Anyone else hate British cuteness?

[ultimateownage]

Fine, I'll respond properly.
"I can't get into Harry Potter, though I'm sure it's brilliantly written, just because non-magic users are referred to as Muggles. To compare, the Final Fantasy series has creatures called Moogles, but FF doesn't force us to take them seriously."
ONE WORD makes you uninterested in an entire book series?
Why is the fact that normal people are referred to as 'muggles', a word that is no less silly than most derogative terms for a group of people, make it siller than Final Fantasy?

How does it not sounding Middle Eastern or Asian (Japan is in Asia, by the way.) make it silly?

You make no sense.

 

[mortalsatsuma]

What the fuck are you smoking?! I to am English and just WTTF?

 

[Jakub324]

British cuteness? American films end happily, ours end with the protagonist bleeding his last out his urethra alone, unloved and entirely forgotten on a cold basement floor. We rank just above Somalian warlords in terms of cuteness.

 

[Sigmar ov The Hammer]

Britain? Cute? You obviously haven't been to Glasgow on a dark Saturday night.

I don't know how to tell you this..... It may come as a bit of a shock, since you sound like you've been to Glasgow, but..... Glasgow.... is in Scotland.

 

[Llamaboy01]

I call troll!!!!!

No way is anyone stupid enough to base an entire race of people based on one boo.....*looks up his history of the american west*

ooohhhh.......

=/

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

May i at least draw your attention to the term "mud-bloods". Come on. That's hardly cute is it?

And besides, this is J.K.Rowling, writing a CHILDRENS book. No, i don't care that many adults enjoy them as well. No, i don't care that they might get a little bit more mature as they go along. They are still primarily for children.

I am a brit, so maybe i can't see the problem, but i honestly have no idea what you're chatting about. British language is usually very curt or harsh.

You must be confusing J.K.Rowling for the entire british population. An easy mistake to make, clearly.

 

[Sandacious]

Glasgow.... is in Scotland.

Er...yes it is. What's your point? I desperately hope you don't need the distinction between Britain and England explained.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I don't know how to tell you this..... It may come as a bit of a shock, since you sound like you've been to Glasgow, but..... Glasgow.... is in Scotland.

Uh, hey genius... um, Scotland's in all of Britain, Great Britain and the British Isles... unless I'm missing something here.

And I'm surprised the disdain for 'British cuteness' continues to pour forth a plethora of eclectic posts...

 

[Abengoshis]

I'm from Britain, I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Desert Tiger]

I'm British and what is this.

I warn you. If you start judging what England is like by means of Harry Potter, I may have to associate America to Twilight.

 

[TimeLord]

Britain? Cute? You obviously haven't been to Glasgow on a dark Saturday night.

I don't know how to tell you this..... It may come as a bit of a shock, since you sound like you've been to Glasgow, but..... Glasgow.... is in Scotland.

Yes, and Scotland is part of Britain.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

As a British member of this forum I ask you a question: What the fuck are you talking about?

 

[Owainj]

As an Englishman can I just say WHAAAAAAA?!?!

I've never heard of this making everything cute thing at all, ever.
And with the example of muggles, I always thought it sounded more derogatory than cute.

Excatly. The hell are you on about?

 

[Lexodus]

Firstly, WHATTHEACTUALFUCKAMIREADING, and secondly, muggle is a word that's been around for decades. In the hippy era, it was musician slang for drugs, usually MJ, and Dumbledore is a very old word for bumblebee (sounds no sillier, come to think about it). Thirdly, 'Jesus Fucking Christ, did he actually just make this thread?'

 

[Laser Priest]

Britain is the anti-cute. Even the British say so.

Japanese "cute" is what I have a problem with. Cat-girls are neither cute nor attractive or whatever you want to make them seem, Japan. They are horrific gene-spliced freaks.

 

[Johnny-Natrium]

Yeah... another brit here chipping in with a 'What the hell ?'.

I think the problem that you're running into is that very little of actual British culture gets taken abroad, and what does tends to be of the more family friendly variety, which yes, means it has cute stuff in it so that the kids will watch it too.

If you look at things that are more grown up you'll get a rather different image of us. Particularly look at our soap operas. They are full of ugly people living terrible lives in borderline poverty. That is pretty much the sum of our culture.

Britain is very much a knock-off of America, but with added nihilism. Your cop shows have cool sexy people doing cool sexy science and solving crimes with a witty one liner. Ours tend to be middle aged people living alone and probably with an alcohol problem. When the camera stops, you get the impression the NCIS guys continue to have their adventures. The people on The Bill stare into the middle distance and cry.

British culture is seriously weird, thats what I'm saying. There is a kind of entropy at the centre of us that knows that nothing we do will ever be important, we can never have nice things and the real core of our aspiration is to live someplace else and have much better lives.

You need to buy a remote mate, so you can switch channels and change your ideas. Your under-appreciation of the British culture is just absolutely ridiculous. Putting British below American media is just psychotic. If one was to go by your personality in explaining the British culture, you'd actually be proving your own point, though. Luckily, this isn't the case.

 

[Makon]

Mate, I've got no idea what you are talking about.

Most things that come out of Britain are tremendously dull and seedy and dark as far as art and entertainment goes. The British are one of the most cynical people in the world.

Hey, our comedy is miles better than than anything America has produced! Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, uh... Dad's army, all extremely British comedies that are all great.

OT: I am going to agree with everyone asking what the hell you are talking about, OP. Got any more examples than that one?

You forgot Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, as a couple more examples.

That said, I'm an American and even I have to ask: What in the hell is the OP talking about? J.K. Rowling didn't invent British culture.

 

[Pinkamena]

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps it's just USA that tries to take everything too serious.

 

[Amphoteric]

As an Englishman can I just say WHAAAAAAA?!?!

That was exactly my reaction.

 

[Quellist]

Soo, Harry Potter is the litmus paper for British Culture? I guess by those rules we should judge America by The Wizards of Waverly place?