Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Joe Steinberg said:
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.
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Peep Show is probably the only British show I can think of that I actually get excited to watch.
 
Mr. Nice said:
I love American culture. Everything good comes from there recently, except actors. That's why all the best American shows just use English actors.
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Must admit I find Americans incredibly Insular , I have several relatives out there and used to visit often , but NO WAY would I ever choose to live there .

Life is SO cheap , I mean as in the life / Death of a person , not standard of living .

No Mon ( Money ) no Fun and get a job attitude stinks IMHO .

And even some of them are so shallow it defies belief , not all I have met , but enough to make me think .
 
TheSecondStain said:
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.
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A challenge TSS; dedicate a few hours of your time to watching a few episodes of Game of Thrones or The Wire, and then you can come back with your feelings and we can kill this topic once and for all. 'Don't knock it til you've tried it' and all that. ;)
 
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.
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Some J-Pop is quite good. I've heard some good songs on Japanese radio which aren't quite so what you'd imagine as stereotypical J-Pop, but still rather good. One was more like J-Folk. I guess in the UK, you generally only hear the cheesy example of J-Pop. As for anime, my experience of that is quite limited, but I do like the artistic style. The one anime series I've watched is Fruits Basket which is quite a nice, enjoyable series. I'd recommend it. And the main character's really sweet, although I'm not sure anyone could be quite so positive in real life.
 
I love it when stuff syncs up like this:

[video=youtube;F39UP1mjAnc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39UP1mjAnc[/video]
 
Joe Steinberg said:
I love it when stuff syncs up like this:

[video=youtube;F39UP1mjAnc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39UP1mjAnc[/video]
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I made a promise to myself to post this at any valid opportunity I get:

[video=youtube;Tfm8t9Rx4c4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfm8t9Rx4c4[/video]
 
Mikey said:
A challenge TSS; dedicate a few hours of your time to watching a few episodes of Game of Thrones or The Wire, and then you can come back with your feelings and we can kill this topic once and for all. 'Don't knock it til you've tried it' and all that. ;)
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Challenge accepted. I'll try to find some episodes of GoT or The Wire, if it's not illegal to do so, and then I'll see if I'm hooked. It still doesn't alter my view that one shouldn't automatically think that everything good comes out of America. With all due respect to Dan, that's a very narrow way to think, and I'm sure that he didn't quite mean it the way he wrote it.
 
That was very good.

Also, I notice I'm well out of the title race for this Beefy's Corner, so I'm going to have to make a lot more posts like
 
TheSecondStain said:
Challenge accepted. I'll try to find some episodes of GoT or The Wire, if it's not illegal to do so, and then I'll see if I'm hooked. It still doesn't alter my view that one shouldn't automatically think that everything good comes out of America. With all due respect to Dan, that's a very narrow way to think, and I'm sure that he didn't quite mean it the way he wrote it.
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My slightly hyperbolic statement is more narrow minded than assuming anyone who enjoys American media is merely doing so because they've been brainwashed by Sky? Really?
 
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