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Poll Question: Which version of this sitcom do you prefer?
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Classic David Brent (UK)
 
 
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2007 at 10:14
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

For some reason British people love comedy that makes them cringe, and I'm no exception. I sat through that Borat movie watching through the gaps in my fingers thinking 'Oh God no, he can't say that surely! He's going to get shot if he keeps this up!' But I loved it.

 

The master of this kind of humour is Steve Coogan. I sit through most episodes of I'm Alan Partridge looking like I've just consumed a very bitter lemon..

 


 


Alan Partridge is such a brilliantly observed character. I must have watched those chat shows, and the follow up series a thousand times.

I love it when he shoots 'Forbes McAllister' at the end of the last chat show, with one of Lord Byrons duelling pistols!
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2007 at 10:26
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Classic David Brent (UK)
 


 


I love this bit..

I dont agree with that in the workplace!!

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My best tv series. I laughed so many times. British ofcourse

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I find the US version better because the characters are more differentiated (have more individual character) and Steve Carell is less of a one-trick-pony that is Gervais's only shtick.  And in reality, Gervais's character would have been fired long ago, while Carell's would have just barely have hung on like in the show.

and of course theirs Dwight...
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Points: 7374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2007 at 08:55
I like both, but I usually just watch the American version. Dwight is classic.



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British, by farrrrrrrrrrrr
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British, though Carell is excellent

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Is the Territorial Army an actual organization?  If so, what is its purpose?
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Is the Territorial Army an actual organization?  If so, what is its purpose?
 
It is a real organisation - it's effectively a privatre army, nearly all of whose troops are part time soldiers, although the Territorials can (and do) get to serve alongside the British army from time to time - I think all the members are reservists, meaning that they can be called into action at any time.
 
The territiorials have also been used by the British government in more underhand ways; during the Vietnam war Harold Wilson's government dispatched members of the Territorial SAS to act as 'advisers' on jungle warfare. As they were members of the Territorials, they weren't officially representing the UK which meant that the government of the time could distance itself from the Vietnam war and simultaneously give some low key support to the Americans - Harold Wilson frequently played both sides against the middle.
 
And Gareth may not be completely typical of the TA, but I used to know a guy in the Territorials who was uncannily like him.
 


Edited by Syzygy - May 19 2007 at 17:14
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