State of the Game

[Rubbernuke]

You do know that the "Indian" curries you find in England would never be eaten in India. It's English food dressed up as from somewhere else.

Indeed, a lot of things change as other places adopt them.

 

[PiLhEaD]

Well you don't have to go far: Fawlty Towers, anything from the Monty Python crew, Little Britain, Dr Who! Of all the stupid things, putting warnings on Dr Who?

As an aside, shouldn't the show be called 'Dr Who?'

This has long* troubled my inner pedant!

* well.... for nearly 2.6 seconds...

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Dunno how it works in old Blighty, but over here if you want the good stuff, all you have to do is to find a hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by a couple of people from the old country.

Just stay away from the chain restaurants.

Why would I want to eat Chain?

 

[MishaTX]

Can't talk about bronze... Appropriation of half of Essex!

You seriously need to be canceled, my man! Give me a moment while I rouse up my 14,000 random strangers who follow me on Twitter! You'll be sorry, sir, very sorry indeed!

To the barricades, in the name of tolerance!

 

[Rubbernuke]

Dunno how it works in old Blighty, but over here if you want the good stuff, all you have to do is to find a hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by a couple of people from the old country.

Just stay away from the chain restaurants.

What I find funny is people now getting angry about others taking ideas from other cultures and using them in new ways. Its the very reverse of how thriving cultures work, by denying 'purity' of who can do it or what they use.

 

[MishaTX]

Why would I want to eat Chain?

Indeed. On so many levels. I went to an "Olive Garden" once (the official "Italian food" chain over here) and, having actually eaten Italian food, decided to never go back again. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't Italian.

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

As an aside, shouldn't the show be called 'Dr Who?'

This has long* troubled my inner pedant!

* well.... for nearly 2.6 seconds...

 

[MishaTX]

What I find funny is people now getting angry about others taking ideas from other cultures and using them in new ways. Its the very reverse of how thriving cultures work, by denying 'purity' of who can do it or what they use.

Not to mention: What could possibly be MORE tolerant than discovering something from another culture, deciding that it's better than what you have, and then adopting it?

Isn't that how most of the English language came about?

 

[PiLhEaD]

..."Irony" does NOT mean "kinda like iron".

Ok. True story time.

Working for a <very very big investment bank> we routinely had people in from all round the world working with us, and one day, one of our esteemed American colleagues arrived in a shirt that can only be described as 'just out of the tumble drier'. My colleague Jim looked up, tutted and in his wry Scottish accent said, 'oh so it is true that Americans don't do irony'. Worked then stopped for the day as we carried him around, shoulder-high, though all our offices, chanting his name.

(Okay that last little bit may not be 100% true.)

 

[Erei]

Doctor Who ?

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

What I find funny is people now getting angry about others taking ideas from other cultures and using them in new ways. Its the very reverse of how thriving cultures work, by denying 'purity' of who can do it or what they use.

Purge the Impure:

 

[Rubbernuke]

Not to mention: What could possibly be MORE tolerant than discovering something from another culture, deciding that it's better than what you have, and then adopting it?

Isn't that how most of the English language came about?

Pretty much. Its also quite alarming in a world thats getting smaller and more global you have people marching about saying "you can't wear / do that" *

*within reason, obviously.

 

[Erei]

What I find funny is people now getting angry about others taking ideas from other cultures and using them in new ways. Its the very reverse of how thriving cultures work, by denying 'purity' of who can do it or what they use.

Extremes are always unhealthy, no matter what or whom. Nothing new. People bottom tight about others "appropriating someone culture" are the same kind than the one being scared their culture is going to disappear because people are adopting other people's culture.

 

[PiLhEaD]

I thought it was a bit like goldy, or bronzy...

Best to avoid brassy.

 

[MishaTX]

by denying 'purity' of who can do it or what they use.

As an aside: Being more than 20 years old and having read quite a few actual books, rather than random brain flatulence on Twitter, it seems to me that this whole "cultural purity" thing has been tried before.

And it didn't end well for anybody.

 

[WhiteShadow]

Doctor Who ?

Hey, What's Old Duck doing with her there?!?!

 

[Rubbernuke]

Extremes are always unhealthy, no matter what or whom.

Take Kumo Burger. It does not discriminate, is gender neutral and is good for the environment- is like a 3300s PETA, WWF and Greenpeace brought together with McDonalds.

 

[Erei]

As an aside: Being more than 20 years old and having read quite a few actual books, rather than random brain flatulence on Twitter, it seems to me that this whole "cultural purity" thing has been tried before.

And it didn't end well for anybody.

What did you say ? That sound like Heresy !

 

[Rubbernuke]

As an aside: Being more than 20 years old and having read quite a few actual books, rather than random brain flatulence on Twitter, it seems to me that this whole "cultural purity" thing has been tried before.

And it didn't end well for anybody.

Worked well in Activia yogurt though. Thats cultural purity I can shove my face into.

 

[Erei]

Hey, What's Old Duck doing with her there?!?!

Taking a selfie. No really, you should read the caption.

Take Kumo Burger. It does not discriminate, is gender neutral and is good for the environment- is like a 3300s PETA, WWF and Greenpeace brought together with McDonalds.

Kumo Burger is the true equalizer.