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Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:41 pm
by 4days
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_1/
charlie (screenwipe, dead set, tvgohome.com) brooker's chirpy, lighthearted news commentary show started yesterday. the pope is the focus of "This Week in Bullshit" and there's an article on how we got blow by blow coverage of some suicidal non-entity in germany while a 10,000 strong peaceful protest in northern ireland went largely unreported.
excellent telly
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:18 pm
by Fender
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:23 pm
by plained
wtf
was that something out of the ordinary?
the litter there
WTF?
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:46 pm
by Captain
omg
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:25 pm
by plained
really?
so
-go to club and overdo it
-come out of club and pee in street
-watch or participate in domestic dispute
-buy food throw packaging on street
-eat food fall down on piss street among the food rubbish
-puke on self and fall asleep!
did i miss anything?
geez thats quite the pastime!
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:28 pm
by Underpants?
holy shit, is that the normal amount of trash strewn about the pavement?
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:28 pm
by Underpants?
i wasn't talking about the rubbish, mind *BLIMEY THAT'S SOME GOOD MALT!
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:34 pm
by plained
its nice the kids dont have to hide they can just be young and overdo any ol where tho
doesnt seem to be any very serios trouble happening so its responsable enough
or ami a moron?
more than usual i mean!
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:06 am
by DTS
I was going to watch Newswipe when it was on TV but I read an article written by the presenter about it in which he suggested that it wasn't informative, it was just a bit of a laiugh. Thanks for posting it here cause now I watched it I think he was wrong to write that cause it is informative in a way. Good program and I'll watch it again. It's like "the news you missed". I already knew that news programs were like he said they are but I didn't realise they were quite as bad as that. That bit at the end abiout what not to do and how the news programs do it anyway was insightful...
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:07 am
by LawL
UK
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:07 pm
by Ryoki
4days wrote:charlie (screenwipe, dead set, tvgohome.com) brooker's chirpy, lighthearted news commentary show started yesterday. the pope is the focus of "This Week in Bullshit" and there's an article on how we got blow by blow coverage of some suicidal non-entity in germany while a 10,000 strong peaceful protest in northern ireland went largely unreported.
excellent telly
So it's a bit like the Daily Show then..?.
I'll see if i can load it down the intertubes.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:01 pm
by R00k
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:36 pm
by Ryoki
naw its just a culture thing, they behave like that everywhere
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:09 pm
by R00k
Oh I'm sure they could easily turn other towns into shitholes just as well.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:11 pm
by brisk
Big, big Charlie Brooker fan here (he used to write for PC Zone ya know!) and although it seemed dangerously close to The Day Today/Brass Eye at the beginning, it came into it's own in typical Brooker fashion.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:43 pm
by 4days
Ryoki wrote:So it's a bit like the Daily Show then..?.
I'll see if i can load it down the intertubes.
kind of,. but with more of an emphasis on bitter contempt than comedy and a considerably smaller budget.
those welsh pics are priceless - i like the way they've concentrated on one of cardiff's classier, more upmarket areas rather than trying to make it look scruffy.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:28 pm
by Don Carlos
Memphis wrote:plained wrote:wtf
was that something out of the ordinary?
Nope, that's pretty much a standard saturday night between Cardiff's main street of clubs and chip shop alley
Top left in the army coat - Rhys?!
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:01 pm
by Tsakali
wow,this is my first impression of wales... what shit hole !
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:14 pm
by Don Carlos
Tsakali wrote:
wow,this is my first impression of wales... what shit hole !
Where are you from?
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:33 pm
by Scourge
jeezus man.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:51 pm
by Tsakali
Don Carlos wrote:Tsakali wrote:
wow,this is my first impression of wales... what shit hole !
Where are you from?
i'm from greece, but been in the US for over a decade now
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:05 am
by Maiden
chip shop? Is that a term for all fast food type places, or are there 25 fish and chip places? please learn me.
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:08 pm
by DTS
Maiden wrote:chip shop? Is that a term for all fast food type places, or are there 25 fish and chip places? please learn me.
Chip shop is short for fish'n'chip shop. Morons might have started calling anywhere that sells chips that, though. Morons that "like chips".
Re: Newswipe (for UK folks)
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:21 pm
by Ryoki
Finally found a decent torrent and watched the first ep, quality show. I shall be watching this more, i think.
lulz at the 'it tastes like tears' moneygeddon water, and This week in Bullshit