
Tiger's shagging any gaping hole these days.
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Not the fat naked callmedave, but the gone on fire bit.
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nice trick, unlike Mandelbrot who seems to be made of Teflon - the cunt
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i've seen your gifs on a random photobucket profile, one looks like atomics too
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Every possible 'shop always gets done at least twice by the end of the first day of a compo.
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s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/77600/1268394973/thumb.bottomgun.jpg
nsfw, appparently
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nsfw, appparently

Perhaps he's just trying to play dead and not acting it out very well . . .
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And moons, and everything - brilliiaaaant!
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I got the BBC to send me to Ethiopia to look at volcanoes.....
and there's this brilliant canyon on Mars but we can't go to Mars so I got the BBC to send me to Arizona to look at the Grand Canyon...
and there's these brilliant lumps of ice in Saturn's rings, but we can't go to Saturn so I got the BBC to send me to the Antarctic....
etc etc.
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and there's this brilliant canyon on Mars but we can't go to Mars so I got the BBC to send me to Arizona to look at the Grand Canyon...
and there's these brilliant lumps of ice in Saturn's rings, but we can't go to Saturn so I got the BBC to send me to the Antarctic....
etc etc.

they can touch everything but themselves.........oh.....
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He's a very happy smiley musician turned physicist called Brian Cox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_%28physicist%29
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_%28physicist%29

who are all very prominently titular doctors. its the new vogue, from that ginger one off of coast, and that aggressive Scottish one who got to visit all those caves and forests.
and there's that other one on the mini series about the internet - swanning all round the world doing patronising pish to the camera.
when did we decide that if a you are under 40 and have a phd, you are made for sunday evenings? leave the presenting to the screen talent, you boffin cunts.
all the doctors i work with are fat men with beards. :(
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and there's that other one on the mini series about the internet - swanning all round the world doing patronising pish to the camera.
when did we decide that if a you are under 40 and have a phd, you are made for sunday evenings? leave the presenting to the screen talent, you boffin cunts.
all the doctors i work with are fat men with beards. :(

be so mean about the ginger one off of coast. she's lovely.
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His enthusiasm and sense of awe about his subject more than make up for the lack of elbow patches or whatever it is you think science presenters should have.
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i just find it funny that doing a doctorate seems to give you a leg up on the meeja ladder now! i might see if i can get a slot on the 'cultcha show' as a design correspondent once i get my phd sorted. ;)
we used to want our boffins to look like experienced, wizzened sages, now we want them to have played keyboards in d:ream. pish i tell thee.
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we used to want our boffins to look like experienced, wizzened sages, now we want them to have played keyboards in d:ream. pish i tell thee.

he's a fucking grinning mancunian, which just grates on me. :D
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to try and make 'science' less threatening, we have sidelined convention, and actively recruited the youngest, most screen pleasing academics - it ultimately another way of dumbing down - or at least sneering at the audience...
"look, if we put a pop star with letters after his name, and have him drive a car on some sand dunes, you might absorb some knowledge, you rotten proles"
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"look, if we put a pop star with letters after his name, and have him drive a car on some sand dunes, you might absorb some knowledge, you rotten proles"

When i worked in the horticultural/landscape industry, it pissed a lot of people off that the presenters of gardening programmes were young and trendy, yet knew fuck all about the subject. Case in point: Kim bleedin Wilde who had done one course in garden design at Capel Manor College and ended up fronting a really shit garden makeover programme.
However, say anything bad again about the ginger one off of coast and I will hunt you down and kill you.
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However, say anything bad again about the ginger one off of coast and I will hunt you down and kill you.

but i remember that when she first emerged on coast, she was there as a archeologist, then a few months later, she was doing a programme about medicine! she might know about both, but she is presented as a sage each time - the whole thing is very disengenuous. they want the titles and the letters to give the show gravitas, but to be hoenst, they could have bought their degrees off the internet so long as they look good after make up, and do a mean piece to camera*.
so they arent the best screen talent, and they arent the best academics. so why are they there? just to lend weight. bah humbug.
*tv in sowmanship coming first shocker.
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so they arent the best screen talent, and they arent the best academics. so why are they there? just to lend weight. bah humbug.
*tv in sowmanship coming first shocker.

so she could sort of know about medicine and archaeology. Sort of.
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"they arent the best screen talent, and they arent the best academics. so why are they there?"
So would you prefer a better presenter who knows nothing, or someone more knowledgeable who can't convey their knowledge? Choose. Choose now!
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So would you prefer a better presenter who knows nothing, or someone more knowledgeable who can't convey their knowledge? Choose. Choose now!

because there aren't many of us around. They're aimed at people who are interested but not experts, so they're made friendly and entertaining to get the biggest audience.
If you're an expert already, you don't go to TV shows for information.
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:17,
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If you're an expert already, you don't go to TV shows for information.

Like the Scottish guy who first drew bonds as lines on a page (Archibald Scott Couper) but didn't publish fast enough and went mad.
Also, the dispute about whether two compounds with the same elemental composition (C, O, Ag) were the 'same' or not. Since one was explosive (Silver Ethanoate or something) and the other wasn't (Silver cyanante? no, that has nitrogen) it's not surprising to us. But the idea of a structural formula was new.
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Also, the dispute about whether two compounds with the same elemental composition (C, O, Ag) were the 'same' or not. Since one was explosive (Silver Ethanoate or something) and the other wasn't (Silver cyanante? no, that has nitrogen) it's not surprising to us. But the idea of a structural formula was new.


But it was on BBC4 (when I saw it, anyway), which tends to have more limited appeal stuff.
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those shows shouldn't be hidden in the digital hinterland, they should be far more accessible.
really informative programs get hidden away, with the ugly boffins on bbc4, while we get prime time gloss with big teeth dr's on bbc1.
we are moving from broadcasting to narrowcasting, and marginalisation of huge sections of the audience, in favour of freeing up space for lowest common denominator mind piss programming. it sucks.
but stick a doctor on the glossy show on a sunday, and mark kermode on the cultcha show, and you fulfill the mandate. cunts cunts cunts.
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:55,
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really informative programs get hidden away, with the ugly boffins on bbc4, while we get prime time gloss with big teeth dr's on bbc1.
we are moving from broadcasting to narrowcasting, and marginalisation of huge sections of the audience, in favour of freeing up space for lowest common denominator mind piss programming. it sucks.
but stick a doctor on the glossy show on a sunday, and mark kermode on the cultcha show, and you fulfill the mandate. cunts cunts cunts.

One is Ag-O-N#C, the other is Ag-O-C#N.
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*I believe you but wouldn't know any better and will instantly forget as soon as I scroll away.
I am definitely a not-scientist, the kind of 'prole' that these programmes are probably aimed at.
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I am definitely a not-scientist, the kind of 'prole' that these programmes are probably aimed at.

and i'm not saying anything to the contrary.
what i am pointing towards is a shift in the relationship between presenter and viewer.
it used to be that we would take the program at its word - we know that presenters are reading a script, but we trust that the bbc's vast teams of researchers and experts will have done the hard work, and that we will learn something and be entertained.
now, post blue peter vote scandle, it seems that we have to have the illusion of expertise to trust a science program. next will we have soldiers presenting the segments from afghanistan on the news? is that what you want? eh?
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what i am pointing towards is a shift in the relationship between presenter and viewer.
it used to be that we would take the program at its word - we know that presenters are reading a script, but we trust that the bbc's vast teams of researchers and experts will have done the hard work, and that we will learn something and be entertained.
now, post blue peter vote scandle, it seems that we have to have the illusion of expertise to trust a science program. next will we have soldiers presenting the segments from afghanistan on the news? is that what you want? eh?

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Which seems reasonable to me.
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two ways i see it:
1) sam neil did a great job fronting 'space', which was still explanatory, and precisely aimed at the same people. as an actor, he could evoke dramma and action more easily than most experts on that kind of prime time show.
2) the qualified presenters sprang up at the same time as the more involved programs of the type discussed further up, got marginalised. part of me cant help but feel that this was planned - by putting up authoritative front men on the same old type of show, it quietened any arguments about bbc1 & 2 dumbing down - which they have.
if you complained that factual programs have been shunted into the background, they would simply say 'but we have leading scientists and academics on every weekend at prime time!
disingenuous at best.
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1) sam neil did a great job fronting 'space', which was still explanatory, and precisely aimed at the same people. as an actor, he could evoke dramma and action more easily than most experts on that kind of prime time show.
2) the qualified presenters sprang up at the same time as the more involved programs of the type discussed further up, got marginalised. part of me cant help but feel that this was planned - by putting up authoritative front men on the same old type of show, it quietened any arguments about bbc1 & 2 dumbing down - which they have.
if you complained that factual programs have been shunted into the background, they would simply say 'but we have leading scientists and academics on every weekend at prime time!
disingenuous at best.

well, no, not literally, he's dead and probably a bit bony by now
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ok
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i'm saying that their has been such a spate of this sort of presenter, it makes their appearance seem far less about their merit as a scientist, and more about zeitgeist.
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:17,
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but there's a documentary about aardvarks I'm really keen to watch....
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:21,
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"Astrolabes were the iPods of their day" sigh.
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:03,
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either that or having a poo
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:56,
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i made some piss ones too, but they got burned. :(
might make a b3ta batch next. :)
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might make a b3ta batch next. :)
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By the same author?
Just substitute Dinos for robots?
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Just substitute Dinos for robots?

remake Films and TV programmes, but with animals instead of humans robots.
Hollywood/Crichton have complied fully with the compo brief!
edit: er...apart from the humans bit
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Hollywood/Crichton have complied fully with the compo brief!
edit: er...apart from the humans bit

OOPS, DID I DO THAT? SORRY! I HEARD THE DOCTORS CAN DO WONDERS WITH CHOPPED OFF ARMS THESE DAYS
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although, is it just me, or does jeremy look a bit like that jar jar binks fucker?
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OMG I WENT TO THE DEATH STAR AND WE STOLE SOME UNIFORMS AND WORE THEM AND SHOT SOME BAD PEOPLE AND MET A NICE LADY AND I DID A POO IN THE DETENTION BLOCK. I WANT ICE CREAM. LET'S GO TO HOTH THEY HAVE ICE CREAM THERE. I WANT A POO.
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Or just some random search on google?
Show your commitment to the cause,dude!
Also Woo!
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:23,
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Show your commitment to the cause,dude!
Also Woo!

that's what it gave me
it's not bonnie - i've been found out :(
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:36,
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it's not bonnie - i've been found out :(

Amy Winehouse.
Pair of dirty bastards!
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Pair of dirty bastards!

Sorry, no, you don't have to. It just amused me.
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Thu 1 Apr 2010, 21:07,
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wolves vagina.... argh my eyes!
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but i have a feeling she may call me something nasty if i do
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Poor fluffehs :(
I should have learned by now not to catch up on threads I missed :(
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I should have learned by now not to catch up on threads I missed :(
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Poor dinysaurusses both victims of circumstance :( This makes me all sads now.
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/ac
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But to answer your question...I was just going for a different look. All the rest are just yellow backgrounds with bright blue skies.
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the john goodman pig shoppage is great :)
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