Red Dwarf got us together!

[redhead85]

Hi all. It’s our first wedding anniversary today and I was on here remembering how it’s all down to Red Dwarf that my husband and I met in the first place almost 8 years ago.

I’d started my first day at college and knew nobody. I was walking through the quad and saw a guy wearing a Red Dwarf t-shirt, sitting on a bench with a couple of his mates. Leaping on the opportunity I walked over.

“Hey, I’m Carrie. Cool t-shirt. What do you think about the fact they’re making a movie?”

(Yeah, yeah, forgive the naivity- this was 2001 after all.)

The guy blinked. “There’s gonna be a movie?”

I sat down and we started talking about Red Dwarf and we became friends. Then got together. Then finally last year married.

Nice one Red Dwarf – thanks!

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[Ben Paddon]

I’ve watched a few episodes of Chuck, and so far I can’t get into it. I gave it a chance, though. That’s got to count for something. Right?

[ChrisM]

Definitely. I was just referring to those who dismiss a programme on the first episode. Something I’ve done myself if I’m honest.

[Steve Harris]

It’s true, I’ve been in a dark place of late, but that’s enough about Ross-on-Wye.

My post was a tad tongue-in-cheek but perhaps reflects many of my age group.

Whilst I still enjoy and partake in many activities, most of my age group friends see and discuss these activities as something they did 20-30 years ago.
These days a lot of my friends are too busy to actually get out and do something because they may miss an episode of Eastenders or the comfort of their armchairs.

I’m packing my tent and heading off for an all night party tonight (live bands, DJ’s etc), several have dropped out because the forcast is for rain tomorrow.

I dont think it’s a crisis of faith as such, more of a realisation that my age group is turning into a generation of boring old farts.

DJ for me this year is still in the balance, not because I dont want to go but we are due to go to Ireland at some stage and we cant finalise the dates due to work commitments alas.

[Ben Paddon]

No one gets old, Steve. They just get complacent. Remind your friends of this.

[Jo]

Back to the original topic. Ian and I met because of Red Dwarf… and my brother, Tom.

Tom started getting the DVDs as they were released after watching the VHS recordings that Mum had saved. When we got the series III DVD and watched Hattie’s DJ Diary I decided to see if the fan club were still planning Dimension Jump weekends. It turns out (obviously) they were and so I joined us up and we went to our first DJ in 2005 (DJXII).

Tom was a very shy 14 year old and we didn’t know anyone so we didn’t really mix much, though we still had a great time. It was only really when I got home and posted my photos on BTLi that I actually started to get to know the online community. By DJXIII I knew lots of people and met a lot of online friends for the first time IRL. I became close friends with Cappsy, Ian, Karl and Mick and started attending Dwarf meets and general boozy weekends (I met Seb as he flat shared with Cappsy) on one of these boozy weekends at the beginning of Jan 2007 Ian and I got together. We moved in together in August 2007 :o)

In March this year we adopted Cappsy and now we all live in a happy Red Dwarf household ;o)

[redhead85]

> on one of these boozy weekends at the beginning of Jan 2007 Ian and I got together. We moved in together in August 2007 :o) In March this year we adopted Cappsy and now we all live in a happy Red Dwarf household ;o)

Yay! That’s fantastic! Happy endings all round. :-)

> Hattie?s DJ Diary

That was the first year Kiran and I went to DJ together (2003). I’d gone by myself the month we got together in 2002. Kiran got the cast to sign the t-shirt he’d been wearing when we got together and Hattie loved the story and wanted to use it in the DJ diary, but we got lost on the cutting room floor. Ah well. :-)

[Ian Symes]

In addition to this, I lost my virginity at a Red Dwarf meet. Thus I win.

[Andrew]

In that instance you’re not supposed to win, you’re supposed to be aiming for a score draw.

[redhead85]

> In addition to this, I lost my virginity at a Red Dwarf meet. Thus I win.

Bwahahahhahhahahahaha. Fantastic.

(Lost mine in a field when I was 17. How (un)romantic)

[Jo]

>(Lost mine in a field when I was 17. How (un)romantic)

In the back of a white Ford XR2i when I was 16… classy bird me ;o)

[Ben Paddon]

What was it like?

[Jo]

I told you, it was white!

[redhead85]

Boom boom!

[pfm]

> Boom boom!

Well, that’s the general idea.

[Jo]

BANG… and the virginity is GONE!

[Ben Paddon]

SLAP CHOP. You’re gonna love my nuts.

[pfm]

Make me come.

[Tarka Dal]

Hold on, can I just confirm I’ve got this straight. A guy wearing a Red Dwarf T-Shirt was approached by a woman?

[redhead85]

> Hold on, can I just confirm I?ve got this straight. A guy wearing a Red Dwarf T-Shirt was approached by a woman?

Well I was only 16 at the time so I was less a woman more a girlgeek but the general principal remains the same

[The PerformingMonkey]

> Well I was only 16 at the time so I was less a woman more a girlgeek

I think ‘legal’ is the word.

[hummingbird]

Every time I see the title of this thread I think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjloX_EvYiI

All together now :
Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf got us together ….

[redhead85]

> I think ?legal? is the word.

That’s what he told the courts anyway…

[ChrisM]

Every time I see the title of this thread I think of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjloX_EvYiI

Great stuff. That brings back memories of being in the school choir…. (we covered a medley of songs called ‘Record of the Year’ that being one of them. Well a verse or two. We finished on Beat it. Thinking back it’s a bit embarrassing but it was quite fun at the time.

[Gwynnie]

Well, my first criteria for a man/woman love interest thing is liking of Red Dwarf. If they don’t like it, then they don’t get any. It might sound silly to others, but I’m sure you all understand ;)

[Carlito]

Not really. “A liking of Red Dwarf” is a little further down MY personal prerequisite list on the potential sexual liason front, below “a vagina”, “two breasts” and “a pulse”.

Actually, could take or leave that last one.

[Carlito]

Only joking. I’m not into necrophilia.

Not anymore.

Not since that court order. Somebody must have grassed me up. Darnit. I was getting away with it too until some rotten cunt split on me.

Meh. Hello, Gwynnie. That’s gotta be a Welsh name, right?

[Gwynnie]

Wow. Nice first impression. Rotten cunt… yum…
Yes, I am very much Welsh. I don’t live there now, but my parents made sure I could never escape my roots with this darned name (actually Gwyneth)!
Well, vaginas and breasts aren’t a must in a partner for me, as long as there’s cock there instead. Or even as well. I don’t discriminate, it’s all about the person. Obviously I would wait until I had decided that the person was attractive, nice and we were getting on until I slipped “so, do you like Red Dwarf?” into the conversation, not just walk through people on the street until someone said yes!

[Carlito]

Nowt wrong with being Welsh. I’m from South Wales myself. Bridgend.

Yes… THAT Bridgend.

It’s not all doom and gloom here. We’re still hanging in there. If you ever come down this way, let me know, I’ll show you the ropes.

(Actually that’s bad taste. Couple of my friends have succumbed to the media’s official ‘Suicide Town’. Still, you either gotta laugh or cry, right?)

So, what if the person was nice, attractive, had the compulsory cock/vagina/both and you were getting on brilliantly… then, one day you’re all cwtched up on the sofa watching Dave, and suddenly he/she/it bursts out with “ahhh not Red Dwarf, I hate that fucking show!”?

[Joey TORDFC]

>>on one of these boozy weekends at the beginning of Jan 2007 Ian and I got together.

Chyeah! My birthday outing at the Kingston Peel, King Lizard 4eva.

[si]

Because I don’t go out on a casual ‘saturday night down town’ kind of way, and it’s very unlikely I’m ever going to again in my current condition, as far as getting together with someone of the female persuasion goes, I have high hopes for the Saturday night disco at Dimension Jump 2010.

[Dave]

>one day you?re all cwtched up on the sofa watching Dave

Watching me do what?

[si]

>Watching me do what?

Jesus, you don’t want to know.

[Gwynnie]

>>So, what if the person was nice, attractive, had the compulsory cock/vagina/both and you were getting on brilliantly? then, one day you?re all cwtched up on the sofa watching Dave, and suddenly he/she/it bursts out with ?ahhh not Red Dwarf, I hate that fucking show!??

It would never get to that stage! I would have asked the question before ever letting them into my home, or cwtching up on a sofa with them! Honestly! :)

[The PerformingMonkey]

Wales! Butetown…the Bay…Gavin & Stacey…Ianto…and all those other things (notice I didn’t mention sheep, because that would be too obvious and uncalled for).

My girlfriend doesn’t really like Dwarf but that never stopped me from wanting to…make her listen to the series 2 commentaries for the 5th time. Or, you know, kiss her and stuff. I have to put up with Gok Wan and Desperate Housewives so she has no right to complain about Dwarf and Turtles youtube clips.

[Gwynnie]

Well, of course, things like tastes in TV programmes shouldn’t make a differnce if you really like the person. My boyfriend does not share my love for The Sims or The L Word or musicals… but Dwarf ranks above them all, and is almost an integral part of my identity now (is that sad?). Luckily he is a big geek Dwarf-wise (not enough of one to come to DJ though, grr) so I let him stick around! :)

[Carlito]

> Wales! Butetown?the Bay?Gavin & Stacey?Ianto?and all those other things (notice I didn?t mention sheep, because that would be too obvious and uncalled for).

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Wales is Butetown?? Why? If you were gonna give Wales an enema, you’d stick the hosepipe in Butetown. And get shot at whilst doing it.

If you watch the forthcoming series of Gavin & Stacey, you’ll probably see me doing a drunken dance with Rob Brydon (if it made the cut).

And even though Wales has this sheep-shagging reputation, I hardly ever see sheep anywhere. Quite frustrating, as you could imagine. (Not the reputation – the lack of sheep! Blue balls….)

[Tarka Dal]

> I hardly ever see sheep anywhere

Well they’re probably all on witness protection programmes.

[Gwynnie]

They’re all in my bedroom at the moment. Sorry, I was missing Wales.

[Pete Part Three]

>If you watch the forthcoming series of Gavin & Stacey, you?ll probably see me doing a drunken dance with Rob Brydon (if it made the cut).

See, I’d love to watch you on TV, Carl. But this would involve having to watch Gavin & Stacey.

[Carlito]

Where’s the Gavin & Stacey hate coming from at the moment? Seems to be everywhere. Other than the crap Xmas special, and the ubiquitous Horne and Corden starring in it, it’s been a pleasant enough romcom. Not spectacularly funny, but amusing and nice enough.

And Brydon and Corden were particularly interactive and nice to the SAs on the shoot. Decent peeps.

[Jonathan Capps]

> Where?s the Gavin & Stacey hate coming from at the moment?

It’s coming from a place of hate because it’s shit.

[Carlito]

I thought series one was a sweet and uplifting little show.

Series two became more of a Jones and Corden “fuck the main characters, lets spotlight ourselves” self-indulgent showcase, I suppose, though not without its own merit. The Xmas special was lame. Absolutely dire.

I’ll still defend the first series, though. Far from “shit”. Maybe not your personal cup of tea, but to call it “shit” implies that it has no artistic or creative value whatsoever on the basis of you not liking it, whereas anyone who has seen an episode should surely concur that it is not intrinsically bad television. It’s well made, the performances range from fair to fantastic (Brydon), and it has created a wave of loyal fans despite its initial hidden-away timeslot. Shows that are shit don’t garner that kind of response.

To call it “shit” implies its the kind of poorly rendered and horribly scripted show that could compete with Two Pints Of Lager or G&S’s bastard offspring, Horne And Corden. I put it to you that it isn’t.

[Trena]

I love Gavin and Stacey, even the shittier episodes have enough ‘boyo’ nature to keep it brimming with quirky little lines here and there.

[Tarka Dal]

> It?s coming from a place of hate because it?s shit.

I love you Jonathan Capps.

[Seb Patrick]

My last girlfriend was a massive Dwarf fan – it was one of the first things we talked about when we first met – but on the flipside, absolutely loathed (and indeed had a particularly annoying and condescending attitude towards) Doctor Who. Swings and roundabouts, really.

My current girlfriend isn’t really into Dwarf, but she doesn’t hate it or anything – I’m planning to try and educate her, having started with Thanks For The Memory, which she thought was quite decent. On the other hand (I got four fingers and a thumb), though, she sat through half of The Curse of Fenric and all of Blink, and thought that the former was okay, and the latter absolutely brilliant. Again: swings and roundabouts.

As long as someone didn’t outright hate RD – or at least make fun of me for being so into it, running a website and going to DJ – then I don’t think it’d bother me that much.

[Gwynnie]

Oooh, Doctor Who hate isn’t acceptable either.
My last boyfriend told me he liked Dwarf at first, but when he was getting bored of me and flirting with another girl in front of me who hated it, he said “yeah, I think it’s shit!” so that was that! Bastard.
Guh. I told people at work about DJ today and two of them said “Craig Charles – what, that rapist?” I’m going to quit that wankfest very soon.

[redhead85]

> My last boyfriend told me he liked Dwarf at first, but when he was getting bored of me and flirting with another girl in front of me who hated it, he said ?yeah, I think it?s shit!? so that was that! Bastard.

Double reason to punch the fucker out.

When I was pissed at a networking event, I was asking my rep at the Times if he liked Red Dwarf and said I would only do business with him if he did. He began throwing quotes at me so I’m pleased that he was a bona fide fan and not just after my budget

[hummingbird]

> he was a bona fide fan and not just after my budget

I bet he says that to all the girls

[redhead85]

Nudge nudge wink wink. Say no MORE!

[The PerformingMonkey]

> It?s coming from a place of hate because it?s shit.

Oh, roll around in some nettles until you perish.

I will say I agree that they went overboard with Nessa and Smithy in the later episodes, maybe due to them writing it but also because they obviously thought ‘this is what people want’

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