.. last night, ITV2?
2 hours!
Please tell me this was a Scooby Doo-style adventure.
i watched the first ten minutes but it was pretty poor.
why would a ghost respond to anything Yvette Fielding has to say?
I didn’t see it (I was watching Barry Manilow—has he had hip replacements? He doesn’t seem able to walk properly—and some tumbling Korean acrobats on the Royal Variety Performance.
I did see a clip of it on Jonathan Woss the other night though. It looked quite fun—I don’t think they twigged that the poltergeist tricks were a set-up, did they? I think they really believed the house was haunted.
Yvette Fielding “Now, we’re going to switch off the OH FUCKINELL GRAVEL!! GET ME OUT OFHERE!!!”
Hmm, now that’s the sort of expert guide you need if you’re a young impressionable girl or four in a haunted house!
What the hell is the appeal of these shows—nothing ever happens, aside from some farcically hysterical screaming when someone thinks they hear a noise, and a strange fascination with filming bits of dust that occasionally drift into camera range.
“if you lost a child please knock”
*no noise at all is heard*
“one...two...you lost two children”
*everyone looks anxious*
i wish i had digi tv again, these progs are fucking hilarious. makes me actually feel intelligent.
There was some actual fake knocking and table moving (wooh scary) in this one though, I guess they had to make sure they got a reaction. (xpost)
and that wheelchair was way too new to have been abandoned in that house! (So I’m told)
sounds like they were going for a ‘silent hill’ theme
I flicked straight past it and plumped for Jimmy’s Farm. There were lots of shagging pigs.
Apparently they’ve done a photoshoot for the NME wearing punk gear, only four years after Burchill and I called them the greatest group since the Sex Pistols.
...
They were supposed to be “dressed as the sex pistols” but it only was ‘correct’ w/ Ginger’s Jumper.
If they’d been the New York Dolls, that would have been fair play.
(as if I really cared)
I was watching Barry Manilow—has he had hip replacements? He doesn’t seem able to walk properly
Yes, he did.
Haha, I tuned into about five minutes of it on the basis that the title was like something Alan Partridge would come up with, ala “Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank”. It was actually quite boring.
I loved this. But about 40% of the fun came from the fact we were forcing ledge to watch it.
Indeed, their grip on the intricacies of party politics is shaky at best. As Coyle says: “You know that basically Labour is the working class and the Conservatives are the really, kind of, upper class, and then everything else is . . . I have no idea.”
And this is wrong/shaky... how?
Nicola Roberts understands: I know there are programmes on late at night, aren’t there, when they have like debates and stuff.
That’s just cuet.
Lol at Cheryl “wife of Cashley” Cole claiming that “Footballers’ wives are just as bad as benefit scroungers—it’s just a higher class of sponger”.
Worra loada fookin shite. She sounds fookin mental!
You’d never get this level of anarchy from the Spiceys!
Sounds like they vote the same way though.
apart from the spice girls saying “we vote tory” and girls aloud saying “we vote labour”, that is
source of latter plz.
the article i just linked to?
ref: 1. “So, the big question must be: will Girls Aloud back the new-look Trendy Tories? The answer, David Cameron will be disheartened to learn, is no. ”Absolutely not,“ says Cole.”
No, only Cheryl says she does. And even then just because her mother does.
x-post
did all of the Spice Girls pledge alleigance to Tories in unison?
I believe Geri said something about Thatch being the “original spice girl” and at least one of the others (MelC?) being very p.o. about it.
both of the mels I believe were not too keen to be associated w/geri’s thatcher fandom.
the idea of a tv prog being made—“girls aloud in a haunted house” = wtf. parody = dead.
actually, it would be a perfect title for c-man’s directorial debut!
Brief history of convoluted Spice Girls politics:
Geri—Thatch Original Spice Girl in Spectator interview (stupidest thing ever done by any pop group; lost them the NME/crossover vote overnight) + said We The Spice Girls Are Tories.
Subsequently appeared in Labour Party Political Broadcast despite not being registered to vote.
Mel B and Mel C—subsequently disassociated themselves from G’s comment, Mel C especially after getting shitloads of abuse for it back home in the ‘Pool, we’ve always voted Labour.
V Beckham—spoke up for Tories in interviews but subsequently believed to have gone New Labour under husband’s influence.
Emma Strictly Come Dancing—pro-Tory in ’90s interviews; doesn’t talk about politics these days.
As for GA: well, one Scot looks just like another, don’t they? I daresay if I turned up backstage at one of their gigs they’d think I was John Reid, ex-of the Jesus and Mary Chain.
“there’s that bloke wot said all that poncey nonsense about us on the internet”
“SECURITY!”
“Ah Petridish, I need to see a plumber about a poodle, could you hold my ID for a moment please? Ta!”
“B-b-but...”
“THERE’S THAT BLOKE WOT SAID ALL THAT PONCEY NONSENSE ABOUT US ON THE INTERNET! SECURITY!!!!”
“No, it is I Alexis!”
“ILX! That’s where that poncey bloke posts innit?”
“This way, sir...”
Next month’s GQ Magazine:
Broken Bones Are The New Grime, says I Alexis.
*photo of Petridish resembling English Bob after going one round with Gene Hackman’s sheriff*
sophie heawood is the worst journalist in the world. she really is.
i almost saw this at about 1am on saturday, but unfortunately i had the discipline to... not.
the article is ridiculous in so many ways. but it doesn’t help that the author lacks basic english skills: “Thus it was that I was summoned to conduct ”Girls Aloud: the politics interview“. thus it was?
the ‘girls aloud: off the record’ was more incisive, basically by not being fuckwitted about it. nicola came across as basically a socialist (see ilx passim).
why is Heawood so bad? i’m not getting it.
Lex is banned from answering this question.
because she’s not good. tbh i think the whole thing is misconceived and based on a horrible idea of politics based on fuck knows what where you just say things like ‘taxes c/d’. and girls aloud have to answer somehow or they seem offish. they can’t question the question, why is exactly what anyone else — including, i dunno, the new statesman’s backer — would do. you’d learn more about their politics (an irrelevant topic anyway) from talking about their music, but heawood’s vocab here stretches to ‘catchy’.