Saturday Night Takeaway 2018

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Larry the Loafer 10 March 2018 11:36pm

I hate Twitter users, but I also hate tabloid journalists. But which is worse? There's only one way to f-

Oh. They don't make that show anymore.

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gordonthegopher 10 March 2018 11:58pm

Andrew posted:

This Great Britain business has caused a stir on Twitter. Half the people think Ant and Dec are wrong, half the people think they are making some sort of political statement wading into Northern Irish politics. Half the people think they meant to say that Southern Ireland isn’t part of Britain.

I bet they would have been best just saying ‘Battle of Britain’ as the pedants on the opposite side would have been less aggressive.

I know its not the double B of Battle of Britain but Battle of the United Kingdom would have done!

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RDJ 11 March 2018 12:06am

gordonthegopher posted:

I bet they would have been best just saying ‘Battle of Britain’ as the pedants on the opposite side would have been less aggressive.
I know its not the double B of Battle of Britain but Battle of the United Kingdom would have done!

Precisely.

'Sofawatch - Battle of the UK'.

It's not difficult. I don't quite get what all the N.I. statement business was all about.

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A former member 11 March 2018 12:26am

* The biggest island of British isles is Great Britain
* Ireland is part of the British isles
* We live in United kingdom of Great britain and Northern ireland, which is explain on the above

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p_c_u_k 11 March 2018 12:44am

Bless them. I'm a pedant so I normally hate it when Britain is used as a catch-all for the UK, but I have to say tackling the issue in a light-hearted skit on a Saturday night shiny-floor TV show is "brave"*.

* Mad.

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Inspector Sands 11 March 2018 4:53am

davidhorman posted:

Oh they got the joke, it's just they have to turn absolutely everything they can that appears on TV into clickbait. It's an absolute mire.

Yes, low paid online 'journalists' that have to churn out x number of stories a day with no budget produce that kind of nonsense

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Inspector Sands 11 March 2018 4:55am

623058 posted:

* Ireland is part of the British isles

I'm sure a lot of people on Ireland would disagree with that

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TVViewer256 11 March 2018 7:06am

RDJ posted:

Pretty sure I heard a rogue audience member shouting 'Gamble' tonight during Stay or Play. Dec didn't appear to look impressed by it.

They did. Dec gave them a very dirty look

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A former member 11 March 2018 9:16am

Inspector Sands posted:

623058 posted:

* Ireland is part of the British isles

I'm sure a lot of people on Ireland would disagree with that

Then said people Would be silly. Isle of man is part of British isle but isn't run by westminter. Of course Ireland ref to the island and not the two counties.

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noggin Founding member 11 March 2018 10:58am

623058 posted:

* Ireland is part of the British isles

That's an incredibly contentious definition - and not universally accepted by any means. Many consider the island of Ireland to NOT be part of the British Isles, and using the term to include Ireland is very politically loaded to this day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute gives you some of the background. It's a minefield and definitely not a term that is used on-air significantly.

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A former member 11 March 2018 12:51pm

YET Its the correct term. It doesn't make it less true, IF Scotland become independent it will STILL be part of the british isle

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Larry the Loafer 11 March 2018 1:41pm

Can we not leave this discussion to Twitter?

(February 2018)