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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 13:17:53 GMT
Got 'Aussie Gold Hunters' on at the moment, it's on Quest TV station. Great little programme, always interesting and the prospectors seem very decent and genuine people.
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Post by Bigman80 on Nov 1, 2018 15:59:54 GMT
Got 'Aussie Gold Hunters' on at the moment, it's on Quest TV station. Great little programme, always interesting and the prospectors seem very decent and genuine people. I’ve watched a few episodes of this and I like it too. History, Quest and Blaze are my fave channels.
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Post by macca on Nov 1, 2018 18:14:28 GMT
I guess I'm the only one watching The Apprentice then...
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Post by Bigman80 on Nov 1, 2018 18:15:32 GMT
I guess I'm the only one watching The Apprentice then... Yep, I haven’t ever seen US or U.K. versions. Is it the U.K. one you’re watching?
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Post by macca on Nov 1, 2018 18:23:02 GMT
Yes I've never seen the Yank version but I've seen all the UK series except the first.
Sugar's autobiography is an interesting read. He started out as a child selling blocks of wood soaked in tar as firelighters.
He had no passion for hi-fi or music at all. freely admits it. He got into that by selling plinths for turntables as in those days you just bought a motor unit and you had to sort out something to mount it in separately. He figured he could do it cheaper than anyone else and clean up, and he was right.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 18:33:17 GMT
I guess I'm the only one watching The Apprentice then... Macca........….... "YOUR FIRED"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 18:52:40 GMT
Sugar's autobiography is an interesting read. He started out as a child selling blocks of wood soaked in tar as firelighters. And my dad used to buy them. They were a common item back then. They were actually wodden cobbles taken up from nineteenth century London streets. Yes, they did build roads from wood!
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Post by Bigman80 on Nov 4, 2018 20:36:24 GMT
Bye to Dr Ranj. He wasn’t ever going to win anyway. Big fuss being made over Charles being in the dance off again. Calls for the beeb to “do something” aboutt racism. What are they supposed to do? It’s just a TV show FFS. One that’s been won by a black person more than once too.
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Post by Bigman80 on Nov 5, 2018 15:42:25 GMT
I’ve been watching a few fun thing since lately. Gerry Andrson’s UFO on Forces TV, Why Does Everyone Hate Tne English on History and Drain The Oceans on Nat Geo.
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Post by macca on Nov 5, 2018 17:59:24 GMT
I've been watching UFO since about 1974 and I still come across episodes of it I've never seen before.
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Post by Bigman80 on Nov 10, 2018 21:17:41 GMT
I’m getting a bit bored with Strictky this year, it was on tonight but I found my attention wandering. Anyone else watch it and enjoy it?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2018 10:01:06 GMT
Aye Strictly is cool 😎
Did flick channels a few times though to the Snooker semi final.....Glad Kieran dumpped the Paddy oot.
Should be a good final with O Sullivan.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jan 23, 2019 0:36:01 GMT
Watched another Documentary made by Stacey Dooley tonight. This week was about gangs. Last week was homelessness in Detroit. I really enjoyed her personality on Strictly, but the documentaries show a more savvy side to her. The natural warmth and genuineness are still very evident though.
I hadn’t imagined the bubbly character from Strictly to be capable of making such insightful docs. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2019 9:20:18 GMT
Been watching a few new shows recently:
Wheeler Dealers new series (Discovery) - seen every episode of every series, some multiple times. It's weird, the format is still the same but it doesn't seem to have benefited from the bigger budget. It used to have a certain charm about it when they were doing up old bangers from the 1980s on a 2 grand budget. Still watch it though.
Magnum PI - (Sky One) - yes there is a new Magnum PI, one of my favourite shows from the 1980s. Wasn't sure about this to begin with, and they've butchered the ace theme tune, but unlike most reboots they've managed to keep the elements of the old show that made it good. Higgins is a female! Which I didn't think would work at all but it sort of does.
Curse Of Oak Island (History) - this is season 5 and they still haven't found a fucking thing worth remarking on. This year they've started out by doing some geophysics to see what is down there first instead of digging a million random holes. Why didn't they do that in season one? Still an interesting watch though.
The Orville (Fox) - weird Star Trek rip-off that is both serious and occasionally quite funny. From the bloke who did 'Family Guy.' If you don't like sci-fi you won't like it, if you do you'll probably enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 9:39:27 GMT
Been watching a few new shows recently: The Orville (Fox) - weird Star Trek rip-off that is both serious and occasionally quite funny. From the bloke who did 'Family Guy.' If you don't like sci-fi you won't like it, if you do you'll probably enjoy it. Is Keith Harris in it? Meself, I'm only currently watching 'Les Miserables' (BBC1), and a three-part series on the Plantagenets, repeated from 2014 when I missed it (BBC4). I've always been a bit vague about the Plantagenets, so it's very helpful in filling up the gaps in my knowledge. It's good in that it only has the one bloke presenting it, rather than a gaggle of talking heads, but the budget was obviously limited, as there's only about three extras who charge about on horses and clash swords, regardless of which monarch is being discussed. Plus a scene of a flock of crows flying out a tree whenever something particularly gruesome is being discussed.
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2019 11:11:49 GMT
Keith Harris died some time ago and there's no sign of the duck before you ask.
I do like history docs but the idiotic reconstructions they insist on doing in the modern ones put me right off. Much prefer the old style 'Gideon Soames' presentation where it is just one bloke walking and talking without any stupid cutaways to bad acting and Sh#t production values.
Likewise the presenters who insist on wondering aloud 'What it must have been like.' Tony Robinson is especially bad for it but most of the new school do it. Complete W#nk.
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2019 11:18:54 GMT
Oh and the female historians who have to relate everything to women even if women had F#ck all to do with it. There was a fairly recent one on Elizabeth I - okay so she was a woman, but can't we get over that and have a bit of history instead of hearing endlessly about 'How hard it must have been for her in a world of men.'? F#ck off, no-one cares about that.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jan 26, 2019 16:28:02 GMT
Anyone see all the whining about “the way Diane Abbott was treated on Queston Time?”
Apparently other panellists aren’t allowed to challenge her and the audience can’t jeer when she talks out of her arse.
The PC brigade are convinced she got a rough ride because she’s black and a woman: BOLLOCKS. It’s the complainers who are bringing race and gender into it.
She’s a thick, lying sack of shite whom I wouldn’t employ as a cleaner let alone anything more challenging. Truth is, she’s only in that job because of her race and gender and Labour’s commitment to the nonsense that is “positive discrimination”. Oh, and it probably didn’t hurt that she shagged that rancid old garden gnome, Corbyn.
I would be very happy to have the best candidate as my MP, no matter what age, colour, sex, religion or whatever else. What I don’t want is someone chosen simply because of such traits, especially if they are now to be protected from the sort of challenges anyone else in politics faces..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 16:51:43 GMT
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Yup i watched it.
All seemed fair enough to me.
Poor black woman eh !!!! Bet the complaints were from black racist pc monkeys.....C#nts.
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2019 21:36:41 GMT
The problem not that she is black or female. The problem is that she is F#ck-witted. The only people who don't seem to understand that are other F#ck wits.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 21:41:09 GMT
I never watch Question Time, but my wife, who is a woman, tells me that the problem with Abbott was that she .... talked ... really ... slowly ..... so the questioner tried to hurry her along a bit, only for Abbott to say 'if ... you ... would ... just ... let ... me ... finish ...'
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Post by macca on Jan 26, 2019 22:26:01 GMT
I never watch it either , it's been Sh#t since Robin Day left. And modern politician seem to be so stupid it is just depressing. I used to think maybe they just acted stupid to appeal to stupid voters but I've since abandoned that theory. In fact it is rare these days that I encounter anyone in a position of authority who isn't as thick as pig Sh#t and a nasty little wanker to boot. I'm starting to believe that the film 'They Live' is actually real.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jan 27, 2019 20:32:01 GMT
I never watch Question Time, but my wife, who is a woman, tells me that the problem with Abbott was that she .... talked ... really ... slowly ..... so the questioner tried to hurry her along a bit, only for Abbott to say 'if ... you ... would ... just ... let ... me ... finish ...' It came across as her making it up as she went along. I’ve seen her on the Andrew Neil show many times and she doesn’t speak like that. Of course that was when she wasn’t a major front bencher and could just say whet she liked. It was still largely vacuous bollocks, albeit more genuine in content
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 21:47:58 GMT
Abbott is a clueless blob and always has been. Oh and you'll find Grant Shapps on my list of clueless blobs too (if ever there was an MP I'd like to punch!).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 8:57:20 GMT
I never watch it either , it's been Sh#t since Robin Day left. And modern politician seem to be so stupid it is just depressing. I used to think maybe they just acted stupid to appeal to stupid voters but I've since abandoned that theory. In fact it is rare these days that I encounter anyone in a position of authority who isn't as thick as pig Sh#t and a nasty little wanker to boot. I'm starting to believe that the film 'They Live' is actually real. I've never been in any doubt from the age of 14 or so that, with very few exceptions, politicians are either stupid, crooked, or both. Because of the party system, free thinkers aren't really wanted or needed; what's needed are MPs who can parrot the party line and vote as directed by the whips. Of course, as with the current Brexit shenanigans, when the party line fails to hold you have something that's arguably even worse - a bunch of headless chickens who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
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Post by macca on Jan 28, 2019 10:34:13 GMT
Yep, pretty much sums it up. Although I'd substitute 'thinkers' for 'free thinkers.' It doesn't seem that much thinking of any description goes on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2019 19:04:22 GMT
Watching 'Aussie Gold Hunters' on Quest channel.
I love the progamme. The folk all come across as really nice decent people and the looks of joy on their faces when they find a gold nugget is priceless.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2019 19:12:02 GMT
I used to love watching the TV years ago, in the 2000's era. Can't stand it now! YouTube is great for tracking down some old cartoons/shows etc.
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Post by Bigman80 on Mar 8, 2019 20:42:33 GMT
I used to love watching the TV years ago, in the 2000's era. Can't stand it now! YouTube is great for tracking down some old cartoons/shows etc. S. Lots of stuff I watch is old, like The Avengers, UFO and Space 1999. I still like Curse of Oak Islans and Ancient Aliens though, so it’s not all old stuff. I also love documentaries about the cosmos, alternative history and quantum physics.
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Post by Bigman80 on Apr 16, 2019 23:08:27 GMT
Big Bang Theiry is a bit of a fave right now. I got into it late, so lots of episodes are new to me,
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