinowicz did a great job of that when he was on. And so many 9 letter words!
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Fatkraken posted:Did anyone see that doc about British whaling last night? loving amazing, from the in person interviews of actual whalers (we only stopped doing it at an industrial scale in the 60s) to the presenter exploring the ghost-town whaling stations on South Georgia. Shitloads of grizzly archive footage too, definitely not for the faint hearted. I'm guessing the second part is gonna be about the decline of the industry and the moratorium I just finished watching this and I feel a bit ill...fascinating but depressing stuff.
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Mr. Squishy posted:To me, the funniest thing about Cats does Countdown is the unimpressed mein of the countdown regulars. Some of the things Jimmy Carr gets up to are pretty great as well. Still can't decide if the basket of kittens or misbehaving bird was the best.
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McDragon posted:Some of the things Jimmy Carr gets up to are pretty great as well. Still can't decide if the basket of kittens or misbehaving bird was the best. I liked the kittens one the best, as Jimmy was clearly genuinely unprepared for just how out of control the situation could -and did- get. I don't like the ones where he involves Rachel Riley, as it becomes immediately clear the poor lass cannot walk on the slidey, shiny central portion of the studio floor in her high heels. She's going to break her ankle on it one of these days, my heart's in my mouth watching her.
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Irisi posted:I liked the kittens one the best, as Jimmy was clearly genuinely unprepared for just how out of control the situation could -and did- get. There was the one great moment where she broke a heel or light on that section and ran away like a scared little girl when Jimmy called her out.  "Did you just break Countdown?!" "...no"
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lionlegs posted:I just finished watching this and I feel a bit ill...fascinating but depressing stuff. It was definitely grim but I found it weirdly uplifting, because that sort of industrial scale slaughter just doesn't happen any more. Of course there's still whaling, which is depressing, but it's nowhere near the unregulated free-for-all it was 50 or 100 years ago, and it's almost entirely of smaller, faster breeding species like minke, which sucks for the individual whales but is unlikely to pose a major threat to populations as a whole. Species like hump backs are back to "least concern" status from "endangered" as recently as 1988 and are close 60% of pre-whaling levels, which for such a long lived slow-breeding species is incredible.
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The Horizon episode on the missing Malaysian flight was not very good. It didn't offer anything new and basically seemed like a recap of events and an explanation of the technology/technologies used in tracking flights.
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Thanks, I won't bother then. It looked interesting too. Was hoping for more in-depth stuff about Inmarsat's work.
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There was a concerted effort to dumb down Horizon a good 10 or 15 years ago, and since then the only ones have been worth watching were actually made by PBS.
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Kraxis posted:They did exactly the same thing with Being Human, the first series was a drama about people who happened to be supernatural. Then it escalated quickly into fantasy action adventure stuff where like you say they had to keep building on the mythology to generate bigger baddies to encounter. Yeah it does suffer from Romeroism. What should be about human drama and how exceptional circumstances break down everything it means to be human quickly turns into WTF levels of absurdity. It's kind of a crying shame because it seems that most of the original premises and ideas of these kind of things is usually along the lines of 'what would really reveal what terrible and horrible things people really are' into 'welp, people really don't want to think about this - let's just roll with the superfluous stuff'
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I just saw an advert for An Honourable Woman, a BBC thing starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. Marveling at the budget that demonstrated I googled it expecting to see a HBO co-production but instead it's another thing by Hugo Blix, he of The Shadow Line. SO another 7 part spy thriller written/directed by Hugo Blix forthcoming on July 31st. I'm looking forward to it, no matter how silly his last one got.
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Ddraig posted:Yeah it does suffer from Romeroism. What should be about human drama and how exceptional circumstances break down everything it means to be human quickly turns into WTF levels of absurdity. They had so many good ideas though, especially with the cults springing up. The SJW in me loved the conversations about pds vs rotter vs undead. It looked like they were going somewhere great with Simon springing the rabids and treating them with his homebrew of sheeps brains, then they suddenly dropped it. Jem's PTSD was nicely done I thought.
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I also liked some of the clear comparisons between the HVF and paramilitaries in Norn Iron, and the anti-PDS political party that definitely wasn't UKIP. Yeah, fingers crossed the writers will take a long hard look at themselves and realise that they were starting to gently caress up what really was a very good piece of television and stop loving it up. The sheep's brain fuelled zombie rave in a barn was a stroke of genius.
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Anyone got a MediaHint alternative for Firefox for us poor bastards away from home? MediaHint has both stopped working and is asking for money, not a great combination. (Or Chrome, I suppose. I'm not that attached to Firefox.)
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I use Hola for American netflix, (in chrome), you can pretty much select any country with that one
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Yeah, Hola works perfectly. If you're willing to pay, TunnelBear is great. It's not a browser plugin, so you can use any programmes you want with it. There's a free version that allows you 500mb or something, but It's only $5 per month for unlimited and when you pay for it you get the mobile version too.
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