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Topic: British TV
Daybrightener's photo
Thu 12/04/08 05:09 PM
Yeap I like em...

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Whose Line is It (British and American versions)
Are You Being Served
BBC America news (some of it)

I'm starting to get fed up with BBC's British nose in the air programming tho. I'm currently watching Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon comes to America to do another of his kitchen visit themes.

However it seems he is determined to make it look like all the restaurants in America are ****holes and that he is the saviour of the food world.

I watched Top Gear up until they did a special on the Ford F-150 and the host called all American's inbred. **** him.


bradlyy's photo
Thu 12/04/08 05:26 PM
just rember we kicked their A$$ back in the 1700s lol

Wrenches's photo
Thu 12/04/08 05:48 PM

and the early 1800's, too bigsmile

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Thu 12/04/08 06:03 PM
I watch "Top Gear" pretty regularly. It's a pretty good show, as they get to really beat the crap out of expensive Euro-Trash supercars from time to time.

I DO find Jeremy Clarkson rather punch-in-the-face worthy, though. This goes especially for his anti-American stuff (as was said earlier)- he's called "Bloody Yanks" a number of things over the years, from "inbred" to "six-hundred pounders" (meaning we're all morbidly obese), to a number of other things. And he's flapped his gums often showing his rotten, British teeth, too. :laughing:

And while I DO agree with his poor opinions about American cars (he's often quite literally said that we "Can't make good cars"), he HASN'T qualified his statements with the fact that very few "American" cars are actually made in America (gasp!)-

- A great majority of cars made by General Motors (Chevy, Pontiac, et al) are actually made in Hermosillo, Mexico. This would include most of their family car lines (SUVs, mini-vans), as well as their trucks and vans. In fact, they relocated their test facility from Flynt, Michigan to Hermosillo within the last decade or so. Only their high-end, specialty vehicles (Corvette, etc.) are still made in the U.S. (Kentucky for the chassis, Detroit for engines and drivetrain).

- Chrysler Corporation makes even MORE of their products in Mexico as well, but in Saltillo. Only the soon-to-be discontinued Viper is still made in the U.S., or at last I've heard, that is.

- Ford's spent the last decade-and-a-half relocating their facilities to Saltillo, Mexico. Unlike the previous two auto makers, they've still got a facility in Minnesota and a couple of other states, as well as some facilities in Windsor-Ontario, Canada- but chances are that even those plants will be relocated in the future, too.

So there's pretty much next-to-nothing "American" about American cars, other than the fact that the dern things are designed in the U.S.

pink1979's photo
Mon 12/08/08 10:58 AM
british comedies ummmmm am i the only one who likes keeping up appearences and are u being served if u have not watched any of these all of them come on ch. 13 sun nights starting around 10 I have been watching br. com. since i was 13 I used to watch mr. bean(his old stuff) and then when he started making movies, he was gone(i was upset) let me know, that i am not the only one that loves these shows

talldub's photo
Mon 12/08/08 11:58 AM
Edited by talldub on Mon 12/08/08 12:00 PM
Blackadder and Fawlty Towers are two of my faves.


However it seems he is determined to make it look like all the restaurants in America are ****holes and that he is the saviour of the food world.

I watched Top Gear up until they did a special on the Ford F-150 and the host called all American's inbred. **** him.

Wow, you're sensitive! Is this a bad time of the month for you? Like no American has every said anything bad about the Brits?

uk1971's photo
Mon 12/08/08 01:57 PM
Being British I am very patriotic, as are my American friends of their country.
We all stand by our particular nation.
I find that many American shows are shown on British TV and I guess some of the Brtitish programmes make it over there also.

I myself like any decent comedy.
I also believe that US programmes are interuppted more by commercial breaks.
I don't know if the US has any channels which are 'non commercial'
The BBC is the only corporation I can think of which is not sponsered by ads.

The commercals, which are shown on British tv are sometimes more entertaining than some of the programmes. bigsmile

Shyredneck4X4's photo
Mon 12/08/08 04:49 PM
No one has even touched Monty Python's Flying Circus. Now that is some good TV.

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Mon 12/08/08 05:10 PM

british comedies ummmmm am i the only one who likes keeping up appearences and are u being served


I love those, I watch them every chance I get.

Also Monty Python and Dr. Who and Fawlty Towers and The Prisoner and some other ones I can't think of right now.


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Tue 12/09/08 12:27 AM
Edited by uk1971 on Tue 12/09/08 12:28 AM
Just a few British comedy programmes worth getting hold of or watching. I guess you can find clips of most, if not all on youtube

Blackadder rofl tears rofltears rofl

Mr Beanrofl rofl rofl rofl tears tears tears rofl rofl rofl rofl


'Allo 'Allorofl rofl tears rofl

Last of the Summer Wine rofl rofl rofl rofl

Keeping up Appearences rofl rofl rofl

Porridge biggrin biggrin

Open All Hours biggrin biggrin

One Foot in the Grave rofl rofl rofl tears tears rofl rofl

The Vicar of Dibley :thumbsup:

Are you being Served :thumbsup:

Dads Army rofl rofl rofl

Hi Di Hi :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps rofl rofl rofl rofl tears tearsrofl rofl rofl rofl

Rising Damp rofl

Zulu42's photo
Tue 12/09/08 07:12 PM
I like Torchwood, and Doctor Who.

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Tue 12/09/08 07:15 PM
what was the one about the French underground (played by Englishmen of course)?

Daybrightener's photo
Tue 12/09/08 10:15 PM
I watch Are You Being Served most every weeknite. I rented the movie from Netflix but I didnt like the movie so much.

I resist change so I didnt watch much of Torchwood or of the new one Sanctuary.

I like some of Robin Hood but the whole long drawn out story line made it boring after a few episodes.

Was Benny Hill a british production?

RainbowTrout's photo
Tue 12/09/08 10:44 PM
Last Of The Summer Wine
Doctor Who
Benny Hill

Atlantis75's photo
Wed 12/10/08 08:40 AM
Edited by Atlantis75 on Wed 12/10/08 08:45 AM
Life of Brian Rules!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGb4STRfKw


Mr. Bean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cmrMJul1g

Dan99's photo
Wed 12/10/08 08:44 AM

what was the one about the French underground (played by Englishmen of course)?



Listen very carefully, i shall say this only vonce


'ello 'ello

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Wed 12/10/08 08:48 AM


what was the one about the French underground (played by Englishmen of course)?



Listen very carefully, i shall say this only vonce


'ello 'ello


hahahaha yeahhhhh

"you stupid woman..."


haha I liked the way they potrayed the english flyers shot down. englishmen pretending to be frenchmen pretending to englishmen. and they just walked around going "wat? wat? wat?wat?"

Dan99's photo
Wed 12/10/08 08:51 AM



what was the one about the French underground (played by Englishmen of course)?



Listen very carefully, i shall say this only vonce


'ello 'ello


hahahaha yeahhhhh

"you stupid woman..."


haha I liked the way they potrayed the english flyers shot down. englishmen pretending to be frenchmen pretending to englishmen. and they just walked around going "wat? wat? wat?wat?"


Or the postman that got his vowels mixed up

'I was just pissing by..'


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Wed 12/10/08 08:58 AM
Edited by quiet_2008 on Wed 12/10/08 08:59 AM




what was the one about the French underground (played by Englishmen of course)?



Listen very carefully, i shall say this only vonce


'ello 'ello


hahahaha yeahhhhh

"you stupid woman..."


haha I liked the way they potrayed the english flyers shot down. englishmen pretending to be frenchmen pretending to englishmen. and they just walked around going "wat? wat? wat?wat?"


Or the postman that got his vowels mixed up

'I was just pissing by..'




and of course, they portrayed the Germans as being total dumbasses (being British TV)
ahhhhhh I found it on youtube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJaQPE_5Xsg

Dan99's photo
Wed 12/10/08 10:31 AM
...the fallen madonna with ze big boobies..

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