I so love the British

You'd never see this on American television.

Another one...

it does help if you can understand a Scottish accent, unlike my roommate, who gets about every three words, mainly the first and last of a phrases

This is hilarious

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Thanks to Darren Moura-Smith for the heads up, sharing this link on the Call of Cthulhu Role-Playing Game & Players Facebook page.

Russell Howard's view on the lessons of fairy tales

Well, he has a point, don't you think?

Speaking of Russell Howard, there's a video that's great, but you should watch this first, unless you've the the advert in Britain:


Now, watch this:

I love the giant cracker

And I'm not entirely sure what that Cyberman is doing to Matt Smith (Doctor Who). I think it's a form of Twister, but then.... :) Zany Brits....

I love the bit about the elevator...

A British journalist reflects on his time in the US after 3 years and 46 states:

Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture

But there are, of course, irritations to living anywhere, and it is the job of the irritable to find them.

Americans could make their public spaces a little quieter, for example, if they all took one step closer to the person they are talking to.

And they could speed up their journeys to work by not insisting on holding every elevator for everyone who wants to catch it as though it was one of the last helicopters leaving the roof of the Saigon embassy in 1975. There will be another lift along in a minute.

And after three years of eating steaks the size of elephant's ears off plates bigger than satellite dishes, all of our crockery back in Europe now looks like it was borrowed from a doll's house. They may take some getting used to.

But America in one sense was exactly as I expected it to be: a place of gripping public theatre at election times, and a place of great private virtue nearly all the time.

I found that private virtue on the night I arrived three years ago on a much-delayed New Year's Eve flight, which slipped and stumbled through the icy skies over the choppy darkness of the cold prairies.

I chatted sporadically to the grandmotherly woman beside me about home, and family, although I cannot in truth remember much of what was said.

But I do remember what happened once we landed.

There were no taxis and my fellow passenger insisted, without checking with him, that her husband would happily drive me to my hotel.

It was a round trip for him in the Arctic midnight of a public holiday of perhaps two or three hours.

I expected to detect at least a flicker of surprise on his face when this was first put to him, but there was none.

"This is America son," he told me, "We help each other out."

Nothing that happened in the three years that followed was to undermine that first impression of friendliness and hospitality.

'That's not mine, that's hired!'

Sometimes those great BBC videographers have problems with their subjects. Here a couple of bear cubs cause a bit of havoc.

Adorable white tent bats in the rainforest

What a beautiful place

I hadn't watched this in my subscriptions until YKWIA pointed it out to me. It would be a lovely place to visit in spring.

I saw this the other day at YKWIA's, but it's in my subscription list, too

It's quite excellent (well, it is the BBC, what do you expect?) Particularly riveting are the gazelle protecting her fawn and the wrath of the buffalo. The cinematography is just wonderful; it's well worth a look:

Good morning!

I got up at a ridiculous hour (7 am, which was great considering I went to bed after 2 am) so that I could get some things accomplished this morning, including taking a prescription to the pharmacy. So far I've showered, dressed, listened to a bit of BBCAmerica's international news, and set the DVR for both a Catherine Tate Christmas special and the first part of 'Doctor Who: End of Time', since I'll be working when they come on.

Hilarious

YKWIA showed me this over the weekend. It's from the Catherine Tate show on the BBC:

Thanks!

One more thing!

I found this linked on the Adult Swim website. Even if you don't listen to the band Blink-182, this is funny. It's from the BBC's 'All the Small Things', which the College Humor website calls 'the funniest show on television. Too bad it's supposed to be a drama.' (Of course, Blink-182 has a song called 'All the Small Things' [their main song I'm familiar with], and that was the source of the series' title).

Watch British Choir Sings "What's My Age Again?" and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

For comparison, here's the original.

What if

a much abused computer struck back?



From Gizmodo's Wilson Rothman: '"The Wrong Door" is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam's Python interludes both funny and horrifying.' 'The Wrong Door' is from the BBC, to be shown on BBC Three. It is directed by Ben Wheatley.