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For the record, I also don't like the word atheist - though, I use it. I find people tend to incorrectly understand the word as anti-theist. As in I'm against their Gods and religion. Whereas I'm not against anything. I just don't personally hold a belief in God or other higher power.
I was raised Catholic. Growing up, I never really thought about religion much. Other than the fact that I disliked going to church, and I disliked what the Catholic church was teaching. I even went to Catholic school - I have to say, those religion classes that were mandatory went a long way in making me an atheist.
In my senior year of high school, I realized that I felt absolutely nothing when it came to the concept of "God." I never felt the need to pray, or a need for someone to watch over me or a need for spiritual guidance. I never really "got" faith.
Then, I switched over to paganism for awhile. About a year. But, that also didn't seem like a good fit. Again, I didn't feel the need for a higher power.
In college, I took some history courses that described the spread of Christianity. And I realized how darn similar the old pagan beliefs were to Christianity. I just remember thinking to myself "wow, there is no God. Some people just took a bunch of old legends and stories and re-designed them into Christianity." It all seemed very political and economic in terms of motivation.
Once I realized I definitely didn't believe, I found it incredibly freeing. My life was my own. No one was around judging me or telling me what to do or asking me to do their will or telling me when to have sex and when not to have sex or telling me not to use birth control, etc. (all concepts I was taught in my religion classes).
On top of my history classes, I took some philosophy and logic courses ... and it was like a light bulb lit up for me. Everywhere, in all areas of my life, I looked for facts and proof before I agreed that something existed. Why would I make an exception in any other area? So, I stopped making an exception and realized that (for me) God existing wasn't even remotely factual.
It's been 8 years since that time, and I haven't changed that outlook.
I also feel like I have a lot more curiosity for life. The answer isn't "God did it, and it's his plan which we shall discover eventually." The answer is - I don't know. Life is this incredible, amazing, gigantic mystery and I'm really enjoying pondering the answers.
I guess all those elements combined led to my atheism, and have led me to stay there.
Katreena, 39 year old Alaskan Mama to 1 and 1
I simply never believed the religious propaganda being fed to me. Even as a young child, something seemed very off to me, and it just didn't add up.
I am an agnostic and have always been. I used to say atheist before I understood the difference. I think agnosticism is the only honest way to be.
But then my eyes started opening, particularly regarding the terrible things that happen to humankind. Children starve, are abused and murdered, killed in wars, etc. I could not reconcile that reality with what I had been taught about God, namely that he was (1) all-powerful, (2) all-knowing, and (3) loving.
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I think I was always an atheist. Well, I'm more of a pantheist, but whatever...It just never felt right to me, the god thing. I don't want to be condescending, but my brain and sense of logic wouldn't let me believe in god. Really, there's more evidence for he existence of Sasquatch and the Lock Ness monster than there is for the existence of God. But if someone has faith in unicorns or mermaids, they are seen as wack-a-doos. To me, faith in god is the same thing. I always perceived faith as a dumbing down.
Homeschooling mama to 6 year old DD.
I'm a believer in science and data. Over time, it just became obvious to me that there is exactly zero evidence that there is a god. Nothing that holds water at all. It is something that mankind invents largely to keep from accepting the finality of death. So, I started being honest with myself for a change. I would describe myself as agnostic, because if there ever were any data to support the supernatural, I'd be open to examining it.
I like the way you say that--it makes sense to me. But for the sake of argument, how do you believe religion came to be a nearly universal condition of mankind?
I mean, why pretend? I don't see any evidence at all, so why claim agnosticism? hmm.
|Well, early man with these incredible minds, we had/have questions, people like to create answers. A human trait.
It's natural to wonder why, how??? And in the years think about how many of these questions science has answered. Thunder, lightening, floods, death, etc, etc. Of course we made an answer up til we found a better one, if that makes sense.
beautiful I don't buy it either oxo best of luck
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Shrink Dust, the fifth full-length album from Calgary freak-folk experimentalist Chad VanGaalen, opens with the lines: "Cut off both my hands and threw them in the sand/watched them swim away from me like a pair of bloody crabs/close my eyes and dream of different skies/stare straight at the sun and try not to cry for you."
Lyrically, Cut Off My Hands poignantly describes the hopelessness one feels after someone close to them dies -- but the song's power lies in its arrangement. At its core, it's a warm, affecting acoustic tune -- but there's a discordant (and near omnipresent) squall of meandering horns hovering over it like a particularly vocal group of seagulls, casting a shadow on an otherwise sunny melody. It's not annoying, exactly; it's just there. In the background. All the time. Kind of like grief.
The song was written for Chris Reimer, VanGaalen's close friend and member of Calgary's much missed noise-rock outfit Women, who died in his sleep in 2012 from complications due to a heart condition. He was 26.
"Chris passing away was really sudden," VanGaalen says quietly over the phone from Colombus. Ohio. "I felt lost in space emotionally. It's taken me a while. It's still taking me a while."
Another loss is lovingly documented on Shrink Dust, which came out on April. Lila is ballad that tugs on the heartstrings, written for his 12-year-old rescue dog, Lila.
"(Her death) marked a period of time for me -- especially me and my wife; she had Lila when I met her," VanGaalen says. "(Lila) had recovered from cancer the year before that, and we thought she'd live forever because it was such a crazy comeback. It was a strange headspace to be in."
And VanGaalen is certainly someone who lives inside his head -- which, judging from his work both as a musician and a visual artist, is a weird, whimsical place (follow him on Instagram if you're not already). Everything he creates is simultaneously inclusive and alienating, beautiful and grotesque; as a Pitchfork review also noted, this is someone who elected to call the most breathtakingly lovely ballad on his 2011 album Diaper Island a name we can't print in the newspaper. VanGaalen knows when to pull a listener (or viewer) in, and when to push them away.
While making Shrink Dust, VanGaalen was also working on a feature-length animated sci-fi film called Translated Log of Inhabitants, which he's described as being "like Bob and Doug McKenzie in space."
"I was picking away at songs like I would normally," he says. "But I think some of the tracks informed the animation and vice versa."
The film, which he hopes to release later this year with an accompanying graphic novel, was incredibly labour-intensive, with VanGaalen hand-drawing it in his sketchbook and scanning it into his computer using a program called Tradigital. "It basically almost made me insane," he says.
Recorded entirely by VanGaalen at his home studio, Yoko Eno, Shrink Dust wasn't intended to be the soundtrack for the film in a traditional sense, but it shares sounds and ideas -- the result of coming from the same brain at the same time.
The addition of pedal steel, which gives the record its countrified, spaceman-cowboy vibe, is one example. "I got it so I could make spacey background noises for the film and it made it onto the record," he says.
In true VanGaalen form, he taught himself to play the notoriously difficult instrument. "I don't know if I did it properly," he says. "It took me a while to figure out how to tune it. I think there were a lot of country songs that came out of it, but less than I imagined made it on to the record."
Not surprisingly, VanGaalen approaches projects with a surplus of ideas.
"I kind of just make batches of stuff," he says. "It's hard when you're recording everything yourself. It's hard not to make it sound overworked. For me, that's what makes the cut -- whatever doesn't sound laboured."
So how does he know when to walk away? "Oh man, when it starts bugging me," he says with a laugh. "Or if it sounds stupid. It's a pretty fine line. Even if songs are working out, I have to walk away to not ruin them, if that makes sense."
In addition to the five solo albums released under his own name, the prolific multi-instrumentalist has also made genre-spanning records as Gem Clouds, Garbage Island, Black Mold, Dub Tassels, Raw Operator and Inventions of Science, to name a few. VanGaalen has also opened up his home studio to other bands in the Calgary scene, recording both of Women's well-received albums. But he stops well short of calling himself a producer.
"I don't feel comfortable there," he says of that role in the studio. "I feel like most of the time I don't know what's going on and I kind of like that. I can guide their sword, but I like people to have come up with their own ideas. I just have to make people feel comfortable. I don't have to direct. In my own stuff I do, but when other people come in, I'd rather get a good idea of who they are and try to represent that as accurately as I can. One of the things I like about recording music is that I can be aimless. I don't feel like I can be aimless with other people."
That said, now that VanGaalen is dad to daughters, aged six and four, he manages his time differently.
"Kids are a crazy thing," he says. "The time I do have I spend more productively. I actually have to focus. I have to, not premeditate, but I have to know where things are headed."
He also makes music with his daughters as both Crocodile Teeth & The Snugglers and Banana Bread. (There was even a brief campaign to replace "Chad VanGaalen" with "Banana Bread" as his official recording alias.) Much the way he would with any young artist, VanGaalen lets them lead the way.
"I feel weird pushing them in any direction creatively, because I don't want to be the kind of person who does that. My oldest daughter loves to draw. We used to play a lot more music, but now it's drawing. And climbing."


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There are some crazy rumors flying around right now, half of which I don't even understand. What does the AMD R700 GPU mean? Will it be good? What's that you say, there's a whole family of them that range in power from on par with current gen to significantly more powerful? How can we know which it might be? And the CPU is a custom built IBM triple-core processor. You say it's like the 360's but the clock speeds are higher. How much higher? And what the hell does that mean in terms of power anyway? How much better than current gen could this system be? How much better is it likely to be? Will the world truly end in a hail of flame if Nintendo goes with 512MB ram instead of at least 2gb? These are questions I cannot answer.
So, yes, as exciting as I gather that these new rumors are, I don't really have the knowledge to speak to most of them. One that I can comment on is the possibility that the console could launch as early as October of this year. Now, like Scott's article says, it would be reasonable to assume that Nintendo will hold off on the release of the new hardware until 3rd parties have had a decent amount of time to ready their launch offerings and the Big N itself has had time to build up sufficient stock of the console to prevent massive sellouts. Even so, that's not a whole lot of time for Nintendo to get working on their one big title for day 1.
So what could this title be? Let's review the facts rumors: 1. Nintendo is going to launch soon, so this game has to be a project that they can turn around quickly. 2. Nintendo wants to "win back the hardcore" so it has to be something that will wow us graphically and give us new gameplay experiences. 3. There's been a lot of buzz about this new controller since last Thursday, and not all of it has been positive. As out first introduction to the system. Nintendo has to make sure that this game justifies the controller's existence, demonstrating to players how a 6" hi res touch screen in their lap is a legitimately useful gaming tool and not just a silly "gimmick." 4. It has to scream Nintendo. It's the launch of a new Nintendo system, and while the House of Mario is focusing on bringing 3rd party games to their HD console, it would be a pity if there was nothing with that unique Nintendo feel present during the defining launch period. 5. At the same time, it can't feel like something we've seen from Nintendo before. The Big N has always survived on the strength of their unique franchises which is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they have a bevy of well-known and well-loved characters and titles to bring to their audiences. On the other, gamers often complain that some of the franchises have grown stale, that their installments feel too similar to one another. Whether this launch title is a new IP or an established franchise, it will have to walk the fine line between feeling completely Nintendo while also feeling fresh.
Before we get guessing what kind of game the title might be, we don't want to waste our energy on IPs that don't fit our requirements. So, let's thin out our list of possible candidates then, shall we?
It won't be: 1. HD Zelda: Yes, I'm sure a new installment in the Zelda series is in the works (hopefully from Retro studios and hopefully something that channels the spirit of the long dead Ravenblade). Nintendo is always working on a new Zelda. However, with both Skyward Sword and the remake of Ocarina coming this year, I think it's time to let the franchise lie fallow for a bit. Plus, 3d Zelda adventures generally take around 3-5 years of development if I remember correctly. Granted, Nintendo could (and in all likelihood) have been working on their next console Zelda beyond Skyward Sword for some time now. Even so, I just don't see yet another Zelda making it out so soon after SS. 2. Kid Icarus: This one is slightly more likely than Zelda, but I still don't see it happening (as much as I'd like to). Nintendo has just just revived the decades old franchise and re-imagined it for the 3DS. It would be unwise for Nintendo to undercut that image by showing off another, presumably more adult take on the character before we even have a release date for Uprising. Maybe after the 3DS game has had its time to shine we'll finally see Pit take to the skies in HD, but it won't be for launch. 3. F-Zero: This franchise is coming. It has to be. In fact I really wouldn't be surprised to see it at E3 and have it in hand within months after launch. But Nintendo won't lead with this as its one big game. Why? It just doesn't have a wide enough appeal. I'm excited to play it, but let's face it, as popular as crazy fast arcade racers might be, they don't appeal to everyone, not in the way that shooters and adventure games do at any rate. 4. Donkey Kong: prior to DKCR landing on the Wii last fall, a main entry in the franchise hadn't headlined on a Nintendo platform since Rare's Donkey Kong 64. It was relatively uncertain if DK could still sell in today's age. With DKCR selling millions, you can bet Nintendo is revving up another entry in the series (whether 2d or 3d) for Project Café, but I don't think it will be ready in time. Plus, like F-Zero, I'm not sure it has broad enough appeal to launch a system on. 5. 3D Mario: with two successful galactic adventures under his belt it seems like 3D Mario intends to keep his feet firmly planted in mushroom kingdom soil for the time being. If the rumblings are correct, Nintendo's big 3DS title in the coming year will be a 3D Mario title in the style of Mario 64. It seems unlikely to me that they would release a similar 3d Mario on their console in the same time frame to cannibalize the 3DS game's sales. Then again, one would thing releasing this new console and the 3DS would cannibalize one another's sales to a degree, but there are rumors that Nintendo may do just that, so who knows? Also, the cry (make that whine) of the hardcore for a while now has been that Nintendo only does Mario and Zelda games. If Nintendo really wants to appeal to that demographic first, then it's probably a good idea to lead off with a different title.
So then, no Zelda, no Kid Icarus, No F-Zero, no DK, and no 3d Mario. Who's left and up for the job? There are several possibilities that I'll discuss in later posts, but I think the best fit for Nintendo reportedly wants to do with their console is...
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Star Fox! Fox McCloud and friends are a strong contender for the launch title spot for several reasons: First, Nintendo has an excellent spot to show off what its new console can do from just a few yards behind the Arwing. Think about it, Star Fox games are basically roller coaster rides through space, but with lasers, missiles, and barrel rolls. Nintendo has demonstrated how good they can make outer space look with Mario Galaxy, and that was on weak hardware. I can only imagine what they'd be able to do with a machine that is rumored to be "significantly" more powerful than the PS3. Galaxy also showed off some nice fur shading on a weaker console, so similar graphical tricks on the strongest home console to date could make the characters look as gorgeous as the environment. Second, Starfox as a franchise has a lot to offer hardcore audiences, not in terms of sex and violence, but gameplay. Starfox is one of the few Nintendo franchises that has an inbuilt co-op structure. The game has always been about Fox and his allies swooping through space and sky together. Online co-op would be a completely natural fit. Fox also has a lot of rapport with "hardcore" audiences who yearn for a return to the glory days of Star Fox 64, which is uncommon in such a family friendly franchise. Third, Star Fox would be an excellent fit for the rumored Project Café controller as well. Your ship's health, radar, and friendly transmissions ("Do a barrel roll!") could all display on the touch screen, leaving your TV a pristine 1080p window into the beautiful but deadly skies. If the controller is motion sensitive as the rumors indicate, then those who are interested could have the option to fly the unfriendly skies via motion control much like the flying mini game in Wii Sports Resort. Several sources are claiming that the controller will have a built in camera. It could be just an IR camera for Wii-like aiming which could be cool and all. It could also bea forward facing camera which would allow for things like video chat during online co-op play. The real issue I see here is how would the camera stay trained on your face? Don't we all hold the controller differently while playing? Whatever the case, the possibilities are intriguing. Fourth, whether it be linear or a bit more open than traditional Star Fox, something tells me that an entry into this "flight sim" series wouldn't take as long to develop as, say, a 3d platformer, or an adventure game. Fifth, Fox and friends undeniably have that Nintendo feel. Furry creatures flying ships through space... why? Who cares? It's fun. Lastly, the upcoming remake of the classic N64 game is stirring up interest in this more or less dormant franchise. For all these reasons and others I'm sure I haven't thought of, Starfox (Lyatt Wars) would make an excellent opening act for Project Café.
The Mario Galaxy team is hard at work on the 3DS Mario, so they won't be working on this game despite their talent with all things space and fur related. How about Retro? I know Retro Studios has been coming up a lot in this post, but they did say unofficially that they are working on a project that "Everyone wants [them] to work on." Could they really be tackling their 3rd Nintendo Franchise in as many years? If not Retro, then I'd like to see Nintendo set Treasure loose on this one. After their excellent work on Sin and Punishment on Wii, they deserve it. If not Treasure, then perhaps the remnants of Factor 5 (I forget what their new studio is) might take the reigns. Seeing what they squeezed out of the Gamecube for the Rogue Squadron games, I think they could do even better work on this new platform.
All right, that's all for now. More speculation on possible Café titles in the future. Thanks for reading, and be sure to let me know what you think Nintendo's big launch title for their next console will be in the comments.
EDIT: gotta give credit to Link_Is_My_Homie who was talking about a Retro developed Star Fox last week! (You beat me to it sir, thoroughly and soundly) Everyone who hasn't already should check it out.


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Here's a selection of reports from the Premiership clash between Everton and Blackburn at Goodison Park.
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Blackburn's Jonathan Stead who scored the winner last season against Everton did it again at Goodison Park.
The 1-0 win puts Blackburn 14th in the Premiership and away from the relegation battle.
Everton still remain fourth, eight points ahead of Liverpool.
In a very physical game, Everton had quite a lot of possession but couldn't quite get the ball and the players up the field.
The first half brought two injuries, the first being Blackburn's Paul Dickov who was helped off the pitch after a horrible tackle, and Everton's Mikel Arteta who limped off after trying to run-off the effects of a bad tackle in the game.
The referee wasn't the crowd's favourite after getting in the way of both teams and making several decisions which warranted a second look.
In the second half the blues came out fighting and seemed to have Blackburn on the ropes, but in the 71st minute Jonathan Stead struck a blistering shot from the edge of the box and rewarded the 500 or so Blackburn fans that came to the match.
It was Stead's first goal this season and a big confidence boost to himself and also to Blackburn who have a hard few weeks ahead of them.
Everton meanwhile are still in fourth place and have fifth placed Liverpool to play in a fortnight's time.
They need to win against Liverpool if they want to play in Europe next season and the derby could be the tie-breaker to find out which of these two teams play Champions League football.
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Blackburn came away from Goodison Park with a 1-0 win
over Everton thanks to Jonathan Stead's goal in the 70th minute.
His goal repaid the manager's confidence in him as he was brought on as a substitute 14 minutes into the first half when Paul Dickov came off injured.
Blackburn's three points puts them in 14th place in the table.
There were a few bookings - David Weir 36 minutes into the game and Tim Cahill in the 79th minute for Everton and Jonathan Stead for Blackburn in the 75th minute but surprisingly he was still made man-of-the-match.
The 32,406 Everton fans at the match left disappointed but that wasn't the case for the 500 Blackburn fans.
The blues are still battling for a Champions League place despite getting no points and manager David Moyes didn't look too happy about it.


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View an early unboxing of the T-Mobile BlackBerry Q10; launch coming June 5th?
One of the reasons for T-Mobile's about-face could be the idea that true BlackBerry fans held back from purchasing the all-touch BlackBerry Z10 because of the lack of a physical keyboard on the device. And if there is one thing that we know, just as we all need to breathe the air, drink water, and carry a smartphone in order to live, BlackBerry fans need that QWERTY keyboard on their phones to survive.
A gentleman named Geoffrey Gordon was able to obtain a T-Mobile branded BlackBerry Q10 and he took a video as he unboxed the device with the 3.1 inch 720 x 720 screen. Besides the device and the usual brochures, manuals and guides, the box contained the charger and the battery. We're not sure how Geoffrey was able to get his hands on the BlackBerry Q10 from T-Mobile, but Gordo is probably a very popular fellow wherever he lives.
The latest runmor has the BlackBerry Q10 launching June 5th from T-Mobile for a down payment of $99.99 with the balance paid off in 24 installments of $20 each making the total cost of the phone $579.99.
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1. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
BB10 is an absolute freakin mess. Sorry guys but the Q10 won't save Blackberry from impending bankruptcy or hostile takeover, which is quite sad really. I guess Nokia were right to dump Symbian and move to third party software.
2. cornerofthemoon (Posts: 601; Member since: 20 Apr 2010)
Blackberry will probably always be a niche player hence forth, but if they can keep a foothold in the corporate world they can still make money. Time will tell.
3. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 575; Member since: 07 May 2012)
they won't last long in corporate either, ios ,android and even windows phone is slowly creeping in as all three are becoming more secure and maintsream
4. apiskula (banned) (Posts: 578; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
Throw it in the garbage that is where it belongs
5. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
lol hahaha +1
6. NewroticSlob (Posts: 135; Member since: 09 May 2013)
Still can't grow-up, gentlemen? And I use the term gentlemen, loosely. Please, troll someplace else. You've made your point numerous times and I find it tiresome, as I'm sure most everyone else does. BB is not going anywhere, depite your considerable efforts to bring them down with pointless and unfounded jabber.
The challenge still stands for you, though. Continue this line of commenting so the rest of us can see who you really are and realize that your commentary is not worth reading or heeding. The only reason I comment is to continue to challenge you in the hopes you will gain an ounce of respect for yourself and others. To be this belligerent borders on infantile.
7. apiskula (banned) (Posts: 578; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
Then why do you comment? Nobody said you had to say anything. Blackberry will not be around in the next few years. They are on a slow decline and will fail!
8. NewroticSlob (Posts: 135; Member since: 09 May 2013)
Ha! You didn't read the reason why that I gave. Continued beligerence. Well, BB will be around longer than your ridiculous prophecy. So, you can continue to comment and I will be here to offer you the opportunity to end your childish commentary. Or let's hope the moderators will end your pointless commentary.


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Eric Hollingsworth sent home
Head coach Eric Hollingsworth has been suspended from Glasgow by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association and will be on the next possible plane back to Australia following his criticism of Sally Pearson.PT2M12S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-3cx9y 620 349 July 31, 2014
Australian Athletics coach Eric Hollingsworth will be sent home to Australia on the first flight available.
The move to send the suspended coach home came after the Australian Commonwealth Games Association decided to act on Athletics Australia's suspension and revoke Hollingsworth's accreditation.
Athletics Australia's head coach Eric Hollingsworth is going home. Photo: Getty Images
Australian Chef de mission Steve Moneghetti defended his decision to wait almost 24 hours after Athletics Australia suspended the coach and thus allowed him to be at the track on Wednesday night despite the suspension.
"That was my decision and my decision entirely because we had an athlete (Sophie Stanwell) that was competing in an event that Eric, whilst he is head coach Eric is also the team coach appointed to that event - heptathlon - and that event was continuing so the event hadn't come to its completion until last night," he said.
"I made a judgment that it was more important for Sophie to have the team coach there. If that was affecting other athletes then I made that judgement that it was important that he would be there to support her event which was still taking place."
Moneghetti said Athletics Australia had informed him they had suspended Hollingsworth on Wednesday afternoon.
Consequently Moneghetti called Hollingsworth into a meeting to ask him to explain his behaviour in releasing a media statement in defiance of specific instructions from AA and in which he criticised Olympic and former world champion Sally Pearson.
"We decided there was reason enough to impose some sanctions on the actions taken by Eric Hollingsworth and we then spoke to the section manager from athletics to decide on an appropriate sanction and as a result of that Athletics Australia withdrew Eric's nomination as head coach," Moneghetti said.
"This led to us revoking his accreditation and we have made arrangements for Eric to travel back to Australia at an appropriate time. He is going home today if we can get some flights arranged," Moneghetti said.
"We have agreed he will leave the games in Glasgow as soon as it is possible and logical."
He said there was "no argy bargy" from Hollingsworth over whether he had breached his agreement by his behaviour and the decision that Moneghetti taken to send him home.
He said Pearson had been told by another athlete in the village what had occurred with Hollingsworth.
"I saw her yesterday in the dining hall and said 'Hi'. She seemed focused on her performance so she wasn't affected by it at all. She actually said she hadn't seen anything but someone mentioned it in the village.
"She is very relaxed and I didn't see any change. If I didn't know that this occurred I wouldn't have been aware of any difference in her preparation."


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Take me out is a TV programme on ITV on saturday nights and is currently playing at 8.30 for about an hour. (Feb 2015) It is also repeated on itv plus 1 and is on catch up tv as well as a second programme called take me out the gossip on itv2. The gossip programme is probably more entertaining than the main show as it shows the out-takes and the antics which really go on when they go abroad.
The host of the show is Paddy Mcguiness and his accent alone is hillarious so he is very entertaining to watch. There is one objective to the show and that is for a single man to get one date from a selection of 30 women, however when the man first comes out the women decide whether they like the look of him, if they do they leave their light on and if they dont then they turn their light off and it turns to red and then the man is unable to pick any of those women. It goes through various stages where more is found out about the man and then more women can choose to turn their lights off however the remaining lights that are left on the man has the opportunity to choose which woman he would like to take on a date. The date is always a trip to fernandos abroad.
Its quite an amusing programme and is always much better when there have been on occassion people who have known one another on it and stated thats their ex, always makes for good tv viewing. It is trash tv though, its good fun but is something to switch on if there truely is nothing else, it wont occupy the mind just switch it off, which sometimes is just as good!
Take me out, hosted by Paddy McGuinness
Aired:- on a Saturday evening, time does vary but between 7.30 and 8.30
First aired in 2010
It's roughly an hour long.
Take me out is a British dating show hosted by Paddy McGuinness in which 30 ladies have a light and stand at a podium in a semi-circle there is a 'love lift' as Paddy calls it in the centre a man will come down the love lift to a song of his choice and try and Wow the ladies and get a date. There are three rounds:-
First round he introduces himself then if the girls don't like they turn off their light
Second round:- you find out a bit more about the guy, once again the girls turn off if they hear something they don't like
Third round is usually the guy showing off some sort of talent.
Finally if the guy is lucky enough to have a choice of ladies left with lights on then he can then turn off any girl that he doesn't life leaving just two lights on.
The end is the guy asking the girl a question and deciding who he wants to go on a date to Fernando's with.
You do get to see the dates in action the following week unless of course there is a blackout and the guy goes home on his own.
It's a pretty basic show, Paddy makes this show brilliant with his one liners and comedy. When Paddy asks the girls why they turned off their lights or kept them on some of the answers are incredibly shallow for example "I don't like your shoes."
I do enjoy watching this show I kind of play along at home and see if I would turn off my light, I joke with my friends saying I should go on there but I don't think I ever would. The girls all seem to be the same, and by this I mean all made up to look like barbie dolls, with a few exceptions of course and I just don't know if that's what guys go for these days? But I would like to see a bit more of a variety of women on there and I know stupidity can be "funny" but maybe a few smart girls on there would be good as well.
The guys that go on there I think have a lot of confidence to stand and be judged by 30women I do feel sorry for the ones that don't get a date. I like the variety in guys, tall, short, hairy, bald, smart, funny and plain weird.
I will continue to watch this show if I'm in on a Saturday evening, it's good entertainment.
I personally really enjoyed the celebrity special edition and think that they should do more of them.
Take me out has to be the worst show ever!the first episode of this pathetic, terrible, rediculous show was aired on the 2nd January 2010 on ITV1. This catastrophy still airs to this day on saturdays at 7.05pm. With 46 episodes of cheesy chat up lines and girls dolled to thier 9's, theres no wonder that over the 4 series' they have lost around 20 million viewers. As Paddy McGuinness proclaims to the dimwitted audience "let the monkey see the nut" i know its all over for intelligance for the next hour!
At first glance Take Me Out looks like a piece of Saturday Night 'fluffy' light entertainment. It is a dating show which consists of a panel of 30 (Paddy's 'flirty thirty') women and four bachelors (on the stage one at a time), which is hosted by Bolton comedien Paddy McGuinness on ITV 1
The women are a selection of different 'types' though surprisingly many of them are vague 'lookalikes' for celebrities such as Ulrika Jognson, Nicola from Girls Aloud. There is also a set of twin sisters.
30 women stand in a semi circle behind podiums with lights. The show starts with the first brave man coming down to the stage in the 'Love Lift' to music of his choice. He then introduces himself to the girls. At this point if they do not like what they see they can turn their lights off (hence Paddy's catchphase ''No likey, no lightey'). This is followed with 3 'rounds' where the man tries to impress the girls by performing a particular talent that he may have, seeing VT of his friends/ families/him talking about him. During each round the lights continue to go off (or stay on if the man is liked). Paddy will then chat to the those who have turned their lights off to find out why and likewise those who have left them on. This gives both the audience and the men and chance to get to know the women better. As the series progesses the audience gets to know the women as they are the same each week - the ones that get a date are replaced with a new one.
After the final round (if there are any lights left on) the man is given the 'power' and is asked to wittle the women down to just two. He then asks them both the same questions and chooses which one he would like to take on a date.
They are then send on a date. In the first series they were sent to Fernando's which was a local bar for a drink! In the subsequent series the prize budget was obviously increased as the lucky couple were sent to the Island of Fernandos for the day and took part in slightly more adventurous activities such as water skiing, pony trekking and grape crushing and then had a meal together.
The show is actually very cleverly devised. After watching a show on body language and dating which outlined the differences between men and women and how they choose their partners. Men are initally attracted by appearance first whereas women like to know about more about the person, their qualities and character. I wondered at first why the show was not reversed half way through so the men form the panel and there is one women (a bit like 'Blind Date' was reversed) however the concept would not work that way.
I find it engaging as you get to know the women even though their increasing despairation to get a date is slightly saddening - though some of them are very fussy and regularly turn their lights off almost straightaway - and others always get down to the last round where they are eliminated yet again by the fella.
In a similar to 'Blind Date' the couple are interviewed after their dates to find out how they got along together - though usually the body language or stilted conversation throughout the date speaks volumes. I amazed how often they say 'you aren't my type' after they have been paired up and surprisingly it doesn't work out. I expect that both the man and women are delighted to be chosen, and not rejected, - and maybe a little relieved to leave the show (especially if they have been on for weeks on end). It is always heart-warming when it does work out and some of the couples' matched really seemed successful.
Paddy McGuinness is very witty and lighthearted with endless little catchphases such as 'let the apples see the pairs', 'let the strawberries see the cream' which differ each time. He jokes around with all the contestants, engages the viewer with banter and quips. He has a good rapport with the girls and feels for them to - which helps engage the viewers with them too. The ofen has a giggle at things that are said and done and lightly takes a 'mickey' out of the contestants - but in a funny, not depreciating, way.
The first time I encountered Paddy McGuinness was when he was on Dance for Comic Relief and won with Keith Lemon performing the signature dance from Dirty Dancing. Paddy very much owns this show and it would not be the same with another host.
I think both the women and the men on this show are very brave and would have to be relatively thick-skinned to cope with the rejection and sometimes constant rejection. Some of the men do not get a date and many of the women don't either. I cannot forget the poor chap who decided that showing the girls his drag-queen act would win their hearts - up to that point he was doing really well - every light went out - oops!
I will be looking forward to, and tuning in again for the next series as I look forward to the entertainment, see if the date prize fun has escalated further and also to continue to try and predict who will choose who. I suppose you could say it is a bit of a guilty pleasure - I know that I should probably prefer to turn over and watch something a little more highbrow but frankly I don't!
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I was a bit too young to really appreciate Blind Date when it was on television but I have to admit that I quite enjoyed the recent dating show hosted by Paddy McGuinness on ITV 1. Take Me Out has to be taken at face value and if you do this you will not be disappointed. Basically thirty women in the studio stand behind podiums that display a light which they use to indicate whether they are interested in the single man who is presented to them. During the course of each programme four chaps enter the stage via an elevator to a piece of music they have selected to enhance their entrance and that suits their personality.
The men get an opportunity to describe some of the things they are interested in and even demonstrate any special skills or talents they may have. There are also videos played on a large screen often narrated by his friends or his mother or other members of his family further giving away details about what he is like as a person. At any time the single women can turn of their light indicating that they are no longer interested in getting to know him better on a date.
Once all the information has been presented to the women hopefully for the man there will be a number of lights still illuminated. If there are more than two lights still visible he needs to make a decision and he instead of them can now turn of lights. When he is left with his two favourites he can then ask them a question which does remind me a little of the questions on Blind Date and based on their answers he makes his choice by switching off the penultimate light. The pair then goes off to get to know each other a little better and in the show the following week we are able to see how they got on. Unfortunately if all the females switch their lights off the single man does not get a date.
This show is fairly entertaining but I think both sexes are extremely brave to take part. Imagine going on there and none of the women wanting to give you a chance or if you are one of the females and the man turns your light off, you would have to be extremely thick skinned and secure but I suppose they know that is a risk and could happen. Overall though it is fun, entertaining and it is television you do not have to think about, nice one!
Take me is the latest dating style game show on ITV. It is a modern day version of Blind date, except Cilla Black is now in the form of paddy McGuiness. The game starts with lots of girls stood behind lit boxes. A single man is introduced to the girls and does a bit of a walk around showing of his body and looks etc. Any girl who is immediately turned off by the man turns her light off.
The next stage is a short video about the man, again, any girl who is starting to not be so keen turns her light off. There are three rounds with chances to run lights off and then the man narrows those with their lights on down to a final two.
When there is only two left the man gets to ask them a single question (this bit is definitely like blind date). The women then give an answer to the question, which definitely sounds pre planned. The man choses his women based on her answer, and her appearances etc. He then takes her on a prearranged date and they report back in the next episode. The women remaining then stay on for the next round when the next man is introduced.
The programme is light hearted and fun and easy to watch, perfect chilled out entertainment for a Saturday night. It gets a bit boring after a while, and its nothing substantial so it never stays on for long and is only a focus when doing something else.
No likey, no lighty, this is the catchphrase of a show which takes the hit ITV sitcom 'Benidorm' and pretty much transfers its tacky bravado to a dating show.
Presented by the comedian Paddy McGuiness of Max and Paddy fame, the show sets up a number of single women to decide whether any of them want to date a man who comes on the show looking for love.
Basic Premise:
30 single women each have a buzzer, a confident young chap is brought down in a lift to music of his choosing, generally he comes down having a dance, strutting or showing how good looking he is and from this point the 30 ladies can simply switch their buzzer off if they don't want to date him. The man is asked to give a short talk about himself, then has to perform a special skill which can range from stripping or football keepy-uppy's to dancing, there is then a short video showing the man's family and friends talking about him and at this point if any of the women are still interested the man chooses the two he likes most, asks them a tie breaker question and then chooses his favourite to take out on a date.
The Presenter:
Paddy is a good guy, he sticks up for the blokes if they are voted off quickly and has a brash humour in the fact he can make some of the pickier women look silly when their views don't correspond with reality. He anchors the show well and gives it a totally light hearted appeal making it watchable.
The Girls:
I could have retitled this 'The Good, the bad and the ugly', there are a real mix of women here, some very picky, some desperate for a date, some obviously will appeal to the guys and some who will only appeal to the guys who are unappealing to the other 29 women. The girls interaction with Paddy is amusing and some of them such as the scatty twins are comedy gold.
The Guys:
Ranging from shy and quiet to brash and confident the fellas may use this as much as an opportunity to show how attractive they are on tv as anything as it is a bit of a meatfest, with the men being paraded before the women. I think this must attract very confident men who have a lot of self belief.
The Show:
30 minutes on ITV on Saturday nights, at around 730pm, the show has just finished but will be commissioned for a second series due to the ratings.
What do the winners get?
A date at Fernando's which looks like possibly the tackiest nightclub in the world, it allows the audience to see if the couple hit it off, more often than not they don't and this is very much like Cilla Black's blind date in this respect but without the budget.
Is it any Good:
Honestly, its brash, tacky really in your face, but it works, you do want some of the genuinely nice people to find love and you do want some of the cocky show offs (both men and women) to meet their match. The show is a definite guilty pleasure for both blokes and women and an enjoyable television show in its own right.
Take me out has, for the last 8 weeks been the new dating series on itv on a Saturday night. It is hosted by Paddy Mcguinness and he is awesome! The show has him delivering some pretty random lines but he does it really well and even has to have a giggle himself at some points!
The show centres around a string of 30 pretty girls who have all been single for a while and they are all pretty different and different ages, theres something for everyone! A single guy then comes down the 'love 'lift' to a song of his choice and the girls get to have a look-see. Each girl has a big light in front of them, and basically, if they dont like what they see, they turn their light from white to red. As Paddy says; "NO LIKEY, NO LIGHTY". Sometimes an old slimy man will get a lot of lights turned off at the first chance, but a young hottie will get most lights kept on.
Paddy is in my opinion a really good host, he makes it lighthearted, seems to really feel for the girls and laughs along with them. When the girls turn their lights off, sometimes Paddy will go and ask a few of thm why. They always seem to have quite silly answers and always, when he turns out to be a fittie, or really rich, they are all kicking themselves. But the girls can't turn their light back on once it is off.
What I just discussed is the first round. A guy has to get through 3 rounds in order to get a date with a girl. He can show off a talent, show a video of his parents/friends talking about him, or that kind of thing, and throughout the girls are listening and turning their lights off if they arent interested. At the end of the 3rd round, if the guy has no girls left, he gets no date, if there are a few, he has to whittle it down to 2 just by turning their lights off. When there are just 2 girls left, he gets the chance to ask them a question. These questions are always a little blind date style and their answers are generally cringeworthy.
After a match is found, the couple is sent off to Fernandos, a bar in manchester for their date. The previous show shows the dates from the week before and it is nice to have a follw up and see how they went and the peoples true opinions of each other.
I really like take me out, I watch it on itvplayer though and I think it is really good light watching. The comments are always funny although over the 8 weeks, some of the girls have really started to annoy me, ie. the twins. I reccomend watching it though, it is really good and Paddy is a brill host. Its basically like guilty pleaseure for me although i think it is a really popular show and I am sure there will be another few series'! (I hope there will be anyway!)
Take me out is a popular dating TV show hosted BY Paddy McGuiness on prime time saturday night on ITV.
Basically there are 30 girls all single and looking for a date and within the show there are 4 guys who try and win the affections of the girls (which are of all different ages and back grounds) and the guys have to impress the girls and if they likey they keep their lights on and if don't likey they switch their lights off.
This is great Saturday night entertainment and fun for all the family to watch. When the guy wins himself a date he has to choose from to girls and ask them a question about thmselves then th guy chooses his favourite and goes on a date to the one the only Fernando's in Manchester.
For me though I think Paddy McGuiness makes the whole show at first though I thought Vernon Kay would of been better but I swiftly changed my mind. He's really funny and some of those one liners Paddy uses are brilliant.
I recommend this show as it has something for everyone Paddy Mcguiness's jokes, all the hot ladies (well some of them anyway like Daisy) and the lads for the ladies. First class entertainment and great fun to watch.
Take me out is a relatively new Saturday night show that airs on ITV. It isn't very often that I watch ITV on a Saturday night because I'm normally at work but the few times that I have seen this, I've found myself laughing a lot even when I didn't want to. The show is hosted by Paddy McGuinness.
30 girls all want a date and until they get one, they stay on the show. Each week, four single guys show the girls what they're all about in the hopes that they will get a date with one of them. Each of the 30 girls stands behind a counter that is lit up. If at any point throughout the show, the girls decide that they don't like the man then they turn off the light. That's where the saying 'No likey, no lighty' comes from. At different points in the show, if there are too many girls with their lights still on, the man gets a chance to turn off some off the lights himself. The aim is to end up with a couple of girls with their lights still on and then it's time to choose which one to go on a date with.
The man looking for a date enters the stage through the love elevator and this is his chance to impress the girls. He begins by telling everyone a bit about himself because as we all know, first impressions count. I've seen some of the men come out of the elevator doing some hilarious dance moves and I know I'd turn my light out straight away at that point. It's really funny to see some men come out of the elevator and the majority of the lights go off straight away. I do feel sorry for the guys at this point because it must be humiliating. Then we get to know a little bit more about the guy in question. After hearing what their prospective dates are into, the lights either stay on or go out. The part I like most though is when we get to hear from the friends and family. It's amazing what they can reveal about someone and more often that not, it seems to make more lights go out than stay on. If there are still lights on after this point, we get to see a party trick and then some Blind Date type questions so that the guy can decide which girl he wants to take out.
This is one of those shows that you cannot help but like, for the most part anyway. There are very few people who I know that don't like it. Participants from both sides are really funny. Amongst the girls we see some extremely tarted up women who want to wear as much make up as possible while wearing a super low cut top, trying to get as much attention as they can. I cant say I've noticed that many of the women who are even close to natural looking. The men are a bit more mixed. Some of them come across as being truly genuine and sweet which doesn't always get them a date and then there are the guys that are totally full of themselves. They think they're gorgeous and that will be enough but I love to see a load of lights go off for these guys as they don't really deserve a date. I think they want their 5 minutes on TV more than anything else.
During the show, we get to see how the dates from the previous week turned out and I haven't seen too many that had a good time but then again, I haven't seen that many episodes yet. I like the fact that this part of the show doesn't take up too much time and it's just enough to let us know how things went.
Take me out is great Saturday night TV but unfortunately the series ended tonight so I'll have to wait for next time now.
Take Me Out is a popular show hosted by Paddy McGuiness, on Saturday evenings around 7pm. The programme revolves around 30 single ladies all looking for a date, as single men try out their luck in front of them.
Every show you see 4 different men of any age come down the "love-lift" to try his luck, arriving to his own choice of music. The jokes made by the host here are often hilarious and have me in stitches. He then introduces himself to the women, and they can decide that if "no likey, no lightey", where they turn their lights off if uninterested. The pain you see going across the guys faces when more turn off than they expect is priceless.
The next two rounds basically consist of the men showing off, and if any of the ladies are left after, the man can decide who he wishes to date, before they are whisked off to "Fernandos". If the man is unfortunate enough to have none of the women wanting a date, then he has to walk off stage, fairly humiliatingly. It is really satisfying seeing a really arrogant one having to turn around to All By Myself.
The show is usually set out where you see a new man come down the lift and then you see a date from the week before and see how it went. The show is full of sexual innuendo, but all in all, it is a fun harmless show, which often is fairly funny, which is good just before a night out.
Saturday night prime time television isn't renowned for being either high brow or particularly credible. Force-fed a diet of All Star Mr and Mrs, Casualty and So You Think You Can Dance, at the current time, it's pretty bad and I pride myself on my decision not to actually have a television set at all. But a combination of water cooler gossip, excited text messages and word of mouth have led me to track down Take Me Out on the online ITV catch-up website and I am now shamelessly, unequivocally addicted.
Hosted by northern comic Paddy McGuinness, the show has been around since the start of the year and is frequently referred to as a modern day Blind Date. Although the principle of single people looking for a date is common to both shows, Take Me Out is infinitely more entertaining and much faster moving, with none of that awful clack that Cilla Black started becoming so tiresome with.
The premise is pretty simple. Every week, four single guys entertain a panel of thirty single women with the goal of impressing at least two of them enough so that he can take one of them out. The girls each have an illuminated counter, behind which they stand, their hand poised over a vital button that keeps them lit. If at any point they decide they don't like the guy on show (for whatever reason) then they turn the light off, taking themselves out of the running. At intervals, if there are too many girls left, the guy gets to come over and turn the light off for them, eventually leaving the guy with one girl, who he gets to take out for the night. A 'blackout' is to be avoided at all costs; if all the girls decide to turn their lights off, you know you're a pretty sad case. Constantly reminded of their responsibilities, the girls are told to maintain one simple rule - 'No likey? No lightie!'
The individual rounds vary in their levels of hilarity. Initially, the guy comes down in a big stage lift, accompanied by a song of his choice and sort of parades himself before the panel of leggy lovelies. This introduction is very telling and what always makes me laugh is how many girls turn their lights off on the basis of what the guy looks like alone. The turning off of lights is, in itself, rather entertaining, purely because it makes a brilliant sort of 'DOOW! noise and there's something wickedly entertaining when a ginger bloke gets out the lift and all you can here is a ricochet of 'DOOW!' noises as they all turn their lights off. Next up the guy either shows his life through a video interview or one of his friends and family is interviewed. The latter is by far the more entertaining, quite often because it seems that the guy has no idea they are about to show an interview with someone he knows will be really embarrassing. This week, for example, one guy (reasonably average looking) suffered a complete black out when his mum revealed that he had a thing for older women and they shot to a good luck message from Jane McDonald. Other things that cause rapid lights out include over-zealous parents or admissions of guilty secrets. If he then survives that round, he gets to do his party trick, which is usually pretty cringeworthy and seldom wins any fans, unless he does something fun or interesting. Eventually, he'll get to ask the remaining two girls a Blind Date style question and then there's a winner. The prize is rubbish, just a drink in some cruddy wine bar in Manchester, but in keeping with the spirit of the show.
If it all sounds a bit pure council then that's because it is, but it's also hugely funny. The girls are pretty dreadful - it's a mass of fake tans, bleached hair and huge breasts, but there's a genuine party spirit about the place and some of them are so awful, you can't help but like them. One girl this week, for example, admitted that she just couldn't understand the Scottish accent, within her own broad Essex lilt - she was classy. There are two identical twins that make the Cheeky Girls look positively intelligent and a host of other man-eating freaks. My favourites include a girl who looks a bit desperate and seems to leave her light on right to the end, and a really tall girl that looks like she has ended up there by mistake. The girls are really harsh. This week, a pretty fireman got criticised for having a big ass and the girls' lack of self-awareness is hilarious.
The guys vary enormously. Some of them are complete nobs, and deserve everything they get. Some seem quite nice and you can't help feeling sorry for them as they systematically turn off 30 sex-starved women. Some of them are too in love with themselves, but they all seem to play along pretty well.
Paddy McGuinness was almost born to do this; I can't believe he hasn't hosted something like this before. His broad Bolton accent seems to lend itself perfectly to some of his catch phrases, particularly his play on the 'let the x see the y' line, which changes every time a guy arrives (my favourite being 'let the plug see the socket!'). He interacts really well with the girls, giving some of them a really hard time and generally defending the guys (in the case of the fireman with the big ass, Paddy told him he thought he had a nice bum, but not in that way). McGuinness has a huge personality and is perfectly suited to this kind of thing - he pretty much has me in stitches.
Unlike Blind Date, the previous week's winners don't take up much of the screen time. A minute or two shows them chatting in the bar and you get a quick verdict on whether they liked each other or not. Not surprisingly, such a superficial way of finding someone seldom leads to happiness, but you don't get the fallouts you used to get with Blind Date, which is a shame, in some ways. But it's less obviously scripted than Blind Date and the spontaneity certainly keeps it alive and kicking. Surprisingly, there is a reasonable age range for the contestants too; it's not all teenagers (thank goodness).
I really like this show. It's tacky, it's cringeworthy but most importantly of all it's entertaining. Paddy McGuinness is great - I think he's destined to get a good career out of shows like this and he's a welcome antidote to Ant and Dec's smug camaraderie.
Highly recommended
~*~ Take Me Out ~*~
I always find the period after the X-Factor finishes quite depressing. I get into a routine of spending my hung-over Saturday's eagerly awaiting the show before bedtime, and once it finishes I don't know quite what to do with myself. So, I was very pleased to learn that a nice new reality show took it's 'around 8pm' slot for a Saturday night, although yes I admit it is quite depressing to spend every single Saturday night in front of the telly!
~*~ A little bit about the show ~*~
The show is hosted by Paddy McGuiness who I think is actually the perfect host. He is very cheesey, but in a funny way, and kind of patronises the show itself in a fun way whilst hosting it.
The show is on ITV every Saturday night around 7.30pm (varies slightly!). However! The last episode of the series is on this Saturday (20th February). Episodes are available to watch online though for free, through ITV player.
~*~ The concept ~*~
Take Me Out is described on the website as "a daring new dating show designed to put the powers of female intuition to the ultimate test". Sounds good so far!
Basically, the show consists of thirty single females who are all on the hunt to find their ideal match. They join the show every week until they are lucky enough to be chosen (or choose, in some cases) one of the male participants. The women stand behind their numbered boxes, and three men per week (one at a time!) are lowered onto the stage to be judged each week. Women have to decided whether or not they think they would be a good match, which they signal by turning their light off if the man is a no-go.
The men are given a few chances to get women to fall for them - an introduction stage, a talent part and another section which usually involves a cringey reading from their parents, friends or siblings. And usually a lot of lights going off!
One of the most humiliating parts of the show (for the men!) is when women turn their lights off after the first brief introduction, which basically means that they are not attracted to them in the slightest - quite harsh! If, by the end of the tasks, three or more women have their lights left on, the man has to turn the lights off of the girls he doesn't like the look of. He then gets to ask a pre-set question to the two he does like the look of, and decides which one he thinks is his best match out of the remaining two.
~*~ Is it worth watching? ~*~
To be honest, the show is very cheesey, and pretty much the ultimate in crap TV. However, it is one of those shows that is so bad that it is good, and I can't resist turning it on every single Saturday night. Judge it as you might, I can pretty much assure you that after one episode you will be hooked!
~*~ The verdict ~*~
OK, so it isn't the most intelligent or thought provoking show you will ever watch in your life, but it's all a bit of fun, and something to chill out to. I definitely recommend you watching at least one episode!
I was always a fan of Cilla Black's blind date it was a typical Saturday night in with Blind date and a take away. Now along comes Take Me Out which is an updated and upbeat version in my opinion.
Take Me Out is hosted by the lovely Paddy McGuiness. 30 single women are on stage and have podium which lights up white and goes red when they turn their light off. When a woman decides she is not interested in going on a date with the man they have a button on their podium to turn their light off. "NO LIKEY NO LIGHTY"!! The problem is once a woman turns her light off she cannot put her light back on again which has caused a bit of a problem. There was a lady the other week who loved firemen and when a man come down and danced she turned her light off but later found out he was a fireman!!
The man comes down and introduces himself, which is round 1. The girls see him and can then turn their light off if they don't like what they see. There is a further 2 rounds, they see a video of him describing himself, and another where the man has to either impress the girl, or a video is shown of him which is usually done by his friends or family. At the end he goes on a date to Fernando's with a girl if one is left, if more than one is left then he turns off the lights himself leaving 2 girls, then asks them a question and decides from there.
The following weeks show will show how the dates from the previous show went and what they thought of each other.
The program is so entertaining because of the girls. They all haven't had a boyfriend for so long, and you don't need to wonder why in some cases. Usually when they turn off their light they give such a petty reason like "I don't like his shoes", or go for something more superficial. It is funny to see the mass turning off of the lights when a guy comes down and is a bit of a dodgy dancer or doesn't pick a good song to come down to, but then when a man even hints he might have money or if he takes his top off, the women's faces all drop!!
In some cases the poor man comes down and all the ladies end up turning their lights off so the man doesn't get to have a date.
I get hooked watching this on ITV1 on a Saturday night although I have got a sneaky suspicion that the two twins on the show have been placed there as actresses, but that is only my own opinion. It is good to have something entertaining to watch on a Saturday evening again.


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NASHVILLE -- Captain Andrew Ladd, hot rookie Mark Scheifele and No. 1 goalie Ondrej Pavelec headline the Jets group travelling to Nashville and St. John's, N.L. for weekend NHL pre-season games.
The inclusion of Scheifele with this roster for two games this weekend is a wise call by Jets coaches and management. They need to see swiftly how he will deal with the ramp-up of game pace and intensity that occurs throughout exhibition games.
Scheifele's exhilarating debut at the MTS Centre last Tuesday certainly earned him some rope in the days to come, but he'll have to show more still if he has any hope of sticking around for the season.
Some curious announcements by CBC's Hockey Night in Canada this week about personalities added for the season upon us.
To cover for several instrumental contributors who have fled the ship, HNIC has added Andi Petrillo as a co-host of the show Game Day. Any help the CBC can give P.J. Stock will be viewed favourably by viewers.
CBC has added David Amber as a rinkside reporter in the Eastern Conference. We may learn why at some future date.
And the most interesting addition of all is analyst Daryl Reaugh, the former NHL goalie who's a regular on Dallas Stars and Versus broadcasts.
Reaugh is said to be joining broadcast crews covering the Jets, Flames and Oilers. It will be most interesting to see his style outside of his beloved Stars market. Reaugh can be a bit of a showboat and homer (which may not apply for HNIC), but he's not boring like some of CBC's booth participants.
On the topic of TV, one of the worst decisions made by True North in bringing the NHL back to Winnipeg will surely be its treatment of the fans in its new broadcast deal of 10 years with TSN.
True North has effectively washed its hands of the matter -- and if pressed, can explain away what has transpired -- but leaving TSN to charge Jets fans (via service providers Shaw and MTS TV) for regionally broadcast games is nothing short of shabby.
That TSN and True North announced their deal some weeks ago without a confirmation the vast majority of games would be carried on Shaw or MTS TV was a risk to start with, but the local cable and TV providers' recent announcements that it's going to cost $9.95 per month for TSN Jets makes Winnipeg hockey fans the only ones in the country paying direct fees for regional games.
For instance, if you live in Edmoton or Toronto or Vancouver and you subscribe to those teams' regional providers (Sportsnet in this case), you get the games. Nothing more to do or pay.
Forget the free previews in Winnipeg; they'll be long forgotten soon. Forget that the TSN Jets channel is free on Bell satellite service. It's not a real player in the market.
The subscription fees are nothing short of a money grab by Shaw and MTS TV, who can easily blame it on TSN. TSN will turn around and blame it on the providers who collect your money, so the fault will not likely stick anywhere.
They've all behaved greedily in the matter. Period.
And that True North, owners of the content in the first place, didn't do more for its fans in this matter goes down as a failure.
FYI, the new official capacity of the MTS Centre has changed.
By one seat.
From here forward, the arena will max out at 15,004.
Its capacity began in 2004 at 15,015 but was reduced to 15,003 a few years ago to provide a few more camera locations.
With more changes, swaps and adjustments, the place gained one seat.
And that's the new number.
Finally, a major shout-out to new NHL VP of player safety for Brendan Shanahan for his debut on discipline this week.
He got both right, especially a 10-game ban on Philly's Jody Shelley for his pathetic piece of violence against Darryl Boyce of the Leafs the other night.
Anyone who argues players DO have respect for each other these days ought to watch the clip of the hit a few times.
And then keep quiet.
Mr. Shanahan's goal now ought to be keeping up the stern messages, and we pray the days of 95 per cent of suspensions being one game are over.


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