tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post5061414714185904749..comments2024-02-09T06:24:16.626+00:00Comments on upside down in cloud: dumb fucksDru Marlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-40710363269969537212009-04-26T08:11:00.000+01:002009-04-26T08:11:00.000+01:00*small hurrumph as disagrees with Annie over the B...*small hurrumph as disagrees with Annie over the Brand and Ross phone call business, but hey*<br /><br />There's been a bit of argument over on one of the TS boards about this episode. A (minority) view thinks that the target of the comedy is the idiocy of the offensive comments and those who pronounce them. I've heard this sort of thing described as "hipster satire". I look at MW and think, "No, this isn't hipster satire, this is the same old shit"Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-27614180455534936902009-04-21T01:28:00.000+01:002009-04-21T01:28:00.000+01:00It remind me of the time when shows like 'Love Thy...It remind me of the time when shows like 'Love Thy Neighbour' were deemed to be funny. How come Russell Brand has to resign from his job and this lot just get away with such crap? I am appalled. (I also tuned into talk sport myself for the first time and laughed my head of at Russell Brand and Noel Gallagher on the play-it-again thingy - my kind of football show :-)Annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-56812275223472778302009-04-12T08:25:00.000+01:002009-04-12T08:25:00.000+01:00Telly was everywhere in my family home, Chandira; ...Telly was everywhere in my family home, Chandira; I think we may have benefited from some judicious rationing, but that's hindsight for you.<BR/><BR/>I didn't, Anji, but there was something funny going on yesterday, with my blog stuff about MW becoming invisible to Google, and I thought "I wonder if there's any funny business going on?" And then I remembered that I really ought to be sure about where pictures I put up come from; you've got to be squeaky clean if you go around criticising people, haven't you? -anyway, business as usual today...Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-49393131994069995032009-04-12T08:07:00.000+01:002009-04-12T08:07:00.000+01:00Did you get into trouble with the telly people for...Did you get into trouble with the telly people for putting the other pictures up.<BR/><BR/>I got the chance to fall asleep in front of the TV for the first time in ages last night.Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-10282492341542613132009-04-07T17:53:00.000+01:002009-04-07T17:53:00.000+01:00Ugh, that just makes me want to bang heads togethe...Ugh, that just makes me want to bang heads together!! <BR/><BR/>I used to get mad at my dad when I was a kid for not letting me watch ITV, but perhaps there was good reason for it.Chandirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629463765622067086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-74415581346319619862009-04-07T07:18:00.000+01:002009-04-07T07:18:00.000+01:00Hi, Alan,Thanks for dropping in!I thought for a wh...Hi, Alan,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping in!<BR/><BR/>I thought for a while about the title; I don't usually use words like that, but I wanted to get across my sense of contempt for this episode, which was my chief response to it, rather than anger or outrage. I do hope I got that across.Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-21661919663291641532009-04-06T17:10:00.000+01:002009-04-06T17:10:00.000+01:00I was a bit shocked when I just saw the title '...I was a bit shocked when I just saw the title 'dumb fucks' but was even more shocked that something so popular(ishishtic) is so bullying to do something against fantastic individuals. I won't be watching it, or taking any P&O Cruises either.<BR/><BR/>There's enough good stuff on TV etc... not to have to watch something that sinister in its laziness about brave people.<BR/><BR/>all my best, hope to catch up soon,<BR/><BR/>AlanArea 17https://www.blogger.com/profile/07472190637554124160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-63247951011713987592009-04-05T09:53:00.000+01:002009-04-05T09:53:00.000+01:00...fair point about bigotry, though. I've added a ......fair point about bigotry, though. I've added a little paragraph at the end.Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-27084376249667707822009-04-05T06:23:00.000+01:002009-04-05T06:23:00.000+01:00I'll still speak to you, Neil, even if I have to s...I'll still speak to you, Neil, even if I have to stand upwind of you.<BR/><BR/>Milton Keynes is an easy target, isn't it, especially as I've never been there. I just think it's funny, the idea that there should be citizens somewhere, anywhere, presumed to be swelling with municipal pride at the thought of a ship named after their town. How about Pride of Llanvihangel Crucorney?Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-71215620230655574652009-04-04T21:43:00.000+01:002009-04-04T21:43:00.000+01:00I don't often watch any ITV programmes - but I fou...I don't often watch any ITV programmes - but I found 'Moving Wallpaper' funny - I can appreciate your stand on that particular episode, but,I am sorry, I still laughed - which means, I could be categorised as 'cock in a frock' - also, I live in a small market town near Milton Keynes. So, does this mean I am relegated to the land of the 'bigots'?Neilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-61786863547947457402009-04-04T20:39:00.000+01:002009-04-04T20:39:00.000+01:00It is kind of ironic, isn't it, Anji? -I never...It is kind of ironic, isn't it, Anji? -I never really liked this "Pride" theme in P&O's ferry names. It all started when the Herald of Free Enterprise fell over, and Townsend Thoresen rebranded themselves as P&O and painted the ships a different colour to make them safer. It was funny, working on the Dover-Calais run, seeing the French ferries named after great artists and the British ones called Pride of Milton Keynes and so on...<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Paul. I am a bit mystified by the whole business. I'm sure these people aren't really stupid; why did this episode happen?Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-1193985120360373182009-04-04T16:19:00.000+01:002009-04-04T16:19:00.000+01:00Good work Dru. It's a real pity because it was on...Good work Dru. It's a real pity because it was on the whole show I had enjoyed. It's difficult to understand how a show ostensibly about writers and their travails should get it so wrong.Paul Williamshttp://www.myceredigion.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-70797751133458315842009-04-04T06:58:00.000+01:002009-04-04T06:58:00.000+01:00Still can't see it from here, perhaps it's for the...Still can't see it from here, perhaps it's for the best. As Jo says, certain types learn their behavior from TV and films<BR/><BR/>Shouldn't it be 'Shame of Bilbao'?<BR/>What a contrast to the 'Karen Bravo' crew.Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-56891514915827638532009-04-03T19:13:00.000+01:002009-04-03T19:13:00.000+01:00Late in the day, Jo, but I've been preoccupied. I ...Late in the day, Jo, but I've been preoccupied. I sent Ofcom a brief complaint and pretty much a transcript of this blog. Hopefully they'll get the message.Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-44780652047749954892009-04-03T19:11:00.000+01:002009-04-03T19:11:00.000+01:00Well you know my view.I know you've added your voi...Well you know my view.<BR/><BR/>I know you've added your voice to the outrage that has flooded into Ofcom (and if anyone reads this, and then can bear to watch the programme online and wants to add their voice, just go to the Offcom site).<BR/><BR/>I wonder if you made some of these points to Offcom Dru? That this shit actually <B>happens</B>. And the place where the world comes to learn its behaviour is often the tv. Especially that part of the world inhabited by the type of C2D young men who, as it happens, shouted abuse at me last Friday, and who watch this kind of garbage - as evidenced by the obvious demographic which the advertisers had bought into. <BR/><BR/>We await Offcom's reaction. <BR/><BR/>They better <I>had</I> react or a lot of anger is going to boil over. Meanwhile ITV has issued a pathetic blame shifting reply. From Kudos, the Production Company, nothing. <BR/><BR/>Oh and you forgot "Cock in a frock".Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356965133404249244noreply@blogger.com