Where a spoiler is given as an example in a story about spoilers
THE WIRE Didn't get around to watching it mainly because Mrs Duck didn't take to it so it was one of those series I had *ahem* acquired and not watched.

I have a 3/4 hour bus journey to work and had I just got a swanky new Smart phone with a big screen and thought why not

So I uploaded them to the phone and finally got to see what all the fuss was about. I think total immersion is the best way to see it as it is densely plotted with loads of characters. So seeing an episode + a day was perfect. Yes the fuss is justified it is an amazing program I recommend it wholeheartedly. Nothing on TV comes close the only bad things to say about it;
it ends
it make other TV look shit
Anyway spoilers;
I share an office (natch) we were talking about accidental spoilers and girl who knew I was watching the wire gave a massive spoiler from the wire as an example of a spoiler that totally ruined the wire for her I was dumb struck

she clocked my face

oh you haven't got to that bit have you?

then to run salt in the wound a few weeks later she casually asked me if soandso was dead yet?

for fuck sake can you be any more stoopid!?

She is watching Game of Thrones. I've read all the books the temptation to tell her all about the red wedding, Joffrys wedding ect was huge but I'm better than that
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 9:21, 15 replies)

2 episodes into The Wire, and nothing had happened.
5 minutes into Game of Thrones, and one man has been torn apart by the undead, and another graphically beheaded for running away.

One of these is compelling viewing, the other is dull as fuck.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 10:12, closed)

To compare the two is a cretinous endeavour
What is the point. That is my spoiler, comparing two different genres of television is fucking cunting pointless.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 13:30, closed)

I profoundly disagree with you.
Having a significant/thrilling event at the start, to draw in the audience is not unique to 'Thrones, and could well have made The Wire interesting. As it is, the first 2 episodes were akin to watching the first half of Casualty* - putting up with the nothing, in the hope that something exciting will happen - only without the pay off.

*or London's Burning, or whatever.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 14:46, closed)

Profoundly, I do not see any great depth of thought crafted in your reply in order to disagree.
Your PROFOUND argument is, I need big stuff happening all the time otherwise the thing is pointless and my brain shuts down. And I am right, so fuck off.

Very profound. Next you should turn your attention to the Philosophy of Mathematics.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 11:54, closed)

watching television is fucking cunting pointless, comparing television programs is tragic.
If you find yourself comparing Game of Thrones with anything you should kill yourself
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 12 Jun 2013, 0:17, closed)

Very true but it rather
makes your opinion invalid in this context an your reaction is that of a non-cunt who has declared no interest in television. I will kill myself when talentless hacks with arsehole opinions show me with practical demonstration how to kill myself - please lead the way.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 12 Jun 2013, 19:55, closed)

"you're harder to find than my fat wife's cunt" "there's no cure for being a cunt"
2 quotes from 2 excellent series ;)

Both are brilliant the wire is slow I grant you but it's quality... dull never.

I've read all of GRRM's books several times I'm something of a fan boy of course I like the TV series
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 14:46, closed)

Way to miss the point
Five seasons after The Wire began, nothing had changed. Many of the characters had died or gone to prison (or become teachers), but others had come along to take their places. Which was kind of the point that David Simon was trying to make all along.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 14:49, closed)

Granted
but you still invest in characters and story and it's nice to actually be surprised when they get 'capped' on screen rather than some lame ass telling you about it.

The same point could be made about any spoiler really it doesn't really matter it's only a film/book/tv program, get over it
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 15:31, closed)

But YOU seem to be missing the point that of course nothing changed, because in television programs nothing actually happens because it's all made up to entertain the feeble minded.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 12 Jun 2013, 0:20, closed)

WIRE SPOILERS, but with the spoilers removed.
Had a huge fight with my other half once about The Wire. We were waiting for a train, on our way home from holiday & they were looking at stuff to do with The Wire on their smartphone while we were waiting on the platform. WHY THEY WERE DOING THIS when we hadn't quite finished watching it, I have no idea (think we were halfway through season 4).

Anyway, their face DROPS, they then turn their phone round and shove it in MY FACE to show a t-shirt with "R.I.P SOMEONE" written on it. AND IT WAS SOMEONE BIG. NEEDLESS TO SAY I WAS FURIOUS and having accidentally found out the death of another character because of some cunt posting about it on their facebook, then shouted "YEAH WELL, *SOMEONE ELSE* DIES" at them.

We actually sat in different carriages on the train on the way home.
(bomb, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 14:20, closed)

FFS this hurt my head to read
Had a huge fight with my other half once about The Wire. We were waiting for a train, on our way home from holiday & SHE WAS looking at stuff to do with The Wire on HER smartphone while we were waiting on the platform. WHY SHE WAS DOING THIS when we hadn't quite finished watching it, I have no idea (think we were halfway through season 4).

Anyway, HER face DROPS, SHE then turnS HER phone round and shoveS it in MY FACE to show a t-shirt with "R.I.P SOMEONE" written on it. AND IT WAS SOMEONE BIG. NEEDLESS TO SAY I WAS FURIOUS and having accidentally found out the death of another character because of some cunt posting about it on their facebook, then shouted "YEAH WELL, *SOMEONE ELSE* DIES" at them.

We actually sat in different carriages on the train on the way home.
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 12:21, closed)

If the other half was a woman.
If not then your corrections are wrong.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 18:01, closed)

I'd rather be wrong than parse that

(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Mon 10 Jun 2013, 20:09, closed)

If you had any dignity you would both have thrown yourselves under the train the minute that you realised you were arguing about television.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 12 Jun 2013, 0:21, closed)