Anyone else hate British cuteness?
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Whhhhaattt? Have you been over there? There is nothing cute for miles except for the miles and miles of Japanese and Korean tourists.
Hmm must have missed the cuteness after 25 years living there one word muggles which isn't really cute it sounds rather derogatory and we are all cute now....
yeah no idea what you are on about...
yeah no idea what you are on about...
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I think he thinks freedom automatically means quality. His sentence then nearly makes grammatical sense. Otherwise, its just sort of hilarious. We don't have an official right to freedom of speech, because we are more relaxed about that kind of thing. THEN you have to consider the fact that the previous post did actually make sense, so he just speed-read the OP and made up his own thing. I love that kind of guyAirsoftslayer93 said:
OT: As a man who is about as English as you can get (I can say 'For king and country' in the same way spies did in Red Alert without trying to put on an accent), I have to say, cute is not us. You've got to bear in mind, the books were written for 6-11 year olds, then the audience grew older with the books. Even then, as others have pointed out, muggle begins as more derogatory then childish. These wizards didn't consider magic-less to be little children to be petted and played with. They were persecuted and loathed by many families, and even the better ones just ignored them
Something else to consider - about 40% of the population, it transpires [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.298471-Poll-Escapists-Where-are-you-from], is from the UK and Ireland. So this isn't some harmless UK-bashing, you've got people up in arms about this.
Congratulations.
OFF TOPIC: The best film (I enjoyed all the books roughly equally) has got to be Prizoner of Azkaban, because it is by Alfonso Cuarón, who also did the AMAZING Children of Men.
I don't have a bollocking, wanking clue what you're on about. British advertising is anything but cute.
I'm actually not sure what you're on about. The Harry Potter series has literally only one good book (The Prisoner of Azkaban, the rest are terribly written). Also the cuteness thing confuses me as well, especially when something is meant to be considered cute I just don't care, but we don't really have anything cute.
Hahaha yeah, this post is weird. I would've thought a post from a Brit complaining about americans making everything so twee in their rom-coms would be a bigger complaint, or how the only accent that apparently exits in England is a TERRIBLE cockney (á la Dick Van Dyke). Most americans i know find most british things either a little too depressing or the humour too dark. Cute? If all you've had to experience british culture, OP, is Mr. Darcy and the use of the word muggle, then I can see where you're coming from, but still, "british cuteness"?Sizzle Montyjing said:
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British cuteness? I know British people who are cute but I don't think cuteness is endemic to the British Isle. Maybe Japan is what you are thinking of.
Yeah, that's just Rowling's terrible sense of naming. She's wrote the story for children, and as such, gave everything childish names. Dumbledore, Weasley, butter beer etc.... it's exactly the same reasoning as calling something Raggedy Anne.
Er, except that our Raggedy Anne and Andy are called Rosie and Jim and they live on a canal boat with a guy who draws picture books about them. I guess that's real British cuteness. Wholesome and nostalgic countryside scenes, with rosy cheeks and cream buns at tea time.
Er, except that our Raggedy Anne and Andy are called Rosie and Jim and they live on a canal boat with a guy who draws picture books about them. I guess that's real British cuteness. Wholesome and nostalgic countryside scenes, with rosy cheeks and cream buns at tea time.
So you're whole issue is that the word "muggles" is a bit too cute but the book makes you take it seriously, thus making British culture "cute."
How the hell does one word in a book suddenly make British culture "cute?" Really, what the fuck are you talking about? Besides, you act as if the book shoves the word down your throat! Okay, yeah they want you to believe muggles is a word, but that's only because it is a word in the HP universe. Actually, it's more like degrading slang , some word that just got randomly made up to sort non-magic users in a distasteful way. Have you ever noticed how whenever certain characters mention muggles, they use the word more as an insult? It's actually a pretty decent way to contrast how the wizards perceive their plain, human counterparts.
So, as like everyone else, I bid you a due with a WTF are you talking about?
How the hell does one word in a book suddenly make British culture "cute?" Really, what the fuck are you talking about? Besides, you act as if the book shoves the word down your throat! Okay, yeah they want you to believe muggles is a word, but that's only because it is a word in the HP universe. Actually, it's more like degrading slang , some word that just got randomly made up to sort non-magic users in a distasteful way. Have you ever noticed how whenever certain characters mention muggles, they use the word more as an insult? It's actually a pretty decent way to contrast how the wizards perceive their plain, human counterparts.
So, as like everyone else, I bid you a due with a WTF are you talking about?
If by "cuteness" the OP meant "a history of savage brutality and violent oppression of half the known world, which is still remembered fondly by Brits as a jolly good time", then I kind of agree with him...
More like several Americans liked to do a fair bit of genocide once, does that mean all Americans a war hungry genocidal pricks... Oh wait...Appleshampoo said:
(Just saying I don't think all Americans are warmongering pricks, just the government and a fair chunk of the population)
And as an Englishman, England is one of the most cynical places in existence, British humour is generally dark and we have a tendency to be utter bastards. Don't stereotype off one piece of literature, especially one directed at children too young teens.
Hey not cool! I'm American and thought he was a little bit crazy too! Not my fault that common sense isn't common in America....Sizzle Montyjing said: