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Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: September 21st, 2016, 12:09 pm
by Dalty
What is a "Condo" ?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: September 21st, 2016, 1:19 pm
by Master Skywalker
Dalty wrote:What is a "Condo" ?
One of Woody Wilkins' failed offspring.

:mrgreen:

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: September 21st, 2016, 2:36 pm
by Dalty
Ahhh, "The Game Of X"

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 7th, 2016, 6:11 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
I'm going to start treating this thread like it's also a "Teach Non-Daltys British!" thread. I'd create a new thread, but that's just a ton of work. Seriously. A whole fucking ton. (Tonne, you say? Wrong! They don't even weigh the same!)

Anyway, here's this:



It's pretty unfunny to me, despite assurances in the comment section--from Americans and Brits--that it's hilarious. I suspect that the Americans who insist it is funny are the sorts of Americans who are under the impression that all British comedy is funny just because it's British, and I suspect the Brits who insist it is funny are relatives of the guy who died of laughter in the seventies while watching that episode of The Goodies. (I went out of my way to watch that episode. I don't remember laughing.)

Why's the above clip so unfunny to me? It can't just be that it's puerile and bawdy. I've been known to enjoy puerile and bawdy. (I realize I'm asking a question about my own tastes and that it's not necessarily a question someone other than yours truly will be able to answer.)

Is it funny to Brits? Which Brits? It feels like Two and a Half Men-level humor to me. It feels like the British Mama's Family, but even less funny.

Is the above not a representative clip? Is the show usually much funnier?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 8th, 2016, 11:41 am
by Dalty
No, it's not. Mrs Brown's Boys is reprehensible dog shit that represent the very worst and appeals to Saturday night TVs lowest common denominators of viewers. Awful. Just awful. Embaressing.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 8th, 2016, 2:05 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Speaking of embarrassing:

I reread what I wrote and put "weigh" where I had originally put "way."

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 8th, 2016, 2:59 pm
by Dalty
You fiend.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 8th, 2016, 8:55 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret, and the typo spotted today on this more-than-a-day-old post is one of them. Anyone who knows me knows this typo doesn't reflect who I am. I wrote it, I was wrong, and I apologize.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 9th, 2016, 3:33 am
by Dalty
My faith in you, and as a consequence the universe, is shaken to its very core. I am not sure there is any way back from this.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 5:09 am
by Mal Shot First
Surely, you meant to write "weigh back."

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 12:21 pm
by Dalty
"Weigh" is close to "Neigh" and you know what that could mean around these parts!!

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 12:33 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Nay. What could it mean?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 12:40 pm
by Dalty
No, we are but men.... ROCK!!

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 2:39 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
A: We Are Devo!

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 4:08 pm
by Dalty
When I was taught to shoot, and when I still shoot a shotgun or rifle, I was told to hold the gun tight into my shoulder to minimise recoil etc.

Why, when I see American TV shows and movies, do people who are carrying out tactical moves such as soldiers etc. holding their rifles in ready positions away from and above their shoulders, with the bottom tip of their stocks against the top of their shoulders?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 4:59 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Probably because most of them are actors who don't know how to hold firearms properly.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 10th, 2016, 8:06 pm
by Mal Shot First
The same reason badasses hold their pistols sideways to shoot.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 11th, 2016, 1:24 am
by Dalty
Because they like jam?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 11th, 2016, 6:01 am
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Come on and blam, and welcome to the jam.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 11th, 2016, 6:15 am
by Dalty
I had no idea House Of Pain were still making "music".

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: October 11th, 2016, 7:31 am
by The Swollen Goiter of God
You may be mistaking the Quad City DJs for House of Pain.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: November 26th, 2016, 1:31 pm
by Dalty
So I see a recount is looming in Wisconsin. I see a lot of comments drawing parallels with 2000 and Bush 'stealing' Florida? I thought that went all the way through courts etc and Bush was declared winner. Did I miss something?

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: November 26th, 2016, 2:15 pm
by neglet
IN 2000 they started a recount of Florida; the state Supreme Court upheld it, but the US Supremes halted it, leaving Florida for Bush. We'll never know the real count.

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: November 26th, 2016, 2:35 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
And beyond the halted Florida recount, there were charges of voting rights violations and shady stuff in and around the polling situation. There's a whole Wikipedia page about the recount, if anyone is interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount

Re: Teach Dalty American!

Posted: November 26th, 2016, 3:18 pm
by Adam54
Dalty wrote:So I see a recount is looming in Wisconsin. I see a lot of comments drawing parallels with 2000 and Bush 'stealing' Florida? I thought that went all the way through courts etc and Bush was declared winner. Did I miss something?
Seems likely in Pennsylvania and Michigan too.