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― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
in character? it would be some sort of ultimate hatefuck
― Just got offed, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
MAYBE THEY COULD USE THE STATUE AS A GIANT ANT -- Mike Hanle y, Sunday, February 3, 2002 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
LOL as always.
― Eisbaer, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
: /
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 12 June 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
My god I want to schtup the chick playing Thatcher on C4 right now.
-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics
-- Just got offed
I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this thread.
― King Boy Pato, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
So, was this produced by The Comic Strip as a follow-up to "Strike" and "GLC"?
It Sure Looks Like It.
(did not watch. I mean! ComeOn!
― Mark G, Friday, 13 June 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
So, was this produced by The Comic Strip as a follow-up to "Strike" and "GLC"
eh? really?! i'm amazed anyone can even remember 'GLC'.
― piscesx, Friday, 13 June 2008 08:52 (fifteen years ago) link
What is it with the BBC? Is this the best their drama department can come up with these days? Hughie Green, Bob Monkhouse, Mary Whitehouse, Margaret Thatcher. Lazy television.
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 08:56 (fifteen years ago) link
But cheap.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 13 June 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
And it gets them a guaranteed two page spread in the broadsheet "extra" sections for each episode
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it's not lazy television, it's just that you're getting old. The BBC have always made dramas about the lives of people in the past, it's just now the people of the past are people who were very much part of our present.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 13 June 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't agree, this smacks of chucking a couple of biographies at a writer and saying "Go away and write something on this person who was famous once, but don't worry too much about it, any old bollocks will do as long as you manage to shoehorn some sex into it." It's commissioned crap from writers who obv. don't have any interest in the subject.
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Unless there are many young and talented writers out there with a burning desire to write about Hughie Green's sexlife, who knows?
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Tom OTM, five years ago it was all "lol let's do a comedy drama about something that happened in Parliament 6 months ago" now it's all "lol 50s and 60s nostalgia be mad popular".
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
you can avoid worrying about this by getting rid of yer telly.
― Pashmina, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I only use it for films, sport, Doctor Who and University Challenge.
But you're not seriously doing the "people who complain about one aspect of a medium should never engage with any aspect of that medium" switcheroonie are you Pash?
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Bit drastic Pash
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Also I would also like to use it for well-written original one-off drama but unfortunately the BBC is run by cocks.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently at one time this stuff was well popular but it doesn't fit so well around BBC3's RITALIN NEWS MINUTE, ALL EPILEPSY ALL THE TIME
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I know these biodocs are usually on BBC4 but fuck knows why, really.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Should probably have a poll on which former Carry On team regular is due next.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Would consider watching The Bernard Bresslaw Story is they got Will Self in to play him.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Jim Dale: Lust for Glory
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Tommy Cooper. Benny Hill. Enoch Powell. Peter Knowles. It could go on for a lot longer yet.
― Tom D., Friday, 13 June 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Pills, Thrills 'n' Butterworth
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, not at all. I mean, if there's still stuff you enjoy, fine, you knoq? There's v v little that makes me want to get TV again though. I can't think of anything recently, last thing was "Nathan Barley" and I wound up watching that on "Youtube" More often you see some cobblers like this trailed in the papers & think fuck this, god I'm glad we got rid of it. It's good not to give a fuck about it! (I only posted on this thread because I did notice this prog in the listings) Really, I'd recommend anyone to try running without it for a year & see how you get on.
― Pashmina, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm assuming they're waiting for either Bewes or Bolam to cark it before they do the inevitable dramatisation of their falling out.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"knoq" = "know"
"knoq", haha
Would watch Peter Knowles just for the accents. I remember years ago when they did a Bridgewater 4 biodoc and I was so happy to see West Midlands accents not being played for lulz.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I lived without a TV for a year or so once when I was single and carefree and my body could handle multiple days of being drunk.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Dr Who is basically nostalgia drama
― ken c, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Science fiction
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
with the occasional 51st century thrown in
― ken c, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
I've seen that, challops-boy.
Don't agree about Doctor Who being nostalgia, really. I liked it when I was a kid, but not for the same reasons I like it now.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
If you have a half decent internet connection you don't actually need a telly to watch TV these days. Especially if you only have two or three things you want to watch in a week.
― Matt DC, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
A half decent internet connection and a computer hooked up to a big telly in my living room in front of the settee, you mean?
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Ken was referring to period sets and costumes type Doctor Who, not in a "oh wow I liked this when I was a kid in the 70s" way.
― Matt DC, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
(Yeah that's true, I'm sort of engaging with the 'throw your telly out' argument for no particular reason)
― Matt DC, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
As soon as McGoohan checks out it'll be Prisoner Of The Prisoner on BBC4 starring Dennis Out of EastEnders with Ricky Gervais as Leo McKern, Sir Alan Sugar as Lew Grade and Pete Doherty as Alexis Kanner.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I had to watch "Silence in the Library" on the puter the other week cos I'd missed it twice. It's alright, but usually I can't settle down and watch stuff on here. I like to be more horizontal.
Kinda realised what Ken meant after the fact, it hasn't been much like that really tho?
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 June 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, that lineup for The Prisoner would be fine with me, apart from "Dennis out of Eastenders" who I don't know.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't remember the actor's name, but he was Dirty Den's son, the one who got stabbed in the Square at New Year.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Nigel Harman
― ailsa, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
...soon to be starring as Jess Conrad, who he looks really like, in that film about Joe Meek.
― ailsa, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh right.
Fine.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 June 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Yo Pash, I mailed you
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching the replay of this, her voice sounds more like Tony Hancock than Margaret Thatcher.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 13 June 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Carol Thatcher faces BBC ban over 'golliwog' remark
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Not dead yet?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
The day Thatcher dies, all ILX will be an LBZC ticker-tape parade
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Um, those dolls at Sandringham looked like.....?..right?
Awp. Should probably not have said anything but.... what first took me aback with CT's original remark (APART FROM THE OBV)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 14 February 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
oops tab enter
Awp. Should probably not have said anything but.... what first took me aback with CT's original remark (APART FROM THE OBV) was that apart from CT not yet having entered the post-colonial age apparently -- -- -- Tsonga? Wtf. It seems way unlikely. Dude is a BLOCK of a man, not at all ragdolly! Gael Force at least has spiky comicbook hair. Hence I found that story more credible.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 14 February 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Sprinter Dwain Chambers is to make a formal complaint to the BBC after he was the victim of an abusive prank call by the comedian Iain Lee during a phone-in on Radio 5 Live. Lee, who appears regularly on BBC1's One Show, rang a phone-in hosted by Victoria Derbyshire on Monday and, posing as a member of the public called 'Tony', accused Chambers, who served a two-year ban for taking performance-enhancing drugs, of being "whacked up to the eyeballs on goof balls".Encouraged by Derbyshire to air his strident views, 'Tony' then subjected the sprinter to a vitriolic rant, referring to the "goof balls and whack balls" he put into his bloodstream and finishing with the statement: "I'm going to buy your book and I'm going to burn your book without reading it."
Encouraged by Derbyshire to air his strident views, 'Tony' then subjected the sprinter to a vitriolic rant, referring to the "goof balls and whack balls" he put into his bloodstream and finishing with the statement: "I'm going to buy your book and I'm going to burn your book without reading it."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/4582698/Dwain-Chambers-demands-BBC-apology-over-prank-call.html
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I do wonder on whose side the Daily Mail crew will be on that last one. Will they be able to pass up another chance to have a go at the Beeb's lax standards, or will they want to go for the throat of a notorious drug cheat who possesses the wrong colour of skin for their tastes?
That's what you'd call a real ethical dilemma for them. It would almost be entertaining to watch them wrestle with it.
― Stone Monkey, Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking hell iain lee is a massive prick and really needs to bury himself alive out of shame.why this prickhole is on the one show i dont know.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
GHOSTBUSTERS 2 LOL
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, iain lee is a dude who doesn't really need to exist
― Bonkers candy, the Nabisco candy (stevie), Saturday, 14 February 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Never mind that the tactics they used to destroy The One Show’s reporter Carol Thatcher were reminiscent of the old East German Stasi, under whose rule people who refused to do and say what they were told were destroyed.
Brilliance, just absolute brilliance.
― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 February 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
marcello has a column in a tabloid now?
― Bonkers candy, the Nabisco candy (stevie), Sunday, 15 February 2009 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
An administrative blunder under the Thatcher government that has only just come to light has opened the door for retailers to sell unauthorised DVDs and video games, including banned films and pornography, to anyone, including under-age children without legal threat.The Crown Prosecution Service has been told to drop cases relating to offences under the Video Recordings Act, which imposes statutory requirements for videos, DVDs and some video games to be classified and age-rated by the British Board of Film Classification.The Conservative government’s apparent failure to notify the European Union of the existence of the VRA in 1984 means that the legislation is no longer enforceable in the UK.
The Crown Prosecution Service has been told to drop cases relating to offences under the Video Recordings Act, which imposes statutory requirements for videos, DVDs and some video games to be classified and age-rated by the British Board of Film Classification.
The Conservative government’s apparent failure to notify the European Union of the existence of the VRA in 1984 means that the legislation is no longer enforceable in the UK.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 24 August 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
UK now officially better than US
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Monday, 24 August 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
shit I'd better get a shopping list together for you guys
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Monday, 24 August 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's there already, it just has big fuck-off circles covering everything, or so i'm led to believe.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Monday, 24 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
We already have a perfectly workable system in place whereby 7 year-olds just tell their parents to buy GTA for them in Gamestation.
― Someone left the cape out in the rain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
and wait ouside, smoking a fag
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh dear:
"This must be a massive embarrassment to the Tories, especially as David Cameron was the special adviser to the home secretary in 1993 when the law was amended."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, can't wait to hit Dixons or Woolworths and stock up on some banned VHS tapes now.
― JTS, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah right. Because Cameron has shown real signs of being electorally hindered by everything the Tories did in the 80s and 90s.
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Still not dead?
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link