Picks up 6 utensils. "One of these will work" sticks 3 of them in the pan. It's hilarious.
~ Reader Comment on Paris Hilton cooking review in Guardian
There is such a thing as "British humor" but when I read UK Commenters on the Internet it's more just the style of expression that captures my attention and fascinates.
I haven't worked my way up to their style of humor ("humour") yet; I'm still on words and phrases and spellings that are different from how we do it here in the U.S.A.
Over there "across the pond" --
Humor is spelled humour
A rumor is a rumour (Like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours)
If we are honorable here, when we go to England we will be honourable.
Then there's the "s" vs. "z" policy difference:
If we realize truths about civilization in America, when we go to UK, we will realise truths about civilisation.
They put Mr. and Mrs. and Dr. without the period:
Mr Bailey
Mrs Jagger
Dr Zhivago
I enjoy their use of the word "then" at the end of a sentence when their meaning is lightly humorous -- when one reader commented desperately that silly reality shows indicate "the end of civilisation," another answered, "Perfect time for the Last Supper then." You would say this with a cheerful, jaunty attitude.
The commenter who wrote, "I give up...let's get rid of electricity and start again."
I think in the U.S. we would say "start over" instead of "start again."
Why do they spell "program" --
"programme"?
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Other Reader Comments:
-------- The sole purpose of this piece is that if anyone asks me whether I saw Paris Hilton lasagna video on YouTube, I can say "Of course not, but I read about it in The Guardian"...
------- But this is the most comical article and video I have seen since years! Thanks so much Stuart for this amazing article! (did I say amazing?). And being Italian and knowing well what lasagna should be (or even just look like...), believe me it is even more exhilarating. A masterpiece.
P.S. I would like to suggest her to prepare the Parmigiana next time, that would be another comic hit.
------- haha, brilliant! Got to watch this now, if only to know what she does with the salt...
---------- I fear for humanity.
------------ Words are not enough. Pure poetry.
------- Ricotta cheese in lasagna, fucking American's have lost the run of themselves.
And the way they say it too, 'ricoetoe'. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
----------- As she drives off in her vee-hick-ull...
------------ And adds some urbs to the sauce, aregguno for example...
--------- Ahh, the old "making fun of the way people from different places say things" brand of 'humor.' Real Adam Sandler laughs, straight from the UK. If I only had a dollar for every time you people went on a rant about the word soccer...
--------------- Humor?
---------- Wow, making fun of foreigners and the way they speak.
-------- Watched about 3 minutes, felt like 15 - not the slightest bit amusing, let alone hilarious. Why is the Guardian giving this waste of space publicity?
------- I was grateful to have it. I am so depressed at the state of the environment and the world Paris cheered me up, that's how desperate I am!!
----------- Seeing her & Nicole Ritchie calling bizarre situations in the deep mid-West "hotttt" was equally as funny!
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I never saw "The Simple Life" -- I didn't know they went around pronouncing things "hot."
That does sound funny.
Better yet, is this veddy-literate British reader calling the American Midwest -- "the deep mid-West" and no one saying anything! Hahaha. There is a "Deep South." There is no
"deep mid-West."
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