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My old man never saw REMAIN INDOORS or 'are we the baddies' until last week.
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Comrade Fakename posted:For people who would like to see a not-racist Morrissey, and are willing to accept him having let himself go in exchange, Stewart Lee’s most recent stand-up is now on iPlayer. Featuring Alan Moore!
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Taear posted:Even though I must have watched it 26 years ago now Boris getting puddled is still a really vivid memory. And the quagmire. The puddles and Charn gave me nightmares. I think Doris got puddled first? Poor Doris. And that caterpillar thing. There was another far less horrifying show about a kestrel or eagle or similar. Sky Hunter I think? It was also far less interesting
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I thought Sky breaking their sport channels into dedicated ones would be good, but it turns out that you can pick and choose 3 from 7 channels for £18 a month or all 7 for £25 a month, so why bother? I know this screams first world problems, but any TV provider which allows me to fully customise a bundle of channels I want to watch (basically the free to air channels and their HD equivalents, all of the documentary/history channels and all of the sports channels) which I can switch on and off on month to month basis I will give up my non-existent children in sacrifice Now TV is pretty good for watching stuff without a ridiculous contract. You can buy day or week passes for the sport, do stuff like get the movie channels for a month then drop them when you’re bored, and you can stream about 10 premium channels so you don’t pay for a load of useless sky poo poo. If you also got a decent freeview box that’d probably tick most of your boxes?
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SEX BURRITO posted:Now TV is pretty good for watching stuff without a ridiculous contract. You can buy day or week passes for the sport, do stuff like get the movie channels for a month then drop them when you’re bored, and you can stream about 10 premium channels so you don’t pay for a load of useless sky poo poo. If you also got a decent freeview box that’d probably tick most of your boxes? It's mad to me that anyone has sky. It's especially mad that anyone has sky when now tv is available. I got a deal, less than £100 for all the regular tv and all the movies for an entire year.
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I guess they survive on the busy/lazy/old people who can't be bothered to get up a go. A shame.
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Jul 30, 2018 13:45
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I thought Sky breaking their sport channels into dedicated ones would be good, but it turns out that you can pick and choose 3 from 7 channels for £18 a month or all 7 for £25 a month, so why bother? I know this screams first world problems, but any TV provider which allows me to fully customise a bundle of channels I want to watch (basically the free to air channels and their HD equivalents, all of the documentary/history channels and all of the sports channels) which I can switch on and off on month to month basis I will give up my non-existent children in sacrifice That's not right. It's £18 for one channel. It's £28 for all of them or £20 if you're willing to go into a contract for it. Padje posted:It's mad to me that anyone has sky. It's especially mad that anyone has sky when now tv is available. I got a deal, less than £100 for all the regular tv and all the movies for an entire year. People are colossally stupid and using NowTV is going to be really really hard for a lot of people. Maybe even the majority. I'm sure this is going to change as time goes on but people born in 1970 or earlier are still mega unfamiliar with how their TV works and how internet works and etc. There's a significant amount of people who don't even know how to change the input/source on their TV. I'd definitely recommend getting Now TV for anyone who can actually work their TV and yea, they're Sky. Although they're Sky in the same way as like KFC is Pizza Hut if you get what I mean. Prime only has 10...or 12? matches. Not very many. Not enough to really make it worth it unless you absolutely love a particular team and don't want to go to the pub to watch that specific match, I guess. BT Sport so far feels like a bit of a failure since they're losing UFC and a bunch of their premier matches. I guess if you love MOTOGP they're still worth it. (I work for Sky in case you didn't know)
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Jul 30, 2018 19:51
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my parents got NTL (as it then was) back when they dug the first cables. 30 odd years of inertia has finally been broken & they've cancelled. Virgin's subscriber numbers have got to make some interesting reading this month
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Cerv posted:my parents got NTL (as it then was) back when they dug the first cables. 30 odd years of inertia has finally been broken & they've cancelled. It's interesting to see the affect that losing UKTV will have. Dave is one of the most watched channels on there but it still doesn't pull huge numbers - I do wonder how many people will be truly bothered?
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Jul 30, 2018 20:23
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To watch 3pm matches, all I had to do was move 5,000 miles away. It’s funny how premier league coverage in the US is better than the UK, and it’s only a fairly basic cable channel too.
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EL BROMANCE posted:To watch 3pm matches, all I had to do was move 5,000 miles away. It’s funny how premier league coverage in the US is better than the UK, and it’s only a fairly basic cable channel too. Well it's not that surprising. It's a huge market here so it costs loads of money whereas most people in the US don't give a poo poo so it's cheap and easy to get. The same applies here to NFL, or it did until pretty recently.
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Yeah I still use gamepass to watch the Eagles as they’re out of market here so getting the games isn’t guaranteed. And obviously that’s why coverage is cheaper, but still amusing to be able to watch a ton of games that nobody back home has (official) access to due to blackout rules.
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Jul 30, 2018 20:44
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Sky wrote to me to say they were extending all my offers this month, I’m trying to figure if that had anything to do with everything. Or if it’s because I was coming to the end of some of them and had already called a few months back to see about cancelling earlier.
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Red Oktober posted:Sky wrote to me to say they were extending all my offers this month, I’m trying to figure if that had anything to do with everything. Or if it’s because I was coming to the end of some of them and had already called a few months back to see about cancelling earlier. It's to reduce the volume of people calling in.
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Jul 30, 2018 20:48
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Virgin should be relieved they didn't lose ITV2 during Love Island season.
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Taear posted:It's to reduce the volume of people calling in. To concentrate on signing up new customers? That would make sense.
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Jul 31, 2018 00:16
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So I have no understanding of this recent Virgin controversy. I use Virgin for the Fibre and rarely watch broadcast tv. What is UKTV and what have I lost?
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ineptmule posted:So I have no understanding of this recent Virgin controversy. I use Virgin for the Fibre and rarely watch broadcast tv. What is UKTV and what have I lost? 24-7 Top Gear repeats.
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Jul 31, 2018 09:33
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ineptmule posted:So I have no understanding of this recent Virgin controversy. I use Virgin for the Fibre and rarely watch broadcast tv. What is UKTV and what have I lost? A collection of about 9 (?) TV channels covering various different genres. Virgin has replaced them with an absolute shower of shite.
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Jul 31, 2018 10:19
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Guy Martin in Chernobyl was really interesting. It’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit, and there were some amazing details about how it’s going back to nature. Plus stray dogs and Ukrainian babushkas. What’s not to like?
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Jul 31, 2018 11:33
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Taear posted:The same applies here to NFL, or it did until pretty recently. Yeah, depending on random whims, I can catch LSU in NCAA college football games on one of the high up BT/ESPNchannels live. It’s pretty awesome.
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Jul 31, 2018 12:25
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Dead Goon posted:A collection of about 9 (?) TV channels covering various different genres. Virgin has replaced them with an absolute shower of shite. Shower of shite sounds bad but I probably never watched the ones that have gone. I’m happy with my fibre so I’ll not waste my time trying to cancel anything.
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Jul 31, 2018 16:57
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They did have Taskmaster on them though which is one of the better things on telly in recent years. Mind you I wouldn't sign up for Virgin TV anyway out of sourness for their lovely broadband practices.
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Angrymog posted:Hooray, Evans is on holiday and R2 is bearable At least Sara Cox actually sounds like she genuinely enjoys what she does, as well as always seemingly one button push away from taking the entire station offline
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ineptmule posted:Shower of shite sounds bad but I probably never watched the ones that have gone. I’m happy with my fibre so I’ll not waste my time trying to cancel anything. Fibre speeds have been great from them since I signed up so can't complain, I did used to watch a few of the channels they have pulled so feeling slightly salty. If they'd just replaced like for like...
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I'm just mad because they absolutely oversubscribed the poo poo out of their internet service in Southampton a few years ago and the internet literally did not work for anyone in the city with them for a year or more. And they wouldn't let anyone cancel their loving contracts either. e: gently caress them and their tv service too
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Jul 31, 2018 20:19
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Ah that sucks, I had them for years and always found their service to be pretty reliable and my speeds were excellent.
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Jul 31, 2018 20:45
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I have Virgin cable internet and Sky telly.
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Jul 31, 2018 21:53
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They were only having a laugh. Uncle Nugget lives on.
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Red Oktober posted:To concentrate on signing up new customers? That would make sense. What, no. Because it costs the company money if you ring. If they can avoid that (regardless of what you want) then all the better. If you're calling just because you have a 25% discount and want that again then why not just let you have it?
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Barry Chuckle has died 
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Matinee posted:Barry Chuckle has died Oh dear oh dear
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Bogmonster posted:Oh dear oh dear
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To me ...
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Aug 5, 2018 09:14
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It's fine. There are still 3 of them left.
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Was he the EDL one or was that the other one?
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Nah, he was the EDL one. That was a milkshake duck moment for me.
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At least he got a breaking news alert on BBC. That’s a pretty big honour.
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