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Riptide
08-26-03, 08:50 AM
Anyone here care for "Are you being served?". I used to watch it on nickelodeon back when it was on and thought it was a riot. It's my second favorite BBC television show, with Dr. Who being the first. :)
The Baron
08-26-03, 09:03 AM
with Dr. Who being the first.
I bought the Key to Time DVD set a couple weeks ago.
Man, that show is so insane. I love it. :D
Sean P.
08-26-03, 09:11 AM
While we're on the subject of British Comedies, we have to mention "Red Dwarf" and "Black Adder"...Two great shows...
:D
The Baron
08-26-03, 09:12 AM
Originally posted by Sean P.
While we're on the subject of British Comedies, we have to mention "Red Dwarf" and "Black Adder"...Two great shows...
:D MISTER FLIBBLE!
Riptide
08-26-03, 09:12 AM
Baron, I also have key to time. Robots of death and ark in space are also among my collection. Gotta love that Tom Baker... :)
The Baron
08-26-03, 09:14 AM
With the BBC supposedly putting all of their programs online, I'm hoping I can get every Doctor Who episode downloaded within the next year or two...
Originally posted by Sean P.
While we're on the subject of British Comedies, we have to mention "Red Dwarf" and "Black Adder"...Two great shows...
:D
lol.. I have the vhs of red dwarf here... and a dvd set of black adder...
adder was da bomb :)
we may be getting the movie as well... though its not as good as the series from what I heard...
Riptide
08-26-03, 10:04 AM
Originally posted by The Baron
With the BBC supposedly putting all of their programs online, I'm hoping I can get every Doctor Who episode downloaded within the next year or two...
Awesome! Do you have a URL??? :)
The Baron
08-26-03, 10:06 AM
They just announced it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/08_august/24/dyke_dunn_lecture.shtml
Riptide
08-26-03, 10:40 AM
Excellent news then. One of us should be sure to post a link here as soon as we see downloads becoming available. :)
vampireuk
08-26-03, 12:51 PM
I almost wet myself when I saw that story a few days back, god bless the BBC for this:D
Although don't expect Red Dwarf to be put up for download, anything which they have released commercially won't be there me thinks. I could be wrong, but I'm probably not on this.
Now if they release the whole of Monty Pythons flying circus, I will be in heaven:D
Riptide
08-26-03, 01:05 PM
Vamp, did you ever watch "Are you being served" or is it something you never really got into? :)
vampireuk
08-26-03, 01:14 PM
I think I have seen it, never really interested me though since I can't remember what it was:D
Originally posted by vampireuk
I think I have seen it, never really interested me though since I can't remember what it was:D
vamp, its that 80s comedy set in a department store. There was a department manager who was a WW2 vet. A very old CEO with a very young secretary. A stereo typical gay guy who worked in the menswear department and always lowered his voice when answering the phone... then raised it again when he said "oh hello Mother". It had a very annoying theme tune made up of cash registered and the voice of a female elevator operator. It was lame in the same way that Hi-di-hi was.
I don't think the show has been repeated in the UK since the late 80s, maybe early 90s. It was never very funny, but for some reason the American audience loves it and its shown regularly on BBC American and out on DVD at my local walmart. They all love Ab-fab and Keeping up appearances too. Oh and "Coupling" which I think is crap.
Classic British comedies are Monty Python, Faulty Towers, Young Ones, Bottom, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Allo Allo. The Day Today, Glass Eye, and The New Statesman get honorable mentions. I also recently enjoyed The Office in a strange kind of way.
vampireuk
08-26-03, 02:00 PM
Now those are classics:D
Ah I remember are you been served now, yeah I never found it to be that funny myself. Have you seen some of those Brass Eye shows Dave? Those things were nuts, he did one on paedophiles that the broadsheets loved and the red tops hated because it made fun of the media jumping on the band wagon.:D
Black Adder is up in DVD format on the alt.binaries.dvdr group. It is PAL though. I am too cheap to buy a region free player just for the PAL stuff, although my thinking may change on this, as a lot of good stuff is going up PAL only. The problem is that I already have 3 great NTSC players already.
vampireuk
08-26-03, 05:56 PM
Looked into a way of unlocking them? Normally there is a code you type in on the remote and you can set the region to 0 so it will play anything:)
By region free, I meant a DVD player capable of decoding both NTSC and PAL. These are different. All of my DVD .imgs have been decssed and made region free, but PAL is 25fps and NTSC is 30, therefore you either need both types of player or one that plays both. Only a couple out there play both. They aren't expensive, but the picture quality is not equal to any of the 3 I run now.
vampireuk
08-26-03, 07:05 PM
Ahh my bad:)
okay, so he didn't realize it was piracy--but it's still piracy. UK shows are usually copyrighted in the US as well, so you run into the effects of the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Until The End of Time Act... damn you, RI/MPAA.
--Baron
Riptide
08-26-03, 09:53 PM
I have a copy of Pink Floyd: Pulse on DVD and it's in PAL format. Runs fine on my Pioneer 106S drive in the PC. I understand it's real difficult to find a set top player that'll play it though. :(
Riptide
08-26-03, 09:57 PM
Originally posted by DaveW
It was lame in the same way that Hi-di-hi was.
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I don't think the show has been repeated in the UK since the late 80s, maybe early 90s. It was never very funny
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Oh and "Coupling" which I think is crap.
What is it with some of the people around here? How rude. I mean c'mon.. You couldn't have just said that it didn't interest you or you didn't find it that funny but instead you have to go say it was "lame" and "never very funny" and whatnot. So you're the ultimate authority on taste I take it? Hate to break it to you but other people enjoyed both of those shows and just because you didn't see the humor doesn't make it crap. Obviously, if someone didn't like it neither of those shows would've gone past a season or two.
Flibbled: please do not engage in personal attacks
Rip,
Not that hard: this ones ok (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1051826205204&skuId=5340758&type=product&productCategoryId=cat03013)
vampireuk
08-27-03, 06:04 AM
Originally posted by Riptide
What is it with some of the people around here? How rude. I mean c'mon.. You couldn't have just said that it didn't interest you or you didn't find it that funny but instead you have to go say it was "lame" and "never very funny" and whatnot. So you're the ultimate authority on taste I take it? Hate to break it to you but other people enjoyed both of those shows and just because you didn't see the humor doesn't make it crap. Obviously, if someone didn't like it neither of those shows would've gone past a season or two.
It's hardly rude, he put forward his opinion on the show, I would do the same. If I think a show is crap then I say so, obviously someone is going to like it and I doubt anyone will cancel their order just because another person disagrees with them.
Riptide
08-27-03, 08:04 AM
Originally posted by vampireuk
It's hardly rude, he put forward his opinion on the show, I would do the same. If I think a show is crap then I say so, obviously someone is going to like it and I doubt anyone will cancel their order just because another person disagrees with them.
He could've been a little more diplomatic about how he phrased his opinion on it. Your response is a better example of that and I didn't take it to be rude at all. His on the other hand... :rolleyes:
We'll see how YOU take it next time I decide to crap all over something you enjoy.
Here's another example. Intercede likes volkswagen jettas. He makes a thread and puts up some pictures of his new car. I don't like jettas so I make sure and throw a response out there that sorry, I think your car is crap, and I don't have any idea why you like those things. Guess what? I *guarantee* there would be a response from him to a post like that and it probably wouldn't be real positive.
Lesson? Keep your negative opinions to yourself unless asked for, and if you must say something bad about something someone likes then phrase it carefully. Blunt statements like it's "crap" and whatnot are NOT good examples of that.
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