Ned, is your argument that because Georgina Baillie takes her clothes off for a living, she is somehow less worthy of sympathy in this instance than she would be if she were, say, a nun?
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 31 October 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Or, to put it another way, would you say that because of her attire she was asking for this?
HIGNFY basically shite. Hislop looked disdainful, while no-one else appeared to share his indignation. Tom Baker possibly worst host since Brian Blessed.
― ailsa, Friday, 31 October 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
everything about this story has screamed 'typical britain' but nothing more so than the semi-detatched-suburban plum coloured bathroom carpet in that photo. even though it's a shot of 2 naked blood-soaked goths in a bath with a knife you can't shake the feeling that somewhere in that house BULLSEYE is probably on.
― piscesx, Friday, 31 October 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Naked bloodsoaked Goths + Bullseye = all that makes this country great.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 31 October 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
super, smashing, great
― snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
you can't beat a bit of tabloid bully
― snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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No, I have never argued we should have any sympathy for her. She seems to be able to look after herself quite well.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 2 November 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
My point was merely about the hypocrisy of The Sun. Hardly news I know but it just wound me up.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 2 November 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
also when he shouted at paul morley for being a square for writing for the guardian.
Oh. The. Irony.
I rather enjoyed Ham Baker on HIGNFY.
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm enjoying the News of the World's "Burn the Whore" angle on this.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Arent't they twinned w/the Sun?
Cake/eat..
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross and Brand are both former Sun/NOTW columnists, yes?
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It's almost as if the papers are written by feckless motherfuckers who'll say owt to slag off the BBC.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
no. "sister" papers = mututal fucking loathing (qv guardian and observer, esp when latter was edited by alton). that said: if big rupe wanted them all to fall into line, i don't think he'd have to try very hard.
cake/eat for rupe, then; everybody else is just flailing about as usual.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
It's nice to see newspapers taking a strong line on offensive broadcasts tho. I was thinking that as I was reading the anti-semitic screeds on Nat "Lofthouse" Rothschild in the Mail last weekend.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Q: Does a journalist using the word "geld" have any other context than "I Hate Jews"? I could be wrong, I guess.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The MoS gave away a free CLIFF CD yesterday. It was rubbish.
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure Cliff's written a few "CHRIST KILLERS" letters in his time, too.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Earlier this year he EXCLUSIVELY told the MAIL ON SUNDAY that he thought the BEATLES' records UNLISTENABLE because they were OUT OF TUNE. "It was INAPPROPRIATE," the Peter Pan of Pop Legend quipped.
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
NOEL: I'M FOLLOWED BY GLOBES GLITTER SHOCKER BUN DEM
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The MOS - every article seemed to spew forth about JRoss' "unstoppable tirade of filth", which seems odd - maybe they hadn't read the transcripts that were in their own paper?
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It's almost like the whole paper's written by feckless Nazi cunts.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Tom Baker possibly worst host since Brian Blessed.
"best" host since blessed you mean!! they were both extraordinarily entertaining and doofy and both seemingly unrattled by constant stream of abuse they received from the panel
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, are people still giving a shit about this?
― India's second-favourite Australian popstar (King Boy Pato), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ New Cape of Good Hope tagline
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloated BBC out of touch with the viewers
But, I can hear the cry, what about the left-wing bias?
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
With Radio 2 it should be "what about the 1985 bias?"
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
They should run it like the NHS!
Pay next to nothing, and people could then show how brilliant they are before going off to the private sector and *THEN* earn millions. And not before.
)or should they?(
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
They should maybe not sack people because the Daily Mail tells them to.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Who have they sacked?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 3 November 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, you're quite right, Brand resigned for the lulz.
― Nothing has transpired (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 November 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
suspend, then...
― Mark G, Monday, 3 November 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul Gambaccini, who presents a weekly show on the network, said she'd stood by Russell Brand through thick and thin. He told Radio 5 Live he had warned Douglas about the dangers when she first hired Brand: "In this profession, we never disparage a colleague - it's an unwritten rule. But when his hire was announced, I sent an email of protest to her, the only one I've ever sent in my entire career.
"In this profession, we never disparage a colleague - it's an unwritten rule. But when his hire was announced, I sent an email of protest to her, the only one I've ever sent in my entire career.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh get her, scratch her eyes out
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh right, "she'd stood by..." refers to Douglas not Gambo!
Gambo's a bit of a pompous prig but given that he's doing the US chart show he's playing the hippest music on R2 at the moment. "Whatever You Like" at five to seven on a Saturday evening! Cool!!
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 4 November 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The granddaughter of Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs has called for Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be reinstated. By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent Last Updated: 6:21PM GMT 04 Nov 2008 Georgina Baillie, 23, had initially urged the BBC to fire the presenters after they left a series of obscene messages on her grandfather's answer machine. However, she has now claimed that the decision by Brand to resign as well as the BBC's suspension of Ross for 12 weeks without pay was "way out of proportion". "I was really angry when I said I wanted them both to be fired, but I think the suspension was good enough. So I'm feeling a bit gutted really about the whole thing", she tells a Channel Five documentary, Russell & Ross: What the F*** Was All That About, which airs on Wednesday.
Georgina Baillie, 23, had initially urged the BBC to fire the presenters after they left a series of obscene messages on her grandfather's answer machine.
However, she has now claimed that the decision by Brand to resign as well as the BBC's suspension of Ross for 12 weeks without pay was "way out of proportion".
"I was really angry when I said I wanted them both to be fired, but I think the suspension was good enough. So I'm feeling a bit gutted really about the whole thing", she tells a Channel Five documentary, Russell & Ross: What the F*** Was All That About, which airs on Wednesday.
And lo, the circle is complete...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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― GO BLACK DUDE FROM SPACE ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡ (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol uk
― BYE! GOOD (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The US elects their first black president. We have this.
― snoball, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Only because people keep reviving this thread, no-one else is talking about it.
― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
No.. Channel five could possibly get their lowest ever ratings in the days of either big fuck-on documentary re: Obama, or going out to do the fireworks and that.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone see it?
(OK, lock thread tonite!)
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to say Snoball absolutely OTM here.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
it was on; i wasn't really watching. it appeared to be slightly tongue-in-cheek and not necessarily as awful as it might have been.
― barracking bammer (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:00 (fifteen years ago) link
could you call it 'closure'?
Also: Rumour that GB is up for Celeb/Jungle...
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It's just wonderful how after Obama's win, all of this just seems to have stopped mattering, not that it ever mattered in the first place.
Radio 2 will go on whoever runs it and whoever broadcasts on it. So will the BBC.
As far as I'm concerned that should be the last word on the matter.
― The answer is NOT Volkswagen (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
it appeared to be slightly tongue-in-cheek
What? A British TV programme? In 2008? Slightly tongue in cheek?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD NO ONE CARES ANY MORE
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link