Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

yes your honour, not guilty

yes representing myself

no just one item. well i have it here. 27 minutes jncluding adverts.

Well tonight’s episode was quite something, arrogance, folly and hubris in spades but still felt sorry for him at the end.

and that's just kevin mcleod!!

Lol!

j/k

i didn't see it (well i saw the credits as i put it on for the circle a bit early) but sounds like a good episode, might check out

wasn't particularly a good episode, wasn't even a good disaster, was just pretty much what Dan said in the revive.

the Grandest Design episode they did to celebrate the anniversary was interesting, a revisit of the best 5 or so from over the years. the winner was the irish guy with two shipping containers stacked on top of each other (which i remember as being interesting at the time)

guy fucked it

can he play rb

it was a least interesting episode, fuck all about design and all about a horrible family

the house that the euphoria series of dance music compilations failed to build

ministry of housing

are you all talking about this lighthouse one that's on repeat right now?

yes

This thing had hubris written all over it from the beginninng, your kids don't need a double room with an en suite each.

beginni the beguinninni

only caught the end. 4 million quid, was it?

plus eight years plus one marriage

minus one house

new series of Australian GD started last night. they do love their Cor-ten steel.

Australian Grand Designs on again nightly. repeats of a series i didn't see at the time.

that thing where they are surveying the plot and the date pops up on screen and it's 7 years ago. and they're still talking about being in before christmas...

(two married bishops, ren fair fans, medieval timber frame building, on a slope, and he's insisting on sanding all the beams himself)

add to that a 5m stained glass window

new series (which'll probably be the usual 4 new buildings and then 'revised repeats')

digging down 6m next to an ancient graveyard, what could possibly go wrong?

at least they're not building on top of it.

has he not watched Poltergeist?

(i'm only 15 minutes in but i can see where this is going)

I hate him

second episode quite impressive

but this series is being hit by covid. they are digging, they are digging, [covid happens], final distanced reveal. they seem to be skipping a lot of the middle of the process.

third episode looks like they are building something very similar to the temporary theatres that went up in w12 - mansard roof, steel skeleton, sips panels.

Is this the guy who was moving his kids, new mrs, new kid, old parent, old ste parent all in?

I quite liked the way it turned out tbh

episode 3, yes

the theatre i was talking about. the making-of video shows the shape better, and not just the square facade.

https://www.troubadourtheatres.com/news/building-troubadour-white-city-theatre

These two deserve each other

This fella really thinks hes a visionary, back-of-fagbox designing hus version of things that have already been commercially available for ages

Genuinely seems like he's not quite there.

Tragic for her she had to get a job filling wrinkles to afford cushions

Right im banning this programme from the house

a caption saying "May 2017", nevr a good sign.

'we'll be in by next christmas...', yeah, right.

was the earth ship he visited a previous GD? looked very familiar, especially the tyres.

(i also think i remember his dad on tomorrow's world)

This is possibly the worst episode I’ve ever seen. I kinda wanna break things because I’ve seen it.

Fuck im glad we left the music on and the tv off so because every episode is that for me

i always absolutely despise the folk in this show. can't bring myself to watch it again, blood-pressure-ruiner.

they saved the mill by ruining the mill. not that you can live in a mill but...

Cool couple mill baby

Love this bothy

i liked the triangular thing from last week, built on an odd plot between a railway line and a main road and bisected by a sewer.

bothy: deems nuts (about it)

Oh dearie me no

Xp yeah that was also a delight

The show is so much better when the problem/constraints are real and not just idiot ambition

big pavilion was nice but I'm sure there was a way of having fewer than 3 spare bedrooms and keeping the favourite tree of the guy who almost single handedly built it for you

Only half watching but this fella is a dolt

Love the result mind

Do you feel the pressure, Fernando

kevin's jeggings

Hes a gangster kevin you can say it

Has it been worth watching recently? I think I hit a point, a few years back, where everyone seemed to be a million quid short and could always find it ... and I stopped caring.

(TBF, I might just have seen one shit episode that put me off for a bit).

I definitely hit that wall, covid era has meant things get at least that interesting again

Def true that the actual designs and builds became less and less interesting or the central focus years ago which made it a far worse show imo

A few of the recent ones definitely had more interesting, challenging builds with very good stuff in them (and quite likeable people) tbf