My SIL did something to his Sky box that has given it more memory than Deep Thought. But there again he is a communications manager in a company who controls TV transmission in the UK and is a bit of a boffin. I severely pissed off Mrs M by not buying a new Sky box for £180 when our old one was playing up and bought one off ebay for £20. It was only when we started using it I realised that it was an earlier model and had half the memory of the one I had chucked out (and that was five years old).

I never said you did. I was asking rhetorical questions to make a point about the dangers of arbitrating on subjective matters of taste.

I'm trying to find out why you get so animated about things which , to me, matter not a jot.

Well that's a shame because I was hoping you might enlighten me, I thought perhaps I was missing something.

Well, as I said, I was hoping for an explanation. But if you don't want to give one, that's your prerogative.

As I said in my reply in the "Things I hate thread" I'm not pissed off at all, just baffled. You've done nothing wrong, just something which I think is strange and I'm trying to understand why.

I'm not playing games either.

Well that's a shame, I guess I'll never know now.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Disappointing. Mine's playing up at the moment (engineer out tomorrow) so I might try to play for an upgrade.

Incidentally, despite their rotten image I must say that Sky's call centre staff are exemplars of politeness and efficiency.

Show was bloody good this week.
Chris Addison was one of the best on it.
I was laughing uncontrollably, in spite of my kidney stone being in transit.

Boy, that'll shift it.

Missed it tonight, if it's a good one I'll download it and give it a go.

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I fear that Nigel* is jammed part way out.

Worth watching, Addison's "Tory cabinet look-alikes" is a classic in itself.



*Painful, irritating and difficult to forget about.

I wondered for a moment if he'd dropped by here, or are comparisons to Pob and Iggle Piggle out there in the public domain?

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Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Iggle Piggle, yes. Pob's not one I've seen anywhere else.

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"If the past really is a foreign country, I'm surprised that 'The Daily Mail' would want to live there.” - Roger Quimbly

Pob crops up pretty frequently on the Guardian comments.

Though it was "IDS and Hague standing together look like Yoda's bollocks" that pushed me past the Peter Sellers point of no return.

Watched the latest.

Wasn't bad at all, although that Carl Donnelly chap is about as funny as a mildewy sponge, Good to see Milton Jones back on it, though, and also the return of Hugh Dennis' voice-overs (although I never quite worked out how they fit into the format) - "I'm as hot as a pasty with VAT on it" made me laugh loudly.

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I think the format (like an unregulated market) can accommodate a couple of "Start up failures".
I'd hope the producers would have learned that bad hair does not automatically map to comedy gold (Milton Jones and Tommy Cooper excepted).

Top marks also to Milton's "My uncle is a security guard at the O2".
You just can't beat recycled poo jokes.

Carl's been on it a few times now, and he's always disappointing. He's kind of like the nerd who comes out with a joke and you just go "Heh..." in response before going back to whatever you were doing. Obviously it's very early in his career so it's possible he'll improve, but I don't think we'll be hearing much from him in the coming years, or even the future.

Aside from Dara O'Briain and Andy Parsons, it's a show largely with low-to-middle level comedians, by that I mean ones either doing small gigs or doing medium-to-large(ish) but not massive sell out ones. Milton Jones is an example - he's done some big-ish gigs, but he's nowhere near the level of Michael OHFUCKOFF McIntyre or even Dara. Hugh Dennis is very much a comedic actor and radio star, and Chris Addison is the same. So yeah, you're gonna end up with some crap comedians - I'd be here all day listing them - but sometimes you get someone who might just get better. I reckon that Nathan Caton could be good.


Indeed. I think it's great that he bounces off other comedians like that.

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"My granddad's last words to me on his deathbed were 'You selfish boy!' So I became a fishmonger". (circa. 2010).

That nearly made me sick laughing, that joke. Jones can really nail it sometimes.

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For some reason, my favourite of his is "My parents died when I was young", prompting the audience to go "ahhhh", to which he replies "Don't rub it in, they were killed by pirates"

Jo Caulfield's always good value. She deserves a higher profile.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.