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    1 hour ago, msc said:

     

    Ah good I thought I was out of touch - I mean, I usually am, but I always considered the show anti-racist (because Alf is often shown to be wrong) like that Rossiter/de la Tour show I've forgotten the name of right now.  Mitchell was an athiest Jew and lifelong liberal, so used to be horrified at the BNP style fan mail he'd get for the show.

    Rising Damp

     

    Edited - Beat me to it!

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  2. Posted

    5 minutes ago, torbrexbones said:

    Won't be missed by me, he has done nothing of any worth for 50 years and did not deserve a knighthood ahead of some others.

    Have to say I used to have a quiet chuckle every time the Honours List came out and he wasn't on it...

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    On 2017-5-29 at 16:28, CoffinLodger said:

    I don't want to give my age away but I confess that for the whole of my time at primary school I rushed home to watch Blue Peter and the line u p was Peter Purves, Lesley Judd, and John Noakes, for years the only presenters I knew. . John will forever be a part of my child hood memories. As I said earlier I hope he is taking Shep for a walk in heaven right now !

    Pah, you young whippersnapper. Lesley Judd? She is not fit to lick Valerie Singleton's feet!

    But hang on... John Noakes taking Shep for a walk in heaven? Surely Shep went to live on a farm....?  :o

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  10. Posted

    On 2017-4-26 at 19:50, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    the very elderly widow of a former prime minister and absolute music icon Shirley Bassey

    Shirley Bassey is the widow of a former prime minister?

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    3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Any chance of her covering some of Chuck Berry's hits as a tribute?

     

    Maybe not...

    More chance of her taking a dump on a glass table while you watch from underneath...

     

    Seriously, happy birthday, Dame Vera!

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    NSPCC tape played at his trial

     

    That's the sort of stuff that gets jurors dabbing their eyes

     

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38595613

     

    I read somewhere recently he had his hands up the skirts of 12-year-old and 14-year-old girls in the 70s. Basically a serial predator like Saville.

     

    Yeah, he also assaulted a blind woman.

    Allegedly he put something in her hand and said 'Can you guess what it is yet?

     

    How does she know it was him?

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    I'm not claiming that the Scottish Premiership is on a par, skillwise, with the English Premier League. Apart from Celtic, most of our SPL teams would struggle in the Championship. Celtic would finish in the top six but wouldn't be guaranteed promotion. It just bugs me that people tend to ignore the Leagues One and Two here. Yes, they have pitifully small crowds but the people who do go are amongst the most loyal supporters in the land - they turn up in the most hideous of weather whereas your average top-flight supporter might decide not to bother going if the opposition aren't very exciting. And while many people in England probably couldn't name the town where East Fife play, I can't tell you a single team from the National League - except maybe Sutton United, because the FA Cup draw show came from there (apart from the actual draw, which was in the BT Tower). So it works both ways.

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    Why does the deathlist show the age people will reach on their next birthday (assuming they do)? Kirk Douglas turned 100 less than a month ago, yet the list shows him aged 101. Is it some sort of fate-tempting exercise?

    As one of the admins mentioned earlier, the script showing the ages is a bit more simple than what you see on Wikipedia. It just takes the current year (2017) and subtracts the year when he was born (1916) arriving at the figures you see on the front page. It's guaranteed to be accurate at the end of the year (31st of December, 2017); but it doesn't keep track of the exact birthdates (day-month).

     

     

     

     

    There are only fifty of them - it can't be that much of a slog to enter the ages manually, shirley?

     

    Yeah but someone would have to manually update 50 names on 48 different days.

     

     

    Why would they have to update all the names each time? Only the person whose birthday it is would have to be changed. (Insert adult nappy joke here.)

     

    Not trying to be argumentative; I just feel I'm missing something.

  25. Posted

    In general the UK doesn't remake US sitcoms; we just show the originals. One time we tried was Brighton Belles, which was a remake of the classic The Golden Girls. The original had Betty White and Estelle Getty; ours had Wendy Craig and the mother out of Bread. Crashed and burned and was taken off air halfway through its run.

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