The No Subject Thread - The Bear and Badger

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Is she the one on BBC3 that makes Reggie Yates look hard hitting?

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Yates' Debates.

pantyfire

dynamiteReady wrote:

@Tingle That's probably the pitch, but Theroux does tongue in cheek neutrality quite convincingly. And that allows him to get close to his subjects. Dooley takes a moral high line, never drops it, and preaches, incessantly, with a smirk on her face.

The Guardian were praising her a few weeks back.
She's shit.

Diluted Dante

Liveinadive wrote:

Is she the one on BBC3 that makes Reggie Yates look hard hitting?

Yes. I've watched a couple of her shows, they weren't very good.

Stopharage

I'm no fan of hers but her documentaries are designed for the BBC3 audience. Target audience late teens, early 20s. They're also used quite a bit in schools as well. Fairly disposable, lacking in biting journalistic analysis but gateway to Theroux type docs.

My biggest gripe with her is her crying.

g.man

Aye, she's not brilliant at what she does (though I suspect her heart is in the right place), but we're hardly her target audience, and if her work raises awareness of various issues to younger folks then that's probably no bad thing really.

mk64

Yossarian wrote:

mk64 wrote:

the problem is that if we lose uber we're back to black cabs.

Why? What's happened to all the minicab firms?

You have to wait for
a) They have availability, it's raining - so they won't for 40 minutes
b) For it to arrive from wherever it's starting point is which is usually their last job miles away

Compared with uber where there's usually one within 5 minutes. Or a blackcab because it's driven past you and is therefore next to you.

Diluted Dante

Do no minicab firms in London have a Uber like app? We have one in Preston, and there is usually a cab within 5 minutes.

pantyfire

Diluted Dante wrote:

Is she the one on BBC3 that makes Reggie Yates look hard hitting?

Yes. I've watched a couple of her shows, they weren't very good.

Stopharage wrote:

I'm no fan of hers but her documentaries are designed for the BBC3 audience. Target audience late teens, early 20s. They're also used quite a bit in schools as well. Fairly disposable, lacking in biting journalistic analysis but gateway to Theroux type docs. My biggest gripe with her is her crying.

g.man wrote:

Aye, she's not brilliant at what she does (though I suspect her heart is in the right place), but we're hardly her target audience, and if her work raises awareness of various issues to younger folks then that's probably no bad thing really.

My biggest gripe is she often has an axe to grind and is therefore working to an agenda other than genuine understanding.

tin_robot

My kids used to watch Show Me What You're Made Of - which is a CBBC show presented by Stacey Dooley. The idea's a fairly good one - kids get taken to see how the shit they mindlessly consume in the UK is made in sweat shops in the third world - albeit with the inevitable tedious gameshow twist. (They work in the factories and compete to see who can be the most effective make believe slave.)

My girls used to quite like it, but their one consistent complaint (at the ages of 11 and 9) was "why is the presenter so stupid?"

Moot_Geeza

Multiple leagues below Dooley, my favourite 'lacking in bite' 'documentary' was Fearne Cotton Meets Mischa Barton. Starstruck isn't-she-awesome? Fearne was given the hot & cold treatment by Mischa, and at one point stood up completely, yet appeared truly desperate not to admit to her audience that MB was 'a bit of a C', rather than someone having a hard time at the moment. The best bit was Barton lashing out in the press afterwards, even though Fearne only accidentally trod on an eggshell once or twice.

I do watch some shit tbh.

WorKid

Who the fuck is Mischa Barton?

Diluted Dante

Mischa Anne Barton is a British-American film, television, and stage actress, and occasional fashion model.

poprock

Never heard of her. What’s she been in?

g.man

Christ, if Pops doesn't know her then she really must be a nobody.

Diluted Dante

I've just remembered she is in the OC, as she's mentioned in the MC Lars song This Gigantic Robot Kills where she gets her spine ripped out.

By comparison, a Ferne Cotton interview must be pretty tame.

regmcfly

mk64 wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

mk64 wrote:

the problem is that if we lose uber we're back to black cabs.

Why? What's happened to all the minicab firms?

You have to wait for
a) They have availability, it's raining - so they won't for 40 minutes
b) For it to arrive from wherever it's starting point is which is usually their last job miles away

Compared with uber where there's usually one within 5 minutes. Or a blackcab because it's driven past you and is therefore next to you.

Don't you have GETT - which is the black cab app that I believe works in all major UK cities?

Yossarian

Gett exists, as does an Addison Lee app, both are pricey compared to Uber, but it’s nice to think the drivers may be able to afford food, heating and shelter. Maybe.

Brooks

All I remember about Barton is public burnout and mental illness.

Moot_Geeza

In that case, Fearne was pretty insightful.

Diluted Dante

Brooks wrote:

All I remember about Barton is public burnout and mental illness.

Joey Barton?

mk64

regmcfly wrote:

mk64 wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

mk64 wrote:

the problem is that if we lose uber we're back to black cabs.

Why? What's happened to all the minicab firms?

You have to wait for a) They have availability, it's raining - so they won't for 40 minutes b) For it to arrive from wherever it's starting point is which is usually their last job miles away Compared with uber where there's usually one within 5 minutes. Or a blackcab because it's driven past you and is therefore next to you.

Don't you have GETT - which is the black cab app that I believe works in all major UK cities?

I suppose that is an option. Before that it was Dial a Can and Hailo. Both of which let me down numerous times when it actually mattered (had a child/buggy).

I'm never going to get over the 10-15 years of shit I've had to put up with from black cabs. The arrogance and general shit service + high fares because they had the monopoly. Fuck them all. I've hundreds of experiences where they've just been cunts.

Yossarian

Hailo’s now called MyTaxi, FYI.

I’ve heard some positive things about Green Tomatoes too.

Bob

When you had a couple of sherberts last night and the filth are everywhere. A Police van pulled up outside the house on the way to nursery. I'm following a police car on the way to work. I turn off and go a different way only to see a police car pull up outside the petrol station and wait there while I buy Lucozade.

Just because your paranoid....

GooberTheHat

And probably over the limit.

Lord_Griff

And under surveillance for that weird episode with the waitress, her disabled kid and the chess set.

[Deleted User]

Lord_Griff wrote:

And under surveillance for that weird episode with the waitress, her disabled kid and the chess set.

Isle of Man innit.

[Deleted User]

Bob is from the Isle of Man?

[Deleted User]

Believe so.

Bob

GooberTheHat wrote:

And probably over the limit.

Way over... lol.

@cinty yes I reside on the Isle of Man

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