There's a lot, but the most baffling is assuming that American is the default setting of the world. Confidently coming into discussions like "um y'all are underage drinking at 19" or what have you. No other country does this
ebeneezer scrooge wasn't a bad guy because he hated christmas. he was bad because he was a landlord. there are thousands of facebook groups and linkedin posts describing doing exactly what he does and worse. it's amazing how twisted everyone's gotten that moral
Here's one: Getting mad that people outside the US have opinions about the US elections, despite everything that the US does having an effect on every other country. "But it doesn't affect you!" Bullshit. Just because you can ignore every other country doesn't mean we can
The six stages of grief:
• Denial – "What's a matter you?"
• Anger – "Hey! Gota no respect."
• Bargaining – "What do you think you do?"
• Depression – "Why you looka so sad?"
• Acceptance – "It's not so bad, it's a nice place"
• Shuddup you face – "Ah, shuddup you face"
@Superchair14
That's probably true but there's just some people who have faces geared towards certain time periods and look weird when they're outside of that, even in period appropriate clothing, an De Niro apparently has the ipposite
You fuckin reckon mate? You think they've been juicing their numbers? Whoa that is... So crazy. That is insane conspiracy thinking. Imagine... Whoa c'mon. Imagine thinking that they could be exaggerating their viewership numbers. That's... Wow.
@NeilNevins
I have an official companion book to the series that seems to imply that they still at least try to make it work for a while and remain friends otherwise
@ThisisAlexei
[4:45 Friday]
“Hey have you done that poster for Outbreak yet”
“Yeah man of course I just need to open photoshop quickly for unrelated reasons]
All the best choices are mentioned in the thread (Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, et al) but one for the Australians in the audience:
Isn't it crazy that Hey Hey It's Saturday ran for over 20 years and it's legacy has been reduced to basically one image:
Other than Game of Thrones, what is the biggest TV show that has left the smallest impact?
like, MASH reruns will still be playing after the apocalypse; meanwhile i feel like HIMYM kind of dried up after the finale
Folks, you hear about this, apparently, in America, they have a website... Called Yahoo! Can you believe it? Like what a cowboy says!! Uh, bad news for their competitor... Teepee! Their top story: [Wears a feather headdress and does the chant. You know the one]
@FarmboyinJapan
@Mario__Bones
The coolest thing is imagining him saying “step on my balls and make me cum” in the voice he had for the super Mario brothers super show
@CromFourWinds
This is why Saturday Night Live is, like, a necessary evil. It might only have three good sketches a year, but my god, look at the talent it produces
@markhumphries
The American idea of “freedom” is so pervasive and toxic to their entire culture that everything can be justified if it’s in the name of freedom.
@BeanWalrus
i wish they'd be able to acknowledge the nuances of both liking capeshit and hating what it's doing to the industry. Like me, I'm normal about it.
It is impossible to overstate for any non-australians how much the Logies, the biggest award in Australian TV, is basically the same as a public school year 10 formal
@bornposting
This prompted me to look up his filmography for the first time and good lord that is a leap in budgets between films. $5M for Cop Car, $175M for Spider-Man.
Tom Hollander says he accidentally got sent Tom Holland’s box office bonus for the ‘AVENGERS’ movies.
“It was an astonishing amount of money… Not the whole box-office bonus, the first one. And it was more money than I’d ever [seen].”
(Source: )
Australia has practically no cultural arts identity beyond "appeal to the Americans, and failing that, the Brits". Our entire film industry is basically an arm of the tourism board. Thousands of talented people reduced to "but how will this play in Texas?" WHO CARES!!!
Me: So we used that kite experiment to discover some more things about electricity, and that eventually led to the internet
Benjamin Franklin: I see, and these "furry artists" will draw whatever i want?
Me: yeah, but--
Franklin: no, let me be clear; *whatever* I want?
@MishMei
You wanna know how to make this sadder? He absolutely does not realise that they look unhappy. He's so used to seeing them react like that to him, that he thinks this is normal
@oneirossandman
To be (un)fair to the fancasting people, they were all saying "Bryan Cranston should be Lex Luthor" because he was bald for Breaking Bad because "looks like them" is as far as they ever consider for anyone
@bornposting
I love that time Kramer brings up Bob Sacamano and Jerry asks him "Hey how come I never see these friends of yours" and Kramer fires back with "Well they wonder why they don't see you"
He has his own life. He's off doing things that the show never let's us see. It's great!
@lackingsaint
I like how they say Christofs obsession is sexual and give absolutely no supporting evidence. Not even a hint of a moment that made them think that
I’ve seen
@AusUnemployment
do more for their members in the past year than the union that otensibly represents me has done in the 8 years I’ve been a member.
People uhhh people are complaining about how during daylight savings Australia has too many time zones, well, buddy, there were even more in the 90s! Timezone is an international chain of family entertainment centres and amusement arcade centres based in Australia. It is owned an
@tomosucks
@gravelteen
There really aren’t many directors that are SO distinctive, are there? Even Burton and Bay’s tics and affectations aren’t always immediately obvious the way Anderson’s are