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  • #202756
    Ben Kirkham
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    A few years ago, being able to talk to your idols on a regular basis would have been tricky. Now, we have Twitter. Brilliant! But it’s relentlessly spoiled by feeble-minded morons who should keep their opinions to themselves rather than directly insulting someone’s hard work.

    From Doug Naylor’s Twitter page, Oct 15th, somebody wrote:

    “People who watch Red Dwarf out of choice need to have a long hard look at themselves.”

    Doug’s reply: “Sold more Videos + DVDs than any Brit comedy. Highest ever ratings on BBC2 + Dave. An Emmy. MIMOP a fan. Maybe it’s U?”

    Then: “doesn’t change the fact that it’s shit. justin bieber sells millions of albums and people think his music’s shit.”

    Doug’s reply: “Why do people buy his music if they think it’s shit?”

    Then: “you’re missing the point. it doesn’t matter how much you’ve sold, it’s still shit.”

    *sigh*

    #202758
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    I’m beginning to understand why Steven Moffat closed his account.

    #202765
    Jo
    Participant

    I was all set to agree with you, but to be fair to the original tweeter he didn’t @reply or even # his tweet. Doug must’ve been searching for “Red Dwarf” and made the choice to reply to it.

    In the same way I (as TORDFC) got stuck in a long debate about whether RDX uses canned laughter, I corrected someone who was complaining about it after finding them in a “Red Dwarf” twitter search. It wanted to smash my head against a brick wall by the end of it, but it was entirely my own fault, I should’ve just left her to her misinformed opinion!

    #202768
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    “I was all set to agree with you, but to be fair to the original tweeter he didn’t @reply or even # his tweet. Doug must’ve been searching for “Red Dwarf” and made the choice to reply to it.”

    Ah, I see, Jo. Thank you for clearing that up. :)

    I think sometimes with social networking it’s so easy to get involved in a slanging match with someone. Internet trolls use the anonymity of their computer to hide behind. Makes you wonder if they’d have the courage to say it to the person face-to-face.

    #202769
    Ridley
    Participant

    A few years ago, being able to talk to your idols on a regular basis would have been tricky. Now, we have Twitter.

    They ignore me either way!

    Who or what is MIMOP?

    #202770
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    “Who or what is MIMOP?”

    I’ve been trying to figure this out, too. Any ideas anyone?

    #202772
    Ian Symes
    Keymaster

    Massively Irritating Man Of Pecos.

    #202773
    Jo
    Participant

    You know, mimop! Like: “I’ve lost mipea!”

    #202775
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    “Sold more Videos + DVDs than any Brit comedy”

    Surely OFAH has done better?

    Anyway biggest cunt on twitter. Ricky Gervais.

    #202776
    Nick R
    Participant

    Well Linwood Boomer produced the American pilot… so maybe it’s “Malcolm In Middle Original Producer a fan”?

    #202781
    Pongo
    Participant

    Maybe Doug should spend more time on scripts rather than Twitter. But who am I to complain? MIMOP’s a fan.

    #202782
    Seb Patrick
    Keymaster

    “Sold more Videos + DVDs than any Brit comedy”
    Surely OFAH has done better?

    Not sure about more recent DVD figures, but Dwarf was a VHS behemoth back in the day. RD and Mr Bean were the biggest selling comedy videos in the UK by quite a considerable margin from everything else.

    #202783
    NoFro
    Participant

    Does OFAH have much of an international audience?

    #202784
    Pete Part Three
    Participant

    >Who or what is MIMOP?

    I actually googled this last night as I thought I was missing something obvious. I found…nothing.

    Doug should probably stay away from the search button if he doesn’t want a slanging match with armchair critics (which, on various topics, everyone on Twitter is). The Moff was getting nasty stuff @-directed which is something else entirely.

    #202788
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    Mind you OFAH is not worth getting on dvd as it’s cut in some episodes and library music has replaced some of the soundtrack. The worst example being the music that plays when Rodney looks at Damian. Beeb can’t be arsed to pay for the rights. TV though it’s still uncut in the evening onwards.

    #202793
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    > Beeb can’t be arsed to pay for the rights.

    Yes, it’ll definitely be as simple as that.

    #202796
    Jo
    Participant

    Doug should probably stay away from the search button if he doesn’t want a slanging match with armchair critics (which, on various topics, everyone on Twitter is). The Moff was getting nasty stuff @-directed which is something else entirely.

    Don’t get me wrong, Doug gets plenty of stuff directly @replied to him too, just not in this case.

    #202798
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    ^ What else could it be?

    #202799
    StephenSimpson
    Participant

    Not surprised he’s actively looking for “Red Dwarf” opinion. But shame he took it upon himself to answer. But you can see his obvious love & passion for the show.

    #202801
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    Doug should have just ignored the guy unless it was Rob Grant fucking around.

    #202809
    Moonlight
    Participant

    That would be amazingly hilarious.

    #202842
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    What else could it be?

    There are literally dozens of other reasons the Beeb might have been unwilling or unable to license the music for the DVD release. Stop being such a testicle.

    #202844
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > There are literally dozens of other reasons the Beeb might have been unwilling or unable to license the music for the DVD release. Stop being such a testicle.

    They had no problem doing it on VII & VIII for example, even a Doctor Who episode which had a Beatles song. Stop being such a bunghole.

    #202845
    JamesTC
    Participant

    They had no problem doing it on VII & VIII for example, even a Doctor Who episode which had a Beatles song. Stop being such a bunghole.

    Yet they had problems clearing music for:
    Red Dwarf: Series V
    Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

    It is almost as if it is a complicated issue and not easily sorted out.

    Also, stop being such a testicle.

    #202846
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    CackThosePants,

    Read this. Educate yourself. Stop being a bunghole.

    And a testicle.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_licensing

    #202847
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    > They had no problem doing it on VII & VIII for example

    That was either library music, or original Goodall tracks which would’ve been owned by the BBC.

    #202864
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > That was either library music, or original Goodall tracks which would’ve been owned by the BBC.

    Deep Forest and that Pulp Fiction song are hardly library music are they? I bet the Pulp Fiction one wasn’t cheap either considering it was everywhere in the second half of the 90’s. Probably more but I can’t be arsed.

    * Don’t think I didn’t notice the 3 posts above were made in the space of 12 minutes…..

    #202865
    pfm
    Participant

    It’s from Reservoir Dogs. If that’s ‘Little Green Bag’ you’re referring to.

    #202866
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    Also it’s worth noting that at the time, VII and VIII were made under the BBC, which pay a blanket fee to the Big Four (or it the Big Three, it’s probably One now isn’t it…) in order for usage, but I know not of what happens when you wish to sell the product on DVD, but it’s one reason as to why music that would normally be expensive to license, isn’t.

    #202867
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > It’s from Reservoir Dogs. If that’s ‘Little Green Bag’ you’re referring to

    Yeh that’s it. That scene for me was Red Dwarf at it’s lowest point!

    #202868
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    It’s from Reservoir Dogs. If that’s ‘Little Green Bag’ you’re referring to.

    George Baker, we’ll put that one on the board. ‘Ba-ker’.and… bramble-picker, Don’t know where that one came from…

    #202869

    > Yeh that’s it. That scene for me was Red Dwarf at it’s lowest point!

    See ya in 10 minutes?

    #202870
    Jonathan Capps
    Keymaster

    > * Don’t think I didn’t notice the 3 posts above where made in the space of 12 minutes.

    Er, well done?

    #202871
    Mr-Stabby
    Participant

    I feel for Doug and other people like Steven Moffat. You can get all the praise in the world from hundreds of people on twitter, but it just takes one cunt to totally ruin it . By all means be critical in a constructive way, or just say you weren’t a fan, but to actively insult it AND the people who watch it makes you a special kind of douche.

    One thing i’ve noticed actually (though it’s not always the case but often is) is that people who like something or who have constructive criticism will often put ‘I thought it was great’ or ‘i think that’ whereas people who pointlessly insult something will often state their opinion as fact. ‘It was shit’ ‘That was the worst piece of TV ever made’. That kind of thing. Says something about the commenter.

    #202877
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Sigh. This is the problem with an old show coming back – you get people like CackThosePants coming into forums and making incredibly stupid blanket statements, acting as though they know everything about a subject simply because they have an opinion, and all it does it oh, now I understand why TF2 players hated the game going free-to-play.

    #202878
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    Sigh. G&T regulars never cease to amaze me…

    #202879
    clem
    Participant

    > bramble-picker, Don’t know where that one came from…

    The Big Issue! It’s like Bunty, only written by tramps.

    #202880
    Ben Paddon
    Participant

    Sigh. G&T regulars never cease to amaze me…

    Which begs the question: Why the bloody Hell do you hang out here?

    #202881
    si
    Participant

    The scintillating conversation, I suspect. ;)

    #202882
    Reece
    Participant

    The excitement and adventure and really wild things.

    #202883
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > Which begs the question: Why the bloody Hell do you hang out here?

    lol @ Reece.

    #202884
    Ben Kirkham
    Participant

    * Don’t think I didn’t notice the 3 posts above were made in the space of 12 minutes…..”

    Your point being?

    #202889
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > Your point being?

    That I noticed 3 posts in the space of 12 minutes. Duh.

    #202890

    I noticed something similar today.

    It wasn’t interesting, either.

    #202891
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > I noticed something similar today. It wasn’t interesting, either.

    Skidmarks?

    #202892

    CackThosePants has ceased to amaze me.

    #202893
    CackThosePants
    Participant

    > CackThosePants has ceased to amaze me.

    I’m not here for your entertainment. Just my own and the others in my wing.

    #202894
    Pecospete666
    Participant

    Here’s the Q&A I got with Danny
         
    Pecospete,
    Your Tweet got a reply!  
         
    Pecospete @pecospete_666 25 Oct
    @DannyJohnJules Whos the hottest babe you worked with on RD
    Danny John-Jules
    @DannyJohnJules
    @pecospete_666 Kit in the Tongue-Tied video
    09:14 PM – 25 Oct 12

         
    Pecospete,
    Your Tweet got a reply!  
         
    Pecospete @pecospete_666 25 Oct
    @DannyJohnJules Can you still catch the CHICKEN MARANGO ?
    Danny John-Jules
    @DannyJohnJules
    @pecospete_666 Blindfolded
    08:58 PM – 25 Oct 12

         
    Pecospete,
    Your Tweet got a reply!  
         
    Pecospete @pecospete_666 25 Oct
    @DannyJohnJules How many WOOFERS do you think are in the bin?
    Danny John-Jules
    @DannyJohnJules
    @pecospete_666 S*** loads
    08:55 PM – 25 Oct 12

    #202899
    si
    Participant

    Hey, Pecospete – did any of your Tweets get replies?

    #202901
    Pecospete666
    Participant

    Yes, they are there! Their’s 2 more I did not post yet about bikes and drinks. I did not see any other questions from others!

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