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#75 Re: Brooker
February 21, 2013, 12:49:13 pm
It's a pretty interesting (off) topic. I'd be a little bit amazed if more people really do die from causes related to over-eating than from causes related to under-availabilty of food.

It's a grim ponderance. Perhaps most of the starving people died before the study was commissioned.

More likely they died in childhood before they could develop obesity related diseases.

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#76 Re: Brooker
February 21, 2013, 01:17:33 pm
And all so that those buying a 99p lasagne can breathe easy in the knowledge that they'll be eating their way to sat fat coronary oblivion using only the worst quality meat from animal A rather than animal B.

Not to mention salt, MSG, half a dozen E number flavours and colourings, "filler" and whatever other crap goes into it.

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#77 Re: Brooker
February 22, 2013, 04:24:46 pm
Anyway, back on topic...

That was intense, the best yet?

yes.

Someone pointed out the other day that last Mondays episode is in essence just a rehash of....


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#78 Re: Brooker
February 26, 2013, 03:48:43 pm
Just imagine if Waldo really existed  :blink:

Noted that last nights was based on an original idea for Nathan Barley by Chris Morris and someone else who's name I didn't catch & don't have time to look up.  Life imitating art or art imitating life?

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#79 Re: Brooker
February 27, 2013, 12:08:14 pm
The other name was Charlie Brooker!

They co wrote all of Nathan Barley together. Maybe it was something they were considering for the talked abiuy 2nd series that never got made?

I rewatched NB again quite recently as all the edisodes are on 4od. Considering the year it was made and that it was pre facebook there are some pretty good predictions of where social media and the internet were going. It's really funny as well.

Obi-Wan is lost...

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#80 Re: Brooker
February 27, 2013, 12:57:22 pm
The other name was Charlie Brooker!

They co wrote all of Nathan Barley together. Maybe it was something they were considering for the talked abiuy 2nd series that never got made?

I rewatched NB again quite recently as all the edisodes are on 4od. Considering the year it was made and that it was pre facebook there are some pretty good predictions of where social media and the internet were going. It's really funny as well.

Chris Morris is often years ahead of the curve..
2005 http://www.trashbat.co.ck/t12/index.html

2012 http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-beam-1090224/review

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#81 Re: Brooker
February 27, 2013, 01:02:58 pm
Yeah yeah yeah, where's the number 5 button? It's the most popular!

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#83 Re: Brooker
September 29, 2014, 10:30:20 pm

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#84 Re: Brooker
September 29, 2014, 11:07:27 pm
Brooker + chap from Madmen + lady from Game of Thrones + "Yuletide techno-paranoia".... oh yes!

It's like Santa has been using some dastardly mind-reading device... I'm now expecting as the Christmas Day film a special edition, even-more festively bad-ass version of Die Hard.

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#85 Re: Brooker
September 30, 2014, 10:35:53 am
Brooker + chap from Madmen + lady from Game of Thrones + "Yuletide techno-paranoia".... oh yes!

It's like Santa has been using some dastardly mind-reading device... I'm now expecting as the Christmas Day film a special edition, even-more festively bad-ass version of Die Hard.
could have been the snowing on Christmas day morning if it'd been the blonde one with the dragons

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#86 Re: Brooker
December 16, 2014, 07:25:20 pm
Black Mirror xmas spesh tonight at 9 on C4. Get startled yeah.

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#87 Re: Brooker
December 16, 2014, 07:33:02 pm
I'm worried it'll be another dystopian future-shock that'll shit you up. I'm bored of dystopian TV now, it's all that seems to be on. 

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#88 Re: Brooker
December 16, 2014, 08:06:36 pm
I love screenwipe - and enjoy his columns - but the Black Mirror shizzle leaves me, well.. meh...

In the culture rankings I am tesco's basic yoghurt though...

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#89 Re: Brooker
December 16, 2014, 10:34:08 pm
Thought that was good, not disappointed. Same kind of territory as before but really well put together and executed.

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#90 Re: Brooker
December 17, 2014, 08:35:09 am
Enjoyed it very much. The Black Mirror episodes are always thought provoking and, when they come along, make you realise how mundane TV is. Unless you're watching Question Time or Newsnight or something else specifically current affairs related you are never challenged to think, and certainly not outside the status quo.

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#91 Re: Brooker
December 17, 2014, 03:16:46 pm
Question Time?! All that ever makes me think is "please shut up".



 :shit:

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#92 Re: Brooker
December 17, 2014, 05:51:54 pm
Yup. Staged question wank. 5 times more celebs appear than scientists... Which do you think are more important to society?

Tv is not there to make us think. It's there to entertain and inform us.

C4 news is the best in depth current affairs show imho, though it has a left bias. It's the ying to skynews superficial right wing yang.

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#93 Re: Brooker
December 17, 2014, 08:54:04 pm
Newsnight has really gone down hill since tinsel tits has taken over, I'm rarely in to watch C4 news but wouldn't be suprised if it's now between given that NN has that fucking cvnt monkey iKatz as editor.

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#94 Re: Brooker
February 12, 2015, 11:41:33 am
Can't believe I've only just stumbled across www.tvgohome.com.  Brooker is truly a contemporary genius, some of this stuff is fifteen years old yet, like Barley, is still relevant.

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#95 Re: Brooker
December 30, 2017, 05:39:42 pm
New series of Black Mirror now on Netflix

 

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