Heretical thoughts

[captain nemo1701]

Tea is a disusting drink.
HHG Quote (radio series 2): Why do humans drink dried leaves in boiling water?. Because they're ignorant monkeys who don't know any better..."

 

[TVC]

And incompetence, poor management, greed, localism, political interference, adherence to an outdated model and a rose-tinted nostalgia...

I can see all that, but you'll have to explain 'rose tinted nostalgia'

 

[NorthernDave]

I genuinely couldn't care less if Cheryl Tweedy / Cole / Fernandez-Versini aka Saint Cheryl of Byker, and formerly one of the more tuneless members of Girls Aloud, is (or is not) with child.

 

[raleighnut]

I don't agree with @MarquisMatsugae on everything but yeah, Terry Pratchett is not funny.

People who think Terry Pratchett isn't funny are obviously not well enough read to get the references to classic literature that form the mainstay of the humour.

 

[ufkacbln]

Contrary to received wisdom, I think the TV version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was better than the radio series. It had the joke about the cow that wanted to be eaten, as well as the rock star who was being dead for a year for tax reasons.

Also, I did not think Laurence Olivier was a great screen actor. He was either so 'good', he made everyone else look wooden, or else so restrained he seemed wooden himself. The only role I thought he was good in was the dentist in Marathon Man.

What other heretical thoughts do you have?

Nicholas Cage is an Actor

 

[Inertia]

Nicholas Cage is an Actor

just not a very good one

 

[Drago]

Nicholas Cage never wears a toupee. This I believe.

 

[Aravis]

Morecambe and Wise were rubbish.

 

[LarryDuff]

Musical theatre is not entertainment.

 

[jefmcg]

Only Fools and Horses is shite

 

[Tim Hall]

There are many different versions of HHG, but for me the original radio series is the best. The TV version only covered the first Disaster Area are modelled on Pink Floyd, who were mates with Adams and they got him on stage in 1994 to play with them at Earls Court (Pulse tour) - he was 42 at the time. There's also a Floyd reference on the double album version, for those who still have it on vinyl ("Ford, that robot can hum like Pink Floyd" line).

The Pink Floyd humming robot bit was in the original radio show, but cut from the CD/cassette version for copyright reasons.

 

[NorthernDave]

Only Fools and Horses is shite

Partly - you're right about anything after the 'Peckham Spring' episode, but it was pretty good before that

 

[jefmcg]

Partly - you're right about anything after the 'Peckham Spring' episode, but it was pretty good before that

I can't argue this. I find every second I've seen of this series agonising and unwatchable. I have no idea whether the moments I have seen pre or post date that moment.

It's worse than the 70s sitcoms ironically (I hope) mentioned above.

Edit: now I see that is an episode after the main run of the series. No, I definitely hated it way before that.

 

[marknotgeorge]

The Harry Potter universe is stupid. Witches aren't female wizards - wizardry and witchcraft are different forms of magic!

The Jaguar E-Type is fugly, with too narrow a track and too much knob extension, I mean bonnet in front of the windscreen.

Half Man Half Biscuit aren't that funny.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4579082, member: 259"]I think part of the problem is the TV adaptation s have all been awful. Not just bad, but really, really awful.[/QUOTE]
Nearly as bad as the film adaption of Wilt done by Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys-Jones