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British isle posters, it is officially a UK heatwave today...32 celius and some.

Time to work on getting my Cpt Matt tan on the decks of The Black Pearl today

Yes I was lucky enought to have to move 40 concrete slaps 300 yards at midday. Just showered and resting then back into the garden to lay more turf and listen to my mp3 radio.

Cold beer's tonight WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

You're lucky that you only get those kind of " heat wave " temps , 32 C or 90 F is a very comfortable temperature , last January when i was in Melbourne Aust it reached 46 C 115 F and that was just horrible !! But here in Atlanta it'll be 90 at 11 am which is just fine but combined with high humidity of 95 % and it's very uncomfortable .

Trigger wrote:Yes I was lucky enought to have to move 40 concrete slaps

LMAO!!

Ritchie,

I think 101 Farenheit c.36 celius is our record...bloody hell Georgia gets hot!

Matt

Hey Ritchie did you used to shop at Fountain Lakes?

Fountain lakes ??? no where is that ? sounds more like a place to go fishing ,, haha

Ritchie wrote:Fountain lakes ??? no where is that ? sounds more like a place to go fishing ,, haha

I thought it was a shopping centre in Melbourne? I watch Kath & Kim and they are always there! I love that show, I bet you are going to say you hate it aren't you?

I do know of that show , but i have'nt watched it , there are very few tv shows these days i actually have the interest to sit down and watch .. kinda sad i guess , but the last show i think i really made time for was ' Little Britain ' and Shameless when i remembered haha !

Kath & Kim was OK, But like you I don't watch much TV 1 hour a day at most. But I always look out for Australian and Canadian comedies because they share very similer scripting to British shows and are usualy better.
I saw a show from Australia recentley call 'Chandon Pictures' and another Canadian show called 'Testees' (shown on Fox in the USA) I enjoyed both of these but the Australian shows can be more subtle.
I know that Dakota pictures are making 'Flight of the conchords' (A New Zealand concept) which is pretty good as well, try and catch it some of the gags are based on Australian/NZ rivalry.

HA HA!

Yes Ricthie you must be the only person I have met on the RR forums who enjoys Shameless!

My dad oddly enough has just gotten into it. His job before he was retierd was a housing manager on a ntorious London council estate. So some of the charcaters and types of situations in Shameless really tickle him.

Ian, what is it in the humour of New Zealand, Australia and the UK that links us. Is it a dryness, sarcasm?

Off to watch Ladette to lady LOL

Matt

You like Shameless don't ya Matty ??

Ritchie wrote:You like Shameless don't ya Matty ??

Like it? I love it!!!

The writing is sharp, the acting top notch and the dialogue (especially with Frank Gallagher) hilarious!

Matt

Cpt Matt Sparrow wrote:Ian, what is it in the humour of New Zealand, Australia and the UK that links us. Is it a dryness, sarcasm?

I think they have an underlying British dryness which demonstrates how close we are still. But they also have a great use of language and share dome slang wordsm so when you here these same words with a different accent they seem even funnier.
For me Shameless is painful, I worked on some rough estates so I relate to it from a former profesional level. The other more painfull reason I don't watch it is that my family came from a place like that and some of them are still there. Although I know I am now going to sound snobish I don't talk like that, I am better educated and my life has not shared paralels with that kind of life, it still reminds me of visits as child where I was scared shitless by the area and the kids who were so violent.
My brother hit the skids and ended up living like the main charector one night a local kid ran up to my brother from behing and hit (full force) with the edge of a spade and it neally killed him!
I just can't watch this show because had it not been for luck and hard work that could have been my life.

Call me a snob if you like but I just find it hard to watch shameless. My brother however loves it but I don't point out the irony of it to him.

Hi Ian

Thanks for such a detailed and quite moving explanation. What is funny is like your brother not understanding the programme's subtle knocking of that way of life (via dry humour), in the queue in the post office a few weeks back two really roughly spoken girls (like two of the younger characters in Shameless) were discussing it. They were not discussing it in the way we might, but talking about it like a soap opera.

They had missed the joke every series has; which is an ironic poke at the sub classes of British Society and also life in general.

When Frank pissed refuses to got to parents evening and slurs "all those teachers with THeir Ba Honnnours" it is tragic bit also funny knowing that some people watching it will not find it funny but agree with him LOL

Matt

Ah, the summer is lovely out here. Just got back from the beach. I have a nice tan going right now, if I do say so myself!