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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jan 12, 2007 19:09:29 GMT
And what's a cake maker anyway? That isn't a job. That annoyed me too. Fuck knows why they thought they'd give away that costume in issue one. I can't imagine it being the one costume out of the 75 they have planned that'll have the little girls rushing to their news agents the most.
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Post by SweatShop on Jan 20, 2007 4:08:17 GMT
Felicity Wishes pisses me off. Felicity has a crown. She is clearly a princess. Not a 'cake maker', trawlerman or Navy Seal or whatever she wishes she was. Deal with your life of luxury you spoilt commitee planned rag. Felicity Wishes is quite disturbing really. I mean, what a fucking ugly doll. And I don't think the magazine states she is a cake-maker, simply that she wishes she was a cake-maker (with flowers in her hair.)
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Post by Cherubic on Jan 20, 2007 15:09:27 GMT
But nobody is a cake maker. It'd be like me wishing I was a pavement embroiderer or an oompa lumpa or Davros.
It's like Marie Antoinette's model village, if she dined on the finest acid. Offensive and random.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jan 20, 2007 15:53:20 GMT
You do get some cakemakers, who do nothing but make Wedding and other celebration cakes.
Though most people who make cakes are just called bakers, or sit bored out of their minds at a conveyor belt adding pices of marzipan to battenburgs.
I believe Felicity gets a Davros costume with issue 68.
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Post by Cherubic on Jan 20, 2007 16:08:17 GMT
Only because I break her legs in issue 67.
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Post by David Hunter on Jan 20, 2007 17:50:46 GMT
And what's a cake maker anyway? That isn't a job. Try telling that to Jane Asher!
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Post by Muinimula on Feb 14, 2007 21:26:26 GMT
There's a new Harry Potter one, where you can collect all the pieces to play actual 'wizard chess'. Of course, they demonstrate this with a clip of kids playing with this chess set, and the pieces move, and fall over in clouds of dust. How realistic.
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Post by Teedsie on Feb 15, 2007 2:46:00 GMT
I used to get PC Genius... came on floppy disks and was generally awful. It had this annoying woman in it who used to say "You're a genius!" in a really patronising voice.
I also collected "all" of Real Robots. Until they ran out of actual robot stuff to give away, and started including different coloured body panels. I remember the remote control melting after I assembled it and put the batteries in.
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Post by Anna on Feb 15, 2007 19:44:43 GMT
There's a new Harry Potter one, where you can collect all the pieces to play actual 'wizard chess'. Of course, they demonstrate this with a clip of kids playing with this chess set, and the pieces move, and fall over in clouds of dust. How realistic. Yeah and you can't even start playing the game until you've collected all however-many-pieces-in-a-chess-set issues!
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Post by [james] on Feb 15, 2007 20:05:01 GMT
I had femminst moan about Felicity Wishes. All little girls can be when they grow-up is a cake-maker, nurse or fairy. According to the website, future jobs for Felicity include nurse, ballerina, popstar, flowergirl, hairdresser, actress, waitress, explorer, ice dancer and lifeguard. No mention of sexual pioneer or CEO.
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Post by Joel on Feb 16, 2007 20:48:21 GMT
There's a new Harry Potter one, where you can collect all the pieces to play actual 'wizard chess'. Of course, they demonstrate this with a clip of kids playing with this chess set, and the pieces move, and fall over in clouds of dust. How realistic. Yeah and you can't even start playing the game until you've collected all however-many-pieces-in-a-chess-set issues! I think they said 48. Because if there's anything children are known for, it's patience and long attention spans.
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Post by LoveMusic on Feb 17, 2007 22:46:13 GMT
I had femminst moan about Felicity Wishes. All little girls can be when they grow-up is a cake-maker, nurse or fairy. According to the website, future jobs for Felicity include nurse, ballerina, popstar, flowergirl, hairdresser, actress, waitress, explorer, ice dancer and lifeguard. No mention of sexual pioneer or CEO. Argh. Don't get me started. I got told i have a 'bad attitude' the other day because i swore during the awful '70 seconds to tasty' advert.
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Post by [james] on Feb 17, 2007 23:37:34 GMT
Argh. Don't get me started. I got told i have a 'bad attitude' the other day because i swore during the awful '70 seconds to tasty' advert. First time I saw that I assumed that GHB takes 70 seconds to affect the girl. If you'd woken up in the bed of the boy off Matt's Millions who's partial to a microwaved burger, I'd certainly hope spiking was involved.
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Post by jode* on Feb 18, 2007 10:31:40 GMT
First time I saw that I assumed that GHB takes 70 seconds to affect the girl. If you'd woken up in the bed of the boy off Matt's Millions who's partial to a microwaved burger, I'd certainly hope spiking was involved. He's also in one of the confused.com adverts. How high-brow. Poor guy, I used to think he was hot in Teachers.
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Post by latoyajunkie on Feb 21, 2007 15:58:02 GMT
I bought an issue of PC Genius and a Star Trek Fact File once -- which didn't even come with a toy, I was not impressed. There was a dinosaur one in the early/mid 90's too which I got my Granny to buy me for some cardboard stegasaurous or some such creature. They seem far more exciting these days. Oh to be young again...
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Post by jptastic on Apr 19, 2007 15:34:38 GMT
"Treasures Of The Earth" is back. WooHoo!
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Post by Rad on Apr 19, 2007 16:10:49 GMT
the bbc are even cashing in on the act with the 'period drama collection'...
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Post by David on Apr 19, 2007 16:35:54 GMT
In my A-level English language exam, I had to cut-and-paste text to form an article to go into one of these fortnightlies.
Is this still on the syllabus?
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Aug 23, 2007 20:59:30 GMT
It's now that other time of year when they start hawking a new load of shit magazines.
So far I've seen that Elvis one that didn't actually seem to give away his music - instead opting for artefacts from his life, like photocopied letters and old polaroid scans. There's also one offering little Calvalry figures, and there's a Columbo DVD collection too. Any others?
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Post by al on Aug 24, 2007 13:34:44 GMT
I've not seen any of note recently, but am so glad you've bumped this thread, otherwise I'd never have had the pleasure of reading the comments about Felicity Wishes and semi-choking on my Boost bar.
That bit wasn't so much fun.
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Post by mcflooze on Aug 24, 2007 16:04:33 GMT
It's now that other time of year when they start hawking a new load of shit magazines. So far I've seen that Elvis one that didn't actually seem to give away his music - instead opting for artefacts from his life, like photocopied letters and old polaroid scans. There's also one offering little Calvalry figures, and there's a Columbo DVD collection too. Any others? The ad for the Elvis one makes me laugh - apparently you get "original replica artefacts" with each issue... what a pile of shite.
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Post by francopopfille on Aug 24, 2007 16:51:01 GMT
The ad for the Elvis one makes me laugh - apparently you get "original replica artefacts" with each issue... what a pile of shite. Don't they also offer a free "collector's box"? That makes me laugh because, yeah, the free shit is so collectable! They mass produce it in quantities of millions. Be sure to hang on to it, Elvisophiles, that replica birth certificate will be worth something one day!
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Post by Cherubic on Aug 24, 2007 19:57:40 GMT
Cavalry, through the ages.
What the fuck?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Aug 25, 2007 21:50:22 GMT
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Post by Ceeb on Aug 26, 2007 15:44:35 GMT
Isn't the Doctor Who one called "Battles in Time"? Adventures is DWM for da kidz
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