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Al2001 posted:Nigel Slater is such a massive ponce. Watched some of the Hairy Bikers today and I'd forgotten just how loving poo poo they are as well. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is the man but his assistants are all cocks. I just hate almost everyone. I'd rather his simple than Lorraine Pascale's "Easy", which is basically: 10 second location shot of her and her massive teeth and pink pashmina riding around in Madrid, then cutting back to her modern flat in London, where she assembles some ready-made ingredients into a paella and then goes on about how her friends (who we never see) love her home-made cooking. Has anyone been watching Junior Bake Off? Since when did kids TV presenters have tattoos on their neck and facial piercings? Some of the kids are scarily good though.
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Nov 10, 2011 00:06
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I'd forgotten how great the sister in Him and Her is.
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Junkenstein posted:I'd forgotten how great the sister in Him and Her is. i found out last week that she's Russell Howard's sister irl
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Junkenstein posted:I'd forgotten how great the sister in Him and Her is.
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Nov 10, 2011 01:31
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Haha, a whole day of watching 24 ahead. Also, Him And Her made me realise my sisters are part of the 'can't sleep without electronics on' cult. Ugh,
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Did anyone watch Life's Too Short then? I can't stand Gervais, but I somehow ended up watching this. It was alright, mildly amusing for the most part. Worth watching for an absolutely hysterical bit involving Liam Neeson though.
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Nov 11, 2011 09:29
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It's so flipping meta it makes my head hurt. So it's a mockumentary starring Warwick Davis playing a version of himself that played a version of himself in Extras. I enjoyed it. Liam Neeson was incredible. Warwick is way too David Brent, though. The first bit with his wife was pretty much a David Brent impersonation. My wife asked if the accountant was Noel Edmonds. Obviously it wasn't but I wish it had been.
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Akuma posted:It's so flipping meta it makes my head hurt. So it's a mockumentary starring Warwick Davis playing a version of himself that played a version of himself in Extras. It was more enjoyable than I was expecting. One thing that I found strange was the way that Warwick Davis kept looking straight into the camera after saying stuff. I guess it was deliberate but it seemed odd. Might have just been me though.
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Nov 11, 2011 09:46
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I thought it was good, but nothing amazing, I'll certaintly watch it next week. The best part was Barry from Eastenders' reaction when he told him about the documentary.
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Nov 11, 2011 09:50
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Mostly it was very good but not quite up to Office/Extras standards. That Liam Neeson scene, though, is the hardest I've laughed at anything on TV for about a year. It was incredible. My favourite line was "Like I said before, I've got AIDS", like he didn't realise they were redoing the improv and it wasn't a continuation.
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Nov 11, 2011 11:49
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The best scene was Liam Neeson's improv, by a large margin. Wish it was longer than 5 minutes. Otherwise, it's just the office. Warwick is too much like David Brent
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Nov 11, 2011 11:55
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TwoDogs1Cup posted:The best scene was Liam Neeson's improv, by a large margin. Wish it was longer than 5 minutes. I've got full blown AIDS isn't a line that I ever expected to hear from Liam Neeson. Just wait till this screen's in the USA on BBC America or whatever and they wonder what's up with his accent not being American! Is it worth perhaps making a thread for this show; maybe try to garner some interest. We never get decent threads for British shows other than Misfits, really, and obviously Doctor Who.
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Nov 11, 2011 17:20
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sebzilla posted:Clearly you're not reading the Apprentice thread I like to pretend that it doesn't exist. Went ahead and made a thread for it, lot of negative reviews but I absolutely loved most of it. Thread James R fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Nov 11, 2011 |
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Nov 11, 2011 17:25
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On Derren Brown tonight there was a brief shot of a pub in Todmorten village called "The Polished Knob". English pub names are weird.  (And if there's not been a BBC4 or Radio 4 documentary on the history of pub names then there really should be.)
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Oooo, old Stewart Lee joke on HIGNFY. Still, it's an obvious enough observation, may well not have been his to start with
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Irisi posted:(And if there's not been a BBC4 or Radio 4 documentary on the history of pub names then there really should be.)  I would watch this so hard
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Irisi posted:On Derren Brown tonight there was a brief shot of a pub in Todmorten village called "The Polished Knob". Sounds like the sort of new names they give them nowadays, ditching traditional names or renaming places that have been open for generations in favour or moronic 'clever' names to go with the new brewery-chain style.
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Irisi posted:On Derren Brown tonight there was a brief shot of a pub in Todmorten village called "The Polished Knob". It's a new name, done deliberately.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Sounds like the sort of new names they give them nowadays, ditching traditional names or renaming places that have been open for generations in favour or moronic 'clever' names to go with the new brewery-chain style. One day Super Hans will have a pub called Free The Paedos.
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Nov 11, 2011 22:25
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SeanBeansShako posted:One day Super Hans will have a pub called Free The Paedos. Go for the best of both worlds. "The Swan and Paedo".
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Nov 11, 2011 22:30
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goatface posted:It's a new name, done deliberately. Well that's just rubbish. Though my research on the subject has lead me to the hugely entertaining fact that there's apparently a pub in Bedfordshire called "The Inn Next Door Burnt Down".
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Nov 11, 2011 22:33
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Weatherspoons actually try really hard to come up with names that fit with the area. I didn't know this until I questioned the apparently stupid name of the branch that opened up near me, called "The Jolly Tars". Turns out that in the 20s there used to be a small drama group that did plays on the local beach, and they were called The Jolly Tars.
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Irisi posted:On Derren Brown tonight there was a brief shot of a pub in Todmorten village called "The Polished Knob". there's on in Staines called The Cock Inn. It's a double barrelled giggle factory, even now I'm the wrong side of 30 ^ I can vouch for the Wetherspoons thing, as they eventually ran out of things they could put Spoon in, hence the name of Slough's being "The Moon And Spoon"
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Nov 11, 2011 22:53
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This is probably the weakest Derren Brown show I've seen since the Lottery.
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Stopped thinking about pub names and am now pondering which rock "Psychic" Sally Morgan has crawled under after her 30 second appearance on Derren Brown. It was gloriously embarrassing.
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DaWolfey posted:Weatherspoons actually try really hard to come up with names that fit with the area. I didn't know this until I questioned the apparently stupid name of the branch that opened up near me, called "The Jolly Tars". They opened "The Peter Cushing" here, because he lived/died here. It's easily the poshest spoons I've ever been to, all art deco throughout with big pictures of the man on the walls. edit - Also, just watched the first two episodes of the new Mongrels, and I'm glad to see it's not lost it. The Shaun of the Dead bit was hilarious. goatface fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Nov 11, 2011 |
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In fairness to them, Wetherspoons took took over a listed hotel here, tidied it up and kept the name, which is nice as there's been a hotel of that name on the high street here for over four hundred years.
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Wetherspoons aren't as bad as they're made out to be. Sure, they run some of the lowest rent pissers in the country where beer is 2/3 the standard price and people fight outside 7 days a week, but they keep real ale on the highstreet and do food and drink that pensioners can afford in the daytime.
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Irisi posted:Stopped thinking about pub names and am now pondering which rock "Psychic" Sally Morgan has crawled under after her 30 second appearance on Derren Brown. It was gloriously embarrassing. We challenged her to prove her skills. She didn't turn up. http://www.youtube.com/user/merseyskeptics http://bit.ly/challengesally I did all the filming and whatnot. It was a good morning regardless of her no show and Simon Singh signed some books for us 
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Leyburn posted:Did anyone watch Life's Too Short then? I can't stand Gervais, but I somehow ended up watching this. It was alright, mildly amusing for the most part. Worth watching for an absolutely hysterical bit involving Liam Neeson though. I come from the opposite direction in that I'm a huge fan of every thing he/they have done audio wise plus the office. I felt it was funny in places but completely predictable and 'by the numbers' as it where. I still laughed at some of the jokes but the set up seems played out. Jippa fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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Jippa posted:I felt it was funny in places but completely predictable and 'buy the numbers' as it where. I still laughed at some of the jokes but the set up seems played out. I agree, I did enjoy it and I did find it funny but it seemed like even though the subject matter has a lot of opportunity to be offensive, it always manages to maintain a strict distance from causing it so it turns out to be quite safe. I remember watching the Ricky HBO special and in that he said in order to not be offensive but still touch on uncomfortable subjects he always uses a framing device. Like he tells a joke about a paedophile loving a kid, but frames it as a joke about telling a joke at an inappropriate time and therefore defangs the paedo joke. This show uses a framing device of it being a documentary, and Ricky himself. You know what Ricky is like with his style of comedy so automatically you are focusing on him, it becomes "what are they going to make Warwick do now?" and not "lol dwarf fell out of car lets laugh at him" You could argue that being able to make a program with this distinction, to create an environment where you can have a dwarf get stuck in a doggy door and you not think it exploitative is where the genius of Ricky Gervais lies, or you could just write it off as a toothless tiger.
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Ben Soosneb posted:It was more enjoyable than I was expecting. I thought the show was ok. My only real (big) criticism is that I knew when the beats were coming. I also thought the acting of the black guy Warwick asked to press the buzzer seemed really poor. He didn't seem to acknowledge the camera being there yet answered questions in such an obviously "abrasive for the show" manner. It just stuck out to me.
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Nov 12, 2011 15:43
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Caught up with Him and Her season 2 and it's as brilliant as the first series. The actor that plays Paul deserves more credit for just how hosed up he manages to convey him.
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Nov 12, 2011 15:57
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Paul is unnervingly crazy yeah. I loved it when he cracked up after Steve shot down Laura. I'm curious to see if they'll get married or not.
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Durzel posted:I also thought the acting of the black guy Warwick asked to press the buzzer seemed really poor.
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Just watching Life's Too Short now. davidbrentdavidbrentdavidbrentdavidbrentdavidbrentdavidbrentdavidbrent.
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ibroxmassive posted:Caught up with Him and Her season 2 and it's as brilliant as the first series. I like it, I just wish they'd stop dry humping each other all the time. It's not even funny, it just feels awkward. Like being around some friends that have just started shagging.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Paul is unnervingly crazy yeah. It won't happen because of the show's format, but I'd love to see his stag-do.
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