Iacgmooh 2022

[Lofty]

Once upon a time we had a thread for the tawdry reality series that sees Z listers eat marsupial genitals in the hopes of getting a Butlins contract, there was even close attention paid to the betting and Yev made a tidy profit I think?

Of course they will net record ratings this time round as Matt Hancock is in, so we may aswell put all the lols at his suffering in one place.

[Waffdon]

You’re on a roll with the more freds. KUPTGW

[Giggles]

I thought the thread title was some place in rural Scotland.

[Baz]

What channel and time is this on?

[Yevrah]

there was even close attention paid to the betting and Yev made a tidy profit I think?

I did indeed, thanks to living rent free in the heads of the British public and Ashley Roberts. It's a pretty easy show to predict so I should have done it more often, but other events always get in the way seemingly and this year will be no different.

Still, I'll watch Matt Hancock try to redeem himself and fail miserably, which should be accomplished by this time next week.

[Boydy]

I did indeed, thanks to living rent free in the heads of the British public and Ashley Roberts.

You what?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know how this works, do the public vote people off Big Brother style as well as vote for them to do the trials? If so, will they be sophisticated enough to keep Hancock in and thereby make him keep doing more nasty things?

[Giggles]

Of all the reality shite, this is the absolute bottom of the barrel for the dregs.

[Waffdon]

He’ll be voted for everything, yes. He will no doubt be excused on ‘medical grounds’ for a fair amount. Can’t get voted off until half way through but presume he’ll go first. They choose who does the trials themselves when you start to vote folk off.

[Yevrah]

You what?

I put like £20 on her as a rank outsider as it was fairly obviously early on that she wasn't a pampered prima-donna and she looked like she'd give the tasks the full gun (the British peeps love that and she did), she then went favourite towards the end and found herself up against Charlie Brooks in the final. I cashed out for £400 profit or so before the final started on the basis of the fairweather watchers voting for the one they know when they tune in solely for the final (they did and she finished 2nd).

[Yevrah]

I don't know how this works, do the public vote people off Big Brother style as well as vote for them to do the trials? If so, will they be sophisticated enough to keep Hancock in and thereby make him keep doing more nasty things?

I haven't watched for a while, but the way it used to work was: No one gets evicted for a week or so and in that time the public vote for who does the trials (Hancock unsurprisingly will be doing all of them I should imagine) and once they start evicting people the public votes for who goes instead and the camp mates decide who does the trials. So basically he's going to get a week of laying with rats and eating absolute shite before getting kicked out.

[Yevrah]

He’ll be voted for everything, yes. He will no doubt be excused on ‘medical grounds’ for a fair amount. Can’t get voted off until half way through but presume he’ll go first. They choose who does the trials themselves when you start to vote folk off.

£400k he's being paid I heard and for that sort of money you'd surely make absolutely certain there are no medical exemptions whatsoever.

[Boydy]

I put like £20 on her as a rank outsider as it was fairly obviously early on that she wasn't a pampered prima-donna and she looked like she'd give the tasks the full gun (the British peeps love that and she did), she then went favourite towards the end and found herself up against Charlie Brooks in the final. I cashed out for £400 profit or so before the final started on the basis of the fairweather watchers voting for the one they know when they tune in solely for the final (they did and she finished 2nd).

No, I meant the "living rent free in the heads of the British public and Ashley Roberts" bit. I don't think you're using that phrase right.

[Yevrah]

No, I meant the "living rent free in the heads of the British public and Ashley Roberts" bit. I don't think you're using that phrase right.

I'm not, you are most definitely right, but I figured it'd do and seeing as your post was to point out I'd used it incorrectly rather than for me to explain what I meant, it looks like it did the job.

[Baz]

I put like £20 on her as a rank outsider as it was fairly obviously early on that she wasn't a pampered prima-donna and she looked like she'd give the tasks the full gun (the British peeps love that and she did), she then went favourite towards the end and found herself up against Charlie Brooks in the final. I cashed out for £400 profit or so before the final started on the basis of the fairweather watchers voting for the one they know when they tune in solely for the final (they did and she finished 2nd).

So who you backing this time?

[Yevrah]

In other news, is Will Ferrell going through a divorce or has he received an unexpected tax bill? I did not expect to see him in Asda's Christmas advert offering.

[Yevrah]

So who you backing this time?

I won't be able to watch enough of it to bother and a quick look at the line up suggests I'd need to to have any chance of a successful bet. Who the fuck are these people?

[wullie]

I'm guessing the Essex woman will do well because professional reality TV people know how all of this works properly. Haven't seen Chris Moyles for ages, has he been ill?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I actually think it might mark a new low for British culture (which is already plumbing the depths) as various bimbos, Essex wasters and whoever else is on it berate Matt Hancock in their regional accents for having killed thousands, as scummo political journalists do cringeworthy tweets and lame sketches in time with the music.

From there the only way is up.

[Lofty]

In other news, is Will Ferrell going through a divorce or has he received an unexpected tax bill? I did not expect to see him in Asda's Christmas advert offering.

I don't think they actually need Ferrell's permission for that advert as looking closely it appears all of it has been lifted straight out of Elf so presumably they just struck a deal with the rights owner.

[Giggles]

The CGI in it is horrendous. Did Yev think they paid him to act all the bits again?

[Yevrah]

The CGI in it is horrendous. Did Yev think they paid him to act all the bits again?

Why don't you ask Yev and he'll tell you?

[Lewis]

Remember when they gave Chris Moyles a programme on Channel 5 to make him the new Chris Evans but, between New Labour and the War on Terror, the world didn't want a new Chris Evans (and certainly not a fat one)? It must have been a slow slide ever since because he was a genuinely big name at the time.

[Lewis]

On a related note, I was talking to the twenty-somethings at work the other day, and they weren't having it that Robbie Williams was just about the most famous man in the country twenty years ago, and the only song they had vaguely heard of was Angels. Why is that? Everybody knows Oasis (say) despite having done nothing of note for almost as long, so why has he been un-remembered?

[Yevrah]

His music isn't as good as that of Oasis?

[Lewis]

Regardless, he was massively popular. People remember all sorts of shit and one hit wonders from the eighties, but his catalogue seems to have been buried in period.

[Baz]

On a related note, I was talking to the twenty-somethings at work the other day, and they weren't having it that Robbie Williams was just about the most famous man in the country twenty years ago, and the only song they had vaguely heard of was Angels. Why is that? Everybody knows Oasis (say) despite having done nothing of note for almost as long, so why has he been un-remembered?

On the contrary, the 21 year old from work went to watch Robbie Williams live the other week.

[Giggles]

Why don't you ask Yev and he'll tell you?

Thanks Elmo.

[Yevrah]

Thanks Elmo.

I've never seen Elf. I was too old to watch it first time round and seeing Will Ferrell since (one of the least funny people in all of Hollywood history) has hardly made me want to go back to it.

[Yevrah]

Chris Moyles looks like Paul Gascoinge these days.

[Waffdon]

He looks absolutely awful these days so you might be right about a break up or whatever.

[Lofty]

Will Ferrell looks haggard as fuck these days too.

Somehow didnt see Waff's post :moop:

[Waffdon]

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Could pass for 80.

[Yevrah]

He's 55? Fuck me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

On a related note, I was talking to the twenty-somethings at work the other day, and they weren't having it that Robbie Williams was just about the most famous man in the country twenty years ago, and the only song they had vaguely heard of was Angels. Why is that? Everybody knows Oasis (say) despite having done nothing of note for almost as long, so why has he been un-remembered?

He didn't help himself by calling one of his hits 'Millennium' which means I've filed it in my mind with Cherie Blair at New Year, that Cliff Richard monstrosity, the Hinduja brothers, etc.

Also was a far better live act than anything else, which doesn't travel down the pages of history.

[Spikey M]

You should be forced to eat marsupial genitals for that thread title.

[igor_balis]

His music isn't as good as that of Oasis?

Citation needed

[Jimmy Floyd]

Citation needed

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball. Poet fookin' laureate.

[Don]

Robbie was a don and anyone watching this shit is not.

[Pepe]

What the fuck is this thread about?

[John Arne]

What the fuck is this thread about?

Took me 10 or so posts to get it.

I'm a celebrity, get me out of here. 2023.
Some nonsense UK show where c-list celebs live in a forest in Australia.

[Offshore Toon]

Robbie Williams retreated to a quiet(er) life in LA, while Oasis never spent long out of the news thanks to annual falling outs. As shit as they are, they have a stronger musical legacy too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who are the children of Oasis still going around? I'd argue they did more to kill mainstream guitar music than anyone, thanks to making it so bland.

[igor_balis]

I think Robbie Williams is remembered less fondly as well cus of how absolutely lame his mid 00s was. RUDEBOX immediately turned him into a bad novelty act. Rudebox was also around the same time as the incredibly successful initial take that reunion that didn't involve him, which prob didn't help either.

[Shindig]

Olivia Attwood out on medical grounds. :D

[Spikey M]

This was just retweeted onto my feed and it had me lolling.

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[Lofty]

Genius if she is, they can't deduct her fee it'll be a legal shitstorm.

[John Arne]

I haven't seen a video, but the pictures of Tindell copping a feel look very sus.

[Waffdon]

Did she parachute out of a plane? Seems a bit risky.

I seen a Tweet about her just replicating her husband by showing up for one game and then being injured for the rest of the season which made me lol

[Lofty]

Hancock is in, already toe curling.

[Lewis]

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[Lofty]

It's so surreal.

[Lofty]

Hancock now 11/1 in the betting, 4th favourite to win.

[Baz]

Sounds like mission accomplished.

[Boydy]

He'll end up as prime minister off the back of this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There is part of me that wonders whether the DISGUSTING and HE MURDERED THOUSANDS twitter responses are not necessarily going to be aped out there in the big wide I'm a Celebrity-watching world. I seem to remember in polling at the time most people thought the government did fine in the circumstances, contrary to media narratives which obviously needed blame etc.

[Spikey M]

Even if you don't think they did, it's the lack of lockdowns and public masks they get the ump with. Which was Boris' decision. Not Hancock and his NHS Barmy Army, who I still applaud every Thursday.

[Shindig]

"He broke the rules!" seemed to overshadow a very public affair with his secretary.

[Lewis]

We are probably far enough out of it all now that the Great British Public can begin to admit that either 1) they didn't follow all of the rules themselves; and 2) they all wanted the very rules that stopped them seeing their dying relatives so get lost you shit your bed get laying in it.

[Boydy]

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There's an entire thread full of screenshots like this if you click through onto twitter.

Hooe you're all ready for Prime Minister Matt Hancock in the future.

[Offshore Toon]

It would be quite something having the active PM on Big Brother.

[Yevrah]

Conventional (particularly lefty/twitter) wisdom suggested the mask would slip and he'd be outed as a cunt, but it appears to be quite the opposite happening at the moment.

[Lewis]

lol at 'laundering of his reputation' like they were his bats.

[Manc]

Anyone commending him deserves to die a slow and painful death. The absolute state of this country.

[Spikey M]

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There's an entire thread full of screenshots like this if you click through onto twitter.

Hooe you're all ready for Prime Minister Matt Hancock in the future.

He's done politically and he knows it. That's why he's doing an Ed Balls.

[Boydy]

It's not an Ed Balls. Ed Balls did Strictly after losing his seat probably just for something to do. Hancock's done this as a still sitting MP in an effort to rehabilitate his image and boost his political career.

If he wanted to do an Ed Balls he could just sit on the backbenches and collect an easy paycheck until the next election, resign his seat and then start doing celebrity shit.

[Ben]

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[Spikey M]

If he wanted to save his seat he would have tried to do so without abandoning it and getting suspended by his party to fly to the other side of the world and eat Kangaroo nut sack or whatever he's been doing.

He also wouldn't be releasing a "tell all" biography about the Pandemic that presumably throws shite at several of his colleagues.

He's doing an Ed Balls, he just has better foresight apparently.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not sure it's as cynical as that, I think he's just doing it as part of a full-on mid life crisis.

[Lofty]

I definitely think he nets more cash as Matt Hancock MP (that is literally how they credit him in the titles). Probably a better position to leverage larger fees based on the fallout. When was the last time this show dominated the newpaper front pages?