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Shit TV
Elsewhere, a friend alerted me to the horror that is Your Face Sounds Familiar, with Bobby Davro "dressed up as a waxwork of Fred West made of Weetabix and poo".
It got me thinking about really terrible TV. So I started casting a feature film of 'Allo 'Allo - The Next Generation (in 3D, obviously). Current cast:
- Graham Norton as Rene
- Melinda ( Read more... )
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Michael Gove's English reforms
So, the BBC are reporting the following.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22841266 The course content will include at least one play by Shakespeare, a selection of work by the Romantic poets, a 19th Century novel, a selection of poetry since 1850 and a 20th Century ( Read more... ) -
Edjermerkayshun
Now, I don't claim to be an educational expert or anything of the sort, but I've been somewhat perplexed by a lot of the reforms being touted by all sides. (That Michael Gove is very often wrong doesn't mean his opponents are automatically right, just less wrong, possibly ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Santander
(This post could be hashtagged 'firstworldproblems' and 'middleclassproblems'. But this is Livejournal ( Read more... ) -
Shocking truth revealed by the Daily Mail
When a TV show is filmed over a period of a couple of months, with public auditions, people will look like they did in the pasthttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2301662/Revealed- ( Read more... ) -
Celebrities I would marry
I spent some time over the last few months ranking my celebrity crushes. It will further reinforce the suggestion that my tastes are somewhat predictable.
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One Hour Photo
I caught a bit of One Hour Photo on TV a few years ago. managed to screw up trying to record it, and meant to get round to finding a copy and watching it for several years after that ( Read more... ) -
Small victories
I have an iTrip-like dongle in my car that plugs into my phone and my cigarette lighter to play my phone on t'wireless. This means I can listen to music and (more importantly) audiobooks on my way to work, when I'm not in the mood for Radio 4 (or the occasional burst of Radio 2 ( Read more... ) -
101
I very excitingly made a call to 101 last night. It's the non-emergency police number that's being used in various parts of the country ( Read more... ) -
Seen elsewhere, on the bottom half of the Internet
Yes, as we all know, you should never look at the bottom half of the Internet. But this made me smile a little ( Read more... )