not the same without you
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"It also emerged yesterday that Ms Baillie is part of a dance troupe known as Satanic Sluts Extreme, who describe themselves as “four of the sexiest depraved London jezebels”, and who perform “violent, horrific and sexy burlesque shows”.
Where's that thread Dom started about how steampunk and neo-burlesque is worse than hitler again?
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
That didn't emerge yesterday, I was reading about that at the weekend. Didn't think it particularly relevant to anything in particular, but then again I don't write for the Daily Mail.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
She reminds me of Marilyn Manson a bit, it's kind of grim.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it's not even remotely relevant (presumably the detail is added to arouse outrage the mail/torygraph's readers) seeing as how the 2 prats phoned the goth woman's grandfather. It's just...."burlesque"....guh.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
She also makes for a really unconvincing goff, as you'd expect from anyone who tried for a career as a Page 3 model before she realised Trivium fans are a lot less discerning than white van men.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'll start a burlesque dance troupe called "Satanic Sluts Mild". Who's in?
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Satanic Sluts Mild? think they have that on tap in the Intrepid Fox
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the Goth version of Sweetheart Stout
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Gordon Brown speaks out on this matter of national importance
― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
"Christ, what a planet"
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the context for Cameron and Brown's statements? questions from backbenchers in HOC or "news" journalists?
Clegg's just weighed in now too: "Kill the bastards" apparently.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Then sentence was passed, as followeth, viz. That they should return to the place from whence they came, from thence be drawn to the common place of execution, and there to be hanged by the necks, then cut down alive, their privy-members cut off, and bowels taken out to be burnt before their faces, their heads to be severed from their bodies, and their bodies divided into four parts, to be disposed of as the Daily Mail should think fit.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
... bit harsh on Russell, but fair enough for Ross
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
the gunk tank's too good for 'em
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
this is win-win for everybody
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
she seems sweet...http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i1.bebo.com/004a/small/2006/02/19/23/239471630a318143701b557310416s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp%3FMemberId%3D242599832&h=62&w=62&sz=3&hl=en&start=2&sig2=W0lYp5Ciway0_5G0A0WPAg&usg=__3gbXRpaURFRowaZuG0IIlN9SyZU=&tbnid=3zHge4G0byXQ2M:&tbnh=62&tbnw=62&ei=rFQHSZrFNqPE0gStjKzqAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGeorgina%2BBaillie%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
longest link ever.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7694989.stm
Fantastic.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Would be better as a step-by-step illustration by the guy who does the football cartoon in the Sun
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Or a big Brass Eye style animated graphic.
― snoball, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the timeline that had to be made.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
For fuck's sake, literally everyone involved in this (apart from Sachs, possibly) comes out of this really badly, don't they. Why the hell Brown thought he had to weigh in I'll never know. It's the final, terrible apotheosis of celebrity culture [/rant]
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i doubt there's anything final about this!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yes it's going to run and run isn't it.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I like it that Brown had to make that statement whilst in France, standing alongside Sarkozy during a press conference about the current finacial crisis.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
you never explained what you found funny about the original 'joke'
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
With Sarkozy thinking that they order these things better in France. It is fucking ridiculous that Brown felt he had to say something presumbly because the story is still snowballing and if he didn't the papers would be all "Why Is Brown Dithering Over Ross Brand BBC Taxpayers Fiasco?".00 Take a stand man! It's not like those papers aren't going to shit all over you anyway.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw this dude on teevee. He's unwatchable
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Naah: This is what happened....
GB: "So, pretty busy day, done loads, what's DCameron been up to?"Person: "Well, he's on the news re JR/RB and ASachs (etc)"GB: "So, if I make a statement, that's him off the front pages?"Person: "Yep"GB: "You write it, I'll sing it.."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not offended by the original prank but if this means these two TOTALLY UNFUNNY comedians are down the dumper, career-wise, it'll all have been worth it
― Dave from Norwich, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
this is all over our paper tomorrow. scotland's finest columnist has done 1200 words on it (admittedly 1200 very good words, which do turn into a shoeing of the BBC halfway through). seriously: WTF?
good things about this story: overpaid celebrity dicks (and i do quite like RB, but he has become increasingly lazy and tedious) might suddenly realise they should WRITE SOME PROPER MATERIAL and not just rely on their, umm, "personalities" to fill in their air-time.
bad things about this story: absolutely everything else.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, both the PM and the leader of the opposition weigh in on this, despite us being in a financial hole? What clever times we live in.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Didn't Gordon Brown have to weigh in on Jade Goody as well? Although she at least had the decency to offend an entire subcontinent.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
presumably in both cases the MPs were asked about the issue tho? expressing disinterest would surely result in BROWN OUT OF TOUCH WITH PUBLIC etc.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah in this case the witch hunt has gathered such pace that it's best that Brown half-heartedly shout "burn them" while looking the other way, rather than be castigated himself.
Has the Prime Minister of Spain commented on this important diplomatic incident yet?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
This truly is the day the 00s ended, isn't it?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
No.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, OK, there have now been 10,000 complaints to Ofcom. This, remember, is now well over a week after the show was broadcast. Bandwagon, much?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dave from Norwich, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I think, basically, this.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
what's ofcom's email address?
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Thing is though that they will probably walk away, jobs and salaries intact, and some dozy producer and editor will have to take the bullet.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome to British entertainment
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Forget OFCOM the Guardian's having a poll.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
70/30 in favour of sacking at the moment.
well, this is a whole lotta fuss over nuttin'.
― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
wow i hadn't clicked on this thread for some hours, it's really blown up hasn't it. and OMG at that BBC timeline HAHAHA
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
1When Britain first, at Heaven's commandArose from out the azure main;This was the charter of the land,And guardian angels sung this strain:"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."2The nations, not so blest as thee,Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;While thou shalt flourish great and free,The dread and envy of them all."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."3Still more majestic shalt thou rise,More dreadful, from each foreign stroke;As the loud blast that tears the skies,Serves but to root thy native oak."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."4Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame:All their attempts to bend thee down,Will but arouse thy generous flame;But work their woe, and thy renown."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."5To thee belongs the rural reign;Thy cities shall with commerce shine:All thine shall be the subject main,And every shore it circles thine."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."6The Muses, still with freedom found,Shall to thy happy coast repair;Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown'd,And manly hearts to guard the fair."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."
― max, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Channel 4 News was pretty OTM last night - it led with a special report on the rebel troops more or less taking the "Democratic" Republic of Congo by force, with ineffectual shooting from UN helicopters unable to stop them. "Gordon Brown has said nothing about this today," said Mr Guru-Murthy, "but found plenty to say on the clearly far more pressing and important issue of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross."
That about sums it up.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, but 'they' asked him!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link