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Just heard on the news that Russell Brand has resigned. at £200K per show I suspect that it's a decision that might sting a little.  
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2008 at 14:50
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

It's great it's all coming together at long last!


+++thinks better of making a comment & sounding like Russell Brand (er!+++



Oh Censored - that guy hosted some awards show over here that was an utter failure - not one funny thing came out of his mouth, all his jokes fell completely flat.  I watched a little bit and can't understand for the life of me how he got famous in the UK or anywhere.  Talentless waste.  Thumbs Down


British humour?
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Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

Just heard on the news that Russell Brand has resigned. at £200K per show I suspect that it's a decision that might sting a little.  


On his end, not for the BBC I guess... I don't mind taking over for a week or so.Smile
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2008 at 15:03
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

It's great it's all coming together at long last!


+++thinks better of making a comment & sounding like Russell Brand (er!+++



Oh Censored - that guy hosted some awards show over here that was an utter failure - not one funny thing came out of his mouth, all his jokes fell completely flat.  I watched a little bit and can't understand for the life of me how he got famous in the UK or anywhere.  Talentless waste.  Thumbs Down


British humour?


Well, Brand has one of those qualities.  Wink
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 29 2008 at 17:41
Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

Just heard on the news that Russell Brand has resigned. at £200K per show I suspect that it's a decision that might sting a little.  
 
I could be desperately unamusing on Radio 2 for only half of what they paid that overrated irritant and I'd play better music. Maybe if I cultivate a heroin habit, go into rehab for sex addiction and write a booky wook...
 
Anyway, I'm just checking in briefly as I'm up in bonny and extremely chilly Scotland for half term (Appin - a beautiful spot between Fort William and Oban). I'll bring back some shortbread and some duty free haggis.
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^^^ nice one Chris...have a good time..Clap
 
I've never listened to Radio 1 (except for Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show...Embarrassed) but between the ages of 9 and 14, I listened to Radio 2 a lot... not listened to it in a quarter of a century though...(ever since I discovered Radio 4).  I expect its changed a bit since Gloria Hunniford, Ken Bruce & Jimmy Young, has it?
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I'm a radio 2 addict I'm afraid, still listen to Ken in the mornings!  And although I missed Jimmy for a long time, I do enjoy Jeremy Vine, esp as he sneaks in the odd prog number, (its the sneaking in that has me smiling)  Steve Wright tends to annoy these days so he often gets switched off, but the evenings have some surprises (and some of them good) and I do love Sundays on R2 Approve 

Hope Scotland is as lovely as usual Syz, and hoping you get the customs docs sorted for that shortbread and haggis (YUM)  try not to OD on deep fried marsbars though!

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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

Just heard on the news that Russell Brand has resigned. at £200K per show I suspect that it's a decision that might sting a little.  
 
I could be desperately unamusing on Radio 2 for only half of what they paid that overrated irritant and I'd play better music. Maybe if I cultivate a heroin habit, go into rehab for sex addiction and write a booky wook...
 


Please, please, please, go on the radio Chris! Maybe on your show, you could get in some of the current crop of pop acts and make them play their latest single in a Canterbury style.

That alone would be worth the licence fee!


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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Radio playing good music..? Confused

haven't heard that for years,  made extinct by overpaid, overhyped ego-trippers spouting their stupid stuff-which-nobody-really-cares-about-cos-they-already-seen-it-in-the-morning-paper-or-BBC- News.....Ermm
 
bring back Fluff! Cry
 
 
 
 
..saying that, i will miss ol' Wossy, but shame such an experienced presenter should be led astray by a scruffy upstart - he can stick his booky wooky up his botty wotty ... Stern Smile
   
 


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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Wilcey Wilcey wrote:

It's great it's all coming together at long last!


+++thinks better of making a comment & sounding like Russell Brand (er!+++



Oh Censored - that guy hosted some awards show over here that was an utter failure - not one funny thing came out of his mouth, all his jokes fell completely flat.  I watched a little bit and can't understand for the life of me how he got famous in the UK or anywhere.  Talentless waste.  Thumbs Down


British humour?
 
No, Natural Science's comment just about sums him up.Wink
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2008 at 04:22
I strongly suspect Brand's resignation was a case of one of the DG's minions taking him to one side, giving him the requesite letter and a pen & advising him to do the right thing - mind you, I'd have preferred them to use the WWII option of having a gentle chat with him & leaving him in a room with a loaded revolver - then filming the result & showing it on you-tube



Or is that a bit harsh?

Reminds me in a way of a company I used to work for - you always knew when someone had been sacked, as a memo went out saying that so-and-so had 'taken the decision to persue his career outside the TSB group'

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2008 at 04:45
Found on (of all things) a Rush forum:

How to lower your blood pressure

I'm not saying a bloody word...

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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2008 at 05:05
How's yer blood pressure Jim? 
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2008 at 05:20
Speaking as an ex-vegetarian & a real ale lover - extremely good, thanks

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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2008 at 06:03
thought so! Wink
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better out than in Embarrassed
 
though amazing to think if all that natural gas could be harnessed, an end to the fuel crisis! Big smile
 
and lower the nation's blood pressure to boot!
 
 
 


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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Speaking as an ex-vegetarian & a real ale lover - extremely good, thanks
 
Did you say ex vegetarian?
 
That's right sir, sixteen years under the lentil and proud of it, thank you sir.
 
What happened?
 
I was cured sir.
 
Cured?
 
Yes sir, a miracle sir.
 
Who cured you?
 
Jesus did.  I was parping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me.  One minute I'm a vegetarian with a slight aroma of eggs, next minute he gives me a bacon sandwich.  Not so much as a by your leave.  You're cured mate.
 
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Morning all, safely survived the weather and 33 Scouts.
Nice bit of hiking, some splendid scenery and I discovered probably the only person in the whole world who has "Cliff at Christmas" and albums by Cannibal Corpse (whose titles cannot be repeated here) on his laptop.
Just to show how changeable the weather was, these two photos were taken about an hour apart.
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Originally posted by Neil Neil wrote:

Did you say ex vegetarian?

That's right sir, sixteen years under the lentil and proud of it, thank you sir.

What happened?

I was cured sir.

Cured?

Yes sir, a miracle sir.

Who cured you?

Jesus did. I was parping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a vegetarian with a slight aroma of eggs, next minute he gives me a bacon sandwich. Not so much as a by your leave. You're cured mate.




Nice one Neil - haven't had a good Python reference for a while (to be slightly pedantic though, I was 10 years under the lentil... and the last one of those years was a bit dodgy with an occasional bit of naughtiness )

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I particularly liked the "bacon" "cured" synergy.
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