The Inbetweeners: So, has anyone done this yet
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The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Your right!
I brought mine a couple of years back in HMV for about £4
I can’t believe it’s so expensive, there’s one going on Ebay for £80!!! Maybe after 10 years people have realized it’s brilliance?
The quote about buses is completely untrue - although I admit it sounds like something she'd say.
See here for further explanation
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Margaret_Thatcher
I'd not heard the Australian quote before - that doesn't sound much like her, she had no love of sport. Perhaps it was Dennis Thatcher who said it.
The bus quote is nonsense though - even her own cabinet didn't believe in it (I know this as I was on bus next to Michael Portillo once).
I do use buses, and I walk. (a bad back prevents cycling up hills). And I DO think of the Thacher (or apparently non-Thatcher) quote every time I find myself on a 26 or 46. However when there's four of you, all 16+ (and all expecting ME to pay) then the car is cheaper. Much cheaper. Plus you're not lining the pockets of a private company. And don't get me STARTED on a balanced transport strategy for Brighton.
Sadly I can't remember where I read the buses one originally - but I still like it. The cricket one was a report of what she'd said once when visiting a school and news came through that we'd beaten the Aussies in a one-dayer. Again I can't remember where or when I read that. It was one of those 'where were you when we beat the Aussies' kind of stories.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Because it means you can go directly to your destination without stopping and you don't have to share the journey with kids/people talking on the mobiles saying "i'm on the bus"/ students talking in funny languages / drunk people that smell or load noisy types.
That will do for starters.
The two aren't completely unconnected. The clip (brilliant BTW) shows people in a car taking the piss out of a load of saddos, sorry, environmentally conscious citizens, waiting for the arrival of a bus. You wait, in a few years that will be a hate crime.
That's a different thing from not being on a bus. The price of public transport is shockingly high and we'll never get widespread use while it's so much cheaper to go by car (although I think it's fair enough that it's cheaper for four people to go by car - it's when it's cheaper for two people that it's really skewed).
It's interesting how that buses quote becoming accepted as Thatchers, even though it's now widely accepted that it was. Similar to Blair's 'quote' about watching Jackie Milburn at the Gallowgate end - a completely fabricated statement but one widely attributed to Blair, I suspect for reasons similar to the Thatcher quote - it sounds like the sort of thing that he'd say.
Normally these attributed quotes come down through history - such as Voltaire's "I'll defend to the death" one but Thatcher and Blair's became accepted in the public domain very quickly.
In all seriousness I agree - and pricing-wise trains are worse. Before we go WILDLY off-topic I must admit my antipathy towards Brighton buses is largely political inasmuch as they're provided by a private company, and a monopoly at that. The Go Ahead group doesn't exist to help us get around Brighton - it exists to make a profit for its shareholders and charging as much as it can get away with is the way it fulfils that objective. And it pisses me off that the Council, enthusiastically supported by a few 'useful idiots', help them get away with it. Brighton gets money from car parking, so it would actually help the city more if we all abandoned the buses and drove into town. (Not sure how much Go Ahead pay us for the bus rights, if it's more than we make in car parking then the pro-bus lobby might have a case).
Anyway, Inbetweeners is BRILLIANT, certainly when compared with a lot of other dross that passes for British 'comedy'.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Are you on the right thread
The first series was only made in 2008
I was refering to the 'Orible boxset.
- Jan 7, 2006
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£5 in HMV - offer was on for months, although I'm not 100% sure if it is still running now
Amazon have it for £7.98
The Inbetweeners [DVD] [2008]: Amazon.co.uk: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Greg Davies, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Martin Trenaman, Emily Head, Robin Weaver, John Seaward, Emily Atack, Rob Kitzmann, Gordon Anderson, Christopher Young, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, Piers Read: DVD
Amazon also have Series 1 & 2 for £17.88 combined
The Inbetweeners - Series 1-2 - Complete DVD 2008: Amazon.co.uk: Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, Emily Head, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Greg Davies, Gordon Anderson: DVD
I use busses since selling my car due to paying for a permit (after waiting 18months for) tax, insurabce, mot's etc........but living by 7 dials i can walk,bus most places with ease. i will soon be punching a mp3 wearing a too toud set of tinny headphones wanker
Whitterz
Mmmmm? Marvellous
Are you on the right thread
The first series was only made in 2008
2007 actually
Whitterz
Mmmmm? Marvellous
albeit not aired till 2008
Spider
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- Sep 15, 2007
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Marc1901
Peace out.
yes me and my mates done it all the way back from huddersfield
quality
quality
seagulls4ever
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Don't even need that. You can watch both series for free on the Channel 4 website. Legal and better quality.