What. The. Fuck. WHATTHEFUCK?!
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!
Gordon Brown takes time out to write letters to the X-Factor finalists................fucking seriously?
England pisses me off, so much so i moved to holland, and found they'd stolen the format of pretty much all british TV shows and their politicians are becoming increasingly weak-willed and pussyi-ish. Europe, you are doomed.
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:19,
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In other news....
Anti-terrorist agents arrest opposition MP.
We're not in a police state.
But all the elements are in place for one.
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yeah, it's not even "Tory MP arrested in Call Girl Sting"
He was actually doing his job for once!!!!
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fuck!
just read it on the Beeb, now that shit's fucked up......but explains perfectly why the PM's on a publicity mission.....Pololololiticians....
interestingly apparently one of the leaks was "A letter from the home secretary warning that a recession could lead to a rise in crime." to be honest, did that really need leaking? some things are just common fucking sense. people get poor, government-and therefore police force- has less money to enforce law, poor people steal, police can't get them. 's not fucking rocket science.
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:50,
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Aren't most of the reality shows from Holland in the first place?
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Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:33,
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Big Brother certainly was.
Not that I live in england (or have a whole lot of nice to say about the experience) anymore.
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gronkpan, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:36,
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i thought that was swedish?
but the dutch have taken the idea to the extreme.
A show called "De Gouden Kooij" - The Golden Cage (spelling might be attrociously wrong there) has a similar idea, the twist? shitloads of people in a mansion, each week they must unanimously nominate one person to leave the house, if they can't decide, then nothing happens. the show runs INDEFINITELY, i think it ran for well over a year before the producers started getting edgy, i think they forced a closure eventually. the winner got to keep the mansion. not bad.
EDIT: Nope, you're right, twas originally Dutch, well that explains a lot.........
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:44,
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of course, andrew denton did "the house from hell" a few years earlier in Australia,
but he got sued after he made people eat nothing but baked beans for three days while they had no hot water.
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gronkpan, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:17,
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Its a bit more like,
Gordon brown writes to the one with the big tits ;-)
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:01,
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ha, i wouldn't really know, i haven't watched any UK TV for close to two years. it's bliss.
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:09,
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Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
That means you missed Dead Set, which was fecking ace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GgRyjQS8o#t=0m45s
Just turn sound down a bit. Cant find the pic where they look really big ;-)
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:14,
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oooooohhhhhhh you bastard, not only do you remind me of the only piece of british TV that i've wanted to watch since i moved here,
but you further taunt me with your youtube links, which i cannot watch because my works IT staff are nazi's that hate me
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:40,
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*taunts*
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:45,
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Anyone could write a letter and sign it Gordon Brown*
*texture like sun.
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Brandy_Bumwinkle, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:15,
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what i don't understand
is what the problem is.
Gordon is just a bloke like everyone else (apart from the ladies, who aren't blokes [mostly]), he's free to write to whoever he likes in his own time when he's not working as PM (if he does). He's allowed to have opinions, likes and dislikes and stuff.
So, what's the big deal? And I'm asking as someone who really doesn't understand what the problem is with this.
I'm sure he's not the only person to write to the xfecktor peoples.
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And he only seemed to write to the one with the big tits.
I am more of a Diana person myself.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:47,
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ah.. isn't she
the one that sings with an unnatural (in that she sounds like she's forcing it) voice and in a style much like Dolores O'Riordan?
edit: dolores was born not far from my hometown.. sort of a claim to fame so it is
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I like Dolores O'Riordan
and as a result, have just youtube'd this Diana person. I agree, it sounds like an affectation - it's not the Dolores 'yodel' that sounds wrong, it's the strange pronunciation.
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TheAlmightyBeev, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 13:09,
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true
i just watched yellow..
there's a really strange pronunciation on the word "you" in lines like... "..and all the things that _you_ do..", amongst other lines..
still, she can sing, but.. *shrug*
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She sounded better at first.
I see her more of a Beth Orton type.
I can imagine her singing Linger one day. That would be nice, and her voice would be more natural if I was doing her in the bum...
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 13:10,
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i like beth orton
but i can't quite see her and diana as being similar, but then i really don't watch arse like xfector unless someone links a decent bit of comedy.. none of that making peole look like arses, but the ones where they deserved to be ridiculed
for example:
www.yikers.com/video_holistic_vocal_coach_on_x-factor.html
edit: i think ariel can sing, she just went in with the wrong atitude
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Not even a teensy weensy bit?
The vocal coach needs to be in Mumbai at the moment.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 14:26,
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Fair point. i guess i'm more pissed off with the fact that it was clear to him and others that this would be publicised.
otherwise, as prime minister, he would have asked them to down play it.
y'see the prime minister cannot simply be just a bloke, purely because of his role as head of our country, everything he does or says is a national endorsement, and enything he does in the public eye has (almost 100%) been thought through by publicity peoples as well as himself.
if he wants to write them a letter then fine, ask them to keep it quiet. if, on the other hand, he wants to show that he's "just like all other brits, just one of the people" then he can stop acting like such a cunt.
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Just Flange, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:58,
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