[Will Hunt]

It has begun. We had to come back from the pub early for this shit.

[andyd]

I am feeling similar ragged pain

[Dolly]

Your choice...

[slackline]

You should have stayed in the pub Will.

 

[Bobling]

I couldn't take it and banished myself to the man cave with a glass of wine. 

Whilst there I realised I could hook up a turntable and a mixer without compromising the space available on my work bench, I can finally start listening to all my old vinyl again 

I then realised I'd lost the power lead for my mixer in one of the moves of the last few years 

Still I'll get a new one and will soon be able to relive my youth from the comfort of my garage! 

So, although it pains me greatly to say this, thanks Strictly.

[GCW]

man cave

with a glass of wine.

 

[Bubba]

Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree 

[lagerstarfish]

man cave

with a glass of wine.

 

my thoughts exactly

[lagerstarfish]

things are looking up in the St. Arfish household

a recorded episode of Educating Pork was chosen over Strikly

[tregiffian]

I like Educating Archie.

[petejh]

Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree 

Is Brucey still actually alive? I wondered if he's being preserved a la Kim Jong Il and what you see on telly is a hologram.

Recovering from surgery and finding myself watching Saturday evening tv for the first time in years, - 'I Love my Country'    ..... just what the fuck is going on here!? The opening scenes remind me of the forced morning physical jerk scene from George Orwell's 1984.. and when did Gabby Logan morph from sports presenter into mad-eyed dance-fitness instructor?

[Jay d]

Me and the misses are watching it now - I'm hoping brucie is going to overdo it and die on live tv
Seeing as my misses watched rugby league with us last night and then put up with me sulking around cos rhinos lost - it kind of seems fair
 

[rich d]

I hope Brucie doesn't die perfore he gets done for being a pedo. The cunt.

[Jay d]

You could claim he did any shit to you in the seventies the senile old twat would never
 Be able to remember

[Doylo]

Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree 

Is Brucey still actually alive? I wondered if he's being preserved a la Kim Jong Il and what you see on telly is a hologram.

Recovering from surgery and finding myself watching Saturday evening tv for the first time in years, - 'I Love my Country'    ..... just what the fuck is going on here!? The opening scenes remind me of the forced morning physical jerk scene from George Orwell's 1984.. and when did Gabby Logan morph from sports presenter into mad-eyed dance-fitness instructor?

You onto X Factor now?

[petejh]

Promise you'll kill me before I end up like that. Just promise.

[rich d]

Promise you'll kill me before I end up like that. Just promise.

On live tv?

[petejh]

The Ex Factor

[SA Chris]

Overheard 3 people at bouldering wall (one female) discussing the Great British Bake Off. Openly. I had to burn them off for their sins. Have they no shame.

[Bobling]

Right we need to look into this:

Bake Off

Pros
Mel and Sue make me smile
Food pr0n
Only one hour
Weeknight

Cons
It's cr*p popcorn TV

Strickly
Pros
Arses and associated jiggling

Cons
Arses and associated jiggling
Brucie
That tall lady who wears improbable dresses and fawns over Brucie
The music, oh god the music.
The way the programme spans Saturday and Sunday casting its sinister shadow over the entire weekend for the whole of the first half of Winter
The cult of celebrity
Those awful filler dances and story pieces that are supposed to be amusing
It last for hours, and hours and hours.
The way up thread I said I was enjoying it one year, the self-loathing is hard to live with.

My conclusion - GBBO is not on even the same scale as the Great Satan of Saturday night TV that is Strictly.

[SA Chris]

GBBO Fanboi!

Baking is shit, it's not proper cooking.

[slackline]

Isn't it an oxymoron (based on most people's expressed opinions here in) to have this thread in the "Music, art and culture" thread?

[SA Chris]

True -> logpile

[Jaspersharpe]

Hmm. I've never seen the baking thing but surely the great Satan of weekend tv is Cunty Cowell's Circus of Doom.

Strictly is harmless fluff in comparison to what seems to have become "let's all laugh at the mentally deficient before building up the hopes of fragile kids who don't realise that there's only ever one winner and it's not any of them".

Toxic shite which aside from the above has a lot to answer for regarding the attitude that it's not hard work and improving yourself that's important, it's being on tv at any cost.

[SA Chris]

Dave Grohl sums it up well