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Old 17-09-2014, 19:06
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Yeah it was good but not as good as last week.

I'm glad he covered the topic of "fun facts" though because that's one thing (among many!) which annoys me about the internet. There are whole websites seemingly dedicated to compiling endless lists of pointless trivia like "15 Amazing Facts About Anvils" and then these "fun fact" lists get endlessly reposted on Facebook etc. clogging up my social media with drivel.

I'm getting a bit tired of Dave's found poem section as well ("which I would like.........to perform.....for you .now")
The fun facts was very good but was a must have inclusing for that sentence!

How on earth did they go from "He's a family man" to what was written after
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Old 17-09-2014, 19:18
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Somebody at work starting spouting facts for no apparent reason...they hadn't even watched last night
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Old 17-09-2014, 20:19
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I enjoyed it. A bit slow on the spelling out the longest place names bit, but it did segue nicely into the pub quiz anecdote and the fun facts. Was stunned by that sentence!
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Old 17-09-2014, 23:05
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Thought it was good but not as good as last week.
He spent too long on the "Fun Facts" IMO
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Old 17-09-2014, 23:10
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Because of 'that' expression I learnt that the original meaning of 'proof' is to test
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Old 24-09-2014, 20:05
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I get the impression that the celeb guy makes up his gossip feed and then hopes that people don't see it or don't pull him up on it.

Pretty sure he could be done for libel if a person took enough umbridge with one of his statements.
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Old 24-09-2014, 23:50
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I get the impression that the celeb guy makes up his gossip feed and then hopes that people don't see it or don't pull him up on it.

Pretty sure he could be done for libel if a person took enough umbridge with one of his statements.
Well Phillip Schofield certainly seemed to be heading toward action - still I expect he was a bit niggly, what with giving up smoking and all
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Old 25-09-2014, 01:39
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Neil Sean isn't happy with that segment on the show. I do think he has taken it too seriously.
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Old 25-09-2014, 09:24
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Neil Sean isn't happy with that segment on the show.
Good. I doubt that it`ll shame him into changing his conduct though. Shame is a concept that died in the mid-90s in this country as far as I can tell.
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Old 25-09-2014, 09:34
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I really thought Neil's book (I'd never heard of him) was a badly photoshopped made up book until Dave showed it
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Old 25-09-2014, 11:47
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Good episode this week with Dave taking the piss out of Neil Sean and writing silly letters to the Royals.

I've often seen Sean's "Green Room" column in the Metro but even a cursory glance at his column is enough to bring one to the edge of tedium. It's such a load of utterly inconsequential nonsense. Good to see Phil Schofield caught him out for printing an untrue story.

Neil Sean is not happy...

https://twitter.com/DaveGorman/statu...97014010585088
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Old 25-09-2014, 12:03
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Good episode this week with Dave taking the piss out of Neil Sean and writing silly letters to the Royals.

I've often seen Sean's "Green Room" column in the Metro but even a cursory glance at his column is enough to bring one to the edge of tedium. It's such a load of utterly inconsequential nonsense. Good to see Phil Schofield caught him out for printing an untrue story.

Neil Sean is not happy...

https://twitter.com/DaveGorman/statu...97014010585088
Dread to think what someone else is going to think with one of the episodes I saw
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Old 25-09-2014, 12:39
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Good episode this week with Dave taking the piss out of Neil Sean and writing silly letters to the Royals.

I've often seen Sean's "Green Room" column in the Metro but even a cursory glance at his column is enough to bring one to the edge of tedium. It's such a load of utterly inconsequential nonsense. Good to see Phil Schofield caught him out for printing an untrue story.

Neil Sean is not happy...

https://twitter.com/DaveGorman/statu...97014010585088
Dave put him in his place though
Incidentally, one of the shows in St. Albans (I'm going to see it) is sold out as well
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Old 30-09-2014, 20:33
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This is a very good show.

Can't beleive it was a year ago when it first started (according to this thread).
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Old 30-09-2014, 22:11
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You can't get better than a catflap fitter Loved the stuff about ordering a pizza online (I havent done that yet either)
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Old 30-09-2014, 22:27
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that QR code was freaky
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Old 30-09-2014, 22:29
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It was, but this is the best episode so far imo
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Old 30-09-2014, 23:53
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I imagine I'm not the only one who went and checked out those websites? Loved this episode.
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Old 30-09-2014, 23:58
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I imagine I'm not the only one who went and checked out those websites? Loved this episode.
Haha - tell me you did the same as me and checked the QR code too?!
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Old 01-10-2014, 00:45
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Haha - tell me you did the same as me and checked the QR code too?!
I admit I was about to, but couldn't find my phone!
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Old 01-10-2014, 01:25
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Haha - tell me you did the same as me and checked the QR code too?!
I did too, then shat myself for the 4 minutes of adverts
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Old 01-10-2014, 10:29
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Very good show last night I thought, one of my favourites

Whole thing was basically a wind up though! I was thinking the QR code could have somehow read some data of your sim card in order to display your house from Google Maps, seemed possible to me
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Old 01-10-2014, 10:34
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Great show.

Read a few tweets to him after the show that were tweeted during it pointing out that it was HM The Queen.

Surely people should know to only point out mistakes to him afterwards as he usually has a reason for making such obvious mistakes.
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Old 01-10-2014, 11:00
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Great show.

Read a few tweets to him after the show that were tweeted during it pointing out that it was HM The Queen.

Surely people should know to only point out mistakes to him afterwards as he usually has a reason for making such obvious mistakes.
What mistake didn't he mention that? and that his cat was HRH which queenie isn't?
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Old 01-10-2014, 12:19
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I've just done the qr code thing, I thought the link had been hacked
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