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39 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Why Monty Python TV programme was patchy. Capable of some brilliant moments, but mostly shite.

Cant have that. The latter series were pretty weak but there's a helluva lot of brilliant moments throughout. Plus the films on top of that, so to say Python are shite is wrong, imho.

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2 hours ago, Dons_1988 said:

A news reporter on the British Airways Strike recently:

"Staff are striking on these given dates, but people are asking me what is this all about?....Well, it's about...money"

A stunning insight.

She said people were asking what the strike was about. She answered the question. I can't see what the problem is.

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3 hours ago, Fullerene said:

I remember having to watch a golf tournament.  Every time the putt went in the commentator said "he'll be happy with that".  Every time it did not go in the commentator would say "he'll not be happy with that".

I guess  commentators have to say something even when nothing is happening.

Sums up golf for me.

This was how almost every piece of input Craig Paterson ever made in his punditry career ended. However, before you got to the Paterson Happiness Indicator, you had to listen to him talk you through exactly what you could see in the replay. My mum could have done it.

--Striker scores a header from a cross from the right -  cut to our Craig as the replay rolls --

"Yes. The winger takes a touch and looks up. Puts over a cross. De Vries sees it coming and gets there first to head it into the net. He'll be delighted with that. 1-0 to Hearts. And I'll tell you, this is just what Motherwell didn't want; to lose the first goal! Terry Butcher won't be happy with that."

F**k you, Craig. f**k you.

His other favourite thing to do was invent conversations. In the run up to half time he'd say something like

"In that dressing room at half time Terry Butcher will be telling his men they've got to do more out there. But they'll be telling him they need more support in the forward areas. He'll say "Come on, we've got to stay in this game till the last twenty!". But they'll tell him that the front players are too isolated. Dirk Lehman's going to be asking those midfielders for support, but Keith Lasley's going to tell him he's got to hold the ball up there longer so support can arrive".

It was bizarre. He'd have a complete conversation that he would not be involved in and that hadn't happened yet, and probably never would, ready to go in his head. His commentary was part stating the obvious, part  the descriptive beauty of 'look at this brick, it looks like a brick', and part the bizarre conversational fantasies of a drug-addled old hippy.

 

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