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you know what other movie had impressive crowd scenes

https://makeagif.com/i/jUW9p9

https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-17-2015/jUW9p9.gif

you mean Triumph of the will?

yeah, I couldn't resist the joek but didn't want to shit up the RRR thread

triumph of the lol

I understand and agree with all that, I just didn’t get the part of the post where you decided not to say anything because you didn’t think there were any Romani people there. Surely it is still racist either way?

― Osama bin Chinese (gyac)

sorry gyac, i gave it my best shot, i got nothin' else

triumph of the lol

― sarahell

baby was a vegetarian

The fair was in town this weekend & there was a car parked round our way with the vanity plate G7 PSY

xps yeah sorry, I’m really not interested in having a go at you, just that part of the post made me not understand that you meant. Sorry about this.

no worries, i don't take it that way. i just used to be the kinda person where it was VERY IMPORTANT that everybody UNDERSTAND what i'm ACTUALLY SAYING and nowadays it's more, you know, i do my best but if i don't always communicate well it's not the end of the world. we cool.

Thank you, I felt really bad about my posts reading back and I was too hard on you. That attitude is a better way to be.

Just say it, man

triumph of the lol

― sarahell

lmao

That joke is better than Hitler

damn well be sure to keep ilx updated on stock market trading tips at least

I would give money to a child specifically so it could purchase heroin before I would give money to any politician ever.

call that harm reduction

it's amazing how you do nothing but restate the obvious, yet still think that it's somehow worth posting

more of a "branlette" iirc

it's amazing how you do nothing but restate the obvious, yet still think that it's somehow worth posting

more of a "branlette" iirc

ah

https://i.imgur.com/mOzKwa8.png

keep waiting for the big breakthrough so we can all sing Sondheim tunes at the bar and feel better

a spin off peppered with pop psychiatry and privilege. this thread is Frasier.

Mark s refuses to watch Frasier because of Daphne. True story.

which Sondheim? ... I regret that my life choices have fucked up my voice so I can't do Amy's part in "Not Getting Married Today" anymore, but I could likely do a pretty stellar version of "Ladies Who Lunch"

I mean Daphne's bad but really?

Like Fraze himself is often more unbearable

*rewinds many many eps in my head*

Ok mark has a point

Roz tho, sigh

Daphne's brother though. Ouch!

I mean Daphne's bad but really?

a rare misstep in Jane Leeves's stellar career

I don't like her either tbh

Many of the actors who play Moon family members do not have specifically Mancunian English accents: Anthony LaPaglia and Richard E. Grant, who portray two of Daphne's brothers, were not even born in the United Kingdom (LaPaglia is Australian, and Grant was born in Eswatini). This apparent discrepancy is never addressed on the show, but may be taken as an in-joke (see below).

"many"?????

think the word they were looking for was "none"

THE Richard E. Grant?

I didn't know he was Swazi, but Mancunian-on-Frasier aside (I don't have any memory it) we're not seriously suggesting Grant can't do any convincing born-in-the-UK accents are we?

Can't really imagine him pulling off a Manc accent tbf.

yeah I agree with that, I'm just a) wondering about the implications of the thing gyac quoted about "not UK born" like how much does that really matter/explain? and b) wondering if I've missed that Grant can't even do a posh English accent, which would be surprising to me but I certainly don't have the ear for noticing it

He's not really an African.

Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs (Mancunian Blues)

She is really terrible and the accent isn’t even the half of it tbh

grant's wikipedia has a paragraph on his accent: tl;dr he grew up in a colonial subculture where the posh english of the 40s and 50s was still the norm until the 80s, and when he arrived in the uk in the 80s his resting speech reflected the pre-shift voicing (unspoken point: there was a noticeable vowel shift in british poshspeak in the 50s and 60s)

Yes but what are your thoughts on Daphne

there was a noticeable vowel shift in Mancunian accents in 1990s Seattle

"they're callin again"

I think the reason Daphne is bad, increasingly so as the show progresses, is because at the beginning she's intentionally one-dimensional and unknowable, the joke about Niles being secretly in love with her is predicated on him barely knowing her and not having any real connection with her, she's like Kramer in the Seinfeld or Jim In Taxi, this person who pops up an makes quirky non-sequiturs. When she becomes part of the family they get rid of the quirks and she just ends up being one-dimensional in a dull way.

I don't mind Daphne's family of cockney Mancunians though, in the same way you wouldn't complain about Inspector Clouseau or Rene from Allo Allo not being convincing portrayals of Frenchmen

as a general rule of thumb marriages of long-running sitcom characters = the death of the show

glaring exception being Bob and Thelma obv

anyway last night i came to the conclusion that good Frazier = Roz, Niles, Martin, some of the chorus, bad Frazier = the rest