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i13 Hello - What Kind of Phone Booths do you think we have in UK?

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,924
    edited August 2015

    The mistake is to think that there's one kind of "British humor."  Benny Hill was incredibly sucessful internationally as he played to the lowest common denominator with off-color jokes and physical humor. Much the same can be said of Marty Feldman and even, to a great extent, Peter Sellers.  Monty Python, while covering a lot of that range, also added quite a bit of social commentary, as well as literary and political references that may fly over some viewer's head. Ditto for Fawlty Towers, the Young Ones, Are You being Served, etc.  People in the U.S. are frequently thrown by the fact that, although the performers are speaking in the same language, there is often a huge gap in knowledge of the underlying popular culture to which the comedy is referenced.  A perfect example of this dichotomy can be seen in the work of Rowan Atkinson, with the near pantomime Mr. Bean being easy to understand in almost any culture, while the various Black Adders require a bit more "prep" and shows like Thin Blue LIne and Bernard & The Genie require a deeper base of knowledge.  But the same can be said of ANY kind of regional or ethnic humor... what's funny to a crowd in Brooklyn and a crowd in Santa Barbara are going to be extremely different, and what causes one group to laugh hilariously may result in crickets chirping with the other. And, of course, the British are also frequently unable to appreciate some elements of U.S., Australian or Kiwi humor, though the gap is not as great in the U.S./U.K. direction as a much greater percentage of the entertainment viewed in the U.K. comes from the U.S. than the other way around.   

     

    edit - just reallized I didn't refenernce any stand-up, but the same rules genreally apply.    

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  • Chris_78999Chris_78999 Posts: 108
    Cybersox13 said:

    The mistake is to think that there's one kind of "British humor."  ...there is often a huge gap in knowledge of the underlying popular ...require a bit more "prep".

    Except the person complaining didn't have a probelm with a popular culture referance but with the stlye of humour. A style very common in the UK but less common, at least in written form on the internet, from the US. It is often said by Brits of Americans that they don't get irony, the ironic thing being most Americans I know could give a much better definition of irony than most Brits. However many Americans don't understand the almost ubiquotus nature of irony in British dicourse. If you belive a british person has been rude to you the chances are they like you and woudl be upset to learn you have been offended. When it goes quiet or incredibly polite, thats when you know you've really peed them off.

  • JackReasonJackReason Posts: 144

    I didn't know there were still phone booths; thought everyone carried a cellular.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,511

    Some still use two cans with a piece of string, oops that's Australia's super fast broadband rollout 

  • SnowSultanSnowSultan Posts: 3,832
    edited August 2015

    "I'm not getting this thread. First, I don't get why SnowSultan is in such high dudgeon. The OP seemed quite polite to me."

    EDITED: Eh, never mind. No sense arguing and getting this discussion locked. Deadpan expressions and witty tone do not translate to internet forum posts; that's why I use smilies a lot - to stress that I'm not 100% serious. It doesn't matter what I think anyway, what matters is how Ironman took it and if whether she'll update the prop.

    One thing I've learned from this thread though - you guys are REALLY passionate about your phone boxes.   ;)

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,465
    edited August 2015

    I'm never serious so I thought I could leave out the smilies.  My bad.

    (need  smilie of Foghorn Leghorn taking to chick with quote "It's a joke son, a joke!")

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JtnEUPvpus

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,102
    edited August 2015

    She?... Ironman is female?... For years I thought she was a he... This whole community is confusing me... This new Playdough logo isn't helping either.

    By the way we are NOT talking about Tony Stark right?... 

     

    Also... I have never been passionate with a phone booth... A little bit too intimate, perhaps... But strictly in a scientific manner... Mostly...

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  • XtraDimensionalXtraDimensional Posts: 563
    edited August 2015

    Yes, Ironman13 is a she. She's really pretty, too. Not sure if I can link her profile over at Rendo, but if you click on the little house next to her name at any of her products, you're taken to a page that has a picture of her. 

     

    JackReason said:

    I didn't know there were still phone booths; thought everyone carried a cellular.

    Seen the move Phone Booth?

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  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694

    Actually where I live in NYS, we no longer have pay phones.  NYTelCom removed them all.  They claimed they did not get enough use to cover routine maintenance let alone vandalism.  Cheap burn phones are your friend.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    dclane said:
    In addition, the handsets likely had special properties too, and could seemingly retain the warm and claggy moisture from the breath of the previous caller for hours, even in the middle of winter.

    Don't forget the steel flexy-bendy cable on the handset that was probably the forerunner of the T-1000 Terminator, since it always tried to twist round and throttle me from the moment I put it to my ear.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,924
    Chris_78999 said:
    Cybersox13 said:

    The mistake is to think that there's one kind of "British humor."  ...there is often a huge gap in knowledge of the underlying popular ...require a bit more "prep".

    Except the person complaining didn't have a probelm with a popular culture referance but with the stlye of humour. A style very common in the UK but less common, at least in written form on the internet, from the US. It is often said by Brits of Americans that they don't get irony, the ironic thing being most Americans I know could give a much better definition of irony than most Brits. However many Americans don't understand the almost ubiquotus nature of irony in British dicourse. If you belive a british person has been rude to you the chances are they like you and woudl be upset to learn you have been offended. When it goes quiet or incredibly polite, thats when you know you've really peed them off.

    I didn't say popular culture reference, I said popular culture.  That's a different thing and includes the way that people speak in general.  As for irony... er, you're wrong.  Americans are often far more ironic in their conversations, though they may not be AWARE of that fact. :)  But show an American a Woody Allen film and everyone gets the irony because that's what the perception of New York Jewish Humor is.  Whereas most folks here can't tell that there are three disctinct schools of thought and writing running through Monty Python with Palin and Jones coming from Oxford, Cleese, Idle and Chapman coming from Cambridge and Gilliam being the token American.        

  • Peter FulfordPeter Fulford Posts: 1,325

    Occasionally, the solid back on some of the old phone boxes was not entirely solid. In these, if you knew where to press button C and then dialled the number of the day, you could gain access to other government facilities.

    An example is shown about 3.20 into this old MOD training film:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUp2cmM75ic

     

    It's a shame* a previous forum member from Hull isn't able to comment on this; the thread would very likely have had a hoarse rant of a different colour:

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=hull+phone+box

     

    *opinions may differ

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    vicki could break a nail trying to dial old rotary.  

    who could forget the long wait of the dial undialing itself, eons to dial 7 times, or 10 for long distance

  • GrazeGraze Posts: 418
    JOdel said:

    So go at it with the geometry editor. Select the glass that doesn't belong and make it a zone. Turn it solid. Change its color. If you need a flat surface add the primitive. How hard is that?

     

    Very hard.

    Noobies may not even know what you just said.

  • GrazeGraze Posts: 418
    Hanabi said:

     

     

    JackReason said:

    I didn't know there were still phone booths; thought everyone carried a cellular.

    Seen the move Phone Booth?

    Reminds me of the 1978 Superman movie.  Christopher Reeve running down the street beginning to rip off his Clark Kent outfit to reveal his Superman costume.  But instead of finding a phone booth, there's only a pay phone stand.  He looks at it up and down, then continues looking for someplace else to change.

  • EveniosEvenios Posts: 119

    is it me or does the phone booths just look not the best quality wise? :-p

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