Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

I love American culture. Everything good comes from there recently, except actors. That's why all the best American shows just use English actors.

 

Well, that exam went well...

 

You really ought to learn how to link an article. It isn't difficult, Fran: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22604167

Once you get the hang of it you'll be linking all sorts of stuff, because the topics and opinions you come up with are always interesting.

Not a bad read either.

 

I wanna go on Room 101 so I can put Victoria Coren's appearance on Room 101 into Room 101.

Also that Spike Milligan one is great.

Edit: ooh thought of another one: everything Sigmund Freud said.

 

Apart from Peter Dinklage.

 

Nope.

 

Yes, I know, which is why I didn't say I 100% agreed with her view. Whilst curry isn't actually a British invention, many of the elements of it were made known, brought together and popularised by the British. So you can actually say you want a British curry.

 

Everything good comes from America OR Japan.

 

Hmm, it's quite possibly why I don't watch an awful lot of TV these days. Quite frankly, I don't know how you can seriously write such a line, Dan.

 

Because everything good comes from there. Look at the most popular and most acclaimed shows of the last few years: The Wire, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Homeland, The Walking Dead etc etc.

 

Yeah, that's my point, we took an Indian recipe and put a British spin on it, much like we did with tea. There is a British version of both, but to complain about the presence of the original Indian version is a bit odd.

 

Oh dear. First mistake - popular doesn't necessarily mean good. What is popular to some may be awful to others. Do you like the Conservative Government..? I hear they were very popular a couple of years back. Bad example, but it serves my point.

 

I'm aware popular doesn't mean good, that's an appalling example. They're popular in a respected way, rather than popular in a TOWIE, BGT style way.

 

Sir Bradley pulls out of le Tour .

 

I'll never understand anime or J-pop. Why those things are popular I cannot comprehend. I did like Pokemon though. And there's also Metal Gear, Final Fantasy and so on.

 

I think we both know what she was getting at. I doesn't need dissection. You either feel comfortable with it or you don't. Given the gravity of the TV programme, I found it OK.

 

Yeah but Americans cancelled Futurama. Twice.

 

I said it was a bad example. I'm simply trying to get you to realise that there are other things around, that don't get light shone on them because they are not from the USA, and they are sometimes/often better. I could say that your opinion is a modern one borne out of the SKY generation, but that would be to cheapen your opinion, so I'll just accept that what American culture throws at you, you wholeheartedly love, and that's that.

 

I don't have Sky, I choose what to watch based on recommendations from my intelligent friends and how critically acclaimed they are. I don't know what you have against productions from the States, but you've brought up your disdain for them several times, and refuse to accept that their productions are better than British productions. They're incredibly popular among intelligent people (rather than the Trash TV people), universally acclaimed by professionals, and yet you refuse to accept their merit because you feel they're "borne out of the SKY generation". I don't know why you find it ludicrous that anyone could claim the most popular and most acclaimed things are the best things, that seems the opposite of ludicrous to me, but whatever.

 

We have a constant stream of talent competitions, soaps, panel shows, and witch hunts on the news. We get about six consecutive weeks out of every other year to enjoy Peep Show, and then good British TV is extinct for the rest of the time. American TV wouldn't even need to be good to be better than ours. As it happens they have HBO, which is a shining light.