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I got a brooch I’d given my aunt about 4 Christmases ago
I wanted a Stylophone but my hubby refused to get it for me!
For all you bobble fans:-
Haha you know thought was pretty cheapo present to get…. However i used it yesterday and i can now wear one of my favourite jumpers again. Am quite pleased actually he he.
Have you really never heard of JML?? They have their own channel. Hey so do Ocean finance too, which is quite staggering for a mortgage company having own channel!! Who’d watch it??? (I never by way, i flicked past!!)
Lots of places in the Lounge I could have put this, but this is as good a place as any.
I brought my eleven year old a present to boost his stocking on Christmas morning. It was a Harry Hill DVD, ("Hooves") which I picked up for £3 from FOPP (a fine Scottish export). My lad enjoys TV Burp and You’ve Been Framed, so I paid the cash and thought no more of it. My view of Harry Hill is that as a comedian, he is a waste of the half a million quid we paid in taxes to enable him to become a useful doctor for the National Health Service but Christmas isn’t about me, it’s about the kids.
Skip to Boxing Night. I’m twentieth in a 1000 runner poker tournament and we’ve just watched a Michael McIntyre DVD his mother brought for him. McIntyre is a bit posh for me, but my lad is clutching his sides, tears streaming down his face. I half laughed at one joke about calling his baby Adolf and that was it, but I was desperate to get one over his mother so when it finished, I suggested we watch the Harry Hill DVD. My son was only too pleased as he was buzzing like a raver on a triple dose of helium.
After five minutes of watching Harry dressed as a horse in front of a silent audience, we looked at each other in horror. I can’t describe the exact look my lad gave me, but the last time I saw it, I’d tried to make him eat home grown sprouts. Worse, I was so shocked at how bad the DVD was, I went out of the poker tournament in two hands. My lad was no longer buzzing.
To paraphrase the New York Times’ vicious critique of "The Love Guru" – I was afraid that if I carried on watching the unfunniest comedian I have ever seen, I would unlearn the ability to laugh.
My lad turned it off with my agreement and we watched TV quietly after. Sneakily, he didn’t take it home with him and it rests by the keyboard next to me as I type.
Does anyone want this Harry Hill DVD? I’ll pay the postage. And throw £3 in too. Please? Pretty please?
Happy New Year everyone!! May all your punts be literary monsters…
Apparantly my boss asked her neice what she wanted to be when she grew up, to which she’s replied "Harry Hill". I found this hilarious.
Lots of places in the Lounge I could have put this, but this is as good a place as any.
I brought my eleven year old a present to boost his stocking on Christmas morning. It was a Harry Hill DVD, ("Hooves") which I picked up for £3 from FOPP (a fine Scottish export). My lad enjoys TV Burp and You’ve Been Framed, so I paid the cash and thought no more of it. My view of Harry Hill is that as a comedian, he is a waste of the half a million quid we paid in taxes to enable him to become a useful doctor for the National Health Service but Christmas isn’t about me, it’s about the kids.
Skip to Boxing Night. I’m twentieth in a 1000 runner poker tournament and we’ve just watched a Michael McIntyre DVD his mother brought for him. McIntyre is a bit posh for me, but my lad is clutching his sides, tears streaming down his face. I half laughed at one joke about calling his baby Adolf and that was it, but I was desperate to get one over his mother so when it finished, I suggested we watch the Harry Hill DVD. My son was only too pleased as he was buzzing like a raver on a triple dose of helium.
After five minutes of watching Harry dressed as a horse in front of a silent audience, we looked at each other in horror. I can’t describe the exact look my lad gave me, but the last time I saw it, I’d tried to make him eat home grown sprouts. Worse, I was so shocked at how bad the DVD was, I went out of the poker tournament in two hands. My lad was no longer buzzing.
To paraphrase the New York Times’ vicious critique of "The Love Guru" – I was afraid that if I carried on watching the unfunniest comedian I have ever seen, I would unlearn the ability to laugh.
My lad turned it off with my agreement and we watched TV quietly after. Sneakily, he didn’t take it home with him and it rests by the keyboard next to me as I type.
Does anyone want this Harry Hill DVD? I’ll pay the postage. And throw £3 in too. Please? Pretty please?
Happy New Year everyone!! May all your punts be literary monsters… :D
Not taking the offer, but can offer a suggested alternative use. It you have a garden, tie a bit of string to it and attached them both to a stick which you can put among runner beans to keep the pigeons off. Saves anoying the neighbours with a bird scarer or a twelve bore.
Thanks for the tip Mr Bobbell. I live in a small, gardenless flat – the consequence of a lifetime of punting on horses and two divorces. I’ve got a nice window box though with some green things growing in it.
Incidentally, as the thread seems to have died, what do people think about the ethics behind The Harry Hill Decision?
Is it just me who finds his career change offensive? Am I being harsh?
The UK is chock full of mundane comedians (Jack Dee is a perfect example, or the bewilderingly overrated Lee Evans), but there is a huge shortage of doctors to heal the sick.
Many, many kids would have benefited from a trained dermatologist like Dr Hill, and that decision would have had wider public utility – as opposed to the adoration of zome’s niece, his bank account, or the mild pleasure of the diminishing number of viewers of the unremarkable and unoriginal "TV Burp"
Is there an ethical issue here? Should he have committed to the NHS?
Thanks for the tip Mr Bobbell. I live in a small, gardenless flat – the consequence of a lifetime of punting on horses and two divorces. I’ve got a nice window box though with some green things growing in it.
Incidentally, as the thread seems to have died, what do people think about the ethics behind The Harry Hill Decision?
Is it just me who finds his career change offensive? Am I being harsh?
The UK is chock full of mundane comedians (Jack Dee is a perfect example, or the bewilderingly overrated Lee Evans), but there is a huge shortage of doctors to heal the sick.
Many, many kids would have benefited from a trained dermatologist like Dr Hill, and that decision would have had wider public utility – as opposed to the adoration of zome’s niece, his bank account, or the mild pleasure of the diminishing number of viewers of the unremarkable and unoriginal "TV Burp"
Is there an ethical issue here? Should he have committed to the NHS? Should he have been MADE to commit to the NHS after the investment we all made in him?
the mild pleasure of the diminishing number of viewers of the unremarkable and unoriginal “TV Burp”
I feel duty bound to point out that TVBurp scooped two BAFTAs in 2008, and also recorded its highest ever viewing figures of 8 million viewers for its previous series (equivalent for current run not yet released), so its critical and popular star isn’t quite on the wane yet.
Compared to his old Channel 4 shows of 10 to 11 years ago, I find TV Burp pretty inessential viewing, largely as I’m not especially interested in a lot of the shows he carves into. But my goodness, I’d sooner have a 25-week run of TV Burp (as the current run is programmed to be) than even a one week return to a primetime slot of anything with Jim Davidson in it.
As regards the career change point, I think you could probably do your conkers trying to find everyone who’s given up a more ethical or upright profession in preference for something more emotionally or financially rewarding. Wasn’t Jo Brand a psychiatric nurse and Bob Mortimer a lawyer before they too moved over to the “dark side” and embraced comedy?
I guess I’m a bit less offended than yourself by any such jettisoning of one career in favour of another, but then I’ve got quite a bit of previous in that respect.
To borrow your template for a second, the UK is chock full of racing media types (of which I’m barely IrnBru League Three calibre), but there is a huge shortage of both decent German language translators and bespoke local history librarians. I’m both of the last two named things, but am largely letting those aptitudes go to rot at present in pursuit of more equine-oriented pursuits. Am I a bad man?
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
one of my bosses was at medical school with Harry Hill; I shall try to find out more about him [perhaps he would have made a rubbish doctor anyway]; you do have to see things in a very surreal sort of way when dealing with the things that doctors have to…must point out that Tim the Tiny Horse is a bloomin good read……..
I’m probably being an arse, GC. If I had the opportunity to become a doctor and had studied and worked for ten years at taxpayers expense to fulfil my vocation, I would have probably have stuck it out for a few years at least.
Thanks for the info on “TV Burp”. I stand corrected and I had absolutely no idea that Hill has been awarded BAFTA awards. That was the one of the most depressing paragraphs I’ve read in the past month .I’ve just watched a double episode of “Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” and, without sounding like a GOM, THAT was intelligent comedy.
Thanks for the info on “TV Burp”. I stand corrected and I had absolutely no idea that Hill has been awarded BAFTA awards. That was the one of the most depressing paragraphs I’ve read in the past month .I’ve just watched a double episode of “Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” and, without sounding like a GOM, THAT was intelligent comedy.
One persons intelligent comedy is another persons bag of sh1te. I find TV Burp reasonably amusing at times, as I do Lee Evans & Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin for that matter. The Office or Ricky Gervais as a stand up I don’t find funny and also the intelligent comedy of Alexai Sayle generally sees me gravitating to the remote button. But hey I found watching a neighbour being hit by lightning extremely amusing as I did a local character streaking down the road for a bet and having to jump in to stinging nettles to avoid being run over.
With regard to H Hill wasting the tax payers money , that may be the case but I think of plenty of people who waste a darn sight more and you never know he might be a better comedian than a doctor which from your point of view could have had quite worrying consequences.
Aaron, humour is like food. Someone makes you laugh or they don’t, I agree.
But what I’m getting at is that Harry Hill (who wouldn’t make a vox pop top fifty of great comics surely), threw away up to ten years worth of medical training (which has never been cheap), which would have had a major public utility (unlike his humour), and which we as taxpayers paid for.
I feel that I’m justified in feeling a tad aggrieved. At least Jack Dee only wasted the couple of hours it took to learn how to make a Pizza Margherita before he became a, er, stand up comic. At it’s extreme, Hill threw away the chance to save lives.
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