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| X Factor returns |
Author:
IRiSHMaFIA ::
Posted:
Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:48 pm
| 6ULDV8 wrote: | Well, the wife & I watched the first XFactor (well first for us, first of the new run for you lot)...
We hate this kind of show, but this one was cool.
It's hard to watch people who have talent get slated by a small posse of 'stars', but we found it less hardcore than the US shows of this kind.
We loved the "Mother - in - law" who got Simon to say sorry.
(Simon is another Elstree / Borehamwood person BTW).
I think it could be one that we will watch. |
It's one of those shows that once you start watching it's hard to stop. The auditions is the best part of the show, but I end up watching it all because I get interested in the ones that make it through and continue on for the voting and all that.
I think your wife might enjoy Xtra Factor with Ben Sheppard. He's kind of like Dermot of Big Brother.....easy on the eyes and a good sense of humour 
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| I love Roo, Ronnie |
Author:
IRiSHMaFIA ::
Posted:
Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:06 am
UNITED WE STAND ... Rooney and Ronaldo celebrate
By NEIL CUSTIS:
Man Utd 5 Fulham 1
WAYNE ROONEY had a hug for Cristiano Ronaldo to publicly show their World Cup woes are behind them.
And boss Alex Ferguson said: ?He and Rooney looked like best of pals.?
Rooney, who scored twice and set up Ronaldo for his goal, said: ?I think we have let our football do the talking.
?I?ve proved already from what I?ve said there is no problem between us. People say things but they do not really know the pair of us. I was delighted Cristiano got his goal and showed what a talent he is. He was brilliant.?
Their celebrations were all a far cry from their World Cup quarter-final bust-up when Ronaldo helped to get Rooney sent off. Rooney, 20, and Paul Scholes now both face three-match bans after an FA disciplinary commission rejected their appeals against red cards from the Amsterdam Tournament.
Rooney added: ?Me and Scholesy are devastated with the ban particularly after the start we have had today.?
England sponsors Nationwide have...
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| Greg Palast's New Book - Armed Madhouse |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:35 pm
Just got round to looking at the site there, cheers for the link
I've always time for someone who looks at stuff with a genuinely critical eye... and this bloke fits the bill!
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| Good message |
Author:
IRiSHMaFIA ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:17 pm
I very much enjoyed that myself. Very well put together I think. Thanks for sharing that Skylace 
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| If you're a real Most Haunted freak |
Author:
Gasman59 ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:34 pm
Now Irish, Yvette is as hot as love but for some reason, these wallies are not available for downloading ?? And error page keeps coming up. I want the one of the whole team and Yvette but I can never seem to get them....
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| Something worse than snake bite |
Author:
Gasman59 ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:24 pm
I have a 7 and a half foot Boa and she does shit quite a lot. Than God she's in a huge assed tank or I'd be stepping in snake shit all the day long.
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| Bill Hicks and The Fringe |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:48 pm
Laughing in his grave
Loudmouth controversial stand-ups are everywhere. So why does a US comic who died 12 years ago still transfix the Fringe? Brian Logan on the legacy of Bill Hicks
Thursday August 17, 2006
The Guardian
Most of us have heard of the American fashion for asking: "What would Jesus do?" You may be more surprised to learn that a book was recently published entitled What Would Bill Hicks Say?, featuring contributions from, among others, Rob Newman, AL Kennedy and Radiohead's Thom Yorke. Are we to infer that the late US stand-up, who died in 1994 aged 32, is comedy's Christ?
He has certainly risen again at this year's Edinburgh. The hit Fringe show Bill Hicks: Slight Return, in which Hicks is brought back to life in 2006 by writer and actor Chas Early, is back at the Pleasance. At the Dome, Hicks's childhood friend and one-time comedy partner Dwight Slade is staging three seminars, entitled Bill & Dwight, in which he reminisces about their relationship. And the runaway favourite for this year's if.comeddies award, the brilliant American stand-up Doug Stanhope, is forever being...
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| FULL SHOW - Time Trumpet |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:41 pm
Dear John, wish you weren't here
Armando Iannucci
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
In a week in which it's been officially terrifying to fly, a remarkable number of us have been encouraging politicians to do so. Demands have been soaring for Tony Blair to fly back immediately from his holidays and for John Prescott to fly off on one. I never thought I'd sympathise with the politician's lot, but the hysterics of the past few days have played havoc with logic.
First, John Reid announces a terrorist plot has been foiled, so everyone demands Blair flies home to 'take charge' of the situation. What situation? There isn't one. Nothing has happened! That was the point of the announcement: there's no national emergency because the emergency has been prevented. But no; there isn't a crisis and our Prime Minister should come home to not deal with it.
Meantime, Reid is in charge of co-ordinating our response to the lack of atrocity. But where's Prescott? everyone demands. If there's a national non-emergency, surely he's the man best qualified to not handle it? A day goes by. A day...
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| The World Cup |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:24 pm
Here's another World Cup song for England that I just found..
England England, Uber Alles
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| Noel Gallagher on Pele and Maradona |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:21 pm
Here's an interesting interview with Noel Gallagher in which he talks about meeting Pele...
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