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baka kaba posted:the commonwealth will import all our tv shows this is how we're gonna make it! I think I have PTSD from the counter dropping noise, it flashes me back to all those horrible silences when I'm visiting my mum and no one is talking because Tipping Point is on
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Great job, Dick!
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Aug 10, 2019 21:15
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I'm not a believer in nominative determinism, but it seems like the part he was named to play.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wasn't there some grand plan for national street parties too? I hope so just to see what happens in Glasgow, their royal wedding party was grand
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Indeterminacy posted:I'm not a believer in nominative determinism, but it seems like the part he was named to play.
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Ratjaculation posted:'OH ITS A RIDER!' which noise though? CLACK CLACK CLACK or CLONK or WUWUWUW or TINK it's a nuanced show (I think the TINK is fake I bet they overdub it so it sounds like little coins in your pocket instead of big plastic things) yeah I've definitely seen the whole gameshow routine happen. I think they even show them at the weekend now, I bet there are people confused about what day it is anymore. But someone posted a thing about how the broadcast tv demographic is basically nobody but boomers anymore, so you can see it relaxing into a comforting sludge of familiar content
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Aug 10, 2019 21:26
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Dick Brainespiders
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limited posted:It's one of those names where you can't wonder why the heck they didn't get it changed, after the assumed merciless bullying at school.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:31
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Who Doesn't Want Dick? We'll Give You Braine!
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limited posted:It's one of those names where you can't wonder why the heck they didn't get it changed, after the assumed merciless bullying at school.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:40
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Dick the Brexit Boy.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:47
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To be fair I assume once you get to a certain age with a name like that you get stubborn and pissed off like 'why the gently caress should I change it, you're the ones who are arseholes'. On the other hand 'Oh look it's the Prime Minister, Dick Braine' is - well.
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Aug 10, 2019 21:49
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limited posted:It's one of those names where you can't wonder why the heck they didn't get it changed, after the assumed merciless bullying at school. he went to Eton apparently so unless his family only owned a mere two stately homes he was probably all right
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baka kaba posted:he went to Eton apparently so unless his family only owned a mere two stately homes he was probably all right You think? Being called Dick Braine in the den of sharks that is Eton sounds like a recipe for incomprehensibly savage bullying. At the very least, some blueblood sociopath is going to take it as an invitation.
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Yeah but don't they basically have ritualised bullying there anyway as a feature? An amusing name is probably the least of your troubles
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Jose posted:this is a washington post reporter https://twitter.com/woodmuffin/status/1160227164815581187
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Darth Walrus posted:You think? Being called Dick Braine in the den of sharks that is Eton sounds like a recipe for incomprehensibly savage bullying. At the very least, some blueblood sociopath is going to take it as an invitation. What qualifies as a loving stupid name kind of goes out of the window when you're having the poo poo kicked out of you by Head Boy Tarquin Monteguy de Lleyfuid of the Sussex de Lleyfuids.
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Yeah, remember that Boris is said to have lead a clique of bullies when he was in school and his real name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He had two paths to take at that point, #1 become known as "Pfeffy" and get the poo poo kicked out of him daily or #2 become Bozza and do the poo poo kicking. Only difference between a school full of rich kids and one full of poor kids in situations like that is the poor school only has a handful of psycho kids with parents on the board of governors.
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Osborne got called ‘oik’ in cabinet because his school only cost £35k a year and not £50 like Eton
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baka kaba posted:I guess Famous pedo goon Shmorky animated that, I just found out: https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11592622/this-is-fine-meme-comic quote:Well the Adult Swim thing was nice. It wasn’t just "This Is Fine," but "This is Fine" helped it. I don’t know if it paid for a year of my life, but it did help for awhile, especially around tax time. I split that with the animator, Shmorky, who animated all of the stuff.
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The new Rocko's Modern Life kicks rear end holy poo poo.
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I'm Nigel Braine! Take that Dick Farage! Now I'm Dick Farage! Take that Nigel Braine! Now I'm Nigel Farage! Take that Dick B...
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baka kaba posted:which noise though? CLACK CLACK CLACK or CLONK or WUWUWUW or TINK it's a nuanced show (I think the TINK is fake I bet they overdub it so it sounds like little coins in your pocket instead of big plastic things) The weirdest thing is that Tipping Point question setters are really lazy so if you do watch a marathon of them (I... may have done this) you'll often hear the same basic question multiple times from slightly different directions (e.g. "Which Queen gave a famous speech at Tilbury before the battle against the Spanish Armada?"/"Queen Elizabeth I gave a famous speech at Tilbury before the battle against who?"/"Where did Queen Elizabeth I give her famous speech before the battle against the Spanish Armada?" is one triplet I remember coming up). I still stand by my assertion that Tipping Point is the best game show on telly at the minute. Not the highest quality or hardest or whatever, but the most laser-focused on - and well-serving of - its target demographic. You have relatively easy questions (so viewers feel smart), a personable host (who always makes sure to read the full question to settle arguments), and a gameplay mechanic that is hardwired into the pleasure centres of older working-class people.
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Can't agree with you on the host of Tipping Point. Guy sucks all the energy out of the room. My daytime quiz of choice is The Chase - Bradley Walsh is actually a personality, even if he can get annoying at times.
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The voyager probe has recordings of Bach's violin sonatas played by Arthur Grumiaux as the pinnacle of earthly music and hell, they're not wrong.
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painted into a coroner posted:Can't agree with you on the host of Tipping Point. Guy sucks all the energy out of the room. My daytime quiz of choice is The Chase - Bradley Walsh is actually a personality, even if he can get annoying at times. Best game show host imo is Warrick Davies. poo poo game show format though.
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Coohoolin posted:The voyager probe has recordings of Bach's violin sonatas played by Arthur Grumiaux as the pinnacle of earthly music and hell, they're not wrong. Yes, but it has a bunch of other poo poo as well, including some old blues recordings and probably Carl Sagan nailing his wife (I assume) E:just in case I'm misconstrued, this is all a very positive thing Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wasn't there some grand plan for national street parties too? That’s a positive spin to put on food riots.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The weirdest thing is that Tipping Point question setters are really lazy so if you do watch a marathon of them (I... may have done this) you'll often hear the same basic question multiple times from slightly different directions (e.g. "Which Queen gave a famous speech at Tilbury before the battle against the Spanish Armada?"/"Queen Elizabeth I gave a famous speech at Tilbury before the battle against who?"/"Where did Queen Elizabeth I give her famous speech before the battle against the Spanish Armada?" is one triplet I remember coming up). Though hosted by melts, the best game show on telly is actually Pointless. At least now that Roy Walker doesn't host Catchphrase anymore. Coohoolin posted:The voyager probe has recordings of Bach's violin sonatas played by Arthur Grumiaux as the pinnacle of earthly music and hell, they're not wrong. 
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Bob Monkhouse was one of the best game show hosts. Somebody is gonna tell me he was a massive racist/nonce now though.
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WhatEvil posted:Bob Monkhouse was one of the best game show hosts. From his wiki page: "Monkhouse was a vocal supporter of the Conservative Party for some years. He later told his friend Colin Edmonds that this may have been a mistake, but that he wanted to be associated with a winner and he knew Margaret Thatcher could not lose the 1987 general election"
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Coohoolin posted:The voyager probe has recordings of Bach's violin sonatas played by Arthur Grumiaux as the pinnacle of earthly music and hell, they're not wrong. As it turns out, the auditory systems and psychology of the aliens who find it will only be capable of appreciating 80s hair metal
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Coohoolin posted:The voyager probe has recordings of Bach's violin sonatas played by Arthur Grumiaux as the pinnacle of earthly music and hell, they're not wrong. loving trust the STEMlords to pick Bach as the best composer
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Julio Cruz posted:loving Tbf fugue composition might be a little bit like musical Sudoku but JS Bach made it sound actually beautiful. And there was tons of other poo poo on the gold record
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His guitar solos were better.
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Randy "JS" Bach-man
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Julio Cruz posted:loving (actually if I was sending music to aliens it would just be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDDjBNgwX-U) (e; what are you some sort of kachaturian stan? rachmaninoff? loving mahler (lol)?)
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Ms Adequate posted:
Shostakovich, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, and yes some bits of Mahler are pretty good if you're in the mood for it
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