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  • #91
    Originally posted by East Street Trader
    But just look at our contribution to cuisine. You can't tell me fish covered in batter and chips smothered in vinegar is not funny.
    Isn't that a London East End Jewish speciality?
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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    • #92
      The reason British comedy is better is because the settings are infinitely more bleak and dark. As opposed to American comedies, which mostly seem to be set in really nice apartments or houses.


      How many American comedies have you seen? All in the Family, Married with Children, Sanford & Son, etc., were not set in 'nice' homes at all (if anything they were lower middle class homes).
      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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      • #93
        So everyone here doesn't watch the House of Commons?

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        • #94
          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
          The reason British comedy is better is because the settings are infinitely more bleak and dark. As opposed to American comedies, which mostly seem to be set in really nice apartments or houses.


          How many American comedies have you seen? All in the Family, Married with Children, Sanford & Son, etc., were not set in 'nice' homes at all (if anything they were lower middle class homes).
          Don't forget Roseanne and full house.

          All in the Family

          It was even mentioned in this thread, it's an english remake
          Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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          • #95
            Yes, but it would probably be pretty different. I couldn't imagine the same situations would apply in Britain (the show mostly 'worked' because of the history of racial relations in the US)
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #96
              (the show mostly 'worked' because of the history of racial relations in the US

              That's why it worked world wide, but I get your point.
              Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
              Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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              • #97
                Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                The reason British comedy is better is because the settings are infinitely more bleak and dark. As opposed to American comedies, which mostly seem to be set in really nice apartments or houses.


                How many American comedies have you seen? All in the Family, Married with Children, Sanford & Son, etc., were not set in 'nice' homes at all (if anything they were lower middle class homes).
                Or, the creme de la creme, Family Guy
                Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                • #98
                  Originally posted by dejon


                  I cannot believe noone has mentioned this bit - America is a prude. You have to go to Europe to see Amsterdam, etc.
                  What does America being a prude have to do with us having to go to Europe to see Amsterdam?

                  If American becomes less prudish is Amsterdam going to move?

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                  • #99
                    Mr. Show, I daresay, is better than Python.
                    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                    -Bokonon

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                    • #100
                      Originally posted by Ramo
                      Mr. Show, I daresay, is better than Python.
                      The movie "Python" yes.

                      Monty Python? Absolutely not.
                      Last edited by GhengisFarb™; May 28, 2004, 20:49.

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                      • #101
                        Originally posted by GhengisFarb


                        What does America being a prude have to do with us having to go to Europe to see Amsterdam?

                        If American becomes less prudish is Amsterdam going to move?
                        Yep.
                        Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                        It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                        The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                        • #102
                          Where will it move to?
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #103
                            a 100 yards/meters lower
                            Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                            Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                            • #104
                              Originally posted by dejon
                              I cannot believe noone has mentioned this bit - America is a prude. You have to go to Europe to see
                              Amsterdam, etc.
                              Slightly obliquely, never mind Amsterdam, here's a challenge: list American/European beaches/holiday
                              locations where topless bathing is permitted. Do you really have to go to Europe to see tits on a beach?

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                              • #105
                                Do you really have to go to beaches to see tits? Kind of sad, no?
                                Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                                Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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