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Kurtofan posted:Wallace and Gromit is on tv here (France) like every Christmas season. British television like Wallace and Gromit or Mr Bean is a thing that gets aired every Christmas here and I have no idea why. Well Mr Bean probably needs very little in the way of translation, isn't there only about 5 words in the whole show? Also both those are probably cheap as hell.
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Mr. Bean is by far the worst thing the British people have ever done to our French brothers. And that includes the Hundred Years' War. I am so sorry.
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Dec 22, 2014 15:40
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I have no hate for Bean. Rowan Atkinson is pretty much always great at everything he puts his hands to, and I'd rather sit through 30 minutes of that than whatever archaic nonsense in 2014 clothing UK comedy has to offer this year. Which I'm guessing is probably a Mrs Brown's Boys Xmas Special where they all gently caress off to another country for an hour of the most tedious poo poo ever conceived.
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Dec 22, 2014 15:47
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Yeah Mr. Bean is neat. I assume Wallace and Gromit gets aired at Christmas because it's all homely and charming and such.
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Dec 22, 2014 15:53
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Kurtofan posted:Wallace and Gromit is on tv here (France) like every Christmas season. British television like Wallace and Gromit or Mr Bean is a thing that gets aired every Christmas here and I have no idea why. It might have something to do with mainland Europe's Santa Claus being a crazed child murderer and England's Santa being a jolly fat man who gives kids presents.
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Dec 22, 2014 16:04
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Irish Joe posted:It might have something to do with mainland Europe's Santa Claus being a crazed child murderer and England's Santa being a jolly fat man who gives kids presents. Well they had Thatcher to cover the crazed child murdering.
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Dec 22, 2014 16:10
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Mister Bates posted:There's actually a second twist near the end which partially undoes the first twist - the experiment actually was a spaceflight program all along, the eugenics program was basically intended to breed a Guild Navigator, and the series ends with their first successful subject having accidentally teleported a member of the crew to an alien planet. Actually the last episode saved it for me. I cheered when the dumb outsiders were whacked.
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Dec 22, 2014 16:14
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Bown posted:Yeah Mr. Bean is neat. I assume Wallace and Gromit gets aired at Christmas because it's all homely and charming and such. Yeah I'm going to go with that  It's not a translation thing since everything gets translated anyway. Irish Joe posted:It might have something to do with mainland Europe's Santa Claus being a crazed child murderer and England's Santa being a jolly fat man who gives kids presents. French Santa is also a jolly fat man, it's his evil counterpart Pere Fouettard that does the whipping.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I have no hate for Bean. Rowan Atkinson is pretty much always great at everything he puts his hands to, and I'd rather sit through 30 minutes of that than whatever archaic nonsense in 2014 clothing UK comedy has to offer this year. Yes, I'd watch Blackadder's Christmas Carol most Christmases.
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Dec 22, 2014 16:27
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Metal Loaf posted:Yes, I'd watch Blackadder's Christmas Carol most Christmases. Blackadder Christmas Carol is the best Christmas special. I'm going to watch it tonight now.
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sbaldrick posted:Blackadder Christmas Carol is the best Christmas special. "Strip away the outer layers of a fat git, and inside you'll probably find..."
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Bown posted:Yeah Mr. Bean is neat. I assume Wallace and Gromit gets aired at Christmas because it's all homely and charming and such. do people call u homely so much u assume its a compliment
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Dec 22, 2014 17:38
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I think he meant "homey."
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Dec 22, 2014 18:52
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"Homely" has a different connotation in the UK than how we use it.
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hcreight posted:"Homely" has a different connotation in the UK than how we use it. quote:1. (dated) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive. That's actually kind of interesting.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:05
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Not on purpose, it's just how they all look.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:05
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Sensing a lot of Brit hate on SA lately  I remember when Christmas TV was actually good. Morecambe & Wise, Two Ronnies, Noel's House Party and Generation Game all had big shows at Christmas. Great family fun. Now it's Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boyz and loving bread shows.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:11
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It's because of our violent subjugation of the glorious Scotch War for Revolution of Independence.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:13
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The reason I hate the British today is because I saw a Guardian article in my newsfeed about that Glasgow garbage truck accident and it called the truck a 'bin lorry'. Take the whole place down, that's ridiculous. WastedJoker posted:Sensing a lot of Brit hate on SA lately Okay those aren't real things, stop making stuff up.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:18
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I don't think anybody hates Britain so much that, after years of the British trying to high road us, it turns out they're all as dumb, fat and trashy as we are.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:27
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They're as real as it gets! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GpDYafC6M How can you hate a nation producing such gold?
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Dec 22, 2014 20:27
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I'm not much for The Two Ronnies, but the Four Candles sketch is a genuine classic. Noel Edmunds can gently caress right off though. Odious, demented UKIPpy twat.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:29
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My only experience with British Christmas specials outside of Doctor Who was when I caught the tail end of an Eastenders special. How do you people not kill yourselves?
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Dec 22, 2014 20:53
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Here in America we just watch the same Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, and Charlie Brown specials every year for the last 50 years and enjoy it dammit. (Rudolph #1)
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Dec 22, 2014 21:13
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The TV IV > TV IV Couch Chat: Merry Christmas, gently caress You England
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Fateo McMurray posted:Here in America we just watch the same Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, and Charlie Brown specials every year for the last 50 years and enjoy it dammit. Its the one time of year kids understand my Jimmy Durante impression.
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Dec 22, 2014 21:21
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Speaking of Christmas specials I'm having trouble finding any TV listings for the version of A Christmas Carol starring Jimmy McNulty and his uncle Patrick Stewart and it's making me sad.
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Dec 22, 2014 21:25
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The saddest thing about Christmas television are those programs with celebrities "celebrating" the new year when the thing is filmed in October or somesuch.
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Dec 22, 2014 21:31
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In the midst of my Christmas holiday binge, just want to say Transparent is the tits (made by estrogen pills). So human, such quick, amazing moments. Like a less manipulative Six Feet Under.
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Dec 22, 2014 21:32
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Kurtofan posted:The saddest thing about Christmas television are those programs with celebrities "celebrating" the new year when the thing is filmed in October or somesuch. I remember it was even in the papers when it came out that Jools Holland's annual hootenanny was filmed around September.
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Dec 22, 2014 21:34
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Irish Joe posted:Its the one time of year kids understand my Jimmy Durante impression. 
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Shageletic posted:In the midst of my Christmas holiday binge, just want to say Transparent is the tits (made by estrogen pills). So human, such quick, amazing moments. Like a less manipulative Six Feet Under. One of the things that bugged me about Transparent (which I loved overall) was that they ripped the "character who struggles to maintain relationships partially because he was statutory raped as a teen" storyline straight out of SFU's playbook.
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WastedJoker posted:Now it's Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boyz and loving bread shows. The limits of my exposure to each of these things are: 1) I sometimes see the last two minutes of Citizen Khan while I'm waiting for HIGNFY to start. It does not look especially good. 2) I sometimes see adverts for the Mrs Brown's Boys movie on Ulsterbuses when I'm driving into Belfast. It does not look especially good. 3) Because the "victim" of the "bincident" / "Baked Alaskagate" (I'm assuming you're talking about The Great British Bake-Off) was from Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph seemed to be running front page features on the great injustice done to him every other day for about a month after it happened, stopping just short of demanding the immediate resignation and suicide of the entire production staff even after everyone pointed out it had been recorded months before it went to air. This is about par for course for Our Wee CountryTM. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Irish Joe posted:Its the one time of year kids understand my Jimmy Durante impression. I'm sure they understand your Jimmy Savile impression whatever time of the year.
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hcreight posted:The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The TV IV > TV IV Couch Chat: Merry Christmas, gently caress You England Sure. Why not?
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As a Welsh, I wholeheartedly back this statement 
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Metal Loaf posted:2) I sometimes see adverts for the Mrs Brown's Boys movie on Ulsterbuses when I'm driving into Belfast. It does not look especially good. Mrs Browns Boys gave us this amazing article and is indirectly responsible for Current Releases shutting down so it does have that going for it.
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Dec 22, 2014 23:07
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Deadpool posted:Sure. Why not? Without England you wouldn't have Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Misfits, Rome, Spaced, Orphan Black, Black Mirror, State of Play, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Jimmy McNulty, Captain Picard, House, Nick Brody, Stringer Bell, Al Swearengen, Bilbo Baggins and Desmond from Lost. Your move, America  
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Dec 22, 2014 23:12
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Rarity posted:Without England you wouldn't have I'm American, but just saying. We're kind of your fault.
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If not having those, meant not having Simon Cowell, One Direction, Piers Morgan, Madonna's fake accent, and the Royal family I would call it a fair exchange.,
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