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Offline Mince

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Brass Eye
« on: August 21, 2007, 10:41:55 PM »
Listen to the first sentence.


Did anyone ever watch Brass Eye?
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2007, 11:36:12 PM »
Bizarre Autocue malfunction.

I suspect it was supposed to read: "Drug use among children has been on the increase almost yearly, with obvious alarm to both parents and many in education..."

I never watched the programme,so I've no idea if this might have been deliberate or not.
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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2007, 11:39:55 PM »
It was deliberate. Look at the charts in the background. It was satirising useless documentaries made merely to alarm people and get ratings.

Brass Eye
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2007, 11:46:26 PM »
Yes, I got the satire (I did watch the whole thing), but I didn't see why they needed to begin with a completely nonsensical sentence as part of the parody. Seemed an unnecessary distraction, and something more befitting the Two Ronnies.
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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2007, 11:50:27 PM »
He is satirising the fact that these documentaries state things in an alarming and emotive way that if analysed mean little or nothing. He's taking it to the extreme - all the "alarming words" and no actual meaning, or graphs that seem to show something alarming but are meaningless.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2007, 12:01:36 AM »
The graphs made me smile. The opening sentence just made me scratch my head.
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Re: Brass Eye
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2007, 12:24:13 AM »
Quote from: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on August 22, 2007, 12:01:36 AM
The opening sentence just made me scratch my head.

I felt the same way when I didn't get the joke. I also had to have someone explain it to me.
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