{"id":8819,"date":"2015-08-31T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T10:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2015-08-31T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T11:05:55","slug":"grabbed-by-the-spetsnaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8819","title":{"rendered":"Grabbed by the Spetsnaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quickie round-up for Bank Holiday Monday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Chase<\/strong> is back after its Summer break today with new Chaser Jenny Ryan (aka The Vixen) in tow. Meanwhile in Australia\u00a0<em>The Chase<\/em> feat. Anne Hegerty will be replacing <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> (which has been in reruns for ages) and <strong>Million Dollar Minute<\/strong> (which I said wouldn&#8217;t do that well, but has lasted longer than I anticipated).<\/li>\n<li>If you enjoy endurance contests\/army boot camp things\u00a0like I do then you should probably give <strong>Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week<\/strong>\u00a0on BBC2 on Sunday nights a try. 29 (I expect someone dropped out before filming) of our brightest and best are subjected to moderate versions of special forces selection\u00a0training from around the world over the course of a week (or so) whilst Freddie Flintoff comments &#8220;ooh, that looks terrible&#8221; to camera with each new exercise. Last night some Navy SEALS shouted at them to do press-ups in the sea and featured a hilarious and surreal moment where everyone breaks out into Westlife. I haven&#8217;t yet worked out if this is meant to be a competition or not (there&#8217;s an on screen counter to show how many of them remain as drop outs through injury and giving up frequently happen, and there&#8217;s a weird bit at the end where it looks like the people in charge are going to force eliminate who they think are weakest\u00a0every week regardless, Flintoff used the word &#8220;winner&#8221; at one point) but we&#8217;d be watching regardless as Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like. If you missed it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0699lvc\">first ep is up on iPlayer.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re big fans of the <strong>Jackbox Party Pack\u00a0<\/strong>(the highly stylised party game app from the people behind <em>You Don&#8217;t Know Jack<\/em>) and unsurprisingly there&#8217;s a sequel coming and this time the central focus will be on <em>Fibbage 2<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; this seems fair enough as whenever we get it out it tends to be <em>Fibbage<\/em> and <em>Drawful<\/em> we gravitate to, so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quickie round-up for Bank Holiday Monday: The Chase is back after its Summer break today with new Chaser Jenny Ryan (aka The Vixen) in tow. Meanwhile in Australia\u00a0The Chase feat. Anne Hegerty will be replacing Deal or No Deal (which has been in reruns for ages) and Million Dollar Minute (which I said wouldn&#8217;t do\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8819\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2if","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}