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and what *I* was saying, you obtuse clod, is that this is the same as
it ever was - "the public wants what the public gets".

"nearly every other" i.e. just under 50%. I'd be surprised if it were
more than 5% in terms of air-time.

no, it would be an embarrasing reminder of what used to be found
acceptible in fairly recent times.

 

I considered Mariella Frostrup.

I missed a trick with Jonathan Miller; I like him a lot - very varied
abilities: doctor, comedian, opera director. Is there any one person
who is as interesting?

All in all, quite similar to my own list.

 

First one to spring to my mind as well.

Tony Benn as first bloke (got 'Dare to be a Daniel' waiting)

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Doo dah.

****, yes. The minging shite that used to on the box. My folks used to
watch that every fuckin' week.
It was shite like that that forced me out into the world at an early age
and let me discover drugs, beer and women and motorcycles.

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Agree 100%, but I will make an exception for that series where they sent
modern-day schoolkids back to replicas of 1950s and then 1960s schools,
with curriculums (curricula? - I'll have to check in other fora) and
discipline to match.

That was absolutely fascinating.

 

Agree 100%, but I will make an exception for that series where they sent
modern-day schoolkids back to replicas of 1950s and then 1960s schools,
with curriculums (curricula? - I'll have to check in other fora) and
discipline to match.[/QUOTE]

oh yeah, and what about the 7-up series? That was reasonably
creditable "reality tv".

 

oh yeah, and what about the 7-up series? That was reasonably
creditable "reality tv".[/QUOTE]

Ah, I didn't see that one, so can't comment.

 

Yeah, cos the great British unwashed have ala ways been attracted to
vibrant intellectual conversation, live drama, and top quality music,
haven't they?

Or gin.

Or dog fights.

Or football.

I agree there seems little avoiding it, these days, but to suggest
we've always been a nation of sophisticates is overdoing it a bit.
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Yes.

Deptford's finest, iirc.

Thick as three short planks, but not as nice to look at.
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Are you sure about this one?
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Wasn't "Kathy come home" reality TV? Or was it a documentary?

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"No, Honestly". Now that was real.

 

Lyndsey de Paul was *real*? Blimey.
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Spencer is a 22 year old assistant in a ski shop in Cambridge, and
spends his summers punting people along the River Cam. Obviously, this
is just far too much for Jade to comprehend, and she asked Spencer to
explain.

What followed was one of the most classic pieces of live conversation
a TV audience has ever witnessed. It is truly unbelievable ...


Jade : They don't do that in the Thames though, do they ?
Spencer : No. I don't work on the Thames though do I. I work in
Cambridge.
Jade : Is there not the Thames there ?
Spencer : No !
Jade : Oh. I thought the Thames went there.
Spencer : No.
Jade : What ? So you work in Cambridge, on a little river bank or
somefink ?
Spencer : Yes ... on a little river bank.
Jade : Why - is there a river called the Cambridge river ?
Spencer : Yeah, it's called the Cam.
Jade : Really ? You swear ? I only thought there was the Thames. I
thought that was the main one in London.
Spencer : It is. I don't live in London.
Jade : I'm confused. I thought Cambridge was ...
Spencer : That Cambridge was in London ?
Jade : Yeah. I knew Birmingham weren't in London. I thought Cambridge
was in London.
Spencer : Would you like to go and tell the group what you just said ?
Jade : No ...
Spencer : You thought Cambridge was in London ?
Jade : Yeah. I thought it was just a bit out. In London, but a bit
out. You know you've got Bermondsy, Lewisham and all them sort of
places; I thought that Cambridge was in London, but a different place.
Spencer : Cambridge is a city.
Jade : But we've got the city in London.
Spencer : Yes. The city is called London. And there's different parts
of it. Cambridge is a city.
Jade : Of where ? Kent ?
Jade : Well England's a country, London's a city, Bermondsey's just a
throw-off. Now where are you ? What's your country, and what's your
things ? I'm confused.
Spencer : What country am I from ? England. The city is called
Cambridge, the county Cambridgeshire.
Jade : So it's not Kent then ?
Spencer : No ... The region is called East Anglia.
Jade : East Anglia ? That's abroad. Is there not a place called East
Anglia abroad ?
Spencer : Jade, have you been taking the stupid pills again ?
Jade : Every time people tell me they work in East Anglia, I actually
think they're talking about near Tunisia and places like that. Am I
thick ?
Spencer : Well, I hate to say it; but ...
Jade : No !
Spencer : ... you are.
Jade : Cos Scottish and Irish and all that comes under England,
doesn't it ?
Spencer : No ... They come under Great Britain. Scotland and Wales
have their own flags. Northern Ireland and Ireland are different.
Jade : So they're not together ? Where's Berlin ?



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New as in different, rather than as in lower?

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Champ says...

She's stupid. It takes a great deal of effort to teach her anything at
all. I watched a bit of BB and it frustrated me to watch her, so I
stopped

 

Cambridge, Camden, what's the difference?

 

Which Cambridge? See there's one in Gloucestershire too (and possibly
more besides). Is someone who doesn't know this thick or just lacking
local knowledge[1].

Oh and it's pronounced Cam-bridge not Came-bridge round these parts but
I've only been here 3 years so I'm still working out why this is.

[1] Which is of course relative.

 

If your passing Dunkirk and Petty France how can you omit Britain
Bottom?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Salad Dodger
<> saying something like:

The thing that disturbs me is that people like that get to vote.

At least she was trying.

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