Actually, we don't say that in Britain

[Skinny Razor]

The funniest is . . .

Would this be considered "starting a flame war"? I hope not.

 

[KnowYourOnion]

I don't have any favorites against the English but I do enjoy their comedy far too much. Even amateur ones on youtube. The one would be Dr Ashen, reviews Chinese knockoffs, very funny.

But sir, Dr Ashen is a genius with a camera! You'd be burnt in the deepest fires of hell for not loving his stuff at least a little bit

Have you seen his BBC Tech Dump stuff yet?

 

[Superior Mind]

Any time an american does a british accent

It's either Dick van Dyke-esque Cockney or some stupid quasi-posh (Pronounced Poe-sh)

AND STOP MISTAKING US FOR AUSTRALIANS

AND STOP MISTAKING THE AUSTRALIANS AS SOUTH AFRICANS

AND STOP CALLING THE NEW ZEALANDERS AUSTRALIAN

Good grief, is it THAT hard to understand?

I forgive people for mistaing me as an Aussie, basically because while in South America I met a few Kiwis and mistook them for Aussies, (and was mistaken for Aussie by a few Kiwis.) It is pretty hard to "get" the difference even when you're from New Zealand.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Surely those words are interchangeable in this case??
I don't care if my teeth look perfect as long as they aren't rotting away.

Not necessarily, 'best' is making a value judgement. You also have how pretty they look. Americans* value that, hence despite the fact that we apparently have healthier teeth than them, they think they have better teeth because in general they spend more on orthodontics and whiteneing and therefore have better looking teeth.

*Generalisation, blah blah blah...

 

[Snotnarok]

I don't have any favorites against the English but I do enjoy their comedy far too much. Even amateur ones on youtube. The one would be Dr Ashen, reviews Chinese knockoffs, very funny.

But sir, Dr Ashen is a genius with a camera! You'd be burnt in the deepest fires of hell for not loving his stuff at least a little bit

Have you seen his BBC Tech Dump stuff yet?

Another Dr Ashens fan?! I thought no one knew about the guy considering how many people I've asked. Yes I've seen it, I love his humor, the bastard is a genius and needs to do more vids because they're always good. The PCP station was fantastic...a fantastic disaster. I thought the BBC vids were good, but not as good as his other stuff, that's just me being picky because there were no popstations being verbally destroyed.

All you fools who hasn't seen Dr Ashen, go look him up on youtube! He'll show you real competitors to the PSP and DS, the Popstation and Neo Double Games!:|

 

[KnowYourOnion]

I don't have any favorites against the English but I do enjoy their comedy far too much. Even amateur ones on youtube. The one would be Dr Ashen, reviews Chinese knockoffs, very funny.

But sir, Dr Ashen is a genius with a camera! You'd be burnt in the deepest fires of hell for not loving his stuff at least a little bit

Have you seen his BBC Tech Dump stuff yet?

Another Dr Ashens fan?! I thought no one knew about the guy considering how many people I've asked. Yes I've seen it, I love his humor, the bastard is a genius and needs to do more vids because they're always good. The PCP station was fantastic...a fantastic disaster. I thought the BBC vids were good, but not as good as his other stuff, that's just me being picky because there were no popstations being verbally destroyed.

All you fools who hasn't seen Dr Ashen, go look him up on youtube! He'll show you real competitors to the PSP and DS, the Popstation and Neo Double Games!:|

I thought Vinnie Vole's Existential Nightmare in Episode 2 was one of the most surreal and awesome things I've ever witnessed
and I'm always tempted to go out and find a Popstation just so I can say I've played one.....although such an act would probably cost me my sanity.

 

[MetaKnight19]

I find that Americans trying to do British accents and vice versa almost always sound rubbish. Also if I'm not mistaken, the most common Irish accent that people attempt is the Cork accent. It's hard to describe how it sounds and there isn't any decent YouTube videos I can find that really showcase the Cork accent.

I'm from the West Country and I have picked up some of the quirks of the stereotypical accent, like placing an 'r' in words when it isn't necessary, and sometimes replace the 'th' with an 'f'. So for example when I say bathroom is sounds like barfroom.

On the stereotype that Family Guy presents, its OK but I wouldn't say ecstatically funny.

 

[gallaetha_matt]

I'm from Liverpool originally, but I spent five years living down in London. Not a day went by without me hearing that damn Harry Enfield sketch. You know the one 'ey ey, calm down!' I used to love that sketch SO much...

 

[Valkyira]

The funniest is . . .

Would this be considered "starting a flame war"? I hope not.

Nope, because a flame war occurs when the two parties are evenly matched and theres cause for a discussion...

In this case, Chelsea is far superior

 

[Snotnarok]

I don't have any favorites against the English but I do enjoy their comedy far too much. Even amateur ones on youtube. The one would be Dr Ashen, reviews Chinese knockoffs, very funny.

But sir, Dr Ashen is a genius with a camera! You'd be burnt in the deepest fires of hell for not loving his stuff at least a little bit

Have you seen his BBC Tech Dump stuff yet?

Another Dr Ashens fan?! I thought no one knew about the guy considering how many people I've asked. Yes I've seen it, I love his humor, the bastard is a genius and needs to do more vids because they're always good. The PCP station was fantastic...a fantastic disaster. I thought the BBC vids were good, but not as good as his other stuff, that's just me being picky because there were no popstations being verbally destroyed.

All you fools who hasn't seen Dr Ashen, go look him up on youtube! He'll show you real competitors to the PSP and DS, the Popstation and Neo Double Games!:|

I thought Vinnie Vole's Existential Nightmare in Episode 2 was one of the most surreal and awesome things I've ever witnessed
and I'm always tempted to go out and find a Popstation just so I can say I've played one.....although such an act would probably cost me my sanity.

And cause your ears to bleed.

 

[Mercurio128]

Let me say this in Family Guy's defense, it is written for an American audience, and regardless of what the stereotype is in Britain, in America that's how the stereotype would be percieved. That is to say, that in order to correct an incorrect stereotype, Family Guy would have to divert time from their original purpose (to entertain) in order to carry out a second purpose (to inform), which would be fine except that as always they're running within a limited time frame.

Point being, that from the perspective of people writing for an American audience, it makes more sense to play to an incorrect stereotype for the purposes of entertainment than it does to try and correct an incorrect assumption, which would probably just end up confusing the vast majority of the American audience (I'll be honest, I live here, most of us really and truly would be confused if they tried to correct the stereotype).

And this Ladies and Gentlemen is the reason why US versions of films or TV shows have their names changed. It's like the producers are so afraid of confusing people that they'd rather treat everyone like idiots:

My favourites:

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - HP and the Sorcerers Stone

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - My Partner the Ghost (lol)

 

[PhiMed]

But seriously, ALL THE BRITS doing horrible, ridiculous, borderline offensive American accents in movies over here, and the OT is getting upset about a FAMILY GUY EPISODE? News flash, every British actor ever: Your American accent sucks balls, and your Southern accent sucks underage animal balls, and we CAN tell. So stop it.

At least the Family Guy stereotypes are supposed to be offensively amusing. These ass-hats do their schpiel with a straight face and expect us to take it seriously. (I'm looking at you, almost every single member of the cast of Battlestar Galactica).

Well, I've confused many an-American with my fake accents, both Southern, Central and Northern stereotype accents.
I got asked if I was from Georgia by several Yanks ffs!

If you say so, dude. I'm sure you're an exceptional liar, either way.

I'm guessing that none of the "several" Americans who asked you this were from the region from which you were pretending to be. Were they sober at the time?

You should probably consider that they may have spotted you from a mile away, but decided to let you have your fun while a little fun at your expense. There've been many parties where I've met someone who's trying to put the entire party on with an accent or story, and I've gone along with it. Then, as soon as he was out of earshot, my friends and I would laugh at what an idiot he was.

But I'm sure that's not the case with you. You're clever and unique, and your intentional charicatures are much more convincing than attempts at authenticity by people whose livelihoods depend on it.

 

[PhiMed]

They call hookers in some parts of the US, "Chippys". A Chippy in the UK is a a fish and chip shop. This kind of mixup could have pretty awkward but hilarious results.

Where?

 

[SnipErlite]

As a British person I am jolly ticked-off by this.

Rather, those colonials don't know the proper etiquette. More tiffin?

There's always time for tiffin. I'm reminded of a particular Carry On film.

Also....your avatar scares me. The.....The Weeping Angels are........scary.

 

[PureChaos]

i normally find Family Guy's British jokes funny because they are wrong. the British porn they do is great. it's all British stereotypes

 

[UberMore]

But seriously, ALL THE BRITS doing horrible, ridiculous, borderline offensive American accents in movies over here, and the OT is getting upset about a FAMILY GUY EPISODE? News flash, every British actor ever: Your American accent sucks balls, and your Southern accent sucks underage animal balls, and we CAN tell. So stop it.

At least the Family Guy stereotypes are supposed to be offensively amusing. These ass-hats do their schpiel with a straight face and expect us to take it seriously. (I'm looking at you, almost every single member of the cast of Battlestar Galactica).

Well, I've confused many an-American with my fake accents, both Southern, Central and Northern stereotype accents.
I got asked if I was from Georgia by several Yanks ffs!

If you say so, dude. I'm sure you're an exceptional liar, either way.

I'm guessing that none of the "several" Americans who asked you this were from the region from which you were pretending to be. Were they sober at the time?

You should probably consider that they may have spotted you from a mile away, but decided to let you have your fun while a little fun at your expense. There've been many parties where I've met someone who's trying to put the entire party on with an accent or story, and I've gone along with it. Then, as soon as he was out of earshot, my friends and I would laugh at what an idiot he was.

But I'm sure that's not the case with you. You're clever and unique, and your intentional charicatures are much more convincing than attempts at authenticity by people whose livelihoods depend on it.

I just spent about 5 minutes forming a good response to such a dick like you, but I've decided not to post it or send it you as I'd rather not disgrace this forum and sully the good nature of it.
Good job at not at all fulfilling the Stereotype of "American" by the way. (oh, incase you don't understand that comment, it's sarcasm. Just to help you out incase your ignorant opinions blind you to such a simple concept, a concept as simple as "being good at accents" which you've already failed to grasp).

 

[Florion]

We had Twin Day a while back at my school, and my British friend and another friend dressed up as schoolgirls together. I saw her in the hall in the morning and was all like, "why are you dressed like that?" and she tells me "I'm a schoolgirl!" and my response to this was, "Wow, that's kinky..." and then she suddenly gets all dark and stalks off and I'm kind of left with my hands in the air wondering what I said.

I found her at lunch and apologized and explained it was a joke, and she accepted it, but I could tell she was still really angry. I finally realized that "kinky" probably meant something else in British vernacular, and asked. "Oh, it means like, the lowest of the low, like, a complete whore," she explained. "OHHHH. Here, it just means 'That's hot.'" "Glad we cleared that up! ._. I thought you were really insulting me..."

In my twenty years of life in Britain I have honestly NEVER heard of the word "kinky" meaning anything other than what *you* thought it meant. How odd...

Maybe it's a regional thing. I think she lived in the suburbs of London, but I'm not sure.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Also....your avatar scares me. The.....The Weeping Angels are........scary.

They're gonna be even scarier this time...

 

[PhiMed]

I just spent about 5 minutes forming a good response to such a dick like you, but I've decided not to post it or send it you as I'd rather not disgrace this forum and sully the good nature of it.
Good job at not at all fulfilling the Stereotype of "American" by the way. (oh, incase you don't understand that comment, it's sarcasm. Just to help you out incase your ignorant opinions blind you to such a simple concept, a concept as simple as "being good at accents" which you've already failed to grasp).

Every British actor I mentioned who irritates me believes he or she is good at accents. Every American who irritates Brits believes he or she is good at accents.

Here's a short paraphrase of our interaction up to this point:

Me: "The OP was mad about a joke, but British people do terrible American accents and are serious about it."

You: "You weren't talking to me. Americans are stupid. They always believe me because I'm awesome! They buy into negative stereotypes of themselves! Unnecessary abbreviation for profanity!"

Me: "Thanks, I never hear British people tell me that Americans are stupid or gullible. I also never hear adolescent males brag about anything. You are truly a novel individual."

You: "You're a stupid dick! I'm 17, and I know I'm awesome!"

 

[UberMore]

EDIT: I've scraped my argument to the above post, realising it's probably a mini de-rail and that the argument is a stupid one.

Long story short, it is possible to do American accents well if you're from the UK and vice versa.