29/02/2008 by orientfan.

I have been discussing something with lil’ Miss OrientFan [tm. pat. pend.] this evening. We both came across it [so to speak] at different times. And, dear readers, take some time out to look it up yourself. Wikpedia is an accurate source of info on this ‘last section - Nationalisation’

Basically, all the ‘good’ mortgage book has been passed on to a mysterious organisation called “Granite” that is supposedly a charitable trust but has never donated any money to the charity it is supposed to help. Unless the decent mortgage book continues to be passed on to Granite they can call in their £45 billion pound loan to Northern Rock.

For once, I’m going to make you do the work. I’ve read enough tonight on this, it is outrageous and apart from Channel 4 news mentioning it about a week ago, has not been mentioned once on mainstream news.

So WE are funding the offshore company. FFS, I was bad at handling finances [and on Tuesday discovered I had transferred more than I thought to Egg so have no food money, one pack of fags and had my last three cans of Stella tonight], but this is an absolute disgrace. What is the Government doing, anyone would think that there are members of the government with some sort of interest in Granite. I, obviously, do not think that. I don’t exactly have teams of lawyers I can pay for

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28/02/2008 by orientfan.

I forgot to mention that episode 1 was the pilot and does not have the outstanding opening title sequence or outrageously good music. Nice to see ITV1 didn’t censor any of it, as much as I could tell. Well, I hope you liked it and if you are unsure, please just stick with the next couple of episodes.

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21/02/2008 by orientfan.

Huge congrats from OrientFan Towers to Dee and Paul who have announced their engagement. I shall raise a glass to you both.

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16/02/2008 by orientfan.

ITV1 - 22:35 on Wednesday 27th February and weekly thereafter.

Don’t expect to get hooked after the first episode, it’s good but there is a lot of scene setting to do. I would be most surprised if, after episode three, you aren’t frantically searching torrent sites for all the episodes of season 1, then season 2. Large will back me up on this, excellent individual episodes, a great story arc, beautifully dark humour and possibly the best theme tune to a programme ever.

One for my Dad’s V+ box I think.

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09/02/2008 by orientfan.

I have removed this post. Phoning people and any form of real-time communication is better than posting that sort of stuff. It was cathartic, I’ll give it that and taught me a thing or two. I’m going to take a break from posting for a while.

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02/02/2008 by orientfan.

The following was posted in a forum I frequent. Permission was asked for and given to reproduce it here. Enjoy:

<<< One New Year's Eve (I think I was 14), I was at home watching the crap end of year shows on the telly. My dad had gone to the pub and my mum had fallen asleep on the sofa, so I decided to avail myself of the remaining Christmas booze. Eight cans of Special Brew and half a bottle of sherry later, I pass out. At 5am, I wake up and find myself on the sofa, in a pair of pyjamas I didn't know existed and covered in the dog's blanket. My mum was sitting on the other side of the room, having stayed up to watch over me and make sure I was still breathing.

She'd found me naked and comatose on the downstairs toilet, with every bodily fluid known to man in the bowl beneath me (as for some reason, I'd decided to block the U-bend with an unopened can of lager before being sick and going to the toilet). I'd also emptied four packets of Wotsits into the sink.

She reached for the loo roll to try and clean me up, but realised it was missing. This was because I had decided to unravel it on the kitchen floor and pour ketchup and brown sauce all over it. The spring for this loo roll holder was hanging from a light fitting in my bedroom upstairs.

However, by far the worst part of the story was that I had set up the video camera on my parent's bedside table, pointing at the bed and set to record. Which must have been lovely for them to find. I have no idea what was on the tape (I hope they burnt it immediately) and don't think I want to find out. >>>

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01/02/2008 by orientfan.

Needs sound

BBC Radio prank dedication

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