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Snackmasters is a fun show and surprisingly engaging. The new season started broadcast last week but the whole thing is on All 4 (Only 4 episodes, sadly) I like how egotistical and unhinged the chefs are, and how they get humbled when they look down on the snacks they are recreating.
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Apr 12, 2021 14:47
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Yeah, didn't have to instantly turn off 6Music when the alarm came on today! On a rewatch... quote:LEE: Ah, is that the bag of salt. quote:ALEX: Think you've completed the task? The foreshadowing!
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Heavy_D posted:Yeah, didn't have to instantly turn off 6Music when the alarm came on today! Alex Horne is incredibly good at what he does tbh Been a massive fan of his since the days of We Need Answers and it's great he's finally made it properly big
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Apr 12, 2021 20:56
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Good job, Phil. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1381655363385167879
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Apr 12, 2021 21:34
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The only thing worse than being complained about is not being complained about.
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Apr 12, 2021 22:26
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Paladinus posted:The only thing worse than being complained about is not being complained about. I think there’s a remarkably sweat free prince who’d disagree with you
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Total Meatlove posted:I think there’s a remarkably sweat free prince who’d disagree with you The only thing worse than sweating due to paedophilia allegations is not sweating due to paedophilia allegations.
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Apr 13, 2021 00:23
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sebzilla posted:Alex Horne is incredibly good at what he does tbh He really is excellent. For anyone who's a fan who hasn't watched it yet - him, Tim Key and Mark Watson have a good little show on youtube called No More Jockeys that they started over lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIulxG7_k8
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DaWolfey posted:Snackmasters is a fun show and surprisingly engaging. The new season started broadcast last week but the whole thing is on All 4 (Only 4 episodes, sadly) The wife and I binged this over a few nights. Love this show so much.
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Apr 13, 2021 10:17
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I'm watching it live right now, and it's funny to watch chefs being yelled at for using butter in their biscuits and using chocolate instead of Chok Blok, and then the ad break is extremely fancy food sponsored by Waitrose.
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Apr 13, 2021 21:50
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Mitchell and Webb did an interview for Bullseye with Jesse Thorn (a US podcast that airs on public radio in many stations). Towards the end, about 40 minutes in, Thorn brings up Webb's tweets about Mermaids back in 2018 and boy it gets awkward. https://maximumfun.org/episodes/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/david-mitchell-and-robert-webb/
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Apr 13, 2021 23:13
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Mermaids, the trans charity, not mermaids, the mythological creature.
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Apr 13, 2021 23:48
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Mr. Squishy posted:Mermaids, the trans charity, not mermaids, the mythological creature. <deletes cross-post to the cryptid thread>
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Apr 13, 2021 23:55
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Yeah, the charity. Jesse Thorn has two gender-non-conforming kids, one of whom is trans, so it gets pretty tense when Thorn brings it up and Webb clearly doesn't want to talk about it.
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Apr 14, 2021 00:28
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Teddybear posted:Mitchell and Webb did an interview for Bullseye with Jesse Thorn (a US podcast that airs on public radio in many stations). Towards the end, about 40 minutes in, Thorn brings up Webb's tweets about Mermaids back in 2018 and boy it gets awkward. Jesus i'm struggling to get through this with how slow the guy talks. Its like he has to explain the concept of an interview to the audience as he goes along.
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Teddybear posted:Towards the end, about 40 minutes in, Thorn brings up Webb's tweets about Mermaids back in 2018 and boy it gets awkward.
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Apr 14, 2021 10:54
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Some Strange Flea posted:Ah gently caress, is Webb a Linehan too? He’s an insufferable centrist from what I’ve seen on Twitter
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Some Strange Flea posted:Ah gently caress, is Webb a Linehan too? He's flirted with Lineham-ness on many occasions, though he's not obsessed or outspoken. He wrote a book about how he questioned his gender as a child but IIRC he concluded that it was just a phase and suggested that's probably the case for a lot of people.
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Apr 14, 2021 11:31
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He’s a Linehan-lite (I believe at one point he publicly admitted to being a “GC Feminist”/TERF) but he has understood that he shouldn’t talk about it any more. In retrospect, doing an interview with Jesse considering Jesse’s family was probably a bad idea for them, but its good that he was called out.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:22
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The recording is worse than I expected. He basically pulls the "you can't say anything these days" card to get out of the situation. And although it had nothing to do with him it's a shame David didn't have a single word to say on the matter.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:57
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Wow he really just shuts it down as fast as possible and seems very pissed off it was brought up. Transphobic little coward.
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gently caress yeah https://twitter.com/bbcpress/status/1382332770853261325?s=20
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stev posted:The recording is worse than I expected. He basically pulls the "you can't say anything these days" card to get out of the situation. And although it had nothing to do with him it's a shame David didn't have a single word to say on the matter. I really wish more people would push back on stuff like this in interviews. "You can't say anything these days" is categorically untrue. There are people who have made more money then Webb ever will by saying the things you can't say these days. You can say what you want, but if being questioned about it makes you that tetchy then maybe think about why that is.
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Apr 14, 2021 16:00
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Also, as this tweet highlights, Webb or his PR people refused to send their side of the audio over and then suggested re-recording the interview if they would drop the Trans section. https://twitter.com/JesseThorn/status/1382009511477530625?s=19
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Apr 14, 2021 16:21
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Robert Webb is a terf? Shocker!! (I'm sure it was this thread in which I was laughed at bc I said he was going Linehan, hang on let me check)
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eating only apples posted:Webb's going the Linehan way nowadays so not sure I'll bother. Told you e: tbf, wasn't laughed at, some oval office rolled their eyes and look where we are now eating only apples fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Apr 15, 2021 02:01
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The weird thing is that post was from 2019, and he’d already made his views known the year prior so that’s an odd reaction for someone to give.
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Apr 15, 2021 03:19
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Years ago Russell Brand said he probably wouldn't vote for any party (this was pre-Corbyn) and Robert Webb wrote a deeply patronising response where he demanded Brand "read some loving Orwell". So hes been a bog standard upper middle class liberal for a while now.
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Apr 15, 2021 07:09
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Gorn Myson posted:Years ago Russell Brand said he probably wouldn't vote for any party (this was pre-Corbyn) and Robert Webb wrote a deeply patronising response where he demanded Brand "read some loving Orwell". I wouldn't support either Brand or Webb in that spat, to be honest.
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Apr 15, 2021 11:29
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Gorn Myson posted:Years ago Russell Brand said he probably wouldn't vote for any party (this was pre-Corbyn) and Robert Webb wrote a deeply patronising response where he demanded Brand "read some loving Orwell". I wonder how he voted in 2017 and 2019.
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Apr 15, 2021 11:35
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It was by far the best episode of Taskmaster in this series yet. Every task had some memorable performances, for one reason or another. Even the stage task, which I usually find less entertaining. But the facial geometry task was definitely the highlight. Had me laughing maniacally non-stop for five whole minutes.
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Apr 15, 2021 23:12
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Paladinus posted:It was by far the best episode of Taskmaster in this series yet. Every task had some memorable performances, for one reason or another. Even the stage task, which I usually find less entertaining. But the facial geometry task was definitely the highlight. Had me laughing maniacally non-stop for five whole minutes. I thought the bee uniform was underwhelming. The rest was solid, though.
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sebzilla posted:I thought the bee uniform was underwhelming. The rest was solid, though. I found Beevel Knievel very amusing.
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Apr 15, 2021 23:46
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Paladinus posted:Even the stage task, which I usually find less entertaining. Glad it's not just me who isn't always super enthusiastic about the live task (but appreciate it exists to help keep the show competitive on the night).
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Paladinus posted:I found Beevel Knievel very amusing. I wish Mike's had gotten a bit more recognition, because as underwhelming as the uniform itself was, the fact he made accessories to bring it to life was fun and made it stand out more than the Pope outfit to me. That aside, this week's prize task was probably the best in a while and had some actually cool things that someone could conceivably like as prizes between the slide whistle, the home made tattoo gun, the bass guitar and the drill. I think the contestants have lost sight of the fact they're supposed to be prizes a lot over the last few seasons, and just bring in any old tat that technically fulfills the guideline. I also wish we'd been able to see Jamali's tattoo, because that's pretty hardcore if it's true. EL BROMANCE posted:Glad it's not just me who isn't always super enthusiastic about the live task (but appreciate it exists to help keep the show competitive on the night). I think the best ones are the simple ones with some time for the various contestants to think. Sausage/finger, trying to roll something without rolling it off the stage etc. were all really fun. A lot of the tasks are really manic, and while some of them work, especially if the contestants start trying to gently caress with each other, it often means that you're just watching someone panic; which isn't as entertaining as letting tension build as someone readies themselves to do a thing. The tension between the two people competing in this one was palpable, and there's a shot of Lee just after he tells Mike he has to win this one in the final face off where he seems like he's drawing his breath. It's such a stupid game, but everyone really seemed like they were into it.
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Stare-Out posted:gently caress yeah I loved this. I watched it again recently and I was surprised by how many things I missed on the first watch. It's full of little references to earlier Alan stuff crispix fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 01:05
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Boop boop Uniform pope
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crispix posted:I loved this. I watched it again recently and I was surprised by how many things I missed on the first watch. It's full of little references to earlier Alan stuff I thought too that it was way better on a rewatch. I think Alan's hosed up knees are my favorite new running gag.
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Gorn Myson posted:Years ago Russell Brand said he probably wouldn't vote for any party (this was pre-Corbyn) and Robert Webb wrote a deeply patronising response where he demanded Brand "read some loving Orwell". Somehow when people say things like this they never mean 'The road to Wigan pier' or 'Homage to Catalonia'.
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