Nah
Actually Bumfidel was a quite annoying character in the german version of Sesame Street during the 70s.
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account88888 former cynic, converted to kindness, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:25,
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thats kind of like the powerthirst ads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNBK6M6BQ&feature=relmfu
the idea is there but it needs the powerthirst pow :D
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sPUNKer do your pictures for nothing get abuse for free, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:14,
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needs more beard
Mines much bushier than that thin layer of face fuzz.
*smugs*
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:20,
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Guns For Girls
No, really...
GC sagt nein and if I'm wrong I'll shoot.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:14, Reply)
well, not really...
"Founded by a female US Army veteran known only as "Glambo," GlamGuns.com was put together to mock stereotypes of women and girls and what they really like."
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:16, Reply)
Err, I was being vaguely humerous with my write up.
Well trying to be. Being half German that's a pretty well impossible for me, but I try none the less...
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:27, Reply)
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8560815/Germany-officially-the-worlds-least-funny-country.html
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:50,
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From a poll that rates Belgium as funnier than Britain?
"Commenting on Britain’s poor showing in the survey Mr Price said the international perception of the UK was a country whose people were uptight and reserved." Really?..
To be honest, I find both Brits and Germans funny mainly because they actually have a very similar sense of humour; both like word games like puns etc. And both have a love of a good groaner.
That kind of stuff doesn't translate well hence why other nations don't get it.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:28, Reply)
Anybody remember the Bikini Bandits?
FAPTASTIC!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yiZTN31_4
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littlefeet - his variable is not defined, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:58,
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Miserable old bitch is rewarded for spying on her neighbour for 3 years.
Warning! Daily Fail article. Sums up their readership quite nicely really. At least the comments give some hope for humanity.
If only I lived nearby I would feel the need to go and shag in her back garden if only to wipe the smug look off her face. /endrant
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:00,
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Use the proxy
Here
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:11,
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Wow. What an sad, empty shell of a woman
Also: I fully endorse your suggestion of organising a mass-orgy outside her house.
*trims pubes*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:15,
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*collects cuttings*
*makes moustache*
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:27,
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You disgust me.
*wanks cock*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:47,
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Jeez
I actually like when you've got some old retired lass in the street as they tend to feel they have nowt to lose when someone's being an anti social prick and step out to tell 'em off, but there IS a limit, and for me, this would be it.
Jeez, fancy someone keeping a diary of everything you ever do including sexual activities and the car regs of those involved in them, how fuckin creepy is that!?
BTW anyone see the Daily Fail tried to get Sandy Toksvig (notorious self-professed lesbian with 3 children!) done for 'profanity' by whipping up some reader hysteria for the joke 'The Tories, putting the 'N' into 'Cuts" on The News Quiz on Radio 4.
Last I looked this was from a long line of time honoured english double entendre humour and the fact that you as a listener understand the joke and get the unsaid word of image IN YOUR MIND does not mean it was actually said or shown!
Never the less as ever MPs and the folks in power generally feel the need to jump 'cos The Fail has spoken... *sigh*
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:23,
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I just don't get it
we all know they're fear mongering scum with a right wing agenda to sell newspapers to the simple minded majority by pandering to all their fears and knee-jerk reactions, but WHY do the powers that be ALWAYS go along for the ride!? The Fail writes it, the politicians enforce it, fucking annoying.
Jeez do they have a file of rent boy pics on every fucking MP in the fucking country!?
Maybe they do what this bitch above does...
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:38,
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I'm not sure who benefits from the majority of my - ironically very Daily Mail-esque - outrage on this.
The woman herself, of the stupid bloody court, for not kicking her complaint into touch straight away, and then slapping some form of injunction on her to respect the man's right to privacy.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:50,
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Ah ha ha ha ha!
HA HA HAHAHA
*cough cough*
HAHA!
That is brilliant.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:08,
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That's the new Doctor Who monster sorted then.
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:15,
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I'll stop after this:
But https://www.facebook.com/people/Pauline-Palmer/100001249503172
(22 friends, soon to be less I'd wager)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:15,
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Nice find
Now for some trolling..............
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:31,
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Do bear in mind this IS the Fail
they troll us 'liberal lefty' reactionaries to do as they want just as much as they do their own right wingers, getting us all to go to their webbie to complain for example, for all we know this story is just yet another casual fabrication, and as the reporter is apparently named as 'A Daily Mail Reporter' I would advise seeing if you can confirm more directly that she did actually do any of it...
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:45,
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Reckon the Fail got it from the local rag (as they are wont to do)
here.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:59,
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Good sleuthing!
A tad more measured version of events too, with some differing factoids, but it does still sound like the bitch got a problem with other people who still have a life to live near her!
I have to wonder at times if there ain't a good argument for actually sub-dividing residential areas into age groups, like the council in Leeds had terrible trouble up-keeping some ancient old concrete flats of the '60s hi-rise variety which were awful dives of drugs, burglary and general anti-social wankery, till they had the brainwave to make them exclusively for OAPs, and now they're a tranquil paradise of quiet reflection where the only smashed windows come with bad weather and the lift always works and only smells of wee after old Mrs Smith had an accident again... ;)
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:15,
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I like the idea of dividing up society:
Some kind of west-east wall just north of Birmingham to keep those revolting, flat-vowelled northern oiks out of lovely southern britain please!
*runs*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:41,
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Ee by gum I feel reet northern now!
*stops washing, starts claiming dole*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:56,
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Her favourite movie is Dirty Dancing!
I'm sensing some repression here
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MartinH, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:29,
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Typical Daily Mail readers.
Old, racist uptight fascists. When they can't have stories like this, where in any normal circumstance the old lady would have had a run-in with the law, they'll just bring in a basta- I mean, columnist, to tell you how dreadful the world is. Fuck them all.
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Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:37,
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Reminds me of the Neighbourhood Watch guy where I used to live 10 years ago.
He actually tried to tell one family off for having a "too high" hedge which meant he couldn't look into their front room at all times.
They told him to fuck off and then phoned the police on him. )
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:48, Reply)
NW is generally a good thing and a force for good
unfortunately some sad curtain twitchers do tend to give it bad publicity by deciding they are now the moral compass and social sheriff for the entire street and everyone in it, in which case they need to fuck off and get their own life IMO, but it is a fine line, I guess.
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:02,
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Oh look she has a support page :)
www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_214891351875857
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:05,
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Oh you are a BAD MAN.
*bums*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:15,
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LS18's FP reminded me of this - not your conventional drummer
Takes a short while to get going while Glenn Kotche opens dozens of boxes of singing crickets, and then starts drumming.
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Varmint, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:58,
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We Are The World...feat. Peter Shilton
just...what?
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:57,
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Keisha Knight Pulliam
Odd. I was, for no reason I can remember, trying to remember the names of the Cosby Show cast as the name "Tempest Bledsoe" fell into my head.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:05,
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Pat Sharp?
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:26,
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Loads of questions marks for me, but somehow most of them don't require answering. One question baffles me, this is sung by a bunch of Norwegians, how did Pat Sharpe ever reach them?? I can understand the other choices as they were pop/sport/TV stars and therefore likely to breach borders. But did Norway have Fun House or something?
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:11,
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Kim Wilde... Popdronning
bit harsh
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 8:47,
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Oh dear...and his name matches the crime too.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:47,
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There was a link to a seven minute video of him trying to slime his way out of it here yesterday.
That made my blood BOIL.
Vile man. And yes, I realise he's a democrat & has a good political record.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:51,
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but he is stupid...
i mean his fucking name is weiner... dont tweet da meat!
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:22, Reply)
"don't tweet da meat"!
That should be on a t-shirt!
(I'll have five please)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:28,
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Reminds me of Brass Eye
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0zKTGI2g8
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The Coast Of Yemen, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:01,
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haha excellent!
I thought it was going to be this clip... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrswLN0Mnc
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:36,
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Oh god yes!
I forgot about that- one of my favourites.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:04,
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If you replace this with Peter Andre the joke still works
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Ten U Us results once we've taken all the cocks out, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:08,
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Nice
Is this realistic though? Did one used to buy records and "Old Geronimo" from the same small shop?
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:20,
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It was back in the old days
Where everywhere else was all fields so they had to do their shopping on one shop
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Ten U Us results once we've taken all the cocks out, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 11:49,
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How to make your own Peanut Butter
So easy and a tinsy bit healthier then buying it, cheaper too.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 8:38,
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It's random links like this,
that make visiting /links such a joy.
[edit]- Plus, from the first line, I half-expected some kind of dirty-protest video.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:52,
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I whole-heartedly agree
and I have to say that any link to an article that mentions "nut butter" gets a vote from me.
*click-a-lick-a*
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emergency_pants Today I smell of... tea tree, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 12:43,
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you snort beer?
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:31,
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hehehe
thats great. I particularly like the bit where the hops get to watch martial arts films
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:46,
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THAT'S FECKIN INSANE!
Good choice of music, The Hoff WILL be pleased!
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..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:42,
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Do you know what - I think that the crisp clean taste of Monkey Beer might finally have met its match.
It was touch and go for a while but Roy Scheider in a helicopter sealed the deal IMHO.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:42,
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Awesome advert to make up for the awful beer
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simbosan Hello you cunt, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 13:14,
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Good animated short
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man ...
ARK from grzegorz jonkajtys on Vimeo.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 3:13, Reply)
Lovers of quirky funk and jazz listen up: The Natural Yogurt Band "Eastern Promise"
Superb!
They also have a downloadable DJ mix here:
www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/The-Natural-Yogurt-Band-The-Natural-Yogurt-Mix
choc full of obscure goodies.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:24, Reply)
Some extreme nostalgia for those of a certain age.
Hey Look That's Me. Just the end theme tune and credits.
Full episode here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUbOVEPOkY&feature=related
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Louse POKE 35899,0, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:38,
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Final fantasy 7 hip hop.
pretty gay but i like this part featuring "barrett"
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:00, Reply)
Korea's Got Talent discovers Sung-Bong Choi,
an orphan with a dream.
Extra bonus points for discovering George Takei's love child on the panel, too!
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..wil, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:46,
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That had me in tears earlier!
I'm a sucker for a sob story...:-)
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:47,
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KOREA got talent?
i better hope this is NORTH korea- the only korea there is. also i like the fact no matter what version of this program you watch- its always edited in the same way and the always use the same awful dramatic music ppft
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:52, Reply)
It's a condition of them buying the rights to use the format.
Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a format I guess :-).
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JamTallons, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:59,
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That's the other fascination
no matter where they're done, they are identical, every one, everywhere, in every way, the editing, the music, the content, identical, yet it seems to work in even the most disparate of cultures.
I find the whole Got Talent franchise fascinating, it's very nearly religious in it's identity and influence now, and it's worldwide! The Pope should be taking notes!
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..wil, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:59,
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You're right about the editing and music
But the way the judges and audience react is so much more dignified and less patronising than western versions.
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mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:04,
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Wait, what? north?
If north korea had a talent show, I bet any contestant who failed to pick a song praising their illustrious leader would be promptly manhandled off the stage and charged with treason :P
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:18, Reply)
They buy the format specifically, it'sa copyright/trademark/Bern convention thing.
Also, fuck you for supporting North Korea.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:39, Reply)
There are no homeless children in north Korea
all orphans are probably housed in *orphanages* ie state work camps and looked after by the dear leader....
Only vile capitalists would allow children to live on the streets..
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 21:33, Reply)
This is like that 'Tearjerker' episode of American Dad
With the film trailer about the orphaned retard in the holocaust with the cancer-stricken puppy.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:57,
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His parents left him at the orphanage when he was 3
becaue he was rubbish at Starcraft.
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Louse POKE 35899,0, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:03,
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I really want to not hate this
but I can't. I hope the orphan kid gets his break, but I also hope the judges (especially the oh-so-sincere pretty one) die very soon.
Career-wise of course, not in some sort of horrificaly-gory freak supermarket bacon-slicer accident. Because that would be awful.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:16, Reply)
you know it's rigged right?
Pretty obvious... just look at the name... -->SUBO<--ng. It's her in a shirt... not even had a haircut.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 9:59,
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Whenever I see these clips I think of Ben Elton's Chart Throb
Where the producers divide contestants into Blingers, Mingers and Clingers - cynically grooming and exposing the vulnerable in their pursuit of 'good telly'.
It would be better for the kid to escape the clutches of the Talent Machine soonest possible - but he won't. According to insiders the contracts contestants sign mean that they belong to the programme makers until they are squeezed dry of any publicity potential.
Get this - even if they win, they have to hand back their prize money in return for all the 'coaching costs' incurred during the contest, it's in the contract.
There was a really interesting article about this the other day here justpaste.it/c8g Oh Deary Me Look What Happened!
EDIT: various kind souls have rescued the article, here's one here www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72549341
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Bootsthealchemist is barred from the Masterchef Facebook page, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:32,
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Ye olde Star Wars-y goodness from Blur studios
Amazing stuff
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taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:36,
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Mostly gorgeous.
The characters still look a bit wooden, though :/
One day I really will get round to working on that muscle, bone and skin tech I've been meaning to do for a while.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:12, Reply)
Stupid clone wars.
So this is what it would be like if starwars plagiarized starwars.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:18, Reply)
Human Centipede 2 banned in UK
Scroll down for the BBFC synopsis of the plot. Yuck!
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gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:17,
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oh nice
edit: although it does seem odd that they denied this, but allowed a certain (artless) film featuring "newborn porn" and a man brutally sodomising his own young child.
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mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:34,
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Agree
A Serbian Film was proper fucked-up. This Centipede sequel reads a bit *meh* in comparison. However in my opinion the popular Hostel movies are even more morally-bankrupt than the two put together. Probably why I'm mostly-watching Spongebob theses days.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:29, Reply)
Those aquatic, animated sodomites?
You disgust me.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 10:07,
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It takes a lot of effort to get banned these days
well done that man.
Still haven't seen the first film, the trailer alone near made me sick
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VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:41,
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^this
And i'm lost for words on the description for the second one. I also feel slightly disturbed anyone could actually sit in a cinema and watch it, let alone make it
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:52,
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Remember reading a bit of an interview with a BBFC reviewer once
99% of what they review is pure trash for straight-to-DVD, and a lot of it is horrific garbage. Only rarely do they actually get to review a nice art film or a blockbuster. Because they see graphic uncut violence and depravity day in day out they have to have regular counselling sessions.
Nice. Maybe a career in movies isn't for me.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:12, Reply)
Hahaha!
Nicely put; if they have regular counselling sessions then job done. Gore lust like this is simply a bit lost on me personally
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:16,
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But they know they are watching special effects.
If I see someone punched in the street, I feel sick - I mean it really does my head in, and it'll stay with me. But if I see someone graphically murdered in a film, it doesn't bother me at all, apart from maybe a wince as it happens.
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mookay immune to icons since, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:17,
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I think it's the depravity of the idea
rather than the realism of the violence which has the most horrific lasting effect.
I was going to put his here as an example but the more I read about this the more it actually sounds like quite a good film:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_(film)#Plot
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:02, Reply)
Antichrist is a genius piece of cinema.
It looks beautiful and makes you think quite deeply about some pretty heavy issues. But yeah, there are some unsettling images.
edit: also, depraved ideas are nothing new, and have had a hugely important role to play in popular fiction, theatre, films and art throughout history. With dark, disturbing themes often comes truth and insight. Your pals at the BBFC should probably stay away from Marquis De Sade writings, Bosche paintings, any Grand-Guignol theatre, modern writers like Palahniuk, and even old poets like Poe. Much depravity to be had. I love it.
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mookay immune to icons since, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:23,
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Oh, bullshit.
Its easy to become desensitised to special-effects gore. It's also easy to differentiate between real violence and SFX. It takes a serious amount of budget and skill to make on-screen ultra-violence seem even remotely realistic. If an onscreen special-effect causes you to need counselling in this day and age, then you're a fucking infant.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:49, Reply)
Remember, these are the same people who gave the first Spider-Man movie a 12 rating, meaning that kids couldn't watch a movie that was clearly aimed at kids. I was working as a cinema usher at the time; my job became "bouncer" as a result of that absurd ruling. The 12 rating was given because of the big fight at the end, in which Spidey gets battered a bit and some blood is shown. Oh, noes! Who will think of the childrens!
This would have been at least faintly supportable, had there not been a Star Wars movie showing at the same time in which people got their fucking arms cut off, and died through stab-wounds and being FUCKING CUT IN HALF . . . and yet the Phantom Menace was given a PG rating. The so-called "rules" were insupportable bullshit.
I personally complained to the BBFC, because I was fed up with having to physically defend my female, teenaged co-workers from actual violence by parents who thought that it was their decision to smuggle their toddlers into the film, laws be damned, and would turn nasty - i.e., physically violent - whenever we pointed out that precious little Alfie (they're always called Alfie) was barely twelve inches tall, let alone twelve years old.
People have a bizarre notion that cinemas should bend to their will, and that they are completely in charge once they've bought their tickets, regardless of the law.
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:33, Reply)
Did you think about turning a blind eye?
If you don't agree with the rating system, then don't blindly uphold it's rulings
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 3:01, Reply)
To be fair, it's not just about gore and violence
And watching a film about people being forced to shit into each others mouths wouldn't be a pleasant experience, regardless of how easily you can 'differentiate between real violence and SFX.' If you can't grasp that, then you're worse than a fucking infant (not really, I just felt it appropriate to respond in kind)
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 2:59, Reply)
As a medic, this movie really pissed me off
"100% medically accurate!".
Yes. It is possible to take a stitch and sew someone's mouth to someone else's arsehole.
Plus: Where was his evil sidekick Anaesthetist? And his evil sidekick recovery room nurse?
Grrr.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:03, Reply)
What pissed me off about that film the most was that they apparently hired Junji Ito as a consultant. Junji Ito has produced some of the most horrifying, and original, ideas of this century or the last. A second-rate movie like this just sullies his name.
Seriously, look up his name and read his manga (I'm not a fan of manga myself, but for crying out loud, read his stuff and you won't sleep for a week).
(, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:53, Reply)
i just remembered i'm not 15 and don't want to watch stuff like this
so i'm not going to yay!
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:43, Reply)
ewwwwwwww
I dare say people will be streaming it from elswhere
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:45,
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Facist censors! What ever happened to free speech??!!
...Examples of this include a scene early in the film in which he masturbates whilst he watches a DVD of the original Human Centipede film, with sandpaper wrapped around his penis, and a sequence later in the film in which he becomes aroused at the sight of the members of the ‘centipede’ being forced to defecate into one another’s mouths, culminating in sight of the man wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the rear of the ‘centipede’.
OK. Fair one. Bleeeuuurrgh.
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Louse POKE 35899,0, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:50,
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whats with the bad ass cover illustration in red?
this is NOT the original cover and i cant find this one anywhere on google picture search. it's damn stylish and bad ass. i want it in big. also im still shocking cockwork orange was banned in the uk for ages.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 22:55, Reply)
A Clockwork Orange wasn't banned.
It was withdrawn at Kubrick's request.
(, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:11, Reply)
Oh
so we're back to the extremes of the '80s 'snuff video' era again then.
Well can't say as I didn't see it coming, tho I am surprised it came via this channel, I was expecting something from teh intertubes from some country with highly differing censorship rules, possibly in the form of a game, but there you go...
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..wil, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:20,
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Oh good lord
it's just a film. And a shit one at that. Probably.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 23:25,
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mental.
Also, does anyone else have real problems reading white text on black on a computer screen? I find it almost unreadable, and burns into my eyes for minutes afterwards.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 0:46,
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Yeah, me too...
Black text on a white background is fine though.
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 1:18,
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The directors are the real winners here.
To shamelessly rip someone else's comment:
The Guardian article wrote,"The BBFC's decision to ban Tom Six's shock-horror film lays bare a phobia about violence, but only when it's sexual."
Reading the interview with Six for the original film, I think this was exactly the phobia he was aiming at. That for most people, true horror lay in the threat of "being interfered with". In some ways, the catharsis in most horror films is when the victim dies - it would be more horrible, and horrific, to continue living after mutilation than to die, and in context, death becomes the happy ending. That ending doesn't really happen here, and is amplified by the mundane fashion in which the victims become victims.
And if the film was truly meant as a piece of art, it's banning by the BBFC on these grounds, without viewing, and from all possible forms of distribution, is the finishing touch. The two films offer an analysis of what true horror is: the fantasy of something ghastly happening to you in the first, and the post-modernist nightmare of what the consequence of watching such a film could be. Then, like the final part of the triptych, is the banning of this second film by the BBFC.
It achieves brilliance as art by being banned. The happy ending is the confirmation that it's not real because the horror can be stopped, not by a hero with a gun in side the film, but by a judicial board outside of it. If the horror rests on the concept of ultimate victim-hood, the final message and ultimate rescue is that the horror can be destroyed by an act of personal control and will (the deducted judgement of a voting panel set up within a democratic society).
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clockworkrat has nice pants, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:35,
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Also, Srpski was brilliant
Basically as a metaphor for how the population of Yugoslavia was turned against each other by outsiders with visions of grandeur, and no-one wants to really see the vicious horror of the entire situation.
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clockworkrat has nice pants, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:39,
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