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"8==="
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on 22/05/2007 at 8:30:13AM
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Beijing:
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
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Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
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Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
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Next week: Kung-fu training!
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So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
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Hedfix
"8==="
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on 05/06/2007 at 12:41:06PM
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Didn't think much of last night's one. It was ok.
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Silent Thunder
"WhaleOilBeefHooked"
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on 05/06/2007 at 10:31:01AM
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I caught a bit of this last night, the Fawlty Towers bit and when the doctor diagnosed his illness as diarrhea after he had spent time describing the fact he had diarrhea made me smile.
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:48:39PM
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Yeah it probably wont but still cant blame them for wanting to do it again ^^ would love to do something like that. Well maybe in a car instead ;)
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:43:05PM
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They are doing another one, it's being filmed as we speak ... it's called 'Long Way Down' ... starting at John O'Groates in the north of Scotland and finishing in Cape Town in South Africa ... should be another beast ... though I don't think they can top the feat of riding all the way around the world ...
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:39:53PM
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I've been wanting to watch that, but it was on Sky =(
I'm not sure but I think they wanted to do another one.
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:37:10PM
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Aye ... all good stuff ... another fave is 'Long Way Round' with Ewan Mcgregor and his mate Charlie Boreman. Keep meaning to get the extended 10 episode edition and get rid of my old 6 episode one ...
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:33:38PM
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Why watch Ray Mears and not go off travelling to the wilderness Borat? =) You need to gather everything you've learnt and go out and prove that you can survive too. I'd love to do some real camping in America. No one around for miles, only bears.
Remember if it's a black bear stay still and pretend to be dead. Or is that the grizzly bear =/ I forget. Well you better know as one of them will be fooled while the other wont and will kill you within seconds.
Wait till the bring out Michael Palin in high definition =) that'll push your savings back even more. I mean it'll look so realistic it'll be as if you're on the Himalayians with Palin too.
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:22:09PM
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Heh, nice try but I'll have to decline ... though I could do to go through all my DVDs and get rid of the stuff I don't watch ... which is most of them.
Instead of getting rid I just keep buying the damn things though :S
My boxsets I'll always keep though ... Palin, Band of Brothers, Father Ted, Ray Mears etc etc.
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:19:48PM
Edited: 3/6/07 22:20 Total Posts: 10835
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oh you have it do you Borat? *evil grin* you know at your age you really should be living on your own. How about I take it off your hands for a tenner and that'll get you one step closer to your dreams of independance (day) >=) shall we call it a deal?
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:16:35PM
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It must have come way down in price now ... cost me 60 nicker when it was released ... well worth it though I reckon ... 36 hours of Palin ... perfect sunday morning viewing ... :)
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:15:05PM
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Nevermind I found the torrents on piratebay =) downloading now.
Borat wrote:
> I'll buy the series if it gets released ... he could be the next
> Michael Palin ... perhaps?
was he really that good? You know how I love Michael Palin, one day I'll buy the complete boxset.
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:12:08PM
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I'll buy the series if it gets released ... he could be the next Michael Palin ... perhaps?
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Machie
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:11:11PM
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Should anyone find a torrent, I'd really love to see this =(
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Borat
"Venomous"
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on 03/06/2007 at 10:01:49PM
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Watched the first one, loved it, missed last weeks unfortunately .. might have a look and see if it's on youtube or something. Next episode tomorrow night ... good stuff!
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Der Nazi
"Hellfire Stoker"
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on 31/05/2007 at 5:00:30PM
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Seeing how many clips there are of Have I Got News for You on there, I'd say yes. Mr Merton seems to be rather popular on the Interweb!
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Hedfix
"8==="
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on 30/05/2007 at 10:53:45PM
Edited: 30/5/07 22:54 Total Posts: 4260
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Yeah, they plugged the kung fu aspect a bit too much considering it was less than five minutes of the programme. The short he was in was damn funny though.
I wonder if it's on youtube...
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Der Nazi
"Hellfire Stoker"
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on 29/05/2007 at 11:47:05PM
Edited: 29/5/07 23:47 Total Posts: 2132
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Yeah, that was funny. I was quite disturbed by the levels of pollution in Xonquin (Or however it's spelt in latin text, piny in or whatever), and apprently many of those buildings are there for show, totally unoccupued... and the prostitute, that was pretty funny too. Well, she must have been, Paul Merton isn't a sailor. Though he may be a Pirate.
And it was Kung Fu time too! The extra didn't exactly have a good likeness, but I want to see that advert regularly broadcast over here!
The segment with the Tibetan nomads was also quite something, the same fears (and government intrusion) as when Michale Pail visited the area in Himalaya. Comedians doing travel shows, it works! :)
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Hedfix
"8==="
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on 29/05/2007 at 10:53:11PM
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Ok, one little bit:
He was mistaken for the Canadian Prime Minister of Canada! :D
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Hedfix
"8==="
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on 29/05/2007 at 9:47:14PM
Total Posts: 4260
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Another good one last night. I'm not running through it, you either watched it or you didn't!
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Der Nazi
"Hellfire Stoker"
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on 22/05/2007 at 5:06:43PM
Total Posts: 2132
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Looks like I really missed out... damn!
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Hedfix
"8==="
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on 22/05/2007 at 8:30:13AM
Edited: 22/5/07 8:31 Total Posts: 4260
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Beijing:
His taxi driver seemed to have just come from the country and took 1h 40 mins to find the hotel finally using Merton's mobile phone (at the insistence of Merton who'd already called th ehotel for him) to findout where the hell it was!
There's bug on sticks in the market... DEEP FRIED SCORPIONS!
Then his guide takes him to a place serving donkey's pen][s. Followed by snake's pen][s(es - they have two apparently). Then sheep's pen][s...
-End of first day-
Loads of police and CCTV camera and the military in Tiananmen Square, scary stuff. Pauls meets his guide there and she wants them to leave quickly, yes she's that scared of the authoritites, scary stuff.
Boom-boxing street youths! Singing about chinese food because they can't do radical lyrics.
Then Merton pulls the team offtrack by insisting they go and see a farmer who builds robots, these turn out to be the sort of little things you'd see at the primary school robot olympics on BBC 2, pretty cool though considering they were all made from scrap from the local heap. Although he did manage to burn down his whole house whilst making one of them!
Then he wheels out the fullsize robot-pulled rickshaw! Very cool. And there's a mini one for the kids!
Most of the currently being built buildings are going to be empty and are just for show for the olympics to make Beijing look modern. :S
Then he goes to an english class being taught by an American. Looks like a load of the class will be evicted from the homes as the place is re-developed for the olympics. :(
57,000 people in the area and the teacher's the only westerner and he's watched like a hawk.
Unsurprisingly basic conditions for the teacher, he lives there because he wants to see the old China before it disappears. Merton thinks it's a shame they're destroying these old communities with the re-development. I have to agree with him.
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Then they go to the rather odd building 'Chateau' that's based upon a huge french hotel, he gets upgraded to room 666. 6 is a lucky number over there. :)
The place is huge and nobody's about.
Merton finds his room and the ceilings are either very high or very low, it's huge and according to Merton 'horrendous'.
The whole place only cost $50 mill.
Merton finds out his rooms above the dance hall and he's woken by Karaoke, he goes down to get it turned down and gets dragged into it all. This all really weird!
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Next Merton goes to Henan and has to go into a horrible rundown hotel that smells of vomit and who's foyer doesn't have, well, a floor.
Huge picture of Stalin at the local worker co-operative commune! :D
Communist noodle making! And the Government officals on the tour with them don't want to elaborate. Why do you have to go on a tour to go see a communist family? The officals runaway from Merton's tour for another one. :D
Selt criticism classes... women sterilised after childbirth...
Big Camel.
End of.
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Next week: Kung-fu training!
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So did anyone else catch it? Looks like it;s shaping up to be a great little series!
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