Anyone else hate British cuteness?

[Canid117]

Cuteness is the wrong word. Naming conventions might have been a better choice.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

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.

What he said. Irrelevantly I love your avatar. Rewatched that episode today (watching the films soon!).

OT: Uhh, maybe if you gave more examples in the OP it would be a lot easier to see where you're coming from.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Coincidentally but to actually stay on topic I'd like to add that Space Marines are the epitome of British Cuteness.

What?! How are Space Marines cute?! No, I can't agree with that. If you'd said Chaos Space Marines, I might've agreed. =P

And if you'd said Chaos Daemons, then I definitely would've agreed!

Spoiler: Yes how cute can you get

 

[Davichu]

Mary titty-fucking christ are you far from the truth. As you say you like british humour you must realise that it is very dark, dry and cynical, the best examples being franky boyle and john dee.

However i do feel that you are right about certain aspects of harry potter, but thats a lack of imagination in the writer not the british, i have to admit J.K. Rowling is a piss poor writer as she didnt really make up any of stories herself but just patched together a series of old myths and legends together with a glossy shine.

p.s. i'm british.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

...WHAT!?


Dude, you mean japan right? If anything, Britain is know for being snarky and everyone LOVES them for it.

 

[Johnny Impact]

1. Funny names are not unique to England.

Let's use maps for an example. Although you can see Dingley Dell, Letchworth, Bell End, and Mudchute on English maps, names like these are in the minority. America does it, too: try

Humptulips, Washington
Frog Suck, Wyoming
Podunk (in several states)
Faggart's Crossroads, North Carolina
Big Beaver, Pennsylvania
Buffalo Mop, Texas

Presumably you could do this anywhere. An English translation of all the place names in, say, Portugal would probably return at least a couple humorous entries.

2. Harry Potter was written for kids.

 

[PeacanPie]

I'm a Brit, and to this I say, what? I thought we were famous for sarcasm and dry humour. Not to mention, you use J.K Rowling as the 'epitimy' of our nation's fantasy writing. What about J.R.R Tolkien? He pretty much set the standard for fantasy. And he sure as hell didn't make anything sound cute at all. Quite the opposite.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I don't know what you've been smoking.

 

[Biodeamon]

I find nothing cute about british people and my half-british side is actually fairly insulted. i think your thinking of japanese people.

 

[Daemeous]

Coincidentally but to actually stay on topic I'd like to add that Space Marines are the epitome of British Cuteness.

What?! How are Space Marines cute?! No, I can't agree with that. If you'd said Chaos Space Marines, I might've agreed. =P

And if you'd said Chaos Daemons, then I definitely would've agreed!

Spoiler: Yes how cute can you get

You bring up an incontestable point, Bloodthirsters are the cutest thing in existence! Perhaps second to a cute little horde of Nurglings.

You know, their daemonic name is Khan'gurani'i, I think the OP might actually be right! That is a really cutesy name!

 

[vortexgods]

well being British i would agree with the majority of my fellows here, i would not use "cuteness" to describe myself or my countrymen, ever, maybe cynical and able to complain about anything (all vital skills) but most defiantly not cute!

What about Diana Rigg?

Spoiler

Or Mary Tamm?

Spoiler

 

[oktalist]

For the record, Harry Potter is not brilliantly written.

 

[vortexgods]

What the fuck are you talking about?
Maybe you've confused us with the fucking care bears or something?
Seriously, no one here as a clue what you are talking about.
Hell, i'm now tempted to set up a thread intilted- 'Anyone else hate American ignorance?' based off one person.

I was right there with you up until that last sentence. Then I was like :< because I'm an American.

Read it carefully, i'm not having a go at Americans, but just his method of british cuteness.
He decided to genralize a whole nation over one word in one authors book, so i made that point just to show how unfair it was.
Honestly, Americans... so ignorant...

Right guy I know your being ironic, fnaw fnaw fnaw, and all that but I actually do understand what hes talking about. Hes refering to the way all of our folklore sort of sounds "random in a simple sort of way". Like Brownies, Boggarts and Red Caps.

I always thought it was cute the way Red Caps kept their Caps Red by dipping them in the blood of murdered children.

 

[boyvirgo666]

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.

i really dont understand whats going on. i thought muggle was supposed to be derogative.

 

[0986875533423]

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

What about "merkin" as in "Mah fellower merkins"?

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

sorry, i just had to say that is possibly the most epic avatar i have ever seen.

and american ignorance is pretty damn prevalent...

Thank you!
I've had many a compliment about it...
well two...
...
you'rs was one of them.

Your superlative use of irony once again is quite first rate. Please, I implore you, pat yourself on the back in my stead for the medium of the internet denies me that luxury.

Coincidentally but to actually stay on topic I'd like to add that Space Marines are the epitome of British Cuteness.

Well, at least i think so...
And christ this thread did well!
Perhaps that's were i'm going wrong... i'm not stupid enough!

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

If you hate British naming of Fantasy things I'd steer well clear of Lord of the rings if I were you. It's just FULL of that British cute naming you're on about.

I just find it amusing how you're basically using a blanket statement due to ONE author calling a group of people 'Muggles'.

I heard a German once liked to kill people, does that mean all Germans have 'German rage'?

I heard one American liked to punch people a lot. Does that make all Americans suffer from 'American Punch syndrome?'

Isn't George R. R. Martin British too? Game of Thrones is pretty manly, last I checked.

I think OP's example is just an isolated incident; it was written by a woman too, that can affect things. But yea dude, I don't see it.

 

[DMac the Knife]

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.

My husband and I have been debating the America/UK paradox for awhile now. Here are our key examples:
*According to "Bones" no crime in America should ever go unsolved and according to "Waking the Dead" no crime in the UK should ever get solved.
*American soap opera characters are rich and beautiful, UK characters are poverty stricken and, um, for the most part not beautiful.
*Based on US movies 99% of the population is drop dead gorgeous (clearly not true) and basing on UK movies less than 1% of the population is even attractive.
Okay, so these are slight exaggerations, but only slight.
My theory for this is that in America the idea is that the populace will want to strive to be like the rich/beautiful characters, whereas the in the UK the populace is thinking "At least someone has it worse than I do."

OT: I would never associate the UK with "cuteness". There is a lot of over the top silliness (especially in the 80s-90s sitcoms), but not cute.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Mary titty-fucking christ are you far from the truth. As you say you like british humour you must realise that it is very dark, dry and cynical, the best examples being franky boyle and john dee.

Holy shit, you can't be Catholic! And I'm fairly sure his name's 'James Dee'.

You bring up an incontestable point, Bloodthirsters are the cutest thing in existence! Perhaps second to a cute little horde of Nurglings.

You know, their daemonic name is Khan'gurani'i, I think the OP might actually be right! That is a really cutesy name!

It's actually rather disturbing that I genuinely find Nurglings... cute... and I perpetually refer to Nurgle as 'Grandpappy Nurgle'.

 

[Spaghetti]

I know! We're even trying to cutify and prissify the British Army! It's a bit suspect I think...

Right, Serious Face...
If anything everything is getting more gritty rather than cute, just look at this BBC planning meeting:

Spoiler

We don't do cute, we do grit, cynacism and self deprecation.

 

[putowtin]

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

I am British
I am not cute!
I demand a retraction at once my good sir or there will be trouble!

off topic, post 666! Off for a beer!