That's not really taste though, is it? It's a bit of a sweeping statement and I'm sure you haven't seen all American sitcoms. I dislike most of them, but they're not all the same and there are some good ones. Their version of The Office was very well done, in my opinion, though is seriously dragging on now.
Yeah that's one of the major downsides of American TV in my opinion, they don't know when to kill something off. In the case of the office, scrubs, the simpsons, lost, etc, they let it go on far too long, and in other cases they end up bringing shows like futurama or arrested development back from the dead, when perhaps they shouldn't.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Two and a Half Men in that. They fire the lead actor and just keep on going. Also, 8 Simple Rules: the actor who plays the Dad dies, and they just write it into the script. Madness.
If not finding the Harlem Shake funny makes me a miserable bastard, then I am a proud miserable bastard
Okay, you be a miserable bastard, and I'll carry on being simple-minded. Everyone's happy!! (Except for you of course! You're still miserable )
Does nothing for me either, but readily admit that older people didn't like The Young Ones and Monty Python when I was young. I suspect that the young throughout the ages have always had a simple taste in humour, so nothing's changed.
To try desperately to return to football .... Isn't this whole debate about peer group stuff and shared experience? Monty Python was the great shared experience when I first started work (yeah, I'm bleedin' old). The likes of The Young Ones and Bottom amused my kids, and they would share lines from stuff like Red Dwarf. I watched some of it with them and found that them finding it funny was funny if you see what I mean. That's not to say there were not some great lines, but it wasn't something I would share with friends at work the next day. On the footie front, as SS says, we go all nostalgic about Shearer, Channon, Chivers et al. Part of the experience of watching a young Terry Paine (told you I was old) was talking about him with mates at school. Now I watch the magnificent Rickie or the astounding Morgan and share it with lads I am at the match with and then go home and discuss when to plant the aubergines. And actually, SS, each generation does discover things anew whether it is Saints, comedy, music or sex! And so it should be, it is the joy of being young. If young Luke watches something I don't get I really don't care. If he is doing no-one any harm he can do what he likes as long as he keeps playing like he does. Now why he feels the need to tell the world about his viewing habits is another matter .... (deffo old sad git rant!)
It is amazing that Luke is such a mature footballer who has settled smoothly into the PL, but has the interests of a fifteen year old. Perhaps it's a good thing...keeps him grounded and means he will not lose touch with his mates.
Aren't we all a bit enigmatic? Friends find it amazing that I can love Saints, Beethoven, Salman Rushdie, The Doors and the Arctic Monkeys equally. But why not? So long as I don't get confused and start shouting out "Booker Prize? You having a laugh?" at a literary reading it's all good. I watch very little TV, but my very cultured wife (she's multi-lingual, paints, writes poetry that sort of stuff) is addicted to certain soaps. Oh and when she occasionally comes to SMS absolutely loves being in the Northam "We are all enigmatic now" Discuss
It's so, so bad. I'd have thought that, for such a massive internet fad, the song would at least be slightly catchy. I honestly am baffled as to why this is a thing.
I think with this one we can consider the zenith reached: [video=youtube;4vqnSwTXAAc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqnSwTXAAc[/video]
I'm far more amused by the prospect of someone singing "Booker prize? You're having a laugh" than any Harlem shaking....
