We are awake. 😁

​@@WhiteHawk77Eh?

@@eadweard. Sleepy?

@@DrWrapperband Not sure where this stuff about sleep is coming from. How does it relate to the OP?

Jeeez guys... AL MURRAY when talking about the American dream 😊

Americans are brainwashed by the ‘we live in the best country in the world’ and ‘the American dream’ In reality they have no free healthcare and average reading age is 10 years old. They were announced as being the worst offender of propaganda which is basically Russian in origin. We get hit by it now West and East. American dream happens if you are born into money, extremely bright with a good idea or just plain luck. No wonder there is much mental illness which there is no help for unless you can afford it . Add guns to mental illness and not my idea of a dream or the best country.

You think even 1% of 65 million people actually trust these clowns and charlatans?

@@thadtuiol1717- Plenty of diehard Torries that love them no matter what.

How can you have -99%? You mean 1%?

@@Station9.75AKA country bumpkins who have no idea they’re ruining the cities lol

The customer is never wrong, but seldom right

The customer can make mistakes. The customer can misinterpret. The customer can misunderstand. The customer can misconstrue. The customer can even outright lie. Because the customer is human.

Right up their own a**

Dont forget Cockermouth 😂

Yes, a comfy home and happy family, with enough money to maintain them both. That’s wonderful and uncomplicated.❤️🇬🇧

😂. I remember that Al Murray stand up show when he roasting the Americans that were in the audience. “What vanquished nation do you come from?” 😂😂

Al Murray quote

I found the opposite, to over the top. Have a nice day every 2 seconds etc 😂. Overall I did like them though

@@westleyjohnstone4719 yeah I got that too, but it felt empty after cutting past you in line lol

@@butttbandit69 they just don't que, think it's a British thing

​@@westleyjohnstone4719Queue is a British word.

Strange and frankly rather silly remarks.

​@eadweard. Pretty accurate I thought

Agreed, so true

A muppet😂that’s why we like it

I’ve noticed with a lot of American comedies. No matter how much stupid stuff the main character does. There’s never any real consequences because they always “win” by the end of the movie/ show. The high school nerd always gets the girl of his dreams. Big Bang theory started with 4 undateable geeks, and within a few seasons they were all married. In Friends they all end up married at the end. American Pie ends with the main character falling in love, and the other one has it off with Stifler’s mum. Meanwhile in British comedies. After 9 seasons of Peep Show Mark and Jez end up single and doing the same things as the beginning of the show. Blackadder ends up with all the main characters dead.

I made the same comment elsewhere this week, the creators were fans of Fawlty Towers but I think there is a touch of Manwairing in there too.

Tbf no other country in the world has it and many of them do quite well.

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​@@AirstripOne-nd4duhonestly, I think us and Canadians are very similar. Definitely more so than us and Americans. At least from what I've seen.

I hate voiceless people. The people who want to get past you but don't say excuse me and just stare silently at you until you realise they're there. Mostly found in supermarkets. You feel like saying to them "You have a voice don't you" but you're too British & polite so you just go "Oh sorry did you want to get past?"😂

@@AirstripOne-nd4du Eh? I don't know what you mean. Eh? That's a British thing too.

@@brendanm6921 We didn't have the hard separation with the Canadians which I think explains it.

I always liked the American visual comedy not so much the situational comedies. I used to love the Harold Lloyd/Buster Keaton sketches they used to show on British tv on Saturday mornings. Oh. And Steve Martin, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder films not forgetting the amazing Robin Williams.

Born equal _before the law_ is the idea.

In an utopia sure. Biut in real life not even that is true.@@eadweard.

@@justmandy6572 Even so, the American Dream is not premised on the idea that everyone is born into equal circumstances.

Yeah, there is distain between the Upper and Working classes but also respect. The working class appreciate the upper class as harmless and enterprising but also snobby and aloof. The Upper class appreciate the Working class as strong powerhouses and honest if scruffy and a bit loud. But the Middle Class is a sacrilegious hybrid. A mockery of class. Half of each but the worst of either.

The amount of times I've watched Americans react to certain British comedy classics and look very confused whilst trying to interpret the joke in a literal manner is, in itself, kind of hilarious to me. It seems that, in general, Americans need to know where the joke is in order to laugh - it needs to have a set up and a punchline of some sort, it needs to have a structure even if that structure is not as obvious in modern American comedy as it used to be it is still there, whereas British comedy can often be much more amorphous, sometimes purposefully avoiding any sort of set up or punchline altogether (the Vox pops from a A bit of Fry & Laurie, for example). Often the joke is in playing with audience expectations (I remember Monty Python talking about wanting to gradually lower the volume of the show to make the audience keep turning up their TVs, before suddenly returning the volume to it's correct level at the end and making everyone watching jump but the BBC wouldn't allow them, lol) and wants to play with the 'structure' to such an extent as to do away with it altogether. A lot of British comedy can be not just about making you expect something to happen and then surprise you but also to do things like give you what you expect but overdo it to such a silly extent it almost no longer makes any sense - Vic & Bob would do that quite a lot, for example - they would make fun of a trope we would all recognise but exaggerate the trope to such ridiculous proportions it becomes quite surreal and then they would combine that with subverting your expectations to make it even more nonsensical, with the more abstract it then gets, the funnier it gets. I've seen so many Americans say things like "why are they doing that?" whilst I am rolling in the aisles laughing and I realise that Brits are much more conditioned to finding situations funny, and the more ridiculous the situation the funnier it is, whereas Americans, generally, find it funnier when they are given the necessary comedy cues. I think that is why many people say British comedy is "more intelligent", because the joke is not obvious or might not even exist at all yet it will still be funny, but I think it is just a different approach. I think some people think Americans don't see the joke, wonder why we're all laughing, and think that they're not clever enough to understand it but it is more that Brits are used to not looking for those traditional cues and will just laugh at the irreverence ... and we have more traditional comedy with set ups and punchlines too

the UK culture is Islam blacks &India

well it isn't? the UK is fortunate enough to be a mix of these cultures, as well as irish, native british, european too among many others. I think the UK has such a wonderful culture to be a part of specifically because we all unknowingly and unwillingly embrace each other's interpretation of culture. I think that's why (or before the last 10-15 years since everyone has started to hate each other because the country has gone majorly down the shitter, even more so than previously) people here get on no matter of backgrounds, a feeling of "it's shit, but we're in it together", which is wonderful to be apart of, not matter if someone is black or white, muslim or christian etc@@WasiuAlatise

@@WasiuAlatise You know that's a bit racist? and inaccurate.

Cannot tell what you are trying to say.

I didn’t know Frasier had Brit writers. That explains why I love it so much.❤️

I also wouldn't want to blend. I like distinctive cultures and them remaining so. When I go to Greece, I want it to feel different to if I go to Paris or Berlin. I don't want to see massive (same few) fast food corporations down dominating every city, which is happening more and more.

I lived in Thailand for 7 years, and American fast food joints are HUGE over there, as well as local fast food places all over the place. Also, they've gone complete barmy over shopping malls, as well as chain supermarkets. Local businesses are a dying breed over there IMO@@OneTrueScotsman

Have you seen the new Frasier? It has Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney from Only Fools and Horses) in it.

South Park was even inspired by Monty python strangely enough

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Well what was your dream job?

Especially in the North which until the 1980s meant either the coal mine or the steel works where I live. My brother works in the steel works but has a highly skilled job which pays well.

How sad I was told, that I could achieve anything if I worked hard enough and had the the talent but to always remember life isn’t always fair and don’t be disappointed if things don’t go your way. And my mum always said happiness is first found by accepting yourself and allowing yourself to simply be.

True lol

Ref, Karl Pilkington for low expectations

My NHS dentist put a cap on my tooth but if fell off so I went back and it fell off again so I left it. Then I got a random hole in my tooth and got it filled in and the cleaning before was agony. I pushed her arm away but she pushed back. That's messed up. That fell out too. I give in for now. They aren't hurting so I'll leave it.

I wanted a wart removed about 5 years ago like I had done when I was young. It was just a squirt from a cannister of freezing stuff. They wanted £150 for the procedure. That is so shit. I had to file it down with a pumice stone every day for about 4 months before it had gone. It was painful and gross. How does a squirt of freezing stuff possibly cost that much?

Oh yeah and she wanted to remove my wisdom teeth without even doing an x-ray. I still have my wisdom teeth and I'm fairly sure they're absolutely fine. I still have my wisdom.

It's the GPs that are the biggest problem now not the hospitals. Still too much say. We need to take the Primary care trusts back out of their control. Even the local A&E doctors don't trust them any more(my mums experience when she couldn't get an appointment)

i like letterkenny and Shoresy but they're canadian.

The Bob Monkhouse classic.

British Government is the same with far too much vested interest in big business. But it's more like an old boys club with most of our top politicians going to Eton or similar(look at David Cameron coming back). Class system strikes again. It's very obvious with our current dire government. I certainly don't trust any government. I think they're all self serving.

My favourite being Twatt

One of my American friends said that many of her fellow Americans. Chase the American dream, and with American optimism think they will succeed and one day they will get their big break. But she said it very rarely happens. She said some people are convinced they will get their big break but never actually do anything to achieve it, and just think it will just happen out of the blue. Others take gambles and make really bad decisions starting unsuccessful businesses, making terrible investments etc. with their families life savings. Because they were convinced they would be millionaires. That’s why Las Vegas is so successful, everyone thinks they will win big money. and as they get older they can get very bitter and angry. Because they feel they were cheated out of the American dream they were expecting.

@@JarlGrimmToys it’s a good thing to have a dream, and you’re absolutely right most dreams are unattainable and it can ruin your life. They are selling a lie , when he said on the video that anyone can be president is also not true only if you’re a multimillionaire you might succeed.

@@kimarnill7648 Pessimism is fine so long as it doesn’t prevent you from trying. Likewise optimism is fine so long as you’re cautious and aware it might not work out.

I believe a lot of the ignorance and hatred is the atrocious education system. They trot out words like socialist and communist. Yet when asked to define them. They are always very off the mark. I will skip the 1920s and 30s Italy and Germany political systems. As that will set the algorithm off.