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Rondette posted:Yeah, I felt like I'd dropped through a wormhole into a David Lynch universe, or something.... It was on 'Foxes Live', I linked it when it was on but alas, no longer available. But I did take some screen shots!
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Paperhouse posted:Definitely watch Dead Man's Shoes and A Room for Romeo Brass if you liked This Is England and haven't seen them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmjNLAU7zLQ Best scene in Dead Man's Shoes.
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Rondette posted:It was on 'Foxes Live', I linked it when it was on but alas, no longer available. But I did take some screen shots! There was a good documentary on a few years back about the A30 called 'The Man Who Eats Badgers', most of the footage comprised of a man eating roadkill but also had somebody trying to hunt the beast of bodmin moor and some other nonsense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNYgwMuCXM The first portion of it can be found through google video though I'm unsure about posting a link here because 
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Dec 28, 2012 11:25
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Taear posted:Why though? It just sort of went nowhere and turned into cop out sillyness. I felt watching it this season that they had only three episodes worth of plot that they stretched out over the whole season. Basically Jeremy lifecoaching, paint-balling and Jeremy falling for Dobby was all they had to work with.
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Dec 28, 2012 13:12
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With all the This Is England talk I finally got around to watching the film tonight and  Milky Brilliant though, can't wait to get stuck into '86 and '88 now. Nice to see the table tennis/pony owning fella off of 15 Storeys High.
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Dec 28, 2012 13:13
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Furret Basket posted:Gerry Anderson has died. I have vivid memories of Christmas one year during the 90s Gerry Anderson revival, getting my dad to spend hours putting the stickers on a (loving massive) model of the Cloudbase. And now we'll never know how the radios built into their hats knew exactly when to flip down the mics  ScipioAfro posted:A good time to watch the intro to Captain Scarlet and wonder how the gently caress it was a kids show. 6:30 is my favourite example. Their tyre bursts, they come off the road and the SSC loving explodes, leaving them as bloodied corpses.
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Dec 28, 2012 13:46
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:I have vivid memories of Christmas one year during the 90s Gerry Anderson revival, getting my dad to spend hours putting the stickers on a (loving massive) model of the Cloudbase. My Dad ended up spanking me because I went on like a horrible dick for the Blue Peter Tracy Island components 
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Dec 28, 2012 20:33
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WastedJoker posted:My Dad ended up spanking me because I went on like a horrible dick for the Blue Peter Tracy Island components 28 years old I was...
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Dec 28, 2012 20:58
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WastedJoker posted:My Dad ended up spanking me because I went on like a horrible dick for the Blue Peter Tracy Island components That's awful. I hope he didn't have a thunder of a slap, otherwise your rear end would've been left scarlet afterwards. A spanking like that can really sting.
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Dec 28, 2012 23:09
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WastedJoker posted:My Dad ended up spanking me because I went on like a horrible dick for the Blue Peter Tracy Island components
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Dec 28, 2012 23:18
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I remember I got a real one, and I still had my Thunderbird 2 with the landing gear and Thunderbird 4 hangar that really worked till I was around 17 and we moved house. I don't know how the hell my parents afforded it, since we were poor as gently caress in Scotland in the early 90s. Maybe my uncle stole it or something.
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Dec 28, 2012 23:30
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Hank Morgan posted:I felt watching it this season that they had only three episodes worth of plot that they stretched out over the whole season. Basically Jeremy lifecoaching, paint-balling and Jeremy falling for Dobby was all they had to work with. I can completely agree with this, it was like they hadn't actually written the ending of the series and didn't quite know where to go after Jeremy fell in love with Dobby. I think I'd have liked it more if Mark had cheated with the career woman and it'd all gone a bit more crazy.
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Dec 28, 2012 23:38
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Prison Warden posted:I remember I got a real one, and I still had my Thunderbird 2 with the landing gear and Thunderbird 4 hangar that really worked till I was around 17 and we moved house. I don't know how the hell my parents afforded it, since we were poor as gently caress in Scotland in the early 90s. Maybe my uncle stole it or something. I got the real one too for my 5th or 6th birthday, I don't think I've ever been more excited about a present. Granted after the first month all the palm trees snapped off but the rest lasted me for ages.
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Gorn Myson posted:I love the fact that you can ask blokes in their mid 20s whether they got a real Tracy Island or a Blue Peter one, and you will rarely stumble across someone who says they got neither. I got neither. My folks say that's because Blue Peter ran out of instructions on how to make it but looking back on it in the cold light of 20 years plus, that's total bollocks.
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Dec 29, 2012 01:56
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We got the instructions so that we could build one. Then we didn't.
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Dec 29, 2012 02:01
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I didn't get one, we were too poor .
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Dec 29, 2012 02:07
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My dad never misses a chance to remind me of the time he traipsed all over London looking for the Tracy Island toy for my Christmas present. Says that someone offered to buy it off him on the Tube for £100, but he turned him down.
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Dec 29, 2012 02:15
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goatface posted:We got the instructions so that we could build one. You bastard.
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Dec 29, 2012 02:41
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quote:I love the fact that you can ask blokes in their mid 20s whether they got a real Tracy Island or a Blue Peter one, and you will rarely stumble across someone who says they got neither. I'm in my late 20s and I thought Tracey Island was more for people in their early to mid 30s, nobody I knew had one nor was it ever talked about at school!
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Taear posted:I'm in my late 20s and I thought Tracey Island was more for people in their early to mid 30s, nobody I knew had one nor was it ever talked about at school! I'm 20 and my Tracey Island was the best present I got that year and Blue Peter did a version as well. I think it's a case of whether your generation coincided with a showing of Thunderbirds on some channel or another
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Dec 29, 2012 06:08
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Sion posted:I got neither. My folks say that's because Blue Peter ran out of instructions on how to make it but looking back on it in the cold light of 20 years plus, that's total bollocks. This what I remember happening as well - I know that we wrote in and didn't get anything back, and the BBC says that there were 100,000 requests (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7649362.stm) which sounds right considering the mailbags they showed on the show. Anyway, if you feel like a crack at it... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/makes/tracyisland.pdf
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Taear posted:I'm in my late 20s and I thought Tracey Island was more for people in their early to mid 30s, nobody I knew had one nor was it ever talked about at school! I'm 27 and Tracey Island was a huge thing when I was growing up. A thing I never had
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Dec 29, 2012 13:00
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Taear posted:I'm in my late 20s and I thought Tracey Island was more for people in their early to mid 30s, nobody I knew had one nor was it ever talked about at school! I'm 31 and was a little bit too old but my (3 year younger) brother was massively into it. People in their late 20's now are that exact demographic, maybe it just wasn't popular in your area for some reason. I remember we taped the Blue Peter episode so we could follow it at our own speed.
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Junkenstein posted:I remember we taped the Blue Peter episode so we could follow it at our own speed. My desperately unhandy uncle did this and requested my dad go over so he could help build it as a surprise for my small cousin. I seem to recall my dad stormed in sometime after midnight with paint all over his baldy head, he didn't speak to my uncle for six months afterwards, and that my small cousin got a Fisher Price castle instead. I should think that this type of incident was repeated in hundreds of households across the UK.
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Dec 29, 2012 13:32
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My household just about managed step one where you mould the island shape out of papier mache. Then it sat in the corner 'drying' for a few months until my mum threw it away.  Come to think of it that kind of established the pattern for every big project I've undertaken since.
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Surely this means Anthea Turner can never truly die, since she's locked herself into the memories of so many. Flakemort.
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Rarity posted:I'm 27 and Tracey Island was a huge thing when I was growing up. Ditto. I think my dad's somewhat irrational dislike of blue peter precluded doing the homemade one And actually, one of my friends had the official one; I remember seeing it and thinking it was a bit poo poo.
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To be fair, what exactly were you meant to do with the island? You launch everything from there and then all the rescuing action happens behind the sofa.
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This 30 Years of CITV is fantastic sofar. Anyone else watching it? Some great behind the scenes facts and fun.
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Junkenstein posted:To be fair, what exactly were you meant to do with the island? You launch everything from there and then all the rescuing action happens behind the sofa.
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That was surely the worst Christmas ever for TV. Especially the BBC where on Christmas Eve we were treated to a Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special! And just in case you were having second thoughts about sticking your head in the oven it was followed up by a Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special! From 1996. Also the Royle Family Christmas special. Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, why? And how? That show actually had something in its first series but it's become what all BBC comedy seems to become when it runs of long enough: back to back poo poo and piss jokes. I thought Peep Show was okay. The ending, like much of the series felt like there was something a bit off about it. It felt overly rushed in parts and then it seemed to really drag on in others. It kind of felt like the writers had just kind of highlighted the main points and handed the script over to someone on work experience to finish. It was competent, but it was just lacking the essence of former series that made them really great. I don't think they could ever do better than Mark's Wedding anyway. That episode crippled me with laughter.
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Yeah, between lovely indents and worse programming, it's been a real crap Christmas line-up.
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The Royal Institution lectures this year are pretty interesting - the lecturer is a very engaging guy and supervised me in my 1st year of uni.
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Chuck Bartowski posted:This 30 Years of CITV is fantastic sofar. Anyone else watching it? Some great behind the scenes facts and fun. I once served Stephen Mulhern at the Birmingham Palasades/New Street McDonalds. Never has a man looked so upset that his Bacon & Egg McMuffin without cheese took so long to get to him in a bag.
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Chuck Bartowski posted:This 30 Years of CITV is fantastic sofar. Anyone else watching it? Some great behind the scenes facts and fun. Let us not forget that there's an episode of Knightmare showing on the 5th. I am sure it'll be awful to rewatch but I'm going to do it anyway. Considering gameshows seem to be in vogue at the moment I'm quite surprised there's no adult version of Knightmare.
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Taear posted:Let us not forget that there's an episode of Knightmare showing on the 5th. I am sure it'll be awful to rewatch but I'm going to do it anyway. I watched a winning episode on Youtube recently, it has not aged as badly as you might think (although the kids all look SO YOUNG) Here's a team who actually won- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11U20DApGA4 Feed your nostalgia here, this is a pretty nice Knightmare site well worth an hour or so of your time- http://www.knightmare.com/ Particularly amusing is the part where the producers realised they didn't have to create a whole 'map' of the game (putting a separate room behind each door choice) so it didn't really matter what door you picked. Also, if they didn't like a team of children they would sabotage it so they could get rid of them! Also watching people not know the difference between left and right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciIfcYwI6Ps
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Chuck Bartowski posted:This 30 Years of CITV is fantastic sofar. Anyone else watching it? Some great behind the scenes facts and fun. Was there anything on there about Scavengers in the end? I loved that game show.
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Going back to discussing the Christmas schedules for a moment: Channel 5's Christmas day output was hilariously awful. Two films that everyone has seen a hundred times, both of them over four hours long; followed by three hours of Eddie Stobart documentaries, and even they were repeats. It must have taken them five minutes to schedule that out. 'Most important day of the year for telly viewing? Eh, gently caress it, this'll do.'
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Answers Me posted:Going back to discussing the Christmas schedules for a moment: Channel 5's Christmas day output was hilariously awful. Two films that everyone has seen a hundred times, both of them over four hours long; followed by three hours of Eddie Stobart documentaries, and even they were repeats. You can forgive Channel 5 though. You expect poo poo TV on Channel 5 and you're not expected to pay out the hole for it every year. It's just particularly insulting and infuriating when the BBC, on the few days of the year when you rely on them to show decent TV that the family can watch so you don't have to talk to them, instead bend over and spray everyone with a big, wet, 72 hour long diarrhea. That's a nice way to round off a year when you were exposed as one gigantic old boys' club for nonces, Auntie. Sorry for all the talk of holes and nonces. This is why Points of View never read out my e-mails
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