Where some variety of sadomashochism is just a way of life for Japanese game shows (how could we forget the show where a guy is locked in a room for over a year, videoed, forced to eat dog food he's won in a competition and not given any clothes..) I can't imagine this will translate well for an american audience. The translation of RedDwarf caused GrantNaylor to pull the plug and the US version of the office was "so bad I think it gave me cancer".
Whilst the woman's stance may be "defiant", I wouldn't exactly call them hostile any more than I'm hostile to a wasp when I try to get it (alive, but) out of a room. I suspect the height of their technology is the very longbows they carry and if so, what the hell are they making of a helicopter? As far as they're concerned, it's probably a giant insect and I can tell you, in that part of the world, everything blasted thing bites or stings. Hell, I don't like the wasps the size of small helicopters that come buzzing angrily around this time of the year, what would I do if I saw something /that/ size? I'd be reaching for a camera swiftly followed by the nearest 2"x4".
Man, I'm glad the Russians have generally been our allies, accordian-guy alone would kick our asses. Imagine how fit you must have to be even to do a half of that!
I believe that cool though it is, that'd be illegal in the UK. I seem to recall all new builds must exhibit hand rails on at least one side and a balustrade on any exposed shafts.
This is weak, there's no ending to it! Damn, after tempting people like that, that guy'd better watch out in case neatorama readers start creeping in and digging up his back garden so they can find out for themselves.
Having waded through little Timmy's exam paper for over an hour and failed to find /any/ correct answers, Mrs Williams reached for the correct-o-tron 2000 and decided to save herself time by just marking him as wrong.
I really don't understand why that's supposed to be funny. I loved wallace & gromit but whilst the concept of a cockroach spewing forth a monologue about lipstick is mildly amusing, actually seeing it, not so much :(
Kevin: I completely agree on the zeal factor. For me, it's the same for religious zeal, fundamentalists horrify me yet the likes of Richard Dawkins who's closer to "my side" than the fundies are still makes me cringe.
It's quantum in the same way as scrodinger's cat was a victim of quantum effects. Is it alive due to radioactive decay? Is it dead? Same as your kid.. put it in that box and who the hell knows until you open your box and find he's quite happily alive masturbating furiously to thalodimide porn.
Tim: Your comment that the British are ignorant and racist is a fairly narrow-minded and sweeping statement. You're as bad as HRH, you lazy Mexican or fat American or....
I would hardly call him a moron, but rather extremely unpolitic, rude and unused to dealing with commoners. I dare say he's spewed forth many of the things we've all been thinking but wouldn't dare say due to just how damned rude they are.
I completely agree on the zeal factor. For me, it's the same for religious zeal, fundamentalists horrify me yet the likes of Richard Dawkins who's closer to "my side" than the fundies are still makes me cringe.
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