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I heard his surgeon took both buttocks to replace his cheeks.He also told the tale of his plastic surgeon not having to take skin from his backside to repair his forehead, because of taking collagen. Another tall tale from Pinocchio Pete.
For some reason, no one wants to kiss him on the lips any more.
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That was the reason I said it. I guess I was a bit too cryptic!
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I had something better than that when I was a kid in the early 70s!
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That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.
Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.
Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.
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Wendy James, on one of these clip shows, Sarah Greene said once. As on going live around the music acts, they had the kids, and the cameras were set low, But Wendy had a short skirt on, according to Sarah you could see Wendy’s pants
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you are so rude. should be ashamed of yourself.
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The frightening thing is for anybody relatively young when they were popular…Baby I Don’t Care will probably be cranked up as an aide memoire for reminiscences groups in the care homes of ten or so years time. That’s if they are not up to later 1980s tracks already in that field of support for dementia sufferers.
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Charley’s back… El Hopping Mad…
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Nether Regions…
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Mikeofthemasons on a double shift again
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That awful tacky Advent calendar from The Somerset Toilet Company. Apparently, the contents cost between £8 and £9.99 individually, he says. Where exactly, he doesn’t say. I got my partner the M&S one, which you can buy for £50 if you spend £35 on homeware and clothing type stuff. Some genuine good things within that.
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Oh man, was anything more exciting in school than when the TV trolley got wheeled in?!
…of course, the teacher wouldn't have a clue how to work it —"JUST CLUNK DOWN 'PLAY' ON THE MACHINE, MISS - NO THAT WON'T BREAK IT, IT'S HOW IT WORKS!!!!"— and once that hurdle was cleared, the remote would've fallen out of the caddy on the way to class so they couldn't turn it to the right channel.
Usually, by the time we were actually watching whatever it was we'd see about 10 mins of it before the 'end of class' bell cut in.
Yeah fun when there was only a few TVs to look after, but in the end with every classroom having Workstation/Laptop/DVD player/Interactive boards, as well as being able to book class sets of chrome books/Ipad minis, it becomes a nightmare having to run around after teachers that haven't a clue about tech.
