Yantelope Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Yeah, but Henry Ford created the assembly line and so we Americans instantly take all the credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Fuck, I hate Monty Python. Shit's not ever funny. That's all I came to say. Bye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Don't know why you guys drive on the left. When we invented the automobile. Made to drive on the right. The side of the road thing is before automobiles. I believe it's to do with having people pass on your right so you could grab your sword if they were a threat. The explanation I've heard was that coach drivers used their right hands for their whips, and so they drove on the left to avoid accidentally clobbering pedestrians in those narrow streets of yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Could be. Either way, point is the same: totally predates automobiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) IT Crowd Season Series 4 just it netflix. Â So dressing gown = bathrobe? Â Also, crowd = department or group? Edited January 6, 2011 by Yantelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 dressing gown n bathrobe are sort of the same. Though I'm sure a bathrobe is made of a more towel like material. Â As for crowd, nope. It's a play on 'it crowd' as in the social movers n shakers. Celebs n the like. it girl is the most common one used. While changing it to IT crowd cos they work in IT and are certianly not part of the 'it crowd'. Crowds are just groups of people. 'threes a crowd' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) Dressing gown = bathrobe is right  But the crowd thing is a play on 'it crowd' as in a group of fashionable people, being that the 'IT crowd' are quite the opposite.  EDIT: Dean beat me to it, while I was trying to find some sort of reference (for which it seems there is none!) Edited January 6, 2011 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 ah, yeah, I've heard of cool people as being "the in crowd" just as if something is "in fashion". Never heard of the it crowd before though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yeah in crowd is the more common phrase, for the 'it' stuff 'it girls' are the main ones mentioned. Not many it boys n it crowds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Tali needs to go back and tag your post with "the more you know" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 The whole thread is 'The more you know...' though, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 I suppose it is. Dean's explanation of the word fanny sure made an line in IT Crowd a bit less confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Hehe. Didn't we have fannypacks and bumbags as the opener to the original thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yes we did. Â So Dean, if each Series of your show is only 6 episodes are there multiple series each year or do you just spend 90% of your time watching reruns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Usually only one series a year. Some programmes have more episodes per series. Â We spend most our time watching soaps, reality TV and murder mysteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 IT crowd is actually kinda short. Most births series tend to run for about 12-16 episodes. Inbetween we watch US shows. or Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) Yeah, generally sitcoms over here are 22-23 episodes long so I kept wondering where the rest of the series was. Edited January 6, 2011 by Yantelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 IT crowd is actually kinda short. Â It's pretty typical for sitcoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Oh n Sherlock. Disappointingly short. I'm proper getting into it and then it turns out only 3 episodes long. WTF? But there's quite a few of those. Not exactly 'made for TV films' but you'll have these either long one off dramas, or things that are only a couple episodes long to play over a holiday period or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 I do love Red Dwarf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Oh n Sherlock. Disappointingly short. I'm proper getting into it and then it turns out only 3 episodes long. WTF? But there's quite a few of those. Not exactly 'made for TV films' but you'll have these either long one off dramas, or things that are only a couple episodes long to play over a holiday period or something. On this side of the pond we call those "miniseries". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Oh n Sherlock. Disappointingly short. I'm proper getting into it and then it turns out only 3 episodes long. WTF? But there's quite a few of those. Not exactly 'made for TV films' but you'll have these either long one off dramas, or things that are only a couple episodes long to play over a holiday period or something. On this side of the pond we call those "miniseries". Â And they sure loved them in the 80s, that's for sure (especially if they were about the Civil War) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventureRidge Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Doesn't look like anyone's addressed the Underground vs. Metro/Subway one. I know I've spoken to a few Americans who've given me funny looks when I say "Take the Underground." No doubt they imagined some dirty cave system through which I traveled to work every day. Â As far as I know, most (all?) other places call it a Metro or Subway. Â A nick name for it is "the tube" because the carriages are like tubes you see. Speaking of which, I've never heard a nickname/slang term for the Subway or Metro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I don't think "metro" is an American thing, I've only ever heard it used to describe subterranean train systems in other countries (particularly France). In the US it's just a subway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 A nick name for it is "the tube" because the carriages are like tubes you see. Â And Americans looooove it when you say 'ride the tube'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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