Tea Twitter Storm [merged]

[Sebastian Cobb]

I used to have a lovely sona metal teapot. Lost in a move sadly.

[Cuellar]

Yeah I feel for Sue too. I need to stop looking at this now:

My god :(

Twitter would be excellent right, if no one could actually see anything you tweet. You write it, hit 'tweet' and you see it on your timeline, but no one else can. Twitter auto generates likes and retweets and replies to maintain the illusion, but no one is reading it. It would keep the sort of person who thinks it's super super important busy while actually doing nothing.

Like that bit in the Armando Iannucci Show where they 'film' a Big Brother type show in a shipping container but never actually turn the cameras on.

[Barry Admin]

Sorry to correct you, but I think that was the one good bit of Gash? Or is the idea also referenced in TAIS?

[Shit Good Nose]

Twitter is a completely alien world to me - I've never signed up to it, I don't know anyone who is on it, and the only times I do look at it are whenever it's linked as part of a CaB thread.  It seems to be a place where everyone just constantly snipes at other people, situations and things.  Bewildering.

[Cuellar]

Sorry to correct you, but I think that was the one good bit of Gash? Or is the idea also referenced in TAIS?

Don't think I ever saw Gash, so it must have been in AIS too!

[Sebastian Cobb]

Twitter is a completely alien world to me - I've never signed up to it, I don't know anyone who is on it, and the only times I do look at it are whenever it's linked as part of a CaB thread.  It seems to be a place where everyone just constantly snipes at other people, situations and things.  Bewildering.

If Facebook is like a badly organised house party where people from different chapters of your life have been invited who should never be in the same room together are, twitters like that but also the entire world turned up as the bigger boys that gatecrashed it.

[mojo filters]

I used to have a lovely sona metal teapot. Lost in a move sadly.

Gong consider dramatic rewrite.

[holyzombiejesus]

Milk first.

Sick freak.

[poodlefaker]

Tea here's pretty curate's eggish.  Yorkshire Tea literally doesn't exist.  My brother sends me some proper tea a Christmas.  That's my tea-world.

All proper tea is theft, remember.

[mrpupkin]

There's nothing wrong with Yorkshire loose leaf (or, indeed, any other loose leaf you can pick up in supermarkets), but it's like second or third flush stuff.

Yeah I mean it's first pressing, or do you want to wait until everyone else has had their fun with the olives?

[bgmnts]

Twitter is a completely alien world to me - I've never signed up to it, I don't know anyone who is on it, and the only times I do look at it are whenever it's linked as part of a CaB thread.  It seems to be a place where everyone just constantly snipes at other people, situations and things.  Bewildering.

Their best content is basically the worst CaB has to offer but every single day x100000

[Buelligan]

All proper tea is theft, remember.

Top marx for that, comrade.  Heheh.

[Spoon of Ploff]

I just drink hot water these days so as not to upset anyone.

[Cuellar]

Used to live with a guy who didn't drink any hot drinks. "I don't understand them," he'd claim. "It's hot, so you let it cool down, then it's cold and disgusting"

[madhair60]

I've never had a cup of tea. Looks rank.

[Shit Good Nose]

Sorry to correct you, but I think that was the one good bit of Gash? Or is the idea also referenced in TAIS?

Don't think I ever saw Gash, so it must have been in AIS too!

I never saw Gash either, so I'm pretty sure it was in Shows (unless it was in both).

[Shit Good Nose]

If Facebook is like a badly organised house party where people from different chapters of your life have been invited who should never be in the same room together are, twitters like that but also the entire world turned up as the bigger boys that gatecrashed it.

Their best content is basically the worst CaB has to offer but every single day x100000

Sounds great - where do I sign up?

[Huxleys Babkins]

Sounds great - where do I sign up?

twitter.com

[the]

Like that bit in the Armando Iannucci Show where they 'film' a Big Brother type show in a shipping container but never actually turn the cameras on.

Don't think I ever saw Gash, so it must have been in AIS too!

I never saw Gash either, so I'm pretty sure it was in Shows (unless it was in both).

It was neither, it was in 2004: The Stupid Version.

The only vaguely similar bit from TAIS I can think of is the soap opera where nobody bothers to get to know each other.

[Barry Admin]

Thanks! I was just hunting for it to no avail, now I see why.

[Shit Good Nose]

It was neither, it was in 2004: The Stupid Version.

Top marks that man - completely forgot about it.

[studpuppet]

I think what bugs me is the people who suck the dicks of these corporate stooges who are just doing their job - and that's fair enough - but to be actually taken in by brands trying to appear humble and human and such? It makes me want to spew.

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/the-grocer-blog-daily-bread/step-by-step-how-to-un-cancel-your-fmcg-brand-on-twitter/602281.article

[Barry Admin]

I've never had a cup of tea. Looks rank.

I've never had a cup of you. You're rank.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Not up on my abbreviations and brain is slower than usual due to cold, what is Gash?

[Shit Good Nose]

Not up on my abbreviations and brain is slower than usual due to cold, what is Gash?

Trying to come up with a hilarious answer, but failing miserably so I'll leave that to someone more creative than me and give you the real answer - it was a (I think) live Armistice type show he did in the run-up to one of the elections.  I never saw it so can't say whether it was any good or not, but I know it had some poor reviews at the time.

[Cuellar]

It was neither, it was in 2004: The Stupid Version.

The only vaguely similar bit from TAIS I can think of is the soap opera where nobody bothers to get to know each other.

Whaaat.

I would have sworn on everything I hold dear that it was in TAIS.

Likewise I would have sworn that I never saw 2004: The Stupid Version

[Sebastian Cobb]

Ahh, it sounded kinda time trumpety but obvs not from the name.

[the]

Not up on my abbreviations and brain is slower than usual due to cold, what is Gash?

Gash is a satirical British television comedy created by Armando Iannucci that was broadcast each weeknight from Monday 28 April to Thursday 1 May 2003 on Channel 4 to coincide with the 2003 local elections. Written and filmed on the day of transmission, the programme was a topical review show featuring sketches, modified VT footage, talk, discussion and jokes.

     

Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4

(nb. It wasn't much cop.)

[Captain Z]

I just drink hot water these days so as not to upset anyone.

Oh? And have you stopped to consider the carbon footprint of you boiling a kettle just to heat up some water?

[Barry Admin]

The other Iannucci memory this thread brought to mind is a Facts and Fancies story, again about Big Brother. Something along the lines of a contestant chopping an onion in a ham-fisted way, which the camera zooms in on and really relishes. Then he becomes a national laughing stock and his whole life is ruined.

It made me think of a not-so-distant dystopian future where someone tops themselves after being patronised and publicly ridiculed by a brand of tea on Twitter. While Caitlin Moran cheers on and pulls that fucking face of hers.