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Rarity posted:That would be when I was at university. Students are legally required to watch the Hollyoaks omnibus while hungover on Sunday mornings. I never watched Hollyoaks at uni, but the second I got a full-time job and didn't have endless free time I watched it every day.
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Rarity posted:That would be when I was at university. Students are legally required to watch the Hollyoaks omnibus while hungover on Sunday mornings. Sixth form house at secondary school. It was on after The Simpsons and the girls refused to let us turn it off. I watched the first two seasons of Desperate Housewives for a similar reason. Girls 
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Holy crap Spooks. That was....actually not that great. But it had enough emotional currency saved up that I started feeling a bit misty eyed. Yeah this season wasn't the greatest, but I thought they wrapped it up in an ok way. I'm comfortable enough in my manliness to admit to a bit of misty eyedness at the end.  Also Matthew MacFadyen out of nowhere!
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I'm currently catching this week's episode of HIGNFY. I finally know who people are talking about. That woman is truly horrible, but she is good for providing the regulars with something to bounce off. I don't think she's really much of a follow-up for Boris, she lacks any real charm (besides looks) and isn't particularly funny. Not really "LEGEND" material.Rarity posted:Hollyoaks has always been ace. How about when Creepy Will filmed his girlfriend 24/7 and tricked Kris into believing he had AIDS? Or Toby turning into a serial killer? Or Fletch and Sasha getting addicted to heroin? Or Sam and Andy the date-rapists? Or JP and Craig's eternal gay love affair? Epic stuff. How about the one where Niall -the prodigal McQueen- returned, integrated himself into the lives of the family, then locked them all in an explosive-rigged church, which then completely collapsed, killing only one person? That was actually where I stopped watching, because it was on par with the Neighbours arc with the sabotaged plane that somehow contained the entirety of Ramsay Street, which crashed, killing only two new characters whose children could be adopted by the Susan, whose house has over time become the street's resident orphanage.
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Since this thread has turned into Hollyoaks chat (it owns) did that woman really get raped or what by that dude, Gilly?
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Since this thread has turned into Hollyoaks chat (it owns) did that woman really get raped or what by that dude, Gilly? Facebook said no. No, seriously. They got a bunch of viewers in to be "the jury" and they decided he didn't do it. This thread should do Hollyoakschat more often.
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Has anyone seen that French show they've put up on iPlayer, Women? I'm not wholly sure what to make of it. Some of the sketches are very funny, but a lot of them rely on complete non-sequiturs and random wackiness. Still worth watching mind, if only for the one sketch where a woman trolls some dude who's raging about her bumping into his car. Also, I've just started going through the series catch-up on Great British Bake-Off. How did I not watch this show before 
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Has anyone seen that French show they've put up on iPlayer, Women? I saw it on the iplayer and put it on deliberately in order to test my flatmates on their front room misogyny because I am very difficult to live with and that is the sort of thing I do. Not a peep out of either of them. They're learning. It was alright! Never seen a french comedy show before, and I think most of the humour translated well enough. It's no Smack The Pony though  GordonTheDeadFish posted:Also, I've just started going through the series catch-up on Great British Bake-Off. How did I not watch this show before Ahhhh my child, welcome to the fold.
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Oct 24, 2011 00:55
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Has anyone seen that French show they've put up on iPlayer, Women?
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eating only apples posted:
Brooker does rip into hollyoaks with some choice scenes here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0JL4FmPsc
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lorn Wayne posted:Yeah this season wasn't the greatest, but I thought they wrapped it up in an ok way. I'm comfortable enough in my manliness to admit to a bit of misty eyedness at the end. I did really enjoy the Tom cameo, I knew he wasn't dead!
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Has anyone seen that French show they've put up on iPlayer, Women? Pro-click zone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016d3t2/Women!_Episode_1/
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lorn Wayne posted:Yeah this season wasn't the greatest, but I thought they wrapped it up in an ok way. I'm comfortable enough in my manliness to admit to a bit of misty eyedness at the end. The room I was in went absolutely wild when he appeared. Except for the one Spooks novice who loudly declared "who the hell is that? What's going on?" I think Ruth's death was a bit crap though, felt like an afterthought. If they'd had it occur during the plane crisis it would have felt like a better part of the episode. Sasha's journey from hating the evil mother who betrayed him to avenging her death on the people only slightly connected to it felt a bit strange though. Was the wall at the end every dead Spook? I only recognised a few of the names, and Tariq was noticeably absent. I still miss Danny and Zoe. Season 3 was such a bloodbath, never seen anything quite like it. Strom Cuzewon fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Oct 24, 2011 |
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I'll miss Spooks. It peaked a few seasons ago but I still liked it, I hope something similar gets made. Zaf's death was the one I always felt bad about. Kidnapped in episode 1 of a season, barely got a passing mention throughout, and then at the end of the season... oh yeah he was tortured for months and slowly died, storyline over, tune in next year!
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marktheando posted:I must have missed what Brian Cos did that makes him an 'annoyingly militant' atheist. Is it just because he sometimes talks about his views publicly and sometimes makes fun of some of the more ridiculously ignorant religious people? This. I'm sick of being called this myself, especially when there are so many religious people who try and push their views onto other people. Atheists/humanists/whatever aren't pushing anything. Just telling you to open your mind and think for yourself. And if you're one of those people that think Atheism is like a religion then that is stupid. And I'll say it again: London has Boris for a mayor solely because of HIGNFY, in my opinion. Which is why it's annoying when Hislop has a go at him. He was instrumental in putting him in that position.
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Oct 24, 2011 11:54
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thehustler posted:
You can't blame Hislop for Londoners being stupid enough to vote for a joke mayor.
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thehustler posted:This. I'm sick of being called this myself, especially when there are so many religious people who try and push their views onto other people. There are militant atheists who go on about it and annoy everyone, and atheists sometimes talk about what they believe when the subject comes up, and Brian Cox is, as far as I know, in the second camp. Actually, wait a minute, don't I remember reading that he basically didn't care?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The room I was in went absolutely wild when he appeared. Except for the one Spooks novice who loudly declared "who the hell is that? What's going on?" As far as I can tell it had the name of every dead character (including Tariq). Some were a bit hard to spot because of the light background, but I actually rewound it and found everyone 
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Jonnty posted:There are militant atheists who go on about it and annoy everyone, and atheists sometimes talk about what they believe when the subject comes up, and Brian Cox is, as far as I know, in the second camp. I think that as a rule he doesn't care what people believe or don't believe, he just gets pissed off about obviously retarded pseudo-science and pro-religious discrimination at the expense of other ways of thinking. Because that poo poo is directly damaging to people.
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thehustler posted:I think that as a rule he doesn't care what people believe or don't believe, he just gets pissed off about obviously retarded pseudo-science and pro-religious discrimination at the expense of other ways of thinking. Because that poo poo is directly damaging to people. Yeah, sounds about right, he says he's "anti-maniac not anti-religion."
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Akuma posted:Someone I know is in the process of selling their house for 400k+, outside London. They're not rich (although they're obviously not poor) and it's not some mansion.
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Cerv posted:FYI: A couple earning the median full-time salary of £25k each could not get a mortgage for anything approaching £400k unless they had cash for a deposit massively over the normal level. 'In the Nineties, the average person setting aside 5 per cent of their income each week could save up for a deposit on a house after eight years. Today, it would take the same person 47 years to get a deposit.'
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Jonnty posted:Yeah, sounds about right, he says he's "anti-maniac not anti-religion." That is a perfect description, and is very similar to the thinking of most atheists. But the religious people and right-wingers want to make out like we're trying to loving destroy all religion and that we think any believers are idiots. It is very strawman-like and *immensely* frustrating, because it makes it very hard to debate anything.
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Cerv posted:FYI: A couple earning the median full-time salary of £25k each could not get a mortgage for anything approaching £400k unless they had cash for a deposit massively over the normal level. It's all skewed by the fact that those same people could have bought a house in the 90s and have it sell for so much more now. If people are starting from scratch now there is no way they could ever get anywhere near those numbers. Spooks - I think if nothing else the wall of agents really brought it home - this has been a really brutal 10 seasons - Spooks is not an easy show on the characters. HIGNFY - I'm watching it now and I think everyones being a bit unfair on Louise - she's an odious person but anyone else making the (admittedly obvious) point of the protestors buying huge amounts of expensive coffee from an international firm which almost embodies capitalism would get a laugh. Still, she is horrible.
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Red Oktober posted:HIGNFY - I'm watching it now and I think everyones being a bit unfair on Louise - she's an odious person but anyone else making the (admittedly obvious) point of the protestors buying huge amounts of expensive coffee from an international firm which almost embodies capitalism would get a laugh. Still, she is horrible. She did get a laugh the first time she made that comment, it was the way she brought it up again and again making smug comments on the protests rather than being humorous which prompted the response from the others.
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Yeah, she wasn't doing it as a joke, which would be pretty weak anyway, she was pushing it as a talking point designed to undermine legitimate protest. That is why they derided her and turned, uncharacteristically in Merton's case, on her. Just like her last appearance, she was trying to win political points instead of treating it as a comedy half hour. Not surprising given just how objectively despicable her beliefs are.
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Hello, just a reminder that Young (Junior) Apprentice starts tonight and we have a thread over here . It'll wind up being the Apprentice megathread as we'll be doing simulwatchathons afterwards. Come join in!
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Yeah, she wasn't doing it as a joke, which would be pretty weak anyway, she was pushing it as a talking point designed to undermine legitimate protest. That is why they derided her and turned, uncharacteristically in Merton's case, on her. Also her attempts to completely exonerate the various Tory scandals of the week were weak as hell.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Yeah, she wasn't doing it as a joke, which would be pretty weak anyway, she was pushing it as a talking point designed to undermine legitimate protest. That is why they derided her and turned, uncharacteristically in Merton's case, on her. Oh, I agree entirely, it seems she was there (at least in her own mind) as a representative of the Tory party, and not to contribute humour, and I thought the digging at her started immediately, not when she brought it up again. I could be wrong on that count though, and I don't feel like rewatching the episode to check.
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Red Oktober posted:Oh, I agree entirely, it seems she was there (at least in her own mind) as a representative of the Tory party, and not to contribute humour, and I thought the digging at her started immediately, not when she brought it up again. I could be wrong on that count though, and I don't feel like rewatching the episode to check. It's Have I got news for you not Question Time the aim of the show is to make topical jokes not to sell the party line.
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On the other hand Mensch was completely right that most of the coverage about Liam Fox was directed by an undercurrent of homophobia, rather than chasing down all the bad things he'd done. It's always so annoying when people like her end up being on the right side of something.
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cloudchamber posted:It's Have I got news for you not Question Time the aim of the show is to make topical jokes not to sell the party line. Oh yeah, 100%, she was completely wrong to be acting like she was.
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Adam and Joe, with Louis Theroux, before they were famous, dancing to Groove Is In the Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUqt_E0aOs
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Brown Moses posted:Adam and Joe, with Louis Theroux, before they were famous, dancing to Groove Is In the Heart  Adorkable! (Also, either Louis Theroux has not aged, or perhaps he's one of those people who looked 35 even as a teenager)
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:On the other hand Mensch was completely right that most of the coverage about Liam Fox was directed by an undercurrent of homophobia, rather than chasing down all the bad things he'd done. It's always so annoying when people like her end up being on the right side of something. I disagree. While the homosexual angle was certainly played up, I think it would have been exactly the same if Werrety had been a woman. It's a straight up and down classical Tory corruption scandal with sexual innuendo to spice it up.
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Red Oktober posted:HIGNFY - I'm watching it now and I think everyones being a bit unfair on Louise - she's an odious person but anyone else making the (admittedly obvious) point of the protestors buying huge amounts of expensive coffee from an international firm which almost embodies capitalism would get a laugh. Still, she is horrible. What the gently caress are they supposed to do, crawl their way to Latin America, pick their own beans, come back and then grind them into powder using nothing but the sticks and stones that are around them? Get a grip, the digging started immediately because her statements were so absurdly stupid and ignorant. From her point of view, you can't ever post a dissenting opinion on capitalism if you own or use anything that was produced by capitalism. Which, by the way, is almost everything.  Are you starting to see why she was ridiculed the way she was? She deserved every bloody bit of it.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I disagree. While the homosexual angle was certainly played up, I think it would have been exactly the same if Werrety had been a woman. It's a straight up and down classical Tory corruption scandal with sexual innuendo to spice it up. There would have been a hell of a lot more innuendo if Werrety was a woman, the papers would have dug up old boyfriends and printed salacious stories about 'saucy romps'.
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Kin posted:What the gently caress are they supposed to do, crawl their way to Latin America, pick their own beans, come back and then grind them into powder using nothing but the sticks and stones that are around them? Get a grip, the digging started immediately because her statements were so absurdly stupid and ignorant. Haha, I feel that my views haven't come across on this at all - I agree with them to ridicule her, I agree that she was a poo poo contestant, I just think that everyone would have just chuckled and let it pass had it been someone else saying it. It's not that people are using goods made by a capitalist society - it's that there are few companies which personify capitalism as much as Starbucks. It's hardly an original thought to draw the link of course - Forbes are doing it right now: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterleeds/2011/10/24/can-you-occupy-wall-street-with-a-starbucks-in-your-hand/
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Red Oktober posted:Forbes are doing it right now: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterleeds/2011/10/24/can-you-occupy-wall-street-with-a-starbucks-in-your-hand/ I hate the argument she used. Painting the protestors as hypocritical means you don't have to respond to the main point. If the argument is "How can they rail against capitalist greed when they engage in capitalism?", then you're in fact saying that they shouldn't be protesting against the excesses of capitalism at all. They don't want to admit that they support the system, so they try to focus on the faults of the protest. Although, as massive corporations go Starbucks is one of the most respectable in terms of social responsibilty anyway (depending on your views on Israel). You can rail against Starbucks for homogeny and gentrification all you want, but as a symbol of evil corporations I can't think of any that are less deserving (or should I say don't deserve it more). They are a gigantic corporation and you don't get there without some questionable ethics, but they also do a lot that should can be applauded.
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