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abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:25 AM
....so I just plowed through season two of HOUSE. Haven't seen season one.
I kinda like it. I'm hoping there's more character development in season three, because right now, it's just medical mystery neatly tied up episode after episode. For the most part.
Hugh Laurie is awfully good at this.
MILD SPOILER AHEAD
The last episode with the guy with the swollen tongue/popping eyeball/peeled face was pretty darned gross.
Hugh Laurie is awfully good at this.
How very british a-z!
na§tee
02-26-2007, 10:33 AM
sadly, i've never seen house, but i just wanted to let you know that i am in love with hugh laurie and one day we are going to create highly sophisticated oxbridge high-brow comedy babies together and have stephen fry as the godfather.
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:35 AM
How very british a-z!
Eh? :confused:
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:36 AM
sadly, i've never seen house
Oooooh.... you should check it out. See what you think. It's really good.
It's this medical mystery show. basically, some patient winds up at the hospital with whatever bizarre symptoms which make a diagnosis difficult. Laurie plays Gregory House, this brilliant but really socially fucked up cynic who just smacks down on everybody most of the time -- his way of having fun. The idea is that this is a doctor who will say to patients' faces what evil doctors might well be saying in private. Sometimes wicked, often funny.
na§tee
02-26-2007, 10:36 AM
he just thinks 'awfully' is an awfully british thing to say. imagine helen mirren or judi dench saying it. there.
p.s. i love the way you added "(TV series)" to the thread title! :cool:
Eh? :confused:
Just when you said 'awfully'. When people say that it reminds me of the british upperclass.
Awfully sorry old chap. Toodle pip!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:41 AM
he just thinks 'awfully' is an awfully british thing to say. imagine helen mirren or judi dench saying it. there.
Gotcha.
p.s. i love the way you added "(TV series)" to the thread title! :cool:
...I didn't want it to be indiscriminately shoved into the "Other Music" section. :D
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:41 AM
Just when you said 'awfully'. When people say that it reminds me of the british upperclass.
Awfully sorry old chap. Toodle pip!
Crisps! Lift! Petrol!
Crisps! Lift! Petrol!
Garbage! Freeway! Color!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:47 AM
Lorry! Metre! Telly!
Lorry! Metre! Telly!
Holla! Hella! Jelly!
na§tee
02-26-2007, 10:51 AM
sidewalk! aluminum! check!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 10:52 AM
Minge! Poofster! Wanker!
Johnson! Weiner! bling-bling!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:08 AM
Kilometer! Tube! Banger!
apartments! Soccer! Suburbs!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:14 AM
Mate! Arse! Cheque!
Buddy! Keyster! Sneakers!
na§tee
02-26-2007, 11:19 AM
bangs! apartment! blush! (as in wine)
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:23 AM
^
na§tee is penalized for "apartment" :(
cockup! dustbin! bollocks!
Hooker! Sega Genesis! College (as in university)!
^
na§tee is penalized for "apartment" :(
cockup! dustbin! bollocks!
Penalised! Penalised! Penalised!
:D
na§tee
02-26-2007, 11:25 AM
^
na§tee is penalized for "apartment" :(
oh shoot! this is harder than i thought!
um, um..
cilantro! drapes! vacation!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:30 AM
Quid! Shite! Crikey!
this is so much easier for a-z!
hot tub! hub caps! boot (car boot/ trunk!)
na§tee
02-26-2007, 11:34 AM
i remember one of my first ever threads here being a comparison of american and british english. it was AWESOME.
snow peas! takeout! maize!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:37 AM
hot tub!
...what do you guys call a hot tub?
Bobby! Johnny! Knickers!
...what do you guys call a hot tub?
Bobby! Johnny! Knickers!
a jacuzzi?
Car Hood! Pretzel! Vacuum!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:41 AM
a jacuzzi?
Yeah, we do, too. I thought maybe you guys had yet a different name.
Fuck. I'm running low here.
Holiday. Chips. Biscuit.
I'm running low too...
trash! homeboy! brewski!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:46 AM
Pint! Lolly! Loo!
washroom! vacation! i'm outta ideas :mad:
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 11:53 AM
^
I think you got penaliSed for "vacation."
Uhhhhh okay...
Nappy! Queue! Sod!
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:02 PM
Diaper! Eggplant! Faucet!
Freebasser
02-26-2007, 12:03 PM
Guns. Knives. AIDS.
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:04 PM
Tosser. Take the piss. Wind up.
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:06 PM
Semester! Principal! Freshman!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:08 PM
Tuppence! Ha'penny! Sterling!
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:18 PM
Nickel! Dime! Quarter!
Butt! Chick! Third Base!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:21 PM
Mack! Git! Barmy!
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:22 PM
Elevator! Store Clerk! Sneakers!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:23 PM
Crikey! Ring up! Get off with!
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:27 PM
Quid! Shite! Crikey!
"Crikey" used twice. a-z disqualified for breach of the rules, Padster wins.
M.V.P.!
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:28 PM
Oops.
Oh, well.
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:29 PM
Anyway, back on topic. How does Hugh Laurie's accent sound to you Americans? Cuz even though I'm English it sounds pretty shit and obviously fake to me.
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:36 PM
Nope -- it sounds right.
American accents vary wildly, probably even more than UK accents. I started watching before I knew he was English, so it was a nice surprise to fuind out he wasn't even American.
Nope -- it sounds right.
American accents vary wildly, probably even more than UK accents. I started watching before I knew he was English, so it was a nice surprise to fuind out he wasn't even American.
I agree.
cookiepuss
02-26-2007, 12:47 PM
this is currently my favorite tv show.
hugh laurie is kinda hot. um yeah.
but I do think it's funny how all the patients have a medical breakdown on cue. it's like: sick child, parents arguing over his hospital bed, CUE: child goes in to chardiac arrest, doctors rush in...etc.
Lex Diamonds
02-26-2007, 12:47 PM
Nope -- it sounds right.
American accents vary wildly, probably even more than UK accents. I started watching before I knew he was English, so it was a nice surprise to fuind out he wasn't even American.
It's funny cuz I find when English people do American accents, as with Laurie's, there's always a sort of whiny over-softened consonants quality to it and I can recognise that they're not actually American. Curious that Americans themselves don't hear it.
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 12:51 PM
It's funny cuz I find when English people do American accents, as with Laurie's, there's always a sort of whiny over-softened consonants quality to it and I can recognise that they're not actually American. Curious that Americans themselves don't hear it.
Nah. In fact, he sometimes enunciates a little too well -- a little theatrical; that's the only tell.
ms.peachy
02-26-2007, 01:08 PM
I've watched this show a couple of times, but I just can't get into it. I know a lot of people really like it, I'm just not one of them. It's OK, but it doesn't 'hook me in'.
abcdefz
02-26-2007, 01:17 PM
it's definitely variations on a formula. Not that different from Miss Marple or whatever. I'd watched one disc and kind of thought that was fine, but I was disappointed there wasn't more character development. But there was nothing else very interesting to rent (fucking Blockbuster :rolleyes: ) so I grabbed the next disc, then the next, then the next... it grew on me.
It's not the greatest thing since sliced tea, but it's good.
mikizee
02-26-2007, 11:22 PM
American accents are reasonably easy to do.
Australian accents must be the hardest to fake, because i havent heard a fake aussie accent that didnt sound awful and way off the mark.
e.g. the cops on the beach at the end of point break.
'weelll gitt heeemm weeenn he comes back eeeennnn!!!!'
pitiful.
Documad
02-27-2007, 02:56 AM
I have loved Hugh Laurie forever, but I don't like House. If you see three episodes, you don't ever need to see another one.
He was excellent in the cameo on MI-5 though. That was a nice surprise.
na§tee
02-27-2007, 04:09 AM
Australian accents must be the hardest to fake, because i havent heard a fake aussie accent that didnt sound awful and way off the mark.
ahahaha. i don't know. i think the australian accents are the easiest of the colonial accents to do :cool: don't get me started on the south african one! all i can do is say "black" as "blick". that's the extent of my learning there.
i think with australian accents, um, i've noticed a difference in the shape of your mouth when you say things like "hair" and "there". wow, this is really hard to explain in written words. if you could hear me blaspheme an entire nation's accent that would make more sense, but you never will. muahahaha.
when i get home i will ask my flatmate, she's an actress. they have things called hook sentences which they use to get them 'into' the required accent. i wonder what her australian one is? for reference, her liverpudlian one is "i can't go jogging today dad, i'm on my period!" brits, say that to yourself in a liverpool accent and you will realise its appropriateness! :)
ms.peachy
02-27-2007, 04:18 AM
"i can't go jogging today dad, i'm on my period!" brits, say that to yourself in a liverpool accent and you will realise its appropriateness! :)
When I say that in my head, it's in Paul O'Grady's voice. Too weird.
na§tee
02-27-2007, 04:19 AM
When I say that in my head, it's in Paul O'Grady's voice. Too weird.
aaaaahahahhaah! :) exactly! it's good eh? you have to say 'jogging' in that weird sort of 'sssssszzz' way they do. god, i wish i had a microphone on my work computer! peeeeeriod.
Freebasser
02-27-2007, 06:51 AM
"i can't go jogging today dad, i'm on my period!" brits, say that to yourself in a liverpool accent and you will realise its appropriateness! :)
It's so true :(
Pres Zount
02-27-2007, 07:00 AM
sounds like Ringo, right?
abcdefz
02-27-2007, 09:54 AM
Of American accents, I imagine that a Boston accent is hardest.
Lex Diamonds
02-27-2007, 11:55 AM
American accents are reasonably easy to do.
Australian accents must be the hardest to fake, because i havent heard a fake aussie accent that didnt sound awful and way off the mark.
e.g. the cops on the beach at the end of point break.
'weelll gitt heeemm weeenn he comes back eeeennnn!!!!'
pitiful.
I once called a kebab house at like 1am when I was really drunk with all my friends and placed the entire order with an Australian accent, slipping in words like "bonzer" and "no worries". They didn't clock it at all.
Caribou
02-27-2007, 12:28 PM
I have fooled plenty of people into thinking I'm English.
From Yorkshire to Essex, I can do the lot. I rule.
Hugh Laurie on the other hand is a big fat traitor for doing an american accent and being in a shite series and having 14 year old girls get the horn for him.
He used to be so great. Oh how I long for the days when the only times he did an american accent was when to take the piss out of americans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tDP-yMwXI).
PS: Hugh in search of a lid. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZ-Cogr-rM)
abcdefz
02-27-2007, 12:29 PM
John Cleese pulling an American accent in A Fish Called Wanda was beautiful.
mikizee
02-27-2007, 07:51 PM
I once called a kebab house at like 1am when I was really drunk with all my friends and placed the entire order with an Australian accent, slipping in words like "bonzer" and "no worries". They didn't clock it at all.
See, thats where u went wrong.
No australian in the history of time has ever said 'bonzer'.
I stand by my statement that no one can do a fake australian accent.
esp. on the simpsons.
and meryl streep?? puhlease. shocking.
South australians (like me and tracky) have a more proper accent than the eastern states, and whenever i travel to sydney or melb everyone asks me what part of england i am from, because we sound very english. weird.
Lyman Zerga
02-27-2007, 08:07 PM
not sure if i know that show
looked it up but mainly got full house results
Hahaha Full house:D
I stand by my statement that no one can do a fake australian accent.
I think I'm safe in saying that of the 6,000,000,000 people in this world that are not Australian there are at least a couple that can in fact fake an Australian accent very well.
Lyman Zerga
02-27-2007, 08:18 PM
Hahaha Full house:D
lol well thanks for the help
Lex Diamonds
02-28-2007, 05:33 AM
See, thats where u went wrong.
No australian in the history of time has ever said 'bonzer'.
You act like I've never met an Australian before. I've met plenty of Australians that have said bonzer. My Australian accent is top stuff. (y)
Lex Diamonds
02-28-2007, 05:50 AM
That's not a knife, that's a spoon!
abcdefz
08-27-2007, 01:45 PM
*bump*
Season three just came out on DVD in the States. So far (about eight to ten episodes in?) this is my favorite season. Some real consequences are piling up, and the David Morse (y) character is allowing even more through-line to the series. Before, it was fine, but a little too much like Agatha Christie -- mystery, mystery solved, episode tied up, move on.
This is really nice.
Lyman Zerga
08-27-2007, 11:46 PM
now i know what this thread is all about still never got into the show (yet)
mikizee
08-28-2007, 06:00 AM
I still stand by my 2 statements that no australian has ever said the word 'bonzer', nor can anyone in the entire world replicate an australian accent successfully. it just can't happen. like teleportation.
oh yeah, and...
gas! trunk! cell phone!
Junker
06-06-2008, 06:35 AM
Anyone still sees it??
I do. I got all the seasons and can't stop watching.
abcdefz
06-06-2008, 09:13 AM
I watch them as the DVDs come out. Not a lot of repeat value, but the first time through, it's good stuff.
Junker
06-06-2008, 12:54 PM
Yeah.... I probably won't watch it again but it's a damn nice show anyway.
Lyman Zerga
06-06-2008, 04:38 PM
i like it but i dont love it, it's always kinda the same story in every episode
mathcart
06-06-2008, 06:51 PM
Hugh Laurie is awfully good at this.
agreed! but amazingly, I think he is even better at this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/067102082X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link)!
I believe he has written the greatest beginning to any story ever! Choke on that Dickens, Melville, et al- you all suck compared to Hugh fuckin' Laurie!
(y)
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