my father was a world war veteran and I once saw him run out our front door when a huntsman spider he was attempting to get rid of, turned on him and chased him. I hate them more than anything else in the world. I hate how people think Australia is packed with deadly creatures, but we have only snakes and spiders that are deadly and even the snakes are not everywhere. But the bloody spiders are.
"Join us for cheese wars!" The thing is, when I was a bagger at a grocery store, we were so bored we actually argued the merits of different cheeses as if it were a deep social issue that must be solved.
I mean I grew up with Grease and loved it but I totally agree. Wasn't Rizzo dumped when it was thought she was pregnant? Plus the line "Did she put up a fight?"
Yeah let's take one sentence out of context and repeat it mindlessly because we read someone else call it "problematic"! I am so righteous now! #canceleverything #worldpeaceachieved #nobelprize
@r00pea You sound positively manic. Where on earth did I say it should be cancelled? Learn the difference between an opinion and cancel culture. Or just learn to read fgs.
It was a better format wasn't it? Too much dead weight on this show now, with non-comedians and reality tv twats being invited on. Usually the best you can hope for is that one of the guests will be worth watching. It's never more and sometimes it's not even that.
@@thesprawl2361 could they get the quality of stars one on one nowadays? Used to get Phil Collins, Spike Milligan, George Melly, Peter Cook, Gervais, et al
Yes, Grease is a creepy flick, when you really dive into what's going on, but it's only a fanciful reflection of a creepy culture. I mean that if that movie is a culture's romantic ideal of itself, and it's still that creepy, then there's a lot more wrong with the world than a few questionable moments of cinema. Contrarywise, the songs are still as catchy as the measles, and so it's probably best to just sing along, and to damn the larger implications. Spiders? What kind of a goth is afraid of spiders?! My respect for Noel Fielding is undiminished, but he does lose a bit of spooky cred when he votes to have spiders locked into room 101. Toast etiquette forsooth? Who has time for such fustiness and crustiness?! Bollox to toast etiquette! My opinion, which nobody asked for whatsoever, is that Grease is actually a dream that spiders are having about what it must be like to be a human. This is why the enemy gang in the world of Grease is called "The Scorpions." Spiders imagine that humans all use butter as hair product, such as Frank's father used to do, and so they named the movie "Grease" out of their deep fascination with butter- or possibly with the flies that are attracted by butter and subsequently devoured by the spiders. (Everybody knows that spiders can never resist the allure of a butter-fed fly.) Toast etiquette might symbolize the fear that spiders have of butter shortages, were humans ever to become too fastidious about their bread-spreads. At the end of the day, I think that this whole episode of Room 101 is clearly the deluded work of paranoid spiders acting out their anxieties through imaginary humans who are obliviously acting to rain hardship upon the spider world. To this I would say the following: Lighten up, little spiders. Don't be uptight like Sandra D. Just have faith that the scorpions will always lose, and you will have lots of lovely little spider babies who will one day float away on parachutes of their own magical webbing, just like the flying car filled with sinister teenagers does at the end of your weird spider-dream movie. Remember: It's a spider's world; the rest of us just live here.
It feels like the BBC is trying to make all their comedy shows into light-entertainment shows. They start out having high-quality, funny comedian guests - and then some producer steps in behind the scenes and more and more presenters, crap politicians, reality tv stars, etc. get invited on so that they can attract the highly-coveted 'fuckwit' demographic. They did it with WILTY, which on the whole has survived the transition just about(but only just), and now they've done it with Room 101. They've given us three times as many guests as the show used to have and yet it manages to have less watchable guests than before. You have to be crap booker of guests to pull that off.
Huntsman spiders are harmless to humans and in fact all spiders are LITERALLY beneficial to humans and the only people who carry on like noel is are pathetic softcox.
The greatest upside to my divorce 5 years ago, and living on my own, is that I now get to leave the spiders alone to live happily ever after in my house. I'm no great fan of picking them up. But will if needed. Hell I'd eat one for money. (And I mean a tenner. Not anything ridiculous.) But I HATE HATE HATE flies around the house. Which are now at a minimum due to having fly eaters living with me.