Completely unrelated to anything TV or media, but I just had a conversation with someone who referred to elderly people as ‘you know, people over 50’. WTF!!
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Get down on this for several hours
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Brought tickets to see Jim Jefferies live in July this morning. Jesus Christ on a stick they went fast. his first show in brisbane sold out before i could get tickets (and i was in the ticketmaster virtual queue for 15 mins before they went on sale). i was lucky to get tix to his late show
Not sure where else to post this as there doesn’t appear to be a designated discussion for vintage Seven Network content, but someone had posted this old ‘Love You Perth’ TVW-7 pin in a Facebook group:
TVW-7 used the slogan from 1985 to 1989.
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We need a thread for tips and rumours. Anyways I hear a well credentialed Aussie comedy TV producer is pitching a local version of The Office to outlets here.
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Why?
Brilliant idea.
It could be called something along the lines of the “Media Spy Rumour Mill/File”, as a nod to Nine Radio’s Rumour File on 3AW, 6PR etc.
Let’s call it "The Bullshit Thread"
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His last few things haven’t been great that’s probably why.
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Why the thread or why the local version of The Office?
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They’ve missed the boat on the hype, you’d think?
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You’d think they could just do a new series set in an an office without the baggage of a remake or reboot.
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By all accounts the show gets a decent viewing on the various streaming services.
Making local versions (or doing remakes) of a lot of shows just comes across as lazy
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Just bring back Swift and Shift Couriers. 
Sounds a bit like Fisk… which is going well and would probably be more popular than The Office.
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Agreed.
I suppose an Australian version of The Office is likely to have a style of humour closer to the original British version rather than the American one, but either way it’s probably something that should’ve happened a decade (or more) ago.
That show just wouldn’t be the same without Ian Turpie as Keith Warne though.
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…at least before the Working Dog guys mined the Aussie office humour vein in Utopia.
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I’m sure they can find someone else. Maybe promote Mario to depot manager?
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The word ‘sus’/‘suss’ seems to have crossed the Atlantic/Pacific to become a mainstream American Gen-Z term now.
But what really shits me is the spelling by the people who have started using it for the first time.
Before this whole meme thing, I remember it was always spelt ‘suss’, not ‘sus’.
The long ssss sound at the end should be spelt with two 's’s - it’s a feature of our language going back to when the German ß letter was used to show the sharp S at the end of a word.
It looks like it should be pronounced ‘sues’ the way they spell it.
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