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:'''Vyvyan''': It says here, “ensure machine is clean and free from dust”.
:'''Vyvyan''': It says here, “ensure machine is clean and free from dust”.
:'''Mike''': Yeah, but it don’t say “ensure machine is full of washing-up liquid”.
:'''Mike''': Yeah, but it don’t say “ensure machine is full of washing-up liquid”.
:'''Vyvyan''': Yeah, but it doesn’t say “ensure machine ''isn’t'' full of washing-up liquid”.
:'''Vyvyan''': Well, it doesn’t say “ensure machine '''''isn’t''''' full of washing-up liquid”.
:'''Mike''': Well, it wouldn’t would it? I mean, it doesn’t say “ensure you don’t chop up your video machine with an axe, put all the bits in a plastic bag and bung them down the lavatory.”
:'''Mike''': Well, it wouldn’t would it? I mean, it doesn’t say “ensure you don’t chop up your video machine with an axe, put all the bits in a plastic bag and bung them down the lavatory.”
:'''Vyvyan''': ''Doesn’t'' it? Well maybe ''that’s'' where we’re going wrong!<br>
:'''Vyvyan''': ''Doesn’t'' it? Well maybe ''that’s'' where we’re going wrong!<br>

Revision as of 13:56, 5 June 2019

A freeze-frame that will drive you insane.

In the Young Ones[1], just before Dave Vanian and The Damned kicked off a characteristically boisterous rendition of Nasty, Mike and Vyvyan agonised over their failure to get their new video recorder working, in a parable fit for today’s ontologically uncertain times.

Mike: Maybe you shouldn’t have poured all of that washing-up liquid into it.
Vyvyan: It says here, “ensure machine is clean and free from dust”.
Mike: Yeah, but it don’t say “ensure machine is full of washing-up liquid”.
Vyvyan: Well, it doesn’t say “ensure machine isn’t full of washing-up liquid”.
Mike: Well, it wouldn’t would it? I mean, it doesn’t say “ensure you don’t chop up your video machine with an axe, put all the bits in a plastic bag and bung them down the lavatory.”
Vyvyan: Doesn’t it? Well maybe that’s where we’re going wrong!
  1. The episode was Nasty, for details freaks.