Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Dirty Feed Search for: This topic has 146 replies, 33 voices, and was last updated 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Stephen Abootman. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic January 1, 2015 at 12:37 pm #210858 John HoareParticipant HELLO HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE YOU ARE GREAT. For anyone interested, it’s my blog’s fifth anniversary today, so I’ve written a little piece including my favourite posts over the years: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2015/01/dirty-feed-the-first-five-years/ For anyone not interested, I’ve heard about this really great Red Dwarf site, you should check it out: http://www.ganymede.tv/ Creator Topic Viewing 50 replies - 51 through 100 (of 146 total) 1 2 3 Author Replies April 29, 2016 at 6:47 am #213824 John HoareParticipant Funnily enough, while I was reading your blog I was thinking about how much I could hear your voice coming through and how distinctive and great to read it is. I’m properly chuffed to read this. Thank you! Latest piece is a bit worthy and not as much fun as comedy stuff I’m afraid: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/04/the-fragility-of-the-web/ I’ll get back to knob jokes shortly. April 29, 2016 at 9:43 am #213827 JonsmadParticipant Way back machine is one internet tool i learnt from you John, and in my music worlds its been vital, not least because we spent years building a web site then it went down after fans fell out about its future, those that carried on recovered years of work that would have otherwise been lost. Nice article the internet like life suffers from “things aint what they used to be” June 2, 2016 at 11:10 am #214005 John HoareParticipant Way back machine is one internet tool i learnt from you John, and in my music worlds its been vital, not least because we spent years building a web site then it went down after fans fell out about its future, those that carried on recovered years of work that would have otherwise been lost. Nice article the internet like life suffers from “things aint what they used to be” This is excellent. There’s sadly bits of G&T which have fallen by the wayside which the Wayback Machine rescues. Although that’s due to my own incompetence rather than any falling out. Which makes it worse, really. June 2, 2016 at 11:10 am #214006 John HoareParticipant Anyway, latest Dirty Feed piece, linking together Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Monty Python: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/06/who-framed-michael-eisner/ July 19, 2016 at 7:15 am #214211 John HoareParticipant For those that don’t follow me on Twitter – I’ve been posting lots of shorter entries on Dirty Feed this month as a little experiment, rather than one bigger article every month or so. There’s no one piece that stands out, but if you like the little things I’m obsessed with, it might be worth scrolling down the front page and seeing if anything catches your eye. August 1, 2016 at 12:00 pm #214347 John HoareParticipant The only article ever to spend time comparing Quatermass and Mrs Brown’s Boys: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/08/mammy-gets-the-snip/ August 1, 2016 at 9:57 pm #214357 pfmParticipant I actually got a little emotional over Brendan’s speech about comedy at the end of the live episode… August 6, 2016 at 7:00 pm #214448 John HoareParticipant An article which looks to be my usual kind of Twitter nonsense… and then turns rather odd about halfway through. http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/08/a-guide-to-social-media/ August 8, 2016 at 4:35 pm #214466 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Excellent. A sneak peek at Dave’s new commission: “John Hoare’s Modern Life is Shitish”. August 8, 2016 at 9:29 pm #214473 John HoareParticipant Excellent. A sneak peek at Dave’s new commission: “John Hoare’s Modern Life is Shitish”. aka the next five DwarfCasts. August 9, 2016 at 12:32 am #214474 siParticipant Excellent. A sneak peek at Dave’s new commission: “John Hoare’s Modern Life is Shitish”. Ish? August 24, 2016 at 8:35 pm #214607 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked John, excellent observations and commentaries as usual. I must ask, do you have an interest in teletext? There’s a great resurgence in the medium, spearheaded by the aptly named Teefax, built around the Raspberry Pi and able to be viewed through a bog-standard CRT for that authentic don’t sit too close to the telly atmosphere. August 25, 2016 at 8:43 am #214622 Ben PaddonParticipant Does John like Teletext? Well, when my then-girlfriend and I crashed in John and Tanya’s front room during a stay in England some seven years ago (and very kind and gracious they were to have us for those nights, thanks again!) when we arrived they were, if memory serves, watching old Ceefax archives. Recreationally. August 25, 2016 at 8:47 am #214624 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked Well there was a war on, you have to do something with your nights if you have flat feet. August 30, 2016 at 8:13 pm #214788 John HoareParticipant Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Yes, I do have an interest in teletext – I used to be a BBC Micro nut, which included a teletext mode. I once considered doing a redesign of Dirty Feed based around the look of teletext, but dismissed it as more trouble than it was worth. Would have been fun, though… August 30, 2016 at 9:38 pm #214792 cwickhamParticipant John, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this page, but if you haven’t I’m sure it’d be of interest to you: http://simpsonsarchive.com/guides/dvdguide.html August 31, 2016 at 6:02 am #214796 John HoareParticipant John, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this page, but if you haven’t I’m sure it’d be of interest to you: http://simpsonsarchive.com/guides/dvdguide.html I clearly *should* have seen this, but hadn’t! Fantastic stuff, thank you. August 31, 2016 at 7:29 am #214797 cwickhamParticipant BTW: Although it’s not been updated in a few years, I contacted the guy running it a month or two ago with some information and he’s still around and hoping to bring it up to date at some point soon. August 31, 2016 at 11:03 am #214810 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked It appears the next great race is on – To assemble the definitive Simpsons cuts. September 6, 2016 at 5:32 pm #215475 John HoareParticipant How the famous Blockbusters title sequence was made: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/09/blade-runner-afternoons/ Bonus DWARF points: a certain “Peter C Tyler” is credited for the photos, and as lighting cameraman on the sequence! September 6, 2016 at 9:47 pm #215484 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked You are doing God’s work, seriously. I was recently watching that very title sequence and thinking it how well it would still stand up if they were able to pull the original negs and transfer it to HD. September 6, 2016 at 9:58 pm #215486 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked While we’re at it, John, if you can procure a stereo version of Jeff Wayne’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ theme, I’m going to buy you several pints at DJ XIX. I need it for… reasons. Also, a full length Fourscore would be a charming addition as well. September 6, 2016 at 10:12 pm #215487 Ben PaddonParticipant Bonus DWARF points: a certain “Peter C Tyler” is credited for the photos, and as lighting cameraman on the sequence! September 7, 2016 at 6:43 pm #215508 Tanya JonesParticipant Ben; I believe it was actually our DVD with recreations of old ITV start-ups, but we’ve both watched Ceefax for fun before. September 7, 2016 at 9:50 pm #215520 Ben PaddonParticipant Oh yes, so it was! Not judging, by the way. I love it when people are passionate about niche aspects of stuff, and the way you and John love and scrutinize TV – all of it, not just the shows but scheduling, and transmission breaks, and Ceefax, and bumpers, and all that other stuff people don’t really think about – is one of my favorite things about you two, and one of the things I find so endearing about you both. September 7, 2016 at 11:08 pm #215528 Ian SymesKeymaster I think they’re both tedious cunts. September 7, 2016 at 11:14 pm #215529 Kris CarterParticipant I think, EVERYBODY’S right, so just forget I said anything, okay? September 8, 2016 at 12:01 pm #215548 Pete Tranter’s SisterBlocked Being called an absolute fucking idiot by John was a genuine pleasure. He plays the ball, not the man. October 30, 2016 at 2:17 pm #217724 John HoareParticipant Right, now I’ve hopefully finished DYING, back to usual on Dirty Feed. Like picking apart documentaries from 2005, because reasons: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/10/name-something-documentary-makers-should-avoid/ October 30, 2016 at 2:37 pm #217728 (deleted)Participant Nice. Always thought that there’s another untold story somewhere in that “turkey” incident. Weird reminder of late-90s Carlton though – I had to spend several hours in the lobby of Carlton in late 1997 as my dad was appearing in the audience of some pseudo-The-Time-The-Place shit or other (he’d jump through fire every time Action Time’s contestant bookers rang him on the offchance he could get his face on the TV), and as there was a free hotel and chauffeured transport provided I’d been able to go as a +1, but it emerged that I wasn’t allowed in the studio audience. Anyway, an exhausting 3-4 hours sat in Carlton’s lobby without a book or even a screen of the studio feed to look at – the atmosphere in that fucking place still gives me the creeps now. People looking like death, people shouting and stressing out – not for one second did I feel safe and I couldn’t wait to get out of the shithole. Even now if I ever see the endcap I get the shivers. It occurs to me now that it’s very possible David Cameron was sat elsewhere in the building. And a lot of things suddenly make sense. October 30, 2016 at 9:35 pm #217746 John HoareParticipant Yeah, I always feel there’s a few gaps about the incident which I’m really tempted to attempt to fill in, but may be distasteful to do so. Fucking Carlton. They ruined my beloved Central. I’m still genuinely bitter about it. I honestly believe if Central had been the ones to team up with Granada and take over the ITV network, television would have been a lot better off. Not perfect, not some imagined glory days… but better than we got. November 5, 2016 at 4:39 pm #218097 John HoareParticipant For anyone who wants a long self-indulgent rambling blogpost self-analysising Dirty Feed until it retains no joy or magic whatsoever: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/11/independent-blogs/ For anyone who wants something more interesting: I hear if you type “boobies” or “big willies” into Google you get some great sites, but I’ve not tried it myself. November 14, 2016 at 4:30 pm #218372 John HoareParticipant Hi-de-Hi!’s recent BBC Two broadcast of Series 1, compared to the 2003 DVD release: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/11/hi-de-hi-edits-2/ November 28, 2016 at 5:03 pm #218690 John HoareParticipant I’ve been writing various things over the past few weeks, but linking to every single thing in this thread would be tedious for everyone concerned, so I try to mainly keep it to TV-related articles in here. Some of you might be interested in my latest internet archeology piece, though: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/11/ghosts-of-internet-past/ November 29, 2016 at 11:29 pm #218701 flanl3Participant I must say, The Rad Project was an amazing read. December 3, 2016 at 6:26 pm #218734 John HoareParticipant I must say, The Rad Project was an amazing read. Hooray! Somebody else thinks so! I love it so much. Meanwhile, if you’re reading this on Saturday night, it seems an appropriate time to look back on Bob Monkhouse dealing with the lottery going tits up – nearly 20 years ago to the day: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/12/network/ December 3, 2016 at 7:51 pm #218737 Ben PaddonParticipant Fab post, John. December 4, 2016 at 9:04 am #218741 John HoareParticipant Cheers Ben. Much appreciated. December 4, 2016 at 5:54 pm #218745 Ben PaddonParticipant No, seriously. I haven’t said much else because I have nothing substantial to say, but I’ve now re-read it four times. December 4, 2016 at 8:57 pm #218748 John HoareParticipant Oh, I wasn’t being sarcastic, promise! I’m really glad you liked it! I had to write that one in a rush when I realised it really needed to be published that Saturday, or not at all. Sometimes they turn out shit when I do that, so I’m glad it worked… December 14, 2016 at 7:01 am #218831 John HoareParticipant lol Hi-de-Hi! said fuck http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/12/hi-de-hi-edits-3-filth-and-lewd-innuendo/ December 15, 2016 at 12:23 am #218836 cwickhamParticipant John, if I was looking for an extremely obscure ITV television series from 1991 which (as far as I can tell) was never repeated, was definitely never even released on VHS, let alone DVD, and no off-air copies are known to exist… would you say there’s any chance whatsoever of it turning up? December 15, 2016 at 3:19 pm #218845 John HoareParticipant I would say there’s always a chance. Even if it was just getting an episode or two. December 25, 2016 at 3:45 pm #218959 John HoareParticipant MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. Here’s something on the Christmas episodes of George & Mildred, and how the final episode of the show calls the programme’s own bluff: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2016/12/a-george-mildred-christmas/ January 1, 2017 at 4:38 pm #219058 John HoareParticipant Best of Dirty Feed 2016, if you want to skip the dreck and just read the mildly interesting: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2017/01/dirty-feed-best-of-2016/ January 7, 2017 at 6:19 am #219090 John HoareParticipant In defence of silly things: http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2017/01/the-world-is-burning/ January 9, 2017 at 2:02 pm #219118 Phobos And DeimosBlocked It was the bastards in power who told us they and their machinations are important in the first place. Silly things are not silly, by any measure. Never, ever let anything or anyone else corrupt or dilute what makes you happy. January 21, 2017 at 3:50 pm #219206 John HoareParticipant The story behind unbroadcast Fox game show Our Little Genius… and my own brief dalliance with the FCC. http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2017/01/our-little-genius/ January 22, 2017 at 8:31 am #219207 flanl3Participant Lovely, but you might like to know that I’m fairly certain some dates which should be listed as 2010 are presented as 2009. Specifically, you claim that 7th January 2010 and 7th January 2009 are the same day, and a couple things like that. But really, holy damn, that was a wild ride from start to finish. January 22, 2017 at 8:52 am #219208 John HoareParticipant I cannot *believe* I missed those. I checked it right through before publishing yesterday, and somehow they still managed to slip though. I’m an imbecile. Just corrected them, and added a short note at the end of the piece. Thank you! 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