Anyone else hate British cuteness?

[Armanox15]

ummmm.. British cuteness :\
What? I have no idea what are you talking about...

 

[obex]

Im British and i haven't a clue what you are talking about.

A. Muggle doesn't sound cute

B. They make a lot of racist/supremacist allegories in the later books concerning muggles not exactly cute

C. Although well written and a good read for adults Harry Potter is (or at the very least defiantly started as) Children's literature much like the Hobbit.

D. In fact while we are on the subject Tolkien was a British fantasy writer so David Gemmell

 

[Mark Davison]

I am American and I am confused about the OP. I've never known the Red Coats for their "cuteness".

(Yeah, if you guys can calls us Yanks I'm going to call you Red Coats XP)

I don't like using the word yank... Can i go with "bloody Colonials" XD
Or
"You don't get commoner than a colonial commoner" XD

 

[LordFisheh]

I wouldn't say that cuteness is much of a British thing, but I totally see where you're coming from with Muggles... i always thought the word sounded rather silly :|

 

[Fappy]

I am American and I am confused about the OP. I've never known the Red Coats for their "cuteness".

(Yeah, if you guys can calls us Yanks I'm going to call you Red Coats XP)

I dont like using the work yank... Can i go with "bloody Colonials" XD
Or
"you dont get commoner than a colonial commoner" XD

I'd prefer you refer to us as:

 

[Shinotama]

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.

Lol Legend!! Harsh but true

 

[Mark Davison]

I am American and I am confused about the OP. I've never known the Red Coats for their "cuteness".

(Yeah, if you guys can calls us Yanks I'm going to call you Red Coats XP)

I dont like using the work yank... Can i go with "bloody Colonials" XD
Or
"you dont get commoner than a colonial commoner" XD

I'd prefer you refer to us as:

We're agreed then! Excellent. Crumpets and Scones for all!!

"sometimes i think we are too cute"
"oh schnugglwoogams!"

 

[MarsProbe]

10 pages late, but [another] Scot (and by extension Brit, of course) chiming in here with a general response of "huh"?

But yeh, I thought this clip was rather cute, so the OP may have a point....


...or not.

I'll take it somebody here has also already mentioned the likes of League of Gentlemen and Psychoville already too as prime examples of British "cuteness".

Edit: And what that Timelord person said about Glasgow on a saturday night. That too....

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Cute?

We're a cynical, dour bunch who just like wordplay. I don't think I've ever heard an Englishman being described as cute apart from "Oh, what a cute accent you have? Do you know the Queen?"

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Wait, what?

are you confusing that with Asian cuteness?

because its completely different (and actually exists!).

 

[masher]

I read the thread post, didn't believe it and clicked it anyway to make sure the OP didn't horribly misspell something. Still fairly confused.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

"British cuteness"? THAT is what you think when you hear the words "British culture"?

Weird, the only thing that comes to mind for me when I hear the word "British" is bad food, overt classism, repulsion to anything remotely sexual, and bowler hats. Basically, anything you'd expect to see in a Harry Einfield sketch:

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[Wraithspine]

As a brit, I always thought we were dark and cynical. Never "Cute". As for your referring to Harry Potter's naming people as muggles, it is a Kid's book. The word was written when it was for kids and can't magically change just because the audience has grown up.
In essence I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[pvaglueman123]

As a Briton, i have to ask you what your on about, i have never heard of "British Cuteness". Ever.

 

[GoodGodItsAnOxymoron]

As an American, I do like British culture, especially comedy, but I can't get over their obsession with making everything cute.

I'm not even sure if cute is the right word, it's just the best word I can muster. They don't just apply cute names to things like the Japanese do, but apply cuteness and expect everyone to take it seriously. 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.

Again, it might just be the fact that I'm American. I'm used to mystical things sounding sort of Asian or Middle Eastern and putting apostrophes in random places. An ancient secret society should be called Kal'sur and the mystical weapon should be Dor'salim. So if non-magic using people in the HP universe were called Cara'sin instead of Muggles, maybe I wouldn't be posting this on the net, but as it is, Muggles is a word that forces me to accept the fact that I'm reading a book written for an 8 year old even though the later novels grow with the audience.

As it is, I hate British naming of Fantasy things. Posters should feel free to add their own grievances.

Main Entry: muggle 2
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a common person, esp. one who is ignorant or has no skills
Example: There are muggles in every computer class.
Etymology: 1920s
Usage: slang

Some thought went into the use of the word.

 

[NikolaiK]

Woman! Know your limits!
Anyhoo, no, british cuteness sounds like something the OP imagined during a crack binge
Sarcasm, cynicism, mistrust of authority, moaning and finding fault with things, usually in a funny, albeit depressed way is more of a british thing

 

[Malkavian]

I think there is one truth here, though, which is that the English (such as me) do have a general dislike of anyone or anything taking itself too seriously, and tend to want to undermine that when we can. You don't get nearly as many blood-and-thunder preachers in England, for instance, we find the whole thing a bit embarrassing - and when US politicians get all religious, we cringe. So yes, there is always an undercurrent of irony and understatement to Englishness.

Check out the book Watching the English by Kate Fox - it's really good on this kind of thing.

...but isn't that true for all of western europe? Us danes fit that description too, as do mot of our "closely related" countries.

 

[Gecko clown]

Harry Potter isn't even near the good end of meh British culture.Maybe the names in Harry Potter are cute because, hm, ITS A KIDS BOOK! I can't even think of a time where something made by Britain that wasn't intended for children had cuteness shoehorned into them.

 

[PunkRex]

As it is, I hate British naming of Fantasy things. Posters should feel free to add their own grievances.

Listen up guy, im from London and although I dont agree with you, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

All of our fairy folk tend to be called things like Grendylows, Peg Powlers and Barghests and none of them are friendly, each one is a kidnap you, drown you, eat you boggie man. Its mainly due to the fact that many of them are "descended" from general European folklore and as a result sounded weird when they got here, add in people saying it roughly and spelling it as such and you get a sort of rough, simplness to each name, if that makes any sense. I could be speaking out of my ass here but I think its due to the fact that most "British" people all speak really differently from each other.

If you want a real funny time play the game "Folklore", its got a bunch of our fairyfolk in it. As it is I love the way British fantasy stuff is named because it sounds so ab-normal. The way your talking about kind of jars me, not when its actually called that, thats fine but when developers/writters give stuff random names with no basis, its kind of lazy.

 

[That's Funny]

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