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Weekend Round Up
Dec. 5th, 2011 12:28 pmI have recently been introduced to a concept which greatly amuses me - deja moo, the feeling that you have heard this bullshit before.
Other than that, Birmingham city centre in the run up to Christmas is the very definition of too many people.
Covert Affairs:
It passed the German test. After far, far too much bad German on TV I have three categories:
Ultimo-fail - which is basically 'cherman' accents in non-comedy programmes.
Minor failure - Grud-awful German passed off as good German.
Pass - all parties have at least attempted German, in-character excuses are made for the people who can't quite manage it.
Alias, despite some of the most awful German I've ever heard is only a minor fail. Covert Affairs gets a resounding pass. Actor who can't quite speak German gets given an in-character reason why people are accepting his German as German as it is spoken (plus, it was Oded Fehr trying to seduce someone into dancing, I think he counts as a distraction from his own German). Character who is supposed to be able to speak German speaks something that is actually half decent German.
It's totally not their fault that all the Swiss characters were speaking German German, in a situation where they probably wouldn't. And that this viewer happens to know that that's not what Zurich airport looks like ;) But I think if a TV programme was actually able to get German-speaking Swiss characters to actually speak Swiss German, I'd have to produce another category of ultimate pass.
But yes, anyway, any episode that features Oded Fehr as a slightly dodgy secret agent, and Auggie lying to a lie-detector machine and making it quite clear he was lying because he was annoyed by the whole damn thing, and Annie being the kind of compassionate awesome that is becoming her thing is a good episode.
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Football
Like everyone who watched football in the last 15 years, I'm still in shock about Gary Speed. I think it's because, for so long, it was his name and 10 others on any given team sheet.
I think it's that that's causing the mass and heartfelt reaction, because every team has someone who played with him, or managed him, or played under him.
It's been a bad week on the sporting legends with the death of Arthur Betson, one of the great Queensland, Australia and rugby league greats, and someone, who more importantly than that realised that being a great sportsperson is good, being a good person is better.
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Dear less fun Mourihno - stop calling the referees by their first names only, it's rude.
Dear commentator, if you're asking 'could Knight have got there?', the answer is always 'no'.
Anyone know why it's Lindegaard in the net not de Gea?
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Snooker
Stephen Maguire is looking healthier.
Barry Hearn is trying to turn everything into speed snooker, and short matches and generally ruining everything I like about snooker.
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Gratuitous Misuse of Music
On the 'wrong music usage' front, I'd like to report two Christmas howlers:
1 - Tesco - 'Fairytale of New York' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q) is not something to be playing, even in a nice tinkly, twinkly arrangement, over your Christmas adverts. This is a song that goes 'merry Christmas, your arse, I pray God it's our last'. It's is not the 'family friendly' Christmas tune of choice.
2 - Various stores - I get it, 'Do They Know It's Christmas Time' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls) just happens to be on the Christmas tunes CD. However, when I'm doing my best to stir myself into a orgiastic frenzy of shopping, it's somewhat off-putting. I tend to want to turn around and go, 'stuff it all, I'm giving all my money to charity instead'. While this is probably a better thing than spending the money on presents, I can't see it being good for shop profits.
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CSI
Things that never stop being fun, when CSI mentions a brand name for equipment in particular. I'll give them this much, they get those details right.
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Rugby Union
Does Chris Ashton lack all common sense, or is he trying to get punched by every Tuilagi brother? I ask after the 8 man brawl he started by pulling Alessana Tuilagi into touch by his hair.
It was the most ridiculous thing, you can tell by the fact that Geordan Murphy got involved. And it managed to literally engulf one of the pitchside cameramen!
Other than that, Birmingham city centre in the run up to Christmas is the very definition of too many people.
Covert Affairs:
It passed the German test. After far, far too much bad German on TV I have three categories:
Ultimo-fail - which is basically 'cherman' accents in non-comedy programmes.
Minor failure - Grud-awful German passed off as good German.
Pass - all parties have at least attempted German, in-character excuses are made for the people who can't quite manage it.
Alias, despite some of the most awful German I've ever heard is only a minor fail. Covert Affairs gets a resounding pass. Actor who can't quite speak German gets given an in-character reason why people are accepting his German as German as it is spoken (plus, it was Oded Fehr trying to seduce someone into dancing, I think he counts as a distraction from his own German). Character who is supposed to be able to speak German speaks something that is actually half decent German.
It's totally not their fault that all the Swiss characters were speaking German German, in a situation where they probably wouldn't. And that this viewer happens to know that that's not what Zurich airport looks like ;) But I think if a TV programme was actually able to get German-speaking Swiss characters to actually speak Swiss German, I'd have to produce another category of ultimate pass.
But yes, anyway, any episode that features Oded Fehr as a slightly dodgy secret agent, and Auggie lying to a lie-detector machine and making it quite clear he was lying because he was annoyed by the whole damn thing, and Annie being the kind of compassionate awesome that is becoming her thing is a good episode.
~~~~
Football
Like everyone who watched football in the last 15 years, I'm still in shock about Gary Speed. I think it's because, for so long, it was his name and 10 others on any given team sheet.
I think it's that that's causing the mass and heartfelt reaction, because every team has someone who played with him, or managed him, or played under him.
It's been a bad week on the sporting legends with the death of Arthur Betson, one of the great Queensland, Australia and rugby league greats, and someone, who more importantly than that realised that being a great sportsperson is good, being a good person is better.
~~~~
Dear less fun Mourihno - stop calling the referees by their first names only, it's rude.
Dear commentator, if you're asking 'could Knight have got there?', the answer is always 'no'.
Anyone know why it's Lindegaard in the net not de Gea?
~~~~
Snooker
Stephen Maguire is looking healthier.
Barry Hearn is trying to turn everything into speed snooker, and short matches and generally ruining everything I like about snooker.
~~~~
Gratuitous Misuse of Music
On the 'wrong music usage' front, I'd like to report two Christmas howlers:
1 - Tesco - 'Fairytale of New York' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q) is not something to be playing, even in a nice tinkly, twinkly arrangement, over your Christmas adverts. This is a song that goes 'merry Christmas, your arse, I pray God it's our last'. It's is not the 'family friendly' Christmas tune of choice.
2 - Various stores - I get it, 'Do They Know It's Christmas Time' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls) just happens to be on the Christmas tunes CD. However, when I'm doing my best to stir myself into a orgiastic frenzy of shopping, it's somewhat off-putting. I tend to want to turn around and go, 'stuff it all, I'm giving all my money to charity instead'. While this is probably a better thing than spending the money on presents, I can't see it being good for shop profits.
~~~~
CSI
Things that never stop being fun, when CSI mentions a brand name for equipment in particular. I'll give them this much, they get those details right.
~~~~
Rugby Union
Does Chris Ashton lack all common sense, or is he trying to get punched by every Tuilagi brother? I ask after the 8 man brawl he started by pulling Alessana Tuilagi into touch by his hair.
It was the most ridiculous thing, you can tell by the fact that Geordan Murphy got involved. And it managed to literally engulf one of the pitchside cameramen!
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- csi,
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- music,
- rl,
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