Best Of The Noughties
December 07, 2009
Just what you’ve been waiting for, our favourite things of the past decade.
As a break from the normal news stories we thought we’d look back at the last decade and run a poll on everyone’s favourite things of the Noughties. You wouldn’t believe the arguments that ensued. DO NOT try this in your own office unless you have an ambulance on standby and you don’t want any work to get done. Anyway, for what it’s worth, here’s what everyone decided:
TV programme:
Dave L – The Wire
Rich – Nathan Barley
Dave S – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Andi – Weeds
Dave B – Anything with Gok Wan in
Patty – Anything by Michael Jackson
Album:
Dave L – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Arctic Monkeys
Rich – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Arctic Monkeys
Dave S – The Music, The Music
Andi – Real Life, Joan as Policewoman
Dave B – That new Bananarama one
Patty – Thriller, Michael Jackson
Film:
Dave L – Memento
Rich – Napoleon Dynamite
Dave S – Dead Man’s Shoes
Andi – Volver
Dave B – GForce in 3D
Patty – Lord of the Rings
Book:
Dave L – The Damned Utd, David Peace
Rich – The Damned Utd, David Peace
Dave S – My Favourite Year, a collection of new football writing
Andi – Bad Vibes, Luke Haines
Dave B – Social Marketing Made Easy, Jeff French
Patty – Shell Seekers, Rosamund Pilcher
Gadget:
Dave L – Iphone
Rich – Mobile Phone
Dave S – Tefal Actifry
Andi – Ipod
Dave B – Braun nose hair trimmer
Patty – Billy Bass talking fish
Sporting event:
Dave L – Hull City going up
Rich – Liverpool fluking the Champions League
Dave S – Any Man Utd game “we” win
Andi – Daley Thompson’s Decathlon
Dave B – Beating Archie on the Wii
Patty – Burley Horse Trials 2009
Gig:
Dave L – Leonard Cohen at Glastonbury
Rich – Arctic Monkeys at Ibiza Rocks
Dave S – Primal Scream, Leeds
Andi – Cud’s farewell gig in Leeds
Dave B – Gary Williams at the Pigalle Club, London
Patty – Moody Blues in Nottingham
Website:
Dave L – Why, that’s delightful
Rich – BBC
Dave S – Egotastic
Andi – Ebay
Dave B – Malmaison
Patty – Michael Jackson
Job we did:
Dave L – RNLI, Brixham
Rich – Raffles Canouan
Dave S – RNLI, Brixham
Andi – Saks, High Definition
Dave B – Raffles Canouan
Patty – Mark Hill BAFTA Promo
Crisp (or snack):
Dave L – Tunnocks Caramel Wafer
Rich – Canadian Ham Seabrooks
Dave S – Picnic
Andi – Cranberry flapjack (or kebabs)
Dave B – Jordan’s Crispy Crunch
Patty – Bounty bar (plain)
For the sake of fairness we should point out that Patty didn’t know what she was filling in. And Dave B wasn’t in the office so we made his up. You can view one of our favourite jobs we’ve worked on from the past 10 years, above.
