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 01/07/2008, 10:32 PM
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Juliet Amulet
Joined on 01/07/2008
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Dom Joly has broken my local heart
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For years we have loved Dom Joly. But not any more!
Myself and our four children once proudly boasted of our collection of Dom Jolys DVDs (except for the latest series of Complainers, that was rubbish). Until this week's bombshell would would base family parties around the japery in the Joly Vids.
Being avidly cheerful, and no strangers to eBay search engines - our children all have animal costumes to wear when we picnic. Nothing made them happier than being dressed as squirrels, rabbits and foxes. Up until recently we all had a lot of fun in local Weston woods.
I would like to add that although they copied Dom Joly's fun packed repetoire closely, the children are only allowed to conduct clown style scraps and not to actually hit eachother brutishly. But today, today I am absolutely livid and am tempted to put up a picture of Mr Not-So-Joly on the kitchen door for them to punch. Fortunately for that fiend my moral compass is as strong as my love of Weston-Very-Super-Mare, but emotionally the boxing gloves are off.
We will be disposing of Dom's DVDs environmentally and swiftly, by recycling them at the Aisecombe Way recycling centre - in our heartlands.
My children were in tears this morning as I gave them their usual breakfast of Sunny Delight and Iceland Brand chocolate cereal. The eldest ran her finger along the article and read it aloud to the younger children, her eyes filling with tears.
Where is John Cleese? We appeal to him to remember his Weston Super roots and do his birth-town proud by having a comedy showdown with the Roly-Poly-Joly, to be televised before the watershed. Perhaps it could be held on the end of our glorious pier. I have two klaxons and a microphone to donate to the cause.
Weston, lets untie and shake our fist in Mr Joly's general direction!
Yours with bated breath: Weston Mother.
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02/07/2008, 3:43 PM
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lemoncakes
 
Joined on 09/06/2008
Weston-super-Mare
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Re: Dom Joly has broken my local heart
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Yes Juliet
I think you should start up a facebook club about it to be honest, in the meantime, I'm gonna have to contact all my friends and family and tell them that the giant squirrels I've been telling them about in weston woods aren't genetically cloned beaties, that esacaped from Hinckley Point / the Cardiff Military Base, they were infact, your kiddies, gutted!
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02/07/2008, 3:48 PM
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Dynamite
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PMSL at these posts. It is entertaining me while I am supposed to be working!
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02/07/2008, 4:52 PM
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Juliet Amulet
Joined on 01/07/2008
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Re: Dom Joly has broken my local heart
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Facebook? What is that?
Shall we start a group called Weston is Super, you silly Mare? Jeffrey Archer was born in our beautiful town and he is no stranger to controversy. Perhaps he would be an Admin of the group and tell us the backways into the Houses of Parliament and storm them with our Down With Dom Placards.
I hope you are as serious as me Lemoncakes?
Some people are just out for a laugh - but this is our town, the largest growing municipality of the 80s. Our reputation rests on this. I couldn't help but notice our glorious recycling area could do with a bit more emptying when I was there - perhaps we aren't the only family to be discarding squirrel suits this week.
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03/07/2008, 9:17 AM
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lemoncakes
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Weston-super-Mare
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I am slipping on my snail costume as I type Juliet - I fear though that the journey made take me about 100 years to get to London at my pace - I'll meet you on that patch of grass outside parliment they always show on telly (if it's not under water by then) maybe we should rename him Joly the Wally instead ? :P
I'm a Video blogger and an Internet Thingy too!
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03/07/2008, 10:15 AM
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Mike Bell
Joined on 16/08/2007
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There is an important point about all this that is being overlooked.
Dom Joly was in Weston to film a golfing DVD. It is hard to imagine a
more spectacularly uninteresting activity than watching a briefly
popular comedian filming a golfing DVD. It’s no wonder our town centre
emptied of human life. At the risk of offending the golfers amongst
you, I think it was Bob Hope who said it best, “golf is a game that
needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens”.
Dom’s visit wasn’t even as interesting as a game of golf (apologies for
the oxymoron). It was a DVD about golf. I’m not sure if it is intended
to be a comedic effort or a serious analysis of modern sporting
endeavour. Either way, this is surely another televisual delight that
is destined to join the collection of unwanted gifts for
father-in-law’s everywhere. Bizarrely, Dom wasn’t even filming on a
golf course (Weston and surrounds has many excellent options from which
to choose) but in our High Street. Perhaps this is an example of Dom’s
famous off the wall humour? Why shoot a golfing video on an actual
course, when you can do it in the middle of a pedestrianised street?
If the latter is the case then it is all the more disappointing that he
didn’t enjoy more readily his banter with some of our local wits. One
man apparently enquired if he was filming a scene for the Indiana Jones
movie as Dom drove his golf cart down the street. You would think that
a man who’s idea of surreal humour is walking around with a giant
mobile phone shouting “HELLO” would enjoy the amusingly random and yet
finger-on-the-pulse topical cultural references of a passing Westonian.
Dom says that British seaside resorts are either depressing or driven
by a celebrity cult. Well Weston is clearly neither. On a sunny day
many thousands of people visit our town to shop, enjoy our miles of
golden beach and – when it feels like making an appearance – even swim
in the sea. In fact around 5.5 million people visit Weston and the
surrounding countryside every year – which makes us rather more popular
than Dom’s TV shows.
I like to think that Weston’s best days are ahead and locally we all
want to do more to make Weston a better place to live and a real magnet
to visitors, employers and even celebrity chefs (Heston Blumenthal is
in town shortly...). But if all else fails, we Westonians do have a
sense of humour. So hopefully Dom will come back and do something funny. And leave his golf clubs at home.
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03/07/2008, 1:03 PM
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Juliet Amulet
Joined on 01/07/2008
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I bring glad tidings from the Weston front line. Whilst rummaging around in the recycling centre, to see if I could redouble my freecycling efforts, I stumbled upon a set of skateboard pads circa. 1982. The accompanying Jakoskates were surplus to requirements and will appear on eBay shortly.
Perhaps as you make your way to the countries great capital you would be prepared to sell areas of your shell for advertising - and even fly the flag for Weston mentioning the arrival of the Red Arrows on 24th August - and perhaps flagging the deadline of July 18th for the groups to enter a competition to win 5,000 Somerset pounds stirling.
If no,one else enters we might qualify Lemon!
I would almost certainly try to keep away from the gambling emporium of The Grand Pier. If I were to slip 5,000 pounds into the slots there I would not only get repetitive strain injury, but possibly lose my good Weston reputation.
I will lay out a large piece of lettuce by the Houses of Parliament in readiness for your arrival. Genetically modified like the ones in London usually are, to last until you get there. We in Weston will dine on our usual locally grown superior vegetables.
God speed lemoncakes!
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03/07/2008, 2:04 PM
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lemoncakes
Joined on 09/06/2008
Weston-super-Mare
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I am just crawling towards the front door, I will keep you updated with progress reports....that Joly bloke has already been begging me for the centre of my shell for adverting his DVD, I told him "NO JOLLY!, you think I'd give out my prime advertsing space that cheap ?! - I've got civic pride 'n' ethics you know and a girt, great lettuce leaf waiting for me in London..."
- He flashed his Rover car key's and said I could keep the golf clubs in the back too, but no I am strong, no bribery or "executive" style knick knacks are gonna impress this snail !
Westonian snail by name, Westonian snail by nature, "it' my way, down that M5 highway" I said....so he' droppin me off down Locking Road in 5 minutes and I'm catching the national express (sore feelers)
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03/07/2008, 10:42 PM
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Joanna Mornfall
Joined on 03/07/2008
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If Dom had grown up in England, like the rest of us, on the beach, with our lovely mums and their sandwiches; wearing hats and paddling in the sea; building sandcastles and generally having a happy friendly time - maybe he would understand that he doesn't understand.
Instead he was at a foriegn posh boys school with the likes of Osama Bin Laden. The only time Dom Joly likes to get on a level with the down to earth friendly Brit is when he wants us to buy some DVD that he is flogging in time for Christmas.
He tells the same four jokes, well, does the same four little acts. He has no talent for humourous dialogue.
1. Dress up in animal costumes. Film it near people having a picnic.
2. Put up a sign saying 'Haircuts' then don't cut the hair.
3. Have a giant telephone and shout in a public place.
4. Interview someone mildly famous, then hit a gorilla in the background.
Repeat numbers 1-4 twelve times, film it and call it a series.
The thing that makes me laugh is that he is completely ignorant that the very prop he is closest associated with is the telephone - and Marconi conducted telephonic firsts from Weston. Without this town, he would not have that prop.
He would be shouting into the abyss. Which is what he is doing these days anyway. The sooner this pretentious has-been goes to live abroad, where he is no doubt destined, the sooner England will forget all about him. If you need to surround yourself with giant teddy bears and no dialogue of worth, you are probably tomorrows fish and chip paper.
I started a facebook group about him called 'Weston Super Mare where is your mettle - dont let Dom Joly off so lightly. You are all welcome.
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04/07/2008, 1:49 PM
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Joanna Mornfall
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He went to school with Bin Laden allmouth. While we were splashing around in the sunshine, with our mothers and generally enjoying being at English seasides in the summer. While we were building Weston-Super-Mare sandcastles and enjoying our icecreams, he was in a boys school far away.
So when he comes to Weston to film a DVD to flog to us all for christmas and make more money, and puts us down, it is because he doesn't understand the place in the hearts of so many of us. Not just of the people who live here, but those that travel long distances to join our merry community.
To correct you politely: Dom Joly said a lot more than 'Weston is a bit tatty'. He said that he, and his '30 strong crew, without exception', said that it was the 'most depressing place they had ever visited'.
I am not 'finding a way to lump him in with Bin Laden' I am stating a fact about Dom Joly. A fact that Dom has referred to in numerous interviews. The only over the top reaction is yours 'allmouth'.
You have played down Dom Joly's reaction to our wonderful town which is designed to give it a 'bad reputation', while attacking my response to it. Perhaps you would like to check your facts before you reply and quote people accurately to avoid embarassing yourself. I love Weston-Super-Mare, do you?
Joanna. xx
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04/07/2008, 2:09 PM
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Joanna Mornfall
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All mouth and no trousers. To assist you in your reply.
You quoted Dom as saying that Weston was 'a bit tatty'
What he actually said:
In The Independant:
".....windswept, penny-arcade, p**s-stinking destinations of the desperate. Weston is one...."
"it is definitely the single most depressing place I've ever filmed in and this was the view of everyone on the 30 strong crew who have done pretty much everywhere... " Taken from his webpage.
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Something that is very telling in Dom's article is this when he got back to his hotel; "I drank myself into a stupor."
That coupled with his increased moaning and grumbling, and the last series of Dom rolling round the world getting pissed, and his current unfunny podcasts from CobraBeer with Danny Wallace.
I personally think he has succumbed to the belief that he is funny, and idea that he cooked up whilst sitting in bars and pubs around the country, slating everyone around him and being laughed at by various sycophantic hangers on.
It isn't Weston that is looking bad.
If you wish to buy his Golf DVD and basically pay for him to buy a round for himself 'Allmouth' then go for it. I'll save my money for T4's party on the beach with some entertainment and well known musicians. Can't wait.
Joanna. x
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04/07/2008, 4:00 PM
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Joanna Mornfall
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Incorrect again AllMouth. You draw conclusions from words I have not typed. Perhaps if you read my words in the context they were read, rather than attempting to satisfy some agenda you have running, you would see that I am not xenophobic. I can see that you wish to play the race card, just because a lovely Weston loving lady like myself speaks with warmth and affection about the english seaside holiday destination experience.
As you read Doms words as "Weston is a bit tatty", it does not surprise me that you misread my words also.
You may have a reaction to the words 'posh' and 'foriegn' and it is clear you have picked them out from my contributions and attached an agenda to them without understanding for what I have to say.
Vitriolic diatribes probably impressed you when you typed it - but the only person with one is Dom Joly. I note that you can only see his comments as 'tongue-in-cheek', but anyone having a 'tongue-in-cheek' response is too much for you.
I guess I'll put you down as 'fawning celebrity admirer' shall I? His DVD will be out soon and you no doubt will get one for everyones christmas stocking. If you had any knowledge of the subject on which you are posting you will know that Dom Joly has made it clear he cant wait to leave England to live in Canada where his wife comes from.
He is currently making as much money from people like yourself who love him although he flicks his two fingers to you all. That makes me laugh. I truly love Weston-Super-Mare and its people. When people like Dom Joly roll into our town and insult us all, I am not so scared of him that I am unable to read, comprehend and articulate a response.
He has a fan page on facebook. Perhaps you should join it. He laughs at fans. He says that anyone that would join an appreciation society is 'not his cup of tea'. So if he is reading this, he will probably if he is as honest as he has been lately, admit that you are not his thing.
So far you don't seem to disagree with Dom, you seem to be claiming that he is the victim of xenophobia.
You are only appearing to disagree with anyone local with the mettle to reply to Dom Joly.
Lots of love to Weston-Super-Mare, and all its inhabitants including you AllMouth.
Joanna x
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