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ChuckDHead posted:I do feel for the guy, though. He seems pretty genuine about wanting to improve the nation's health, and he takes an unbelievable amount of poo poo about it from petulant fatasses who can't accept that their choices and the choices they make for their children are not always the best and businessmen who know full well that their practices and marketing tactics are frequently irresponsible. I was in school during his original crusade, and afterward scolarest (I think that's the name) only served chips once every week. Every other day we had deep fried potato circles, which somehow don't count as chips. We also still had salt in everything. Also the sixth form students set up a highly lucrative shop just outside the school grounds, selling everything else that was banned. I'm not sure what the solution is, but like most other times just banning something doesn't mean it will go away. Also most of the nutrition and health advice we got at school was about 45 years out of date. On topic, it's nice to see some really good films on iPlayer; the perfect distraction from revision.
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Jun 1, 2011 16:39
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Hoops posted:It would be nice if he wasn't right-wing as gently caress but he's a public schoolboy, oxford graduate. Very few of them come out singing the praises of immigration and the socialist state. My dad was at Oxford during (one of) the British Leyland strikes. He had a friend who was a socialist from Eton, who decided to go to the strike to show solidarity with his union brothers. Who promptly told him to gently caress off, as he was two classes higher than the workers and this wasn't his fight. My Dad's always thought that experience is what made his friend a Thatcherite.
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Oct 18, 2011 10:10
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eating only apples posted:What in god's name happened in this thread A friend of mine is living with someone who was on it last year. He's always referred to as "That guy from Junior Apprentice". I think it's adequate punishment for appearing on that show.
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Oct 22, 2011 16:04
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Why did nobody say Hustle was back on It's getting a bit boring that they always win; the first series had several that they failed or at least didn't pull off perfectly. It would be nice to bring a bit of tension back.
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Feb 1, 2012 17:19
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Austen Tassletine posted:Couldn't they just resurrect Bremner, Bird & Fortune? I remember it being brilliantly satiracal without being up it's own arse or falling into lazy punchlines and stereotypes. Perhaps that was because each series had a samll number of episodes so it was gone before it got tired? Rory Bremner's greatest satire was when he turned up to a Michael Howard rally dressed up as Michael Howard shouting "Better weather under conservatives!" It so brilliantly summed up the Tory campaign in that election.
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Feb 12, 2012 23:29
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Rejected Fate posted:Yeah, that was clearly more a poem than a rap. A very basic poem, but still. Rhymes do not equal rap, guys. Not even rhymes you don't like. Was it as good as the Daily Mail Song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
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Feb 16, 2012 16:25
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I'll say one thing for Skins, it actually had teenaged actors portraying teenaged characters, which was a breath of fresh air after US shows where everybody is twice the age of the characters they're portraying. I should stress I still don't particularly like Skins and I'm glad it's ending, everything just went off the rails when Effy turned into some kind of bizarre succubus who unknowingly seduced everybody (and made everybody around her insane).
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Mar 7, 2012 22:08
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Trin Tragula posted:Result: one slightly obscure and up itself script with one really excellent and interesting character (Bede) and a bunch of extremely well-photographed cardboard cutouts who wander around the place belching lines at each other. Most of those lines being threats to other people's children.
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Jun 22, 2012 15:11
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Flatscan posted:Jesus gently caress. That is one of the most appalling "news" stories I've ever read. I honestly don't know how they get away with such blatant racism and xenophobia. Orwell got the thirty minute hate right, but didn't realise it would remain in the print media. It is impossible to read that newspaper without getting angry, one way or another. It's a blight on humanity and if they disapprove of the ceremony then Boyle got it absolutely right.
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Jul 28, 2012 16:41
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VogeGandire posted:Watching through The Thick of It again. The Ben Swain Newsnight segment still reduces me to tears laughing. "You don't deserve to LIVE!" Edit: "The cameramen are laughing." God I love Jamie. Plucky Brit fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Aug 25, 2012 15:20
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iPlayer has an absolutely fantastic Who Do You Think You Are with Patrick Stewart, looking into his father's experiences with WW2.
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Aug 30, 2012 20:51
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tentish klown posted:As a student I either ate instant noodles bought in bulk from chinatown, or if I was feeling flush, rice, tuna and sweetcorn. Food of the gods. Best thing is that neither of these things require any cooking implements other than a kettle/microwave. I know somebody who thinks he can cook, but can't. That's far worse. Highlights include putting pasta in a pan, filling it with water and then boiling it (the pasta turned into a starchy sirup), boiling chorizo, and adding large amounts of skimmed milk to spaghetti carbonara. He's also addicted to The Great British Bake Off.
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Sep 13, 2012 09:19
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Irisi posted:http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/nov/26/merlin-has-been-cancelled I'm pretty sure that you could condense the entirety of the plot so far into 24 episodes. It's sad that they haven't done any of the big moments, but at the current glacial pace you'd need to wait until series 15 before the actual ending. The plot has pretty much been the same for three years. My 11 year old cousin is bored of it because nothing different ever happens. It's a shame, because it's a nice setting and had a few really good episodes. It was better than Camelot at least.
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Nov 27, 2012 19:09
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. What are families with boy children between the ages of 5-12 supposed to put on the TV on a Saturday night now? (Okay, Doctor Who, but that's only got 6 episodes next year or something...)
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Utopia feels like The Shadow Line. Brilliant cinematography, a lot of stilted dialogue and exposition, a bunch of shallow stock characters, cold-blooded violence mainly coming from one guy who displays no emotion. All that's missing is every other character threatening people's children. I don't have too much of an issue with the school shooting or the torture, it's just that it all feels too excessive. It isn't helped by most of the evil guys talking in the exact same voice and pacing, so they're all blending into one. I don't feel much for any of the main characters, so it's less tension and more boredom during most of the scenes.
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Jan 30, 2013 15:18
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Jonnty posted:Time to have your heart broken (like mine was when I read this first time): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/9829933/Ill-informed-Mary-Berry-criticised-for-condemning-maternity-leave.html She makes a very valid point- from a strictly business point of view, women of child-bearing age are not an asset. She's saying that the current laws are counterproductive as they actually make it less likely for businesses to hire young women. Based on what I've heard speaking to people in business, she's completely right. Regardless, having different political views does not automatically make her a bad person.
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Jan 30, 2013 18:10
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The protagonist in this Black Mirror is REALLY ANNOYING! We've gone through half an episode and not much in the plot has advanced.
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Feb 18, 2013 23:31
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Very impressive, I have to say. The best bit of course being the people who think that this should be implemented immediately.
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Feb 18, 2013 23:58
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I've just realised, the whole point is to show justice being diluted for the masses. Considering she keeps on getting her memory wiped, each day is the same. So really, what's the point of repeating it so many times? Surely it's just to create an amusement park out of it, and commercialise the justice system.
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Feb 19, 2013 00:28
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wutheringbites posted:Yeah that was something. Christ. The bit at the start where there's a child looking out of a window and talking, but not holding a phone.
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Feb 19, 2013 00:44
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Noreaus posted:Utopia just made me annoyed. Here's a twist! Oh, another twist! Mr Rabbit was...him! *dramatic chord* No it wasn't! *chord* She burned the manuscript! *chord* It didn't matter! *chord* I agree. At least the horrible threats to family members were dialled down a bit. I still find it hilarious that nobody brings up a counter argument to that forced sterility plan. Nobody thought to say "what if it goes wrong and everyone is sterilised?" or "won't this cause massive upheaval and reprisals against the few who are fertile?" or "hang on, what happens when there are billions of old people and only a couple of young to support them?".
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Feb 20, 2013 12:15
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Zythrst posted:Well except Donaldson did literally exactly that in episode 5. Hence why he was so focused on getting rich before it all went down. Sure, but I think it's naive to think that money will make much of a difference in what is essentially economic and cultural armageddon.
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Feb 20, 2013 12:56
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Flatscan posted:Well it looks like Charlie Brooker votes Tory then. Labour are cynical careerists. Lib-dems are useless and not worth voting for. Any attempt to challenge the current political system is hijacked by the media and turns the whole world into Blade Runner. The only person shown to give a poo poo is the Tory MP who takes his job seriously, maintains his dignity in the face of screaming plebs and is the only character shown in any form of positive light. So, yay for the status quo! Vote Tory. I don't buy this at all. The far more obvious point (which is a staple of Brooker's work as he loves the film Network) is that any attempted change in the status quo is almost always co-opted by the people who it is trying to out, in this case the media. They've realised the next level above career politicians, and piggyback onto it. The Tory is a vote for the status quo, and it's clear that he's towing the party line without really thinking what he's saying. He can't handle something that works outside the system that he is working in, which is why he can't handle Waldo. He still isn't a nice person and is in politics to win, as emphasised by his reaction when it's announced he won the by-election. Still, do you believe that there are no honourable or respectable Tories, or any respectable people who vote Tory?
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Feb 26, 2013 16:18
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Robot Wars is on youtube?! Goodbye productivity for the next few days.
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Mar 14, 2013 23:50
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I loved the Mongolian miner one where the Brit helped build something that made the mining more safe. That was my favourite one because despite it being very depressing (the miner was there because all of their livestock died due to three terrible winters) you got the sense that there was a genuine friendship by the end. It had a semi-upbeat ending as well.
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Apr 27, 2013 20:09
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Less contentious than last year at least.
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Oct 22, 2013 20:55
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Sorry if this has been talked about already, but there's a program about Teach First with Jack Whitehall's doppleganger: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03plzw2/Tough_Young_Teachers_Episode_1/
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Jan 11, 2014 23:10
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Gregg Davies wrote a lovely obit pn Facebook about Rik, who played his dad in that c4 comedy so average I can't remember what it's called. So it's probably that. It was also a fantastically terrible campaign. Even though I disagreed with them, the No campaign was far more coherent. All I saw from the Yes campaign was a bunch of actors and famous people telling me what to vote for. Besides, the Lib-Dems hosed up negotiating for AV as STV would have been far better. I agree with the consensus on In the Flesh, especially as the family turning against Kieran seemed really contrived. It was quite good drama so I'll definitely be watching any future episodes.
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Jun 11, 2014 00:05
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Bungeyjump posted:How the gently caress is it Iain who was the recipient of the "it's unacceptable" comment from Mary Berry?? Probably yelled at people before storming off. I'd love to see an extended edition with that put in. If he'd done the best he could and explained it, I'm sure he wouldn't be out this week. A sad case of emotions getting the better of someone, but I'd be pissed too in his position.
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Aug 27, 2014 21:25
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ThomasPaine posted:I am continuing to watch Peaky Blinders out of sheer masochism and oh my god they are actually going to have Tommy Shelby personally punch out Oswald Mosely at the Battle of Cable Street, saving Britain from fascism forever , I can feel it in my bones. Dumb thing is the actors are all pretty decent, and some of the writing is good, but my god is that carrying one of the stupidest most completely incoherent, historically illiterate plots I've ever seen.
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Irisi posted:This couple tonight are particularly tragic. They have £1 million to build a MONSTROUS 500 metre square house atop a hill in the countryside for them, their 80 year old parents and their children when they come to stay. Very depressing.
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Squibsy posted:TV people should know by now that inviting politicians on is just cringe at every level and never produces good results
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Gorn Myson posted:Gave up on them after the rave reviews of Line of Duty, a show made up entirely of robots who endlessly barked police rules and procedure at each other while investigating an expertly trained, well funded paramilitary group that was responsible for all the crimes.
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