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Brendan Rodgers posted:I always wanted to be on Supermarket Sweep. It's back, hosted by the most irritating man on television, Rylan. Discovered that this morning as my dad was watching it and considered if my inheritance was worth it. 21st December 1919, Emma Goldman is deported from the Land of the Free for being a big scary 50 year old writer & activist. Garbage country forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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nobody interested in my coin pusher machine terminology conundrum then
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Dec 21, 2021 03:06
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Coin Pusher Machine Terminology Conundrum definitely sounds like a game show idea. Add the stresses where you like, really.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:14
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bob holness
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Dec 21, 2021 03:22
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Re gameshows, my kids are 9 and 11; the only English language gameshows they tolerate are Just a Minute and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, both on YouTube. Everything else leaves them cold.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:23
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I definitely saw a few videos of people who buy old coin pushers and fill them up and just play them for fun with their own money. One of them was really cool because if you hit a special trigger the machine builds whole rear end towers out of the coins in front of you.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:37
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Do they 1. still do the little 2p ones, and 2. let you win actual coins back off them? I've only seen the higher denominations on the odd occasion I have been in an arcade and they all give you tickets which is crap, you want a big fistful of manky coins so you can feel like a pirate king.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:53
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I really wish they’d bring back the game show Wanted. I loved that as a kid, you had three teams of two each on the run from a private investigator, and they won a fixed amount per day on the show plus a bonus each day they completed a specific task (that would make them easier to track). At the end of the week, they had to remain on the phone to the studio in a public phone booth (this bit needs tweaking obviously) for the duration of the live show and if the private investigator touches the booth before the show ends the team is eliminated. The program would be a mix of footage from the runners and the private investigators so you could see what they’d been up to. Led to some really intense episodes where the investigator either caught or missed them by mere seconds. It got cancelled because of the high cost of remote equipment like cameras and mobile phones in the late 90s, and that’s peanuts now, just hand out some go pros and you’re basically done.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:55
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What was that gameshow where they stranded people around the world and they had to blag their way back to the studio with only 50 quid. It was such a poo poo show
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Dec 21, 2021 04:11
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Reveilled posted:I really wish they’d bring back the game show Wanted. I loved that as a kid, you had three teams of two each on the run from a private investigator, and they won a fixed amount per day on the show plus a bonus each day they completed a specific task (that would make them easier to track). At the end of the week, they had to remain on the phone to the studio in a public phone booth (this bit needs tweaking obviously) for the duration of the live show and if the private investigator touches the booth before the show ends the team is eliminated. The program would be a mix of footage from the runners and the private investigators so you could see what they’d been up to. Led to some really intense episodes where the investigator either caught or missed them by mere seconds. Hunted on C4 was vaguely similar to this. They have a bunch of people get released at a random part of the UK and have to go on the run for a whole month with teams of investigators trying to track them down, even sometime using helicopters etc. Obviously they don't have access to the real tech but they simulate what the police would use to find you - I imagine the cameraman that follows each contestant around texts updates to let the producers know when they've used their bank card or switched on their mobile or passed through an area with CCTV or whatever. Then with a day or so to go they get send an extraction point and have to reach it by a certain time. I'm sure a lot of the near escapes etc are deliberately engineered for TV but it's fun either way, even if it is a bit cop-fetishy. Some of the people who sign up are generally really cool. One middle aged bloke literally hosed off up the highlands and lived near-enough off the land for weeks.
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Dec 21, 2021 05:13
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That reminds me of a porn caption I have never been able to find again 
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Dec 21, 2021 05:17
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Aye, hunted was great fun and the highlands bloke was great, as were the two young guys who “accidentally” didn’t clear their email trash with details about a campsite on the coast but actually just disappeared into the mosque community around (I think Bradford?) while the hunters were focused on some random campsite. The premise is exactly as above - anything which would trigger ANPR, CCTV, bank monitoring etc was relayed back by the camera crew. Didn’t the highlands bloke get way too into it and start playing cat and mouse with the investigators? I think he did.
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Dec 21, 2021 05:40
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Yeah, he actively started loving with them, leaving false clues as to where he was etc. I bet just a little voice in the back of his mind had to be silenced because it kept repeating "Go Full John Rambo On Them".
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Dec 21, 2021 06:08
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I guess I'll spoiler it just in case anyone wants to go back and watch it fresh but I remember him doing well until he got paranoid for some reason even though no one knew where he was, jumped on a mainline train to central London, and was obviously lifted immediately the second he stepped onto the platform
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Dec 21, 2021 06:15
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OwlFancier posted:Do they 1. still do the little 2p ones, and 2. let you win actual coins back off them? I played a 2p one in Scarborough in... 2018 I think? It was just a pile of coins and knock-off pokemon tat
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Dec 21, 2021 07:21
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feedmegin posted:Wait you have Trader Joe's in Ireland? No, sorry Jedit posted:Also the wise man knows that you should never ask a PhD about their thesis, because they will tell you. Mate, I don't even remember the title of my thesis. It's in the wardrobe somewhere
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Dec 21, 2021 07:27
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Yes they definitely still do 2p ones. Went into an arcade in Portsmouth in September with my friend who is a coin pusher junkie and didn't escape for an hour. She gave me a handful of 2p to play with so I wouldn't moan about being in there. We decided that there were a couple of layers of glued on 2ps that were never going to budge. Does anyone else remember the old quiz show Top of the Form back in the days when teams wore school uniforms, (not the more modern version of the 80s where the youth of today had degenerated into wearing civvies). That was compulsive viewing in our house. Sort of like a school version of University Challenge. 
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Dec 21, 2021 07:33
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crispix posted:nobody interested in my coin pusher machine terminology conundrum then this question is a rider
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Reveilled posted:I really wish they’d bring back the game show Wanted. I loved that as a kid, you had three teams of two each on the run from a private investigator, and they won a fixed amount per day on the show plus a bonus each day they completed a specific task (that would make them easier to track). At the end of the week, they had to remain on the phone to the studio in a public phone booth (this bit needs tweaking obviously) for the duration of the live show and if the private investigator touches the booth before the show ends the team is eliminated. The program would be a mix of footage from the runners and the private investigators so you could see what they’d been up to. Led to some really intense episodes where the investigator either caught or missed them by mere seconds.
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Dec 21, 2021 08:19
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Ugh https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1473041731583197186
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ThomasPaine posted:Hunted on C4 was vaguely similar to this. They have a bunch of people get released at a random part of the UK and have to go on the run for a whole month with teams of investigators trying to track them down, even sometime using helicopters etc. Obviously they don't have access to the real tech but they simulate what the police would use to find you - I imagine the cameraman that follows each contestant around texts updates to let the producers know when they've used their bank card or switched on their mobile or passed through an area with CCTV or whatever. Then with a day or so to go they get send an extraction point and have to reach it by a certain time. I'm sure a lot of the near escapes etc are deliberately engineered for TV but it's fun either way, even if it is a bit cop-fetishy. Some of the people who sign up are generally really cool. One middle aged bloke literally hosed off up the highlands and lived near-enough off the land for weeks. Yeah my wife really liked this show but I’ve never bothered. Sounds like they read the original Running Man novel and just decided to do that
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Dec 21, 2021 08:56
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I always feel like any quiz show where the 'winner' can walk away with nothing is pretty bullshit. They've travelled down from Leeds, at least bung them a grand. At the same time it's always a bit galling when they give celebrity contestants like £500 to give to their chosen charity if they lose. The equivalent of an infant school collecting pound coins to donate on non-uniform day. OwlFancier posted:Do they 1. still do the little 2p ones, and 2. let you win actual coins back off them? I still think arcades should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for gluing down the 2p coins (and more recently empty iPod boxes) in precarious looking positions. stev fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Dec 21, 2021 09:03
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More ugh https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1473207185974964229
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This mostly reminded me that a lot of the rhetoric around 'native' and 'invasive' species is incredibly useful to eco-fascists and while that doesn't mean that we should be importing termites from everywhere by the pallet load, there's going to be a lot more pressure for species to move soon and not all of them are going to be fluffy or economically beneficial, and wherever the rhetoric that that's automatically terrible appears about ecological change it also appears about demographic change. Of course fascists will chat a load of poo poo about everything anyway so we should also be telling them to gently caress off in general as well as being careful about environmental language. Like so.
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Dec 21, 2021 09:58
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So he's bothered about mental distress when it's from covid, but not when it's from punitive welfare cuts?
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Dec 21, 2021 10:06
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SIDS is a pretty apt set of initials for him
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Dec 21, 2021 10:11
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Nu Labour 'Get a Grip' Chat: (was that on here or somewhere else?) Anyway, I see a rotating banner under sky news quoting Annelise Dodds as using the phrase. My only experience of the phrase on media recently has been from anti-vaxxers, covid deniers etc telling me to 'get a grip' when I have an online moan about supermarkets having resumed selling uncovered cakes, rolls etc. for the Grate British Public to cough and sneeze all over. I rarely watch tv news but for some reason have had it on every morning this week (ie 2 mornings LOL)
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kecske posted:SIDS is a pretty apt set of initials for him He doesn't like it when it's sudden. You can't savour it.
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Dec 21, 2021 10:16
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crispix posted:bob holness Also the first actor to play James Bond in a South African radio adaptation
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Noxville posted:Yeah my wife really liked this show but I’ve never bothered. Sounds like they read the original Running Man novel and just decided to do that Agreed. I think the similarity to the Bachman/King story is what makes it more interesting to be honest. Some of the contestants do stupid poo poo (Stanley Johnson, LOL) and get caught and the schadenfreude is gooood. I'd buy a cheap burner, text Mrs. Dickus from it then post it to a mate with instructions to do the same. Let them chase that around the country for a bit. Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't know about gunfighting, but I was always pretty good with a bow and arrow on those daft management outward bound course things 'team building' doncha just love it. But how handy are you with a crowbar?
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Dec 21, 2021 10:21
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I always wanted to be on Supermarket Sweep. A guy I went to school with worked on Supermarket Sweep as one of the models. I haven't spoken to him since or for years before, so I can't tell you any stories - it's just one of those odd things you hear that sticks.
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I'm really struggling with the left-liberal elements that are clamouring for more lockdowns, seeing the damage that it's going to do for people's mental health, the rise in domestic violence etc etc. I know the need to curb the spread of infection immediately etc, but it feels like things are hosed either way. It should never have gotten to this point again. Though I think the government have lost their consent for locking down again (hence the likeliness that the partygate stuff will blow over – people will rather use it as an excuse to not obey lockdown rules again than rally against the Tories). People won't tolerate living like this forever. So I think next time there's a spike, with no improvement in infrastructure mitigations against more infection, they'll lose consent for vaccines and boosters, and then things will really be hosed. (Sorry for the doomposting)
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Dec 21, 2021 10:32
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I'm wondering how people are going to cope when bodies start literally piling up once our health service buckles under the strain? Surely some mitigation against this tidal wave is better than none?
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fuctifino posted:I'm wondering how people are going to cope when bodies start literally piling up once our health service buckles under the strain? Oh yeah entirely. But it feels like diminishing returns each time, and that the threshold for 'oh poo poo we need to do something' is going to be higher for every spike. I can't see that cycle ending any time soon.
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Answers Me posted:I'm really struggling with the left-liberal elements that are clamouring for more lockdowns, seeing the damage that it's going to do for people's mental health, the rise in domestic violence etc etc. I know the need to curb the spread of infection immediately etc, but it feels like things are hosed either way. Actually I think it's ok for people to doompost. I can't imagine being full of anxiety and either having no one to talk it through with or living in a tight knit group who crank each others' fears up. Posters answering may be able to allay fears, or assure you you're not alone or whatever. I know it's difficult for people who get anxious from reading doomposts, but it's also difficult for people who bottle it up so there's not really a solution that is good for all. My sister is always messaging me saying "aren't you scared?" "aren't you frightened" and so on - she and her husband and adult daughter are so 'tight' that they wind each other up good and proper. I have to psyche myself up to read her messages.
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We are still in the hell timeline, and the libertarian 'herd immunity' bullshit is still the main drive, along with culling as many 'non productive' members of society as possible. Our health secretary is an ex US banker and Ayn Rand fan. No.10 is still filled with alt-right staffers. We have the worst people possible in charge, so don't expect anything to change for the better. imo. (sorry for the doomposting too)
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You're meant to do the hard lockdown once and get the numbers low enough to allow accurate and aggressive contact tracing. While combining this with strict managed quarantine for international travellers. How is this still so hard to grasp? Countries with a fraction of the resources of the UK manage it (Yes I know the answer is because of capitalism).
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Didn't the culling work so well in the US that they're now in a workforce shortage since a significant chunk of their working age population has either died or become invalid. And they can't import labour because xenophobia so.
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Answers Me posted:(Sorry for the doomposting) Who are you calling libs? I really hate how the word lockdown is used in the UK, we literally never had a single lockdown. We had upper classes working from home, crying that the pubs are closed, while the working class deliver them takeaways. Literally noone is going to notice if you go hang out with your mates or whatever.
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Z the IVth posted:Didn't the culling work so well in the US that they're now in a workforce shortage since a significant chunk of their working age population has either died or become invalid. That, and I genuinely think a lot of people in America seem to be saying 'gently caress it, I don't want to work/live like that any more'. I've seen people talking about The Great Resignation, which sounds like a bit of a dumb reddit meme but I've seen it referenced in serious circles too. Something interesting is definitely happening over there, potentially.
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