Comments on: Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 22:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: nemofazer http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848162 nemofazer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848162 Yup. I'll go with bored the tits off. That's how I remember it. Yup. I’ll go with bored the tits off. That’s how I remember it.

]]> By: batchild http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848187 batchild Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848187 I had this in my Netflix queue, it had a wait but it was pending... when I checked yesterday it had been moved to the dreadful "saved" section where the yet-to-be-released films languish. Netflix says either it's a licensing issue or the discs are faulty, or something like that, the friendly operator didn't know. I had this in my Netflix queue, it had a wait but it was pending… when I checked yesterday it had been moved to the dreadful “saved” section where the yet-to-be-released films languish. Netflix says either it’s a licensing issue or the discs are faulty, or something like that, the friendly operator didn’t know.

]]> By: Shelby Davis http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-850009 Shelby Davis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-850009 Next you'll be telling me those aren't really pencils. Next you’ll be telling me those aren’t really pencils.

]]> By: codeman38 http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848219 codeman38 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848219 @batchild: I bet I know what happened. Warner Bros. distributes BBC's discs in North America... and Netflix has a 28-day moratorium on Warner titles. @batchild: I bet I know what happened. Warner Bros. distributes BBC’s discs in North America… and Netflix has a 28-day moratorium on Warner titles.

]]> By: GaryG http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848475 GaryG Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848475 +1 on "bored the tits off" made all the worse because my parents actually enjoyed his shows... +1 on “bored the tits off”

made all the worse because my parents actually enjoyed his shows…

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848223 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848223 This show taught me that germs are from Germany. This show taught me that germs are from Germany.

]]> By: Bowlie http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848234 Bowlie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848234 I grew up watching that old bugger, he was always traipsing around The New Forest looking for freebies, so the parody isn't off at all. I met him once in my father's gun shop in New Milton, he stank of tobacco and indeed rarely seemed to take that pipe out of his mouth. Fishing and shooting companies used to shower him with free product in the hope he's feature it on his Southern TV show called something like Outward Bound. I have the music in my head right now. I grew up watching that old bugger, he was always traipsing around The New Forest looking for freebies, so the parody isn’t off at all.

I met him once in my father’s gun shop in New Milton, he stank of tobacco and indeed rarely seemed to take that pipe out of his mouth.

Fishing and shooting companies used to shower him with free product in the hope he’s feature it on his Southern TV show called something like Outward Bound. I have the music in my head right now.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-994671 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-994671 This video totally dishonours Jack Hargreaves. He was very knowledgeable about country traditions, and I'm really unhappy that people are making fun of him. Where is your respect young man?! This video totally dishonours Jack Hargreaves. He was very knowledgeable about country traditions, and I’m really unhappy that people are making fun of him. Where is your respect young man?!

]]> By: Blue http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848268 Blue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848268 "Boing Boing Video proudly presents Markets of Britain, discovered by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz from the archives of a great and underappreciated documentary filmmaker named Lee Titt, who also never existed." Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz are fictional? I knew it! “Boing Boing Video proudly presents Markets of Britain, discovered by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz from the archives of a great and underappreciated documentary filmmaker named Lee Titt, who also never existed.”

Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz are fictional? I knew it!

]]> By: willw http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848781 willw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848781 tw15's assessment is spot on. Another +1. Hargreaves represented a generation of bores for England, with beards and pipes, who are no longer with us. 'How' was ok, because he was just the token bore, and other things were going on. But 'Out of Town' was a full bore trifle. tw15′s assessment is spot on. Another +1.

Hargreaves represented a generation of bores for England, with beards and pipes, who are no longer with us.

‘How’ was ok, because he was just the token bore, and other things were going on.

But ‘Out of Town’ was a full bore trifle.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848276 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848276 Here's the source footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXZY5VCR00#t=02m045s Thanks to tw15 for recognizing the show. Here’s the source footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXZY5VCR00#t=02m045s

Thanks to tw15 for recognizing the show.

]]> By: whatisart http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848536 whatisart Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848536 Jack Hargreaves – legend. He invented Houseparty you know. Jack Hargreaves – legend. He invented Houseparty you know.

]]> By: Gilbert Wham http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848291 Gilbert Wham Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848291 That's not a machete. It's a billhook. That’s not a machete. It’s a billhook.

]]> By: Hirsty http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848036 Hirsty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848036 I...I don't know what to say. Moblalutu? I…I don’t know what to say. Moblalutu?

]]> By: Daedalus http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848045 Daedalus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848045 I see the world in titt-vision I see the world in titt-vision

]]> By: tw15 http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848057 tw15 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848057 Lee Tit is actually (I think), Jack Hargreaves, who bored the tits off UK kids in the 1970s with one of the few TV programmes broadcasting on a Sunday morning. I think the programme was called "Out of Town" - all about the old countryside ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves Lee Tit is actually (I think), Jack Hargreaves, who bored the tits off UK kids in the 1970s with one of the few TV programmes broadcasting on a Sunday morning. I think the programme was called “Out of Town” – all about the old countryside ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-849342 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-849342 How sad that an old gentleman, well-versed in the old ways of the country, is described as 'boring' simply because he enjoys sharing his arcane knowledge with others. Without shows such as "Out of Town" we would have no idea how to catch larks in order to make lark tongue pie — a vital survival skill, come the robot wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ckJCajWh0&list=QL How sad that an old gentleman, well-versed in the old ways of the country, is described as ‘boring’ simply because he enjoys sharing his arcane knowledge with others. Without shows such as “Out of Town” we would have no idea how to catch larks in order to make lark tongue pie — a vital survival skill, come the robot wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ckJCajWh0&list=QL

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848068 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848068 it's the titts! it’s the titts!

]]> By: DamienG http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848075 DamienG Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848075 As a bonus the guy with the beard that appears several times including the close-up eating a grape is Edgar Wright - director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs The World :) [)amien As a bonus the guy with the beard that appears several times including the close-up eating a grape is Edgar Wright – director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs The World :)

[)amien

]]> By: Kenneth Extension http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848078 Kenneth Extension Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848078 <p>@tw15 — "bored the tits off"!? </p> <p>Jack Hargreaves was a demi-god — he was one of the legendary "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XK0RImTvh0" target="_blank">HOW</a>" team, fer cryin' out loud. </p> <p>He was also the inspiration for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-fsnNW4Aw" target="_blank">Bob Fleming</a> character in the "Fast Show" sketches... </p> @tw15 — "bored the tits off"!?

Jack Hargreaves was a demi-god — he was one of the legendary "HOW" team, fer cryin’ out loud.

He was also the inspiration for the Bob Fleming character in the "Fast Show" sketches…

]]> By: hassan-i-sabbah http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848099 hassan-i-sabbah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848099 YES! Jack Hargreaves! Bowbowowowowowo !HOW! Racsist as fuck when ye look at it now tho. Still not as clever cool and right-on as BBC childrens TV series VISION ON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYKGei2fyY Truly great stuff! Also more wilf Lunn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTdZDYZkH8 YES! Jack Hargreaves! Bowbowowowowowo !HOW!
Racsist as fuck when ye look at it now tho.

Still not as clever cool and right-on as BBC childrens TV series VISION ON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCYKGei2fyY
Truly great stuff!
Also more wilf Lunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTdZDYZkH8

]]> By: politeruin http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848622 politeruin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848622 "beautiful, exciting, exotic...erotic!" "we've all made mistakes...i know i have" Most funnysome. It was the "filmed in titt vision" that really killed me. Simple joys eh. “beautiful, exciting, exotic…erotic!”

“we’ve all made mistakes…i know i have”

Most funnysome. It was the “filmed in titt vision” that really killed me. Simple joys eh.

]]> By: pAULbOWEN http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-850928 pAULbOWEN Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-850928 Jack Hargreaves had a sort of scots equivalent who would go around inveighing against all things modern, anyone remember him? Jack Hargreaves had a sort of scots equivalent who would go around inveighing against all things modern, anyone remember him?

]]> By: kingofsleep http://boingboing.net/2010/07/30/markets-of-britain-a.html#comment-848377 kingofsleep Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-848377 Damn. Like I needed another project. Now I have to build a barking machine... Damn. Like I needed another project. Now I have to build a barking machine…

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