Comments on: Who Dares… Sings

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:52:13 +0000

If mocking the fame-hungry afflicted is wrong, I don’t want to be right. PLUS you get to be really, really smug as you pontificate on how ironic it is that Piers Moron is judging a talent contest.

Win-win mate.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:33:11 +0000

Up yours!

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:27:51 +0000

There’s that new show coming up where ex members of bands like Bucks Fizz and Cleopatra go under the knife. Can’t wait.

I’m off now bye bye bye

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:06:05 +0000

I’m thinking of deleting it and to hell with Planet Earth. Similarly, I’m tussling with the dilemma of whether to watch all those Cruickshank shows I recorded, or bin ‘em and fill the machine up with more Gut My Obese Wife, My Dog’s A Fat Cunt, Armless Model Showdown and Legal Teenage Tits Go Under The Knife II.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:58:03 +0000

Weirdly I’ve got the same Inconvenient Truth problem – it’s been sitting there for months. Incovenient is an apt word, it’s taking up save-space.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:44:30 +0000

Recording An Inconvenient Truth two months ago and still not bothering to watch it, Swineshead? The earth’s dying, and yet there’s me, with my V+ box and Prince Rupert attitude, ignoring the very film that could change my ways and save this planet. Icebergs crash all around me, people in Africa are hotter than fried eggs, polar bears are stuffed, and yet the message Al Gore wants to across to irresponsible types like me languishes unwatched in a sea of episodes of Dan Cruickshank’s Architecture and something I recorded about Alcatraz.

A truly marvellous invention.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:38:14 +0000

I tend to have a look around Sky Movies every night and set loads of stuff to record that I’ll never watch. Last night I got through twenty minutes of V For Vendetta and gave up. If that’s not cavalier, I don’t know what it is that is cavalier.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:53 +0000

I still haven’t got round to watching the last in that series about Medieval thinking they broadcast months ago. THAT’S how cavalier you can be when you’ve got V+.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:04:09 +0000

The best thing about it is V+. Sometimes I’m recording something whilst recording another thing and I’m watching a third thing, then I get bored of the third thing and watch the beginning of one of the things I’m recording, get bored of it and watch the beginning of the other thing I’m recording, then get bored of that and watch all of Peep Show series 2.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:02:07 +0000

The music on demand is shit. Unless you’re REALLY pissed. But if you’re that pissed you’re probably not going to look at it.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:55:50 +0000

I’ve got that package too. It’s great. You can watch hours and hours of shows about how nature’s going to kill us all, and it’s all for free (except it isn’t free). You also get the music for nowt too, though so far I’ve only found three Aerosmith songs on there – the rest is that stuff about BMWs and bitches and jewellery that the kids listen to on mobile phones on buses. The little fucking bastards.

By: ugeine

ugeine — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:47:39 +0000

I wasn’t trying to make myself out to be some kind of saint, goodbyetoallfat, I suppose I was trying to make the point that the old school variety format television programmes such as this one offer a refreshing antidote to the harsh, stony superficial reality TV judge.

I don’t think the point of he who dares… was to convince the singers that they were brilliant, or talented, just that getting up on stage and having a sing is supposed to be a bit of fun rather then a complete waste of time, like Piers Morgan would have you believe.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:43:50 +0000

Is Shovel in it? If not, I’m not interested in Who Dares Sings (unless it’s presented by Lofty)

By: goodbyetoallfat

goodbyetoallfat — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:39:58 +0000

I caught this programme by mistake a couple of weeks ago and hated it. My opinion was much more ungracious than ugeine.

To me it came across like filming a rank amateur pub karaoke night, and everyone being too drunk or too thick to notice that quality control was totally absent.

I know other talent programmes can be cruel at times (America’s Got Talent and The X Factor) etc but at least they don’t let life’s caterwaulers think they are Frank Sinatra!

I must be mean or something!

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:01 +0000

I’ve got the Very Impressive Package thing. Is that XL? It’s the most expensive one, I’ll tell you that much. But it all works out as I never leave my flat any more what with them having every episode of Peep Show available for free and all that. And Sky Sports.

I’m also addicted to Arsenal TV which involves Lofty off Eastenders talking shit with Shovel (the bongo player) from M People for hours and hours. Occasionally Charlie George pops in, all senile, and insults a caller.

Sorry for the delay, I’m having a day of confusing finances and am having to call my bank, a solicitor and all other kinds of shysters constantly.