― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)
Sex sells the damn thing.
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)
She'll sing what she's given. Her weight will probably be used as an excuse when she doesn't sell, but it probably won't be the sole cause.
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 19 December 2003 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)
i) Whether Calum would be able to resist trolling the board about Michelle? (answer: no, obv)
ii) How we would market Michelle?
She'll be sold as a Radio 2 artist, obviously - big ballads, torch songs, broken-hearted stuff, yes there will be a subtext of 'I can't find love because I'm big' but use your imagination Calum, there's a lot of people out there who can empathise with heartbreak. The people behind Pop Idol are experts at selling music - they have that Sam bloke to be the heart-throb, with Michelle they can corner a totally different bit of the market.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)
it will fail.
pop idol was rubbish this year.
i want a jane birkin chick to rock my world.
beth orton? eww...
never!
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)
beth ditto is hot.
i'm ill jim, forgive me.
*cough cough*
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)
also why LISTEN to Britney if you only seem interested in wanking over her?
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)
do you really think michelle is a brilliant pop star tom?
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)
the only interesting thing that came out of the recent pop idol is girls aloud ... for factors i'm not going to get into.
michelle is destined to be the one true voice of the show.
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)
Matt DC is OTM - I think people are voting for the show not the after-show career.
Beth Ditto = lead singer of the Gossip. She is great.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)
no prizes for guessing what i misread this as
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)
This one?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)
If people *do* start voting for the after-show career rather than what they've just seen, that's the moment the whole thing starts to die, right?
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)
it may have the effect of the girl 'i'll do anything for fame, me' plus violent outbursts' aloud v. one true voice. the public want something different.
but i think michelle has the appearance of being different but not the cool, apathetic and vicious personality of girls aloud. i think that is why she is pitted against mark. mark is such the pop idol stereotype.
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jole, Friday, 19 December 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)
will young - gay;chick from fame academy - gay;girls aloud - the patrick bateman popsociopaths addicted to fame;and poor michelle only has her fatness going for her.
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)
(Name escapes me for a mo)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)
(x post = funny bones)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)
IMDB connections XIV
Plot Outline: Jerry Lewis plays a Nazi clown who leads children to the gas chamber in a concentration camp.
User Comments: Sounds as if it might have worked in the right hands
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)
No, he's talking about Funny Bones, with Oliver Platt. It's a very strange and great movie, and Evans is amazing in it.
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Is this the winner of Norwegian Pop Idol?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 December 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Hahahaha very good.
Aldo_Cowpat... I'm actually in Cardiff but I remember the Davidson quote quite well... there was this amazing bit in the Daily Mail* the other week, it was an interview with one of Jim's beleaguered ex-wives.
It's the anniversary of the Falklands (doesn't say which year) and Jim is in front of the telly in full military regalia, standing up and saluting the plucky heroes on the screen. His wife comes in with his dinenr on a tray and walks in front of the telly, puts the tray down and Jim goes completely mental at her for getting in the way, chucks the tray at the wall and probably blackens her eye.
By remarkable coincidence I walked past Simon Weston in the high street earlier.
*I was reading it while getting my hair cut
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
And the UK has long opposed the bigotry in Israel. I think we're a less racist country than America.
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 19 December 2003 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 December 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Friday, 19 December 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)
God, read what I say next time you licker of dead donkey's nuts.
― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 20 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Er, right -- but the BRITISH National Party actually belives in ENGLISH domination of the rest, of course. There's no such thing as the 'British' nation. Each country is 'very different,' except all are dominated politically by England, and the English tongue, and the fourth, Northern Ireland, is in no way a 'nation'. And is British nationalism (ie English nationalism) really the 'most atrocious thing ever'? Worse than Nazism?
― Henry K M (Enrique), Saturday, 20 December 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)
On your passport you're "British" by the way.
― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 20 December 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Saturday, 20 December 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 20 December 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)
its hilarious that you mention his 'roleplaying' though. after all, you are the past master, eh Sonny?only difference being that all your alter-egos are as backward as each other.
― karl r, Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)
i read as much as what c-man reads of others.
― griffin doome, Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)
Yes.
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doome, Saturday, 20 December 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Or "Not saying what you really feel."
― David Allen, Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Having the other finallists (anyone else notice the absence of Leon?) made me pine for Suzanne. I never really appreciated how great she was in comparison to the others. She definitely could have been marketed to the Dido/Norah Jones market (except been good) and made a shitload for 19, a lot more than any of the others' single-based careers would have.
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)
australia have no good stand-ups. they all suck. all of them. no exceptions.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
-- David Allen (Davidalle...), December 20th, 2003.
Correct - I'm sorry, but I don't want my POP in the shape of someone who looks like two tonnes of stale porridge poured into a size 20 dress...
― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 21 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin doom, Sunday, 21 December 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 December 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― griffin oome, Sunday, 21 December 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)
if all born again christians look like that, where do i sign up?
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 December 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)
I do believe I have seen that face a few times during the past 7-8 months, yes :-)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)
i think i might agree with doomie about spain being less insidiously racist than britain, but i dont think so about france, which i think is an extremely racist country on a number of levels, both overtly but also neurotically hidden. italy is an interesting case, there is certainly overt racism, but probably less of the under-the-carpet variety
this is the first pop-idol i havent seen, many of the interesting posts on this thread (particularly tom and doomie) make me wish i had though. liberty x still seem to have been the biggest winners from it though, by being enough of a blank canvas for people not to get bored
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)
funny, that
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway!!!! Dunno why it started with something Channel 4's "received opinion" about that flipping "Heil" proggy!!!! I mean, have they actually investigated anything about it or did they just read the tabloid "outrage"?!??!!? "Heil Honey, I'm Home" was an 'outrageous' sitcom broadcast on the old BSB satellite channel in 1990 to an audience of about 4 viewers!!!! It was a complete and utter pisstake in the (by then dated) really really obvious 1980s UK 'alternative comedy' sense!!!! (Basically, equating the traditional sitcom family with the Nazis!!!!) The plotline ("Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva live somewhere in 1930s American suburbia, next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, and their dour niece, Ruth." Erm!!!!) and the deliberately contrived pantomine touches that virtually screamed "DON'T PANIC!!!! THIS IS A PARODY!!!!" basically told you all needed to know!!!!! The only sense in which it was offensive was the quality of the writing, which apparently wasn't that much cop!!!! The only reason it's "infamous" is because it got buried under a welter controversy stoked up by tabloids such as the Sun, who, coincidentelly enough were owned by the same boss who owned the competing Sky satellite channels!!!! This show can't be compared to shows in the 70s with yer actual serious racism issues, from the dodgy stuff ("Mind Your Language" or "Curry and Chips"), to clearly taking the piss out of it ("Till Death Do Us Part", "Rising Damp"), or sitting-on-the-fence-trying-to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it ("Love Thy Neighbour", "Ain't Half Hot Mum"). You're just not going to get shows like that made any more, (With the exception of the "Let's Take The Piss Out Of The Daft Bigot" type stuff like Al Murray) because despite all the moaning about "PC" and whatnot, people just don't funny any more!!!!!
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
God yes! (slaps head)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
Pop Idol/Fame Academy. Now that the fat lady has sung, can it please all be over?
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Sunday, 28 December 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)