May 06, 2008
daily UTC chat log for Anywherebb (Postline 6.1.30)
15:24, Megagun> That's really clever!
16:12, Cryoburner> Yes, I suppose it is.
16:18, Cryoburner> I'm guessing Hulu only allows access to the US due to the licensing of shows and targetting of advertisements.
18:32, Tacogeddon has arrived, insert statement here!
19:37, Cryoburner> Tacogeddon has arrived, everyone leaves!
19:40, Megagun> Tacogeddon has arrived, burn Tacogeddon!
20:40, Buuks> campfire!
04:32, Duskesko> BARF http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r220/2funny2b/myspace/pic12/tooofunny12 205.jpg
05:35, Trad.a whispers: sometimes I wish to move to the US JUST so I can do all these fancy online things such as Hulu and/or Free iPod Nanos.
05:49, Raptorjedi> There are much better things in America than that. Our TV shows for instance :P
05:50, Zjc92> Yeah, there's House, Two and a Half Men, uhm....maybe Wife Swap, but in a sick way...
05:51, Zjc92> WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN IDOL?!?!?!?! (Don't think so.)
05:51, Zjc92> Japanese and british TV are better, hands down. :P
05:52, Raptorjedi> British TV has Doctor Who... and Doctor Who... and well, nothing else good.
05:53, Raptorjedi> And of COURSE Japanese TV is better. That's a known fact and doesn't need to be stated.
05:53, Raptorjedi> And all those shows are crap.
05:54, Raptorjedi> The good shows are Bones, Lost, Heroes, NCIS, Stargate (though that's canadian), Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, and Family Guy.
05:56, Raptorjedi> If there are good British TV shows other than Doctor Who, they must not make it out of the country. In which case, those limey bastards need to stop flooding the rest of the world with their crap. If you don't want it, we don't either :P
06:06, Zjc92> What about The IT Crowd? :P
06:06, Zjc92> And Family Guy's been kinda sucking lately. They're falling back on their old material.
06:06, Raptorjedi> Never seen it.
06:07, Raptorjedi> I'll have to look for some episodes, I might like it.
06:07, Zjc92> Well that's a shame.
06:07, Zjc92> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_it_crowd It's hilarious. :P
06:10, Zjc92> They were going to remake it for the US (like The Office), but the reaction was horseshit, so they didn't go ahead with it.
06:11, Raptorjedi> I think The Office is stupid. I started to watch the first episode of the US remake and I couldn't even finish the first ten minutes.
06:12, Zjc92> It was pretty awful, yeah.
06:13, Raptorjedi goes to bed
06:16, Zjc92> Good luck with that. :P
10:53, Tracco> Americans should NEVER remake British comedies. They'll probably try to remake Faulty Towers soon... As TV seems to be running short of ideas.
13:19, Kalliope> Remakes in general tend to be bad ideas. Poorly thought-out, at the very least.
13:27, Magnulus> Or rather, the poorly thought-out remakes tend to be a bad idea. There are some that I quite like. For example Peter Jackson's King Kong, though I understand it's de rigeur to hate it these days.
13:32, Buuks> I like The Office US, it turns out to be quite good in season 2 and 3
13:34, Buuks> And the Americans already remade Fawlty Towers. It was called Payne: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182623/
13:35, Buuks> It even had less episodes than the original.
13:56, Duskesko> they did try to remake Faulty Towers, where have you been? it was called "The Captain"
13:58, Duskesko> okay, maybe not. but it still smelled like a Faulty Towers knock off to me.
14:48, Buuks> Why are you typing it as faulty, while it is fawlty.
14:56, Duskesko> I DO NOT KNOW!
15:24, Cryoburner> Or mayde THEY are the ones who spelled it wrong.
15:25, Cryoburner> The real reason British Comedy remakes do poorly in the US is because British comedy is horrible. :)
15:49, Duskesko> or because we are not british.... nah, that's not it
15:52, Zjc92> Did you ever even WATCH Fawlty Towers or Monty Python's Flying Circus? :P
15:52, Zjc92> Oh remakes, whoops. :V
15:54, Duskesko> i watched fawlty towers
15:59, Zjc92> I meant Cryo. :P
16:00, Zjc92> But he said British TV remakes and...ugh, WHATEVER.
16:17, Cryoburner> Monty Python is terrible. :P
17:00, Duskesko attacks Cryoburner.
17:28, Explorer> I think Monty Python is terrible 3/4 of the time, and genius the other 1/4
17:29, Megagun> 05:35, Trad.a whispers: sometimes I wish to move to the US JUST so I can do all these fancy online things such as Hulu and/or Free iPod Nanos.
17:29, Megagun> You can use Hulu if you're outside of the US, if you know how.. :)
17:29, Megagun> Won't help you with 'em free iPod nanos though! :P
18:28, Deanfrz> how does hulu know if your outside usa?
18:45, Cryoburner> It probably checks your IP address.
19:08, Duskesko> ip ranges, lulz
20:34, Duskesko> ABB, who likes Chinese food?!
20:43, Tom> I sometimes get won ton soup from the place down the street because it's good and it costs less than $2 for a surprising quantity, but I'm far from a connisseur (aficionado?)
20:50, Duskesko> Ahh. Well I like buffets. Lots of shrimp and pork and rice and noodles and omg so awesome.
20:50, Duskesko> Going out with a friend tonight and eating at one.
21:03, Tom> (Did I spell "connisseur" right? What's a
21:04, Tom> "standard" won ton made of)?
21:05, Tom> I've encountered pork, beef, chicken and shrimp, so I guess it's some kind of Platonic ideal, of which only a pale reflection can ever be tasted.