Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

It's utterly retarded. Even watching it with a level of good will because my son was aping it a bit, it was still fucking dire. It doesn't help that the mainstream comedy scene here is small so you end up looking at the same twenty or thirty faces showing up on every comedy panel show- each one more fucking cuntish than the one before. But it's fair to say that Taskmaster is the worst of the lot. Awful awful television.

Maybe the worst aspect of it,  and that's very much a maybe because every single  thing that happens on it feels like the worst bit, but when the comedians do the fucking thick unfunny task the have been set, and fail naturally, and then they say "there goes my dignity!".

No,  cunt. NO! You clearly never had any dignity in the first place to allow yourself to go on that barrel scraping muck of a TV show. And yet, it's hugely popular so maybe I'm just a grumpy elitist prick, but I would rather be a grumpy elitist prick than put myself through another five minutes of that shite.

[Maggot Colony]

I can't understand how smug horseface cunts like Josh Widdicombe, Rob Beckett and Russell Howard are considered funny.

[Born of Fire]

Australian humour is either razor sharp black comedy or toe curlingly retarded, there is no in-between and there's far more of the latter than the former

[Eoin McLove]

I can't understand how smug horseface cunts like Josh Widdicombe, Rob Beckett and Russell Howard are considered funny.

Not sure who the middle cunt is but if he's mentioned next to Howard then he's surely to be avoided. Widdicomb is a one trick pony but he has his moments.

Just googled Beckett. I know his face but can't say he made much of an impression regarding his sense of humour. Not a great sign really!

[Bürggermeister]

Whichever bright spark decided to make half of Callan one-way so all the traffic which wants to go from the north of the town to the south of the town has to go onto the bypass. It's not a bypass if town traffic is forced to use it. Plus, you get all the elderly folk pulling out in front of cars doing 100 km/h and gradually accelerating to 50 or even 55, if you're lucky, before they turn back into the town at the next junction. It's very fucking dangerous.

[Emphyrio]

It's utterly retarded. Even watching it with a level of good will because my son was aping it a bit, it was still fucking dire. It doesn't help that the mainstream comedy scene here is small so you end up looking at the same twenty or thirty faces showing up on every comedy panel show- each one more fucking cuntish than the one before. But it's fair to say that Taskmaster is the worst of the lot. Awful awful television.

Maybe the worst aspect of it,  and that's very much a maybe because every single  thing that happens on it feels like the worst bit, but when the comedians do the fucking thick unfunny task the have been set, and fail naturally, and then they say "there goes my dignity!".

No,  cunt. NO! You clearly never had any dignity in the first place to allow yourself to go on that barrel scraping muck of a TV show. And yet, it's hugely popular so maybe I'm just a grumpy elitist prick, but I would rather be a grumpy elitist prick than put myself through another five minutes of that shite.

So...recommended, ya?

[Eoin McLove]

Yeah, it's actually pretty funny.

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Nice, I'll get the 21 seasons so.

[Ducky]

To be fair the FIFA launch on the Friday was harder as we were all running on fumes.

These were always the worst. Hordes of people. The mindnumbing repetitive conversations about how theres "no good games anymore" and call of duty need to go back to "boots on the ground".The inevitable uptick in controller sales/returns as rage fueled manlets smashed up their shit from losing. The few poorly adjusted freaks who would come back angrily demanding refunds because the game was released as an unfinished mess, implying that we tried to scam them...I'll never work retail again

I used to hate FIFA launch. Also hated the dickheads who'd buy only one or two games a year (usually FIFA and CoD) who'd throw a strop because we're giving them literal cents for their old FIFA. So we did a wee trick one year...

We took all the secondhand copies we had for the previous year's FIFA, piled made a neat pile (well, tower) of 360 and PS4 versions, then when anyone got pissy about why we were offering peanuts for the old one, we'd point to the stack of them and say "this is how many copies of it we already have and can't sell and we don't want more.

I also remember covering lunches of the CoD Modern Warfare 2 launch as I had a break at college that day, landed back out to college wearing a promotional t-shirt for the game, and some neckbeard almost dragged it off me and demand I give it to him.

[Goosebumples]

God yeah, I cant believe I forgot the lads who'd flip the lid when we wouldn't give them the sun and the stars for old copies of fifa  Jaysus I don't miss it in the least. I find some solace at least in the fact that the games retail suffering was fairly ubiquitous and a heap of us endured this shite 😅

[Carnage]

Surrendering their dignity is the point of Taskmaster. It's like the comedians' version of I'm A Celebrity..., watching them desperately trying to put a brave face on their humiliation is as delicious as fine wine. Fuck ye all, I love it.

Also, none of Widdecombe, Howard or Beckett are even remotely funny. A friend of mine made Russell Howard cry onstage when he out comedy-ed him at a show when he was starting out.

[Ducky]

Some of the worst people I ever dealt with in there were people who couldn't understand that despite paying 200 quid for a PS2 a decade ago, we're not going to give you the price of a PS3 for it. Had another Mammy (who were the fucking worst) go nuclear one day saying "I bet all this business is interested in is making money!". Err, yeah that's how businesses that sell non-essential items tend to work.

The only saving grace of that job was we could (within reason) listen to whatever music we wanted. Usually any sort of guitar music that wasn't metal. And even at that I'd get away with stuff like Dream Theater, Black Sabbath some of Cynic's comeback stuff. Myself and the manager every Saturday for a few months used to close the last hour out with a Faith No More album. Seattle bands were regular. Classic rock, bit of prog. Would always have a good wedge of electronic stuff on too.

[Mower Liberation Front]

I used to hate FIFA launch. Also hated the dickheads who'd buy only one or two games a year (usually FIFA and CoD) who'd throw a strop because we're giving them literal cents for their old FIFA. So we did a wee trick one year...

We took all the secondhand copies we had for the previous year's FIFA, piled made a neat pile (well, tower) of 360 and PS4 versions, then when anyone got pissy about why we were offering peanuts for the old one, we'd point to the stack of them and say "this is how many copies of it we already have and can't sell and we don't want more.

Fucking hate EA and their sports games. Every year they basically release the same game as the previous year, just with new rosters and designed to get morons pay for their Ultimate Team shit.
Yet the dickheads at Sensible have somehow still not managed to bring out a version of Sensi that was good as the original SWOS.