Meme!
From: fancyxthat
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
fancyxthat assosiates me with:
1.) Bill Bailey's Country Dance Of Awesome (capitalized for awesome):Bill Bailey is awesome in general. He's in pretty much every great British TV show of recent memory: Black Books, Spaced, QI, etc, and his stand-up comedy rocks the house. The Country Dance of Awesome is from a recent show called Skins, which I haven't actually seen. But I have seen the dance, and it is indeed awesome,.
2.) Britishisms: British English is SO freaking different than American English. Probably more than you realize. Here are just some of the differences I can think of right now:
a. A hamburger bun is called a "bap": to me, this sounds like they just didn't know what to call it, and they decided it should be the first random nonsense word that popped into someone's head. As my dear friend Rebecca said, "If you said to me, 'bap,' I would say 'boop.'"
b. They pronounce the "t" in fillet: this is just stupid.
c. They *try* to spell 'yogurt' as 'yoghurt' and usually end up pronouncing the word as something between yaw-gurt and yuggurt. It's weird.
d. What we call "dinner," or "supper" if you're still living in the 1800's, they call "tea." I was so confused by this at first. I was like "Where's the tea? I don't get it."
e. They pronounce the word "bouy" as "boy," which is unfortunate, because when someone actually tries to pronounce it the two-syllable way with an English accent, it sounds awesome.
f. I'm not positive about this, but I think "pudding" is a general term for all kinds of dessert, at least when you're referring to the dessert in the context of it being a meal. As in, instead of saying "what's for dessert," they say "what's for pudding," even if it's not pudding.
g. They never say "cracker" or "cookie." This is because real crackers and real cookies are very rare in Britain. What they have instead are the hybrid - biscuits: heavier than crackers, and cut from molds, rather than baked from balls of dough like most cookies are. I was shocked to learn of the lack of cookies in England - they're such a staple of American diet and culture.
h. On a recent episode of QI, Stephen Fry claimed that Americans call "jam" "jelly." I've always used both terms, and I was told when I was young that "jam" has pips and hunks of fruit or whatever in it, while jelly is more liquid-like and does not. I think in Britain they have jams, which is our jams and jellies, and then they have marmalade, which is something else completely.
It's funny that even after all these years, Matt or I will say something completely normal to each other, and the other will go, "Wait, what did you just say? You're kidding me right?"
3.) Play-turned-movies: I believe there's one specific play-turned-movie she's referring to, which is of course Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead. It's all super-reflexive and multi-layered and postmodern, but in a good way. In a funny way. Really, philosophy should be funny. Other good plays-turned-movies that I can think of off the top of my head: Raisin in the Sun, West Side Story, Twelve Angry Men, Fiddler on the Roof, um, more I'm sire
4.) Good food: I'm not sure how I got this association, but I certainly can't complain, because good food is, well, good. When notcot removed it's tastespotting section, I bit of me died inside. All that foodporn scattered to the winds. Tragic really. But my current tip for good food, if you can afford to eat in a restaurant, is the show Check, Please!, specifically Check, Please! Bay Area, the local show on KQED. My family and I have followed many of their recommendations and found a lot of cool restaurants we didn't know about before.
5.) The failure of fake!Vampire/clingy!teen relationships: I could go on, and on, and on, and on, about how much I hate Twilight. I really could. But honestly I can't muster the energy right now. So instead, here's my little collection of Twilight parodies and such:
The Most Popular Book in the World: a HILARIOUS Twilight parody, WITH ALIENS!
Thirty Second Bunnies does Twilight
Some guy pretending to be a bum reviews Twilight. It's funny.
Funny Twilight summaries with Mormon insight
Robert Pattinson points out the crazy behind Twilight
Funny thoughts/summaries of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and Midnight Sun
List of Twilight's Repetitive Elements
Twilight Trailer Spoof:
Gosh, there's so many. Just proves what great fodder Twilight is. *sighs* The End.
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
fancyxthat assosiates me with:
1.) Bill Bailey's Country Dance Of Awesome (capitalized for awesome):Bill Bailey is awesome in general. He's in pretty much every great British TV show of recent memory: Black Books, Spaced, QI, etc, and his stand-up comedy rocks the house. The Country Dance of Awesome is from a recent show called Skins, which I haven't actually seen. But I have seen the dance, and it is indeed awesome,.
2.) Britishisms: British English is SO freaking different than American English. Probably more than you realize. Here are just some of the differences I can think of right now:
a. A hamburger bun is called a "bap": to me, this sounds like they just didn't know what to call it, and they decided it should be the first random nonsense word that popped into someone's head. As my dear friend Rebecca said, "If you said to me, 'bap,' I would say 'boop.'"
b. They pronounce the "t" in fillet: this is just stupid.
c. They *try* to spell 'yogurt' as 'yoghurt' and usually end up pronouncing the word as something between yaw-gurt and yuggurt. It's weird.
d. What we call "dinner," or "supper" if you're still living in the 1800's, they call "tea." I was so confused by this at first. I was like "Where's the tea? I don't get it."
e. They pronounce the word "bouy" as "boy," which is unfortunate, because when someone actually tries to pronounce it the two-syllable way with an English accent, it sounds awesome.
f. I'm not positive about this, but I think "pudding" is a general term for all kinds of dessert, at least when you're referring to the dessert in the context of it being a meal. As in, instead of saying "what's for dessert," they say "what's for pudding," even if it's not pudding.
g. They never say "cracker" or "cookie." This is because real crackers and real cookies are very rare in Britain. What they have instead are the hybrid - biscuits: heavier than crackers, and cut from molds, rather than baked from balls of dough like most cookies are. I was shocked to learn of the lack of cookies in England - they're such a staple of American diet and culture.
h. On a recent episode of QI, Stephen Fry claimed that Americans call "jam" "jelly." I've always used both terms, and I was told when I was young that "jam" has pips and hunks of fruit or whatever in it, while jelly is more liquid-like and does not. I think in Britain they have jams, which is our jams and jellies, and then they have marmalade, which is something else completely.
It's funny that even after all these years, Matt or I will say something completely normal to each other, and the other will go, "Wait, what did you just say? You're kidding me right?"
3.) Play-turned-movies: I believe there's one specific play-turned-movie she's referring to, which is of course Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead. It's all super-reflexive and multi-layered and postmodern, but in a good way. In a funny way. Really, philosophy should be funny. Other good plays-turned-movies that I can think of off the top of my head: Raisin in the Sun, West Side Story, Twelve Angry Men, Fiddler on the Roof, um, more I'm sire
4.) Good food: I'm not sure how I got this association, but I certainly can't complain, because good food is, well, good. When notcot removed it's tastespotting section, I bit of me died inside. All that foodporn scattered to the winds. Tragic really. But my current tip for good food, if you can afford to eat in a restaurant, is the show Check, Please!, specifically Check, Please! Bay Area, the local show on KQED. My family and I have followed many of their recommendations and found a lot of cool restaurants we didn't know about before.
5.) The failure of fake!Vampire/clingy!teen relationships: I could go on, and on, and on, and on, about how much I hate Twilight. I really could. But honestly I can't muster the energy right now. So instead, here's my little collection of Twilight parodies and such:
The Most Popular Book in the World: a HILARIOUS Twilight parody, WITH ALIENS!
Thirty Second Bunnies does Twilight
Some guy pretending to be a bum reviews Twilight. It's funny.
Funny Twilight summaries with Mormon insight
Robert Pattinson points out the crazy behind Twilight
Funny thoughts/summaries of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and Midnight Sun
List of Twilight's Repetitive Elements
Twilight Trailer Spoof:
Click to viewGosh, there's so many. Just proves what great fodder Twilight is. *sighs* The End.