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The Bus Posted Mon Oct 23 12:35:33 BST 2000 by Ewar Woowar

Just overheard someone talking about this - apparently, it's the next Big Brother-style living soap bollocks, only they put a bunch of idiots on a bus and they travel around the country. "The Bureau", anyone? Won't be long now before EVERYTHING that happened on TDT happens for real on TV...

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Posted By 'Jon' on Mon Oct 23 12:43:02 BST 2000:

What I want to see is...

THE MONASTERY
week 12:
Brother Joseph continues his fast, whilst Brothers Michael, Clement, John and Tobias pray for harmony throughout the world and the conversion of non-believers.

POLL: Which one of the Brothers should be made to scourge himself for lack of devotion? Vote now...

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Posted By 'Al' on Mon Oct 23 13:25:41 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Mon Oct 23 19:14:06 BST 2000:

CIRCLE LINE

A group of ten children are trapped in a carriage circling London's fifth favourite underground line, in an astonishing social experiment to see how long before they start eating each other or screwing like a Jake and Dinos Chapman sculpture.

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Posted By 'Mike J' on Tue Oct 24 11:11:39 BST 2000:

>A group of ten children are trapped in a carriage circling London's fifth favourite underground line

I'd be astonished if they got more than two-thirds of the way round, before a signal failure forced them off at Tower Hill, meaning they had to continue on the District.

How about taking a 32-year-old underachieving programmer and forcing him to commute from SE London to Hertfordshire every day for 2 years, and closing off a vital section of his route due to a fatal derailment *just* after his laptop is taken away, hammering the last nail into the coffin of telecommuting, and see how long it takes before he becomes a hollow-eyed sociopath, his head full of violent fantasies involving backpackers and chicken wire. Oh, hang on - they've already done that.

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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Tue Oct 24 18:09:53 BST 2000:

Disappointed.
Thought this was a thing about "And then I got off the bus".
Oh well anyone interested in talking about that?
Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Posted By Justin on Tue Oct 24 20:06:31 BST 2000:

>Disappointed.
>Thought this was a thing about "And then I got off the bus".
>Oh well anyone interested in talking about that?
>Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Aaaaaaah...TMWRNJ's Lazy Comedy Slags. A masterpiece of a feature.

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Posted By 'Baby Coelacanth (calming down)' on Tue Oct 24 20:36:32 BST 2000:

Yeah, let's compile a list of lazy comedy cliches. I saw a stand-up in Manchester who actually used the "Yeah, but I was 28" payoff to a line about childish behaviour. Ugh.

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Posted By 'Paul' on Tue Oct 24 22:29:30 BST 2000:

>Just overheard someone talking about this - apparently, it's the next Big Brother-style living soap bollocks, only they put a bunch of idiots on a bus and they travel around the country. "The Bureau", anyone? Won't be long now before EVERYTHING that happened on TDT happens for real on TV...

Ah- The Bus- we had it on Right to Reply the other week. Contestants *pay* a deposit which they forfeit if they want to leave before they get voted off... nearly as bad as a Russian format called Chains of Love- four men are chained to a woman for a week and she gets rid of one a day until she makes the last two each take her on a date (with the other one literally dragged along) on which basis she decides the winner.

The world HAS gone mad.
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Posted By 'Paul' on Tue Oct 24 22:29:30 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Wed Oct 25 17:44:02 BST 2000:

What about that other annoying catchphrase that they sometimes use, takes the fun right out of it:
"No, that didn't really happen."
Be funnier if it had, bloody comedians, think their so funny...

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Posted By 'I hate A.A. Gill' on Wed Oct 25 18:36:35 BST 2000:

And yet another annoying catchphrase used by lazy comedians and TV reviewers: "I made the last one up".

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Posted By 'PJ' on Thu Oct 26 22:56:47 BST 2000:

"The Refugees"

Ten penniless, hungary civillians from a tiny, war-torn country spend ten weeks living in the back of a truck - each week one is evicted from the our great nation, until only one is left to be despised by the tabloids for taking all or money or something, idon'treallyknow.

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Posted By 'Sam ' on Fri Oct 27 09:53:32 BST 2000:

I read in the paper this morning about an american Big Brother type thing callled something like "Chains of Love". In which 4 male contestants are chained for.. I dunno.. 4 months .. to a woman.

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 10:34:13 BST 2000:

>I read in the paper this morning about an american Big Brother type thing callled something like "Chains of Love". In which 4 male contestants are chained for.. I dunno.. 4 months .. to a woman.

I refer you to my earlier posting in this thread. Bazal are auditioning at the moment for a UK version they're making for E4.

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 10:34:13 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 10:34:26 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 10:34:33 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 10:35:22 BST 2000:

Oops- sorry.

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Posted By 'Sam D' on Fri Oct 27 10:38:51 BST 2000:

>>I read in the paper this morning about an american Big Brother type thing callled something like "Chains of Love". In which 4 male contestants are chained for.. I dunno.. 4 months .. to a woman.
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>I refer you to my earlier posting in this thread. Bazal are auditioning at the moment for a UK version they're making for E4.
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Doh! Sorry.. I've only read bits and pieces of this thread! Apologies.

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Posted By 'Sam D' on Fri Oct 27 10:40:06 BST 2000:

Read it now. Sorry again.

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 15:31:52 BST 2000:

>Read it now. Sorry again.

S'OK. For what it's worth the Chains of Love programme I saw was chillingly odd. Quite who in their right mind would want to appear on it I don't know. It's very bizarre to watch. Distressing even.

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 15:31:52 BST 2000:

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Posted By 'Paul' on Fri Oct 27 15:33:17 BST 2000:

I wish I could *stop* doing that...

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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Sat Oct 28 18:16:03 BST 2000:

But it's making this thread seem SO popular.

The forum equivalent of Victoria Beckham bulk buying her single in Woolworths.

(That says so much about her, doesn't it? She's worth millions of quid, yet she still shops in Woolies. Common as muck, that girl...)

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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Sat Oct 28 18:17:08 BST 2000:

Ah. I came on to mock the multiple postings on this thread, then forgot to append my name to the last message.

I can't work by CMptuER. PuTER.

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Posted By 'RapH' on Sun Oct 29 01:30:44 GMT 2000:

>...they put a bunch of idiots on a bus and they travel around the country...

How about if they just stay on the one bus route? A 90min round trip on the 38, taking in views of the local tower blocks, passing the reservoir, with the added danger of potentially clipping the railway bridge as they go underneath it. As the viewers familiarise themselves with the route they can look out for their favourite landmarks, as the bus trundles by them, if there isn't much action that night. Perhaps the driver could get voted off during the first week so that the bus has to remain completely stationary for the rest of the run.

Or us.imdb.com/Title?0074205

continues the Big theme.

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Posted By 'RapH' on Sun Oct 29 01:35:40 GMT 2000:

And perhaps I might be told how to make an address all clickable next time.

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Posted By 'Jon' on Sun Oct 29 12:11:01 GMT 2000:

Or for part of the joruney the bus must be parked alongside a load of other buses so that an Evel Kneivel-type stunt cyclist can attempt to jump over them.

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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Mon Oct 30 11:36:42 GMT 2000:

Try putting http//: at the start. Then it will be made clickable automatically.

http//:imdb.com/Title?0074205

See?

(I hope that worked or I shall look stupid. Anonymously.)

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Posted By 'Jake' on Mon Oct 30 13:30:34 GMT 2000:

>Try putting http//: at the start. Then it will be made clickable automatically.
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>http//:imdb.com/Title?0074205
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>See?
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>(I hope that worked or I shall look stupid. Anonymously.)

Guess you look stupid then. It's http://, as in
http://imdb.com/Title?0074205

And if that doesn't work I'll cry

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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Mon Oct 30 13:44:50 GMT 2000:

Thanks, Jake. I not only look stupid, I feel stupid. Such a simple error. No wonder I'm anonymous.

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