X Factor

[Loz]

Personally, I have a nasty suspicion Cher has mental issues. She just doesn't seem stable.

[DJKillaQueen]

JLS ARE within the R'n'B genre. They may be the more mainstream side of pop/ r'n'b but nonetheless they are R'n'b as opposed to pure pop (like for example Girls Aloud).

[Keef]

Agree Loz.

[jumpinjackflash]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> There are decent rappers in the UK....they don't

> necessary have mainstream success but they are out

> there.

bet none of them come from Worcester!

[DJKillaQueen]

What does that have to do with it?

You said there were no decent rappers in the UK...... Or are you making the mistake of thinking rap is something that can only emerge form a poor ghetto?

[Keef]

Or are you making the mistake of thinking rap is something that can only emerge form a poor ghetto?

Lets be brutally honest, most of the good stuff does.

[jumpinjackflash]

Cher is from Worcester..I'm being sarcy.

No...good rappers don't all emanate from poor ghettos that's a terrible assumption DJKQ!

[jumpinjackflash]

Keef Wrote:

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> Or are you making the mistake of thinking rap is

> something that can only emerge form a poor

> ghetto?

>

> Lets be brutally honest, most of the good stuff

> does.

VERY TRUE!!!

[DJKillaQueen]

It's not true...for example...Asian Bhagra music is full of great rappers.

[mockney piers]

John barnes raps and he came from a nice island, oh wait...

Jedward anyone?

[Loz]

Jedward? They put the 'c' in rap.

[citizenED]

X-Factor stirs the Forum massive! There are generalisations aplenty being thrown around here.

Comparisons between X-factor contestants and established recording artists, whilst understandable, are a little unwise. It is only a talent show after all. I mean I went and saw my little boy perform in a school play and thought he was wonderful. Bought a tear to my eye, quite rightly - but I'm not comparing him to any great actor. the reason Matt was so good singing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was because it was emotional within the dramatic narrative of the show. He'd had a wobbly performance the previous week so the audience at home and in the studio were primed for a great one from him. They got it. But it worked specifically in the melodrama of the evening.

[Keef]

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> Here's the K that I forgot.

I always thought it was Knights, but apparently it is actually Nights, so you were right the first time.

[mockney piers]

Thinking about it, white satin probably doesn't do a knight much good when someone's swinging a spiked club at him.

[Keef]

Yes, but it would not chafe like chainmail during a long ride.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

But the white satin could be a lady's favour.

[mockney piers]

and they're dressing up in it?

Mother issues I'm guessing.

As a complete incidental aside, the Mongols only wore light boiled leather armour if at all, preferring silk shirts as an arrow went into your body without breaking allowing you to pull it out without causing massive internal bleeding and lessening the risk of infection.

Aaaaanyway....moving swiftly on...... (like a Mongol horse archer....(keep digging piers........))

[Brendan]

It's going to be shit now that the pirate has left.

[karter]

the pirate will have pockets full of gold now.

*shoots arrow at mockney piers*

[Keef]

Piers, did you learn that watching "Night at the museum"?

[mockney piers]

you're kidding, do they say that?

No, it was a great battles programme or something years ago, about the showdown between the mongols and medieval knights, Leibnitz or something.

It was something of a one sided affair.

[RosieH]

Was it that brilliant programme where they battle an IRA member against a ninja, or a centurion against the taliban?

[Brendan]

IRA ninjas sound fuckng hard.

Do they use composite bone and wood bows which they fire towards the enemy while retreating?

[mockney piers]

It wasn't Rosie, but daftly entertaining that was. Apache vs Gladiator and stuff, genius pulp history with exploding melons for heads!!

[Keef]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> you're kidding, do they say that?

Probably not. I've heard it somewhere, and that's about my level ;-)