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YouTube video by MSPpedia Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing with Kylie Minogue - Shepherd's Bush Empire 15/12/96

SLIGHTLY SCRATCHY BOOTLEG RECORDING OF THE DAY: Kylie Minogue performing Little Baby Nothing with the Manics at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, 15/12/96: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2au...

The hotel where attendees of the Convervative Party conference are staying, surrounded by temporary metal fences. The metal fences are adorned with brightly-coloured vague adverts for the concept of Manchester

This is kinda grim isn't it? "Welcome" and "VisitManchester.com" pasted on the metal fences they've put up to make sure that Tory conference attendees don't accidentally interact with Mancunians.

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Arthur Bostrom, in his much-loved role as Officer Crabtree in ‘Allo, ‘Allo!

There were a couple of repeat games, but mostly new ones and that’s good enough for me. Highlight was when they each had to make a cheese sandwich, and the closest to 470 grams wins.

Finished episode 2 of Schlag Den Raab, and I’m just loving how ruthlessly competitive he is, even though he doesn’t stand to win anything.
I’m no longer sure who the ideal UK equivalent would be; Paddy McGuinness would show too much mercy.
Perhaps one of my hyper-competitive faves from Taskmaster?

And don’t worry: comments are switched on for this ad, and someone has correctly commented “get off-a ya face”

Advert for a book called “Modern Psychedelics”, with the subtitle “the handbook for mindful exploration”. The author’s name is Joe Dolce

It’s moderately surprising that Reddit’s algorithm has chosen to serve me an advert for this book about psychedelics, but that wouldn’t be worth a reshare on its own.
But when the author is called Joe Dolce, I have no choice but to tell the world.

There _was_ a UK version - presented by Vernon Kay because it was ITV in 2008 - but it’s not appealing: prerecorded and only 75 minutes is coward shit. And having a different celeb each week isn’t as cool.
I’d be much more excited if we’d committed to Beat The McGuinness or something.

…which doesn’t suit my understanding of German stereotypes. Fortunately they make up for it by having a music question where the answer is Looking For Freedom by David Hasselhoff.
Anyway, I now love this show, and I really hope that it manages to stay fun instead of getting repetitive.

…but it’s still a pleasing level of variety, and pretty impressive pace and scale (though pace is helped by the adverts being edited out). One of the events is a penalty shoot-out, which gives the host an opportunity to cuss England for being shit at them. Fair play.
There are a few tech problems…

…for a broad family audience, you don’t have to be that good at German to keep up with it. So I have now watched the first episode (only three hours) and enjoyed it enough that I intend to keep going. The events at this stage are a lot more conventional than the shopping trolley push…

…going out live on prime time Saturday night, with an unknown runtime - because they play until they have a winner. One episode appears to have taken six hours, and I look forward to finding out how that happened.
In good news, the show is available on YouTube. In even better news, because it’s…

…I’m no expert in German culture, but Stefan Raab has had a lot of involvement in Eurovision (most significantly to me, he wrote Guildo Hat Euch Lieb) so I’m a bit aware of him. Just aware enough to make me even more excited about the concept of this very ambitious-sounding tv show…

I was impressed enough by that shopping trolley video from a German game show that I had to go track down the show. And I was delighted with what I found.
Turns out its original incarnation was Schlag Den Raab: each week, a different member of the public takes on Stefan Raab in a series of games…

My best guess was that I fell out of watching TOTP when you weren’t around to watch it with, but I’m not sure that quite makes sense.

Getting really confused about my own history watching these 1998 #TOTP repeats.
Cos surely I watched these all at the time. But I’ve just watched an episode that features Spiritualized and Aqua, and was presented by Jayne Middlemiss, and it didn’t feel familiar at all.

@extremerice.bsky.social as usual I’m a bit behind on the #TOTP repeats. Remind me why It Started With A Kiss got rereleased in 1998? Presumably it wasn’t just because of Kenickie.

He’s probably his son’s father by now, eh

NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS

Did i tell you about the time I was sat near a silent disco when they played Jump Around by House Of Pain?
The drop-off in singing after the first line was beautiful to hear.

it is roasting in Manchester today, and the pubs in the Northern Quarter are already busy.
I think Heaton Park is going to host some of the reddest faces in UK history tonight.

YouTube video by spikeyroberto Catchphrase - the famous Snake Charmer moment (full TV censored version) - HQ

Did you know that the famous "Snake Charmer" Catchphrase was altered in repeats on Challenge TV to make it less rude-looking? I find that absolutely *mad*, it's not like it was hugely obscene in the first place!

Censored: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZna...
Original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb-...

A majority of fans said they played Hocus Pocus better after the ban

lemmings

YouTube video by iadao sivablood alice.wmv

Don’t forget about Alice by Sivablood ok

youtu.be/8p2Frs4y4yA?...

It's football all over again isn't it. Like, he definitely loves Arsenal and the game for real, but everything he says sounds like he's pretending.

I'd be tempted by Clock, cos I only found out recently that they're from here and not the Netherlands.
You reckon Starmer loves Simply Red, but at least knows not to admit it?

I would almost give him some credit for at least not going route one. Except I assume that it’s just because “Oasis” did poorly in the focus groups.

What fully finished off the plan was the idea of doing it a second time at the end of the trip