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Old 10-09-2009, 16:47   #1 (permalink)

 
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Anyone see this? If not then you can watch it on the iplayer:
BBC iPlayer - Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter: Episode 1
It's mostly about Aberdeen's architecture but manages to be quite entertainingly controversial.
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Yeah, brief discussion in the TV series thread. I dug his intellectual waffling, and the photography was ace.
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What in jesus titty fucking christ is this tweed jacket twat waffling on about?
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I enjoyed watching it, wasn't paying much attention during the start of the program, so will have to re-watch that.

It was quite interesting how he was commenting on the design and structure of Old Aberdeen and Fittie (also quite funny hearing him say fittie).
He made a good point about how the oil companies create these great rigs that are similarly styled to the Lloyd's building in London or the Pompidou centre and yet they created these great big grey slabs for headquarters.
The taking the piss out of McDonald Trump was also a highlight.
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Aberdeen was on something else last night as well, Location Location Location or something like that.

EDIT - here it is. Episode 6

Location, Location, Location - 4oD - Channel 4
"Phil and Kirstie head for Aberdeen, Europe's oil capital. And with the oil business keeping prices high across the city, the property gurus must move fast to land a bargain."
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"No doubt these inadequates feel an obligation to guzzle their own gas"

His disdain for Sir Ian Wood's "vision" made me chuckle too....
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This was one of the greatest TV programmes I have ever watched. Fan-fucking-tastic. This guy Meades is a legend. I was chuckling through quite a bit of it but I just about ended myself when he did his McDonald Trump bit, "World Class School!" and there's a picture of a Portacabin. It's not up on youtube yet so I think I'll put it up, fucking brilliant.

Summed up Ian Wood's "vision" perfectly too, "vainglorious". Superb. Seriously, everybody needs to watch this.
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I just caught the last bit of it, so I want to see a repeat. However, in the bit I saw he managed to articulate my feelings about Trump and Wood very well!

I saw him near Holburn Junction a few months ago....probably when he was up filming.
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I saw him near Holburn Junction a few months ago....probably when he was up filming.
Yes, he was outside your house doing a feature on slums.
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Watched this last night on iPlayer. Brilliant. Probably the best television programme ever made about Aberdeen.

Really makes you look at the city in a different light, and his take on Trump/Wood were spot on.
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