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@Busyman maybe the Brits are taking things too seriously ? :P
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Britain suffers sense of humour failure
due to worries of modern life
Tue May 24, 5:41 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - Britain is suffering a sense of humour failure, with laughter levels three times lower now than 50 years ago and nearly half of all adults unable to enjoy at least one big guffaw a day, research showed.
Money worries, relationship woes and even political concerns were among the reasons given for the collection of grim faces, according to the data, collected for the cruise company Ocean Village.
"Laughter is an essential ingredient of a healthy, happy life and is one of the most effective and immediate antidotes to stress and tension -- it really is the best medicine," said Amanda Bate from Ocean Village.
"The findings of this study show a worrying trend towards glumness. In the 1950s we laughed for an average of 18 minutes daily but this has dropped to just six minutes per day," she said.
Morning misery is rife, with almost half of Britons -- some 45 percent -- admitting they frequently wallowed in gloom until lunchtime.
Around 16 million adults, totalling 40 percent, said they failed to muster even one proper belly laugh in an average day.
It is not all sulking and moodiness, however, as the research found that single women aged 18 to 24 in the northern city of Manchester were the happiest people in the country.
In addition, Bristol, in western England, was named the most cheerful place for couples aged 25 to 34.
Factors such as weather, time of day and age, were all cited as being able to spark the blues.
July and August were the happiest months of the year according to three out of four people quizzed, with January the most miserable.
The study was carried out by ICM Research on behalf of Ocean Village who interviewed a random selection of 1,000 adults aged 18 or over.
Well here's some appalling American humor to be appalled about....it's appalling :sick:
Hahaha
Notice afterwards that one fella gets a standing 8 count ffs. :lol: :lol:
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Re: What does the rest of the World have that the USA does'nt?
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Many of the folks that say American entertainment sucks probably are saying it while engrossed in the latest episode of Lost (which I will be watching tonight, 2-hour season finale :D ).
Well, I do enjoy American film and TV shows (I haven't said different), though I think the British are on par or better when it comes to TV. Though the differences make it hard to compare. ER versus Casualty? :lol: The two nations comedies are worlds apart as well.
Film-wise I think America comes out on top but not by leaps and bounds, I do think world cinema needs to be embraced more by Hollywood execs rather than just remaking (and in most cases spoiling) a good idea from abroad.
Kung-Fu Hustle did really well recently on release there (America) as a subtitled movie, that's a step in the right direction after the shocking butcher job they did with
Shaolin Soccer.
Anyhow before I rehash the old argument about remakes, I will be watching
Lost slightly later as it hasn't been picked up in Britain yet. :blink: I have to say that the number of American shows that I
have to watch has gone up, they do sci-fi (Lost vaguely fits into this genre) very well.
I think it's leaps and bounds better.
The Godfather
Scarface
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The Terminator
The Matrix :lol: :lol:
The Color Purple
I could go on easily....
but....everyone has their opinion. :rolleyes:
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What the fuck have couples in Bristol got to be so cheerful about? It's fecking Bristol. :dry:
Suicide capital of England is it not?
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What the fuck have couples in Bristol got to be so cheerful about? It's fecking Bristol. :dry:
Suicide capital of England is it not?
Yeah, but that's the single people. I guess it's no fun being single with loads of happy couples frolicking round. :hateshappycouples:
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Well, I do enjoy American film and TV shows (I haven't said different), though I think the British are on par or better when it comes to TV. Though the differences make it hard to compare. ER versus Casualty? :lol: The two nations comedies are worlds apart as well.
Film-wise I think America comes out on top but not by leaps and bounds, I do think world cinema needs to be embraced more by Hollywood execs rather than just remaking (and in most cases spoiling) a good idea from abroad. Kung-Fu Hustle did really well recently on release there (America) as a subtitled movie, that's a step in the right direction after the shocking butcher job they did with Shaolin Soccer.
Anyhow before I rehash the old argument about remakes, I will be watching Lost slightly later as it hasn't been picked up in Britain yet. :blink: I have to say that the number of American shows that I have to watch has gone up, they do sci-fi (Lost vaguely fits into this genre) very well.
I think it's leaps and bounds better.
The Godfather
Scarface
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The Terminator
The Matrix :lol: :lol:
The Color Purple
I could go on easily....
but....everyone has their opinion. :rolleyes:
indiana jones is the only one there, that's not a overhyped boretrain :snooty:
not to say it isn't overhyped :unsure:
i was just thinking; the reason american films suck so much is they always have some kind of sexual tension/love story making a good 20% of the scenes boring as hell. anyone seen 51st state? :smilie4:
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A lot of others care though, just look at the letter skizo posted, for example.
Most of us do, but when it comes to television and movies it's kind of full of them, which is why people might be saying american entertainment sucks.
I'm mostly cool with american entertainment, the only part I had a problem with was you saying it was leaps and whatever better. 'cos it really isn't, it's pretty average, there's just more of it to watch.
I don't understand why there was
problem with it. It was an opinion. Anyone can point out some shit movies or TV shows from any country. I happen to think we have more good shows and movies to watch.....from comedies, dramas, sci-fi, action, war.....I don't think there is a comparison really...not by a longshot.
And I happened to have another opinion. One that comes from having watched a lot of stuff from all over the world to boot.
I didn't even need to call anyone any names to get my opinion across, either, huzzah.
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I don't understand why there was problem with it. It was an opinion. Anyone can point out some shit movies or TV shows from any country. I happen to think we have more good shows and movies to watch.....from comedies, dramas, sci-fi, action, war.....I don't think there is a comparison really...not by a longshot.
And I happened to have another opinion. One that comes from having watched a lot of stuff from all over the world to boot.
I didn't even need to call anyone any names to get my opinion across, either, huzzah.
Neither I so the point of that statement was what? :huh:
I'd like to hear your top 10 films. :rolleyes:
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Well, I see you've done a great job of vivisection on my last post Busy. Nice crucifiction job to end with too. So, in reply...
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I've personally met quite a few Americans, Busyman. My parents travel to the US regularly to visit friends, and some of those friends have come down here to visit us. There's some Americans enroled at my college too. On the whole, I think they're very nice people, stuck with an ethically challenged goverment. But hey... what country isn't, right?
Exactly. I don't think one way about any country. I happen know everyone is different in some way. America ain't a hive mind by any stretch.
So on that point, we agree. There's a first.
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But when it comes to US foriegn policy, the war for oil in Iraq and the rest of the US propaganda I see on the nightly news, I'm just calling it as I see it. I see no dignity or integrity, and there's certainly no objectivity as a nation.
You make no fucking sense. First you inch in US foreign policy where actually have a point....then you bring in US propaganda...what fucking propaganda...FOX News? :blink: Then you say no objectivity, dignity, integrity as a nation....where you have blanketed every individual here...which is where I tell you again FUCK YOU!!!
FOX news does contribute, yes, but US propaganda pops up all over the Aussie media. Of course you couldn't know that, not having access to the Free to air and subscription TV stations, newspapers and radio in Australia.
When I say America as a nation, I'm talking about America's national representatives. You know those guys on Capitol Hill? The guys who make all the decisions and press releases and handle world affairs? I've been talking about them all along - not the general population. That was your own kneejerk perception telling you I was tarring everyone with the same brush... and damn, you sure got wound up about it... did you fall over when you stopped?
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Laura Bush was on the tube the other night wittering on about her worries regarding the world's view of America's image. She should be very worried indeed. We mostly see corporate greed, trailer trash TV, vapid "reality" shows, big guns and spindoctoring. If you don't like what I'm saying, then blame your own media for misrepresenting your great country.
Corporate greed..your country has it too. You probably hark on our headliners, Enron and World
con.
I know we do. I never said Australia didn't have it's fair share of corporate bastards. Rio Tinto, Newscorp, Santos - unconscionable arseholes, all of 'em.
For the US, no, I wasn't harking back to Enron and Worldcom. There's General Electric, Pfizer, Monsanto, DuPont and all the tobacco companies though.
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You are in no moral high ground.
Why is it every time an outspoken American hears something they don't like, they immediately dispute their perceived opponent's morality? Such a tired gambit.
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Trailer trash TV? You pick some bad shows to prove your point? Use logic, STFU, and watch Lost. :dry: vapid reality shows? Again it's a type of TV show..how that spurs this "no dignity, objectivity, and integrity is anyone's guess. Sounds like more bull :shit:.
What's dignified about any of the programs I mentioned? Where's the integrity in showing some idiot making a fool of himself? Where's the objectivity and the integrity in a spin doctored "news" report? On top of that, untold generations of crap sitcoms, gameshows and infomercials that just insult the intelligence of the viewer. A couple of series of Lost does not make it all better.
Oh, and please give the "use logic or STFU" catchphrase a rest will you? It sounds like a bad commercial touting a dodgy constipation cure.
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Big guns? Well there's a war goin' on.
Catchy phrase. Kinda trips off the tongue doesn't it? What happened back when there wasn't a war "goin' on"? Oh yeah... Presidents spreading fear and loathing against communism and building nukes instead. Enough to kill everything on the planet 32 times over, last time I heard. When that was over, it was secret arms deals with third world dictators and South American coke barons.
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Your country has got 'em too.
The armed forces, yes. Not the general public though. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons are banned here. There was a national gun buy-back by the government, who destroyed them all after Martin Bryant's killing spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania back in 1996. Only guns left are bolt action rifles for the farmers, and handguns for the Police and gun clubs exclusively. You wouldn't believe what prospective members have to go through to join those clubs...
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Spindoctoring? It's everyone's reality. Our media is one of the most independent in the world. Half of America didn't vote for Bush btw.
Spindoctoring is reality?? Your reality perhaps - not mine. It's factual obfuscation at the least. Outright lies at the worst. There's no integrity to be gained from deceiving people.
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Calling me a racist simply because you don't like my opinion is similar to Bill Maher being branded a traitor by Spencer Bachus. The very idea is patently absurd.
First off you weren't called a racist. You were likened to groups that blanket other groups based certain events and happenings.
Whatever the context, it's still one helluva stretch.
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Some black people rob a liquor store and kill the store owner..next week you hear on the news a little black boy body slams and 8 year-old and killed her...next week...Oh black people must be criminals with no moral backbone......Americans soldiers killed a Muslim car bomber and accidentely killed a little boy in the process.....
There's people like that all over the world. Yes, of course they exist in Australia. But how can you compare that to my dropping 3 pointed words into a forum thread? All I did was raise your ire, then sat back and watched as you worked yourself into a flamespree of libel, bad language and namecalling. You really do need to employ some objectivity, seriously.
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Bush was voted in office and he decided to go to war with Iraq and Iraqis are being killed....Oh Americans need to be killed.
No, Americans don't need to be killed. But it's happening anyway, and it's a tragedy. What Americans really need is get out of Iraq asap, and let the Iraqi people decide what nation(s) should help them to quell the insurgents, IMHO.
Should I be crucified or ridiculed for thinking that?
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Shit thinking like that with this American have no dignity shit likens you to the same idiots. You are a non-thinker that only looks at the pretty colors on TV...a brainwashed fool.
In your own misguided opinion, perhaps. Once again, we return to the swearing and judgemental name calling. Did you get much froth on the monitor while typing that uninformed little diatribe btw?
The truth is, you went off half cocked without knowing my true meaning. You put words in my mouth, then worked yourself up over things that exist in your own head.
Tell you what, come visit Australia. Walk a mile in another man's mukluks. Maybe you'll get a wider point of view and learn not to take things so personally. The exchange rate'll be in your favour...
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Class style good taste just for a start
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Well, I see you've done a great job of vivisection on my last post Busy. Nice crucifiction job to end with too. So, in reply...
FOX news does contribute, yes, but US propaganda pops up all over the Aussie media. Of course you couldn't know that, not having access to the Free to air and subscription TV stations, newspapers and radio in Australia.
Then that's Aussie's spin on US propaganda. Duh. :1eye: [sarcasm]I bet in Iran they get US propaganda from Iranian TV stations exactly how the US puts it out. [/sarcasm] :dry:
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When I say America as a nation, I'm talking about America's national representatives. You know those guys on Capitol Hill? The guys who make all the decisions and press releases and handle world affairs? I've been talking about them all along - not the general population. That was your own kneejerk perception telling you I was tarring everyone with the same brush... and damn, you sure got wound up about it... did you fall over when you stopped?
America's national representatives are not America as an entire nation. American government is not all American people. With your initial statement - GO FUCK YOURSELF stands. With the convenient clarification, it's retracted. I'm sure your politicians aren't any more dignified, have more integrity, or objectivity. America is just in the limelight. Most politicians suck ass everywhere.
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I know we do. I never said Australia didn't have it's fair share of corporate bastards. Rio Tinto, Newscorp, Santos - unconscionable arseholes, all of 'em.
For the US, no, I wasn't harking back to Enron and Worldcom. There's General Electric, Pfizer, Monsanto, DuPont and all the tobacco companies though.
Oh really? You have corporate bastards? :ohmy: Sounds like the rest of the world including Australia is lacking dignity and integrity too.
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Why is it every time an outspoken American hears something they don't like, they immediately dispute their perceived opponent's morality? Such a tired gambit.
No it was more like a Youain'tnobettermotherfucker gambit. That seemed pretty obvious from the sentence. :dry:
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What's dignified about any of the programs I mentioned? Where's the integrity in showing some idiot making a fool of himself? Where's the objectivity and the integrity in a spin doctored "news" report? On top of that, untold generations of crap sitcoms, gameshows and infomercials that just insult the intelligence of the viewer. A couple of series of Lost does not make it all better.
Again you point out some TV shows like a gameshow hmmmm Jeopardy maybe, and say they insult your intelligence? America is about choice to watch what the fuck you want to watch. Apparently Australia has no TV except educational shows. Apparently Australian news has the best integrity of all news. My "moral high ground" statement stands. :dry:
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Oh, and please give the "use logic or STFU" catchphrase a rest will you? It sounds like a bad commercial touting a dodgy constipation cure.
Well you seem constipated. I smell shit on your breath and it's uuuzing from your fingertips. :shit:
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Catchy phrase. Kinda trips off the tongue doesn't it? What happened back when there wasn't a war "goin' on"? Oh yeah... Presidents spreading fear and loathing against communism and building nukes instead. Enough to kill everything on the planet 32 times over, last time I heard. When that was over, it was secret arms deals with third world dictators and South American coke barons.
Hmm, it seems the communists had them too. :ohmy: I wonder why we should have 'em? Hey I don't condone secret fucked deals either. However, America ain't the only one. Maybe the rest of the world has corruption in their government too. This is startling!!!
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The armed forces, yes. Not the general public though. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons are banned here. There was a national gun buy-back by the government, who destroyed them all after Martin Bryant's killing spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania back in 1996. Only guns left are bolt action rifles for the farmers, and handguns for the Police and gun clubs exclusively. You wouldn't believe what prospective members have to go through to join those clubs...
Cool, you've done something in that last ten years to reduce the amount guns of in your country. Great!!! Ya'll still got big guns though. Another startling fact!!!
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Spindoctoring is reality?? Your reality perhaps - not mine. It's factual obfuscation at the least. Outright lies at the worst. There's no integrity to be gained from deceiving people.
Moral high ground moment for you. Your government ain't devoid of corruption. Your media isn't devoid of spindoctoring. Pretty simple.
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Whatever the context, it's still one helluva stretch.
Not really. You all are ignorant either way.
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There's people like that all over the world. Yes, of course they exist in Australia. But how can you compare that to my dropping 3 pointed words into a forum thread? All I did was raise your ire, then sat back and watched as you worked yourself into a flamespree of libel, bad language and namecalling. You really do need to employ some objectivity, seriously.
I don't work myself into anything here. It was a hypocritical insult and you were treated in kind.
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No, Americans don't need to be killed. But it's happening anyway, and it's a tragedy. What Americans really need is get out of Iraq asap, and let the Iraqi people decide what nation(s) should help them to quell the insurgents, IMHO.
Should I be crucified or ridiculed for thinking that?
Show me where............other than that we agree on something.
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In your own misguided opinion, perhaps. Once again, we return to the swearing and judgemental name calling. Did you get much froth on the monitor while typing that uninformed little diatribe btw?
No I happen to know people. I know that your government nor it's people are no better than anyone else's.
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The truth is, you went off half cocked without knowing my true meaning. You put words in my mouth, then worked yourself up over things that exist in your own head.
No not really. Even after your convenient explanation of an obvious blanket statement you made little sense in regards to this "dignity, integrity, and objectivity" :shit:
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Tell you what, come visit Australia. Walk a mile in another man's mukluks. Maybe you'll get a wider point of view and learn not to take things so personally. The exchange rate'll be in your favour...
Coming to Australia will help me take shit better or make me take a shit?
I would love to come there but not for those reasons. It would be for your upstanding news media, educational only TV shows, and perfectly run government. :)
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And I happened to have another opinion. One that comes from having watched a lot of stuff from all over the world to boot.
I didn't even need to call anyone any names to get my opinion across, either, huzzah.
Neither I so the point of that statement was what? :huh:
I think you are incapable of posting in a thread without insulting someone :P
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I'd like to hear your top 10 films. :rolleyes:
Right now (but I often change my mind, depending on my mood):
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (french)
Le Grande Bleu (french)
Akira (japanese)
Elling (norwegian)
Ghost in the Shell (japanese)
The Fifth Element (american (french director))
Musa (korean)
Bullit (american)
Pusher (danish)
The Returner (japanese)
Don't think it'll make you any happier :unsure:
I recently saw this german one about the fall of the Berlin Wall, where this bloke tricks his mom (who has been in a coma) into thinking that it never fell, which may or may not be on the list once I've thought some more about it.
Apart from that I can say (about the countries most of the stuff I watch comes from) that I also tend to like chinese (mostly movies from Hong Kong, but also some from the mainland), australian (Placid Lake made me laugh, to name a recent one), some spanish and a lot of british movies, while I think that indian movies suck in general) and finnish and swedish movies almost always bore the feck out of me, the finnish ones more so than the swedish.
And I do like some american movies, of course, though I have to say that on average, I'm not too fond of them (for every good one there are at least two where you wonder wtf they were thinking). The original Star Wars trilogy used to be among my very favourites, but it has fairly recently taken a plunge.
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Not really. You all are ignorant either way.
Everyone except you, eh.
Busy, you usually go off half-cocked, you always resort to personal insults and you never see another person's conflicting point of view as having merit.
uNz[i] has you sussed.
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no matter how bored i get; i'll never read this thread
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Neither I so the point of that statement was what? :huh:
I think you are incapable of posting in a thread without insulting someone :P
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Right now (but I often change my mind, depending on my mood):
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (french)
Le Grande Bleu (french)
Akira (japanese)
Elling (norwegian)
Ghost in the Shell (japanese)
The Fifth Element (american (french director))
Musa (korean)
Bullit (american)
Pusher (danish)
The Returner (japanese)
Don't think it'll make you any happier :unsure:
I recently saw this german one about the fall of the Berlin Wall, where this bloke tricks his mom (who has been in a coma) into thinking that it never fell, which may or may not be on the list once I've thought some more about it.
Apart from that I can say (about the countries most of the stuff I watch comes from) that I also tend to like chinese (mostly movies from Hong Kong, but also some from the mainland), australian (Placid Lake made me laugh, to name a recent one), some spanish and a lot of british movies, while I think that indian movies suck in general) and finnish and swedish movies almost always bore the feck out of me, the finnish ones more so than the swedish.
And I do like some american movies, of course, though I have to say that on average, I'm not too fond of them (for every good one there are at least two where you wonder wtf they were thinking). The original Star Wars trilogy used to be among my very favourites, but it has fairly recently taken a plunge.
I think the last 3 Star Wars sucked in comparison. Tbh I think for every great American made movie there are actually 15 to 20 bad ones. America churns out so many that it's an easy assessment. However, it's kinda like Sony's Playstation it has the most games and the most bad ones....but it has the most good ones too. My opinion of course. Many movies over here go straight to DVD also so they duck under the hypemobile.
That's pretty that you could name your top ten. There are so many movies that I like that it would be hard for me to do the same.
edit: This a little weird and I know it's your opinion of course but were you trying to name some foreign movies to prove a point. I've seen some of the ones on your list and well...The Returner? :blink: ....a top ten movie? (yeah I really do watch subtitled movies)
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Right now (but I often change my mind, depending on my mood):
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (french) :01:
Le Grande Bleu (french) :01: finally someone who knows this one
Elling :dry: :ermm: :blink: wtf?? :pinch: its too much of a reminder of the paranoid dilusiional country i managed to get myself into - No thanks
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Not really. You all are ignorant either way.
Everyone except you, eh.
Busy, you usually go off half-cocked, you always resort to personal insults and you never see another person's conflicting point of view as having merit.
uNz[i] has you sussed.
No, not when it's a popular bandwagoned and hypocritical potshot....nahhh.
Usually there's an insult squeezed in there by the other party first. :dry:
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@busy, re: the returner: Yeah, I know, it's a bit weird, 'tis just that I thought it was really funny in a culty kind of way, kinda' like gunhead, if you've seen that one, and sometimes you need something without too much depth. And like I said, some go off and on that list like yo-yos, depending on how I feel.
@zed: You don't like elling? I think it's brilliant, it made me laugh a lot.
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Right now (but I often change my mind, depending on my mood):
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (french) :01:
Le Grande Bleu (french) :01: finally someone who knows this one
Elling :dry: :ermm: :blink: wtf?? :pinch: its too much of a reminder of the paranoid dilusiional country i managed to get myself into - No thanks
Hey man it's his opinion. :snooty:
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Since we are speaking about movies btw, and since I listed a Korean one, has anyone seen Old Boy? I hear it's brilliant.
Gonna' buy the DVD.
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i saw some iranian films on channel4. they were very... original
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Since we are speaking about movies btw, and since I listed a Korean one, has anyone seen Old Boy? I hear it's brilliant.
Gonna' buy the DVD.
I have. It's brilliant.
Hollywood are making a remake so it must be good if they've decided to ruin it.
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@gepper: Did the blokes wear eyeliner, 'cos I saw one where they actually seem to make a point of the bloke putting it on?
And he wasn't supposed to be gay or anything, seemed like all the blokes did it.
At least I think it was Iranian :ermm:
@cheebus: another good review then :) I really want to see that movie.
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i saw one about a man who loved his cow. then the cow died. then he thought he was a cow. can't remember how it finished i'd been drinking. no wait, was that my dad? :unsure:
it was pretty interesting, apparently it was banned because it was a metaphor of the iranian government of the time
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@gepper: Did the blokes wear eyeliner, 'cos I saw one where they actually seem to make a point of the bloke putting it on?
And he wasn't supposed to be gay or anything, seemed like all the blokes did it.
At least I think it was Iranian :ermm:
@cheebus: another good review then :) I really want to see that movie.
I downloaded it from Snarf-It or Torrentspy I think, anyhow both sites have torrents for it.
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Hmm, I'm going to buy the dvd anyway, but...
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Since we are speaking about movies btw, and since I listed a Korean one, has anyone seen Old Boy? I hear it's brilliant.
Gonna' buy the DVD.
Very good movie. ;)
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i saw one about a man who loved his cow. then the cow died. then he thought he was a cow. can't remember how it finished i'd been drinking. no wait, was that my dad? :unsure:
it was pretty interesting, apparently it was banned because it was a metaphor of the iranian government of the time
Were their beans involve, magic beans.
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no but there was some tribe that are just a bunch of bastards.
i remember how it ends now, they were taking the cowman to market and he tried to run away with his hands tied up and broke his head on a rock and drown in a puddle
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i saw one about a man who loved his cow. then the cow died. then he thought he was a cow. can't remember how it finished i'd been drinking. no wait, was that my dad? :unsure:
it was pretty interesting, apparently it was banned because it was a metaphor of the iranian government of the time
Were their beans involve, magic beans.
Does the Iranian government have problems with people talking about their beans? :unsure:
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I can't be assed to read this thread. But thanks to Busyman being the typical American i can automaticaly assume he thinks USA is better and so i give him a present from the rest of the world:
http://img289.echo.cx/img289/7696/mupetz2jl4hp.gif
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Le Grande Bleu (french) :01: finally someone who knows this one
Btw, more people might know it if you use the american title. They sort of destroyed "The Big Blue" by dubbing the french bits to English though.
The best version, which is a bastard to find, has mixed languages.
On the dvd I've got it's either all in french, or all in english :blink:
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The best version, which is a bastard to find, has mixed languages.
Hehe. Uncut version is on tv tonight. :01:
By the way it's "Le grand bleu". :smartass:
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Typo, and you are cheating, 'cos you are french.
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You forgot something else about your post above and related to your animation....
Peerzy your post is....bull :shit:
You read it. Otherwise you'd be happy to know that uzi has been on the Australiaisbetter crap.
Either it's he's arrogant or a hypocrite.
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@Busyman, enought of the serious shit. Plllllease bring back that big beauiful bum and put back in your signature! :blushing:
I looked high and low and can't find the link. :D
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@Busyman, enought of the serious shit. Plllllease bring back that big beauiful bum and put back in your signature! :blushing:
I looked high and low and can't find the link. :D
The board disabled it. It was made into a filesharingtalk.gif so it wouldn't be broken. Nevertheless it's broken. :(
I'll look for the original and save it to my own isp when I find it. Seems pretty reliable.
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Coming to Australia will help me take shit better or make me take a shit?
I would love to come there but not for those reasons. It would be for your upstanding news media, educational only TV shows, and perfectly run government. :)
That's ok, I don't think we'd love to have you here. Why don't you stay right where you are. :D
