The unREAL DC Boards Lounge 6.7

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm sure it would ease the burden on writers, but no one really cares about writers. Americans want more, damn it, and they want it now.

 

[Mystirious]

I'm sure it would ease the burden on writers, but no one really cares about writers. Americans want more, damn it, and they want it now.

Tv writers are people too Corp

Sort of

 

[TheCorpulent1]

People who should get back to their cages and work for our collective amusement.

 

[chamber-music]

Maybe for someone not from Hackney.

[/reference even I don't understand]

Hey I'm from Hackney its not really a good thing coming from a London Borough with some of the highest violent crime rates in Britain.

Too many teenage steet gangs shooting each other over silly turf wars. Just the other day in Lambeth a 5 year old girl got shot in the chest caught in a crossfire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney

American TV has something that British TV doesn't: funding. We actually have enough money to make more than 6 episodes per year of our popular shows. Hell, our cable networks have enough money to make more episodes than that of animated shows, and cartoons bleed money without a decent toy line.

Larger population means larger audience which means larger profit.
Big budgets are great but they cancel good shows like there is no tomorrow.
BBC show Top Gear is one of if not the most watched shows in the world its shown in hundreds of countries and has an audience of 350 million.

 

[Mystirious]

So you do not support free range writers Corp

My knowledge of how British shows come to the US is based entirely on Episodes.

It all be true

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I still have no idea how Top Gear is so popular. I've never gotten to watch it. Clearly, there is more going on there than just car stuff, 'cause I know several people who watch it who couldn't give less of a s*** about cars if they tried.

 

[chamber-music]

I'm sure it would ease the burden on writers, but no one really cares about writers. Americans want more, damn it, and they want it now.

I guess thats why they strike


But you can't complain if quality dips although they tend to have teams of writers in the U.S instead of one guy writing a show like in the UK.

I don't know if that makes writers jobs easier because they share writing duties or harder because they share creative control

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They may not necessarily share creative control. Usually there's a head writer who oversees everything and ensures all the scripts work and fit the tone of the show and such. Not that always ensures things stay consistent (*cough*Glee*cough*).

 

[SuperFerret]

There are plenty of people in Hong Kong who would actully still rather it was a British Conoly than apart of China. I mean apart from turning the island into an international trade port, creating good British based educational system and British Law system, set up international super bank HSBC as well as a large maunfacting and indusrty and a safe haven for thousands of chinese who fled the civil war on the mainland to live there.

Plus if China didn't like it they shouldn't of signed the treaty. We gave it back to them and in the end as well as in the hand over we signed a treaty so that for atleast 50 years afterwards Hong Kong could remain semi-independent with its own laws and governed by a special administrave board. These are things that people in Taiwan or Tibet would kill for and china is never going to give them.

Pfft... I'm American. All I need to know is that it's better that you gave it back to China. It's not anywhere near you.

Like how the U.S. should give Alaska back to the Canadians. Let them deal with Palin for a while.

 

[chamber-music]

I still have no idea how Top Gear is so popular. I've never gotten to watch it. Clearly, there is more going on there than just car stuff, 'cause I know several people who watch it who couldn't give less of a s*** about cars if they tried.

Its not about cars no one watches it for the cars they watch it because its three middle aged politcally incorrect British dudes who act like the cast of Jackass doing crazy stunts, challenges and pranks on one another across the globle.

Here is a top ten of some of the craziest stunts they have ever pulled
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/7851778/Top-Gears-top-10-stunts.html

One of my favourites is when Jezzer drives a truck into a brick wall

 

[Darthphere]

Wasn't there some huge mystery about who the person was in the black suit or something?

 

[Mystirious]

British tv is sauce on toast

We get the best shows here

I still have no idea how Top Gear is so popular. I've never gotten to watch it. Clearly, there is more going on there than just car stuff, 'cause I know several people who watch it who couldn't give less of a s*** about cars if they tried.

I don't really dig it because I hate Jeremy Clarkson with so much hate

But it is pretty popular with some people

 

[chamber-music]

Pfft... I'm American. All I need to know is that it's better that you gave it back to China. It's not anywhere near you.

Like how the U.S. should give Alaska back to the Canadians. Let them deal with Palin for a while.

The U.S owns a whole bunch of islands that are nowhere near it such as American Samoa and thats not even including Hawaii or territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam and The Philliphines, The Virgin Islands

But Britain gave Hong Kong back almost 15 years ago as well as secured fuuture og the population from the wacky chinese communist goverment so that they didn't f-over the people. Considering the U.S has been the leaders of the we hate communism and pro capitalism routine for the last 70 plus years I would the average American if they cared would be happy about how Hong Kong is.

Personally I don't care if the argentinians have the falkland Islands or the Spanish Giblatar or France can have the isand of Jersey. The average British person doesn't either the people who care most are the people who live their and they want to be apart the UK (although they are all semi-independent anyway)

 

[BlackLantern]

wassup b****es

 

[chamber-music]

Wasn't there some huge mystery about who the person was in the black suit or something?

There is a stock car racing driver called The Stig who races all the cars around the track and teaches celebrities like Mark Walberg, Helen Mirren, Tom Cruise ect to drive round the track.

He doesn't speak and you never see his face. His portrayed as a sort of Terminator ninja type driver and they usaully make jokes about him saying the tag line whenever they introduce him "Some say

Some say that when he saw Star Wars, he thought it was a documentary.
Some say his pubes are fibre optic...and his pee is pure nitrogen
Some say he has an oil pump instead of a heart, and that he can see in ultraviolet
Some say he never blinks and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves.
Some say he's wanted by the CIA and that he sleeps upside down, like a bat.
Some say that he appears on high value stamps in Sweden and that he can catch fish with his tongue.
Some say he is illegal in 17 US states and he blinks vertically.
Some say that his breath smells of magnesium and that his scared of bells.
Some say that he lives in a tree and that his sweat can be used to clean precious
metals.
Some say that his heart ticks like a watch and that his confused by stairs.

All we know is his called the Stig" Thats the catchphrase

Everytime a stig is unmasked his killed off as its written in their contract they are not supposed to reveal their identity. The last stig was a James Bond film stunt driver and former member of the SAS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaIv_5-Mho

 

[BlackLantern]

and there is the Stig farm....where Stigs come from

 

[SuperFerret]

The U.S owns a whole bunch of islands that are nowhere near it such as American Samoa and thats not even including Hawaii or territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam and The Philliphines, The Virgin Islands

But Britain gave Hong Kong back almost 15 years ago as well as secured fuuture og the population from the wacky chinese communist goverment so that they didn't f-over the people. Considering the U.S has been the leaders of the we hate communism and pro capitalism routine for the last 70 plus years I would the average American if they cared would be happy about how Hong Kong is.

Personally I don't care if the argentinians have the falkland Islands or the Spanish Giblatar or France can have the isand of Jersey. The average British person doesn't either the people who care most are the people who live their and they want to be apart the UK (although they are all semi-independent anyway)

You know I'm talking out of my ass, right?

 

[BlackLantern]

never ask pirates to STOP doing something

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/twilight-saga-filmmakers-appeal-to-leakers-to-stop/

 

[Mystirious]

There be dozens of Stig farms all over Britain

 

[BlackLantern]

there is only ONE Stig farm

 

[Darthphere]

never ask pirates to STOP doing something

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/twilight-saga-filmmakers-appeal-to-leakers-to-stop/

This part cracked me up:

"Meyer is no stranger to this. She hadn't finished a side novel she was writing about a Twilight character when it was leaked. Meyer understandably felt so violated she never finished the book."

Um no, it was a ridiculous overreaction. I remember this fondly since I was heavy into Livejournal at this time and this was all they talked about for a week. So your **** got leaked, so ****ing what? It was leaked because there were millions of tweens waiting for that ****, millions of tweens who would have bought millions of copies of Midnight Sun, making you millions of dollars. Everyone gets their **** leaked, imagine if Stephen King decided "You know what, I'm not releasing the next Dark Tower because it got leaked!" ****ing ridiculous. Then, she ****ing releases the whole thing on her website anyway. What a ****ing idiot.

 

[BlackLantern]

yea....stupid

 

[Darthphere]

yea....stupid

People were excited as **** for that book. It was Twilight from Edward's perspective. Personally I was looking forward to her writing terrible from a male's perspective.

 

[BlackLantern]

People were excited as **** for that book. It was Twilight from Edward's perspective. Personally I was looking forward to her writing terrible from a male's perspective.

ha...reminds me of "As Good As It Gets"

"How do you write women so well?"

"I think of a man....then I take away reason and accountability"

 

[Darthphere]

Good movie.