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  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Comedy is personal init , Green Wing, Gavin & Stacey, Black Adder I like, Mrs Browns Boy, Gervais the Royales I dont get at all
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Firstly, I'll say that I'm a sci fi fan and have been since I was a kid but I just don't get The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in all it's various forms. I tried to get into the book when it was first released (I'm guessing 1980ish but I couldn't be arsed to google it!) and just thought it tosh both as comedy and sci fi (a later attempt to read it just reinforced the first opinion). I thought the TV series was, well, just a bit sh1t and, earlier today, caught a rerun of yet another radio version which, in the brief time that I listened to it, seemed equally sh1t. Is it just me and I'm missing something or what?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,497
    Dunno AJC, I loved the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

    'The planning dept at Alpha Centaur'... 'There are 27 ways to skin a cat'... 'The meaning of life is 42'.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    i remember being in an appalling sh1thole years ago and finding Hitchhikers on the World Service.

    #joy
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    also really enjoyed the books and the BBC programme they did in the 80s - the computer stuff with all the details they showed when doing narrative bits was - at the time - really really good.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Sorry boys, still can't agree on Hitchhikers etc.

    MF - If I've got your job right, you and I have might have spent time in the very same appalling sh1tholes back in the day and TBH, even old re-runs of Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men would have been a welcome relief!
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Sorry boys, still can't agree on Hitchhikers etc.

    MF - If I've got your job right, you and I have might have spent time in the very same appalling sh1tholes back in the day and TBH, even old re-runs of Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men would have been a welcome relief!

    i think you have and yes, you are entirely correct.

    some of the trash that has raised spirits - stuff even Dave TV or whatever it is called would be ashamed to show.

    we went through a phase of adopting different genres of awful tv programmes to our everyday lives: i remember once spending a week pretending we were in Pimp My Ride and that our Humvee was a boulevard crusier drag racer thing. We attached a couple of torches to the bottom using tourniquets and pretended it was undercar neon lighting.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Firstly, I'll say that I'm a sci fi fan and have been since I was a kid but I just don't get The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in all it's various forms. I tried to get into the book when it was first released (I'm guessing 1980ish but I couldn't be arsed to google it!) and just thought it tosh both as comedy and sci fi (a later attempt to read it just reinforced the first opinion). I thought the TV series was, well, just a bit sh1t and, earlier today, caught a rerun of yet another radio version which, in the brief time that I listened to it, seemed equally sh1t. Is it just me and I'm missing something or what?

    I guess today it's a bit dated in many ways but in the 80's it just seemed to sum up life, the universe and everything. If it didn't strike a chord back then I'd suggest you must have been living on another planet! Admittedly I was doing computer science back then so maybe every one else was living on another planet?
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    i remember being in an appalling sh1thole years ago and finding Hitchhikers on the World Service.

    #joy

    Honestly, you didn't need the World Service. Slough has perfectly good FM.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Rolf F wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    i remember being in an appalling sh1thole years ago and finding Hitchhikers on the World Service.

    #joy

    Honestly, you didn't need the World Service. Slough has perfectly good FM.

    seriously? so why have i only been able to find medium wave Talk Sport when cruising through there in ma pimped up mo-bile?

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    #unfairradioadvantage
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,497
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    i remember being in an appalling sh1thole years ago and finding Hitchhikers on the World Service.

    #joy

    Honestly, you didn't need the World Service. Slough has perfectly good FM.

    seriously? so why have i only been able to find medium wave Talk Sport when cruising through there in ma pimped up mo-bile?

    crackle crackle yeah sack him he don't know nuffing crackle crackle offside crakle crackle nuneaton 4 prestwich 2 crackle


    #unfairradioadvantage

    Cheap knock off radio from Edwyn's methinks.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    i remember being in an appalling sh1thole years ago and finding Hitchhikers on the World Service.

    #joy

    Honestly, you didn't need the World Service. Slough has perfectly good FM.

    seriously? so why have i only been able to find medium wave Talk Sport when cruising through there in ma pimped up mo-bile?

    crackle crackle yeah sack him he don't know nuffing crackle crackle offside crakle crackle nuneaton 4 prestwich 2 crackle


    #unfairradioadvantage

    Cheap knock off radio from Edwyn's methinks.

    "Edwyn's Terrific Transistors - bring the live outside sounds inside"

    First time i plugged it in i thought Dave Grohl had set up residence in the downstairs loo so echoey was the sound quality.

    :)
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.

    Daytime TV again?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.


    explain what paticular aspect of the Spices?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Why no one has yet pointed out that Jeremy Dein ( the barrister in Murder Mystery and my Family ) looks very similar to Sergei the Meerkat!

    WQMoTi.md.jpg

    More daytime TV.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.

    Never let it be said this website doesn't deal with the hot topics as soon as they happen.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,808
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.

    Never let it be said this website doesn't deal with the hot topics as soon as they happen.
    It's an on-going issue. Started with Bananarama, then Spice Girls then Girls Aloud etc. Easily dealt with by putting them into the 'videos to watch with the sound turned off' category.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,497
    It's true Cowsham.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Nowt wrong wirh the Spices. Well apart from that mardy one. She should be hit with a pick axe handle.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Nowt wrong wirh the Spices. Well apart from that mardy one. She should be hit with a pick axe handle.

    There's nothing 'wrong' with them in the sense of illegal, immoral or corrupt (AFAIK). They are just dull and boring and never seem to go away.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Someone in difference of opinion shocker.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.

    Never let it be said this website doesn't deal with the hot topics as soon as they happen.
    It's an on-going issue. Started with Bananarama, then Spice Girls then Girls Aloud etc. Easily dealt with by putting them into the 'videos to watch with the sound turned off' category.

    The Saturdays were better in sound turned off mode.

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Robert88 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Nowt wrong wirh the Spices. Well apart from that mardy one. She should be hit with a pick axe handle.

    There's nothing 'wrong' with them in the sense of illegal, immoral or corrupt (AFAIK). They are just dull and boring and never seem to go away.


    sorry but you're wrong on all 3 counts.

    and if you look at what they did when they did it from a social perspective you'll see what the fuss is all about.

    #broadenhorizons
    #furtherthantheendofyournose
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    Social perspective! They were put together by a manager (Simon Fuller?) and all that 'girl-power' stuff was just part of the con. It set the precedent for what was to come in boybands etc. But they made/lost a lot of money depending who you pick - Beckham = ££, Gobby = divorces, headlines, -££ etc.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Robert88 wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Nowt wrong wirh the Spices. Well apart from that mardy one. She should be hit with a pick axe handle.

    There's nothing 'wrong' with them in the sense of illegal, immoral or corrupt (AFAIK). They are just dull and boring and never seem to go away.

    nah.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,808
    Cowsham wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    The Spice Girls.

    Please explain, someone.

    Never let it be said this website doesn't deal with the hot topics as soon as they happen.
    It's an on-going issue. Started with Bananarama, then Spice Girls then Girls Aloud etc. Easily dealt with by putting them into the 'videos to watch with the sound turned off' category.

    The Saturdays were better in sound turned off mode.

    A-1232437-1490114188-1644.jpeg.jpg


    saturdays-are-for-the-boys-wallpaper-inspirational-the-saturdays-girlband-wallpaper-of-saturdays-are-for-the-boys-wallpaper.jpg
    And lets not forget the girl band that started it all:

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Walking races
  • Wayne Plunger
    Wayne Plunger Posts: 444
    I am always left perplexed by the charity appeal about that girl that walks 12 mile a day to the water hole.

    Why don't they move nearer to the water hole thus shortening the walk.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Wayne Plunger wrote:
    I am always left perplexed by the charity appeal about that girl that walks 12 mile a day to the water hole.

    Why don't they move nearer to the water hole thus shortening the walk.

    Have you seen the property prices nearer the water hole?

    More seriously, which would you prefer: treated tap water or disease ridden water from a muddy puddle?

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