UKBouldering.com

the shizzle => shootin' the shit => music, art and culture => Topic started by: Bobling on November 06, 2009, 07:02:14 pm

Title: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 06, 2009, 07:02:14 pm: Is anyone else subjected to this crap every weekend? :boohoo:

Any recomended coping techniques?

Here's mine for starters: http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html (http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: tomtom on November 06, 2009, 07:14:53 pm: Two coping methods...

(http://www.monnik-dranken.nl/downloads/flessen/gordon_gin.jpg)

Gin And Pron are worthy alternatives though not sure the publication below is really the best around - I'm more of a Razzle man myself (penny a page!)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Fiesta_28_4_cover.jpg/255px-Fiesta_28_4_cover.jpg)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bubba on November 06, 2009, 07:17:54 pm: (http://peachyforum.com/forums/storage/18/801805/bong.jpg)

(http://www.perfectduluthday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bush_bong.jpg)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Fiend on November 06, 2009, 07:32:39 pm: Quote from: Bobling on November 06, 2009, 07:02:14 pm
Here's mine for starters: http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html (http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html)

You know you're onto a winner with an url like that :thumbsup:

Thankfully by a curious twist of fate I have a silver lining that I'm not in the same house as a tv and an Strictly / X-factor addicted female (in fact every bloody female I know is addicted to strictly, it's a disgrace). But I'll still go and shoot zombies, just in case...
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jim on November 06, 2009, 10:09:23 pm: Quote from: Bobling on November 06, 2009, 07:02:14 pm
Is anyone else subjected to this crap every weekend? :boohoo:

Any recomended coping techniques?

Here's mine for starters: http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html (http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html)

you could always leave home and get a bedsit
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: magpie on November 06, 2009, 11:30:33 pm: You lot are rubbish! Suck it up and watch it with your ladies, it's not like there isn't anything to hold your interest...

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/12/18/1229608419685/Gallery-Strictly-Come-Dan-010.jpg)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: butters on November 07, 2009, 12:14:26 am: Is the one on the left a bloke in drag?
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 07, 2009, 01:35:34 am: Quote from: magpie on November 06, 2009, 11:30:33 pm
You lot are rubbish! Suck it up and watch it with your ladies, it's not like there isn't anything to hold your interest...

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/12/18/1229608419685/Gallery-Strictly-Come-Dan-010.jpg)

A second of titillation for hours of purgatory and Bruce Forsyth....sorry Magpie, doesn't stack up.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bubba on November 07, 2009, 09:03:04 am: Brucie is definitely past his sell by date.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 07, 2009, 09:14:39 am: Quote from: Bubba on November 07, 2009, 09:03:04 am

Brucie is definitely past his sell by date.

Yeah though to give him credit he does keep soldiering on, I just don't want to be forced to watch it every weekend, and most weeknights if the wife gets control of iplayer and we watch the horror that is "It Takes Two".
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: tomtom on November 07, 2009, 09:24:52 am: Strictly is 'bearable' if pre-recorded then fastforwarded through all the dross (all of it?) so its only about 45 min long. X factor is unbearable in any format.

Who the f*ck are Shedward anyway?

But. It gets worse.

Sadly yes.

Last night I witnessed...

Not the beginning of Xmas commercials already (which is dire)

But a trailer for 'I'm a celebrity get me out of here'

FFS. I said to the fairer half - isnt there any respite? to which she replied - Oh, and theres Dancing on Ice coming up soon...

:wall:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 07, 2009, 09:38:18 am: The double whammy when you get to the end of strictly and X factor is still going on and you can hop over to it to watch the end!

Dancing on Ice? I don't think we have been in the country when this has been on so I am not sure if it is going to appear on the radar. Here's hoping. Thinking back "McCloud's Daughters" was positively enjoyable in comparison.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jim on November 07, 2009, 12:31:20 pm: there are 2 more solutions to this problem;

1 - grow a pair, reclaim the trousers and ban it outright along with soap's

2 - Take a hammer to all the TV's in the house
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: slackline on November 07, 2009, 08:33:44 pm: Or just go online and read/post on UKB, watch decent content on iPlayer/4OD/etc./etc./etc.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jim on November 07, 2009, 09:25:56 pm: or combine both idea's and watch only the good content through your media player on the TV ;D
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Percy B on November 07, 2009, 10:35:30 pm: This, coupled with programmes like 'The Execution of Gary Glitter' (Mon 9th Nov, 9pm, Channel 4, I kid you not!) is exactly the reason why we no longer have a TV. Long live iPlayer and 4OD - and thanks very much licence fee people for refunding me my money. Long live books and newspapers. I'm free at last, and life is good!
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Richie Crouch on November 07, 2009, 11:07:26 pm: At least the beeb does provide us with Radio 5 Live and live boxing

Great fight by Haye tonight! Looking forward to seeing who he gets to fight next being the new WBA champ :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on November 08, 2009, 07:53:42 am: Quote from: Percy B on November 07, 2009, 10:35:30 pm
I'm free at last, and life is good!

I have a dream.......
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 08, 2009, 09:37:15 am: Quote from: SA Chris on November 08, 2009, 07:53:42 am
Quote from: Percy B on November 07, 2009, 10:35:30 pm
I'm free at last, and life is good!

I have a dream.......

I really tried to promote this option when we got back to the UK, somehow we ended up upgrdaing our shitty little 14 inch that we hardly watched for a huge 32 inch flat screen. :-\
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: inn wislon on November 08, 2009, 03:12:39 pm: Quote from: Bubba on November 07, 2009, 09:03:04 am

Brucie is definitely past his sell by date.

I was wondering what that rancid pissy smell was...
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 08, 2009, 04:43:34 pm: Oh God, its back on...iPlayer I hate you sometimes :spank:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on November 08, 2009, 06:16:54 pm: Though on the upside Wave 20 - must get sentry gun :furious:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on November 08, 2009, 09:36:32 pm: I am not a fan of Strictly, but it makes my wife very happy. This makes me happy. Beyond that I don't think about it much.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jaspersharpe on November 09, 2009, 01:05:07 pm: Quote from: lagerstarfish on November 08, 2009, 09:36:32 pm
I am not a fan of Strictly, but I like staring at half naked birds. This makes me happy. Beyond that I don't think about it much.

Quote
lagerstarfish

* Watching Ola Jordan's cleavage very carefully
* forum hero

;D
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on November 09, 2009, 01:58:15 pm: I thought you might like that

:wave:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Sloper on November 09, 2009, 02:15:17 pm: There's a simple solution.

Get rid of the television thus solving your 'strictly' problem plus allowing you out to the pub to watch the rugby.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 04, 2010, 11:13:28 am: Argh, its back! Anyone else back in the world of Strictly pain.

"Nice to see you!"

..

..

..

KABOOM

...

*Arterial Spurt*
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: magpie on October 04, 2010, 12:16:42 pm: :great:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: JohnM on October 04, 2010, 12:43:21 pm: I hate how every topical chat show is now just a platform to talk about Strictly Come Bloody Dancing. There is no escape from it. I was watching the Andrew Marr show on sunday morning. They spent 5 minutes going over the papers and then straight to a live 20 min interview with Bruce Forsyth at home with all the usual bullshit questions..."So why do think it is such a popular show with universal appeal?". I have no interest in professional dancing anyway, so why would I want to watch some really ugly fat people being dragged round the floor. Just because they are a familiar face and a plucky underdog does not instill any sense of empathy or compassion towards them. Stop trying to force feed me this shit. Yeah I know I should burn my TV or throw it out but I'm addicted to Neighbours.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on October 04, 2010, 01:36:02 pm: What he said. If I liked professional ballroom dancing I would watch professional ballroom dancers doing it. Not people who can't dance for shit trying to do it.. Especially not fat old female politicians.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: magpie on October 04, 2010, 03:09:45 pm: I know you all love it really, look at the excuse it gives you for a good moan. ;)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on October 04, 2010, 03:46:53 pm: I love a good moan, but for reasons stated above I don't watch it. Would rather pour hot sand onto my eyeballs.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: tomtom on October 04, 2010, 08:38:42 pm: No problem, just switch over... X factor's soooooo much better...*

(http://www.startrip.tv/images/2007/07/16/simon_cowell.jpg)

* Please note large amounts of sarcasm are fully intended.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on October 05, 2010, 08:52:36 pm: With Britain's Next Top Model just finished, the wife needs something to do while I'm ~~looking at internet pr0n~~ training.

Strictly works fine
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 05, 2010, 10:10:26 pm: Quote from: lagerstarfish on October 05, 2010, 08:52:36 pm
~~looking at internet pr0n~~.

Perhaps that's the solution :whistle:.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: wiain on October 05, 2010, 11:12:55 pm: Quote from: Bobling on November 06, 2009, 07:02:14 pm

Here's mine for starters: http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html (http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/SAS-Zombie-Assault-2.html)

Oops. Where did the last hour just go??
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 06, 2010, 07:36:57 pm: At least you weren't watching Strictly 8)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on October 23, 2010, 10:41:14 pm: Those of you still struggling with their partner's Strictly habit may be able to learn from my experience.

We now watch Strictly twice in a row.

"What The Fook!" I hear you cry.

Let me explain: watching it live, Mrs Starfish gets to fantasize about being Ola, Flavia, Natalie, Aliona etc. while I do anything she wants - bring wine and chocolate, massage feet etc.

Second time around I get to fantasize about her being Ola, Flavia, Natalie, Aliona etc. while she does anything I want.

Everyone's a winner :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on September 10, 2011, 07:15:34 pm: It's that time of year again.

This photo has nothing to do with Strikly, but I have written to the BBC suggesting that they could improve on the current format by learning from this work of art.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1Ssoxfl0MvQ/SSPo7Wcce_I/AAAAAAAAHC4/GnvMbPZQJtg/s400/6NLM_scarlettdita.jpg)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rp on September 11, 2011, 06:01:36 pm: my better half loves this too. i've even been to see the tour with her in manc. i even bought the tickets. bit of shopping then pub and curry is how i justified it. called shitly wank prancing in our house. i do cooking and drinking in the kitchen while it's on the telly. 606 with savage is my saviour. oh shit i've just realised savage is on the show. must check william hill.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 15, 2011, 08:00:53 pm: I'm being ground down. This year I find myself quietly enjoying this. What's changed? We had a baby and past 7 o'clock is now time to sit on the sofa enjoying down time with light entertainment, not be out there doing *something* more interesting. Still agree with Lagers though :goodidea:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Doylo on October 15, 2011, 08:07:07 pm: I don't mind it apart from over the top Bruno and his over the top critiques. gets right on my tits
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on October 15, 2011, 08:12:18 pm: I'm forced to watcch shat factor - the kids and wife have managed to turn it into some sort of communal activity. So tonight I thought I'd watch the boxing on the spare telly with a few beers. However our littlest is making too much noise to watch shat factor and is now watching ben and holly's little kingdom. Suddenly the 9 beers left in the fridge seems a very small number.. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Andy F on October 15, 2011, 08:29:37 pm: Ben and Holly's is ace ;D. Love the snide comments between Nanny Plum and The Wise Old Elf :great:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on October 15, 2011, 08:37:11 pm: I like ben and hollys - I see your snide comments and interplay and raise you a ladybird you can fly on that's called Gaston.
Why thank you!
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jaspersharpe on October 20, 2011, 12:47:11 pm: JELLY FLOOD!!!!!

Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom - Jelly Flood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9IApEbVs00#ws)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on September 15, 2012, 09:48:06 pm: Checking in for 2012. Michael, Michael, Michael - you think you can follow Goughy and Ramps :no:.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on September 15, 2012, 09:51:32 pm: PS Zombie Assault 2 still works
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on September 27, 2013, 09:11:24 pm: I post on my own personal thread on UKB again. Anyone else in Strictly Hell this year?

I now have a toddler and a two month old baby, climbing is a distant memory. Someone throw me a bone here!

Oh and Zombie Assault is still working!
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rp on September 27, 2013, 09:21:08 pm: shitly wank prancing
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Will Hunt on September 27, 2013, 09:30:05 pm: It has begun. We had to come back from the pub early for this shit.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: andyd on September 27, 2013, 10:13:02 pm: I am feeling similar ragged pain
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Dolly on September 27, 2013, 10:17:14 pm: Your choice...
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: slackline on September 27, 2013, 10:45:11 pm: You should have stayed in the pub Will.

:devangel:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on September 27, 2013, 11:14:12 pm: 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 :clap2:

I then realised I'd lost the power lead for my mixer in one of the moves of the last few years :no:

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.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: GCW on September 27, 2013, 11:30:11 pm: Quote from: Bobling on September 27, 2013, 11:14:12 pm
man cave

Quote
with a glass of wine.

:-\
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bubba on September 27, 2013, 11:46:17 pm: Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree :popcorn:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on September 28, 2013, 07:11:40 am: Quote from: GCW on September 27, 2013, 11:30:11 pm
Quote from: Bobling on September 27, 2013, 11:14:12 pm
man cave

Quote
with a glass of wine.

:-\

my thoughts exactly
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: lagerstarfish on September 28, 2013, 07:15:17 am: things are looking up in the St. Arfish household

a recorded episode of Educating Pork was chosen over Strikly
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: tregiffian on September 28, 2013, 09:18:34 am: I like Educating Archie.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: petejh on September 28, 2013, 05:58:20 pm: Quote from: Bubba on September 27, 2013, 11:46:17 pm
Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree :popcorn:

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' :o ..... 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?
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jay d on September 28, 2013, 07:09:26 pm: 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
:popcorn:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on September 28, 2013, 07:29:33 pm: I hope Brucie doesn't die perfore he gets done for being a pedo. The cunt.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jay d on September 28, 2013, 07:58:56 pm: You could claim he did any shit to you in the seventies the senile old twat would never
Be able to remember :no:
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Doylo on September 28, 2013, 08:29:24 pm: Quote from: petejh on September 28, 2013, 05:58:20 pm
Quote from: Bubba on September 27, 2013, 11:46:17 pm
Surely it's only a matter of time before Brucey gets fingered by Operation Yewtree :popcorn:

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' :o ..... 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?
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: petejh on September 28, 2013, 08:47:32 pm: Promise you'll kill me before I end up like that. Just promise.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on September 28, 2013, 08:52:01 pm: Quote from: petejh on September 28, 2013, 08:47:32 pm
Promise you'll kill me before I end up like that. Just promise.

On live tv?
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: petejh on September 28, 2013, 10:00:35 pm: The Ex Factor
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on September 30, 2013, 10:58:05 am: 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.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 02, 2013, 08:54:39 am: 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.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on October 02, 2013, 08:58:09 am: GBBO Fanboi!

Baking is shit, it's not proper cooking.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: slackline on October 02, 2013, 09:05:10 am: 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?
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on October 02, 2013, 09:08:06 am: True -> logpile
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jaspersharpe on October 02, 2013, 09:16:21 am: 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.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on October 02, 2013, 11:32:19 am: Dave Grohl sums it up well

(http://heavymetalblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Dave-Grohl-Quote.jpg)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on October 05, 2013, 09:22:00 pm: Fucking hell, the wife is now ringing up her friends to moan about the choices on shat factor... Help me!
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Bobling on October 06, 2013, 10:29:16 pm: Taking the thread back to its roots:
http://www.funny-games.biz/zombocalypse.html (http://www.funny-games.biz/zombocalypse.html)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: slackline on October 15, 2013, 09:34:38 am: Someone in Sheffield had enough of being forced to watch X-factor at the weekend...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWmsor1IMAAkYwC.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: rich d on October 15, 2013, 10:05:17 am: Quote from: slackline on October 15, 2013, 09:34:38 am
Someone in Sheffield had enough of being forced to watch X-factor at the weekend...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWmsor1IMAAkYwC.jpg:large)
I have an alibi
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: slackline on March 06, 2014, 03:57:48 pm: (http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0154/1105/products/X-Factor-resize.jpg?v=1369315878)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Obi-Wan is lost... on March 06, 2014, 04:11:27 pm: In some of the coverage about the 'changes' to BBC3 they mentioned 'The Voice' cost £22m. :slap:
How much of that lines the pockets of the already multi-millionaire judges?
That's license fee payers money that could be funding more/the next Mighty Boosh.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on March 06, 2014, 04:21:24 pm: Sad how they persevere with more series of expensive shit like than when the viewing figures from the first series were dire. Should have been axed. And fuck knows what happens to the "artists" who are unfortunate enought to win it. Kiss of death for a career, even more so than the X Factor.
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Jaspersharpe on March 06, 2014, 04:40:04 pm: Unfortunately the BBC is between a rock and another rock as they have to pander to the lowest common denominator for ratings to justify the licence fee and then get slagged off for producing mindless shite for morons (when that's what the majority want).

Overall I can definitely handle the rubbish (you don't have to watch it) for the sake of the quality stuff they produce (I'm happy to pay the licence fee for the radio alone).

This is scary though:

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/7/18/1342601397536/BBC-spending-graphic-009.jpg)

Especially when you consider that that wanker Mark Thompson was going to axe 6music which, if Obi's comment is right, costs about half as much as one shit TV programme.

(I realise they are 2012 figures but still)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: Sloper on March 06, 2014, 05:21:50 pm: I don't watch a lot of t.v. but was enraged by Newsnight (the new editor is a complete fukwit) having the closure of BBC3 as the lead item last night, after all its not as if there's anything newsworthy going on right now is it?

Personally I can't see why BBC seeks to compete with the commercial sector, it would be better if it left the sort of shit that they seem to show to ITV and started doing soemthing distinctive with a genuine public service aspect to it, but that would be white, middle class and elitist wouldn't it.

Anyway, I'm working late delaing with a client complaint, so get your fingers on the punter points as there may be some vitriol later (and bad typing too)
Title: Re: Strictly come blow my head off now please
Post by: SA Chris on March 07, 2014, 08:59:52 am: Quote from: Jaspersharpe on March 06, 2014, 04:40:04 pm
they have to pander to the lowest common denominator for ratings to justify the licence fee

But BBC3 had it's fair share of mindless shite too; two pints of lager?