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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:42:03 PM

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American tv itself IS the commercial.

it is called predictive programming.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:46:08 PM

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Look mate: have a butcher's on youtube for clips from (to pick a few examples) Coming Of Age, Gavin And Stacey, Raw Power, The Girlie Show, Funky Bunker, Richard and Judy, Vanessa, Jeremy Kyle, Four Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, On The Buses, Bread or Just Good Friends and then try and argue that your telly is worse than ours...

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:48:41 PM

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It depends on what you respect the French on... if it is the ability to wage war in the modern era...

That's not quite true. In WW1....the French took a battering from the Germans....and gave plenty back.....they lost something like 350 thousand men in the first few weeks of the war which is staggering.....but still finished on the winning side...I don't think any other country has lost so many men in such a short space of time and turned it round. Although they did mutiny and effectively left the British Army as the only allied army in the field (the Americans weren't ready and the Russians had collapsed) defending their country as French soldiers refused to do anything else but hold a defensive position and the allies were supposed to be shifting the Germans as they occupied parts of France and Belguim......a defensive strategy wasn't an option....the British Army (including parts of the empire) spent a good year trying to shift the Germans on their own (German units mutinied too)....strange eh the professional German and French armies mutinied while the British Army made up of civilian volunteers kept it together. But rightly or wrongly....the French weren't prepared to make the same sacrifice in WW2.....towns blitzed...and millions dead. The worst thing about the French during the second world war was their treatment of their Jewish citizens which shocked even the Nazis. Now that sounds like hyperbole...but it ain't.

Edited to add: should have said the occupying German forces.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:48:55 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY&feature=related

Heil Hitler, just in case we lose.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:51:31 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZI&feature=related

Heres how its done in London (with help from the Yanks)

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 1:56:27 PM

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A part of British culture the yanks on here might be unaware with is the late Frank Sidebottom: a fine comedian and dynamite in bed. Apparently the poor guy's just died of cancer.
Frank Sidebottom sings a Smiths cover...

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 2:01:19 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw3HFKTSN34

Saw it at the strand I believe with Andrew Sachs (manuel from fawlty towers).

Sherlock Holmes, it aint.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 3:12:02 PM

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I really loved Faulty Towers. Shame they only did a few episodes

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw3HFKTSN34

Saw it at the strand I believe with Andrew Sachs (manuel from fawlty towers).

Sherlock Holmes, it aint.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 3:14:26 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaQLYPf5hM

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 3:29:39 PM

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In general the British seem either high brow; educated, cultured and reserved or low brow; rough and tumble, pragmatic and ready for a row.

The British sense of humor is very appealing to me. Although the current political satire is rather confusing to someone outside the country.

Some of the folks from there are so pale they almost glow in the dark.

Edited to add, thanks for that map link, looking at it now.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 3:51:12 PM

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-- I do like British humor.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 4:05:36 PM

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The Brits have been lulled into loosing their national will to survive by their utopian labor liberals

In a few years they'll all be speaking various Arabic and Persian dialects. Their women will be wearing burkka's and they'll be living under Sharia law.

And of course American Liberal/Communists will still tell us how we should be more like the urbane and sophisticated, yet subjugated European's.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 4:24:10 PM

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The Brits have been lulled into loosing their national will to survive by their utopian labor liberals

In a few years they'll all be speaking various Arabic and Persian dialects.

Thats fine Real, you will still be talking Jibberish.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 4:25:37 PM

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The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!

You went to easy on the wogs.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 5:18:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

In general the British seem either high brow; educated, cultured and reserved or low brow; rough and tumble, pragmatic and ready for a row.

The British sense of humor is very appealing to me. Although the current political satire is rather confusing to someone outside the country.

Some of the folks from there are so pale they almost glow in the dark.

Edited to add, thanks for that map link, looking at it now.

Nah Ven, that would be the Scots, their true colour is blue, they just go white when the sun comes out up there, and too much sun i.e. more than a day they go from white to red and then they hide.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 5:21:20 PM

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Sounds like me, Im doing a pretty good impression of the undead now, I just go red and hivey/blistery
sux being an english rose!!
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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 5:33:43 PM

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With this recent warm sunny weather we have had, I have not yet burned, which is unusual, but I am experimenting at the moment with an oily diet and moisturising with coconut oil. I just go red, then brown instead of red, pain, brown itch and peel. Oh and beware sun blocks and things, some of them contain things that might alter DNA according to a recent study.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 6:22:12 PM

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That's not quite true. In WW1....the French took a battering from the Germans....and gave plenty back.....they lost something like 350 thousand men in the first few weeks of the war which is staggering.....but still finished on the winning side...I don't think any other country has lost so many men in such a short space of time and turned it round.

The US lost 620,000 dead in a war and survived to become a world power...But...I am not questioning the courage of the French...just that they were inept at war.

And as far as that goes we are pretty inept ourselves of late.

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 6:38:04 PM

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The sunblocks block my pores and make things a lot worse I have to have body coverings, I use coconut on my face and as a body moisturiser,
My kids have their fathers colouring, they go pink to red then deep brown/teak
Jealous of skin that tans

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RE: The British ? - 6/21/2010 7:46:37 PM

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The worst thing about the French during the second world war was their treatment of their Jewish citizens which shocked even the Nazis. Now that sounds like hyperbole...but it ain't.

Edited to add: should have said the occupying German forces.

Not a surprise given their history during the Dreyfus affair, although in fairness, there were quite a number who cried out in his favor.

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