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Post by Nicholas on Dec 8, 2006 18:44:30 GMT
The Eurovision Song Contest is the highlight of my year. Hurrah! And it's nearly that time of year again ... (sod Christmas)
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Post by jetsetwilly on Dec 10, 2006 11:12:52 GMT
I've been posting on and off to here for months but I never posted in here so I will. Hello. I'm Scott and I had been reading lowculture for ages before I finally ventured into the scary forums (too many clever funny people).
I love tv, in all its forms, though I don't watch half as much as I'd like. I have a very dull job which keeps me busy for most of the day, and so I never get to watch Neighbours or Real Women or Vanessa's Real Lives, which I am distraught about, but fortunately I am able to follow what's going on through these forums, and frankly I think that's better (though sadly the forums don't have all those gratuitous shots of Boyd with his shirt off). I do like Corrie though, and for a gayer I am disturbingly obsessed by The Lovely Violet, who is lovely. I also used to watch EastEnders until it went shit. So now you know.
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Post by Adrian on Dec 11, 2006 10:45:03 GMT
Hello.
I'm intrigued by your name. Do you have a travelling penis? Does it send you postcards?
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Dec 11, 2006 11:55:38 GMT
When jetsetwilly first arrived, his avatar actually made me press space about five separate times.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Dec 11, 2006 15:08:59 GMT
Whoops! Sorry about that. Though think of the fun you had.
And the name is down to growing up in the 80s with a Spectrum computer and a surname that started with "willy". (For the younger bastard members, Jet Set Willy was a computer game from Ye Olden Days) Fortunately my cock remains fully attached.
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Post by Michael on Dec 11, 2006 16:07:01 GMT
I'm crying because people have forgotten Miner Willy.
I'm also crying because I'm old.
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Post by Adrian on Dec 11, 2006 17:09:30 GMT
Ah. I was more of a Commander Keen boy myself. In fact, it's time to celebrate that...
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Post by Michael on Dec 12, 2006 11:20:03 GMT
Ah. I was more of a Commander Keen boy myself. In fact, it's time to celebrate that... A I have no idea what that is. Am I still old? M
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Post by Adrian on Dec 12, 2006 14:17:05 GMT
Commander Keen is the little boy in my avatar. He was a computer game character. Early 90s, I believe.
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Post by David on Dec 12, 2006 23:11:04 GMT
Early 90s?! My computer game characters came on a Spectrum 48k.
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Post by xenomaniac on Dec 13, 2006 22:58:07 GMT
Early 90s?! My computer game characters came on a Spectrum 48k. Ohh I saw one of those in a museum last week.
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Post by David on Dec 13, 2006 23:34:31 GMT
What bloody museum?
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Post by xenomaniac on Dec 14, 2006 0:10:40 GMT
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Post by groopie on Dec 14, 2006 10:43:47 GMT
Ooh, I went to that a couple of weeks ago, £8.50 and you spend ages playing games. Amazing. I actually did Love Machine on Singstar in public and got overexcited playing the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy text adventure. I'll be quiet now.
Although it is nice to be reminded of Commander Keen and reassuring to know that I wasn't the only one whose parents wouldn't buy them proper games so they had to play shareware stuff that no-one had ever heard of.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Dec 14, 2006 21:37:48 GMT
Shareware? Shareware?!?! In my day it was £2.99 for a budgie game from Boots or, if it was your birthday, £9.99 for a 128k treat. "Shareware" involved blank TDK cassettes.
Kids today. Tch! Etc, etc...
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Lisa
Su Pollard
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Post by Lisa on Jan 16, 2007 14:44:03 GMT
Last night my boyfriend proclaimed to... I can barely bring myself to type it... but... to... hate television. What the fuck's that about?
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jan 16, 2007 16:46:42 GMT
Dump him. You'll have nothing to talk about when the sex dries up.
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Lisa
Su Pollard
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Post by Lisa on Jan 17, 2007 9:57:14 GMT
Exactly! I'm guessing he's going to be opposed to me watching tv during sex once it starts getting boring too? Such a shame.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jan 17, 2007 14:39:00 GMT
Last night my boyfriend proclaimed to... I can barely bring myself to type it... but... to... hate television. What the fuck's that about? I don't understand. What does he do with his time instead?!?
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Lisa
Su Pollard
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Post by Lisa on Jan 17, 2007 14:51:16 GMT
I don't understand either - I feel violated and dirty at my association with him!
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Post by Cherubic on Jan 18, 2007 22:02:11 GMT
I had to do my English GCSE English on a leaflet produced by a group campaigning against TV. I'd have got an A* had I not sat there bemused for half an hour thinking 'what are these fucking people on?'
Dump his arse. Preferably on Jeremy Kyle.
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Lisa
Su Pollard
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Post by Lisa on Jan 19, 2007 13:33:03 GMT
If I get to be on Jeremy Kyle it's a done deal!
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jan 19, 2007 13:46:03 GMT
I went to dinner with a friend and a couple of his friends who I sort of know, and one of them started talking about some 'TV turn-off week'. She asked me if I was going to do it. 'Fuck no' I replied.
I always have the TV on. Right now it's on even though I can't see it, because I like the noise and it makes me feel less lonely.
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Lisa
Su Pollard
Campaigning for the ghostly return of Toby - always my favourite serial killer
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Post by Lisa on Jan 19, 2007 14:19:40 GMT
I just don't trust people who don't like TV or decide to watch less TV - I imagine they're the same people who ditch all their friends when they get a new girlfriend or boyfriend. TV is always there for me, never moans if I fall asleep whilst it's talking, and has never just abandoned me for a week with no warning. It would be rude not to return the same level of courtesy!
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Karen
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Post by Karen on Jan 21, 2007 11:28:44 GMT
Once upon a time (in my early 20’s) I lived without a television for a couple of years. I worked an awful lot, and spent what little time I had at home reading the Guardian and listening to Radio 4. And the books! So very many books! Back then I could hold a conversation and had an excellent vocabulary. I also kept a spreadsheet for my income and expenditure.
Then I met my boyfriend and I fell in love with his shiny new television and video, and I’ve never looked back. I married him, obviously, and now we have three televisions (aged 9, 2 and 1) of our very own. Now I keep a spreadsheet on upcoming programmes to look out for.
When I think of the way my life could have gone, I shudder, I really do.
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