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I've always found Ben Elton incredibly grating. He must know someone to get a show on a major network.

Haven't seen it... never will
 
I haven't seen it (despite having been a big fan of everything of his prior to Inconceivable) but I think the fact that he has to do it here should have been pretty indicative of the quality of the premise to begin with. Doesn't matter a stuff that he lives in WA now - he lived here when he did that West End show with Brian May, didn't he?

I suggest everyone follow my lead since Inconceivable and make Stephen Fry your populist humorist of choice (and Robert Rankin as your unpopular humorist of choice).
 
To have once written Black Adder and to end up with 'Live from planet Earth' is a slight decline IMO.

And yes Bum, Fry should take the title!
 
Oh, thank f**k for that.

Addressing criticism he recently told TV Tonight, "You get no previews,
you get no second shots and I think for a first show we did bloody well
and if we were a bit rude then fair enough, OK, I'm sorry.
I don't think LSD would have made the jokes work. They were absolutely terrible, drawn-out, and unfunny. The "comedian" I saw was telling primary school jokes [dead-pan, for no obvious reason], the "skit" I saw was three minutes to get to an obvious boob 'joke', and the "monologue" I saw was just Elton rambling on without getting to anything funny. Good riddance.
 
Doesn't matter a stuff that he lives in WA now - he lived here when he did that West End show with Brian May, didn't he?

Was that the "We Will Rock You" theatre show that based it's premise upon Queen songs to pad out the script? If so, it's a sad admission on my part to say that I was dragged to the show by my mother, in a maternal bonding session incorporating rock music.

Am a big fan of older stuff by the band Queen, but that particular Ben Elton production sucked balls. And not in a good way. Freddie wouldn't have even turned in his grave.

I don't think LSD would have made the jokes work.

From what I have read, LSD experiences don't work well with TV as a backdrop, regardless of the content.

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so ive got two beers on the go at the moment, one kolsch at 15c in the fridge and one pale ale at about 22c on the cool tiled kitchen floor.

we have to lock the cats out at night from the back of the house and the little buggers have learnt to open the door so what i did was slide my pale ale fermenter in front of the door so they couldnt open it.

cue 7am and the little bugga's get into the bedroom, i didnt really think anything of it. i get up and go out to the kitchen and what do i find? bloody cat has jumped on top of my fermenter and opened the door and put its foot straight through the gladwrap of the fermeneter! The Ferment is almost over so i can only hope that the alcohol fends off any infection from dirty paw's.

tl:dr a stupid cat put its paw in my fermenter.

at least butters would be proud.
 
I haven't seen it (despite having been a big fan of everything of his prior to Inconceivable) but I think the fact that he has to do it here should have been pretty indicative of the quality of the premise to begin with. Doesn't matter a stuff that he lives in WA now - he lived here when he did that West End show with Brian May, didn't he?

I suggest everyone follow my lead since Inconceivable and make Stephen Fry your populist humorist of choice (and Robert Rankin as your unpopular humorist of choice).
Is Robert Rankin unpopular? I like Robert Rankin...
And Tom Holt...
 
pissed off. downloaded 4 podcasts off itunes last night. First time I've used it in ages.
Went to copy them over, and realised they were in m4a format. (my mp3 player is mp3/wma format).
Thanks for nothing F##kers!
 
Ok, get a load of this shit. I think Ima be paying some one a visit this arvo....


Got a car alarm installed a while ago, it started playing up, going off for no reason and stuff. It was after those real humid days we had a few weeks back so I figured the humidity was shorting something out in it. Well today (driving home from vets in my lunch break) it went off while I was driving, and wouldn't turn off at all, not untill I reefed on some wires comming out of the siren and it stopped (keep in mind I've turned the car off and keys are out), I think, great maybe I can drive around like that untill I get it to an auto elec, nope, starts going off again a the slightest bump on the road. Not knowing what I should do as I needed to get back to work ASAP, once I got home and dropped the cat off I cut the bloody thing straight out, just snipped all the wires. Now, thinking I'll have to take the other car now because I've just tampered with an alarm with 3, yes 3 immobilisers, my car wont start (well, it ******* shouldn't). It did. I'll assume that the knob who put it in didn't hook anything up but the siren to the bloody keypad. Very very no happy chappy, at all!
 
Ok, get a load of this shit. I think Ima be paying some one a visit this arvo....


Got a car alarm installed a while ago, it started playing up, going off for no reason and stuff. It was after those real humid days we had a few weeks back so I figured the humidity was shorting something out in it. Well today (driving home from vets in my lunch break) it went off while I was driving, and wouldn't turn off at all, not untill I reefed on some wires comming out of the siren and it stopped (keep in mind I've turned the car off and keys are out), I think, great maybe I can drive around like that untill I get it to an auto elec, nope, starts going off again a the slightest bump on the road. Not knowing what I should do as I needed to get back to work ASAP, once I got home and dropped the cat off I cut the bloody thing straight out, just snipped all the wires. Now, thinking I'll have to take the other car now because I've just tampered with an alarm with 3, yes 3 immobilisers, my car wont start (well, it ******* shouldn't). It did. I'll assume that the knob who put it in didn't hook anything up but the siren to the bloody keypad. Very very no happy chappy, at all!
Totally sounds like he's done the dodgy on you.
I ripped the alarm out of my car last year as it was playing up & draining my battery. Had fun trying to read a badly waterdamaged wiring manual. The ignition lead was wired through it and needed reconnecting. If you could just cut it all out.....
 
kick his fuckin arse is what I'm gonna do, unless of course he has my $400, then I might just smack him like a bitch for wasting my time
 
Yeah, that's pretty bad. Really should report him to who ever these things are reported to.
 
Yeah, that's pretty bad. Really should report him to who ever these things are reported to.

Yeah, think I'll start there rather than get myself into trouble. Pretty damn hard to calm down though
 
This is why I tend to install aftermarket stuff myself....At least if corners are cut I know it was me who did it.
 
@petesbrew
Change the CD rip conversion from aac or mp4 format to mp3 (edit, preferences, general tab then "import settings") , then right click on your podcasts and select convert to MP3. It will double up in your library, but you can reorganise to remove dupes later.
This works for downloaded albums as well ;)
 
This is why I tend to install aftermarket stuff myself....At least if corners are cut I know it was me who did it.

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder why I gave doin' that sort of stuff up. Used to always do my own work, not as much time now I spose. I still remember pulling the rods & lifters out of the Charger, faaark wasn't that easy. I don't know if things have gotten harder, or I'm gettin bumber :unsure:


No need to answer that........
 

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