man where does this 'bad dental care' thing come from? I've heard it from Americans a few times, but it doesn't bear anything close to reality
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:01 am
by Oxymoron
I don't know.
Why do people keep saying French people don't bath ?
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:13 am
by Zod
Oxymoron wrote:I don't know.
Why do people keep saying French people don't bath ?
It's not that the French don't take baths. It's that they eat so much cheese it's hard to tell the difference.
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:19 am
by evilsoup
Oxymoron wrote:I don't know.
Why do people keep saying French people don't bath ?
You mean you do?
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:21 am
by Oxymoron
I never bath.
I take showers instead.
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:26 am
by evilsoup
anyway, over here at least 'the french don't bathe' comes from the same basic reason as syphalis was traditionally called 'the french disease'
xenophobia/rival neighbour/rival empire stuff
so I guess that american 'lol brits don't brush their teeth' thing is some sort of anti-british-imperialism thing? A cultural holdover from 1776? But where did that specific thing come from... I'm thinking it's probably WWII stuff (1. pretty serious rationing, 2. pre-NHS, general low levels of health in urban areas, 3. lots of contact with american GIs, plus newsreels)
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:49 am
by timmy
Family Guy had one of the best moments for Anglo-American cross-culturalism:
"Oh, so you like fags, eh? Well 'ere, 'ave a whole CARTON of them!"
Ah, yeah, "Code Quantum". A good show, that one. Love the opening theme.
Re: The Glue Factory
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:02 pm
by Crazedwraith
based solely on three minutes of captain archer saying oh boy. I declare quantum leap to be a terrible awful show that should never ever have been made.
Not even a single mention of fluffy ponies, that's just lazy
p.s. anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about, don't look it up, just trust me on this you don't want to know