Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellars was british!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok we'll take comedy, you can have movies instead.


we are also alot better at drinking.

yushbombn wrote:oh there's a picture of george washington... what's he wearing on his head there? wait... it looks like a wig. it's a powdered wig.

...the main difference being that British judges STILL wear those silly things. We eventually wised up.

yushbombn wrote:NOT FUNNY:
crank yankers
saturday night live
will and grace
dude wheres my car
chapelle show
married with children

All good points...EXCEPT for the Chapelle Show. I don't care what you say, Prince playing basketball is funny. It's a fact.

johnnyshape wrote:how about handgun deaths? now that is uniquely dumb to the US.

Yeah. Agreed. We sure like to shoot some shit up, don't we?

yushbombn wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellars (sic) was british!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stanley Kubrick was born in the Bronx. It's his movie.

in this case... ITALIAN!!!

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

yushbombn wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellars (sic) was british!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stanley Kubrick was born in the Bronx. It's his movie.

ok but peter sellErs was the funny one

I quite like Will and Grace. They at least slip some offensive (to some) jokes in there. A lot of american sitcoms are scared of saying anything mildly dangerous.

English sitcoms can say pretty much anything. And the best ones are ones they'll never bother to show in America like Bottom and Game On.



Anyway, bottom line is England wins cuz we pronounce AND spell Aluminium correctly. Aloominum my arse.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Anyway, bottom line is England wins cuz we pronounce AND spell Aluminium correctly. Aloominum my arse.

I knew I didn't have to wait long until someone pointed this out, and now comes the satisfaction of me pointing out to you that your argument is bogus.

First off, what makes one spelling "correct" versus another? They both refer to the same thing and are understood to be referring to the same thing. Therefore, they are both correct.

Regardless of this, it turns out that the metal named by Sir Humphry Davy was called aluminum a number of years *before* he changed it to aluminium later, to satisfy his snooty colleagues who thought it rang better with the names of other metals.

Funnily enough, the American dictionaries (Webster's, etc) adopted your sacred aluminium as the spelling until 1925 when it was changed by the American Chemical Society to aluminum.

Growing up in Ireland, I would always hear this argument bandied about. "Stupid feckin yanks can't even be bothered to handle the extra syllable", or "They drop the "u" from "colour", what idiots!". What a load of horseshit. It's called evolution. Language evolves just like everything else, and when you start to make assumptions based on natural evolution, you lose all credibility.

Sorry to rant so much, but this one drives me up the wall everytime I hear it.

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/aluminium.htm

First off, what makes one spelling "correct" versus another? They both refer to the same thing and are understood to be referring to the same thing. Therefore, they are both correct.

ill tell you what makes one spelling correct - th fact that the language we are speaking is called ENGLISH... as such anything an englishperson deems correct is correct. kind of like papal infallibility

this is fun

yushbombn wrote:

First off, what makes one spelling "correct" versus another? They both refer to the same thing and are understood to be referring to the same thing. Therefore, they are both correct.

ill tell you what makes one spelling correct - th fact that the language we are speaking is called ENGLISH... as such anything an englishperson deems correct is correct. kind of like papal infallibility

So, which English dialect (of the many in existence within England) is correct? The Queen's English? Is cockney rhyming slang allowed entrance to your exclusive club? What about differences in slang (bollox vs. bollocks)? Do the versions of English as spoken in countries of the British Commonwealth get a look in? How about former colonies?

And yeah, this is fun, especially the obvious baiting on everyone's part