If we want more UK bred TV and film we have to pay for it thru increased license fess for the Beeb and greater subsidies for home-made film and TV projects by independents and that means more taxes. As with everything, you get what you pay for.
I enjoy many people and things from the USA but there is much I wouldn't want at all and find unpleasant or uncomfortable. I don't have that feeling of discomfort in mainland Europe and nor did I have it when I visited Oz. I think I would in many other countries where attitudes to the poor, women, etc are so alien to my own.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I recently found out that "aluminum", with stress on the second syllable is correct. Apparently, after it was discovered and named, British scientists assumed it was a mistake and inserted the second "I" to conform with all the other elements that end in "ium". Can't remember where I read that - it might have been in this very potting shed.
I have spent the last four years happily correcting my husbands English. (he's not a native speaker so learnt American) I'm nearly there just got to get the tomatoes and potatoes sorted, occasionally have a slip but matters have hugely improved.
My daughter, born and brought up in Belgium, learned English from her parents, Disney, the Beeb and then lots more TV and cinema. Uses a lot of USA expressions but is happy - now - to be corrected and has learned to start again, with a smile, when she begins a sentence with "So".
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Surely it is not the fault of the Americans that we copy so much of their culture. My great worry at the moment is that with BREXIT and Trump, we could soon be friendless, a tiny insignificant island, sadly I think that is what some people want.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
It's not "Americans", it's the adoption of many of their "customs" which irks. The overwhelming majority of Americans I've met have been lovely, but we don't have to copy them. Unfortunately , as a nation, we often do. Nobody has mentioned the paranoia of litigation, which I fear is another trans Atlantic phenomenon. Ditto , picking up pizza to eat it.
I pick up pizza to eat it ... as I was shown to do in Italy by Tuscans ... it’s the Italian equivalent of a Cornish pasty or a sandwich ... something you can pick up and eat on the go or at least without the formality of a table setting.
No one except Hyacinth Bouquet would use a knife and fork for a sandwich
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hear hear Dove. I have always eaten pizza like that. I was glad to see it when I was in Italy...vindicated! You're right Hosta. It's this rush to pick up traits that 'look or sound cool' that irritates me. Thankfully I have a certain amount of influence over many many (so many) teens so I spend my days saying 'we're not the 51st state. The word is "_____"'.
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I enjoy many people and things from the USA but there is much I wouldn't want at all and find unpleasant or uncomfortable. I don't have that feeling of discomfort in mainland Europe and nor did I have it when I visited Oz. I think I would in many other countries where attitudes to the poor, women, etc are so alien to my own.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My great worry at the moment is that with BREXIT and Trump, we could soon be friendless, a tiny insignificant island, sadly I think that is what some people want.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Nobody has mentioned the paranoia of litigation, which I fear is another trans Atlantic phenomenon. Ditto , picking up pizza to eat it.
No one except Hyacinth Bouquet would use a knife and fork for a sandwich
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You're right Hosta. It's this rush to pick up traits that 'look or sound cool' that irritates me. Thankfully I have a certain amount of influence over many many (so many) teens so I spend my days saying 'we're not the 51st state. The word is "_____"'.