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Cardinal Biggles
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06-26-2010, 08:58 PM
@ Nolori: Honey, you've come to the right place. If you want Britcom recommendations, Pearl and I can give you aplenty.
As for Fawlty Towers, I was literally raised on it. My dad used to have me sit down in front of the telly as a toddler so that we might watch the marathons of the show together.
You wanted something of that era? or just something with a similar vibe?
Edit: They sound like really loud bees
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06-26-2010, 09:28 PM
I love the Doctor Who episode where David Tennant gives a shout out to the Harry Potter series. It made me very happy. <3
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06-26-2010, 09:37 PM
@Cardinal: Perferably both, but if it's just one or the other something with that vibe. My mom doesn't watch many funny shows, so I want to see if I get her to watch more. (She pretty much only watches British Tudor dramas.)
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Cardinal Biggles
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06-26-2010, 09:57 PM
Well. From the same era, I might recommend Good Neighbours, although that is a gentler sort of comedy then Fawlty Towers. As for something with a similar madcap feel, she might like Black Books, something Pearl introduced me to. I haven't seen much of it, but it's got a good vibe that a Fawlty Tower fan can appreciate. I almost feel like recommending Darkplace, but I don't know why, seeing that among other things, it's geared towards a younger generation than your mother is likely to be a part of... but it is pretty funny. Pearl, any thoughts? (She's the real expert here)
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06-26-2010, 11:03 PM
Lol, I was just about to suggest Black Books.
It's not quite as mad as Fawlty Towers, but replaces a hateful repressed hotel owner with a hateful repressed bookshop owner.
Other than that she could try Are You Being Served? which I haven't actually seen, but it's of roughly the same period and set in a department store.
I love The IT Crowd right now. The first episode of series 4 which aired on Friday was a belter.
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06-26-2010, 11:53 PM
Thanks so much you guys! They're all on Netflix except on Black Books. It looks like she'll love Are You Being Served. I can't wait until I get home so I can show her.
Thanks!
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06-27-2010, 12:09 AM
Not entirely sure about AYBS, but it was very popular in the time and still fondly remembered.
I'll be interested to hear about her response!
My favourite is Black Books, if you get the chance you should watch some of that.
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06-27-2010, 12:16 AM
I just realized I'd been negligent in not recommending Blackadder. Remedying that fact right now. Might as well give it a look. Oh, and I was just hollered at and told I should add Mr. Bean. That's coming from the peanut gallery that asked me what I was doing...
I have to say, AYBS was always a little too camp for my tastes. And I can take a fair amount of camp...
I was lucky enough to see some of the IT crowd on telly the other day. It's by the same chap who does Black Books, isn't it?
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06-27-2010, 12:37 AM
Oooh yes. Blackadder started at least a decade after Fawlty Towers, but stars my favourite character in comedy.
Edmund Blackadder.... god I love you. ****be warned, AVOID the first series, The Black Adder, START with Blackadder II***
"A man may fight for many things - his country, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock, and a sack of French porn."
I'm so cool, I didn't have to look that up. I can quote a *depressing* amount of Blackadder unaided.
Bean? Eh. Very eh. I'm all about words.
Lol Bigsy, one minute you're talking about all this British TV, and then the next minute you say "holler", v not British.
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06-27-2010, 12:43 AM
I'm working on getting the lame Americanisms out of my system... Unless individual ones make me sound quaint. Then I'm keeping those =3
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06-27-2010, 12:46 AM
By all means pick up quirky British words, but deffo keep the ones you already have. :'D
Words rule man. I wish I could get away with holler.
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06-27-2010, 12:49 AM
I add a ridiculous amount of Briticisms to my vocabulary. Using them makes me feel tingly inside.
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06-27-2010, 12:53 AM
I assume you mean the more polite, cuddly words, not the vulgar ones. :'D
(Twat, tosser, wanker, git, bint, bog, bollocks, fag, grotty, manky, prat, pissed, shag, poxy, twonk...)
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06-27-2010, 12:57 AM
I don't really use swear words... Although I think I have used prat* on a few occasions. I guess when I do use something approximating swear words, I tend to go on an international bent, merde, for example... But like I said not a big swearer. My mother has been known to call me a prude for this fact. We had an incident earlier today where she used the f word, I responded with something along the lines of "oh gosh" and she rolled her eyes... XD
* There is actually a school in the states called Prat College. Apparently my grandfather went there...
Disclaimer: I'm not saying I will never use the words you listed. Context is everything.
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06-27-2010, 01:08 AM
I don't swear all the time, but I do casually.
If it's not 'shit' or 'fuck' I don't usually consider myself to be swearing.
Other than that, I'm most likely to say (in a natural, non-forced way, if I said 'cor blimey' was natural to me I'd be lying) 'damn' or 'bugger' or 'crap' after mild annoyances. (Toe stubbing is definitely SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT)
If I'm talking about people, usually "what a bastard" or "what a wanker". (99% of the time, people on TV)
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06-27-2010, 01:18 AM
That sounds about right. And I have to be honest, I have said "cor" before. And "blimey". Together and separately. But not often.
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06-27-2010, 01:31 AM
Lol fun. I don't know anyone who says either. Ever.
But being mainly in the south, there's less obscure slang, I think. Proximity to London, more mixing of languages and nations.
Gah, when did it get to half two?
(Do you say half two in the US? Half past? Quarter to? Rather than the whole time?)
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06-27-2010, 01:33 AM
Generally half past and quarter to, that sort of thing. But I think that anyone who is paying attention would be able to guess what you meant. I certainly did.
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06-27-2010, 01:40 AM
I'll be interested in any reaction to my accent when I study in the US.
I have a bit of a Hugh Grant thing going on, so I doubt I'll be called Irish/Scottish/Welsh/Australian/Southern/South African in the same way Northerners generally get.
Some Northerners get told that they're very definitely from Pittsburgh or something xD
"No, Leeds..."
I think because of Northern immigrants the tone and inflections in their speech is more similar to North American accents than how I talk.
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06-27-2010, 03:49 PM
I've never known a single person in the US who didn't fawn over British accents. I think you will get some giggles, but mostly people will probably love it.
I am ashamed to say I use 'dude', 'man' and 'dayum' in speech way more than I should. I use 'man' when I'm talking online to people too without thinking about it. I use 'bloody hell' when I'm irritated sometimes, though that probably comes from too much Harry Potter in youth.
I have a friend who uses 'twit' all the time, and we have no idea where that's from. Is it a derivitive of 'twat'? Like 'blimey' is for 'bloody'?
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06-27-2010, 03:50 PM
Hello peoples. :)
Edit\\ A twit is a pregnant gold fish. xD Well, that was the definition that they put in our school paper's fun facts.
Once more edit\\ Alright. So dictionary.com tells me that as a noun, a twit is a weak spot in yarn caused by unneven spinning. it says that it's used as a taunt... obviously. xD Hm. The act of twitting.... haha Not sure how it came to be used as an insult though. >< It mentions twat in the origin. haha
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Cardinal Biggles
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06-27-2010, 08:11 PM
Isn't etymology fun?
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06-27-2010, 08:59 PM
It's so fricking hot.
Because hot weather is the exception in England, no house has air-conditioning or even a fan, probably.
But there will, nonetheless, still be some hot weather... which were are unprepared for.
My bedroom is the hottest in the house, so my mum bought me a fan a couple of summers ago. I've had the blinds half down and the windows open all day (shade and air) and the fan on for most of the evening, and it's only just bearable.
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Cardinal Biggles
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06-27-2010, 09:03 PM
Another reason to love that country :cry: My functioning starts to go downhill at about 75 degrees Fahrenheit... And one of the schools I'm applying to has a early summer temperatures in the 100s...:headdesk:
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06-27-2010, 09:14 PM
I live in the pacific northwest of the US, and normally, people believe that it's cold, and rainy ALL year long, because we're technically part of a temperate rainforest. Yes, we get a lot of rain, BUT, last summer on my birthday, it was 111 degrees F. It's usually an average of 70-90 F in the summer here. @ [email protected]
111 F = 43.8 C
70 F = 21.1 C
90 F = 32.2 C
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