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Archive for the ‘WTD’ Category
That Boris Johnson Interview…
March 25, 2013
It’s Not The End of The World
October 14, 2011
I call this picture ‘James Delingpole pops out for a snack’, even though I’m fairly sure that’s not James Delingpole.
The sun’s always shining when it’s GLINNER’S MIXTAPE TIME!
Not very chill for a Zen dude
September 6, 2011
I enjoyed Deepak Chopra’s response to a critic on Twitter today, sandwiched between some New Age higher-consciousness shite for maximum ironic laffosity.
Get a load of this ridiculous thing I found the fuck out last night
July 27, 2011Seriously. Get a load of this.
Received the following tweet from Chris Spyrou, who I know from Twitter as being even more obsessed by the hacking scandal than I am.
| “ | @Glinner Any ideas what this means re: Daily Show Global Edition? Possible Murdoch stuff? http://bit.ly/nuG6FZ | |||
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No need to click the link, it leads to the following exchange.
| “ | Where is the Daily Show Global Edition? Didn’t record on More 4, and it’s advertised, but not on More 4 +1. @C4Insider | |||
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| “ | @chrisspyrou Sorry compliance probs so we couldn”t show | |||
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I was curious as to why an episode of The Daily Show that would have been of particular interest to the UK public–covering, as it did, the News of The World scandal–would not be shown in this country. I tweeted @C4insider.
| “ | @C4Insider what were the compliance problems for Daily Show? Out of curiosity. | |||
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| “ | @glinner Will do some investigating and get back to you. | |||
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Well. You’ll never guess.
| “ | Asked Channel 4 why the latest Daily Show isn’t being shown on 4+1 (HT: @chrisspyrou) and got the following reply… | |||
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| “ | @Glinner We are prevented by parliamentary rules from broadcasting parliamentary proceedings in a comedic or satrical context. | |||
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Oh, OK.
Wait, what?
| “ | @Glinner C4′s restriction led by this guidance (FOIA response), specifically section 4: http://bit.ly/n48eaa | |||
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| “ | @Glinner Aimed at "preserving the dignity of the House", I think. | |||
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Holy shit! So politicians in the UK…
| “ | @Glinner Same in Ireland. Smallprint under “Rules of Coverage”: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/watchlisten/ | |||
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….so politicians in the UK and Ireland are protected from satirical TV programs by the law? But only if they’re for national consumption? REALLY?
This means that the The Daily Show writers can make fun of the UK using Parliamentary footage, but satirists in the UK can’t. This means that Have I got News for You can use the following clip…
…but IRISH SATIRISTS CAN’T!
Doesn’t anyone else find this situation insane?
| “ | @C4Insider @Glinner OK well those rules need changing. Doesn’t sound right that America can take the piss out of us but we can’t | |||
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Well, QUITE.
Here’s one bit that would have been in the Global Edition.
| “ | Daily Show: Accountability in the U.K.- http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-20-2011/accountability-in-the-u-k-?xrs=share_twitter – Not shown in the UK @Glinner | |||
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It’s region-locked, but there are several ways to see it. I use Overplay VPN but there are many free alternatives (the vast majority of which I find impossibly fiddly…and I was never a big Torrenter).
The only free service that ever worked for me was using Firefox with the Modify Headers extension, so give that a go before doing anything else.
Here’s how it works…
Anyway. I digress. Around the same time that all this was happening, I discovered that Ai Weiwei is on Google+. His ‘about’ page reads ”Suspected of being involved in: distributing pornography, tax evasion, inciting subversion, shortchanging someone in a transaction on the black market, keeping a mistress, plagiarism, and reselling cultural artifacts for profit (seven deadly sins).”
Poor guy. They’ll probably take him in again for that. Can you imagine living in a country whose rulers were so scared of satire that they…
Never mind.
| “ | 2 clips from @TheDailyShow (19/20 July) not shown in the UK – http://mediaite.com/a/mlyrv + http://mediaite.com/a/jdbgf | |||
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UPDATE: new Statesman covered it too.
Thanks to everyone who sent this link, which has just now started working for me.
Get with the program, dude
May 27, 2011
One reason to march on the 26th
March 9, 2011Tried to share this on Twitter a few times and managed to break their website. It’s a short but VERY revealing video about the motives of some of the people behind Andrew Lansley’s NHS ‘reforms’. It’s also one of the things that convinced me to join in on the 26th.
Don’t bogart that shit, dude!
February 12, 2010
I’m writing, which means mixtapes!
As ever, thanks to all on Twitter and Blip.fm for pointing these delights out to me. The chances of my running across a track from the New Moon soundtrack on my own were very, very low.
(pic via National Geographic & Boing Boing)
