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Paul Lavers calls Nicole Kidman a lesbian on Friendly TV (Sky EPG 268).

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David Lees

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May 25, 2003, 3:55:02 PM5/25/03
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Whoops.

Read the article here... http://tinyurl.com/cmz8
(http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/victorlewissmith/victorlewissmithhidden/
page.cfm?objectid=12992861&method=full&siteid=50143)

and then read my site here which includes the pictures and audio....
http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/

As me and Victor Lewis Smith were both watching on that day then I can only
assume that it must have been their best day as far as viewing figures are
concerned.


rachel

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May 25, 2003, 3:52:57 PM5/25/03
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"David Lees" <ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yeah, read the VLS article in Saturday's Mirror.
He couldn't quite bring himself to saying it all could he?

O/T Did you also read what he said about celebrity chefs?
He /might/ get into trouble for the Ainsley comments........


David Lees

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May 25, 2003, 4:31:50 PM5/25/03
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"rachel" <rachel...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "David Lees" <ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:e1f23702c30c5223...@news.teranews.com...
> > Whoops.
> >
> > Read the article here... http://tinyurl.com/cmz8
> >
>
(http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/victorlewissmith/victorlewissmithhidden/
> > page.cfm?objectid=12992861&method=full&siteid=50143)
> >
> > and then read my site here which includes the pictures and audio....
> > http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/
> >
> > As me and Victor Lewis Smith were both watching on that day then I can
> only
> > assume that it must have been their best day as far as viewing figures
are
> > concerned.
> >
>
> Yeah, read the VLS article in Saturday's Mirror.
> He couldn't quite bring himself to saying it all could he?

It was to make it sound worse than it was IMHO. If you quote someone as
saying "I invited the vicar round for *** and when he came he spilt *** all
over my ***** carpet" it sounds much worse than quoating them as saying "I
invited the vicar round for tea and when he came he spilt tea all over my
new carpet". Although VLS seems to be either quoting from memory or just
making it up when he wrote that article because some of the quotes are just
wrong. In one of the quotes he uses astrixes to censor the words 'Betty
Both'. Why?

> O/T Did you also read what he said about celebrity chefs?
> He /might/ get into trouble for the Ainsley comments........

No, I didn't. I will do now though.


NJJH

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May 25, 2003, 8:13:55 PM5/25/03
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 19:55:02 GMT, "David Lees"
<ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> wrote:

>Whoops.
>
>Read the article here... http://tinyurl.com/cmz8
>(http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/victorlewissmith/victorlewissmithhidden/
>page.cfm?objectid=12992861&method=full&siteid=50143)
>
>and then read my site here which includes the pictures and audio....
>http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/

Which, for the sake of future generations and current generations with
past-generation modems, I have transcribed. And written a brief
article about. Which is just introductory. The VLS is obviously
better.

Link:
http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/archive/00000024.htm
or http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/

Worth listening to or reading. It's much more than just the lesbian
slander moment. If you've ever wondered how presenters of channels
that nobody watch really feel about their jobs, it's revelatory.

NJJH

David Lees

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May 25, 2003, 10:00:24 PM5/25/03
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"NJJH" <ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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Thanks for that. Its everything my page should have been. I have linked to
your page now too. BTW, is there any chance that you could also host the
MP3 as I don't know how long my bandwidth will hold out. Feel free to make
it smaller if you want. I did try but the results were not too good due to
the nature of what it is.

For completeness sake, that show was from Monday 19th May 2003.

Also, on Thursday May 27th 2003 another weird exchange tock place. I have
MP3ed it. Feel free to use it...
http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/kidman2.mp3


Brian Watson

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May 26, 2003, 2:21:35 AM5/26/03
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"NJJH" <ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Link:


> http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/archive/00000024.htm
> or http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/
>
> Worth listening to or reading. It's much more than just the lesbian
> slander moment.

If it's true, it's not slander.

Revelatory, certainly, but not slander.

:-)

OTOH, does it really matter a damn whether she prefers gals to guys or is as
easy with either?

What IS news is that someone has actually been able to get through the "ooh,
mustn't say that!" culture of today's censored and unexciting television.

It is, as was said here recently, controlled to a ridiculous extent that has
less to do with truth than it does to do with ratings and teasing the viewer
into believing that they are privy to something that is, in fact, just a bit
of publicist-created tittle-tattle.

--
Brian
"There is nothing so gratifying as being good in a good play. To be good in
a bad one is frustrating, to be bad in a good one devastating and an actor
always knows, even if he pretends he does not" - Mary Ellis (1987-2003)


Ant

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May 26, 2003, 5:25:48 AM5/26/03
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 20:31:50 GMT, "David Lees"
<ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> Although VLS seems to be either quoting from memory or just
>making it up when he wrote that article because some of the quotes are just
>wrong. In one of the quotes he uses astrixes to censor the words 'Betty
>Both'. Why?

Because if the Mirror repeated the libel then they'd get sued as well.

David Lees

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May 26, 2003, 9:43:12 AM5/26/03
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"Ant" <A...@0spam.want.no.spam.zzz> wrote in message
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Wouldn't the quotation marks save them? The Mirror, like other tabloids,
have certainly printed things that aren't true with quotation marks around
them in the past. The whole Matthew Wright/John Leslie thing being the
perfect example.


David Lees

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May 26, 2003, 9:47:24 AM5/26/03
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"Brian Watson" <br...@spheroid.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "NJJH" <ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:irm2dvc73s5dns1sk...@4ax.com...
> > Link:
> > http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/archive/00000024.htm
> > or http://wave.prohosting.com/tvtoday/
> >
> > Worth listening to or reading. It's much more than just the lesbian
> > slander moment.
>
> If it's true, it's not slander.
>
> Revelatory, certainly, but not slander.
>
> :-)
>
> OTOH, does it really matter a damn whether she prefers gals to guys or is
as
> easy with either?

Thats not really the point. The point is that Friendly TV left the mics up,
which is not something you hear everyday on TV. I personaly couldn't care
less what Nicole Kidman does.

> What IS news is that someone has actually been able to get through the
"ooh,
> mustn't say that!" culture of today's censored and unexciting television.

Purely by accident and they only got away with it because "no one watches
that channel".


NJJH

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May 26, 2003, 1:16:05 PM5/26/03
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On Mon, 26 May 2003 02:00:24 GMT, "David Lees"
<ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> wrote:

I can't host it due to *my* crappy hosting (am aiming to get this
sorted out soon) but as the file is speech only I've been able to
reduce it to around 500 kb with very little loss of usability. If you
download Nullsoft Diskwriter for Winamp and write the file as a
16kbit/s 8khz mono mp3 file you should get the same result.

>For completeness sake, that show was from Monday 19th May 2003.

Thankyou. It was a bit spurious without a date (Digital Spy is
suggesting it's all a Chris Morris spoof anyway)

>Also, on Thursday May 27th 2003 another weird exchange tock place. I have
>MP3ed it. Feel free to use it...
>http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/kidman2.mp3

OK Thanks. I'll get this up ASAIC. Can I also use your screencaps?

NJJH

Brian Watson

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May 26, 2003, 2:24:19 PM5/26/03
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"NJJH" <ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >Also, on Thursday May 27th 2003 another weird exchange tock place. I
have
> >MP3ed it. Feel free to use it...
> >http://www.winsurfers.com/kidman/kidman2.mp3

He really doesn't seem to want to stay working for this station, does he?

Hilarious!

:-))

--
Brian
"After I'm dead I'll probably be a cult and they'll have entire seasons of
me at the National Film Theatre. Thank God I won't have to watch them
all." - Dame Wendy Hiller


Barris

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May 26, 2003, 3:07:36 PM5/26/03
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On Sun, 25 May 2003 19:55:02 GMT, "David Lees"
<ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> announced:

>Whoops.

Damn! 'Friendly TV' - I missed that one. Whats thats about then? Is it
any good? Is it the same Paul Lavers from shopping TV fame? Damn, has
he got a chat show or something on there?

Kidman is worse than a lesbian, she shags midgets.

NJJH

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May 26, 2003, 3:25:29 PM5/26/03
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On Mon, 26 May 2003 19:08:13 +0100, Cannabis Coffee Shops
<nn...@cannabiscoffeeshops.co.uk.INVALID> wrote:

><uk.media.tv.misc , NJJH , ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk>


>
>> I can't host it due to *my* crappy hosting (am aiming to get this
>> sorted out soon)
>>
>

>www.triffik.net is worth a look , 1GB transfer a month for £3.50 and so
>far any support question i've asked has got a prompt helpful reply .

Well I seem to get 3 for free at the moment with Prohosting. What I
need to get around to doing is getting a domain. Who's the best
reseller of .co.uk domains? There are so many, and very little to
choose between them. I'm essentially looking for a reasonably cheap
one. (Combined with hosting if possible).

NJJH

Michael Price

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May 26, 2003, 3:43:54 PM5/26/03
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NJJH wrote:
> Well I seem to get 3 for free at the moment with Prohosting. What I
> need to get around to doing is getting a domain. Who's the best
> reseller of .co.uk domains? There are so many, and very little to
> choose between them. I'm essentially looking for a reasonably cheap
> one. (Combined with hosting if possible).

123-reg (http://www.123reg.co.uk) are 99% likely to be the cheapest - plus
they give you full control over where your domain goes afterwards
(nameservers, mail forwarding etc.)

I think they also provide hosting packages through the parent company, Host
Europe.
--
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NJJH

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May 26, 2003, 4:34:26 PM5/26/03
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On Mon, 26 May 2003 20:43:54 +0100, "Michael Price"
<antisp...@cyberscore.net> wrote:

>NJJH wrote:
>> Well I seem to get 3 for free at the moment with Prohosting. What I
>> need to get around to doing is getting a domain. Who's the best
>> reseller of .co.uk domains? There are so many, and very little to
>> choose between them. I'm essentially looking for a reasonably cheap
>> one. (Combined with hosting if possible).
>
>123-reg (http://www.123reg.co.uk) are 99% likely to be the cheapest - plus
>they give you full control over where your domain goes afterwards
>(nameservers, mail forwarding etc.)
>
>I think they also provide hosting packages through the parent company, Host
>Europe.

Most of the hosting packages I've seen are somewhat more expensive
than I'd like - but they also contain features that I would never use.

All I need is Perl CGI on a UNIX server and FTP access. And it has to
be one of those proper domain hosts, not one of the ones which
redirects the domain you bought to a subdomain of their own. (in case
I haven't made myself clear then, I mean like what happens when you go
to http://www.thedailybriefing.co.uk). The ability to configure
subdomains would also be nice.

Ideally I'd like a reliable but spare service providing what I
mentioned above, with the *option* of adding on PHP, SQL, etc, later
on. Hopefully this way I could also save money.

123-reg look a good bet for the domain, though; they seem to have the
UK Online seal of approval.

NJJH

Paul O'Brien

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May 27, 2003, 2:57:17 PM5/27/03
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In message <40571c09aa8d8ba5...@news.teranews.com>, David
Lees <ne...@davidlees.f9.co.uk> writes

>
>Wouldn't the quotation marks save them?

Nope. As a general rule, you can't just repeat a libel and get away
with it by saying that it's true that somebody said it.

--
Paul O'Brien
THE X-AXIS - http://www.thexaxis.com
ARTICLE 10 - http://www.ninthart.com

T minus 3.

David Lees

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May 27, 2003, 3:47:03 PM5/27/03
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"NJJH" <ni...@turnips.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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Yep, as long as you host them. I got a warning from my host this morning.


Paul O'Brien

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May 27, 2003, 4:51:52 PM5/27/03
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In message <batm4j$s74$1$8302...@news.demon.co.uk>, Brian Watson
<br...@spheroid.demon.co.uk> writes

>
>He really doesn't seem to want to stay working for this station, does
>he?

Would anyone? This is a station so incompetent that their website -
http://www.friendlytv.com - has a link to the payroll on the front page.

(It's under the "Our Affiliates" sidebar. Yes, okay, it asks for a
password - but still.)

Brian Watson

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May 28, 2003, 1:37:11 AM5/28/03
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"Paul O'Brien" <pa...@esoterica.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <batm4j$s74$1$8302...@news.demon.co.uk>, Brian Watson
> <br...@spheroid.demon.co.uk> writes
> >
> >He really doesn't seem to want to stay working for this station, does
> >he?
>
> Would anyone? This is a station so incompetent that their website -
> http://www.friendlytv.com - has a link to the payroll on the front page.
>
> (It's under the "Our Affiliates" sidebar. Yes, okay, it asks for a
> password - but still.)

Ah, satellite TV! Doncha just love it - stations come, stations go, but Paul
Lavers goes on forever!

:-))

Barris

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May 28, 2003, 1:44:39 AM5/28/03
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On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:37:11 +0100, "Brian Watson"
<br...@spheroid.demon.co.uk> announced:


>Ah, satellite TV! Doncha just love it - stations come, stations go, but Paul
>Lavers goes on forever!
>
>:-))

Perhaps Paul Lavers is 'God'.

Discuss.


Brian Watson

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May 28, 2003, 2:22:08 AM5/28/03
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"Barris" <Bar...@new-path.com> wrote in message
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No. In that case he would be moving in wondrous ways, his thingamabobs to
perform.

In Paul's case, he's mooching about in the outer environs of iffy TV.

Not the same thing at all.

:-)

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